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Black-led, Black-centered, independent media pursuing liberation in the South.
Durham, ATL, Birmingham & NOLA
Joined November 2014
🚨Call For Pitches Alert🚨 Introducing Scalawag's "Dirty Energy, Dirty South Series" on environmental (in)justice, and the green transition's + American reindustrialization's path through The South 🧵
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RT @reprolegalfund: Listen. Then do. The bare minimum is to refuse, reject, and upend a status quo that renders Palestinians as disposa….
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Find the latest resources and ways you can take action for Palestinian liberation in USCPR's fully updated Stop Gaza Genocide toolkit.
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RT @Mondoweiss: The neighborhood of Shuja'iyya was once home to 120,000 people. It has now been erased.
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The neighborhood of Shuja’iyya was once home to 120,000 people. It has now been erased.
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RT @DropSiteNews: 📰 Smotrich Unveils Plan for “Total Victory” in Gaza. “There are two components that are critical for searing into the ene….
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RT @leftinthebay: 54 years ago, August 28 1971, over 2,000 people attended the funeral of George Jackson, slain leader of the Black Panther….
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RT @truthout: New polling finds that opposition to sending more military aid to Israel has hit another record high among U.S. voters, furth….
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A whopping 77 percent of Democrats say Israel is committing genocide, Quinnipiac found.
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RT @wawog_now: 1. Meet the cabal of U.S. gov’t officials, military contractors, defense tech investors, real estate devs, and Evangelical P….
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RT @inthesetimesmag: #OnThisDay in 1963, the March on Washington changed the course of history. Meet the labor leader who helped make it h….
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A class action lawsuit on behalf of migrant workers in Canada is calling out the nation's abuse of Black and Brown migrants. Activists are calling for reforms of the migrant system, but abolition could be the only radical response.
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Abolishing tied employment is a worthwhile endeavor that can bring more power to migrant workers in Canada and elsewhere.
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SNCC’s publication The Student Voice provided a vital space for youth organizers to organize, document injustice, and politically engage a broad audience. It is archival proof that youth journalism is indispensable to successful movements.
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The Student Voice offers today’s U.S.-based media organizations with a model to combat the ongoing and escalating public embrace of fascism.
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RT @scalawagmag: From true-crime encouraging neighbors to police each other to the liberal lie that Black cops mean progress, two critics r….
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From true-crime encouraging neighbors to police each other to the liberal lie that Black cops mean progress, two critics reflect on the Hulu series’ portrayal of true-crime obsessions.
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RT @scalawagmag: and for war crimes tribunals prosecuting a people's right to self-determination. One that is unchained by the interests of….
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RT @scalawagmag: The Chicano revolutionary movement, although in its ebb and flow of the dialectics of social movements, has never died. It….
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RT @scalawagmag: For Abolition Week 2025, Texas political prisoner and Chicano revolutionary Xinachtli offers “The Colonial History of Texa….
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Political prisoner, Xinachtli, writes about the settler colonial history of Texas Rangers, political dissent, and the rise of US fascism.
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RT @Workshops4Gaza: Xinachtli is another political prisoner who has been all but forgotten, locked up for decades for his righteous resista….
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RT @DaShaunLH: .@scalawagmag continues to publish crucial stories from and about incarcerated folks whose lives have been shaped by these n….
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RT @pdouglassphd: City Lights and Stanford University Press celebrate the series Inventions: Black Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics – featu….
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RT @colonizedlocal: ICYMI! It’s Abolition Week at @scalawagmag our team has curated a collection of pieces interrogating borders and carcer….
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In our latest Abolition Week 2025 piece, this writer details the complex interconnected relationships within the military-industrial surveillance complex connecting ICE and the IDF .
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Palantir represents but one of the many links comprising the military-industrial surveillance connections between ICE and the IDF.
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Currently incarcerated writer Lanae Tipton shares their experience navigating the mental health care system in a Texas prison .
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Mental health needs are prevalent in prisons. One incarcerated writer shares their experience with the mental health care system in a Texas prison.
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