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JUSTICE FOR ATATIANA JEFFERSON.
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Just as in Bolivia, the media in the Western Warrior States deny that the removal of is a coup against the elected government in Peru. If you're confused about how these coups work, read Washington Bullets (available in twenty languages, most recently in German).
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Write messages of support to the four political prisoners, locked up for dismantling Israel’s military supply chain, at palactprisoners@protonmail.com
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We keep saying "affordable housing" when it should be free. All resources needed for survival should be free.
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I hate how we push “financial literacy” programs on poor people. They’re not financially illiterate, they’re broke, be for real. There’s only so much managing and saving money you can do when you don’t have much
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Today was the last session of my *Critical Internet Studies* class so I asked students to make a meme about class. I learned what stuck/resonated w them, and that many of them might be reading this tweet. I present to you my course meme summary (shared with students' permission):
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Protestors in Peru have taken the International Airport in Arequipa, second most important city of the country. Flights have been suspended as protestors demand an end to the coup govt. Protests are intensifying towards the national strike on Dec 15th despite heavy repression.
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Me: "I promise not to comment on the generations of your white creole ancestors who resolutely married their cousins so they could keep the plantations in the family."
I am not above lying to get what I want...pray for my soul
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I am trying to coax a white French man to give me access to his family's (very well preserved) records of the people they enslaved in the 18th century and the conversation is going as well as you would expect 😭
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We're a progressive fighting labor union of over 650 campus workers at UVA, VCU, & W&M. To defend & transform higher education we need your support. Join us tonight, 6p to hear more about our work.
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Peru's President Pedro Castillo was overthrown in a coup by the right-wing-controlled congress
I spoke with activist about the protests demanding a new constitution and the freedom of Castillo, a humble union organizer from a rural community
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Protests continue in Peru people demand the release of democratically elected Pedro Castillo and new elections.
Credit:
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The right-wing US-based lobby group "Students for Liberty" (which is funded by billionaire oligarchs like the Koch family) is boasting of organizing protests and supporting the coup in Peru against democratically elected left-wing President Pedro Castillo
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La guerra híbrida del imperialismo que ha ejecutado dos golpes esta semana, uno judicial contra la hermana y otro congresal contra el hermano , trata de hacer lo mismo en Bolivia contra el MAS-IPSP. Estamos informados de los planes de la derecha
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The situation in Peru is intensifying after the coup against Pedro Castillo. Protests & roadblocks continue to grow across the country & in the capital Lima. These are already having effect. Dina Boluarte, head of the coup govt, has even slipped having to call for early elections
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Repression continues as night falls in Lima. Police target demonstrators in the vicinity of the Congress who are protesting the removal of . Demands include the dissolution of Congress, new elections and Castillo's release.
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Thousands of people keep flowing into Lima to protest the overthrow of Pedro Castillo. The people of Peru insist on overturning the 1993 constitution written in blood by the Fujimori Regime and that Castillo hoped to replace through a constituent assembly
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Morocco celebrates their victory by raising the Palestinian flag 🇵🇸. Palestine has been the winner in this World Cup. Arab regimes can pursue normalisation, but the people of the Arab world will have the final say. Congratulations Morocco for your victory and principled stance 🇲🇦
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We'll be at UCLA tomorrow (Wednesday, December 7) for a teach-in at the UAW picket line at 1pm. Pull up!
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Today is the anniversary of the United Fruit Company massacre against striking workers on the Colombian Caribbean coast in 1928. Between 1000 and 2000 banana pickers were killed in a bloodbath. The company responsible is known today as 'Chiquita.'
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“The white people in America are not Americans but in fact Europeans. When we call them Americans we allow them to escape; we define them incorrectly. We should call them Europeans & understand that… they took that continent from somebody else.” - Kwame Ture
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Do what now????
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Children are literally among the least protected classes and are certainly treated as property under the social and economic hierarchy so yes it is actually bad that people speak with such a lack of empathy and harshness towards children
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Biden has QUADRUPLED ICE's “alternatives to detention” surveillance program.
ICE has largest detention system & largest electronic monitoring program of any agency.
"alternatives to detention" expand enforcement rather than reduce reliance on detention.
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You know we live in a dictatorship of capital when every corporate media outlet is framing the rail strike as one of "workers vs. the economy" instead of "workers vs. rail corporations that reaped $27 billion in revenue last year"
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Why is Israel—a nuclear power—feeling threatened by a movie? to the point that their ministers and generals threaten Netflix for airing it? Because their "nation" is built on lies & fantasy. Any hint of truth reaching the masses rattles their very foundation & makes them tremble
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Why is Israel—a nuclear power—feeling threatened by a movie? to the point that their ministers and generals threaten Netflix for airing it? Because their "nation" is built on lies & fantasy. Any hint of truth reaching the masses rattles their very foundation & makes them tremble
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It went beyond just having a theoretical ideal- he was actively speaking, organizing, teaching and out there every single day setting up ways to provide essential resources for those in his community and mobilizing people of all sorts living through those volatile conditions.
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“I don't care how much theory you got, if it don't have any practice applied to it, then that theory happens to be irrelevant.”
The FBI and Chicago PD murdered Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton in his sleep on this day in 1969. He was only 21 years old.
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my friend asked me to meet him at a bar and it's a christmas themed hookah beergarden in the parking lot of the northrop grumman campus. I'm never coming to northern virginia again
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hardest photo to exist there is no competition
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i do not want to be merely tolerated or accepted. what miserably low standards. i want to be celebrated. i wanted to be asked serious questions. i want to be asked about my dreams and desires, my sorrows and my favorite trees. i want to be wanted. actively. abundantly. today.
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The FBI paid an informant named Othello to infiltrate a creative writing group called the Watts Writers’ Workshop. He burned down their building. A WRITING GROUP. You don’t think they won’t pay some people to sit on computers all day and night
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you really get prettier as you get older & they don't want women to know that
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