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Say Burgin

@sayburgin

20th C US Historian. Author of Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit (NYU Press 2024). Bylines @ The Nation, WaPo, HuffPo. Tweets mine

Harrisburg, PAdickinson.academia.edu/SayBurginJoined August 2014

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Excited to share my new article (with

@CivilHumanRight

) about how white news media esp.

made #BlackPower all about white people by framing it as “anti-white.” It focuses on print coverage of SNCC. I hope historians & CRM veterans (

) find it useful. A 🧵 1/13

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I’m so excited to be speaking at ⁦

⁩ TOMORROW alongside good pals ⁦

⁩, ⁦

@KristopherBurr6

⁩, Laura Warren Hill & Peter Levy! 7pm! Come chat about the Northern fight against institutional racism in policing, the courts, jobs, education & media

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HUGE NEWS: DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston just announced she is removing her office from the prosecution of "all current cases" of domestic terrorism related to Cop City –– another sign that these are baseless, political prosecutions. More updates soon

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Leeds University UCU

BREAKING NEWS: Following an offer from management, Leeds University UCU have suspended our indefinite strike action in order to consult members. Members - check your email and meet on Monday to discuss. Solidarity everyone - this was immense work!

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Study and Struggle

@study__struggle

We're in the final week of our first #StopCopCity fundraising campaign. If you wanted to nab this beautiful tribute to Tortuguita by Paul Lacombe, now's the time! Beginning in July, we'll be launching a new design by our comrade Corey Devon Arthur.

No Cop City - Honoring Tortuguita | Bonfire

Buy No Cop City - Honoring Tortuguita merchandise that supports Tides Center. Featuring Black Comfort Colors Unisex Tees, professionally printed in the USA.

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York St John UCU

📣𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄 𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐄📣 This morning one of our members woke up to the terrible sight of nearly £2,800 worth of deductions from their take home pay. This confirms our worst fears about the severe nature of the penalties for participation in the marking & assessment boycott.

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What would happen if migrants on boats with limited resources were also seen as brave explorers gifted with curiosity and wonder for depths unknown, I wonder.

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Leeds University UCU

Striking alongside

in the sunshine for fair pay, job security, equal pay and fair workloads.

remains on indefinite strike because of senior management's hard-line mishandling of the marking and assessment boycott. #ucuRISING

Crowd of UCU and Unison pickets, and a big rainbow umbrella, on the Parkinson building steps

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Hannah Riley #StopCopCity

The petition has been approved!! The work of gathering signatures begins! #stopcopcity

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Hannah Riley #StopCopCity

Big update on Cop City referendum: yesterday, organizers filed a lawsuit against Atlanta’s Municipal Clerk after she wrongfully denied the referendum petition. If the lawsuit is won, the clerk will need to approve the petition. No one can gather signatures until it’s approved!

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Hannah Riley #StopCopCity

for folks following the attempt to get Cop City on the ballot in Atlanta -- PLEASE consider donating! we cannot do this without serious resources! if you're not in a place to give, we would appreciate you boosting!

secure.actblue.com

I just gave to the Stop Cop City Referendum Campaign!

Show your support with a contribution.

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@HilaryJJonesPhd

You may have heard

on her new book, Black Folk: The Making of the Black Working Class. Check out her upcoming talk in Detroit with

@KidadaEWilliams

in partnership with

@sourcebksellers

. Preorder your book here.

Black Folk Book Tour Event - Detroit

Join us to celebrate the release of Black Folk : The Roots of Black Working Class w/ author Blair LM Kelley in conversation Kidada Williams

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Going through some of my clips from the Juneteenth rally at Dauphin County Prison. Dr. Kimeka Campbell sings "We Shall Overcome"

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Jeanne Theoharis

@JeanneTheoharis

There they are! The #PoorPeoplesCampaign ⁦

⁩ comes to Congress to put them on notice that poor people are on the move and refuse to be silent! Poverty is the 4th largest cause of death in this country—a national disgrace!

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Jeanne Theoharis

@JeanneTheoharis

The #PoorPeoplesCampaign

celebrates in song before taking their message that poverty is the 4th largest cause of death to Congress today! Everybody’s got a right to live! Forward together not one step back!

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Leeds University UCU

Things our members have reported they should be doing today: responding to MA dissertation students; attending research Away Days; teaching a 2nd year field course; completing a paper with a visiting fellow; supervising MSc projects; working with external research partners;

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Hannah Riley #StopCopCity

Big update on Cop City referendum: yesterday, organizers filed a lawsuit against Atlanta’s Municipal Clerk after she wrongfully denied the referendum petition. If the lawsuit is won, the clerk will need to approve the petition. No one can gather signatures until it’s approved!

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“But we have also returned to the place where you all dared to live. A place where you all had the incredible courage to love…” So moving and so beautiful. Thank you for sharing

@JessedHagopian

Celebrating Juneteenth by Emancipating History

Celebrating Juneteenth by Emancipating History

A Black family’s pilgrimage to Mississippi.

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@nicholasggrant

Big ❤️ to my UEA academic colleagues today. The next few weeks are going to shit, but remember

are still fighting. Today, I’m going to do some writing and will go for a run. Might seem a bit like fiddling while Rome burns, but these things have been keeping me sane.

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Quick thread on what the City of Atlanta has done to try to stop the referendum so far––hint, it looks a lot like what Democrats call voter/democracy suppression when Republicans do it. They're using every possible mechanism and technicality to halt the effort's progress.

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Hannah Riley #StopCopCity

OK ATL: the referendum petition still hasn’t been signed by the clerk. The deadline was yesterday (the petition has been with them for over a week!) so we need immediate action. Please come to City Hall at 3, or, if you can’t make it, call the clerk and tell her to approve it 👇🏼

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