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Dignidad Rebelde co-founder, Printmaker + Xicanx nerd surviving NET cancer. Pronouns: she, her, hers

Oakland
Joined January 2009
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Replying to @naibmian @NewYorker
This cover uses the english translation of intifada outloud! #AllEyesOnRafah #FreePalestine
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let’s be very clear about what’s going on in this cover because I think it so aptly captures the incredibly subtle and strategic reactionary politics of the @NewYorker ⬇️
Barry Blitt for the win on the state of American higher education right now
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NOW: As the march heads down Park Avenue near the Met, pro-Palestine protesters set off smoke bombs and flares
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NOW: Pro-Palestine protesters in NYC continue to evade NYPD as they attempt to get to the Met with SRG officers following behind Protesters are running and making sudden turns as they continue to march in the streets
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NOW: Pro-Palestine protesters in NYC are marching toward the Met, which is currently hosting the Met Gala
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And this is why blinkin and congress want to ban tick tock The raw truth doesn’t fit the propaganda narratives they want to spin
This is why israel banned AlJazeera, they don’t want the world to see the reality.
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It means rights going away - dumb brute force will rule .
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University occupations are popping off, get to one.
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ARREST NETANYAHU NOT THE STUDENTS… 📍University students aren’t bombing hospitals 📍 University students aren’t bombing refugee camps 📍 University students aren’t attacking WCK aid workers 📍 University students haven’t killed 15,000 Israeli children.. 📍 University students aren’t targeting UN workers 📍 University students aren’t bombing schools
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Pulitzer prize winning photo
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UT Austin students chanting “You don’t scare us” even as countless militarized Texas Troopers swarm their campus, attack their protest, and bring in horses. This movement will not be stopped.
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New York University constructing a border around sites of popular support for anti-Zionism. All the walls will fall, free Palestine, end the genocide of Gaza, and may the students be victorious
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Shit, if only they’d have moved like that when my son was being murdered. But what do I expect….1 AR-15 keeps 376 officers at bay.
DPS appears to be prepping to disperse with a heavy, heavy showing of DPS troopers prepped in riot gear.
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ACTIVISTS ARE PUTTING THESE POSTERS AT MCDONALDS
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Darryl George got kicked out of high school for having locks within the past year. This is one of the many reasons why this NASA headshot hit different 🥲
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When I was in the West Bank settlers attacked olive pickers, saying they were Hamas agents. IDF soldiers used the same pretext to stop the harvest. One soldier told me picking olives was a “political act.” A thread on things I saw while reporting for The New Yorker:
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Aaron Bushnell had set up a will, specifying that his savings go to a Palestinian children’s relief fund 💔🇵🇸 Rest in Peace
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AARON BUSHNELL, WASHINGTON DC, USA, PROTESTING ATROCITIES IN PALESTINE 2024 BURNING MONK, VIETNAM, PROTESTING ATROCITIES IN VIETNAM 1963 xitter.cf/ShaykhSulaiman/status/…
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