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always grateful for an opportunity to get candid and speak on the state of black movements, black thought and the political culture. get into my latest interview for @BARBookForum blackagendareport.com/counte…
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“The Houston Arms Embargo is one of the few campaigns that has been able to sustain a galvanized, activated base. While this can be attributed in no small part to the diligent organizing of the campaign 🧵
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if you truly understand what the function, at least at the level of libido, is of a post-colonial leader, “brought to you by the Obamas” isn’t that shocking
to be sure, brokering structural adjustment is something negroliberals and post-colonial politicians both do.
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Last year, the world bid farewell to the Black Southern icon D’Angelo, a creative force who revolutionized music, and Black aesthetic practice.
On the anniversary of his ancestral transition, zuri arman commemorates D’Angelo and his artistry scalawagmagazine.org/2026/10…
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As an abolitionist publication in solidarity with Black, Indigenous, queer, and all oppressed people of the world who have for generations suffered under the boot of US Empire we say, Fuck the Fourth of July (and the rest of their colonizer “holidays” too) scalawagmagazine.org/2026/07…
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Ryan Coogler's ‘X-FILES’ is officially moving forward as a full series for Hulu.
Starring Danielle Deadwyler, Himesh Patel, Steve Buscemi and Amy Madigan.
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RIGHT NOW: Zohran Mamdani stands on the Israeli side of an October 7 vigil while Palestinian organizers and supporters of Palestinian liberation directly protest him.
Another politician at the vigil is Brad Lander, who increased NYC pension holdings in Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, as their weapons were used to annihilate Palestinians at the height of the Gaza genocide.
Meanwhile, students across NYC are walking out of classrooms demanding an end to the city’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.
Mamdani campaigned on solidarity with Palestine. Now the movement is confronting him over the gap between that solidarity and his political decisions. This is not a hypothetical contradiction or a disagreement over rhetoric. It is a confrontation over where political power is being exercised, whose demands are being accommodated, and whose are being dismissed.
Solidarity is measured by what you do with power, not what you say to obtain it.
Video via @WOLPalestine @Cuny4P
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In putting stories from Gaza in conversation with stories from U.S. prisons, we hope to expand conversations around abolition in the U.S. beyond the prison to include the ways that poverty, race, and gender also cage bodies and communities. scalawagmagazine.org/2023/06…
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54 years after his assassination by the Zionist entity, Ghassan Kanafani’s career, politics, and dedication to the Palestinian Liberation struggle remain instructive for anti-imperialist struggle in the face of murderous repression.
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The Zionist objective succeeds in allowing the ICC to make the case that Palestinian resistance and Zionist occupation are identical in morality and thus on equal grounds in terms of global condemnation and legal prosecution.
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In the latest entry in @SherrondaJBrown’s series analyzing the zombie racial Other in media, they consider the “Palestinian Zombie” in zionist settler colonial necropolitics, and deconstructs its role in animating the zombie horror in ‘The Last of Us’
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Sentences grind teeth and
language launders extermination
in an automatic all-night laundromat
streaming on a static station, sleep-helm-operated
by algorithm and a series of substitutions
— @rashaabdulhadi
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The public's palpable distress around the "War on Terror" laid the groundwork for intensified cultural obsession with disaster preparedness, and the monster that emerged as the perfect symbol amid this fear and obsession was the pop culture zombie. scalawagmagazine.org/2026/09…
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The suppression of pro-Palestine press alongside the decreased funding for media and progressive causes is especially clarifying given the scale of resources being dedicated to supporting the Zionist entity and, by extension, its genocide.
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Together, occupied Palestine and post-Katrina NOLA clarify why settler violence is essential for colonial regimes to refute Palestinian and Native American sovereignties, in order to underdevelop, dispossess, and police the Black communities
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These folks have done a lot of important, essential work. This helps understand what Zionism is, what it isn’t, and how it functions within capitalism.
It did not begin on October 7th 2023, nor did it begin in 1948. The Zionist colonial project has a much longer history, as detailed forensically in Sabri Jiryis The Foundations of Zionism, published in English for the first time exactly one year ago today ebb-books.com/books/p/the-fo…
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Just as Kashmiri resistance and identity extend beyond the borders of India and Pakistan, Kashmiri solidarity expands beyond the territory, and towards the liberation movement of Palestine. scalawagmagazine.org/2024/08…
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Freed from Israeli prisons after spending years behind bars, three Palestinian prisoners who were banished to Gaza as a condition of their release share their stories of separation and longing as they moved out of prison and into exile. scalawagmagazine.org/2023/06…
