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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · 6d

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ᗧ͇̿ · · ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ @davidegilbert.bsky.social · May 24

I’m done with broken hearts. Its time to break the guns.

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ᗧ͇̿ · · ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ @davidegilbert.bsky.social · May 24

Why haven’t we seen a direct action movement to take away the guns? Is it just too dangerous, considering the violence of the gun nuts? But why has it always been framed as an issue concerning only the state’s control of weapons? Instead of as a right of the people for well being

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ᗧ͇̿ · · ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ @davidegilbert.bsky.social · May 24

What mobilization tools could make guns (much) harder to access? Would blockades of ammunition factories and gun manufacturers offices give movement power? What parts of USA society could be catalyzed to take part?

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ᗧ͇̿ · · ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ @davidegilbert.bsky.social · May 24

What would a direct action movement for disarmament look like? What forms would it have to take?

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ᗧ͇̿ · · ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ @davidegilbert.bsky.social · May 24

Intersectional enviro struggle ??

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shit whistle @guntoucher.bsky.social · 12d

2016: milo yiannapoulos whines from the white house press pool about losing his checkmark on twitter

2025: thats the government now

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Cozca @cozca.bsky.social · 11d

March to ICE
9-30-2025 event by the American Indigenous Movement youth of Oregon. 6pm Elizabeth Caruthers park. Our kids vs the 🇺🇸 army. Please protect and supportt our youth march to ICE. Spread the word PDX.
ICE has too many missing children to trust them.

It is a picture of a child crying a drawing.Illustration of a native child crying. It says every child matters. It says where orange in Remembrance day. This is for the children who were kidnapped by the government and analyzed by medical neglect and unalived by neglect and severely abused physically sexually psychologically culturally. They would be beaten for speaking their language. There is AA theme that the colonizers doing here to children. Indigenous children in ice custody are mostly in children. Indigenous to the Western hemisphere of earth, native descendants or native people. However, they identify the native youth of Portland are putting this event on American indigenous resistance. The youth has nothing to do with With the the youth are putting it on and i'm asking people to support our you

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ᗧ͇̿ · · ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ @davidegilbert.bsky.social · 11d

The USA president is directing the “department of war” to use “full force” against my people in Portland , Oregon.

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ᗧ͇̿ · · ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ @davidegilbert.bsky.social · 16d

If only those faculty had somewhere that would hire them , time for a freedom schools movement ??

J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 16d

#AcademicSky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Fear and hopelessness’: one in four professors in the US south are leaving

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · Jan 23

yep i saw it in russia in the 2000s. you could make fun of Putin on TV for a bit... until you couldn't.

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ᗧ͇̿ · · ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ @davidegilbert.bsky.social · 21d

How easily the TV execs casted off their own to get even richer with the fash, don’t they have a union or something?

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ᗧ͇̿ · · ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ @davidegilbert.bsky.social · May 24

I have a book cover & I'm feeling very grateful.
For all peoples in movement and struggle everywhere, I hope 𝐶𝘰𝑢𝘯𝑡𝘦𝑟𝘪𝑛𝘨 𝘋𝑖𝘴𝑝𝘰𝑠𝘴𝑒𝘴𝑠𝘪𝑜𝘯, 𝑅𝘦𝑐𝘭𝑎𝘪𝑚𝘪𝑛𝘨 𝘓𝑎𝘯𝑑 can inspire and inform.

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ᗧ͇̿ · · ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ @davidegilbert.bsky.social · May 24

On the rev potential of the unhoused:

https://www.akpress.org/a-separate-star.html

Looks really good

A Separate Star

A Separate Star A wide-ranging book, A Separate Star: Pol...

www.akpress.org

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ᗧ͇̿ · · ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ @davidegilbert.bsky.social · May 24

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/5406-people-s-park-and-the-future-of-the-public-university

People’s Park and the Future of the Public University

Images of police officers clearing and enclosing People’s...

www.versobooks.com

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ᗧ͇̿ · · ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ @davidegilbert.bsky.social · May 24

People’s park finally seems to be taken. My earliest memory of the park was c. 1987. It survived as a place to gather as part of broader struggles. RIP peoples park, Berkeley, Ca

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Sista 𓅓 @sista.bsky.social · 21d

Blessed be the flame that keeps you fighting fascism ✊️

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 24d

Great example of journalistic malpractice. Headline repeats the claims of an elected official, while the story notes that no evidence of this supposed "leftist ideology" has been found.

Has the New York Times not been made aware that people only read headlines?

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...

Kirk Shooting Suspect Held ‘Leftist Ideology,’ Utah Governor Says

www.nytimes.com

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AK Press @akpress.org · 28d

We've been excited to work with @jamesstout.bsky.social on 𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦: 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘔𝘺𝘢𝘯𝘮𝘢𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘰𝘫𝘢𝘷𝘢, a book about those that cannot wait any longer for the world to change. www.akpress.org/against-the-...

The cover of Against the State: Anarchists and Comrades at War in Spain, Myanmar, and Rojava by James Stout shows a photograph of a group of people in Myanmar raising a black flag. The book's title is displayed in different languages in overlapping circles.

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Luis Othoniel Rosa @luisothonielrosa.bsky.social · Aug 26

My latest is “Strategies of Invisibility (For Repressive Times)” You can get in English, Spanish and French right here: thefunambulist.net/.../strategi... . And check out @thefunambulist.bsky.social for discovering amazing thinkers and artists pushing our horizons of political possibility.

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ᗧ͇̿ · · ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ @davidegilbert.bsky.social · Sep 6

What is the power of ‘direct land politics’ today, from the Americas to SE Asia?

Me in conversation with @antidogmatist.bsky.social with guest editor @kaibosworth.bsky.social in @thefunambulist.bsky.social, a vital source for all things politics and culture.

thefunambulist.net/magazine/ten...

Direct Land Politics

A CONVERSATION BETWEEN ANTONIO ROMAN-ALCALÁ AND DAVID E. GILBERT COMMISSIONED AND EDITED BY KAI BOSWORTH Kai Bosworth: For years, The Funambulist has examined land struggles in forests, urban areas…

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ᗧ͇̿ · · ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ @davidegilbert.bsky.social · Aug 20

ICE aren’t the new proud boys they are the new gestapu, and that is a bigger threat to all of us than those cosplay racists

Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · Aug 19

It used to be far-right groups who flooded cities wearing masks and military gear, looking for a fight. Now it’s anonymous federal agents who are violently attacking people on the street.

Federal Agents Are the New Proud Boys

It used to be far-right groups who flooded cities wearing masks and military gear, looking for a fight. Now it’s anonymous federal agents who are violently attacking people on the street.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · Aug 13

professional activists and institutional intellectuals be like:

“I was gonna fight for liberation but we didn’t get the grant :(“ pin

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ᗧ͇̿ · · ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ @davidegilbert.bsky.social · Aug 13

Good documentaries on Land Back and land movements to update the syllabus anyone?

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IAF-FAI @iaf-fai.bsky.social · Aug 12

“The Great Evil Cannibal from the East, devouring the country.”

“I don’t often create political commentary. This monster is devouring the country and we seem to be letting him.” -Gyibaawm Laxha (‪@davidrobertboxley.bsky.social‬ - Tsimshian Artist)

Tsimshian art depicting Trump cannibalizing a person.

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