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Sarah Edwards @eddysarah.bsky.social · 2d

and documentary link here: www.pbs.org/video/our-mo...

PBS North Carolina Presents | Our Movement Starts Here | Season 2025

Learn how the environmental justice movement was born in Warren County, NC.

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Sarah Edwards @eddysarah.bsky.social · 2d

just learned that “Our Movement Starts Here” — an eye-opening documentary about 1972’s Warren County landfill protests & the birth of the environmental justice movement — is now available on PBS!

here’s my interview with the filmmakers from last year: indyweek.com/culture/scre...

“The Right to Enjoy the Planet On Equal Terms”: Warren County Marks 42 Years Since Landmark Landfill Protests

Talking with NC filmmaker John Finley Rash about “Our Movement Starts Here,” a new documentary that explores the Warren County protests.

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Sarah Edwards @eddysarah.bsky.social · 5d

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UNC Reinstates Suspended Professor Following Investigation, Threat of Legal Action

Following an investigation and threats of legal action, UNC-Chapel Hill reinstated Dixon to his position Friday morning/

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Sarah Willets @sarahwillets.bsky.social · 13d

“Read and hold the testimonies of these queer people with care and understanding. Queer people are in a fight for their lives against fascism. Your resistance and disruption may make the difference in how the fight goes." - Desmera Gatewood in @indyweek.bsky.social

Sarah Willets @sarahwillets.bsky.social · 13d

Each of these folks are choosing to speak out and be true to themselves despite attacks against them and their community. Please click through and read what they have to say.

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Portraits of Pride: Fighting for Our Lives in the Face of Fascism

How queer people are under attack today and what it means to stand in solidarity with them during the Trump presidency. Plus, reflections from the staff of the LGBTQ Center of Durham.

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 7d

Italy's largest union, with over 5.5 million workers, has called a general strike for Friday in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla.

And smaller Italian unions have said they will join CGIL's general strike.

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fluxnomad.bsky.social @fluxnomad.bsky.social · 5d

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Final boat of 42-strong pro-Palestinian flotilla intercepted by Israel

Protest vessel intercepted in the early hours of Friday morning 42.5 nautical miles from the coast of Gaza

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 16d

"Make cities better" may be the best direction for climate action in these grim times. 80% of Americans live in urban areas. Creating neighborhoods with reliable, frequent public transit, protected active transit, and dense, affordable housing could make US cities *so much better to live in* while..

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16d

Watching a panel on "urbanism as climate action." This is a huge, burgeoning field/idea/movement, but the desiccated boomer counsels who decide where climate funding goes are *clueless* about it and so it has to seek funding elsewhere.

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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 6d

If you are unfamiliar with Chapter 16, please see Casey Cep's write up in the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

The Tennessee Solution to Disappearing Book Reviews

Chapter 16 is one of only a few nonprofit media outlets in the country dedicated to coverage of the arts.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · 15d

when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Screenshot from New Yorker interview by Isaac Chotiner with Cass Sunstein

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 16d

Sharing this excerpt from my foreword to Alaa Abd el-Fattah's extraordinary collection of prison writings, "You Have Not Yet Been Defeated."

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Naomi Klein on How Egypt’s Extinguished Revolution Continues to Inspire Struggle Worldwide

You Have Not Yet Been Defeated, a collection from Alaa Abd el-Fattah published this year by Seven Stories Press, is living history. Many of its words were first written with pencil and paper in a c…

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Sarah Edwards @eddysarah.bsky.social · 16d

the neighborhood’s second best kudzu vista

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Sarah Edwards @eddysarah.bsky.social · 16d

“Both the private sector and the public sector need to put their money where their mouth is. They use the arts and culture in Durham to attract talent, companies, investment and wealth .... but the people who are creating that work are struggling to stay here.”

INDY Week @indyweek.bsky.social · 16d

Artists say that they’re the backbone of Durham’s charm and that local leaders can do more to support them.

Durham Used to Be a Better City for Artists. Can a Cultural Roadmap Initiative Help Get It Back on Track?

Since 2022, a joint city-county advisory body has been developing a cultural master plan with the goal of adopting it in early 2026.

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Bryan Anderson @bryanranderson.bsky.social · 17d

Per crime bill draft obtained by @theassemblync.bsky.social, NC lawmakers will seek to restrict cashless bail, speed up executions, and let judges and magistrates hold any defendant in jail without a hearing for up to three days for a mental health eval. #ncpol

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A Fatal Stabbing and Its Aftermath

Republicans have made a political cudgel of Iryna Zarutska’s killing. A draft crime bill expected this week may be more posturing than solutions.

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INDY Week @indyweek.bsky.social · 19d

During his first year as adviser to the Riverside High School newspaper, Bryan Christopher oversaw perhaps the biggest story the publication had ever covered: the arrest and months-long detention of a Honduran student, Wildin Acosta, who faced deportation to the country he’d fled at 16.

Talking with Bryan Christopher About Student Advocacy and His New Book, “Stopping the Deportation Machine”

"Stopping the Deportation Machine" chronicles the story of Wildin Acosta, a undocumented student in Durham, who faced deportation in 2016.

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INDY Week @indyweek.bsky.social · 19d

“The interdisciplinary places in life are where all the good stuff lives," says Tift Merritt.

Tift Merritt, a True North Carolina Gem, Still Has Plenty of Material to Mine

This month, Tift Merritt releases a 20th anniversary reissue of "Tambourine," as well as a compilation of demos and unreleased songs.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19d

It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know.

Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/

Screenshot of post on X from VA Secretary Doug Collins. The text reads: @ProPublica is an extreme liberal news outlet that will do anything to make the Trump Administration look bad. But this week, the far-left editors there reached a new low by sending @VernalColeman to stalk @DeptVetAffairs employees at their homes. This creepy behavior will discourage good people from coming to work at VA. @ProPublica, please do better and stop letting your hatred of the Trump Administration continue to warp your judgment.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 19d

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 20d

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’

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Sarah Edwards @eddysarah.bsky.social · 19d

I recommended a few shows to go see this fall - five of many exciting ones on the horizon! (Thoreau’s Flowers especially cool) for @indyweek.bsky.social

Where to Go See Art This Fall

Two photojournalism exhibits, a show that draws from Thoreau’s digitized herbarium, and more art to see across the Triangle this season.

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INDY Week @indyweek.bsky.social · 19d

“Cultivating Creativity charts this path forward, ensuring every resident can access meaningful cultural experiences in their own community, while positioning Wake County as a leader of artistic innovation and creative excellence,” the plan states.

Arts leaders say the need is dire—and immediate.

Can a New Plan Help Wake County Arts Organizations Bridge Funding Gaps?

Wake County spends much less on the arts than its peer counties. Leaders hope a new collaborative plan can help chart a new way forward.

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INDY Week @indyweek.bsky.social · 21d

Dallis has been an engaged member of the Durham arts and tarot scenes (among others) for decades, and this collection fulfills a promise to herself: to sell or publish a book by the end of her 40th year.

Durham Poet Jameela F. Dallis On Grief, Oysters, Art, and the Color Blue

Talking with Jameela F. Dallis about her debut poetry collection, "Encounters for the Living and the Dead."

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Sarah Edwards @eddysarah.bsky.social · 22d

I haven't seen this current Jamaica Gilmer exhibit, but a few years ago I saw and wrote about “Elders of the West End,” Gilmer’s series on Lyon Park School alumni - now a permanent display at the Community Family Life & Recreation Center - which wove oral history & photography together.

Jamaica Gilmer's Reverent Portraits Show the Wisdom and Experience of Lyon Park School Alumni

"Elders of the West End," Gilmer's series on the graduates of the former Durham school, is now a permanent display at the Community Family Life & Recreation Center at Lyon Park.

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Sarah Edwards @eddysarah.bsky.social · 22d

up now online, and in print tomorrow, a beautiful piece by @cultureshockart.bsky.social in @indyweek.bsky.social reflecting on two local exhibitions that tie together memory, home, kinship, and meals through photographs and multimedia work.

Photographic Reflections On Memory, Food, and Home In Two Tender Local Exhibitions

"Potlucks and Portraits" from Jamaica Gilmer and "(biān) / (bǐ àn)" from huiyin zhou and Laura Dudu both run through the end of September.

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Sarah Edwards @eddysarah.bsky.social · 22d

thank you! being a florist is my (aspirational and impractical) backup career

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Sarah Edwards @eddysarah.bsky.social · 22d

picked backyard flowers for my friends courthouse bouquet, i love love

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INDY Week @indyweek.bsky.social · 22d

Durham writer Nathan Dixon’s short story collection debut, “Radical Red,” imagines Tea Party conservatives who find their ideological contradictions collapsing in on them. It couldn’t be more timely.

In Sharp Debut “Radical Red,” William F. Buckley's Legacy Meets Body Horror

Writer Nathan Dixon's debut, "Radical Red," imagines Tea Party conservatives who find their ideological contradictions collapsing in on them.

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