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Posting quotations and thoughts to give appreciation to the authors, artists, and activists whose work teaches and leads us towards liberation.
Posting quotations and thoughts to give appreciation to the authors, artists, and activists whose work teaches and leads us towards liberation.
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For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
Black History Month is not only a celebration of the rich history of Black life, politics, culture, and struggle. It is also a reminder to engage every day with that history as we ...
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February 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
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I’m the “TQ” part that they just scrubbed LGBTQ part of federal websites.
February 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I’m the “TQ” part that they just scrubbed LGBTQ part of federal websites.
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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No. Sadly many thousands were actually kept there under Bush 1 and continued under Clinton. Haitians. So Bush 2 knew it could be use it with impunity, to keep folks indefinitely because it's off shore. Just like Hitler's extermination camps were in Austria, not Germany.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
Flashback: The Little-Known History of Guantanamo Bay
President Trump’s stated plan to detain 30,000 migrants at the naval base brings a little-known history back into the spotlight: When the U.S. held Haitian asylum seekers there starting in the early 1...
www.pbs.org
February 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
No. Sadly many thousands were actually kept there under Bush 1 and continued under Clinton. Haitians. So Bush 2 knew it could be use it with impunity, to keep folks indefinitely because it's off shore. Just like Hitler's extermination camps were in Austria, not Germany.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
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For those of you who feel this way, I can't emphasize enough: i respect it, and I HIGHLY encourage you to check out this guide to other means of taking action by @prisonculture.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
For those of you who feel this way, I can't emphasize enough: i respect it, and I HIGHLY encourage you to check out this guide to other means of taking action by @prisonculture.bsky.social
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DAY 8: #QueerReading Advent. CHAPTER 6: QUEER TRANSNATIONAL ECOLOGIES:
MARRYING A TREE
Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam - the first chapter in the collection’s queer ecology section. I learnt so much from this chapter.
MARRYING A TREE
Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam - the first chapter in the collection’s queer ecology section. I learnt so much from this chapter.
December 11, 2024 at 12:14 PM
DAY 8: #QueerReading Advent. CHAPTER 6: QUEER TRANSNATIONAL ECOLOGIES:
MARRYING A TREE
Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam - the first chapter in the collection’s queer ecology section. I learnt so much from this chapter.
MARRYING A TREE
Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam - the first chapter in the collection’s queer ecology section. I learnt so much from this chapter.
“I don’t think healing begins where we think it does, in our doing something. I believe it begins in another realm altogether, the realm of dreams and imagination. A realm that I might also call spirit” - Prentis Hemphill, What is Takes to Heal (2024), Page 7
January 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
“I don’t think healing begins where we think it does, in our doing something. I believe it begins in another realm altogether, the realm of dreams and imagination. A realm that I might also call spirit” - Prentis Hemphill, What is Takes to Heal (2024), Page 7