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susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · 13d

there’s always a Cedric Robinson passage

susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Mar 5

"With the creation of fascism, the bourgeoisie... had the cake of the total control of its national society, an efficient instrument for expanding its domination and expropriation to the Third World, and the ultimate means for redressing the injuries and humiliations of the past."

susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · 21d

"I didn’t understand why he would ask that. It seemed evident to me that 'open air prison' was not a metaphor."

Ismail Ibrahim on fact-checking Palestinian genocide at the New Yorker:

bidoun.org/articles/hou...

House Arab

I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...

bidoun.org

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susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Sep 6

"Many of the Haitians who settled in Springfield had good lives in Haiti before violence forced them to leave, Aimé said. They’d... worked hard and well at jobs locals wouldn’t take, and helped revitalize the local economy. 'They’re not gonna let people treat them anyhow.’” @bhatiap.bsky.social

The Baffler @thebaffler.com · Sep 3

Haitian migrants brought Springfield, Ohio back to life. Then came the Trump team with its xenophobic lies. In our new issue, @bhatiap.bsky.social demonstrates what happens to the city—and people—on the path of a culture war.

Home City, USA | Pooja Bhatia

The residents of Springfield, Ohio, residents have been terrorized by Donald Trump—and many now face the prospect of state-sponsored violence.

thebaffler.com

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susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Aug 19

i still think about james foley all the time. all the time.

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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · Aug 15

Negotiations on a landmark international plastics treaty collapsed after the U.S. opposed any explicit limits on plastic production and objected to any potential restrictions on plastic additives or productions. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Landmark plastic talks collapse with the U.S. opposing key production limits

The multiyear attempt to curb global plastic pollution is at an impasse, with the U.S. set against the production limits that many nations see as the main solution.

www.washingtonpost.com

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susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Aug 11

"Anas and his colleagues were among the last remaining voices from within Gaza, providing the world with unfiltered, on-the-ground coverage of the devastating realities endured by its people….[and] experiencing the hunger and suffering they documented through their lenses."

Nauseous over this.

Al Jazeera condemns killing of its journalists by Israeli forces in Gaza

Media network condemns ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces.

www.aljazeera.com

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Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social · Aug 11

In a final message, al-Sharif said, “I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or misrepresentation, hoping that God would witness those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, and those who suffocated our very breaths.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza

Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

www.aljazeera.com

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susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Aug 5

Há uma alternativa para quem está longe? Acho q Pix não funciona fora do Brasil.

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Karen Zraick @karenzraick.bsky.social · Aug 2

"The first time my three-and-a-half-year-old son, Rafik, asked me 'Are we going to die today?' was in December of 2023, roughly two months after the war began." A gripping account by @mohamhawish.bsky.social on the toll of war on Gaza's children in @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma

In Gaza, where displaced children play a game called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has become another emergency.

www.newyorker.com

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susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Jul 31

Are CBC journalists allowed to say Palestine on air yet.

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susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Jul 27

Gostaria de saber se "a maior recriação histórica medieval da Europa," em homenagem a D. Afonso V, vai mencionar que a invenção e o desenvolvimento do comércio criminoso da escravatura atlântica ocorreu sob o seu reinado. Os restos mortais de 158 Africanos encontrados em Lagos datam da sua época.

Público @publico.pt · Jul 27

Recriação histórica arranca a 29 de Julho, mas alterações na circulação começam bem antes. Munícipes apoiam o maior evento do concelho, que gera um retorno económico de 15 milhões de euros.

Em Santa Maria da Feira perdoam-se os constrangimentos diários com os ganhos que traz a Viagem Medieval

Recriação histórica arranca a 29 de Julho, mas alterações na circulação começam bem antes. Munícipes apoiam o maior evento do concelho, que gera um retorno económico de 15 milhões de euros.

www.publico.pt

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susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Jul 11

If he’s following the bolsonarista playbook the next step is to cultivate a generation of far right academics to pump out “research."

susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Jul 11

Active and retired members of Portugal's Armed Forces led exercises and gave weapons training to members of several neo-Nazi groups (1143, NOS, MAL) in preparation "for a civil war scenario." #Portugal

Público @publico.pt · Jul 11

Treinos terão ocorrido em 2023 e servido para preparar elementos para um cenário de guerra civil. Estado-Maior-General das Forças Armadas diz estar “atento a eventuais situações irregulares”.

Militares ajudaram a treinar grupo de extrema-direita para guerra civil em Portugal

Treinos terão ocorrido em 2023 e servido para preparar elementos para um cenário de guerra civil. Estado-Maior-General das Forças Armadas diz estar “atento a eventuais situações irregulares”.

www.publico.pt

susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Jul 8

Let me be more precise with my language because "gang" and "militia" are too muddy.

I've seen some Haitian press call Viv Ansanm a "criminal coalition." Others, "bandes criminelles."

The armed neighbourhood groups (supported by residents, donations) are commonly called auto-defense brigades.

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susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Jul 8

The US wasn’t “prompted” to invade Haiti and install a brutal military occupation so much as it actively planned for it, helping create conditions to make invasion seem necessary. The Farnham Plan (named for a VP of now-Citibank) to occupy Haiti was already in place when President Sam was lynched.

"The elegant mansion was built at the end of the 19th century as the private residence of the family of a former Haitian president who was killed by a mob, prompting the United States to occupy Haiti for 19 years. The United States Marines converted it into a hospital
during the occupation, which lasted from 1915 to 1934."

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susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Jul 7

Additional context: Gang coalition Viv Ansanm torched the Oloffson amid an ongoing attempt to invade and occupy Pacot, the adjacent neighbourhood. Pacot residents (incl their defense militia) and police have so far managed to hold them off. This is nothing like mourning that French cathedral. #Haiti

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susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Jul 7

"J’ai d’abord cru à une image, une métaphore peut-être, comme on en fait dans les cauchemars. Mais non. Merde. On l’a vraiment brûlé. Et ce n’est pas seulement un bâtiment qui s’est effondré, mais un pan entier de notre mémoire, une artère de notre imaginaire, une cicatrice de notre histoire" #Haiti

Oloffson en cendres, Haïti en deuil de mémoire et moi, dans la révolte! - Rezo Nòdwès

A Samy Janvier, Roberson Alphonse, Jen Aelle Yenna, Aux Docteurs Sabine Lamour, Michele Oriol, Sauveur Pierre Etienne, Thomas Lalime et Roromme Chantal ! Lunise dit Chouloute, Tiake, Herve St Preux,

rezonodwes.com

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susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Jul 7

On top of everything else. Relentless heartbreak.

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susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Jul 7

There are others that show the lush grounds, gazebo, and main building better, but this is my absolute favourite RAM video shot at the Oloffson. What a loss.
youtu.be/qCVkrItT5ws?...

M'Pral Dòmi Nan Simityè

YouTube video by RAM Haiti

youtu.be

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susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Jul 6

I can only imagine how epic!

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susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Jul 6

It is nauseating :(

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susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Jul 6

The Oloffson wasn't just a Graham Greene backdrop. It was an incredible art space, a queer space, a space of worship, a space of refuge, a space of gossip, a space of protest, a rare space where multiple worlds intersected and sweat and danced and drank rum together. It was purposefully destroyed.

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susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Jul 6

Hotel Oloffson is gone. The iconic Port-au-Prince gingerbread was set alight and burned to ash last night. #Haiti

Drone image of the Hotel Oloffson, Port-au-Prince, with the entirety of the wooden building burned, only the brick skeleton remains, surrounded by trees.

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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · Jul 4

🆕 NEW INVESTIGATION — HAITI 🇭🇹

Today, Forbidden Stories publishes a series of investigations exposing the predators in power behind Haiti’s collapse.

@Ayibopost

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susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Jul 1

"Stipulations in the bill to increase information sharing between law enforcement agencies also means U.S. authorities could use the rule changes to find out whether an American has accessed private Canadian health facilities to obtain an abortion, for example."

susana ferreira @susanaferreira.com · Jul 1

“It would allow the RCMP and CSIS to make information demands from internet providers, banks, doctors, landlords and even therapists, without judicial oversight…. This is not about border security. It is about government overreach and Big Brother tactics, plain and simple.”

Advocacy groups warn federal bill could give law enforcement sweeping powers to access information

Several advocacy groups are voicing concerns that the federal government’s border security bill could grant law enforcement sweeping powers to surveil Canadians and invade their privacy.

www.ctvnews.ca