At a moment when the problems our world is facing feel insurmountable, I found a lot of inspiration in this. My friend and reporter Allison Herrera sat down with recently freed Leonard Peltier, one of the longest-serving political prisoners in the U.S.
"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law."
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and full text of Mahmoud Khalil's letter is available here, from @ccrjustice.org
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Mahmoud Khalil writes from an ICE detention facility: "The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppress dissent."
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#Palestine #Israel
The point truly is they can get any one of us and all our universities will ask is where do I sign to condemn this person and what color ink do you want me to use
BREAKING: Judge blocks Columbia pro-Palestinian protest organizer Mahmoud Khalil's removal from US pending further action on habeas petition. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Pay attention folks.
Considering how Columbia criminalized its students ad suppressed freedom of expression on its campus and still was targeted might be a lesson for other schools, (looking at University of Michigan) of course one they wont heed.
Pitch perfect response from Georgetown Law reminding Ed Martin that it’s wildly inappropriate on both religious liberty and free speech grounds for him to attempt to use the power of his (interim) office to dictate what curriculum is “unacceptable” at the university.
House just voted 224-198 to censure Rep. Al Green for interrupting Trump's speech, with the following 10 Democrats voting for his censure:
Ami Bera
Ed Case
Jim Costa
Laura Gillen
Jim Himes
Chrissy Houlahan
Marcy Kaptur
Jared Moskowitz
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Tom Suozzi
Now here’s a reason to #hoyasaxa
Ramadan Mubarak!
Song by the great Suad El-Amin
Graphic that describes event. Panel discussion at 11:30 AM Eastern standard time on February 28 with head shots of the speakers.
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Never one to support infidelity but I have to say i was relieved to see they were both Black women 😅
Photo of Leonard Peltier in red button down shirt with Indigenous design work. He is raising his fist and smiling. The sun is shining on him and there are trees and green grass in the background.
the most beautiful thing I’ve seen today. Reflecting on this photo I realize I’ve never seen a photo of him outside (save historical ones) my entire life. This is a beautiful thing. #leonardpeltier is FREE!!!
📸: NDN Collective
‘Jews Say No to Ethnic Cleansing’: Hundreds of rabbis and artists reject Trump's Gaza plan - www.middleeasteye.net/news/jews-say-no-ethnic-...
Whet are some of the terms that we should use to describe what is happening in the US government that accurately capture reality but are avoided by the mainstream ex. Facist or coup @ashoncrawley.bsky.social @chanda.bsky.social @zareenagrewal.bsky.social
every Donald Trump cycle:
TRUMP: i'm gonna kill the easter bunny
FACT-CHECKER: he has not stated how he is going to kill the easter bunny
TRUMP SUPPORTER: i think he means he's going to kill evil bunnies
TRUMP: *beheads the easter bunny*
NYT: trump redefines relationship between bunny and head
Has a dis track ever won a Grammy before? #hiphop
The compliance! And the whispered thank yous when you step out while they stay in the shadows
So basically he wants to make el salvador the world’s prison?
During Q&A Gomez explained that “compliance” was the absence of revolt but not the absence of resistance - about figuring out how to buy each others freedom and care for the community under oppression. This question of tactic remains for Africana ppl Muslim and otherwise everywhere
Discusses Muslim communities in the Caribbean and North America. Evidence of role in Haitian revolution, some in Dutch NY and of course the Sea Islands
Explains what the term moor meant - a casta vs a race, a cultural designation that included Arabs, Berbers and West Africans - as the Spaniards saw them as a group
Muslims coming in 18/19c are coming out if a context of war (age of Jihad in WA) and part of sufi tariqas unlike those of 15/16c
His presentation makes a critical point that periodization matters, 15 c v 18 c for example shapes what the kind of Islams/Muslim identities enslaved African Muslims bring with them in captivity
Dr. Gomez is cautious about calculating the numbers of enslaved African Muslims who came to the Americas. Why? join us to find out!
Explains a complex enslaved African Muslim presence: In 15 and 16 c in Spanish colonies seen as rebellious in 18 c seen as complaint and then preferred captives and in 19th century see as menace again but in Carib and NA seen as compliant and preferred capitives
“In 1492 Columbus crossed the ocean blue and Muslims were with him” on the ship and forced to convert to Christianity but likely kept Islam in the soul
Dr. Michael Gomez keynote is starting now!
