Businesses closed. Churches emptied. Parents afraid to take kids to school.
Advocates say what was supposed to be a crime-fighting effort is keeping a community in fear.
With @mlk50.com
The latest ep of the podcast Unruly Subjects with [alum] @chenjerai.bsky.social, "Creating Conditions for Black Mothers to Thrive," features Malajah Rigsby, a new mother, & her doula Shantice Edwards AND psychotherapist Saadiqa Kumanyika (also a Penn State alum!). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
On this last day of Black Maternal Health Week, check out this Unruly Subjects episode with @chenjerai.bsky.social on creating conditions for Black mothers to thrive.
He talks with SisterWeb doula Shantice Edwards and new mom Malajah Rigsby about their beautiful birth journey together
Thanks for watching!
I joined higher ed labor, education workers, students, community members, and local government officials in urging Mayor Zohran Mamdani to veto Intro 175-B. This bill threatens free expression and chills protest in educational spaces. Education and democracy depend youtu.be/XtnqMSaKl2Q
New Unruly Subjects!
Steph Curry, Israeli tech, & sports-washing.
How one of the world’s most beloved athletes got tied to tech linked to Israeli militarism in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, & beyond
Dave Zirin@edgeofsports
& D Noble
Full ep here:
tinyurl.com/2te6we2c
youtube.com/shorts/P0GXF...
Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting. She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said. ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities. After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.
This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.
“They tried to weaken higher education, but instead they built a movement to fight for the future...
They can attack our institutions, but they cannot stop our movement….We will not stop until we have the higher education system and the democracy we all deserve.”
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
For Issue No. 10, @chenjerai.bsky.social, a member of Hammer & Hope's editorial team, sat down with the artist and writer @mollycrabapple.bsky.social to discuss her new book, “Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund." hammerandhope.org/article/moll...
What was the Jewish Labor Bund? “They become in interwar Poland something that I can only describe as similar to the Black Panther Party in America,” @mollycrabapple.bsky.social says in a conversation with Hammer & Hope editorial team member @chenjerai.bsky.social about her new book.
my mom died of pancreatic cancer -- I had the heart-rending opportunity to see the suffering this illness wreaks up close
this is unconscionable, unwarranted, unscientific, and criminal
I have a question for Steph Curry about his investments in Israeli Security Tech. And maybe after you watch this you will too. Let’s make this hard for him to and others invested in this to ignore.
youtu.be/i9lne39BT_E?...
Thank you!
HARK DAILY - Today's best podcast moments in one playlist, featuring:
- Has Trump lost his MAGA base? @briantylercohen.bsky.social
- Steph Curry's sportswashing @chenjerai.bsky.social
- The manosphere's dirty secret @audiecornish.bsky.social
Screenshot of the first three paragraphs of Amina's dispatch: I would guess that a couple hundred Somali families have been sheltering at home since November. Everyone’s taking a financial hit from all these people — translators, drivers, shopkeepers — staying home. Because it’s Ramadan right now, we’ve seen a dwindling attendance at our mosque, including at our Friday prayers, which is sad. But our mosque broadcasts live on social media, so people can get their faith and engagement at home. Our culture is so private but also deeply connected, even before this chaos. We’ve always been a community that responded to one another, so every time there’s a need, it brings us back to rejecting individualism and using our cultural connections. The first care question is always Do you have enough food in the fridge? We do a weekly check-in with many families who haven’t left their homes since the beginning of November. We make sure every week that they have food. Neighbors, family, and friends have been able to donate food or funding to help. We have rental assistance, mental support, and health care support, too. Somali medical providers are able to go to people's houses.
"The first care question is always, Do you have enough food in the fridge? We do a weekly check-in with many families who haven’t left their homes since the beginning of November. We make sure every week that they have food."
Read the rest of Amina Adan's dispatch here: tinyurl.com/y866b5sd
This story was co-published and supported by the journalism nonprofit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Huge thank you to @economichardship.bsky.social for their support ❤️
One woman Moore spoke to has already left the U.S. in the hopes of lowering her family’s living costs and a second is considering the same. Another woman — a single mom with two small children — had to move in with a friend. Only one woman recently got her job back. tinyurl.com/36hxmr72
“Financially, it is awful because a lot of times Black women are already the breadwinner or everything is on our shoulders already." Constance Franklin, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from the article: What Happened to the Black Women Trump Purged From the Federal Work Force?
Portrait of Constance Franklin. Black woman with shoulder-length dark brown hair, facing camera, wearing a red and white striped dress.
For Issue No. 10, Natalie Y. Moore spoke with 4 Black women who were purged from the federal workforce by the White House’s DOGE agency. Each woman explained the stress, frustration, and drastic changes they’ve been forced to make in the months since. tinyurl.com/36hxmr72
‘Gap Year!’ solidified Laila! as a legit musical force to behold. The streets (internet and otherwise) fell hard and fast for her original arrangements (imagine a score for sweet girls with grills) and underground touch.
Read the rest of the interview: tinyurl.com/4vyws8me
So @hammerandhope.bsky.social doesn't just have some of the best movement writing anywhere; they also lift up art & culture, both in design and coverage.
Not just "here's a hot take on a popular movie," but deep, thoughtful features. Imagine a world in which this was the norm for left publications.
The tenth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live!
This issue features 18 stories that offer our readers insights into a wide range of prescient political and cultural topics, from the community resistance in Minnesota and Ohio to the enduring legacy of D'Angelo and more.
Read here: hammerandhope.org
What an honor to do this deep dive interview with @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
about her powerful urgent and essential new book for Hammer and Hope!
“A new history of the Jewish Bund explores the beauty and fragility of solidarity across difference.”
hammerandhope.org/article/moll...
Very proud to be on Chenjerai’s pod!
The idea that that can be some kind of acceptable leverage move and then we all move on is like absolutely not fuck that
Must listen new episode of Unruly Subjects featuring @edgeofsports.bsky.social and D Noble on sportswashing, Steph Curry’s investments into the Israeli security state, and the real life impacts of all of this.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...
Apple podcast links work better because nice thumbnail image of podcast logo. Plus no alt-text needed. (There are folks who rely on it, they can't here what is in image).
I listen and subscribe via @podcastaddict.bsky.social
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yeah especially bc he invested HUGE in israeli tech - athletes and celebrities can make ethical decisions especially when that tech is tested on Palestinians so that it can them be used later by our military and police here on us.
We need to talk about Steph Curry Y’all.
New Unruly Subjects!
Steph Curry, Israeli tech, & the politics of sports-washing. Chenjerai talks w/ Dave Zirin & Demetrius Noble about how star power gets used to normalize war, occupation, & profit. Wherever you get podcasts. pod.link/1849696769/e...
