"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park."
The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!
We won.
Tesla Chicago is closed.
Their new location is in a ghost town. They sacrificed visibility to thousands/day--& proximity to the other luxury car dealerships--to get away from us, because we'd turned their brand ambassador location into a liability.
Organizing works.
@teslatakedown.com
One of the biggest labor battles in the US is happening right now in Los Angeles, at USC, where our faculty-union campaign with majority support is being met by nasty, corporate-grade administrative resistance, and national press won't cover it.
An excellent analysis of the war on Black studies that also includes a deeply perceptive critique of the neoliberal logic of valuing disciplines based on # of undergrad majors: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
a green and red title graphic: "geographers for justice in palestine's guide to AAG 2026 sessions and events"
attending #AAG next week? check out Geographers for Justice in Palestine's organized sessions and events! also available at geog4pal.org/aag
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"Good quant work is becoming cheap and plentiful; good theory remains hard. Perhaps ethnographic work will become more valuable..."
Always has been 🧑🚀
U.S. citizen detained by ICE:
“…they finally told me that they could offer undocumented family members of mine legal protection if I have any…or money, in exchange for giving them the names of protest organizers, or undocumented persons. I was shocked, and told them no.”
as gsu partners with google to open the "AI Innovation Lab" to train teachers to "recruit" public HS students to "to participate in a daily curriculum focused on AI/ML literacy, problem-solving, design-thinking and mentorship"...
For decades, scholars have argued education’s hidden curriculum is about disciplining and socializing children as future workers, and they just….tweeted it out
"My beloved city Gaza stands on the brink of a full military occupation by the Israeli army. Their plan is to force us all to leave our homes and move into tents... We do not know what will happen to those who resist. We may be living our last days in Gaza City"
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
excerpt from financial times
"95% of organizations are getting zero return"
www.ft.com/content/3391...
As Ruth Wilson Gilmore noted, "[Karl] Marx observed that tax struggle is the oldest form of class struggle."
Given the "Big Beautiful Bill," it might be useful for some of us to become more familiar with tax policy.
Here's a thread about U.S. tax policy and politics.
Family abolition is the actualization of humanity’s universal care-neediness through the radical democratization of lifemaking without the mediations of the wage or the state. It is the politics that asks what we need from the family, and is brave enough to think about *actually making that happen.*
“Leonard Peltier’s Story Isn’t Over Yet” my interview with the Native elder in the New Yorker, fifty years after the shootout at Oglala in the Pine Ridge reservation.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
Congrats to @empowermentave.bsky.social -represented author Phillip Vance Smith II for winning the 2025 Stillwater Award for Best Reported Essay from @prisonjournalism.bsky.social for his Inquest contribution linked below!
My racial wealth gap class this fall is going to be so, so much weirder. My students were already getting stuck on how little progress has been made toward equity, way back in 2023 when that was still a priority. Now I get to try and explain…this
No one deserves detention.
No one deserves deportation.
No one deserves prison.
No one deserves to be separated from their loved ones.
No human is illegal. Free them all.
“We have academic freedom & freedom of speech on this campus!”
Hundreds of Cornell students, staff & supporters held an emergency rally today for Momodou Taal, a Ph.D. student suing Donald Trump over the constitutionality of targeting students for protected speech.
www.wbng.com/2025/03/20/r...
oops just seeing the article... noooo.
wait libgen is implicated in this too?? 😢
Martin Sostre, a tall Black man wearing a red-and-navy striped tee tucked into blue jeans, stands looking pensively out a sunny window with one hand on his hip. Behind him are a few potted plants.
"I will never sell out the Black struggle for liberation, nor can the enemy break my revolutionary spirit."
Martin Sostre was born in Harlem 102 years ago today. He became a jailhouse lawyer, bookseller, tenant organizer and youth mentor, and pioneering thinker of Black anarchism. (1/2)
Are you ready for #AAG25?? We are! Add BGSG-sponsored sessions to your conference calendar!
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777485...
"The contradictions of the New York guard strike reveal that prisons are not only instruments for controlling those locked inside cages; they also control those guarding the cages..."
Recalling the organizing in WA state when COs at stafford creek attacked Jerrell Jackson - using COVID policies as coverup. Incarcerated people held their ground in protest against Jackson's treatment, despite repercussions. www.kuow.org/stories/man-...
