As the U.S. turns 250 years old, we're reflecting on who actually built it.
Explore FEMINIST 250, an online initiative from Ms. reflecting on the semiquincentennial of US democracy from a feminist perspective—continuing through April 16:
By performing on the largest stage in the US, Bad Bunny joyfully and unapologetically challenges racist ideas of what it means to be “American.” #SuperBowl2026 #superbowlhalftimeshow
Bad Bunny held 500 years of colonial violence, all the peoples of this hemisphere, the plantation that is the game - and showed us we get to dance through the repair. Messy, impossible, necessary. Made us proud...gave us fuel? Let us hope, Américas!
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As a totally anecdotal measure of how normies are fed up: I’m on a peloton Super Bowl ride right now where 80 people are riding with #AbolishICE as their leaderboard tag
Strange what some folks understand as political. This was absolutely an explicitly political performance.
The Win-Win Myth: LaRussell, Roc Nation, and the Cost of Access: On community capture, radio gatekeeping, and the alternatives we need to build!
artworldswewant.substack.com/p/the-win-wi...
This is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.
What a useful resource for organizing.
🚨🚨🚨 Live here: www.youtube.com/live/zqka9fU...
There are more and more stories of ICE/CBP sexually assaulting people, abusing partners, drunk driving etc. While the people they shoot in the face - that they justify doing so i the name of law and order - are guilty of such crimes as ::checks notes:: existing
Update from me! <3
The 2024 doc "Union," about unionizing efforts at a Staten Island Amazon warehouse, is now streaming on @means.tv. #AmazonTeamsters #AmazonLaborUnion
The music industry does not work for artists or listeners and needs a radical reimagining. Mirlo hosts a community of artists, listeners, organizers, and coders who are daring to do just that: taking lessons learned from working in the solidarity economy and applying them to our platform. 📣🐦⬛ Picture shows a group of red birds on a white background. The birds are listening to music and one is playing a synth.
The music industry does not work for artists or listeners and needs a radical reimagining.
Mirlo hosts a community of artists, listeners, organizers, and coders who are daring to do just that. 📣🐦⬛
mirlo.space/pages/about
#Music #MusicIndustry #BrokenRecord #SolidarityEconomy #Organising
Green graphic with beige text that reads, "Free Artist Legal Cafe | One-on-one support with licensed attorneys, solidarity economy experts and cultural workers | Now serving artists, art collectives and organizations | Partners: Vital Arts, Sustainable Economies Law Center, Movement Law"
Sustainable Economies Law Center, Vital Arts and Movement Law are hosting their last Artist Legal Cafe of the year on December 4. A 30-minute "nano-training" will be followed by a one-on-one sessions with a lawyer to get answers to your questions about entity formation, contracts, governance & more.
Artists need a solidarity economy.
A solidarity economy needs artists.
Last Friday I stopped by the Brooklyn Supported Agriculture storefront, on Marcus Garvey Blvd in the heart of Brooklyns Bed-Stuy. It's run by Brooklyn Packers, Black-led, worker-owned cooperative that's part of a growing regional food ecosystem rooted in food sovereignty & cooperative economics.
Authoritarians claim the power not just to tell all of our stories but to select the definitive story that says who we are, what our nature, why we're here, in order to cast themselves as both forever hero protagonists while also endlessly victimized.
Abstracts due on 12/1: I'm editing a special issue of the Int'l Journal of Communication on "the imaginative landscape of AI." Help us map the imaginaries of this stuff beyond the tech industry fluff: comai.space/en/call-for-papers-the-i...
I joined @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social as he took his campaign to the people who keep New York running while the rest of us sleep, and considered what his mayoralty would (will??) actually look like.
I was just now days old when I learned of the Green Feather student movement response to McCarthyism. Reclaiming Robin Hood to make clear connection between regime censorship & rule by & for the rich. Bonus that fascism-fighting frogs also green!
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Happy Zohran Eve to all who celebrate!! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
What was behind the mass protests in Indonesia this year, and how did they change the country? From Jakarta, a report by Hanna Samosir, on an unfinished revolution
I’m in Utah and we should be screaming from the top of our lungs: WHAT WOULD JESUS DO
Bunch of hypocrite so-called “Christians”!!!! 💔
Let them eat absolutely fucking nothing is a fun twist.
@anatosaurus.bsky.social did you hear his full remarks? Are there comms groups where we can dissect their lies/frames and push back immediately?
- weshould thank Christians for “freedom of religion”
- have more babies and younger
- migrants make labor movement weak
www.youtube.com/live/WR-CDom...
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
New:
I sat down with @aljazeera.com to talk about my firing from the Washington Post, being the last Black staff columnist left at the Post.
And how I believe the right is not just engaging in “cancel culture”, but “annihilation culture”.
Full video here: youtu.be/89qMGkK3LBc?...
That's why art.coop created this free course last year with Creative Study on Guaranteed Income and various pilots focused on artists in the United States! Take the course alone or with your collective or group: creativestudy.com/course/guara...
It's a critical time to be building the liberatory cultural front in the US. People's assemblies are movement and solidarity economy technologies we must access in this moment. Who will be in New Orleans next month? Hit me up! Thank you National Performance Network <3
npnweb.org/ac2025/
