Do Cayuga and Oswego counties have access to our Flock footage?

I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.

#OtD 18 Feb 1924 Madame Sorgue (pictured, bottom right), French revolutionary and feminist died in London. A fierce advocate for the working class, she supported many strikes, including several by women workers against sexual harassment from male bosses stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8...

Saying that quiet part out loud.

Israeli Police: Booksellers are terrorists

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In 1942 Black soldiers started the Double V Campaign, which stood for double victory, and sought to combat fascism at home and abroad.

It was through this effort that led to the desegregation of the military in 1948 and laid the groundwork for much of the civil rights movement.

#blackhistorymonth

When ICE Comes Calling, Rapid Community Responses Can Make a Difference Is your community ready to fight deportations? Here’s how people in New York, New Jersey and Arizona are organizing.

The efforts to protect immigrants through collective solidarity are having an impact: Trump “Border Czar” Tom Homan has already said that Know Your Rights education is “making it very difficult” to arrest people.

Scapegoats and Solidarity Scapegoat politics is a tempting—but harmful—distraction from the real work of solidarity-building.

"Those invectives preemptively blaming Latinos for the carnage promised by the ascendant Republican Party were made by well-compensated pundits...[Twitter] been converted into a de facto anti-organizing platform that eats solidarity and shits out bitcoin."

inthesetimes.com/article/elec...

In the last few weeks, state troopers in Nashville have arrested 10 people under Tennessee's felony camping law-the harshest law in the nation. This sharp increase is incredibly concerning for the rights of people experiencing homelessness across the state and beyond. Here's what you need to know and what you can do to help!

Here's what you can do: Share this post! Help us spread awareness and put pressure on our elected officials! If you're in Tennessee, please email india@opentablenashville.org if you hear of a felony arrest or if you are harrassed, cited, or arrested under this law.

This is unreal: State troopers in Nashville have arrested ten people in recent weeks under Tennessee's FELONY camping law.

The punishment? Up to six years in prison, a $3000 fine, and the loss of voting rights.

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Text from the 2005 Continuum version of Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed."

I feel like it's sort of both and neither, but that phrasing from Freire really puts me in mind of "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," where I think he says it best in context:

Rich countries drain ‘shocking’ amount of labor from the Global South Workers in the Global South—from farm workers to scientists—power the world economy but face a yawning wage gap

The global North net-imports 826 billion hours of labour from the global South every year—more than what is provided by the entire workforce of the United States and Europe combined. www.science.org/content/arti...

As an Indian, as someone who lived in Egypt, and who has, modestly, remained committed to my politics despite that, here are my rules for living under fascist regimes:
1) Focus on organizational structure. 1/