“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."
Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...
"What distinguishes his latest regime is its effort to reimagine and remake the borders of American state power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic in a single domain of impunity: call it ‘Homeland Empire’." www.equator.org/articles/hom...
Happening Now: Hundreds of protesters are holding a noise demo outside of the Graduate by Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis where ICE agents are reportedly staying. Drums, guitars, pots and pans are in-tune to "fuck ICE" and "ICE out" chants. Riot police are currently in the lobby.
As U.S. reasserts itself in the Caribbean, "for small states, the cardinal sin is not choosing the “wrong” side but collapsing strategic ambiguity."
www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
He was in Iraq. Everytime we talk about defunding ICE and the police, we must talk about defunding the US military.
Look what finally came! @cambridge.org
thx ben. appreciate this thread.
Today, @azohra.bsky.social and Madiha Tahir argue that recent criticism of the Trump administration's bombings in the Caribbean risks repeating a familiar mistake: debating how the United States wages war while leaving unquestioned why it wages it at all.
"The fundamental questions here are not about which body of law to apply—human rights law or the law of war. Instead, as the US opens another front of possible war [on Venezuela], we must ask: what interests does it advance, and whose?"
lpeproject.org/blog/beginni...
#BREAKING - Major development in #StopCopCity case
war on drugs 🤝 war on terror
“I am not interested in appealing to the imaginary moral center of any empire.” www.instagram.com/p/DLNkROXxtJ...
know who is speaking and when it aired?
When Fox news writes your paper for you.
"It’s leading to rickets, bowed knees, and even the inability to move. They can’t see things well or clear as a result of malnutrition." -A doctor in Gaza on the lack of food. Most patients are 1 month-2 years old. www.the-independent.com/news/world/m...
"there is no law to compel them to part with their food for nothing" robert hale
In the Nation, @azohra.bsky.social reflects on the right wing legal campaigns to kill progressive social movements.
I wrote about right wing legal campaigns to kill progressive social movements
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Today, a group of legal scholars explain how universities are being weaponized against their own members through allegations of “support for” or “alignment with” terrorism.
Universities must prepare for this, and refuse to operate on the basis of fear rather than legal necessity or moral principle.
