We want to introduce you to some young poets in Gaza.

Through the genocide, they have not stopped writing.

Most have been made homeless.

All want to escape.

They need all of our help, so we want to tell you about them. 🧵

In his latest article, Dortell Williams discusses LWOP and healing. Dortell is in his 33rd year of a Life Without Parole sentence and is an Inside Policy Fellow with Ella Baker Center. Please read and share his piece! tinyurl.com/heal0322

The young person whose poster this is has come to many protests since October and watching the names on her poster grow every time I see her is a punch in the gut. I cannot imagine the pain she must feel and yet on NU’s encampment I saw her actively leading things despite it all.

🚨 Cal Poly admin has ended all negotiations with the occupation. The students say: 'We do not know when police will be here, but they will be at some point. We regret NO decisions we have made. We are part of a mass movement alongside millions. We will end this genocide.'

FROM ACADEMIC COMPLICITY TO ACADEMIC REBELLION

Read, print, and share our June 2023 zine written with USC and UCLA students: stoplapdspying.org/academic-compl…

Mumia Abu-Jamal spoke from prison, his precise, loving voice asking for divestment through a speaker amplified through a megaphone. Life is sometimes literal and symbolic at the same time.

I am elated to be the moderator and faculty advisor for Mapping Califas , an UC inter-campus working group of grad students from UC Riverside and UC Irvine and supported by UCHRI . If you are attending #naccs2024 definitely check out this panel presentation.

speaking of tortured poets, today seems like as good a day as any to read, really sit with, and (crucially) be inspired to action by the work of palestinian writers, who are being executed, imprisoned, starved, displaced, and *literally* tortured

Minouche, this is going to be your legacy. That you used NYPD to clear students that were in your care. That you used your voice to dismiss them. Think about how 1968 is remembered. You have cemented your name in history as oppressor; as the person who released the dogs. Shame.

NEW: The Appeal has published the first national database of prison commissary prices. The project covers 46 states, revealing an exploitative system that forces incarcerated people to pay up to 5x the outside price for some items. theappeal.org/locked-in-pric…

A fun fact about the landfill/blight is that the underground garbage is now on fire, and toxic black sludge is literally bubbling out of the ground. Who could have possibly seen this coming? 🤯

Today is the day! Applications for our first-ever virtual retreat are now OPEN. 🔥

Apply here: abodepress.submittable.com/submit

Keep reading to learn more about the Retreat 🧵

Videos of migrants attempting to enter Texas have sparked debates about the National Guard's use of lethal force. Margath Walker (@uofl) highlights state v. federal authority as a key part of current immigration debates.

From Nick Mordowanec, Newsweek: newsweek.com/can-texas-nati…

Sure, public transit could be safer, but it often in and of itself is a literal vehicle of safety.

I still have and use a worn Clipper Card from a few years ago when I dated a very toxic, abusive person. BART allowed me to traverse the Bay Area alone w/o relying on said ex

a new gem of a poem by Geoffrey G. O'Brien that doubles as a troll on business-as-usual poets is up now, over at the The Yale Review:

yalereview.org/article/geoffr…