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A is for Activism

@aisforactivism

Community hub for political education, class consciousness, mutual aid for survival and solidarity. B’ham UK and Californian chapter.

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It is us who act as foot soldiers of empire internalising liberalism excusing it. Sitting on our phones liking posts of people being eradicated. Only recently bothering to learn about the genocides on our continent.

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It is those of us who have in the words of comrade Too Black allowed for the laundering of Black rage. It is us academics viewing radicalism only through the liberal academy. It is our insistence on electoral politics. Our iPhones, our sweatshop garments the banality of our day

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It is pretending that vicarious trauma gives us a leg to stand on for our claims of oppression whilst kids are having their limbs blown off and others are enslaved. If anti-blackness is the charge then it cannot be leveraged by those of us in the imperial core who have failed

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The reality is whilst we have ancestral, somatic and genealogical claims to anti-blackness we are the empires children now. We are cushioned by our passports. We done litttle to further black liberation to claim to the revolutionary tendency of blackness until we actively do

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Those oppressed in the neo-colonies and settler colonies , the black folk, the Indigenous folk, Arab, Asian and all others have more in common with each other. We aren’t the vanguard they are. I used to say we diasporans live in the belly of the beast but we’re a part of it the

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Those of us in the imperial core have no morality to stand on. If you require perfection from victims of genocide then you were never seriously on the side of liberation. You are an opp were always going to be one and just needed an excuse.

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Our next meeting will discuss Discourse on Colonialism by Cesaire, the meeting will be on the 17th March. Free PDF of the book is available on our website (for those who haven’t read it it’s only 80 pages long, plenty of time to read it!)

Our next meeting will discuss Discourse on Colonialism by Cesaire, the meeting will be on the 17th March. Free PDF of the book is available on our website (for those who haven’t read it it’s only 80 pages long, plenty of time to read it!)
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This afternoon at 3pm UK time A is for Activism will be discussing Aimé Césaire’s essay Discourse on Colonialism. Césaire was a poet and politician from Martinique. PDF and zoom link aisforactivism.com/join-us?fbclid…

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We are BACK with our fifth annual back to school drive, if you would like to donate our link is below and if you would prefer to donate to our gofundme and we source the items link can be found in our bio! amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls…

We are BACK with our fifth annual back to school drive, if you would like to donate our link is below and if you would prefer to donate to our gofundme and we source the items link can be found in our bio! 

amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls…
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We are delighted to host the incredible Momodou ✊🏿 tomorrow on Malcolm X’s birthday to discuss his incredible debut book Tickets can be found here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-malcolm-…

We are delighted to host the incredible <a href="/MomodouTaal/">Momodou ✊🏿</a> tomorrow on Malcolm X’s birthday to discuss his incredible debut book

Tickets can be found here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-malcolm-…
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1st book launch which coincided with Malcolm’s 100th birthday! My podcast and book is an ode in dedication to Malcolm’s legacy. Malcolm remains my North Star + may his legacy be what animates our action. Thank you to Free Palestine and A is for Activism for hosting such a great event

1st book launch which coincided with Malcolm’s 100th birthday! My podcast and book is an ode in dedication to Malcolm’s legacy. Malcolm remains my North Star + may his legacy be what animates our action. Thank you to <a href="/bitterarab/">Free Palestine</a> and <a href="/aisforactivism/">A is for Activism</a> for hosting such a great event