Today Palestine Legal and the University of Florida chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) filed a historic lawsuit against the University of Florida system for violating their First Amendment rights by deactivating their student group. Thread below for more info

🚨NEW FILING 🚨 Late yesterday, Palestinians filed an urgent motion asking a federal court to immediately stop President Biden , Blinken, and Austin from providing further arms, money, military support, and diplomatic support to Israel. ccrjustice.org/stop-the-genoc…

Update: this has now reached 66+ student organizations. The article isn’t updated yet; the coalition is working on a website for the full list! Stay tuned!

“The average age of all Palestinians murdered the past month is 5 years old.” Nothing could ever justify this devastating statistic. Nothing. Absolutely sickening.

my latest writing - some commentary in South Side Weekly about how chicago's police budget got so big over time, why it's so hard to push for it to be cut, what's in brandon johnson's CPD budget increase & what all that means for the organizing work ahead southsideweekly.com/op-ed-the-chic…

UPDATE: Excited to announce we have officially hit 80 student organizations in our coalition in just one week! Columbia students, please mobilize your organizations to join our coalition! We are showing Columbia that the students refuse to be complicit in apartheid and genocide.

Detroit is now the largest city in the US to call for a ceasefire. Big props to all the organizers who fought for this & to my sis Gabriela Santiago-Romero for her leadership. “If we are accused of picking a side, surely we are picking up the side of humanity.” - GSR #CeasefireNOW

News of this deal is very welcome. Tragically, it could have been reached in week 1, again before ground invasion on 10/27, & before the gutting of Al Shifa Hospital. A political solution has always been the only option & is necessary now to end Israel's genocidal campaign #Gaza

NOW: Hundreds of Jewish and allied New Yorkers - including Jewish Voice for Peace NYC, Rabbis for Ceasefire Rabbis for Ceasefire, dozens of JFREJ members, and more - are blocking the Manhattan bridge, saying: "President Biden, pick a side! #CeasefireNow, not genocide!"

JOBS 🚨: Wayne State is hiring up to 50 Assistant/Associate/Full Professors of Black Studies to join our new Detroit Center for Black Studies. waynetalent.csod.com/ux/ats/careers… This year’s search seeks applicants engaged in humanistic & social scientific inquiry, open field, open rank.

THREAD: As the US-backed Israeli bombardment of Gaza reaches unfathomable proportions, so has the war of repression here: since Oct. 7th we’ve received 1000+ reports from people targeted for Palestine advocacy in all arenas—but it’s not stopping the upsurge in solidarity. 1/14

A whole bunch of young people are being radicalized by this moment. If you are new to organizing and need some advice and accompaniment, Mariame Kaba and I wrote a book for you. haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-let…

Most of all, I saw students experiment w making a society: they are experimenting w self governance, and with educating, entertaining, praying with, feeding, defending, organizing and caring for one another. How beautiful is that?!

The historian in me had to say this publicly:

In their article in YLPR, Amanda Alexander (Amanda Alexander) and Tolulope Sonuyi propose trauma-informed solutions to violence. They then offer their Detroit-based partnership as a model for others. Read "Reducing Community Violence & Incarceration" here: yalelawandpolicy.org/reducing-commu…

In their Yale Law & Policy Review article, DJC’s Founder, Amanda Alexander (Amanda Alexander) and Tolulope Sonuyi propose trauma-informed solutions to violence. They then offer their Detroit-based partnership as a model for others. 🔗 Read the article here: yalelawandpolicy.org/reducing-commu…

Random thought: I often wonder what music folks like MLK, Malcolm X, Ella Baker, and Fannie Lou Hamer listened to. Anybody done work on the 'playlists' of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements? No Comps I vaguely remember you writing a blog about this I think?

I invite everyone to stop for a second and think about what you might feel called to do if your family was being murdered in a genocide that had been happening for almost a year and completely live streamed Think about that very carefully before you talk smack about protestors

Nobody’s free until everybody’s free. Excited to be hosting a panel this Thursday at CBCF Inc.'s #ALC53 focused on Black and Palestinian solidarity. Hope to see you there!