They’ve had a lot of practice doing this sweeping unhoused encampments.

“Martin Luther King is in jail, but no one arrests any members of the Ku Klux Klan.” —Malcolm X, in his final speech (at Barnard College) before his assassination. #abolition #copsoffcampus 🍉

Whew man these receipts.

I hope one of the lessons everyone’s taking away from watching how these police officers handle student protests is that police brutality isn’t just the murders you see, but the routine daily violence police use on civilians to do something as simple as conduct arrests.

NYC - Eric Adams Approval:

Disapprove: 73%
Approve: 24%
Net: -49%

Manhattan Institute / April 11, 2024 / n=700

My alma mater Columbia University has a history of expanding into and gobbling up property in working class Harlem neighborhoods, driving up housing costs. Its resistance to occupation clearly only extends to activity from which it can’t profit

I feel like THIS is getting lost. They were suspended so that they could be charged with trespassing, which leaves them UNHOUSED, far from home. Their belongings were DUMPED. Like, I fucking cannot with the “book ban” misdirection. BODIES are being banned. From their rights.

Police and politicians responded to the largest protest movement in US history by:
- increasing police budgets and pay
- increasing police killings of civilians
- gutting institutions giving communities even a little bit of power to stop them

Resharing with captions for accessibility

by popular demand, i uploaded the art of organized noize documentary that is no longer available to watch anywhere online. RIP rico wade. archive.org/details/the-ar…

Professor Ruha Benjamin (Ruha Benjamin) using her honorary degree address at Spelman to denounce Atlanta’s Cop City, the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and the repression of student activists 💜

The Art of Organized Noize (2016)

(This version with hardcoded French subs is unfortunately the only one that's still out there on the Internet)

PSA: The Police Commissioner just announced that there was no wrongdoing on the part of the officers who Kawaski Trawick to death when he was locked out of his own apartment.

Chicago Police officers ran up on 26 year old Dexter Reed for a SEATBELT VIOLATION in plain clothes, at gunpoint, didn’t say they were the police, and when he reasonably believed he was in danger and fired a single shot, they shot him 96 TIMES and brutally murdered him.

I’ve said it before on here, and I’m gonna say it again: it doesn’t matter whether you believe in climate change, only that the insurance industry does

This is terrifying.

Not the headline... I'm familiar with the science. No, what's terrifying is how far I had to dig through my news notifications to find this story.

What's terrifying is that this headline is not #trending on every social media platform.

1/4

Also sadly just as relevant today.

To the HOT 97 family Stella Beam Peter Rosenberg the Old Man Ebro LAURASTYLEZ , you can listen to all of Cee’s noon mixes when he was on Hot97, WBLS, and other stations. He always made sure he uploaded the to SoundCloud for everyone bc he was for everyone

and just like that, all the lies of the past 6 months fall away and we’re left with reality: Israel was blocking aid and intentionally creating a famine as part of their genocide with American support and Biden could have stopped this at any moment with a single phone call