96% of workers voted to strike at colombia university. They now need cash for their strike fund. Throw them some cash and support the strike! gofundme.com/f/solidarity-w…

We are sunflowers and our collective liberation is the sun. Another world is possible. Now that it is Spring, let tenderness bloom.🌻

When you hear that an unhoused person “refused services” that includes... - refused to give up their pet to get a short-term hotel room - the shelter they were offered a space in isn’t safe for their gender/sexuality - couldn’t consolidate all their belongings into two bags

Low-income students having to excel in order to get financial aid while rich kids can just bulshit their way through school is a good example of why meritocracy isn't real.

imo more than liberalized ‘acceptance’ trans & queer kids need spaces to learn/teachers to teach the radical histories of queer struggle & coalitional political work

When academics don’t see themselves as workers they do so to the detriment of the laboring conditions of everyone else in this system. People whose jobs are contingent keep laying this out, but it feels like not everyone has grasped it.

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remember when the Bucks went on a strike to protest police violence and other teams followed? Remember when Obama called LeBron and Chris Paul and told them to stop striking? And to emphasize voting? And to vote for the man pledging millions of dollars to police? Remember this?

In anticipation of Cops Off Campus Coalition’s #AbolitionMay, the Cops Off Campus Research Collective is hosting “Study, Organize, Abolish: A Cops Off Campus Research Workshop” Friday, April 23 from 3-4:50 p.m. ET (12-1:50 p.m. PT)! Registration link: eventbrite.com/e/study-organi…

The third largest military force in the world is the US police.

I can’t emphasize this enough— state and city officials literally engineer the conditions of poverty and conflict and then cite these things as the reason to fund militarized police forces instead of reducing poverty & or preventing violence.

“Being personally thrilled with someone going to prison is anyone’s prerogative.... Let’s be clear though: advocating for someone’s imprisonment is not abolitionist. Mistaking emotional satisfaction for justice is also not abolitionist.” - NYC Tw*tterati, #WeDoThisTillWeFreeUs

Every horrific thing people are fantasizing will happen to Chauvin in prison happens all the time to poor, disabled, Black, and trans people held hostage in prisons across the country

the only reason most people aren’t homeless is due to sheer luck. people will do mental gymnastics to avoid that reality but the sooner we all accept that the sooner we can start treating our neighbors like people and not some societal burden

It is incredibly frustrating how social scientists are ignored in discussions of mental health. We know what causes depression: material deprivation, trauma, racism and capitalism. It's not a mystery.

Until a STRIKE is on the table, UC admin CANNOT hear us, because we aren't yet speaking their language. To all my fellow lecturers: stand together and DEMAND a #FairContractNow To all our students, TAs and tenure-track colleagues: stand with us, so we can fully be there for you!

Every time a strike has happened in my 2.5 short years at the UC, faculty's first worry is "We don't want to hurt the students' ability to learn." Strikes are meant to hurt. That's the point. Full stop. Cancel your classes.

p.s. The UC's refusal to give lecturers a fair contract is what is hurting students' ability to learn. Lecturer churn hurts their ability to learn. Lecturer poverty hurts their ability to learn. Lecturers' teaching conditions are students' learning conditions. Rinse. repeat.

The resource collection "So is this Actually an Abolitionist Proposal or Strategy?" (interruptingcriminalization.com/binder) kicks off with a list that we return to often, from Survived & Punished NY's Preserving Punishment Power. We ask of each reform: