We have raised a total of $217.50 for this family. Thank you to everyone taking the time to uplift and to those who’ve donated so far; only $123 until this ask is met!

mariame kaba: “but as with so many justice infrastructures lost to colonial violence, we are not simply talking about the need to dismantle a larger system. we are talking about a process of construction and creativity[…]”

“for all peoples whose systems of justice were upended or eradicated by the american political project. neutralizing perceived threats, in an endless game of legal whack-a-mole, is not a path to safety. to create safer environments, people and circumstances must be transformed.”

“we cannot discuss policing, prosecutions, judges, or prisons system without acknowledging the prison system as a mechanism of social death and exploitation. when you say, ‘what would we do without prisons?’ what you are really saying is: “what would we do without civil death”

“exploitation, and state-sanctioned violence?’ that is an old question and the answer remains the same: whatever it takes to build a society that does not continuously rearrange the trappings of annihilation and bondage while calling itself “‘free.’”

“to know freedom or safety, and to make peace with our own fears, passive punishments must be replaced with active amends and accountability.”

A massive search is underway for a missing 3-year-old boy in Lowell. The boy’s name is Harry, and he was last seen playing in his backyard on Freda Lane at 9:15am. He was wearing gray pants with a white stripe and a long-sleeved maroon shirt. More: whdh.com/news/lowell-po…

BREAKING: Preliminary reports that the child has been found. Police have blocked off Rollie's Tree Farm on Varnum Ave, feet away from where the boy went missing.

My new oil painting, Malcolm with Keffiyeh

“The public has come to terms with the idea of ​​bombing hospitals, killing premature infants, and burying people alive”

public libraries are one of the best things we have in the world. what do you mean I can walk into a building full of books and get them for FREE? what do you mean there’s a place to go sit in public and be warm and safe for FREE? libraries are everything good about the world

community doesn’t just fall out of the sky you have to be active and participate it’s not easy but it’s really worth it!