Dear #stlouis, let’s show we care without being mandated - wear a mask, we are all connected.

#yokoono

⭕ LIVE: Israeli occupation forces are beating crowds carrying the casket of killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh ⤵️ x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Children’s Game #29: La roue Lubumbashi, DR Congo, 2021; 8:43 min In collaboration with Rafael Ortega, Julien Devaux, and Félix Blume bit.ly/3LPQ3jO

“When the public—the local government—cedes its leadership in redevelopment planning to private interests, cities no longer serve as sites for pursuing the well-being of residents, but become nothing more than investment ventures for capital accumulation.”

. love rail workers protect the human right to say no . #tantwenga Little Onion #RailStrikes #strike #love #poetry #renga #senryu

“As a new generation faces the realities of class war — longer hours, lower pay, growing inequality, and crisis-ridden health care provision — the National Health Service offers a reminder of what can be achieved when the tides of history are turned back in the other direction.”

I love libraries! At their best they are community oases, places to be challenged and cheered, warmed and welcomed, and rested and read. Thank you St. Louis Public Library for inviting me to be in your artist spotlight. It is an honor to be part of you.

Why I adore librarians.

Don't breathe it in. #COVIDisAirborne

“First, we prioritized community care over white, upper middle class, reactionary insecurity.”

This is the wrong question. Biden didn’t “go wrong”, he was never ambitious. Many wanted to see that in him but it wasn’t there. If he is less popular now it is because some are allowing themselves to see/hear what was always truly there.

“Adults tend to process traumatic experiences through speech. Children will do it through play.” In the Studio: Francis Alÿs discusses The Nature of the Game in the 2022 Venice Biennale “The Milk of Dreams.” 📖a21.tv/3ztgsAZ

ICYMI: Sign the petition and call on Saint Louis University & SLU_SOE to rescind their sponsorship of Ali Academy. bit.ly/3gC3ppW

Community service & social justice are not the same thing. Community service is when you volunteer at a homeless shelter. Social justice is when you demand housing for everyone as a human right.

We have to be kept busy at all times because the more free time we have to reflect on things, the less likely we are to tolerate it. That’s also why they’re terrified of access to education in prisons

Police murder. Then lie. Then are exposed. We mourn. Protest. Demand change. Protests are demonized. Then co-opted. Then ignored. Rinse, wash, repeat. This is learned helplessness. Unlearn it. There are people organizing to defund and abolish policing near you. Find them.

Goldstein's massacre and the Huwara pogrom are two horrific examples of a larger pattern: using the language of Jewish safety and potential annihilation to justify state and settler violence, writes #SaveMasaferYatta. 972mag.com/purim-supremac…