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Boston, MA
Joined December 2008
Our official statement in response to the current wave of book banning. Here’s the link to the eBooks we’re offering for free: ➡️ Here’s the link for the @ncacensorship Report Censorship site: ➡️ #BanBookBans
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RT @amnestyusa: The world has witnessed the government of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in occupied Gaza. Month after month, the g…
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RT @TheKingCenter: Today in History: The Montgomery Bus Boycott On December 5, 1955, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began, uniting a community…
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When it comes to architecture, Aaron Betsky says there are 3 reasons why we shouldn’t put up new buildings. We can’t afford to use up natural resources we can’t replenish. #Reuse
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RT @FFRF: In our secular democracy, we don't base our laws on what "Jesus defines." The U.S. Constitution enshrines the separation of chur…
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The stereotyped images of the Great Depression are the individual white man at the bread line or the migrant mother. Dana Frank is all about the complex ways people organized collectively from below. #HistoryFromBelow @CityLightsBooks
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Freedom is applicated on our American minds. But since freedom is so contested as a concept, @WilliamAyers says we need to unpack what it means, especially when we’re talking about abolition.
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RT @esglaude: We have to shift the center of gravity of our politics. If we don’t, we will seal the fate of this democracy.
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RT @SidewithLove: On #HumanRightsDay2024, please join our partners at @UUSC for a conversation with Haitian advocates on the current situat…
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In our post-election haze, if you’re looking for a story about how ordinary people can rally against tyranny, crack open REVOLUTION BY FIRE by @LesterMecca, Marcus Rediker & Paul Buhle! #GraphicNovel @booksinbc
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RT @jacobin: On December 4, 1969, Black Panther leader Fred Hampton was murdered by police. “We're going to fight racism not with racism,…
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Why has law enforcement considered the murders of Black women to have been committed by someone they knew rather than by a serial killer? Cheryl L. Neely gets at the root of the issue in her upcoming book, NO HUMAN INVOLVED. @PublishersWkly
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Raise your hand if you’re going to the December 10 @EarfullSeries event at @burrenmusic! Because Michael Patrick MacDonald will be there with Phuc Tran, Carissa Johnson, Joe Gittleman, and Amy Griffin! Get your tix! 🎟️
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RT @NCSSNetwork: A compelling session with Michael Patrick MacDonald about his history in South Boston and Roxbury, the power of community…
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The conversation around white teachers committed to #antiracist education doesn’t end with FROM WHITE FOLKS WHO TEACH IN THE HOOD. @chrisemdin & @husslington set up fromwhitefolks [dot] org so more teachers can contribute! @Getting_Smart
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Are you reading Uncle Jimmy’s NOTES OF A NATIVE SON?
On this day in 1987, Novelist, playwright, poet and social critic, the late James Baldwin died. Rest in Power ✊🏿
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REVOLUTION BY FIRE brings into full view the US’s slave past and how enslaved people courageously rebelled against their enslavers. @ComicWatchHQ asks @LesterMecca all about adapting this history as a #GraphicNovel.
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RT @RBReich: Should Democrats move to the right? Absolutely not. That's morally wrong and bad politics. The real lesson of 2024 is that De…
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This December 1st was the 69th anniversary of Rosa Parks’s arrest for not giving up her seat on the bus. That evening, she didn’t feel like history was being made. #TDIH @JeanneTheoharis
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