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I’ve learned that not speaking on things just to keep the “peace” is actually a trauma response. When you do this, you disrespect YOUR boundaries. No matter what, keep taking up space and use your voice
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y'all, my mom is the goat. so she works in a nursing home with mostly other immigrants and she asks her boss for hazard pay considering they feed, bathe, and care for elderly & immunocompromised residents.her boss (karen) laughed at her and said they could have free lunch one day
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them to come back to work and conceded to giving additional hazard pay on top of their hourly wage...this is the PERFECT time to join local organizing efforts. the electoral system may have failed you but your community won't if we come together.
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what's happening in tx is a prime example of manufactured scarcity under capitalism. b/c electricity, water, food, housing are not recognized as human rights/needs, ppl in power have been able to commodify it. we are conditioned to believe that we are not deserving
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it's always "listen to black women" until they're socialists, revolutionaries, pan africanist, etc.....cuz now ur just uncomfortable with that idea of listening to them
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THINGS TO DO INSTEAD OF CALLING THE COPS
(thread)
*strong communities make police obsolete
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remember this week that mutual aid groups helped you more than your government. remember that when ppl try to tell you that the most powerful thing you can do is vote. that is a lie. we've always had revolutionary potential in our community. we always help each other in struggle
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in 1956, W.E.B. DuBois refused to even register to vote arguing that "democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. there is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all i can do or say."
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behind every non black person that’s “changed” since high school is a black person that they traumatized along the way
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her boss, Karen, is freaking out and calling her desperately asking for people to cover these shifts so my african mother (petty asf) literally tells her to "have fun doing the dirty work". Three days later, Karen is calling the REGIONAL director and he calls my mom BEGGING for
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instead so my mom and her coworkers were so fed up because they get paid next to nothing for taking care of all these people plus with COVID-19, they are literally risking their lives everyday. so she decides to call off "sick" one day...and the REST of her team follows suit
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ppl were clowning evo morales for explaining that things such as water, electricity, power, etc should be rights & shouldn’t be privatized. here we are in texas, dealing with the aftermath of a state that doesn’t prepare for anything cuz these basic necessities are privatized
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JOIN AN ORGANIZATION, STUDY, AND CONNECT WITH YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES
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I couldn’t come to my dad’s naturalization ceremony so he FaceTimed me and said, “Lulu, I’m an American” 😭
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i want all these "youth climate activists" to free themselves from being groomed by these politicians to do these performative stunts and create a million orgs to "gotv"...join a revolutionary organization and study instead!!!
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a lot of people don’t carry their politic into the way they approach dating, relationships, etc….because that’s a true testament to your revolutionary discipline imo
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they're admitting it....now watch what they're doing with egypt, ethiopia, and sudan over the nile
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this really how y’all be sounding 🤡🤡
Ya'll are so annoying. A black woman becoming a billionaire in a world full of white men is something to celebrate. That doesn't mean we like billionaires or don't find the idea ridiculous. But if someone was going to become one I'm glad it's a black woman. ya'll can stop 😪😪
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2) If something of yours is stolen and you need to file a report, consider going to the police station instead of bringing cops into your community. You may inadvertently put someone in your neighborhood at risk
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4) Keep a contact list of community resources like suicide hotlines. When police are contacted to "manage" such situations, people with mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed by cops than those without mental health challenges
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this is what happens when ppl prioritize “personal lived experiences” over actual material analysis
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saying that we need a “mix of socialism and capitalism...look at the nordic countries” is a violent statement no matter how you put it. you’re validating the need for some form of exploitation as long as it’s not right in front of you (the global south)
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1) Don't feel obligated to defend property--especially corporate "private"property. Before confronting someone or contacting the police, ask yourself if anyone is being hurt or endangered by property "theft" or damage. If the answer is "no", then let it be
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5) Check your impulse to call the police on someone "suspicious". Is their race, gender, ethnicity, class, or housing situation influencing your choice? Such calls can be death sentences for many people
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3) If you see someone pulled over with car trouble, stop and ask if they need help of if you can call a tow truck for them. Police may give punitive and unnecessary tickets to people with car issues, target those without papers, or worse
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i can't believe everyone is talking about china colonizing uganda when this is literally all hypothetical & nothing has ACTUALLY happened yet
meanwhile...france owns the wealth of every francophone country, all ports along west africa, the largest gold reserves in Mali, etc
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how you say “free palestine” then talk about “nuance” when it comes to the US position on Cuba??
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shoutout to
#winnipegpolicecauseharm
for putting together these community alternatives to policing
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anytime i dunk on liberals, i'm also subconsciously dunking on myself for spewing that bs years ago lol i keep it humble but we move
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“capitalism sucks but i’m a first gen american that’s trying to build generational wealth so i gotta do what i gotta do”.....babes ur colonized and won’t touch “generational wealth” if we don’t overthrow this genocidal capitalist state so let’s start there
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pan africanism = the unification of africa and all african ppl under scientific socialism. it’s anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist at its core
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saying ppl shouldn’t be allowed to have kids if they’re poor is literally giving eugenics
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democrats love to pose as if they care about BIPOC, undocumented folks, etc in order to win votes but their rhetoric fails to hold up in congress. from clinton's '94 crime bill to obama's big bank bailout, democrats have no legitimate claim to a "moral high ground"
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Don't call
#QueenAndSlim
the Black 'Bonnie and Clyde'. Because Bonnie and Clyde committed a crime to get themselves into that situation. Queen and Slim were just Black. And how they're perceived as Black people escalated the situation.
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what is "democratic socialism" if not "soft" capitalism preserving
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bernie sanders was the BARE minimum...he had a track record of voting in favor of nearly ever instance of american interventionism in the last two decades and its hurts to see american "progressives" or "radicals" still fall in line w/ imperialism
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Came in as a girl with a lot to work on, left as a woman with a lot to work with
Gual Erey 🇪🇷 ትስናት
B.A, Political Science w/ a Minor in Communication Studies
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y’all are rlly gonna call these things HANDOUTS while we are deadass freezing and have no running electricity or power??? CUZ OF THESE COMPANIES???
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LMFAO why all the ppl in the diaspora sh*tting on governments in the global south for “not having free press” so quiet now 💀💀
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of these things as soon as we are born and that we shouldn't have to pay or work to survive. capitalism depends on scarcity so when it doesn't come naturally they have to manufacture it
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this isn't meant to be an attack but rather an attempt to highlight how even the most "radical" promises to change the system are still working from within the status quo. the system is blatantly rigged so why are we still pretending its a legitimate avenue for change?
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delete “authoritarian” or “dictator” out of your vocabulary if you not gonna apply to the west in the same ways you do go demonize countries in the global south...keep the same energy
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we don't have time. communism is the only answer. if ur not interested in building institutions alternative to the reactionary sh*t our people are fed, then we are not getting anywhere. y'all can intellectually masturbate all day while the earth is crumbling and we are dying
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nancy pelosi really looked up at the sky and said "thank you george floyd for sacrificing your life".....no words just deep disgust
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liberal orgs at universities were created in response to more radical student organizing decades ago. it was apart of the ideological counterinsurgency. they were never meant to be places for you to learn how to organize and become effective community members
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The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them” -Julius Nyerere
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met paul sankara, thomas sankara’s brother at the african people’s forum…grateful to have been in community with the BAP team as well!
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Caitlyn Sewell is the white lady who said “dumb nigger” at When Hate Comes to Campus panel. She is the Assistant General Counsel for the UNT System and I call for her resignation immediately.
If UNT wants to say they’re anti-racist, show us.
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notice how all the faux “western leftists” are all of a sudden demonizing russia. posting about democracy and human rights for ukraine, etc? a lot of them are straight up reposting NATO propaganda but have “anti-imperialist” in their bio
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ex) food, water, clothing, and other goods don't just "spoil". they're actively reduced or destroyed by producers b/c if they just made them available to everyone, that would undercut the scarcity on which producers depend on to turn a profit
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this is a fundamental contradiction of capitalism. b/c we live in the wealthiest nation in the world and literally overproduce everything yet we're supposed to believe that natural resources are scarce? just cuz the ppl who privatized them said so?
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here’s a refresher:
pan africanism is NOT black capitalism, afrocentrism or weird hotep stuff...
it’s literally socialism with n*gga characteristics....a tool to liberate the continent
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copmala harris has made it clear that the dems will wage war abroad in order to commodify WATER. we MUST be vigilant in observing the US' role in various African states. resisting imperialism and war as residents in the imperial core is non-negotiable
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uhhh why did dr umar try to shoot his shot at me just now? he is so SICK
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so while there's plenty of talk about "holding politicians accountable", i want to point out the need for a fundamental shift in our relationship to the economy and resources on this earth in order to make a change or else these disasters will continue.
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we have an opportunity to build strong communities around us. every four years, millions of people look for someone to save us, but we, the people, are the ones we've been waiting for.
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but sure "listen to black women" only applies to the stacy abrams, kamala harris', and the like.....what a coincidence
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Du Bois said "democracy in America is impossible"...the historical oppression of BIPOC is the foundational violence that sustains this country. maybe voting for Bernie was a strategic step but it can never be the final goal.
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this is not just a matter of carelessness or lack of preparation on the state's part. this was a deliberately constructed situation. like why does someone own a power grid or power plants? why is that okay??
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seeking to "change from within" is a position that by default makes you a deporter in chief, head of the greatest military threat in the world, and leader of the white supremacist, settler-colonial, capitalist, imperialist project called the "United States of America"
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they literally said it would create a "divisive" environment...gtfo with that watered down coffee anyways
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also even if ppl follow up with a “green new deal” that doesn’t fully solve the problem. we need to completely rethink our relationship to land and earths resources. first with the fact that this is stolen land, and we’re still exploiting other countries for their resources
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the enormous amount of energy and passion that goes into electoral politics can be so easily put into organizing around grassroots issues that can make an actual, material change in people's lives-especially the most vulnerable people who only matter to politicians every 4 years
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ur automatically sus if u have EVER defended/advocated for sanctions on an african country lmfaooo what’s wrong with these academics??
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we need to be honest about the reality that voting is not going to save us...but people have already been organizing for affordable housing (
@moms4housing
), increasing minimum wage (
@fightfor15
), abolishing ICE (
@CloseTheCampsBA
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"never worry about who will be offended if you speak the truth. worry about who will be misled, deceived and destroyed if you don't" - malcolm x
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I GOT ACCEPTED TO THE INTERNATIONAL MULTILATERAL DIPLOMACY PROGRAM IN GENEVA, SWITZERLAND ON A FULL SCHOLARSHIP!! CATCH ME IN EUROPE THIS SUMMER 😭
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always ask yourself who helped guide you to housing options, food, gave you tips to get through this crisis. the PEOPLE
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politicians weren't doing ANYTHING while regular ppl are helping each other by donating extra blankets, rotating car usage in the neighborhood for those without power, preparing hella hot food to share when they get the chance. we're doing everything we can
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pls im begging can we abolish those lil "raising awareness" insta slides 😭😭😭 i just saw one about some supposed human rights crisis....and the last slide to "contact the white house for help if you're living in the united states" I AM SCREAMING
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aoc and the like have helped to create a wave of grifters and ppl that use the struggles of the working-class to sell a narrative that they will help them if in office. and all they have to show us is that if you sell out hard enough, you too can be in positions of power
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if u live in the imperial core, the best way for you to "help (insert name of any country) " is pressuring this empire to get OUT
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under capitalism, elections are just performances cuz the ruling class wins every time
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texas is doing these rolling blackouts cuz they haven’t conserved enough energy for the whole state. b/c these clown politicians gave all their agency to these electricity companies that now don’t have enough for ppl. who would’ve thought that corporations can’t serve everyone?
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I’m so grateful to be Eritrean and to be surrounded by incredible Eritrean women
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abolish the student leadership superiority complex....it's breeding a generation of people that are trying to be someone instead of doing something
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calling for western countries to sanction african states and having the UN intervene is very imperialist in itself...asking the colonizers for "help"?? ppl outside of Africa and in the greater diaspora must do our part not to give in and push these problematic narratives
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ahhh there’s a BLACK owned beauty/hair supply store and braiding salon in FRISCO, TX!!
it’s called RYS Beauty Supply on 7th st by summer Moon and old frisco area
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the way this man is going straight to hell with kissinger at his side….he is one of the worst things to have happened to colonized ppl
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how can students pay for rent when their hours are cut or they can't even work because we're literally in the middle of a pandemic?
#DentonRentFreeze
#DentonRentFreeze
#DentonRentFreeze
#DentonRentFreeze
#DentonRentFreeze
#DentonRentFreeze
#DentonRentFreeze
#DentonRentFreeze
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france is one of the biggest threats to africa’s autonomy, security, and freedom. stfu about china and give the french hell
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"white cubans show they ass everytime that's why fidel put yall plantation owning grandaddies in the blender"
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understanding the evils of capitalism requires you to have an internationalist perspective....econ development in the west is literally predicated on the underdevelopment of africa (see: walter rodney)
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Honored to participate in the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women as a part of Eritrea’s delegation. I spoke on how the challenges of tech accessibility & innovation in the global south cannot be faced until the structural barriers imposed by the western world are dismantled
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if ur first reaction despite how the election results go is to turn any anger towards the poor, BIPOC, etc....then ur "solidarity" is fake and ur political immaturity is showing. congrats on the doing the work of the ruling class
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y'all talking about harm reduction rn but you were quiet when obama bombed kids in the middle east and caused the slave trade in libya lmfao pls stfu
was having obama in office harm reduction because YOU weren't affected by the harm he inflicted?
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lmao support east african and other local coffee shops instead! drop some in the thread below! the coffee is much better, trust me
ex)
Today, Starbucks banned their employees from representing or supporting BLACK LIVES MATTER via clothes.
Today, my father opened his dream café. An East African infused shop. Support your local small black businesses!
634 S Front Street
Mankato, MN 56001
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ppl defending rihanna: “y’all are just bitter....let black women shine”
what do y’all say to the black women in sweatshops getting paid 20 dollars a month to make your clothes? y’all weird
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we were shot at and tear gassed. tanks showed up...pigs from all over the area surrounded us closing in on us. it was literally so peaceful until they showed up. the dallas police are thugs and I had never felt more afraid to die than in that moment. it felt like war
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stop using africa and africans as a way to be anti-china...especially when y’all don’t be saying anything about africom at the least
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