My 1st journal article, “Food anarchy and the State monopoly on hunger,” is out now in
@Peasant_Journal
!
Suspend & transcend political spectrums & institutions! Think & act freely in the fight for food for us all🥕❤️🔥
Link below⬇️DM for PDF🤩
Plz help me get thru this. My support crew is raising funds for me to navigate my indictment on RICO charges. Feel free - NOT intimidated or afraid as the state wishes us to be - to donate, share widely, & pray for us defendants in solidarity.❤️🌲
Soon my co-defendants & I will need to travel to Atlanta to turn ourselves in.
Help raise $ for me & my support crew to go down there.
Venmo:
@madisonsolidarity
Subject line: "support"
Plz help me get thru this. My support crew is raising funds for me to navigate my indictment on RICO charges. Feel free - NOT intimidated or afraid as the state wishes us to be - to donate, share widely, & pray for us defendants in solidarity.❤️🌲
Early this week, my co-defendants & I - aka the
#ATL61
- turned ourselves in on the RICO charges being weaponized against us for
#StopCopCity
protests. I want to share the human rights violations & abuse I experienced & witnessed while incarcerated in Fulton County Jail.🧵 1/
Plz help me get thru this. My support crew is raising funds for me to navigate my indictment on RICO charges. Feel free - NOT intimidated or afraid as the state wishes us to be - to donate, share widely, & pray for us defendants in solidarity.❤️🌲
Yup. My experience in nearby Cobb County Jail was almost identical to this description. 9 women to a 6x6 holding cell, metal benches, bright lights, no sleep, freezing temps, vomit on the walls, no amount of banging on the door would be paid any mind
“It’s unbelievable. It’s outrageous. It’s unconstitutional!”
Released
#StopCopCity
protesters discuss horrific conditions in Fulton County Jail others still there must endure. Oh yes, same applies to their own arrests.
Please share widely. Drew is still locked up for a probation violation stemming from his RICO charge and as of now it looks like he will have to spend the holidays in jail. All money raised will be put directly on his books.
@JZPhilosophy
This is why I sign my name w/ MES will be Dr. Kass when I finish my PhD. bc I worked my ass off for my degree. bc I'm a smart ambitious bitch, not a "chill girl" & I won't let the jealous ass patriarchy make me feel as though I've achieved nothing when to me it's been everything
I will never understand why the state thinks incarceration would ever "rehabilitate" or "redeem" incarcerated ppl, rather than harm them, & often further radicalize them toward the abolition of the prison industrial complex. 5/5
One of us was beaten & held in solitary, as was a woman we met who was not our co-defendant. We were deprived of food, water & sleep, & when we asked for food or water, guards shouted at us & taunted us. Crowded into small holding cells. Not given bedding in freezing temps. 2/
They held ppl whose bonds were already paid for many hours. Some of the women we met were arrested bc their husbands had been beating them & the cops were called- meanwhile, their husbands remained free. 4/
Denied access to the phone. Sexually harassed by a guard & male inmate. I woke up, from the only hour of sleep I was able to get, to the sound of someone screaming for help. The bathrooms in our cells had no soap, running water, or toilet paper. 3/
Stoked to share and discuss food anarchy and the State monopoly on hunger at The Landing Strip, a community garden and social center, in Minneapolis this weekend!
Event description and links in 🧵⬇️...
@BankofAmerica
, a funder of Cop City, has frozen & closed my bank account w/o explanation.
This has happened to several other
#StopCopCity
defendants as well.
Grateful to start banking w/ a local credit union instead, but now I'm broke😑 Plz donate to/retweet my fundraiser!⬇️
Plz help me get thru this. My support crew is raising funds for me to navigate my indictment on RICO charges. Feel free - NOT intimidated or afraid as the state wishes us to be - to donate, share widely, & pray for us defendants in solidarity.❤️🌲
Get your free stuff at the Really Really Free Market tomorrow at the Wil-Mar Center, 12-4pm! 🤩
& make sure to stop by our donation table for
@ATLSolFund
&
@defendATLforest
!
#StopCopCity
❤️
"While mainstream media and elected officials attempt to pit militant direct action and property damage against 'acceptable' forms of dissent, the Stop Cop City movement has shown how they can be symbiotic."
Great article!
Wrote about how the
#StopCopCity
movement shows the need for a broad constellation of tactics, both within and outside of the system.
in a roundtable response to
@j_simonson
's new book, Radical Acts of Justice
This week marks 8 years since Michael Brown was murdered by the Ferguson police. We commemorate this event with a screening of "Touch the Sky," a film reflecting on the raw moments of the 2014 Ferguson riots. Join us at Madison Infoshop this Saturday at 8pm!
Happy to share that my very first academic journal article has been accepted for publication!!!🎉
It's a sole-authored theoretical piece that encourages readers to think & act freely in the fight for food for us all.
Stay tuned, more soon!
#AcademicTwitter
#phdlife
Early this week, my co-defendants & I - aka the
#ATL61
- turned ourselves in on the RICO charges being weaponized against us for
#StopCopCity
protests. I want to share the human rights violations & abuse I experienced & witnessed while incarcerated in Fulton County Jail.🧵 1/
Don't miss "The Solarpunk Sessions I: Power, Transformation, and Imagined Landscapes"
@DOPEUKY
tomorrow @ 9am EST! I’ll be presenting on the George Floyd rebellion of 2020, the policing of the plantation state, & forging plantation futures through autonomous zones.
Get n give your free stuff this Sunday at the Madison Really Really Free Market! Free food, clothes, housewares, books, birth control, mending services, STEM tutoring, babysitting, we have it all❤️
So happy & grateful to see the indictment being read in educational settings! Folks are hosting a reading group of the indictment at the Human Rights Program at UW-Law School in a few weeks. Really looking forward to it
Wish I had seen this annotation of the Atlanta 61 case earlier.
We’ve come back to the text of the indictment several times in class this fall. It’s a truly jarring case study in the use/abuse of political theory as a weapon of state repression.
Join us for a small panel and community conversation, where we’ll ponder the abolitionist lessons learned from the George Floyd uprisings, and what it means to truly become ungovernable together. Further description of the event in the thread below⬇️
@__JasminBrooks
@OpenAcademics
I'll make a plug for the mid-late-20s! I started my Masters at 23, wasn't in the right headspace, went back at 25, graduated in May w/ my Masters & starting my PhD this fall at 27. I had some growing & healing I still needed to do before I was ready to commit to academia!
Zine-making was a huge success today at Fermentation Fest: Grassland Edition! Join us again tomorrow!! Help make our community zine, or one of your own, w/ me at 1-3pm! Grab your free copy of The Gra-Zine ()! What's YOUR vision for our food system?✨
Really wonderful presentation & discussion at the Madison Infoshop last night! Thank you to our forest defender friends for stopping by to inform & inspire us❤️
@defendATLforest
#StopCopCity
Join us for an info session to learn more about the
@defendATLforest
struggle, the history of the land, & hear a report back from the frontlines. We'll also discuss how the movement to
#StopCopCity
relates to local struggles in Madison, & how we can fight together❤️
In case you still thought voting blue and reformism would do shit. ACAB, including politicians. Police abolition will never happen from the top-down. Keep fighting🔥
Really really free market this Sunday, 12-4 at the wil mar center in Madison! Get n give ur free stuff❤️Food, books, clothes, toys, zines, we have it all🤩
Plz help me get thru this. My support crew is raising funds for me to navigate my indictment on RICO charges. Feel free - NOT intimidated or afraid as the state wishes us to be - to donate, share widely, & pray for us defendants in solidarity.❤️🌲
Yes! Sex need not be moralized as either pos or neg. Sex is highly contextual, subjective, & laden w power dynamics. Theorizing & enacting a destituent feminism which exits this binary of sexual politics, rather than affirms it, is crucial- autonomy & consent is sexual liberation
“Sex is not in need of our defense, but bodily autonomy and consent always are, and it is from that standpoint that can allow us to meaningfully fight reactionary sexual politics.”
@eayers0
@FoodandArchives
@PaulStamets
NOT How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan. plz. He spends like 2 seconds on a long indigenous history of psilocybin mushroom use, and then spends the whole book on white male scientists and winking at other white male boomers that its ok to trip now
@jewish_activist
@tashakaminsky
Yes, all Jewry is beautiful no matter where or who you are. AND the Jewish diaspora was borne out of the expulsion and oppression of our people. As Judaism teaches us, light and darkness necessarily co-exist, and the Jewish diaspora as a geopolitical condition is no exception.
Maybe a bb geog grad student question, but: can anyone recommend academic sources/review papers re the relationship bw militarization, state repression, or authoritarianism & neoliberalism (other than RWG)? Reading neoliberal natures stuff for exams but not much about these links
I wrote an essay for
@TheRegReview
about the importance of enforcing antitrust laws on behalf of our farmers. In order to achieve
#foodsovereignty
, the judiciary must stand up to the hegemony of corporate agribusinesses and enforce antitrust laws.
From the depths of my quar cave, aka my studio apartment, I have graduated with my Master's degree in Environmental Studies with an individualized concentration in Political Agroecology! Thanks
@Penn_MES_MSAG
!!! ♥️
If you are a farm worker, you are a farmer. If you are a farm hand, you are a farmer. You don’t have to be the boss or the landowner to be a farmer. YOU are stewarding that land. Your farm labor has value. Your boss can’t farm without it.
Sad news: the Madison Really Really Free Market will retire due to capacity issues. Happy news: we will be transitioning the project over to Madison Food Not Bombs! All are welcome to a free meal & free groceries, every last Sunday of the month at the Wil-Mar Center, 12-4pm!
@AnarchoJudaism
My friends & I are organizing a Food Not Bombs Potluck/Protest (among other activities) to spread both the message & praxis of creating a community of care stronger than any morsel of a possibility that war & carceral society will keep us safe. Many a zine will be distro'd😉
Yet, critical analysis of U.S. federal laws and their impact on farmers reveals that the corporate food regime (hereafter, CFR) is exerted through U.S. federal jurisdiction in particular.
#foodstudies20
@blakeflayton
@MountHolyoke
fuuuuck I'm a Jew who went to Mount Holyoke! Not acceptable! I'm so disappointed. Then again my freshman year roommate and I had a falling out b/c I believe Israel should exist in tandem w/ Palestine/our self-determinations are inextricable, so I guess I'm not that surprised.
I am an incoming PhD student in the Environment & Resources program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
@NelsonInstitute
. I recently graduated from
@Penn
w/ a Master of Environmental Studies, concentration in Political Agroecology. I am also a former farmworker.
#foodstudies20
Join us for an outdoor screening of CrimethInc.'s documentary We Are Now: The Story of an Armed No-Cop Zone in Atlanta.
Can't make it in person? Check it out (along w/ further reading) here:
So stoked for the return of the Madison Really Really Free Market! Last Sunday of every month, 12-4, in a new location: The Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center! We are SO excited to be in our new space- it's beautiful. Art everywhere, kitchen, stage/performance equip. We're so grateful🤩
@Algemeiner
@DeborahProudJew
I recently saw a tweet that said "if I get corona I'm immediately going on birthright." I was horrified to see how many ppl I had otherwise considered fellow progressive comrades had actually liked this tweet, despite its obviously violent, anti-Semitic connotations.
I ask: how has the U.S. federally institutionalized the CFR, & what does that tell us about how to institutionalize food sovereignty in the U.S. and beyond?
#foodstudies20
Madison candlelight vigil for Tortuguita, a beloved forest defender murdered by Atlanta police
Gather with us to mourn them & stand in solidarity with the movement 🤍
The Capitol at State St., Saturday, January 21st, community meal @ 4pm, vigil @ 5pm
Wear black, bring candles
No, romanticizing & sexualizing women via “empowerment” discourse & practice is not feminism. We’re just people. Human beings w flaws & all. It’s really that simple
I am getting *really* tired of centrists who claim to be environmentalists. True environmentalism is inherently Marxist. True environmentalism actually confronts the hegemony of the top 100 companies emitting 75% of carbon emissions, 1/
so many men don't treat us as full humans w our own lives & complexities- they'll only interact w you as an object to either love-bomb or devalue, flitting back & forth based on the degree to which you comply w, or dissent from, the fantasy/story they tell themselves about you.
(C1) The approval of agribusiness mergers under the Sherman Act & the Clayton Act are unlawful. The legislative texts restore market competition, but mergers have monopolized the marketplace & impeded trade and competition in local & regional agri-food economies.
#foodstudies20