We call that constitution free zone, "the border". "The border" applies to us all, and it is more expansive and invisible than a lot of people realize until shit like this happens.
National Guard doing bag checks in the subways is technically legal because NYC is in the 100mi ‘Constitutuon-free zone’ where warrantless searches are legal in the name of “national security.” How crimebeating/inconveniencing local commuters in NYC is a matter of natsec, I dunno
the US govt is actively, openly participating in genocide rn while also targeting, silencing, firing, threatening people in the US for opposing that. meanwhile the only thing the US fully funds are guns, bombs, & cops of many different varieties. fascism has been here for a min.
Lots of UAW discourse today & just want to point out the UAW International voted against divesting from israeli bonds only days after May Day & after the president expressed support for student encampments. And after endorsing Genocide Joe. And also having called for a ceasefire
I simply cannot keep arguing with people about whether it is appropriate to refer to what is happening in Gaza as “genocide” or not. Please be fucking forreal.
People in the labor movement need to realize if they haven’t already:
Workers on the frontlines mobilizing for Palestine are some of the hardest motherfuckers out there. You should want us on your team & you should want to get on the winning team. Because Palestine will be free.
My solidarity is with the international working class. It is not with some cult, or cult of personality. It is with working class people worldwide, from Palestine to Mexico to the Bronx. Some of yall really need to do a double take on your principles and purpose.
had to deescalate a conflict on the subway last night aka yell at a white dude w/ a bunch of golf clubs to fucking chill. he kept egging on a guy who was threatening to fight him & mentally unstable. no way was I gonna let shit turn into a hoyt schermerhorn A train situation
winning a deportation case takes everything, and even then, that often isn’t enough. the people I defend are humans, I am a human, yet deportation law and courts are so profoundly, deliberately dehumanizing. i’m just never over it.
listen to this man. he's actually worse than trump on immigration because he's trying to pass legislation to codify what were trump executive policies while also spewing the same, racist, hateful rhetoric. hope he chokes by the grace of god and sees hell after the fact.
Welp!
Biden holds up the Laken Riley pin that MTG gave him, then mispronounces her name.
"Lincoln Riley, an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal. That’s right! But how many of the thousands of people are being killed by illegals!"
Or a special third thing - NYC public defenders, who work in the assholes of US empire and capitalism: family separation courts, criminal courts, eviction courts, deportation courts. The working class defending the working class, and let me tell you — these courts are factories.
can’t believe joe biden just gets to commit genocide with no repercussions, just a send off and a thank you for “doing what’s best for the country”. he should be tried in the hague, fucking war criminal
thinking about how less than a week ago some (uninvolved) folks were crying/screaming/throwing up at a labor conference bc a bunch of rad labor organizers/rank&file workers were dearresting people and how now we are seeing dearrests on college campuses every day.
read the room!
seriously fuck
@JoeBiden
and fuck the
@UAW
endorsement of his presidential campaign. I am utterly disgusted and humiliated to know my union has endorsed such a raging xenophobe, racist, and zionist.
kamala harris has a tried and true history of endorsing and defending anti-immigrant, carceral, capitalist, imperialist, zionist policies. it’s not really up for debate… so why would she be any different as president?
Suck on these stats
@nytimes
: with 93% of membership voting, 93% of BxD Union members have voted to authorize a strike. This is the first authorized strike at any primary NYC public defender office since 1994.
🚨
@BxDUnion
is ready to strike🚨
All eyes on you,
@BronxDefenders
Thinking about how in open bargaining today
@bronxdefenders
mgmt just straight dipped mid session. When I asked their lawyer where they at she said "theyre working on something else". What's more important than coming to an agreement w/ the union before our contract expires 6/30?
workers and university faculty banding together to prevent mass arrests (even when increasing their own risk of arrest) is a good thing, actually.
don't let anyone discount the power of mass resistance to policing and arrest. fuck these institutions, all power to the power.
Let the contradictions cook and let the rank and file workers organize and speak up.
And if you’re UAW looking to be more involved in organizing the UAW International to divest, DM me.
Imagine you pull up to your public defender’s office and this is what you see while you’re trying to talk about your criminal case, or your ACS case, or your deportation case, or your eviction case.
Smfh. The Bronx deserves better 🗣️🗣️🗣️
The
@BronxDefenders
management is proposing an inflexible in-office policy...but our office is falling apart. BxD’s workers deserve better, and so do the people we defend. That's why we're holding a strike authorization vote: to redefine our working conditions.
Many of yall are focused on universities divesting and, truly, sincerely, I am inspired and motivated by you. But there’s also a lot of work to be done to get our *unions* to divest. That is what I am focused on, as a UAW member and member of
@uawlabor4pal
.