#Abolition

Don Robotham

dondee_don

An interesting question: why did a small country like JA have this outsized global cultural impact. Some thoughts: a) JA had most extensive oppressive large slave plantation regime; b) long

Defund Somerville Police

Defund_SPD

A common misconception about abolitionist organizing is that we only care about getting rid of cops or getting rid of prisons. Those are very important(!), but abolition is also about

red horse princess 🔥

tuwalimarge

Thread from my IG: Confronting Filipinx Anti-Blackness and How to Avoid Indigenous Erasure I don’t have all the answers, like at all, but I’m giving what I can so we

Unite in justice for the poor & oppressed

BreeNewsome

Double standard: a rule or principle which is unfairly applied in different ways to different people or groupsInsurrection: a violent uprising against an authority or governmentTerrorism: the use of intentional

Anti.Anaesthetic ☭📉

Cosmoproletan

It’s important that we understand the establishment of the United States with its declarations of natural liberty as the creation of a “republican tyranny”, a system in which the absolute

Taylor 'West' Brown

AnarchoWifeism

Well let's honestly talk about it.Firstly, measure 110 introduces the DTRSF (Drug Treatment and Recovery Services Fund), which shifts revenue from cannabis tax that would go over a cap of

Will Stancil

whstancil

Okay, so, the races are close, it's probably impossible to unpack what made the difference.HOWEVER: in almost every respect, the campaigns that Warnock and Ossoff ran were closer to what

Sathnam Sanghera

Sathnam

Morning! I’ve had my Weetabix and instead of a single QOTD from #EmpireLand, today I will post a few, all taken from a chapter I spent months on, and which

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

Thread: How the enslaved in Brazil used the u.s. civil war (1861-1865) to force Brazilian slavemasters into the crisis that led to "abolition".First, some very quick background. 1) More slaves

Mark Small

marksmall1973

Victoria Spartz successfully bought the Republican nomination for Indiana’s 5th Congressional District (INCD5) in the June 2 primary. Her positions on issues are deplorable. We should begin with her misunderstanding

Charmaine Chua

CharmaineSChua

Hi new followers! If you're here because you read my essay on abolition struggles & the Minneapolis uprising, I'll take this chance to stan for the orgs that are doing

Bo

KingBobIIV

1/ After the Lopez, "this land is your land" wankfest, its worth remembering, Spain invaded America in 1492 under the Crown of Castile & the Spanish Conquistadors. 80% of the

Yaz

DualehY

Solidarity with Professor Priyamvada Gopal. It's devastating to see the racist abuse directed at her as she challenged white supremacy. Yet I think it's important to note that allies can

Anurag Shukla

Anuraag_Shukla

When Governor-General Bentinck abolished Sati (Suttee, as Britishers called it), he had a larger-than-life statue commissioned showing him dramatically rescuing and Indian women from the funeral pyre. (It can still

jamila hammami (they/them)

JamilaMHammami

Open border friends: do you want to meet other open border folks? I was going to do a zoom hang with border abolition comrades soon, & I realized there are

@mrsampullan

MrSamPullan

I expect you’ve read @DavidOlusoga’s remarkable, jaw-dropping and often downright shaming “Black and British – a forgotten history.” If not, you really must. Either way, here are nine things I

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