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@BarbaraRansby

3 years

Reflections on Jan.6 attempted white nationalist coup: We must guard against false symmetries here. This was an orchestrated riot in defense of a reigning and waning tyrant & white supremacist. It is in no way akin 2 protests demanding justice and resisting racism and oppression.

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Klobuchar arguing that plumbers and home care workers don't need college. Why? Literature and history are for everyone. Education is not just so we can sell our labor but so we better understand our world. #DemDebate

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Last night @JoeBiden began his DNC speech w/ a quote by Ella Baker. Here is another quote from her: "In order 4 us as poor & oppressed people 2 become a part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed." I'll send him the book!

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This is the 35th anniversary of the horrific and racist bombing of the Black liberation organization MOVE in Philly in 1985. We still mourn the 11 people, including 5 children who were killed.

The day police bombed a city street: can scars of 1985 Move atrocity be healed?

An airstrike killed 11 people, including five children, in an assault on a Philadelphia black liberation group. Now a reconciliation effort is under way

www.theguardian.com

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The question about socialism ignores that most young ppl are not afraid of the term but in fact are critical and skeptical of capitalism, the racism embedded in it, and the greed and exploitation it encourages. #DemDebate

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#WarrenTownHall @ewarren OK. I am proud of Warren for invoking race in front of a majority white crowd & in reply to an answer by a white aspiring cop. Tell the truth sister, wherever you find yourself.

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4 years

Exchange btw Warren & Sanders on 'can a woman be president' is deeply troubling. #DemDebate If Bernie said it why isn't Warren deeply offended? He said something sexist but he's still her friend & she doesn't want to talk about it? This feminist finds this disturbing and dubious.

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3 years

We are now all waiting for the Chauvin verdict. Pundits are acting as if justice hangs in the balance. It does not. Chauvin is clearly guilty but without systemic change, the conviction of one cop does not equal justice. #verdict @Mvmnt4BlkLives #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd

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#SandersTownHall Silly question from a young woman who seems 2 think she is being clever. Should ppl convicted of heinous crimes be allowed to vote. Ppl who have done heinous things VOTE now. Some get elected president. We either have democracy or we don't. Yeah @BernieSanders

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Saddened by the death of friend & colleague, bell hooks, 2 days after the anniversary of Leith Mullings death. So much Black feminist loss. We treasure what they left us and let us treasure one another more, w/ all of our complexities & contradictions, 4 as long as we are here.

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Listen W.E.B. DuBois was a socialist. Ella Baker was a socialist. A. Philip Randolph the great black labor leader was a socialist. Lets define the terms & study our history before we disparage concepts like socialism #AMJoy @People4Bernie @TiffanyDCross @K_JeanPierre

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Van Jones says Warren knocked it out of the park re: alleged bernie quote. I have opposite reaction @CNN Commenter talks about quote as fact. Why? He emphatically denied it. She said very little but dropped the bombshell & asserts friendship.That's sketchy. I'm sorry. #DemDebates

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5 years

Trump will eat Biden alive in a debate. He not only has bad neoliberal politics, he is a bumbler and a rambler. How can the worst candidate on the stage be leading in the polls. Scary. We have to change that immediately. #DemDebate

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2 years

Today = 54 yrs since MLK was assassinated. We spend more time on celebrating his birth than acknowledging where he was politically when he was killed. Fighting alongside sanitation workers, opposing war, racism & capitalism. April 4 reminds us of the power of the radical King.

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4 years

How dare @cnn give platform 2 John Kasich, who has no credibility or following, as he lashes out at the very people who offer the most excitement, energy/ hope 4the Democratic Party @AOC @Ilhan @RashidaTlaib @RepJayapal @RepPressley Biden did not win this, movement organizers did

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4 years

I respect and admire Noam Chomsky very much But it would be great for @democracynow to host some roundtables of young radical Black thinkers. They have amazing ideas and analyses to share too.

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4 years

Black voters put Biden over the top in Philly and Detroit. We don't just want brown faces in the cabinet, we want a Red, Black and Green New Deal, the Breathe Act's passage, Medicare for All and investment in communities in need, not quick on the trigger police. @rising_majority

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4 years

They "they can't stop us" from @BernieSanders was about movement building and a commitment to democratic practice. Elites in democratic party have avoided accountability to a grassroots base. Seems to me Sanders campaign is adhering to that accountability.

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Barbara Ransby

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4 years

Anti-war student protesters were shot and killed on the campus of Kent State U. in Ohio on May 4, 1970. 11 days later 2 Black Jackson State students were killed after a protest against racism in Jackson MS when police fired live ammo into their dorm. Intense times 50 years ago.

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5 years

I was in the audience that night when Bishop spoke to an overflow crowd at Hunter College in the summer of 1983. This clip is from that night. I was riveted. He was a brilliant, confident revolutionary. Two months later he was killed after a U.S. sponsored invasion of Grenada

Grenada🇬🇩 Toronto🇨🇦©️CANADA

@GrenadaToronto

5 years

Maurice Bishop speaking in New York in August 1983 about why Grenada was seen as such a threat by the US. Reagan would invade just a few months later.

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Do we mourn the killing of Israeli children? Yes. Can we act now 2 prevent killing of more Palestinian children?We must. The hypocrisy of decrying one set of civilian deaths while facilitating another is morally indefensible. Mass eviction/ bombing of Gazans= ethnic cleansing.

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Barbara Ransby

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4 years

When we say race and class are interrelated - this is what we are talking about.

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@RBReich

4 years

Lori Loughlin was just sentenced to two months in prison for paying bribes to get her daughters into USC. This is the same system that sentenced Crystal Mason, a Black mother of three, to five years for voting when she didn't realize a past felony conviction made her ineligible.

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Harvard is lucky 2 have @CornelWest on faculty. Elite schools dangle tenure as the ultimate prize. It is not. @Harvard denying West tenure is an insult but he is bigger than that. Harvard's smallness is showing. He is already tenured as a people's intellectual in our movements.

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4 years

The challenges we need to wrestle with in this moment.

The White Left Needs to Embrace Black Leadership

The current uprisings are what class struggle in the 21st century looks like.

www.thenation.com

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@BarbaraRansby

4 years

How would a @BernieSanders administration respond to this crisis? I think we know. Ordinary Americans would be getting $2k a mo. to hold us over (he fought 4 this in the Senate debate & loss). Big corporations would not get as much as they are & would not get "no strings" bailout

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Hon. Ilhan Omar is just a pinnacle of calm and integrity. She is unflappable. She told us once - "I have been through a lot... my opponents (in DC) cannot scare me" Love her. #AMJoy @Ilhan

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@BarbaraRansby

4 years

Massive protests today in New York as well as Chi and elsewhere. This video is aerial view from NYC- tens of thousands. The ban on protest has ended. People are compelled by the urgency of the moment.

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4 years

#GeorgeFloyd Moving down 14th street. Happening now.

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3 years

A man standing in the rubble in Gaza on @democracynow wears a "Black Lives Matter" t-shirt.

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4 years

Friends, I hope u join me in casting a vote for @BernieSanders tomorrow. If you're thinking about Biden, watch this video which is disturbing & ...Biden on Black ppl, a bad dude named "Corn pop, hairy legs and roaches." Terrible

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5 years

#AMJoy I'm totally baffled by Black support 4 Biden. I'm one older Black woman that is wholly offended by Biden's arrogance. He claims the privilege to define what paternalistically touching women means, what 'boy' means, & how we should interpret his chumminess w/ avowed racists

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4 years

Ella Baker lived 83 years & died 33 years ago 2day. She left a powerful legacy & a theory of change written in her organizing praxis 4 five decades. To paraphrase her, she did not make much of a living (i.e. money) but she lived a deeply meaningful life. We owe her & honor her.

Black Women Radicals

@blkwomenradical

4 years

Today is the birthday and the death date of Ella Josephine Baker (December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986), who died on her 83rd birthday in 1986. A civil rights activist & leader, Baker was a key organizer & strategist in some of the most influential organizations of the time.

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3 years

Shame on you @AC360 --- Describing the killing of a 7th grader as a tragedy, BUT nodding as a guest (ex-cop) says killing the boy was 'reasonable.' What moral reasoning is that? The video I saw showed a scared kid running & then stopping and putting hands up, and then being shot

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Prosecutor in the Chauvin case said "this is not an anti-police prosecution, but a pro-police prosecution." The insidious argument here is that Chauvin is a bad apple & the system that convicts him is vindicated. We know this is a dangerously false frame. #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd

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4 years

Black feminist icon and co-founder of the Combahee River Collective, Barbara Smith, and my dear friend and sister for many decades, endorses the most progressive candidate in the 2020 race for president, @BernieSanders @People4Bernie

Barbara Smith Endorses Bernie Sanders for President

We're going to win this election and transform the country, but we can't do it alone. The way we win is person-to-person contact, knocking on doors and makin...

www.youtube.com

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4 years

100+ Scholars and educators, from dozens of states, join together to endorse Bernie Sanders. In doing so we join the @ninaturner team, & the @iPhilSomething team too... Join us in this historic fight...

A Step Away From Fascism and 'Toward a Brighter More Just Future': 100+ Black Writers and Scholars...

"When so much is at stake, not only for Black people but for all people, and all life on the planet, we feel it imperative that we step outside of our classrooms and go beyond our campuses, to speak...

www.commondreams.org

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@BarbaraRansby

3 years

@DebraMessing @DebraMessing needs 2 do some serious reading: Ilan Pappe, Rashid Khalidi, Noura Erakat, Marc Lamont Hill.Have you visited Palestine, not just the hotels & cafes in Israel-'48? Ppl globally are outrage at Israeli policy. Your comments are callous & 2 put it kindly, ill-informed.

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5 years

Whose children are these? It's a rhetorical question. Some of the people who so self-righteously talk about standards and values, seem to have very skewed values themselves. What produces such racist and smug arrogance as displayed by these kids, a gawking/ giggling little mob.

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4 years

Honor the loud, brave & eloquent voice of journalist @RanaAyyub on @democracynow about the obscene wealth disparity and suffering in India & the recent rapes of Dalit girls & women. Our sister, our sister... thank you for your voice.

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Barbara Ransby

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6 years

Elsa Barkley Brown, Deborah King and I initiated this ad campaign for Anita Hill in 1991. We were pleased to be contacted by the initiators of the 2018 ad, featuring male allies, as they sought to make historical connections.

MAKERS

@MAKERSwomen

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In 1991, 1,600 African-American women took out a full-page ad in the @nytimes to show support for Anita Hill. In today's NYT, 1600 male allies, in a crowdfunded effort, place a full-page ad in support of Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford.

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4 years

Freedom will not be won solely at the ballot box but it is one site of struggle we must take seriously. Proud to be one of the organizers of 100 Black scholars for Bernie along with @marclamonthill @murchnik @KeeangaYamahtta @TheBarbaraSmith Robin DG Kelley and others

Barbara Smith

@TheBarbaraSmith

4 years

I am proud to be one of the more than 100 signers of this historic statement in support of @BernieSanders . #NotMeUs

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4 years

Kaba makes the case for abolition on pages of NYT... wow.

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The selling point for @BernieSanders is not that he can get along with an elite group of Republicans but that he is articulating the dissatisfaction of millions of ppl at precisely the structural inequality that he rails rightly against.

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Barbara Ransby

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5 years

Remember #MarielleFranco

Cite Black Women.

@citeblackwomen

5 years

One year ago today, two armed men assassinated Black Brazilian feminist and activist #MarielleFranco as she left an event focused on Black women's empowerment. We will never forget her or her legacy. #MariellePresente #CiteBlackWomen

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Proud to be one of 100+ Black scholars/ educators supporting Sanders. This is a pivotal moment. We have the opportunity to turn toward a more hopeful future. Let's do it: “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it" - Fanon

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Barbara Ransby

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5 years

Gotta love her @IlhanMN . Such a principled political voice. So tough in the face of racist harassment -- and still joyful in the street with our people.

Ilhan Omar

@IlhanMN

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#HappyPride ! I had a fantastic time dancing, hugging, and celebrating #TCPride with everyone this weekend! ❤️🧡💛💚💙 #Pride

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This is an outrageous and telling case. We need to rally around and support Crystal Mason. This is an attempt to intimidate anyone who thinks they might not be eligible to vote to not even try it. Democracy?! Really?

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

4 years

We have work to do no matter what the outcome of this election, don't we? #Debates2020

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

6 years

I just declined to chair an all-white history panel on a topic relevant to Black people and a topic written on by many Black scholars. So, the sexism AND the racism need to be confronted. @chronicle

Women Also Know History

@womnknowhistory

6 years

Thanks, @chronicle for covering the launch of ! 🙌Read more here: "Female Historians Try to End the I-Didn’t-Know-Any-Women Excuse for Men-Only Panels"

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Thanks for remembering that Ella Baker was also a labor organizer who worked w/ Black workers in the south & teachers in NYC. #HonorHerLabor

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

4 years

Bernie. Good for him speaking on the rights of the Palestinians @People4Bernie

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@BarbaraRansby

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Voter suppression is real. Hourly workers who have to take off hours to exercise their right to vote are indeed being subjected to a poll tax. Absolutely.

Rev. & Prof. Cornell William Brooks

@CornellWBrooks

4 years

When polling places are deliberately shut down to force working people to wait HOURS to vote, it’s a poll tax. The time STOLEN from your job, and time STOLEN from your paycheck is a #SuperTuesday poll tax. This is a #2020 violation of the 24th Amendment. #VoterSuppression

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Barbara Ransby

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Our dear sister and comrade Leith Mullings has passed away from cancer. I spoke 2 her a week & a half ago. We were supposed 2speak again tomorrow. She was so strong & committed 2 the liberation of our people. I am devastated that she is no longer with us. But in spirit - always

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@BarbaraRansby

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Any space that @ninaturner holds power and a platform, we have a freedom fighter on our side

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@ninaturner

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I’m running to improve the quality of life for working people in #OH11 . It’s not enough to simply acknowledge their struggles. It’s time we also do something about it. We need: 🙌🏿 Racial justice 🙌🏾 #MedicareForAll 🙌🏿 Student debt relief 🙌🏽 Bold climate action 🙌🏼 A living wage

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@BarbaraRansby

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We reach a new low when we criminalize compassion. If you treat migrant neighbors as human beings, you are criminalized. What a world.

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

5 years

‘The Squad’ Is the Future of the Democratic Party My latest piece on NYT opinion page

Opinion | ‘The Squad’ Is the Future of Politics (Published 2019)

You can credit social movements for that.

www.nytimes.com

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

3 years

Bravo to @CoriBush for taking a principled stand on this question. We stand with you and behind you.

Congresswoman Cori Bush

@RepCori

3 years

The fight for Black lives and the fight for Palestinian liberation are interconnected. We oppose our money going to fund militarized policing, occupation, and systems of violent oppression and trauma. We are anti-war. We are anti-occupation. And we are anti-apartheid. Period.

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#SandersTownHall "Our campaign is a fight for justice." - I don't agree w/ @BernieSanders on everything (although I do mostly agree w. him) but you can tell he is consistent and his beliefs are not a performance strategy but a heartfelt commitment that has been longstanding.

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@BarbaraRansby

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#risingmajority - Angela Davis says -- "if Iran can free 70k prisoners, the US can follow suit as a humanitarian move and a public health intervention."

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

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Radical Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Thursday, March 7, 2019, 6:30 p.m. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem, NY Join this Conversation in Black Freedom Studies program w/ Barbara Smith, Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor, and Barbara Ransby

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Surprised that Biden invoked our beloved Ella Baker last night. I am confident if alive she would be fighting like hell today 4 The Breathe Act by @Mvmnt4BlkLives & the policies of @RepRashida @RepAOC @RepPressley @Ilhan @RepJayapal & @WorkingFamilies Glad 4 @democracynow debrief

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

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#GeorgeFloyd I want to cheer, but I cannot. I am reminded of the prosecutor's insistence that this was a "pro-police prosecution." That means this conviction is going to be used to make the case that the problem is not systemic but an aberration. That is painfully untrue.

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"I don't believe Joe Biden would be president today if not for the Black Lives Matter movement...." Ro Khanna (D-CA.) on @democracynow This fact cannot be wished about by Republican crossovers or former CIA agent Abigail Spanberger or by Rep. Clyburn

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@BarbaraRansby

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Another police shooting in Chicago. A 13 year-old Latinx child killed in an alleyway in Little Village neighborhood. His name was Adam Toledo. So sad. So wrong.

Boy, 13, fatally shot by Chicago police officer in 'armed confrontation' in Little Village

Adam Toledo, 13, was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer in Little Village Monday during what police called an "armed confrontation."

abc7chicago.com

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

3 years

Had a short/ powerful visit 2 Haiti a few years ago - Things have escalated/ descended since. We can't look @ Haiti from afar w/ language of corruption w/o exam of US manipulation & violent interventions over centuries.This imperfect pc. gives useful info.

Haiti Has Been Abandoned—by the Media, the US, and the World

Human rights activist Antoinette Duclaire’s murder is the latest for a country in chaos—where an obsession with elections obscures a complete absence of democracy or accountability.

www.thenation.com

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

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Rittenhouse verdict is outrageous & not shocking given the open bias of the judge. But the verdict is a dangerous one that gives a green light to the new KKK. When cities are forced to limit police powers, vigilantes have historically stepped in 2 form extra-legal lynch mobs.

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

4 years

#DEmDebate Can a "woman" win is not the main question. What woman? What politics?

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Barbara Ransby

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3 years

This is a must read for activists, and those concerned about justice, violence and the path to a more humane future. @Kaepernick7 has published an amazing volume on Abolition w/ the most cutting edge thinkers and doers of our time. Check it out...

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

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Massive Chicago protest today against Israeli bombing of Gaza.... mirrors protests across the country that CNN and MSNBC seem not to notice. @Mvmnt4BlkLives @byp100 @rising_majority

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Barbara Ransby

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Intense protests raging in Haiti & the mainstream media is just not covering it. Talk about erasure and invisibility. Yet we are repeatedly told nonsense & trivia. Can progressive media pls cover this!! @democracynow @maddow @amjoyshow @MotherJones @garyyounge @BYP_100 @mvmt4bl

HaitiInfoProj

@HaitiInfoProj

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Incredible rooftop shot as events spiraled out of control in Bèl Air, #Haiti after police opened fire outside a church during a funeral for protesters killed by police during #PetroCaribeCorruption demonstrations on Oct. 17.

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Barbara Ransby

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This tragic death reminds us of the fragility of human life. 4 the time that we are here, our lives are made more meaningful, as Erica's was, when we are a part of movements & collectives larger than ourselves. It is 1 way our secular spirits live on. Hers will. RIP Erica Garner

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

4 years

Ilhan Omar, can we clone you?

Rep. Ilhan Omar

@Ilhan

4 years

If your “freedom” relies on my oppression, then neither of us are free.

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Barbara Ransby

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Extreme wealth inequality is predictable and totally legal under racial capitalism. The thing is it is also immoral. Jeff Bezos raked in $70 billion during the pandemic, $70bil. -- while many Americans stood in food lines and feared eviction. @democracynow

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

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@Yamiche Thank you sister for holding your ground. All the reporters in the space should stand & turn their backs on #45 for his utterly disrespectful treatment of u, implying something about your career & telling you to "be nice," & calling you "threatening" for doing your job.

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This mayoral race has reminded me the importance of the work we do as historians. Paul Vallas has flagrantly rewritten his own history & mobilized an array of revisionist enablers to help..... Chicago - don't drink the KoolAid. Vote @Brandon4Chicago

Rossana Rodriguez 🌹🇵🇷✊🏽🏳️‍🌈

@RossanaFor33

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The hate Paul Vallas has for teachers and a union that bargains for the common good is unmatched.

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Barbara Ransby

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Glad to hear @fshakir on #AMJOY this morning. I just spent Saturday w/ The Debt Collective @0debtzone in LA & policies of @BernieSanders directly addresses the burden of working class students suffering under a $1.6 TRILLION. And Sanders has Black women supporters!! Me included.

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@BarbaraRansby

4 years

Thank you for amplifying the demands of the Black Freedom Movement...

Robert Reich

@RBReich

4 years

What if — and hear me out here — we invested in Black communities rather than mass incarceration and the police?

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@BarbaraRansby

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I love @NaomiAKlein but we also need 2 name the inability of Bernie 2 fully address concerns of Black people & systemic racism in a way that would bring our ppl into the fold in large enough numbers. At the same time his platform would have improved black lives considerably. Now?

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Barbara Ransby

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But is your position really that we should never boo other women?- that is never register blunt public disapproval of other women no matter how wrong, racist, problematic, dangerous her words might be? Solidarity has 2B based on principle not essentialist notions of sisterhood.

Zerlina Maxwell

@ZerlinaMaxwell

4 years

@MSNBC Here is what I said.

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Barbara Ransby

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5 years

More protests in Haiti. Why doesn't US media cover this? @Mvmnt4BlkLives @BYP_100 @AlterNet @democracynow @maddow @chrislhayes

HaitiInfoProj

@HaitiInfoProj

5 years

Another camera angle of protests in Port au Prince, #Haiti today.

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

5 years

A letter, signed by 300+ scholars & veterans of civil rights movement will be issued tomorrow that underscores Michelle Alexander's arguments on solidarity w/ Palestine & in defense of AYD.

Opinion | Time to Break the Silence on Palestine (Published 2019)

Martin Luther King Jr. courageously spoke out about the Vietnam War. We must do the same when it comes to this grave injustice of our time.

www.nytimes.com

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

3 years

U.S. Black freedom movement stands w/ the struggle 4 justice in Palestine. @4noura @AJEnglish @uspcn @jvplive #StopBombingGaza @marclamonthill @intifada @theintercept @democracynow @ThenjiweTM @GRITlaura @Mondoweiss @pal_legal @RashidaTlaib @USCPR_ @NathanThrall @CoriBush

Movement 4 Black Lives

@Mvmnt4BlkLives

3 years

The Movement for Black Lives condemns the deadly, racist attacks against the Palestinian people by the Israeli state.

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Barbara Ransby

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4 years

"This is what 'doing nothing' looks like" our sister @RepRashida talking on #AMJoy about the abandonment of poor Black and Brown communities like her constituents in Detroit. Some folk don't have access to water and it predates COVID crisis. Thank you @RashidaTlaib 4 your voice.

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

3 years

Situation in Haiti, which US policy is partly responsible 4, has been dire 4 some time. The assassination of Moise is yet another flash point. Let's educate ourselves about Haiti in order 2B in true solidarity. @HaitiInfoProj =good source of information. Eyes on what occurs next.

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

5 years

The bigger story per #AMJoy interview with Elder Nathan is that the MAGA-hat wearing mob had initially confronted a smaller group of Black protesters and Elder Nathan was trying to distract and de-escalate. Expressing solidarity he then became the target of their ire and mocking.

Democracy Now!

@democracynow

5 years

Video: This is Omaha elder Nathan Phillips, harassed yesterday at the Indigenous People's March by MAGA hat-wearing white high school students from a Kentucky Catholic school who were attending an anti-choice march in D.C. We will cover this on Tuesday's show—be sure to tune in.

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

4 years

#DemDebates can someone just give Mayor Pete another boy scout badge so he can sit down.

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@BarbaraRansby

4 years

This audience @NorahODonnell @GayleKing is ridiculously biased. Did Biden pack the audience ? They boo any criticism of him. Again, the "Corn Pop"/ hairy legs/ "roaches" speech that he gave in Wilmington should disqualify him for holding office.

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

4 years

Yes. @CoriBush You look beautiful and sound beautiful to me this morning. We are counting on you, sis - and stand ready to support you every step of the way.

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

5 years

Watch this, people. Thank you @marclamonthill Attacks on our sister @IlhanMN are racist & sexist. They echo of the harassment experienced by so many Black women who speak out. We stand w/ our sister. And we refuse 2B silent on Palestine. @Mvmnt4BlkLives Shame on u @SpeakerPelosi

AJ+

@ajplus

5 years

Marc Lamont Hill talks about accusations of anti-Semitism and whether Rep. Ilhan Omar is being singled out for her critique of Israel.

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

4 years

Chicago protests are everywhere. Every institution is being challenged to rethink itself, to side with the racist past or the non-racist future. This requires, as @DrIbram reminds us, to participate in anti-racism in the present.

Rossana Rodriguez 🌹🇵🇷✊🏽🏳️‍🌈

@RossanaFor33

4 years

Neighbors in our barrio following the lead of Roosevelt students. ♥️🔥🌈 we gonna be aight.

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

4 years

@AyannaPressley @AyannaPressley we love you so much. It breaks my heart that you are getting so much vile hatred and venom for standing strong for us. We are at your back and we appreciate you. Know that.

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

3 years

Seems like @AOC has her priorities in order per usual....

AOC stocks up at Costco to support striking food manufacturer workers

While some Congressional Democrats spent Inauguration Day in Washington D.C., Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent it in the Bronx, supporting striking food manufacturer workers.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

4 years

Every morning @democracynow gives us a window into our world that CNN and NBC refuse to do. Find your local station that carries Democracy Now. Tens of thousands march through streets of Madrid, Santiago, Beirut...

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

5 years

I feel so proud of U.S. women soccer champs who are not only formidable athletes but socially conscious young women. Bravo @mPinoe for rocking Audre Lorde on her jersey & @ChristenPress for honoring Sojourner Truth on hers. @Mvmnt4BlkLives

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

3 years

Another mother lost her son. Another boy lost his father.

Kim Hyatt

@kimvhyatt

3 years

Mother Katie Wright sent me this photo of her son with her grandson Daunte Jr. He’ll be 2 years old in July.

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

4 months

Friends, pls send messages of gratitude 2 our mayor @ChicagosMayor 4 his support of an end to the violent bombardment of civilians in Gaza. He is being attacked w/ racist innuendo suggesting he was not educated or aware enough on this issue to have a principled position on it.

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

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They are not "attacking each other." The protest encampment was attacked and assaulted with fireworks by anti-Palestinian disruptors. There are several other videos that seem to make this clear. Encampment protesters look like they were defending themselves against the attackers.

Chuckyfamous!

@Nem_Famous

19 days

Chaos 🚨🚨 happening now At UCLA people just attacking each other….but it’s a "peaceful protest" ….. it’s just gonna get worse!!

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

4 years

Biden says he doesn't want to get into a back and forth because we are in a crisis. This is a political debate, joe. #DemDebate ... @BernieSanders this is one many health crises. The ongoing crisis is one is which ppl die because they can't get medical care.

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

4 years

With the rise of billionaires, racist dictators & kleptocrats around the world, & in the USA, the fact that people with very little are giving all they can to a campaign @People4Bernie that is promising justice, equality, compassion and radical democracy, is truly inspiring

CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt

@CNNThisMorning

4 years

Sen. Bernie Sanders raised more than $34.5 million for his White House bid during the final three months of 2019 -- a sign of his considerable financial strength ahead of the Iowa caucuses. @ryanobles reports

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

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Haitians are in the street again. When thousands are in the streets in Paris, we see live coverage. When Tafalgar Square has a rally, it is in the news. Does Haiti not matter? @democracynow @NPR @thenation @chrislhayes @amjoyshow

HaitiInfoProj

@HaitiInfoProj

5 years

Major anti-govt corruption protests now underway in Carrefour area of #Haiti 's capital. Protesters set up flaming barricades & scuffled w/police earlier today. Reports of injuries but no deaths thus far.

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Barbara Ransby

@BarbaraRansby

5 years

When Dr. King spoke out on the Vietnam war liberal white supporters turned their backs on him. How dare he have a political opinion that differed from theirs! He should stick to 'negro issues' they said. This rebuke of @marclamonthill reminds me of that arrogance 51 years ago.

Jewish Voice for Peace

@jvplive

5 years

Email Jeff Zucker @CNN CEO and let's make this right. #IStandWithMLH ad campaign getting launched.

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