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asst. editor @publicbooks ; historian; writer; buttercream enthusiast; abolition now! she/her

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@CharlotteERosen
Charlotte E. Rosen
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being an adult is just an endless loop of wiping down the counter
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they got the fashion girlies? it's literally joever wow
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Students at FIT have just taken over the museum building and set up a Gaza Solidarity Encampment 🇵🇸🫡
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It remains stunning to me that just mere weeks ago people were acting aghast at the suggestion that Israel would target a hospital, implying it was basically anti-semitic to say as much. Now, Israel is casually *re-targeting* hospitals that they've already bombed
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Ghassan Abu Sitta
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Palestinian hospitals giving any health care, even as a First Aid stations, are being re-targeted by the Israeli army. Yesturday it was Al Awda hospital. Morning they shelled Shifa Hospital. This afternoon they attacked Al Ahli hospital and are rounding up the staff and wounded.
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faculty getting arrested protecting students is so metal and cool
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Lots to critique about Barbie, but notable that there aren't any police officer Barbies in Barbieland (!)
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are there not substantial numbers of Jewish students involved in the Columbia Gaza solidarity encampments, enough so that they hosted a visible shabbat? Are they not also Jews, and are they not demonstrating a very different narrative of what safety means to them?
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Jake Tapper
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In response to “horrific” scenes of antisemitic harassment at and around campus, the Orthodox Rabbi at Columbia/Barnard sent a WhatsApp message to more than 290+ Jewish students this morning recommending that they go home until it’s safe again for them on campus:
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I don't mean to dismiss the reality of historical trauma associated with the Holocaust & anti-semitic violence, something that profoundly shaped my own family's history. But I find it troubling how Jewish support for Israel is treated as a natural or expected "trauma" response...
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can't stress enough how scary and evil this is
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free speech is back
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House votes 320-91 to urge the Department of Education to codify criticism of Israel as unlawful antisemitism
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this is seriously so enraging & disgusting. Jalil Muntaqim was *just* released after 49 years and the state is already trying to throw him back in a cage. You cannot reform this system; please sign:
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Azadeh Shahshahani
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Jalil Muntaqim, recently paroled after 49 years, was arrested Friday & is facing re-imprisonment for completing a voter registration form. Sign this petition to oppose any efforts to remove him from community and/or place him back in prison!
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What was the New Deal, if not racial capitalism persevering?
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It’s actually not a biological or historical inevitability that a group of people who experience fascist violence will in turn embrace an ethnostate premised on a similar form of fascistic colonial terror
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all of this makes me even more passionate about emphasizing to people that most people are arrested, prosecuted, sentenced and imprisoned at the state and local level
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4 years
not profound but as I continue to read through docs related to prisons in late 20th c I'm regularly overcome w the heaviness of how much of what goes on in prisons & jails - just in their daily operations, not simply particular moments of brutality - is literal torture
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3 years
Half of writing a dissertation is convincing yourself, against all evidence presented to you by your broken brain, that you are not, in fact, a dumb bitch
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tfw your university presses the red scare button in response to grad unionization the day after they announce an 800 mil stadium project the jokes just write themselves
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naomi murakawa recently talked about how pretrial detention is basically state-sanctioned kidnapping and I think we cannot stress that enough
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"It is a massacre of the injured"--another phrase that will haunt me for years
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Israeli warplanes just bombed the gates of Al Shifa hospital -it is a massacre of the injured. A convoy of sick was headed to Rafah struck w precision weapons. Their bodies are strewn, blood flows, survivors panic and pray that life is possible. & the US sends “aid” 2Israel #Gaza
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Normalize being a historian who also immediately blacks out dates and details and needs to repeatedly Wikipedia basic historical pivot points 😌
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The suggestion -- even if couched in a well-meaning project of contextualizing Jewish "feelings" -- actually occludes the political work (undertaken with substantial assistance from a literally anti-semitic West) involved in translating this historical experience into Zionism
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almost too on the nose: learned today that COPS was green-lit in response to the 1988 twenty-two-week TV writer's strike
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retweet if you were previously going to write a bad dissertation but now, due the pandemic, have reconsidered and will be now be "buckling down" to write an "outstanding" one
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can't imagine feeling anything but immense respect towards student protesters and organizers who are leading the way in their moral clarity, innovative tactics, and ground breaking coalition building
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no like the university is going to LOSE so badly !!!!
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2 years
historian affirmations: I will not take a picture of every single document "in case it might be useful" while in the archives
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2 years
my only thought on don't look up it is it's hilarious the writers thought a professor would so readily give credit to a graduate student for a major discovery lmao
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3 years
what no one tells you about doing historical research is somedays you really are just scrolling through newspapers dot com, going year by year, with the same two search words, for days on end
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why did they make bernie as a hot got e-girl costume I'm wheezing
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I will surely not face consequences for this action in 3-5 months
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2 years
[being that guy] just had my first peer reviewed academic journal article accepted 🥲
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the way @rwgilmoregirls just effortlessly makes the clearest case for abolition as the way forward for any meaningful left project
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I really don't think many of us (myself very much included) can imagine what it is like to lose your partner and dozens of family members overnight. To say this is a crime against humanity doesn't begin to capture the horror.
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defended my dissertation !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I hate how all of the villains in batman (the riddler in the latest film) often have genuine critiques of capitalism, corruption, & state violence, but because they are psycho killers the implied takeaway is people who hold these views are all crazy & dangerous
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today's rabbit hole brought me to learn about Frank Tannenbaum, a Jewish historian/criminologist and former IWW member once arrested for taking industrial action with other unemployed workers in 1914... who also had this to say about prisons in 1922
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I'm an historian so obviously I agree that terms matter and are not transhistorical but there is also a disturbing tendency in academia to engage in pedantic debates over terminology in ways that actually minimize expressions of concrete fascist/white supremacist violence
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me in various group chats today saying "patriotism... in this economy?" and no one reacting : /
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I miss going to the archives, getting immediately ravenous and dehydrated, and photocopying 4 200 page reports in a row in a borderline fugue state!!!
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hearing RWG tell ppl who refuse to understand race and class as mutually constitutive to “shut the fuck up” was so healing
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Remembering @prisonculture 's words from last week's MLK Keynote, on King as a proto-abolitionist:
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Northwestern University Graduate Workers (NUGW)
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. @prisonculture talks about MLK's fear of jail, esp solitary confinement. Notes that King was jailed 29 times. "If King were alive today, at 91 - I have no doubt that what he would be addressing is the violence and destruction of the prison industrial complex."
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I do it too and this is not a critique of anyone in particular but there is something uncomfortable (to me) about the impulse to parade one's Jewish credentials in order to speak in support of Palestine
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Checking in on this
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NewsWire
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CHICAGO POLICE UNION PRESIDENT SAYS 800-1000 OFFICERS MAY RESIGN IF BRANDON JOHNSON WINS MAYORAL RACE
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the move to individualize and strip of historical and political context is always a technique of state violence
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apropos of nothing “putting women back into history” is not inherently the radical project you think it is
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beyond chilling
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Harvard Grad Students Union-UAW Local 5118
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BREAKING: Harvard is evicting a Black @hgsuuaw student from campus housing today for serving as a student safety marshal during a recent campus protest organized by @HarvardPSC
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me on the academic job market
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The haters said I couldn’t do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters
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As good a time as any to announce that I'll be starting as an Assistant Editor at @PublicBooks this Fall, as part of @HistStudiesNU Postdoctoral Fellowships in Public Service. Beyond excited to join this rad team & grow as an editor, writer, and publisher ‼️
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I know these people don't actually care about any of this but just such a maddening and violent attempt to discursively stake out that Jewish safety = genocidal settler colonialism
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super solid review that also validates my feeling that the show had fleeting abolitionist tendencies but they got muddled and crushed by the always overpowering copaganda inherent to the genre
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rip Mike Davis. hard to overstate the gifts he gave the movement; will always be forever grateful for his incisive, no bullshit, and planetary analyses, his incomparable humor, and principled commitment to struggle.
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a lot of white women were & are fascists! that history should be interrogated & confronted head on & not couched in some weird liberal attachment to seeing someone’s seemingly marginalized identity as reason for uncritical, apolitical reinsertion into the historical narrative
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No discourse but if you’re a “socialist” and are citing polling numbers (⁉️) to dunk on abolition that’s embarrassing 😪
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sorry but! I'm hugely unsettled by the mass mourning / idolatry of RBG! now feels like precisely a time when we should be highly critical of her decision to stay on, her largely terrible record (esp. re Native rights + criminal legal system), her paling around w Scalia?!
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Good evening, "twitterstorians" was a 10 year sociological study conducted by Harvard University. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.
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if your historical approach is rooted in merely pointing out that Women Did Things and not critically appraising their politics and actions (or for that matter interrogating the very historical construction of the category of “womanhood”!) then it’s empty and dangerous
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OK litrally what main line abolitionist teen did this
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Jaclyn Lee
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A Philadelphia woman was stunned when she received this cake from The Bakery House in Bryn Mawr. She got the cake for her friend’s 25th anniversary @PhillyPolice . Bakery shop says they are mortified and it was an honest mistake and have nothing but respect for our officers @6abc
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Thinking about how abolitionist praxis is fundamentally historical.
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore, CORRECTLY, on ya'lls fav: "The New Deal was also capitalism saving capitalism from capitalism"
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Really cool initiative -- if you just got a stimulus check and can spare some or all of it, here are some places to redistribute put together by abolitionist organizers in Philly + NYC
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they yassified sartre
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Giovanni Rolla
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First pics of Brad Pritt as Jean Paul Sartre and Eva Green as Simone Beauvoir in upcoming biopic
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not very deep to throw out there but: that police lie isn't merely a political position but an historical fact, based on clearcut evidence.
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reading mid-twentieth century US labor history is very much giving this
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Identifying a little too strongly with Steve Kornacki
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"it is simply bombing entire neighborhoods"
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abdullah says CEASEFIRE NOW 🇵🇸
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explain it to me @NickKristof - what meaningful difference is there between *deliberately* killing someone with a gun and bombing with little attention. what makes the latter not deliberate? what is the "moral difference" here
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not that fed gov doesn’t matter, but it’s also not really where the discretionary power lies when it comes to much of the carceral state
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oh you're an abolitionist? name the four surpluses that generated the "prison fix" 😤
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“Good evening, socialists!” 🥹
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I reviewed @KayJWhitlock + @naheitzeg Carceral Con for @thenation -- a vital resource for abolitionists that clarifies how criminal justice reform™️ proliferates rather than mitigates punishment + harm
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being Jewish does not make me a moral authority on genocide, everyone should be against settler colonial fascism, and on a strategic level, zionists (at this point) don't really give a shit whether we're Jewish or not and basically consider us fake anyway
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beautiful
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sebas 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩🇵🇬
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🚨UPDATE🚨 THOUSANDS of students at Columbia University are on the plaza with 100s of students occupying the West Lawn
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and i think what feels so difficult to hold is that the often state-produced documents re: these conditions, even the ones that are allegedly liberal/progressive, ultimately frame these genocidal conditions as aberrations rather than functions of these institutions
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one of my favorite little notices from the 70s era Angolite, the prisoner publication at Angola Prison:
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Harrowing, if unsurprising, how law enforcement's defense of prosecutorial discretion crumbles once prosecutors use it to materially reduce the number of people criminalized and caged
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Georgia's GOP is on brink of adopting a law to enable them to remove locally elected DAs who are not charging certain cases, like abortion or marijuana. I talked to one of their main targets, Athens DA Deborah Gonzalez: "I have a target on my back." New:
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How about freeing people instead
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Elizabeth Warren
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Prisons and jails have been COVID incubators, and incarcerated people and correctional staff are still at high risk. We’re urging @HHSGov to use #AmericanRescuePlan funding to expand testing, vaccination, and data reporting to stop these outbreaks.
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The "police reform work" is actually continuation/intensification of racialized carceral violence, not a pathway towards its demise
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Ross Barkan
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One trouble with Defund the Police is the slogan may do, at the minimum, short-term damage to police reform work. The backlash was severe enough where it appears Democrats, moderate and progressive alike, are less likely to take up reform legislation next year.
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The DNC
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Cincinnati Needs Mass Public Transit
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What’s something that ISN’T Republican but FEELS Republican to you?
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Just imagining the president's office being like “Sir, another frat house has put up a union sign”
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something many of us have known for a long time but that continues to send a shiver down my spine is the fact that younger Israeli Jews are more right-wing and fascistic than even their parents generation, and you can see it on fully display here
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diss draft handed in so we're making marbled hamantaschen with almond paste and rainbow sprinkles
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get in loser were abolishing value
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The side of justice and humanity (if we are to invoke this term) has never been clearer and yet some of you willfully refuse to see it, clouded by a tired moral relativism long deployed to obscure the material realities of power and violence
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I think I missed this somehow but the fact that Alabama Gov. Ivey is responding to the Alabama prison strike by using $400 million COVID funds to build three new prisons is breathtakingly vile, and should be more of a public scandal than it appears to be
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If you'd like a slight reprieve from you know...*gestures wildly*...I wrote for @thenation about Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7.
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if the group chats are any indication, nearly everyone is at their absolute breaking point
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appropriately scab origins for a show that helps legitimize the authority of corporate elites' muscle against organized labor!
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Biden's crew gleefully comparing antizionist and pro-Palestine protestors to Nazis at Charlottesville
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I mean what else do you say to this. Just completely libelous and gross
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it will never not slap when RWG says that philanthropy is "the private allocation of stolen social wage" #SanctuarySpaces
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I am still laughing about this
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organizing
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@isaiah_bb the way she is just standing like this🧍‍♀️omg
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In calling on communities to see police, prisons, and all carceral systems as products of willful decisionmaking and human design, abolitionists demonstrate that the current systems of punishment and imprisonment are not naturally-existing, necessary, or life-giving institutions.
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totally in support of being a visible pro-Palestinian, anti-zionist Jew and will continue to be one; just don't love the way one's Jewishness can serve as an authorizing force for something that demands a much more expansive platform
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this really goes hard. no notes
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#StopCopCity 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Martha telling Ellen there should be no prisons…yes
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this you?
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Northwestern
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Please join us in congratulating Kathleen Hagerty, who has been named Provost of Northwestern effective Sept. 1. She has served as Interim Provost since April 1.
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not, ofc, that I am somehow shocked they use this framing -- but more so, feel rage @ how people can view what's going on, for so long, & continue to offer piece meal reforms they know won't work & that still uphold the general white supremacist premise that "criminality" exists
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Support abolitionist study groups + mutual aid in PA prisons! @agitateorganize & his comrades at SCI-Camp Hill run abolitionist study groups & do mutual aid. They are running dangerously low on funds. Copying alone costs over $120 a week. Pls give what you can + share widely!
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private prisons are despicable and should be abolished but let's not forget that they make up just 8% of prisons in the US, most imprisoned people are caged in state, county, or federal institutions run by the state
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BREAKING: Biden to order DOJ to end private prison contracts as part of racial equity push
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Not to do one of These Posts but I'm going to be teaching my first undergrad course as instructor of record this Spring on the history of US mass imprisonment, if folks have good syllabus models or readings that have proved useful in the classroom could u drop them here 😳
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every brilliant scholar I know watches an episode of a Bravo show at lunch
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