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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1h

Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz

Despite shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country.

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das Lamm @magazindaslamm.bsky.social · 1h

«So etwas hat es in Italien seit Jahrzehnten nicht gegeben», sagt Martino Puppo von der Basisgewerkschaft S.I. Cobas. «Das weckt Hoffnung auf eine kämpferische Bewegung, die aus der Solidarität mit Palästina eine breite antikapitalistische Perspektive entwickelt.»

Das war noch nicht der letzte Streik

Blockierte Häfen, stillstehende Züge, besetzte Universitäten: Eine Welle der Solidarität mit den Menschen in Gaza erfasst Italien. Wie kam es dazu? Eine Reportage aus Genua, dem Epizentrum des General...

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 1h

‚Während Muslime seit Längerem im Fokus deutscher Integrationsdebatten stehen, dient das Bekenntnis zu Israel nun als zentraler Prüfstein gesellschaftlicher Zugehörigkeit. Erwünscht sind nicht progressive & demokratische Muslime, sondern solche, die die herrschende Hegemonie als richtig anerkennen.‘

Jacobin Magazin @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social · 3h

Intellektuelle wie Ahmad Mansour, die aus migrantischen Muslimen Staatsräson-Verfechter machen wollen, treffen zurecht auf Unverständnis. Gemeinsame Palästina-Solidemos von Muslimen, Juden, Christen und Atheisten sind die besseren Brückenbauer.

Ahmad Mansour kann kein Vorbild sein

Intellektuelle wie Ahmad Mansour, die aus migrantischen Muslimen Staatsräson-Verfechter machen wollen, treffen zurecht auf Unverständnis. Gemeinsame Palästina-Solidemos von Muslimen, Juden, Christen und Atheisten sind die besseren Brückenbauer.

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 53m

Ethnic cleansing is happening in the #WestBank.

In #MasaferYatta, 85% of homes have been demolished.

More from Celine, Project Coordinator and Frederieke, Humanitarian Affairs Manager:

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 43m

My piece for The Conversation was published again in French

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Tony Blair est-il l’homme de la situation pour Gaza ?

L’ancien premier ministre britannique Tony Blair sera chargé de superviser l’Autorité internationale de transition pour Gaza prévue par le plan Trump.

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weserhag @weserhag.bsky.social · 42m

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Gaza ceasefire live: Red Cross warns of ‘massive challenge’ in returning bodies of hostages as key truce issues remain

Israeli defence minister says delay in returning bodies would be a violation of ceasefire as forces open fire on people approaching troops in northern Gaza

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Ms. Otoo @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social · 20h

„Das #Erinnerungskonzept #Kolonialismus ist in dieser Form beispielgebend, weil es ein Arbeitsauftrag von der Zivilgesellschaft für die Politik ist – und weil es im Gegensatz zum #Gedenkstättenkonzept des Bundes auch das Gedenken an die Verbrechen des Kolonialismus in den Fokus nimmt“

Dr. Ibou Diop

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weserhag @weserhag.bsky.social · 5h

danke so sehr für dieses unbedingt solidarische interview, und das klare zurückweisen von der drängelei des reporters, dass es nun endlich mal ans "brücken bauen" gehen müsste. keine "versöhnung" , die nicht auf der basis der menschenrechte steht... keine kompromisse mit besetzung und apartheid

michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · 6h

Interview at @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy Kultur.

There is no possibility to even imagine reconciliation or peace without accountability and justice

www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/aufarbeitung...

Aufarbeitung? Skepsis zur Waffenruhe im West-Eastern-Divan-Orchestra

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 21h

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · 16h

How is it possible that you still refuse to acknowledge the many Palestinian hostages who were also released? Their families feel the same relief when holding them in their arms. Have you considered that some of these prisoners with family in Gaza may have no one to hold them?

Bundesministerium des Innern @bmi.bund.de · 1d

Welcome back home🎗️

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Dr Rebecca Hall I’m Spartacus! @wakerevolt.bsky.social · 20h

Time to re-start freedom schools nationwide. Our history has always been contraband.

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 1d

Empire empiring, always.

But there are no tribes beyond us, nothing indeed but waves and rocks, and the yet more terrible Romans, from whose oppression escape is vainly sought by obedience and submission. Robbers of the world, having by their universal plunder exhausted the land, they rifle the deep. If the enemy be rich, they are rapacious; if he be poor, they lust for dominion; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them. Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches. To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace.

Complete Works of Tacitus. Tacitus. Sara Bryant. edited for Perseus. New York. : Random House, Inc. Random House, Inc.
1876. reprinted 1942.

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 20h

"They spread the notion that these frequent insurrections, far from testifying to the unbearable cruelty of slavery, pointed to the innate violence of Black people, a violence that demanded constant vigilance to be kept in check."

Mathelinda Nabugodi, The Trembling Hand

historian Douglas Hamilton notes, in virtually every major rising across the anglophone Caribbean in the so-called Age of Abolition, the Royal Navy was instrumental in protecting and maintaining the colonial elite. Parliamentarians without West India connections grew increasingly resentful of the resources needed to protect the planters from Black insurgency. In response, the pro-slavery lobby ramped up their rhetoric. They spread the notion that these frequent insurrections, far from testifying to the unbearable cruelty of slavery, pointed to the innate violence of Black people, a violence that demanded constant vigilance to be kept in check. Furthermore, they accused abolitionists of inciting such violence with their demands for emancipation. As if it would be a handful of white saviour petitions and pamphlets, and not the gruesome conditions on plantations, that incited rebellion! When Wordsworth cautioned Clarkson that his petitions would excite disturbance among the enslaved, he was directly repeating the pro-slavery arguments of the time. This was a position he would hold on to for the rest of his life.

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weserhag @weserhag.bsky.social · 22h

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weserhag @weserhag.bsky.social · 23h

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Academic organisations call on the EU to suspend research ties with Israel immediately - European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine

On the eve of a crucial meeting of the European foreign Council to discuss the possible suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, academic organisations in six European countries which partic...

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weserhag @weserhag.bsky.social · 1d

"We call on Leipzig University to suspend its ties with Israeli institutions"
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AKB Leipzig

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 1d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Stuart Hall Foundation @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social · 5d

Just a few days remain to enter this year's Stuart Hall Essay Prize, open until 5pm GMT on Monday November 3, 2025.

Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpublished writing that connects with Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse.

The Stuart Hall Essay Prize.

25 days left to enter.

Open to UK-based entrants aged 18-30, the Stuart Hall Essay Prize awards £2,000 to a selected writer whose essay best offers an original, radical critique of contemporary society.

Welcoming academic, journalistic and creative essays that resonate with the lines of political, cultural and educational inquiry which Hall pursued.

Inviting new and unpublished essays of 4500-5000 words connecting with Hall’s interests and his concern to address the current ‘conjuncture’.

Submissions due by November 3, 2025.

Stuart Hall Foundation | 10 Years.

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weserhag @weserhag.bsky.social · 1d

www.deutsche-juristinnen-voelkerrecht.org/gaza-tribuna...

Gaza Tribunal 2025: Verantwortung und Völkerrecht

Gaza Tribunal 2025: Zivilgesellschaftliches Tribunal zu Deutschlands völkerrechtlicher Verantwortung. Anmelden!

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M "you said what?" B @aintthatspecial.bsky.social · 1d

Show us how it's done, Chicago!

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'If the ceasefire holds, this language is an augur of the future. One where there is no reckoning, no addressing of root causes. Only a hurtling into the imperatives of cleanings-up and workings-out. All the while illegal occupation continues'.

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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weserhag @weserhag.bsky.social · 1d

bürgerliche nostalgie als politisches antriebsmoment wird wohl doch unterschätzt.

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weserhag @weserhag.bsky.social · 1d

don't iron. who says one has to.

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 1d

“The right’s war on the academy and education is part of a generational war over what young people, especially young white people, will be taught and how they will be socialized."
www.bostonreview.net/articles/bui...

Building a Political Home - Boston Review

Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen on winning power in the midst of a “generational war.”

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Torsten Menge @tmenge.bsky.social · 1d

Verantwortlich für diese Eskalation von Polizeigewalt, für eine Berliner Polizei die komplett außerhalb des Rechtsstaates agiert, ist übrigens die Berliner SPD @spd-berlin.bsky.social @spdde.bsky.social @martinmatz.bsky.social und deren Innensenatorin Iris Spranger.

Rashad Alhindi @ralhindi.bsky.social · 2d

#Berlin 2025
#Staatsräson

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