Danielle Gembala
@ddmgembala.bsky.social
Neurodivergent & disabled archaeologist, educator, writer & parent. she/they
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To my knowledge, this is the full extent of Mamdani’s acknowledgement of yesterday’s action and the raid it spoiled.
Mamdani has, even during the campaign, been pretty minimal re: ICE. bsky.app/profile/hell...
Mamdani has, even during the campaign, been pretty minimal re: ICE. bsky.app/profile/hell...
And now a spokesperson for Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has weighed in
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November 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
To my knowledge, this is the full extent of Mamdani’s acknowledgement of yesterday’s action and the raid it spoiled.
Mamdani has, even during the campaign, been pretty minimal re: ICE. bsky.app/profile/hell...
Mamdani has, even during the campaign, been pretty minimal re: ICE. bsky.app/profile/hell...
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As people are asking: Mamdani’s only mention of yesterday’s action sabotaging a massive ICE raid was reiterating his stance that ICE raids are bad. Via spox. To one media outlet.
No comment on any of his socials.
No comment on any of his socials.
November 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
As people are asking: Mamdani’s only mention of yesterday’s action sabotaging a massive ICE raid was reiterating his stance that ICE raids are bad. Via spox. To one media outlet.
No comment on any of his socials.
No comment on any of his socials.
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I don’t normally speak when I’m taking video. Usually it only happens if I’m getting hassled & asserting my rights, or if it just pops out. I do wonder if I’d stayed silent, would I have documented him violate city law? A little lesson in the benefits of silence.
November 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I don’t normally speak when I’m taking video. Usually it only happens if I’m getting hassled & asserting my rights, or if it just pops out. I do wonder if I’d stayed silent, would I have documented him violate city law? A little lesson in the benefits of silence.
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Thinking about the NYPD SRG cop yesterday who saw protestors futzing with a barrier they made at the ICE garage. He climbed out of his van and vaguely complained walking over.
It seemed like he was planning to clear it, then bailed when I blurted out “You can’t do that. You can’t help them.”
It seemed like he was planning to clear it, then bailed when I blurted out “You can’t do that. You can’t help them.”
November 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Thinking about the NYPD SRG cop yesterday who saw protestors futzing with a barrier they made at the ICE garage. He climbed out of his van and vaguely complained walking over.
It seemed like he was planning to clear it, then bailed when I blurted out “You can’t do that. You can’t help them.”
It seemed like he was planning to clear it, then bailed when I blurted out “You can’t do that. You can’t help them.”
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Presser over, I didn’t catch all the speakers or their comments but you should be able to rewatch it here: x.com/thenyic/stat...
November 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Presser over, I didn’t catch all the speakers or their comments but you should be able to rewatch it here: x.com/thenyic/stat...
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Awawdeh: It is easy for Trump admin to lean into cruelty. It is powerful for us to lean into our power, show what it means to be good neighbors, that we are not going to bend the knee. In this moment we ask all New Yorkers to know their rights and to join us.
Tells people to buy a whistle.
Tells people to buy a whistle.
November 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Awawdeh: It is easy for Trump admin to lean into cruelty. It is powerful for us to lean into our power, show what it means to be good neighbors, that we are not going to bend the knee. In this moment we ask all New Yorkers to know their rights and to join us.
Tells people to buy a whistle.
Tells people to buy a whistle.
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Speaker from an org in Brooklyn (I don’t have speaker list and didn’t catch org name) says in Spanish it’s become normal for people to be afraid in their homes, at their jobs, everywhere they go in a system using fear to oppress people. Says we don’t need to be afraid.
November 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Speaker from an org in Brooklyn (I don’t have speaker list and didn’t catch org name) says in Spanish it’s become normal for people to be afraid in their homes, at their jobs, everywhere they go in a system using fear to oppress people. Says we don’t need to be afraid.
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State Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes speaks in Spanish, now English. Says yesterday made clear people can stand up and stop ICE.
“It is everyday New Yorkers that are responding, it is everyday New Yorkers who are standing up for the people.”
“It is everyday New Yorkers that are responding, it is everyday New Yorkers who are standing up for the people.”
November 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
State Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes speaks in Spanish, now English. Says yesterday made clear people can stand up and stop ICE.
“It is everyday New Yorkers that are responding, it is everyday New Yorkers who are standing up for the people.”
“It is everyday New Yorkers that are responding, it is everyday New Yorkers who are standing up for the people.”
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*NYC Comptroller Brad Lander
November 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
*NYC Comptroller Brad Lander
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Missed who the Yesenia speaker was but Lander thanks demonstrators. Calls for Tisch, Bragg to drop charges.
Tells restaurants to put up “employees only” signs that make ICE get judicial warrant. Says NYPD seemed to know in advance, were documented helping clear blockages, is violation of NYC law.
Tells restaurants to put up “employees only” signs that make ICE get judicial warrant. Says NYPD seemed to know in advance, were documented helping clear blockages, is violation of NYC law.
November 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Missed who the Yesenia speaker was but Lander thanks demonstrators. Calls for Tisch, Bragg to drop charges.
Tells restaurants to put up “employees only” signs that make ICE get judicial warrant. Says NYPD seemed to know in advance, were documented helping clear blockages, is violation of NYC law.
Tells restaurants to put up “employees only” signs that make ICE get judicial warrant. Says NYPD seemed to know in advance, were documented helping clear blockages, is violation of NYC law.
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CM Crystal Hudson leads “people power” chant as NYIC president Murad Awawdeh speaks, calls on NYPD to drop the charges and to disband SRG, the NYPD’s ‘counterterrorism’ unit used against protests.
November 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
CM Crystal Hudson leads “people power” chant as NYIC president Murad Awawdeh speaks, calls on NYPD to drop the charges and to disband SRG, the NYPD’s ‘counterterrorism’ unit used against protests.
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CM Shahana Hanif describes mobilization against ICE yesterday “heroic,” notes efforts to pass “NYC Trust Act,” which affirms illegality of NYPD/city agencies to collab/aid ICE & adds enforcement.
Says use of crowd control by NYPD is a way in which they facilitate ICE.
Affirms call to drop charges
Says use of crowd control by NYPD is a way in which they facilitate ICE.
Affirms call to drop charges
November 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
CM Shahana Hanif describes mobilization against ICE yesterday “heroic,” notes efforts to pass “NYC Trust Act,” which affirms illegality of NYPD/city agencies to collab/aid ICE & adds enforcement.
Says use of crowd control by NYPD is a way in which they facilitate ICE.
Affirms call to drop charges
Says use of crowd control by NYPD is a way in which they facilitate ICE.
Affirms call to drop charges
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Press conference now:
CM Sandy Nurse calls on NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to drop the charges on demonstrators detained yesterday.
CM Sandy Nurse calls on NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to drop the charges on demonstrators detained yesterday.
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Press conference now:
CM Sandy Nurse calls on NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to drop the charges on demonstrators detained yesterday.
CM Sandy Nurse calls on NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to drop the charges on demonstrators detained yesterday.
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I’m DYING
November 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I’m DYING
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Back tomorrow to discuss late 19th century mining safety and how much the courts and America's political elites didn't care one whit about dead workers.
November 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Back tomorrow to discuss late 19th century mining safety and how much the courts and America's political elites didn't care one whit about dead workers.
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At the end of her life, while in a nursing home, she organized the home’s workers into a union and convinced the institution to honor the United Farm Workers’ grape boycott. She died in 1982 at the age of 96.
November 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
At the end of her life, while in a nursing home, she organized the home’s workers into a union and convinced the institution to honor the United Farm Workers’ grape boycott. She died in 1982 at the age of 96.
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Among the strike leaders and blacklisted workers was Clara Lemlich, who was a committed socialist before immigrating from Russia in 1903. Many of the leaders became New Deal liberals. Lemlich retained her sharp radicalism and rejected all that.
November 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Among the strike leaders and blacklisted workers was Clara Lemlich, who was a committed socialist before immigrating from Russia in 1903. Many of the leaders became New Deal liberals. Lemlich retained her sharp radicalism and rejected all that.
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She opposed the execution of the Rosenbergs and her passport was revoked after a trip to the Soviet Union in 1951.
November 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
She opposed the execution of the Rosenbergs and her passport was revoked after a trip to the Soviet Union in 1951.
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She joined the Communist Party and spent the rest of her life organizing people, beginning with women’s suffrage and then moving onto consumer rights and tenant rights when she became a non-working mother.
November 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
She joined the Communist Party and spent the rest of her life organizing people, beginning with women’s suffrage and then moving onto consumer rights and tenant rights when she became a non-working mother.
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The ILGWU grew rapidly in the years after 1909. Although it took until the mid 1930s for the union to become a consistently powerful force in the industry, the Uprising of the 20,000 became central to its institutional memory, even in its early years.
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The ILGWU grew rapidly in the years after 1909. Although it took until the mid 1930s for the union to become a consistently powerful force in the industry, the Uprising of the 20,000 became central to its institutional memory, even in its early years.
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On the other hand, conditions of work did not improve much at all, something that the nation would discover 2 years later at Triangle.
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
On the other hand, conditions of work did not improve much at all, something that the nation would discover 2 years later at Triangle.
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They also agreed not to discriminate against union members, but this was totally unenforceable and many leaders were blacklisted. Local 25 exploded from 100 members to 10,000.
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
They also agreed not to discriminate against union members, but this was totally unenforceable and many leaders were blacklisted. Local 25 exploded from 100 members to 10,000.
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That said, the manufactures did agree to some real concessions that made the strike worthwhile, including a 52 hour work week, 4 paid holidays per year, the end of having to buy one’s own work materials, and a general agreement to negotiate pay rates with workers.
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
That said, the manufactures did agree to some real concessions that made the strike worthwhile, including a 52 hour work week, 4 paid holidays per year, the end of having to buy one’s own work materials, and a general agreement to negotiate pay rates with workers.
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Only about 1000 out of the 20,000 were still on the picket lines, succumbing to the greatest enemy of the strike–poverty.
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Only about 1000 out of the 20,000 were still on the picket lines, succumbing to the greatest enemy of the strike–poverty.
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The workers wanted to hold the line at getting the union shop but after 11 weeks without work and with only tepid support for the ILGWU international, they were forced back to work with only minimal gains and without the union shop.
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The workers wanted to hold the line at getting the union shop but after 11 weeks without work and with only tepid support for the ILGWU international, they were forced back to work with only minimal gains and without the union shop.