"How can you renounce caoitalism when you're using a smart phone?" I live on planet earth beloved. We are not willing participants, we are victims.
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she/her | artist | Black radical thought | social justice barbie | abolition & TJ | mama | writing dangerously | sudani in the wampum treaty belt
Happy Emancipation Day! Gratitude & grief for our stolen kin, who dared to liberate themselves. For all our ancestors who were born in chains, from Khartoum to Kahnawake, who fought & died so that we may fight & live. FREE UP my people, wherever we go may freedom find us.
Baby, if we let the "just don't break the law" losers dictate our lives we would still be in shackles.
I am genuinely exhausted by how often we have to argue with people that trying to reform policing & the surveillance state only further legitimize & normalize violence against our communities.
The Sudan Solidarity Collective is continuing to support mutual aid work in North Darfur and Kordofan and has recently started supported the tea vendors union as they rebuild their livelihoods. To support go to: www.sudansolidarity.com.
The fundamental abolitionist lesson that moral =/= legal is a helpful reminder for so many people right now. Much of the time doing things which are morally good puts you at odds with the law, while the courts and institutions of colonial states incentivize and reward all that is immoral.
I know it seems like people are being especially hateful on social media (lord knows I get more than my share of it), but it’s helpful to remember that at least half of these losers are bots and paid agitators. Don’t lose sight of the truth, most people most days choose justice.
I am so excited to bring back my public workshop offerings with my award winning session- Doing the Work, Radical Solidarity for a Collective Future. Virtual - August 26th, at 7:00 PM EST please register at www.raniawrites.com/register *If cost is a barrier please contact me
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If someone can help meals for mutual aid with the purchase of deli containers with lids that would be incredible. It would allow us to divide and share a massive donation of dry lentils and rice. www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/...
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The arrest of Ahmad Hassan Hajahmad is a dangerous escalation in repression and criminalization of dissent. The point here is to deradicalize our movements & scare us into silence. We must be louder & more principled than ever in our struggle.
The criminalization of courage, community defense & community care are key factors in rising fascism & a police state. We can't let this slide, we need to show up for those of us who are brave enough to stand up for justice despite the risks.
Cops in North Vancouver shot & Killed a man in broad daylight. Although news headlines say he was armed with a knife, if you read on you'll earn that Arman Abadi, an unarmed CIVILIAN took a knife off of him. At the time where he was shot he was holding a box cutter, outnumbered by both cops & guns.
Terrorism charges against pro-Palestine protester in Toronto is the next logical step in fascist repression. It happened in the US & UK, of course it happened here. Tentacles of the same rotting empire. This is also part of the criminalization Indigenous land defenders have faced for generations.
I don't known what phase in dystopic empire collapse this is, but I am selling cookies to help raise application funds for Sudanese Asylum Seekers. Cookies for the Cause is back & if you don't eat sugar/gluten you can donate an order to a protest/picket. Link in bio
Watched two groups of people step over someone overdosing in the east end. I am so disturbed but not surprised by the callouseness. It's more than not knowing what to do, it's the result of dehumanizing people & normalizing avoidable death & social murder. I had my Naloxone on me & so should you.
Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.
We as Sudanese people have to get so much better at talking about sexual violence & supporting survivors. Every day I speak to Sudanese women, girls & boys who have been assaulted in the course of the war. Rampant sexual violence over the war is trauma which will haunt our people for generations.
Everytime I remind people that Sudan is still burning, starving & dying, I get told to "wait your turn". Freedom waits for no one Sudanese people continue in our intergenerational struggle to build a homeland where all our people can prosper. Our people deserve to live long enough to see that day.
The thing that is ignored is how much the Democratic Party benefitted from the free labor of young Black activists and organizers during that election cycle. When some of us pointed out how disaffected those organizers were in 24, we were called wreckers and yelled at, lol.
Many Indigenous communities are evacuating to cities and towns that are especially hostile towards them. I can't imagine how much this compounds the trauma of fleeing and losing your home. Please show up with care & humility for calls to action & mutual aid efforts.
If you have little ones in your life, consider @raniawrites.bsky.social free workshop, "Liberation for Littles: Navigating Rising Fascism Together" on July 30. www.raniawrites.com/free.html
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I hope everyone relentlessly complaining about the air quality in Toronto can keep that same energy to protect land defenders who are criminalized, targeted, and terrorized for protecting their own homelands. Land back or extinction.
Migrant workers are doing farm labour in this smoke, working 12+ hours in heat & 'very high risk" air quality conditions. Unhoused folks get no break from this. Working class people largely can't avoid this suffering.
I don't know who needs to hear this but it's legal to complain about extreme weather no matter the season. You don't have to gracefully endure the summer version of the climate crisis because you protested the winter deep freeze. There is no moral benefit, I fear.
What I am putting in my mini summer care packages for folks outside: - sunscreen - small first aid kit - masks - cold water - Gatorade/electrolytes - baseball caps - money - lip balm/Vaseline - cigarettes/ lighter - gift cards (given to me not bought) - Naloxone - Presto card - protein bars
This heat wave & the smoke from the wildfires are a deadly cocktail for our neighbors on the street. It's the kind of summer heat that doesn't break when the sun goes down. Carry cold water, cash, masks and care packages with you.
Hamas dissolved its government in Gaza to remove any obstacle to reconstruction, but little has changed for ordinary Palestinians in the Strip — because Israel ultimately controls whether the nightmare it has inflicted on them will ever end. mondoweiss.net/2026/07/hama... #Palestine #Israel
Hamas has dissolved its government in Gaza, but its residents’ lives are still a living hell
Little has changed for ordinary Gazans since Hamas’s governing committee dissolved, and many say a shift in who rules means nothing without Israel’s consent.
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People are fleeing burning towns & the now normalized "wild fire season" while the provincial & federal governments destroy climate protection & sell out to tech & extraction industries to make the rich, richer while human & non human life is irrevocably destroyed. Death merchants, all of them.
It shouldn't surprise us when dems publicly befriend & mourn their more outwardly fascist counterparts in the GOP. These people are political elites & overseers. They will ALWAYS have class solidarity with one another.