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Tari Ajadi

@tariajadi.bsky.social

Working on transformative justice & social impact in St. John’s, NL. Making my way through.

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McGill PoliSci@mcgillpolisci.bsky.social · last yr.

Join @anikaganness.bsky.social next Wednesday, May 14th as she wraps up her postdoctoral fellowship with a talk on “The Past, Present, and Future of Child Welfare in Canada.” This event will be hosted in person at the @IRPP.org! Learn more and register for the event here: irpp.org/irpp-event/c...

The Past, Present and Future of Child Welfare in Canada - IRPP

Join us in Montreal on Wednesday, May 14 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. for a talk with IRPP postdoctoral fellow Anika Ganness.  Why are children from racialized and immigrant backgrounds more likely to end up...

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Sara F.L. Kirk@sflkirk.bsky.social · last yr.

I'd rather have suicidal empathy than no heart at all. While the cruelty is the point for these ghouls, I still firmly believe there are more good people in the world than evil. I'm grateful to @charlieangus104.bsky.social for bringing light into these dark times & defending #ChildRights

Charlie Angus@charlieangus104.bsky.social · last yr.

In Trump's America cruelty is the point. And nothing is more cruel than the abuse of children. In US courts migrant children as young as 4 are being put on trial without legal representation and subject to arbitrary deportation. Please read my latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/trumps-war...

Aaron S. Veenstra@asveenstra.bsky.social · last yr.

In general we need to internalize the fact that bad faith actors never “have a point” because having a point isn’t the point.

Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · last yr.

We do not have to take Trump’s bait on DEI, because they do not care about some policies being “problematic.” They are disengenously using DEI to target civil rights protections, DEI is a prextext, and it is not reasonable to concede they have a point when it only helps their reactionary push.

Tari Ajadi@tariajadi.bsky.social · last yr.

As a follow-up to this post, if you'd like to give the article a read, please access it via this link. I have a limited amount of free copies for access if you are not able to access via an institution (but DM me and we can sort that out very quickly!): utppublishing.com/eprint/JG9AS...

Policing the Uptown: A Historical Narrative Analyzing Black-Led Coalitions in Response to Police Brutality in Halifax in 1991 | Journal of Canadian Studies

This article delves into the historical context of Black resistance to racial oppression in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It focuses on a critical juncture in the ongoing struggle against anti-Black racism in the city—the “Uptown Riots” of 1991. Through archival research and interviews with community members, the article explores how Black activists organized and responded to the municipality, province, and federal government’s complicity in racial oppression during and after the Uptown Riots. The concept of racial institutional orders is employed to analyze the complex relationships between Black communities advocating for self-determination and the governing institutions perpetuating racial concepts of Black inferiority and victimhood. By examining the continuity of resistance and the reconstitution of the dominant racial institutional order, this article sheds light on the enduring impacts of this incident on the affected communities.

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Tari Ajadi@tariajadi.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm proud to announce that my article "Policing The Uptown" has been released in the Journal of Canadian Studies @utpjournals.bsky.social - this is an adapted chapter from my upcoming monograph with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social & a piece I'm really proud of. Check it out!

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · last yr.

It gets even worse once you learn about the history of these organizations. These are REFORM jails and prisons. Rikers was considered a “model penitentiary”! brooklynrail.org/2020/02/fiel...

All Jails Fit to Build | The Brooklyn Rail

“Borough-based” jails are nothing new in New York City. The original incarnation of Lower Manhattan’s notorious Tombs facility, opened in 1838, replaced the British colonial jail built before the Revo...

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jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · last yr.

I think it’s just a tipping point thing. When you have your first exposure to, say, 50 horrifying stories about cops and prisons, you think the system can be fixed. 500? You’re thinking it has to be seriously downsized. By the time you read about horror #50,000? Burn it down.

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · last yr.

all it took for me to become a prison abolitionist was a few years of reading simple factual accounts of what happens in jails and prisons

Tari Ajadi@tariajadi.bsky.social · last yr.

Rest in power, Abisay Cruz, and all those killed by police officers here in Montreal and anywhere else. We can never accept the death of a human being as a justifiable consequence of policing; I remain disgusted with the SPVM, the BEI, and with the city.

Montrealers rally around family of man who died after police operation in Saint-Michel | CBC News

Two events were held Sunday to call attention to the deaths of three people after police intervention - two of which took place in Montreal. One of those people was 29-year-old Abisay Cruz whose death...

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jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · last yr.

This is fucking abhorrent. It’s also how local policing works in the US too. “Gang databases” are basically racial profiling dragnets and there are literal toddlers in those datasets. This is another reason why abolition is so urgent www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/cal...

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.

This is horrifying! Family members of some of the people sent to do hard labor in a Salvadoran prison by Trump confirm their loved ones weren't members of a gang. One woman said her brother got a tattoo of a rose in Dallas, and because of that they accused him of being a gang member.

Tari Ajadi@tariajadi.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm proud to announce that my article "Policing The Uptown" has been released in the Journal of Canadian Studies @utpjournals.bsky.social - this is an adapted chapter from my upcoming monograph with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social & a piece I'm really proud of. Check it out!

Policing the Uptown: A Historical Narrative Analyzing Black-Led Coalitions in Response to Police Brutality in Halifax in 1991 | Journal of Canadian Studies

This article delves into the historical context of Black resistance to racial oppression in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It focuses on a critical juncture in the ongoing struggle against anti-Black racism in the city—the “Uptown Riots” of 1991. Through archival research and interviews with community members, the article explores how Black activists organized and responded to the municipality, province, and federal government’s complicity in racial oppression during and after the Uptown Riots. The concept of racial institutional orders is employed to analyze the complex relationships between Black communities advocating for self-determination and the governing institutions perpetuating racial concepts of Black inferiority and victimhood. By examining the continuity of resistance and the reconstitution of the dominant racial institutional order, this article sheds light on the enduring impacts of this incident on the affected communities.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last yr.

just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last yr.

Wow—Trump is firing and banning all trans people from the military, per DoD memo. “Military service by members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service.” Part of memo:

ATTACHMENT Service Members and Applicants for Military Service who Have a Current Diagnosis or History of, or Exhibit Symptoms Consistent with, Gender Dysphoria 1. Policy. It is DoD policy that: a. Service in the Military Services is open to all persons who can meet the high standards for military service and readiness without special accommodations. b. It is the policy of the United States Government to establish high standards for Service 1s inconsistent with the medical is inconsistinest the medical, surgi, al, and mental he, un constraints on individuals wiplicy gender dysphoria or who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria. c. Military service by Service members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service. Service by these individuals is not in the best interests of the Military Services and is not clearly consistent with the interests of national security. d. Individuals who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria are no longer eligible for military service, except as set forth in sections 4.1.c. and 4.3.c. of this attachment. e. Service members who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria will be processed for separation from military service in accordance with section 4.4. of this attachment. Characterization of service under these procedures will be honorable except where the Service member's record otherwise warrants a lower characterization. f. The Department only recognizes two sexes: male and female. An individual's sex is immutable, unchanging during a person's life. All Service members will only serve in accordance with their sex, defined in Executive Order 14168, "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2y ago

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't