NYC is opening city grocery stores in every borough — and we need the right spaces to make it happen. If you own or know of a site in Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island, submit to the NYC Groceries Sites Portal by June 30: grocery.nyc/portal

This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

404media.co

Very proud of my department's students for the work they have been doing to make this project a reality! Today, it was officially launched: www.ucpalestineactivismhistoryproject.com

Canada is literally handing over refugees rejected at border to ICE in the US. Haitian refugee Markens Appolon, for eg, sought refuge but Canada handed him to ICE agents. He is still in ICE detention. There is a seamless connection between Canada's new anti-migrant laws, like C12, and ICE terror.

‘Canada is handing people over to ICE’: refugees rejected at border face US detention

As Canada tightens asylum rules, refugees reuniting with family say they are being turned over to ICE and jailed for months after failed border claims

theguardian.com

Ms Rachel and Mychal the librarian are out here trying to shut down a child jail. Let this be inspiration to others to do the same.

Excited to host social epistemologist Ezgi Sertler today in Hamburg. She does fascinating work on how institutions & administrative systems produce & manage knowledge (& ignorance!) Her new article "Administrative Violence" in Ergo should interest many: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...

I have an article coming out in 5 mons at a top 3 political science journal. It took me 7 yrs to get that article through edits, reviews, and final acceptance. Seven. Years. Then, they'll put it behind a pay wall so only academics can see it. This is why all of my work is publicly accessible.

Tomorrow morning, we will be dropping a ~12,000 word story on Paul Pressler, the alleged sexual predator who remade the Southern Baptist Convention and helped ordain the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. There is *a lot* in there and I hope you'll read it.

This evening, as we gathered in virtual community, I reflected on how important it is to remain committed to freeing people from cages. Each release is a miracle. Decarceration is as urgent as ever, and we need new recruits to this cause. It's been an honor to be part of this sacred work.

We hear their stories of how and why they became involved in #StopCopCity, what transpired during those events and during the trial, and about how ordinary people find themselves transformed into activists of conscience, and how they are working in solidarity with many other groups.

First group of migrants deported from the US ​under recent third country deportation with DRC have now been forcibly shipped off to Kinshasa. Deportees are originally from Colombia, Peru, Ecuador. This deportation agreement follows a partnership granting US preferential access to Congo's minerals.

First deportees from US arrive in Congo capital, sources say

The first migrants deported from the United States ​under a recent bilateral agreement arrived in Democratic Republic of Congo early on Friday, according ‌to one of the migrants, a lawyer in contact w...

reuters.com

I secured some funding last year to revive the Stevie Wilson DIY Young Artists Residency. I’m excited to announce that applications are open today until May 11 for young artists (ages 16-24) directly impacted by criminalization, policing, or punishment.

Stevie Wilson DIY Young Artists Residency — Interrupting Criminalization

interruptingcriminalization.com

Tomorrow I get to teach Glen Coulthard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's writings on land, space, and place. I've been so excited all through the weekend about reading "Place Against Empire" (GC) and "Land as Pedagogy" (LS) with my students.

OK comrades, I am doing a last fundraising push to support Sahar in paying for surgery for her son Odai who was injured a couple of years ago in Gaza. They need $4000 for this surgery. Our giving circle will commit $500 towards this goal. chuffed.org/project/1656... - can you help?

Urgent Aid For Sahar’s Family

Hi world , it’s Sahar

chuffed.org

A new era at Feminist Studies, the same commitments: unabashedly feminist.

Salar Mohandesi's article has singularly challenged me to consider questions about anti-imperialist organizing on the issue of US-lead imperialist projects in Palestine and Iran. I really recommend reading the whole essay.

Harsha Walia@harshawalia.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"point is not that debates do not matter, but that they should be organized around meaningful goals, anchored to specific conjunctures, based in actual terrains of struggle, related to concrete organizing efforts on the ground, and oriented towards building power" www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/...

Submissions for this year's Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize, for writers who are incarcerated or formerly incarcerated, are open! The prize honors my sister, who died tragically in 2020 after many years in & out of incarceration. Please help us spread the word.❤️ truthout.org/articles/kee...

Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize

The annual prize is awarded to two writers who are currently or formerly incarcerated.

truthout.org

Cool to have some support for my research from my professional association! :)

APSA@apsa.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Research grantee Natasha Patel is a PhD candidate in political science. Her work theorizes about social movements, especially those that seek to address deep, structural causes of contemporary problems. Learn more about her project here:

thanks for the shout out, Caleb! Looking forward to being in community with more likeminded scholars, activists, dreamers <3

Caleb Ward@calebw.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Natasha does political theory on prison abolitionism, indigenous sovereignty, and other movements that aim for huge social transformation. We've hung out at conferences and her work is excellent. If you follow her too, maybe we can get her to post more stuff she's working on!

DHS is tracking people who protest using biometrics and entering them into databases; hunting people who send emails on behalf of asylum seekers; tracking neighbors who help immigrants w/ facial recognition and license plate readers, and Hakeem Jeffries wants more surveillance tech for every agent.

I love teaching "Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Politics" at Menlo College. My students are really something special!

Today, @equalityalec.bsky.social reminded us that we need to tell the stories of people's experiences as a way to battle copaganda. Two types of stories Alec emphasized include: 1) the story of reformist reforms and how they don’t work ...

alec karakatsanis@equalityalec.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I’ll be speaking at Stanford today at 5pm: Civil Rights Lawyering and Propaganda in a Time of Authoritarianism. If you know anyone in the bay area, please invite them. There’s also a zoom option: events.stanford.edu/event/civil-...

I’ll be speaking at Stanford today at 5pm: Civil Rights Lawyering and Propaganda in a Time of Authoritarianism. If you know anyone in the bay area, please invite them. There’s also a zoom option: events.stanford.edu/event/civil-...

Civil Rights Lawyering & Propaganda in a Time of Rising Authoritarianism | Critical Carceral Studies Collective

events.stanford.edu

The first session of "Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Politics" at Menlo College was fantastic. We talked about the political value of the land acknowledgement, read and analyzed Menlo College's land acknowledgement, and started the beginnings of analyzing terms like 'colonization' and 'stewardship.'

Tomorrow, I start teaching "Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Politics" at Menlo College. I'm sharing my syllabus with the hopes of also getting feedback from those who are nurturing the field of Native Studies! Also, check out our amazing course poster 😄

I'm very aware that my time in academia may be over when I graduate in June. For now, I'm extremely thrilled to be teaching and writing. My first meetings of the quarter with students were SO beautiful.

John Berger had a powerful phrase: “Undefeated despair.” Acknowledge and respect your grief. But don’t give in to it. And help others keep afloat.

‘We’re drowning’: Gaza baby dies as storm floods tent encampments  www.middleeasteye.net/news/palesti...

‘We’re drowning’: Gaza baby dies as storm floods tent encampments

Rainwater and sewage flood streets and tents in Gaza as storm brings heavy downpours expected through Friday

middleeasteye.net

In today's class we discussed Ruthie Gilmore's 1998 piece, "Globalization and US Prison Growth from Military Keynesianism to Post-Keynesianism Militarism." Over the last few weeks, students have explored the following question: "what explains the expansion of prisons between 1980 and 2000?"

On Thursday, I'll be teaching Ruthie Gilmore's essay "Globalisation and US prison growth: from military Keynesianism to post-Keynesian militarism" (1999). In this class, we are really covering how the US came to be the largest global incarcerator. We read Hinton first, and...