Victoria Law
@victorialaw.bsky.social
Freelance journalist & author. Latest book: CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration (Haymarket, 2024). https://linktr.ee/victorialaw
To honor Johanna Fernandez @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social & colleagues at Brooklyn College are founding a student activism award in her name. Johanna was an exemplary scholar activist, as her work on the Young Lords shows. Please direct inquiries to Jeanne. Link to donate below tinyurl.com/5b3j7s89
I’ve been writing a counter narrative of shutdowns that has me revisiting media from that time. And let me tell you, the only other option was everybody die. So yeah.
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d agoit’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy
Did you know MLK spent much of 1966 talking & working with Chicago gang members? King was a listener, Stones leader Jeff Fort explained & saw a "wealth" in their potential. He drew their respect because King "stood" on his commitments-a "warrior without a gun". www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/02/o...
Jeanne Theoharis and Erik Wallenberg: The unknown history of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Chicago housing movement
Chicago’s movement too often appears as a failure, but Black residents organized to expose the city’s relentless segregation in housing.
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The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Johanna Fernandez was one of the fiercest voices for justice whether around the world or at CUNY. Her book on the Young Lords was one of the best books ever written on the Black and Latinx Freedom Struggle. She will be dearly missed. Rest in power, my friend.
Bobby Rivera@bobbyrivera21.bsky.social · 5d agoJohanna Fernandez, RIP! 😭💔
Dr. Johanna Fernández was writing a book on the historical roots of U.S. fascism. An article related to the book is here: manifold.umn.edu/read/ces0701... BTW, George Jackson, in an interview about writing in prison, noted he was working on a detailed study of fascism sweeping the Western world.
On the Historical Roots of U.S. Fascism | On the Historical Roots of U.S. Fascism | Manifold@UMinnPress
The University of Minnesota Press is known for its boundary breaking editorial program in the humanities and social sciences.
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I have not had any luck in tracking down the artist I bought this paper house from at the Other Islands Book Fair on April 25. If anyone knows an artist who makes these kinds of paper houses, please reach out to niapoetry@gmail.com. I believe I paid $8 for this one.
Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.
Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 6d agoICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests
If you're a broke but passionate reader and can't afford your own copy of HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY, we've got you. Apply for a free solidarity copy here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Application for a Solidarity Copy of Molly’s Book
Are you a passionate reader who has been desperate to get your paws on a copy of Molly Crabapple's New York Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: THE STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND? Due to th...
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Being mortal creatures with limited time and energy, it is totally natural that human outrage is selective. If you tried to do work on every injustice and horror on this earth, you would collapse into an exhausted ball of trauma it is absolutely fine for you to select a cause that is yours
People who start their morning by reading: WHAT do you read? Non-fiction? News? Fiction? Something else?
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/swit...
Switch to new digital tablets in NJ prisons prompts civil rights lawsuit
A man incarcerated in a New Jersey prison has sued the state in a bid to block corrections officials from forcing prisoners to surrender personal electronic tablets they purchased to message loved one...
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"The Gotham Publish a Book Scholarship is open to people of color who have completed a book manuscript (or nonfiction book proposal) and are ready to seek agent representation and go to market with their book. Three scholarships will be offered every year to un-agented writers."
Publish a Book Scholarship - Gotham Writers
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12. Beyond anything about the film as a film, it was a terrible and entirely unnecessary choice to film the Trojan Horse sequence in occupied Dakhla, Western Sahara, without the consent of the indigenous population.
Representatives for Taylor Farms called the White House to try to delay a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history www.wsj.com/health/taylo...
Some of you have heard me musing on here about wanting to take over an old newsstand to turn it into a local zine distro. Apparently people are doing this in the city. I want to do this too!!! www.instagram.com/reel/DbLfvL5...
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The paperback of KING OF THE NORTH: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’S LIFE OF STRUGGLE OUTSIDE THE SOUTH is out! Perfect for fall courses. New color but same beautiful art by Jibola Fagbamiye
New: Late last night, Taylor Farms quietly posted an official recall notice We now know that the parasite-linked iceberg lettuce was shipped to Walmart & food distributors in 27 (!) states It was for some reason still being sent out up until Thursday July 16 www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
Parasite-Linked Lettuce Was Sent to Walmart Stores and Food Distributors in 27 States - Consumer Reports
Taylor Farms' recalled the parasite-linked lettuce it said was sent to Walmart stores, Sysco, and other food distributors in 27 states.
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This month, we published another article revealing that MSG kept a database of VIP event attendees, labeling some of them as LGBTQIA and assigning a “risk score” to others. This is also now free to read:
Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
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In April, we reported on the MSG surveillance machine–an operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. You can now read it for free.
The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
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Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.
Senators from IN, OK, and AL have introduced S4925, which would strip fed funding from public schools across the US if those schools made “sexually oriented material” available to their students. There are exceptions, but S4925 means no art produced after 2020, and no books pub'd after 1990.
My latest for @truthout.org :
Truthout@truthout.org · 3w ago“Ms. Kim was transferred from a women’s prison to a men’s prison due to a routine infraction — one that DOC is more than capable of addressing at the women’s prison.”“Today marks two years and two days that Ms. Kim has lived in solitary confinement,” said Adrien Leavitt of the ACLU.
