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What’s unsettling about calling the killing of “another moment” is how quickly pain gets repackaged into a generic template for “state violence,” especially when the victim is . George Floyd’s murder was a specifically anti‑Black terror event in a long history of policing; treating it as a floating metaphor for any shocking killing in Minneapolis feels like Black erasure even when the intent is solidarity.

I'm not mad that some folks are having their ACAB awakening because of Renee Good.

If the murder of a nice queer white lady from Minneapolis is what convinces more people that ACAB because they are a boot of the state, great. Welcome, newbie.

But understand this: get up to speed *quickly.*

ICE/feds and cops are under the same problematic State Hammer umbrella. They have ALL been used against liberation movements and the people who live on the margins of hegemony.

And now, for this political moment, that hammer is going to begin coming down on white folks who decide to ally themselves with their neighbors vs the State.

So let's be clear:

Our struggle might be *shared* but they are not the *same.* Newbies need to learn that distinction.

Ok. Carry on.




INK! The Journalists Who Transformed Britain by Yvonne Singh

Before social media, much less , journalists of colour were putting hot metal to paper to declare that Black lives matter. Central to these newspapers were driven, often heroic, individuals passionate about the need to address global racial injustice and whose publications acted as a catalyst, raising the consciousness of Black and minority ethnic communities in the UK.




The work of Samuel Jules Celestine Edwards, Dusé Mohamed Ali, Claude McKay, George Padmore, Una Marson, Claudia Jones and Darcus Howe had a formidable role to play in the birthing pains of multicultural Britain. When overt colour bars were operating in much of the Western world and the injustices of empire loomed large, it was the newspapers of these journalists that highlighted these atrocities to a wider audience, fomenting the movement for change.Their combined story arc covers a transformative period – from when Britain's empire spanned nearly a quarter of the globe, to the heady start of the 1980s.

🧵 ❕ 🫂 strike boycott blackout protest 🐸 defend 🫂 defund 🐷 "authenticity is resistance" 🐸 "billionaires are killing off the growing edges of their people"

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An excellent article from Dr. Scott Maclean, assistant clinical professor in the UofA Department of Emergency Medicine and practicing emergency department physician, Dr. Elaine Hyshka, associate professor and Canada Research Chair in Health Systems Innovation at the UofA’s School of Public Health, and Dr. Kathryn Dong, associate professor with the UofA’s Department of Emergency Medicine and an addiction medicine physician.

Edmonton leads the world in frostbite cases, not because our weather is special in any way, but because of our poor healthcare response and the way we (mis)treat our unhoused population.

40% of all frostbite cases in Edmonton and Calgary were due to homelessness, the first spikes occurring in milder temperatures (warmer than -20°C when cold weather response is not activated in Edmonton), and the second spike occurring in deep cold (colder than -35°C), corresponding to police encampment raids and the growth of people living unsheltered or in …

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deputy found of in the shooting of , a woman who called 911
An Illinois jury on Wednesday convicted a former ’s deputy of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 asking for help.
Sean Grayson, 31, could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison, or probation. Sentencing is scheduled for Jan 29.


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Today in Labor History October 26, 1892: Ida B. Wells published “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases,” which led to threats against her life, and the burning down of her newspaper’s headquarters in Memphis. Wells, who was born into slavery, was a journalist, educator, feminist, and early Civil Rights leader who helped found the NAACP.

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Wells, c. 1893. She is wearing a lacy black blouse and has her hair in a bun. She is looking to the side. By Original: Mary GarrityRestored byAdam CuerdenDescriptionBritishImage restorationist, composer, amateur photographer and artist, and WikipedianAs Adam lives in Britain, which makes it incredibly easy to acquire copyright in his works, he grants, if needed, an irrevokable license to use this work however you see fit. He requests attribution where possible, and realises that "where possible" means that that request is not legally enforcable. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:44, 16 January 2022 (UTC)Date of birth8 June 1979Location of birthUnited States of America - Based on image originally from NAEMVZELXQV2iw — Google Arts & Culture, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28135837

Today in Labor History October 21, 1981: Kuwasi Balagoon was finally captured following a Brinks robbery. Balagoon had been a member of the Black Panther Party. While in prison, he became disillusioned with the Panthers, became an anarchist and joined the more militant Black Liberation Army. He escaped from prison twice. In 1979, while on the lam from his second prison escape, he helped to free political prisoner Assata Shakur, who fled to Cuba and who recently died their (2025). In 1986, he died in prison from AIDS. In 2019, PM Press released a collection of writings by and about Balagoon called, “Kuwasi Balagoon: A Soldier's Story.” And the prison abolitionist group, Black and Pink, which supports LGBTQ and HIV-positive prisoners, has, since 2020, run a "Kuwasi Balagoon award" for those living with HIV/AIDS.

Screenshot of Kuwasi Balagoon during a television interview conducted in the mid-1980s. He has a trim beard and mustache, with graying, receding hair. By WPIX - Original publication: New York, mid 1980sImmediate source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWn2B881BuQ&ab_channel=LibraryMachineBroke, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=67132755

Today in Labor History October 15, 1966: The Black Panther Party was created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, in Oakland, California. One of their early core practices was open-carry armed citizen’s patrols monitoring abusive police behavior. They also implemented free breakfast programs and community health clinics, and advocated for revolutionary class struggle. The FBI sabotaged the Panthers through its COINTELPRO and participated in the assassination of Panthers, like Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. In 1969, the Panthers officially declared sexism to be counterrevolutionary and ordered its male members to treat women as equals. In 1970, Huey Newton expressed support for the Women’s Liberation Movement, and the LGBTQ Liberation Movement which, he correctly noted, were subject to much of the same police brutality as were African Americans.

Original six members of the Black Panther Party (1966): Top left to right: Elbert "Big Man" Howard, Huey P. Newton (Defense Minister), Sherwin Forte, Bobby Seale (chairman); Bottom: Reggie Forte and Little Bobby Hutton (Treasurer).