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I just got out of jail, after being arrested for calling on Secretary Antony Blinken to be a diplomat and negotiate a peace deal to end the horrible war in Ukraine. Why do the peacemakers get arrested and the warhawks get applauded?

BREAKING: CSIS & Women's Foreign Policy Group held an event on “gender diversity” in military leadership with Lockheed Martin VP Nancy Ziuzin Schlegel. Activists with CODEPINK let them know there’s nothing feminist about arming state violence! ✌️ #GroundTheF35 #FreePalestine “Not” Afeni ✨🇵🇸🔻 Olivia

Here is a study of the comma and a love poem for the palm that also draws from an odd doc on flying fish in Tobago. It’s animated by some questions: what would it mean to write towards cliche, that which we are conditioned to avoid? 1 of 3 tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/christi…

so many of the things that go into making a book are things that i was never taught at my mfa, and which i have never really seen taught: the way for instance questions in one poem are answered by previous or future poems, so the right move is maybe NOT to clarify

Aracelis Girmay:

#OnThisDay in 1988, Toni Morrison won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel “Beloved.” The novel, which was set in the years following the Civil War, was inspired by the life of Margaret Garner, an African American woman who escaped enslavement in Kentucky in 1856. #WomensHistoryMonth

Seems like it was yesterday but this is how it all began. I’m so blessed to have my team STILL Here! Still Fighting! we won’t allow them to diminish our voices Black and Brown workers started this and mainstream media is working overtime to erase that in case folks forgot! ✊🏽

You don't have to work for nothing. You have a right to dignity.

We are still at zero dollars! Can we get something in today to start our summer fundraiser! Summer is our most busy time as complaints and evictions of encampment rise! We also need to bulk order t-shirts, bug spray & fans! Also really low on tents WL: amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls…

30 years ago, to the dot * LUCK IN SARAJEVO In Sarajevo in the spring of 1992, everything is possible: you go to stand in a bread line and end up in an emergency room with your leg amputated. Afterwards, you still maintain that you were very lucky. --Izet Sarajlić, tr. Simic

Out here at Oakland Trader Joe’s VOTE YES Amazon Labor Union IBT stands with you Trader Joe's United 🔥✊🏽

Yamila reflected on the process of building the family code thousands of meetings & consultations with communities & institutions. She added: “The minds of people don’t change one day to the next but we have a code that gives us a legal framework to guarantee people’s rights.”

🇨🇺 By hearing directly from the Cuban people who are engaged in the daily work to build a more inclusive, participatory, and equal society, we’re starting to unravel the web of lies fed to us about Cuba and it’s democracy. #MayDayCuba2023 #OffTheList

Today our US delegation of Labor delivered dozens of 50lbs bags to the local Trauma Hospital in Cuba 🇨🇺 because of the U.S. embargo they’re not able to receive basic medical supplies and medicine. Joe Biden ending the #Blockade will end these inhumane conditions!

Become your own full sky. Own every damn sound that struts through your ears. - Tyehimba Jess' stunning sonnet that leans on "own"ing music (and such a perfect last line)

Today was powerful yet emotional day our delegation was invited to spend the day in this autonomous community in Cuba 🇨🇺 These beautiful innocent children who deserve so much better don’t deserve to be on Terrorist list imposed by our US Government decades ago end the Blockade!

Today I had the Honor of meeting the Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel we embraced and told each other we will fight together in solidarity to end these inhuman sanctions against Cuba 🇨🇺 ✊🏽 The Cuban people have a great President oh yea I also handed him a #ALU shirt along with

3 poems from Recenter Press books in celebration of International Workers’ Day, by Terra Oliveira Patrick Richard Hamilton order Rest of US, recenter press