Cynthia Dewi Oka (Oh Hwi Siang)

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Cynthia Dewi Oka (Oh Hwi Siang)

Cynthia Dewi Oka (Oh Hwi Siang)

@freedewi

writer, problem-solver, Global South person, daughter of Earth Mama

Los Angeles, CA Katılım Mayıs 2010
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Cynthia Dewi Oka (Oh Hwi Siang)
It’s pub day for A Tinderbox in Three Acts 🌸🌸🌸 Here’s my mama reading the book of poems her daughter wrote about the history both of our generations were forced to silence & forget. With love to our dead & the living who are dismantling the legacy of the New Order.
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Democracy Now!
Democracy Now!@democracynow·
Climate scientist Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) talks about leaving Los Angeles two years ago due to the risk of climate-fueled wildfires. He says the devastation unfolding in Southern California now is even worse than he feared and warns, "This is still just the beginning."
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Jack Mirkinson
Jack Mirkinson@jackmirkinson·
The wildfires and the genocide raise the same question: how much pain and suffering are we willing to inflict on ourselves, each other, and our world before we do anything different? How bad does it have to get? I deeply fear the answer to that question.
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Mike
Mike@ProgPro·
Hey I’m the mayor of Town That Always Catches On Fire and I decided to defund the fire department because cops REALLY need that money for a tank to use on homeless people. It would suck if a fire broke out, but luckily that never happens here in Town That Always Catches On Fire.
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Nour Joudah
Nour Joudah@nsdoud·
I would also like to remind everyone that last spring, UCLA shut campus down for over a week to repress students protesting a genocide. But windstorms and raging fires....no biggie...come on down to campus.
UCLA Updates@UCLAUpdates

Campus Update | UCLA is open for classes and regular operations today, Wednesday, Jan. 8. The fires in the LA region do not pose an immediate danger to the campus, and at present, air quality levels in Westwood remain within normal levels. bso.ucla.edu/news/campus-op…

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Alon Mizrahi
Alon Mizrahi@alon_mizrahi·
Breaking: in response to the Los Angeles fire, the US will send 20 billion more in weapons and bombs to Israel
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أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital: We hold the world accountable for what is happening to us.
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Just got off a 15-hr flight from Doha where I could not sleep a wink bc so many babies were crying the whole time. And now I’m home, crying because that is the sound of babies living & asking to be comforted, fed, held, loved. The sound US bombs are silencing in Gaza & Lebanon.
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Sunny Singh
Sunny Singh@ProfSunnySingh·
My unpopular opinion is that folk at the imperial core who are newly learning about anticolonial struggles need to pause their imperial views stated with loud imperial hubris because work of learning is done in silence and must be done in humility 1/2
Alon Mizrahi@alon_mizrahi

Extremely unpopular opinion (I suspect): hakas will not get Maori people their rights, just as Debka won't work for Palestinians. Anger, direct action, strikes, and serious disruptions will. There are very clear rules for effective political struggle, and indigenous culture is for indigenous people. It is lost on colonizers, and its very presence in a filthy colonizer parliament disgraces it

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Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
Thank you @andrewfeinstein for saying it like it is. The West has indeed gone batshit crazy. The United States has embraced the worst of its own history in its support for Israel. Germany can’t seem to do anything but support Genocide. Genocide Scholars are silent. We Westerners are all complicit. There’s nothing to do but keep fighting in solidarity with “the Global South” for a new order, free from colonial models of power and genocide. The current institutions must go.
Andrew Feinstein@andrewfeinstein

The ‘West’ has gone completely batshit crazy. As victims, Israel & Israelis can do whatever they like, & any response to their brutality, their thuggery, their racism is antisemitism, a pogrom, etc. This complete madness is led by Germany, which feels like a nation in a state of self deluded psychosis

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Dr. Régine #NoNewUSOccupation Jean-Charles
"We realize that the only people who care enough about us to work consistently for our liberation are us. Our politics evolve from a healthy love for ourselves, our sisters and our community which allows us to continue our struggle and work." -Combahee River Collective (1977)
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Harsha Walia (she/her)
Harsha Walia (she/her)@HarshaWalia·
US elxn isn't in isolation - Trump, Bibi, Modi, Orbán, Meloni are tip of iceberg of growing fascism. Anti-migrant racism, wars of domination, transmisogyny, rising inflation are their glue. Defeating fascism requires defeating flaccid liberalism that keeps ceding ground to right.
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Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB
Gone is a genocidal president too hypocritical to admit it. And in comes a genocidal president who wears it as a badge of honor.
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ash 🍉@StevieNicksTD·
RIP Quincy Jones
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@ilya_poet Glad you changed your mind. Also genuinely confused why some folks can’t understand that it is possible (and consistent) to oppose both American and Russian imperialism. A cultural boycott in the absence of an arms embargo and economic sanctions is a moral imperative.
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Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky@ilya_poet·
Did not know who the other signers were. Withdrew the signature.
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IMHO Trump is so upsetting to white liberals bc he’s the real face of America. Narcissistic, abusive, resentful, rabid for supremacy. He’s the America the Global South has always seen, in the way that the master is truly known only by the enslaved. And Harris, such a thin mask.
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Pelham
Pelham@Resist_05·
BREAKING🚨Israeli parliament just BANNED the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) from Palestinian Territories It’s time for the United Nations to list Israel as a terrorist organisation and EXPEL the country from the U.N 🇺🇳
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