John-Michael Torres 🐜

Most of us want to feel loved and experience connection. Patriarchy sells men control and coercion as a path to connection. Patriarchy punishes empathy and portrays pity as compassion. It portrays deference to authority as respect and protection as love. 1/5

In 2017, Abbott knew Corpus was running out of water. But Abbott still gave his Saudi plastics pet project millions of your tax $ to guzzle as much water as ALL the citizens of Corpus Christi use. His solution now? Make the people of Corpus pay more so his donors can keep chugging cheap water. That’s “The Greg Abbott Corruption Tax.” gov.texas.gov/news/post/A-Mu…

Are you an entrepreneur who wants to make a long-lasting difference in your community? Bring your co-founders & friends to our #WorkerCoop Start Up webinar, and we'll walk you through different co-op models & how to get started successfully info.usworker.coop/civicrm/event/…

The MAGA regime is abducting our neighbors, assaulting the freedoms we value as Americans. This regime thinks they can disappear anyone who does not look, think, or pray like them. The #BraveOfUs must continue to strike, march, and protest their abductions of our loved ones.

For #MessagingMonday, check out this display from @Lushltd and Migrant Rights Network challenging division & demanding justice. Certain politicians scapegoat immigrants to keep us divided, while billionaires steal the wealth we create, and use racism to threaten our communities.

Join our monthly Media Co-ops Peer Network to learn from others & share resources 🎙️ This monthly call is open to all cooperative members in the audiovisual, print, and digital media industry, not just USFWC members. See you March 30! info.usworker.coop/civicrm/event/…

Pretty sure the Rio Grande Valley is the only region in the country where 20+ high schools have conjunto programs, and they compete all day to see who is the best. These kids at the Texas Conjunto Showdown are great. #RGV

@PharrFromHeaven That’s awesome. I had the impression it was only a handful of schools. Now I’m gonna look up which schools near me have program and look out for their performances

Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-lonesome…

Community organizers in the Rio Grande Valley, including We The People RGV, LULAC, and the Brown Berets, rallied on a McAllen overpass Friday morning holding "No War" and "Fuck Trump" signs alongside Mexican and U.S. flags. The coalition is demanding that local law enforcement reject collaboration with ICE, adopt a warrant-only enforcement model, and ensure due process and humane treatment for all people in immigration detention. Migrants in legal process are being incarcerated nationwide, a major departure from previous practice, under which legal applicants were allowed to work and build lives as their cases were processed. A follow-up protest is scheduled Saturday, March 14 at 11 a.m. at El Valle Detention Center in Raymondville, Texas. 📩 Read and subscribe at acrosstheamericas.com for exclusive content from the Texas-Mexico border in your email inbox.

Billionaires are scared of @KatAbughazaleh. Good.

What would an MBA look like for leaders who want to create a racially just, regenerative, and inclusive economy for all life? Learn more about the Next Economy MBA spring cohort and sign up for a free intro: go.lifteconomy.com/nextmba

in my lifetime we will see an end to this

When talking about the queer & trans activists who have been at the heart of Minneapolis' fight against ICE, @TransLawCenter does a great job of naming the values we share across race and place. They also call out how we need to overcome the politicians who try to sow division.

Wow! The Myth of Red Texas has nearly sold out our first printing and are on to another printing! Thanks everyone You can get it directly from OR books before it’s available in bookstores April 14!

Reminder we're sharing how the Union and Co-op movements are intertwined and how #Unions can support #Coops by committing to Labor Neutrality this Monday! Don't miss it ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 info.usworker.coop/civicrm/event/…

I’m in jacobin ya’ll with my take on Talarico’s win. Plenty to be excited about, but class war rhetoric should be back up with class politics.

.@JamesTalarico: The richest 1% of Americans now own more wealth than the entire middle class. And they aren't just buying yachts and jets—they’re buying power. Our schools are being defunded, our healthcare premiums are going up, and our Social Security benefits are under threat so billionaires can get another tax break. With this kind of corruption, it's easy to be cynical. But inside every cynic is a wounded idealist. The system is rigged and the deck is stacked, but these are man-made systems. We, the people, can take them back.

Join us Saturday, March 14th in LA for “Brave of Us: How to Ridicule a Ruler,” an evening of satire and solidarity hosted by Sasheer Zamata + friends The is a comedy show fundraiser supporting orgs on the frontlines including our HBA team! ❤️‍🔥 Tickets: squadup.com/events/sasheer…

We have the money.

To launch our #WomensHistoryMonth series, we’ll be hosting Nia K. Evans, Executive Director of Boston Ujima Project. Join Nia this Thursday from 10:30am ET to learn more about how she’s helping to design systems that center those most impacted by economic exclusion.