Tsɔɔlɔ Awo

last night i had a dream about some exciting news i’d received—and only realized it was *just* a dream when i woke up this morning wondering why i was still in bed.

BREAKING: In response to the brutal NYPD shooting of their son and brother, 22-year-old Jabez Chakraborty on Monday, January 26th, the Chakraborty family issued the following statement: We are shocked and outraged by the NYPD’s treatment of our son and brother, Jabez Chakraborty, and our family. We called for help. We called 911 for an ambulance to provide medical attention for our son, who was in emotional distress. We did not call the police. Instead of medical responders, the NYPD arrived and shot our son multiple times right in front of us. As our son was being shot, we were terrified that what happened to Win Rozario was going to happen to Jabez.

They call it "aid." The report calls it "the great drain." The mask is off. The numbers don't lie

2024 was a year.

oftentimes women don’t come forward because the collective psyche is to shift our gaze towards—and even punish— the woman coming forward.

we live in a society where folks continue to allow ppl gendered as men—particularly those who are conventionally “good looking” —to behave poorly, cause harm, & facilitate havoc w/in our workplace, organizations, & w/in our larger society etc. @cynthia__buckley/post/DEOAYKzBICi?xmt=AQGzF7Y5oIIK-2hk4XEGZ5y4rkg83QZyklMwA9wfrVOd7g" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">threads.net/@cynthia__buck…

“Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions, shaped by our oppression. We are manufactured in droves in ghetto streets; [and] places like Attica, San Quentin, Bedford Hills, Leavenworth, and Sing Sing.”–Assata Shakur

AOC is a perfect example of what changing the system from within looks like.

the thing about the breakdancing research professor who decided she was an “expert” even in the practice of breakdancing is that it’s not uncommon for academics to do that in their fields. in fact it’s common. they may write about it, research about it, but ain’t been about it.

In this time of monsters, we have the right to be scared; we have the responsibility to be courageous.

We have to remember that them changing the face of the President of the United Snakes of Amerikkka will have no significant change in improving the material conditions of African and other colonized working class/poor people in the U.S. or around the world. The primary contradiction is the systems of capitalism/imperialism, nothing will change significantly until we organize ourselves to overthrow these systems to replace it socialism.

I wonder what our movements would be like if we said less names and did more avenging—if the struggle was for power instead of to matter.

I hope we understand that imperialism with a Black face is still imperialism. That imperialism in a woman's body is still imperialism. And it is imperialism that must be stopped

Too often, resources are extracted from the people in the name of “organizing” that doesn’t actually benefit us. There’s nothing radical about asking working people to fund distraction, spectacle, navel gazing pet projects, individualist pursuits, etc.

she said, “i rebuke you in the name of jesus…” and they shot and killed her. #SonyaMassey

Pan-Africanism is anti-Zionist.

Another good day to remind people that just because an academic is renowned for their work in social justice, antiracism, decolonisation, or equality, it does not mean they are invested in this work at a personal level. Some are very good at researching these topics. That is all.

There are no heroes in academia (but countless enemies). None. The best in the industry strive to be guerrilla intellectuals and to commit class suicide. Those who are most successful falter and fail all the time, but always toward a better methodology to keep trying.

We gotta stop projecting politics onto folks just because they write about a particular subject. Most academics writing about radicals and revolutionaries are doing so as an object of inquiry NOT because they share their commitments. Folks’ politics can be gleaned from how +

Gerald Horne (forthcoming)