susie day

The hollowing out of Palestine’s most important university mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-ho… #Palestine #Israel

We are at the State Capitol with the #CommunitiesNotCages campaign demanding that our lawmakers pass the Second Look Act, Earned Time Act and Marvin Mayfield Act. People change, and our sentencing laws must change, too.

How the horrors that happen to Palestinians in Israeli prisons becomes legal. Great thanks to @basilafarraj and @JournalSpectre spectrejournal.com/exporting-geno…

🚨 Led by the Free Alabama Movement, incarcerated workers across Alabama are ON STRIKE to protest brutal labor exploitation and inhumane conditions behind the walls 🚨 Watch ‘The Alabama Solution” doc and support their strike: #khgVamQT9n9W" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">drive.proton.me/urls/DEJZW842T… #thealabamasolution

ICYMI: @snidelines interview w/ Basil Farraj is still live on our website. You can also find susie's piece on Carol Crooks and the August Rebellion and other recent pieces on Zionism and the carceral state by @ranasukkarieh , @rawanbaki , Dania Rajendra and @dnbrgr Links 👇🏽

In the latest for Spectre, susie day speaks with Basil Farraj, professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University in the West Bank, about his project tracing how Israel has become “the epitome of carceral logic" and heinous violence. spectrejournal.com/exporting-geno…

⭕️ JUST IN: At least 40 people, including civilians and members of the Venezuelan military, were killed in the attack, according to preliminary assessments, a senior Venezuelan official reportedly told the New York Times. U.S. forces deployed more than 150 aircraft to eliminate air defenses, clearing the way for helicopters to insert troops who then moved on President Nicolás Maduro’s location, the outlet said citing U.S. officials. More on the operation from Jack Murphy of The High Side in the post in reply.

The EU’s €90bn loan to Ukraine is NOT a Belgium win or German loss. Stop framing everything as bilateral bargaining. This is the first common borrowing by a sub-group of member states - unanimous (V3 accepted the deal but opted out) and pragmatic. It shows the EU can adapt its institutional tools to new realities. The transactional narrative is the real threat to European solidarity.

@shaabiranks I am *so* sorry; such a loss.

I’m devastated to hear about the passing of Asad Haider, from whom I learned so much. I’ve returned to this essay on the meaning of Palestinian nationalism many times viewpointmag.com/2021/05/27/lan…

NOW: Formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, crime survivors, people with loved ones in prison + lawmakers are rallying in NYC, Rochester, Long Island, Westchester, the Hudson Valley, Ithaca & Albany for Parole Justice to reunite families and build safer communities.

spectrejournal.com/h-rap-brown-ja… @snidelines , @ArunKundnani

Protesters marching in NYC today on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

NYC: Anti-ICE protesters Throw Trash and Garbage Cans to block ICE Agents Cars in Lower Manhattan, Arrests and Pepper spray. Video by Ken Lopez @FreedomNTV Desk@freedomnews.tv to license

“Well, but we’re talking about five or six guys, just let them out.” Jeremy Scahill told Electronic Intifada that Palestinian negotiators said Trump officials made this remark to Israel when Israel objected to releasing top Palestinian prisoners like Marwan Barghouti, Ahmad Sa’adat, and Abdullah Barghouti. Unlike Biden officials, who he said mirrored Israeli hard lines, Trump’s team appears more indifferent—treating top figures as bargaining chips rather than red lines. Resistance leaders see this as a slim opening, though Israel continues to oppose freeing them. @jeremyscahill | @intifada

"I wasn’t against communism, but i can’t say i was for it either. At first, i viewed it suspiciously, as some kind of white man’s concoction, until i read works by African revolutionaries and studied the African liberation movements. Revolutionaries in Africa understood that the question of African liberation was not just a question of race, that even if they managed to get rid of the white colonialists, if they didn’t rid themselves of the capitalistic economic structure, the white colonialists would simply be replaced by Black neocolonialists. There was not a single liberation movement in Africa that was not fighting for socialism. The whole thing boiled down to a simple equation: anything that has any kind of value is made, mined, grown, produced, and processed by working people. So why shouldn’t working people collectively own that wealth? Why shouldn’t working people own and control their own resources? Capitalism meant that rich businessmen owned the wealth, while socialism meant that the people who made the wealth owned it. I got into heated arguments with sisters or brothers who claimed that the oppression of Black people was only a question of race. I argued that there were Black oppressors as well as white ones. That’s why you’ve got Blacks who support Nixon or Reagan or other conservatives. Black folks with money have always tended to support candidates who they believed would protect their financial interests. As far as i was concerned, it didn’t take too much brains to figure out that Black people are oppressed because of class as well as race, because we are poor and because we are Black. … [Earlier in my life] When someone asked me what communism was, i opened my mouth to answer, then realized i didn’t have the faintest idea. My image of a communist came from a cartoon. It was a spy with a black trench coat and a black hat pulled down over his face, slinking around corners … I never forgot that day. We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is… It’s got to be one of the most basic principles of living: always decide who your enemies are for yourself, and never let your enemies choose your enemies for you."

🧯BREAKING: Early this morning, actionists targeted the @nytimes headquarters in midtown Manhattan with paint-filled fire extinguishers. In an anonymous statement sent to our inbox, the actionists accused the NYT of being “an active accomplice to the genocide in Gaza.”

According to the Israeli tv channel 12: Regardless of the ceasefire talks in Qatar, the Israeli prime minister Netanyahu is proceeding with his plan to evict the wole population of Gaza Strip from their districts and to concentrate them in a norrow concentration camp between Moraj and Philadelphi/ Rafah corridors to facilitate their ethnic cleansing. Netanyahu is exercising huge pressure on the chief of staff of the Israeli army to conduct the mentioned plan which is considered a war crime by the international law.

🚨BREAKING: The NYC No Kings Day protest is already filling the streets. New Yorkers reject the Trump administration’s billionaire agenda and demand an end to the deportations, an end to war and genocide, and defend our civil liberties and right to protest!

We’re in Albany today with @VOCALNewYork @Communities_NY @CCA_NY @RAPPcampaign & other partners, directly impacted people & community members urging the legislature to prioritize parole reform & ending wrongful convictions!