if the world is against USPS I'm against the entire world
till my last breath I support USPS
I joke but actually USPS is the literal lifeline for so many housebound disabled people who receive lifesaving medications through it- especially housebound people in rural areas. so many private shipping companies do not serve rural areas. try getting anyone else to drive hours into the middle of nowhere to deliver. try it. not all disabled people live in urban areas. USPS saves disabled lives ‼️ without USPS many housebound disabled people will die.
how do you respond to the fact that there are two million arabs in israel with equal rights?
The fucking Nakba law prohibits PCI (Palestinians in the settler state) to discuss or commemorate the tragedy of the Nakba
The Arabs who were allowed to stay following the war in 1948 were subjected to military rule until 1966.
A Jewish person has the right to return and claim their citizenship, an Arab or PCI and their descendants in diaspora who is native to Palestine and the settler-occupied territories are not.
A Jewish convert in the west is somehow more eligible to citizenship in the settler state than a Palestinian Arab in the diaspora.
There is a wage gap between PCIs and Jewish people in the settler state;
More than half of the PCI families in the settler state are poor.
The settler state issued a Nation-state law in 2018 that stated that self-determination is unique to the settler state. Arabic lost its status as an official language and the settler-state mandates and promotes the establishment and development of kibbutzim.
This gives precedence to settlements in the West Bank as the Likud party considers the West Bank (Judea Samaria, lol) to be part of the settler state.
PCIs are not allowed to develop their own infrastructure or settlements unless with a permit, which is impossible to get if you're PCI.
Many PCI communities are forbidden the right to a weapon's license unlike their Jewish counterparts.
The Call to Prayer ban by Ben Gvir.
East Jerusalem Palestinians account for 350.000 of the Arabs in the settler state civil registry. They are not eligible to vote.
PCI communities are treated like fifth columns;
70% of PCIs are afraid of expressing their opinions on social media about Palestine, fearing backlash from the Settler state community. A notable case is when Israeli students started chanting "death to arabs" when a student expressed their sympathies for the Palestinians. The PCI student was expelled.
No, 1.65 million Arabs/PCI are not enjoying the same rights as their jewish counterparts in the ethnosupremarcist state.
do not underestimate the power of community gardening.
It is a gateway to community organising.
It brings people together for a common purpose, that is also physically & mentally healing (cf ecotherapy), produces tangible results of effort, gets people used to sharing resources, creates a location where people feel welcome, calm, useful, able to get invested.
Gardens aren't the thing for everyone, which is why we ALSO need to have
community repair shops: where folks can come and fix stuff, share skills & resources, help each other out
community parties: where people can have cheap, accessible fun (whether that's a potluck, street party or ceilidh, invite your neighbours ffs)
community kitchens
community sport - football gets people used to showing up and working as a team, creates cameraderie
Unions
music groups
Art collectives
Not because growing food, fixing stuff, cooking or partying will save us, but because of what you talk about WHILE you're doing this stuff. Ever been in a room where people are cooking together, when someone brings up government policy?
All of these are meeting community needs, and creating social spaces around them.
If the only reason you're meeting up is to organise The Resistance|TM|, you end up with maybe one or two good actions, along with burnout, disengagement, echo chambers and collapse. That's not a movement.
Community Gardening et. al. set the preconditions for mutual aid, and when people show up in these spaces, make a point of talking about politics and the struggles people are facing locally, then solidarity is much easier.
Meeting each others needs makes it easier to organise a group to call their representatives, paint banners, agitate for change, unionised, riot etc.
TL;DR: your local community garden is a breeding ground for resistance. Get down there.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 9, 2025 PRESS CONTACT: [email protected] Columbia University Student Activist Detained by Department o
NEW YORK, NEW YORK—On March 8, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and recent graduate student at Columbia University, at his place of residence, an apartment building owned by the university.
The DHS agents said that the U.S. Department of State had revoked Khalil’s green card.
At approximately 8:30 p.m. ET, Khalil and his wife, a U.S. citizen who is eight months pregnant, had just unlocked the door to their building when two plainclothes DHS agents forced their way in behind them. The agents initially refused to identify themselves, instead asking Khalil to confirm his identity before detaining him without explanation. The agents proceeded to threaten his wife, telling her that if she remained by his side, they would arrest her too.
Later, the DHS agents stated that the U.S. Department of State had revoked Khalil’s student visa, despite the fact that he has a green card, not a visa, and is a lawful permanent resident. An agent showed Khalil what he claimed was a warrant on his phone. Khalil’s wife went into their apartment to retrieve his green card while the agents remained with Khalil downstairs. When she returned, advising them of Khalil’s legal status and presenting them with Khalil’s green card, one agent was visibly confused and said on the phone, “He has a green card.” However, after a moment, the DHS agents stated that the State Department had “revoked that too.” Khalil’s wife then phoned his attorney, who spoke with the agents in an attempt to intervene. When Khalil’s attorney requested that a copy of the warrant be emailed to her, the agent hung up the call.
Khalil is currently being detained in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody at 26 Federal Plaza pending an appearance before an immigration judge.
This significant deviation from normal immigration proceedings comes in the wake of increased and abnormal scrutiny concerning the actions of students alleged to hold pro-Palestine views. Axios recently reported that the State Department, Department of Justice, and DHS were launching a “Catch and Revoke” effort to identify alleged pro-Palestinian activists based on artificial intelligence screening of social media.
Khalil has been specifically and discriminatorily targeted by Columbia University for his Palestinian identity and outspoken activism on multiple occasions over the last 17 months. He served as a lead negotiator during the Gaza Solidarity Encampment last spring. He has frequently appeared in media interviews and press conferences. The university suspended him while he was on a student visa and reversed it within the same day.
Columbia University has published guidance on how best to collaborate with federal enforcement, including advising faculty and staff “not to interfere” with ICE agents even if those agents are unable to present a warrant. Over the last few days, there have been several reports of ICE agents approaching pedestrians and students in the neighborhood surrounding Columbia University’s Morningside campus, creating unsafe environments for students (particularly students of color), regardless of their immigration status.
Columbia’s continued acquiescence to federal agencies and outside partisan institutions has made this situation possible. A Palestinian student and member of the community has been abducted and detained without the physical demonstration of a warrant or officially filed charges. Like many other Arab and Muslim students, Khalil has been the target of various zionist harassment campaigns, fueled by doxxing websites like Canary Mission. This racist targeting serves to instill fear in pro-Palestine activists as well as a warning to others.
An activist familiar with Khalil’s solidarity work said, “Mahmoud is foundational to our community. The state has escalated its repression of student opposition to the U.S.-backed genocide in Palestine, in which Columbia and all American universities are complicit.” Despite the chilling effect of this repression, the activist said that students “will keep fighting for Palestinian liberation and against state violence.”
Today, activists in solidarity with Khalil launched a petition demanding his release from ICE custody. The petition can be found at https://shorturl.at/Lm86S.
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