Alan Sears @alansearslefty.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Ottawa friends - we will be doing an Ottawa launch for my new book Eros and Alienation at Octopus Books, 116 Third Ave on Mon Feb 3 at 7pm (doors open 6:30). I am honoured to be joined in conversation with Azar Masoumi, Dan Irving and Julie Tomiak. 061
Reposted by Alan SearsMidnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 13/01/2025NEW: Alan Sears on the generative desiring at the heart of revolutionary politics, a potential antidote to capitalism’s dehumanizing effects. www.midnightsunmag.ca/eros-and-rev...midnightsunmag.caEros and RevolutionAlan Sears on the generative desiring at the heart of revolutionary politics, a potential antidote to capitalism’s dehumanizing effects. 076
Reposted by Alan SearsAslı Peker @aslipeker.bsky.social · 09/01/2025NYU suspends students for an entire year for “significant and coordinated disruption” in the library, which refers to some students in keffiyehs studying quietly in the lobby, others sitting on the admin. floor asking for a meeting, a few holding banners, and some flyers dropped from an upper level… 6219136
Reposted by Alan SearsAnne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 10/12/2024As voucher programs expand, they worsen. In states with universal voucher programs, more of the public monies go to students already in private school and to wealthier families.politico.comGOP states are embracing vouchers. Wealthy parents are benefitting.Most of the beneficiaries are incoming kindergarteners or students already enrolled in private schools. 322082
Reposted by Alan SearsFrankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 10/12/2024I’ve been saying for years that sports newsrooms are wholly unprepared for this political moment. imo it’s journalistic malpractice not to have a writer on staff who can cover trans sports stories well. But I can’t even place freelance coverage at this point. It’s so bleak. 449075
Reposted by Alan SearsEman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Watch all the prison release videos from Syria. Let Syrians feed you a taste of freedom. Imagine your own society opening its doors and borders. Imagine being free one day yourself, truly free. That’s what this moment invites. 4463112
Alan Sears @alansearslefty.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Powerful analysis of the situation in Syria by Joseph Daher 030
Reposted by Alan SearsDemocratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 10/12/2024URGENT: The House is voting THIS WEEK on including a ban on health care for trans youth who are dependents of US military personnel. We reject this attack on lifesaving care that could lead to patients being coercively detransitioned. Please stand with us to protect trans youth. 422575
Reposted by Alan SearsViet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 09/12/2024The empire of the United States most likely peaked with the end of the so-called Cold War that was hot for so many. The decline of the empire is signaled by the name of the so-called War on Terror, with Americans not realizing that the source of the Terror comes from inside of them. 2486
Reposted by Alan SearsHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 29/11/2024Learn more about how to participate in #ReadPalestine Week at publishersforpalestine.org 14917
Alan Sears @alansearslefty.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Follow Midnight Sun Mag here on Bluesky for queer, anti-racist, anti-colonial, feminist, ecological marxist analysis 060
Reposted by Alan SearsMurray Cooke @murraycooke.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Save our bike lanes! We need more bike lanes in Toronto, not fewer. Bike lanes save lives. Get rid of Doug Ford. #bikeTO 15116
Alan Sears @alansearslefty.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Thanks Murray Cooke for reminding us of the power of connecting in person - mobilizing, planning, evaluating, learning with and from each other. Social media tools can be useful in the process of building together, but cannot fill the void of missing mobilizations 040
Reposted by Alan SearsBoston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 12/11/2024"I’m less interested in conducting a postmortem of this election and tweaking the Democrats’ tactics than trying to understand how to build a movement." Robin D. G. Kelley:bostonreview.netNotes on Fighting Trumpism - Boston ReviewTo mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity. 0206