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barbararansby.bsky.social @barbararansby.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Support Cori Bush on the eve of her primary election. We need her. She is an amazing leader, fighting for women, working people, people of color and for human rights and justice in Palestine and beyond. secure.actblue.com/donate/progr... @CoriBush
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barbararansby.bsky.social @barbararansby.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This is going to be an amazing day of events especially 6-8 concerts.... join us at the DuSable Museum. Parking on the street and across the street...
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barbararansby.bsky.social @barbararansby.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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barbararansby.bsky.social @barbararansby.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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Film Screening: No Other Land | Social Justice Initiative | University of Illinois Chicago
Join the UIC Social Justice Initiative for a special screening of Academy Award-winning documentary, No Other Land. This film confronts Israeli state and settler violence, Palestinian displacement, an...
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barbararansby.bsky.social @barbararansby.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Tonight's screening of "No Other Land" in Chicago at 6:00pm. Hope to see you there sji.uic.edu/events/film-...
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Film Screening: No Other Land | Social Justice Initiative | University of Illinois Chicago
Join the UIC Social Justice Initiative for a special screening of Academy Award-winning documentary, No Other Land. This film confronts Israeli state and settler violence, Palestinian displacement, an...
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barbararansby.bsky.social @barbararansby.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This with Omar El Akkad
The MCF Book Club shares the ideas of leaders who encourage us to imagine how we can radically transform our democracy, economy, and society.
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barbararansby.bsky.social @barbararansby.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
A panel discussion on Black history and today's struggle against racism, fascism and war. join us
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I didn’t know Chicago shouted out Minnesota like this at protest marches.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21/10/2025
House Speaker Mike Johnson's refusal to seat newly elected Democrat Adelita Grijalva is preventing a key vote on the release of the Epstein files. For the Republican Party, "the protection of pedophiles is above the protection of the children of this country," says colleague @ramirez.house.gov.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Trump's actions over the last several days are increasingly dangerous for the people of DC and for American democracy. DC belongs to the people who live here. We call on allies everywhere to help us make sure it stays that way. freedcproject.org/event-list/d...
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Grossly irresponsible of the Times to have this ludicrous credulous spin as the top story the morning after a president who rules by fiat proclaims a totally specious emergency to militarize the capital - an editorial insult to our intelligence and our democracy.
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barbararansby.bsky.social @barbararansby.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I have been putting my resistance energies elsewhere but have been convinced that coming back to social media via BlueSKy. Listening now to @democracynow.org now #DNlive.... The outrageous move by Trump to takeover of DC police is another step toward full fledged fascism & a sign of things to come
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barbararansby.bsky.social @barbararansby.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Winning City Hall is important, but not the North Star. Still, in this neo-fascist moment, we need geographical spaces where left politics can breathe.Chi is one such place. See Asha's @inthesetimes.com piece. Support @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in NYC & ORGANIZE!!! inthesetimes.com/article/mayo...
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Two Years After Electing a Mayor, Chicago’s Left Keeps Contesting for Power
Movement-backed Mayor Brandon Johnson and a record class of progressive alders took office exactly two years ago. I spoke with organizers—including CTU President Stacy Davis-Gates—about what we’ve won...
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barbararansby.bsky.social @barbararansby.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We are proud to be one of 170 events and actions nationally to push back against the vitriolic assault on higher education, the right to protest, our international students and colleagues, and very idea of a racial diverse university. .
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barbararansby.bsky.social @barbararansby.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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barbararansby.bsky.social @barbararansby.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Join us...in Chicago on the 17th. Speakers include Katherine Franke, retired Columbia Law Prof., and Veena Dubai, AAUP attorney....
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/03/2025
Protesters from Jewish Voice For Peace occupy Trump Tower to protest the detainment of Mahmoud Khalil. (via @btnewsroom.bsky.social)
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barbararansby.bsky.social @barbararansby.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Sara Nelson has it right....What's the date? May 1? portside.org/2025-03-11/w...
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‘We Have Very Few Options but To Join Together To Organize for a General Strike’
Arguably the most potent and powerful figure in the labor movement today has just declared that American workers—no matter what you do or what sector you’re in—now have “very few options but to join t...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyer Ramzi Kassem breaks down the shaky legal grounds the Trump administration is using to prosecute the Palestinian activist, including a rarely used legal provision “enacted primarily to target Eastern European Jewish Holocaust survivors."
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