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Bill Ayers

@bill-ayers.bsky.social
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Educator and author of Demand the Impossible! (haymarketbooks.org) Teaching Toward Freedom, Fugitive Days, Public Enemy, and To Teach: the journey in comics.

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Bill Ayers @bill-ayers.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less.
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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
@bill-ayers.bsky.social hosted fellow @beaconpress.bsky.social author @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social on this latest episode of his @underthetreepod.bsky.social series. Have a listen! underthetreepod.com/2025/04/02/e...
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Episode #121: A Radical Reframing with Jeanne Theoharis and Erik Wallenberg
When a popular leader emerges from the whirlwind of a struggle for justice, power always stands in opposition—ignoring the rising demands where possible, ridiculing and coopting, and eventually fig…
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
For @bill-ayers.bsky.social, being hopeful is a politics and a choice. This is an important stance to take during these terrible times. #Resistance
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Get Busy with Acts of Repair - WORT-FM 89.9
Bert Zipperer speaks with scholar and activist Bill Ayers about abolition, dignity, and the need for people to stay engaged.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Sadness, grieving, anger are all reasonable responses to the 2024 election. But @bill-ayers.bsky.social is right: we have to pick ourselves up, brush ourselves off, and name this political moment for what it is so we can get busy in acts of repair and revolution.
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Get Busy with Acts of Repair - WORT-FM 89.9
Bert Zipperer speaks with scholar and activist Bill Ayers about abolition, dignity, and the need for people to stay engaged.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 19/03/2025
"We live in a fascist dictatorship," @thenation.com's @elienyc.bsky.social says of Trump administration attacks on the judiciary. "There's not a coming constitutional crisis. We are in the constitutional crisis right now."
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 19/03/2025
On this day in 1939, just months after he prevailed in a lawsuit to force the University of Missouri to accept him to its all-white law school, a young Black man named Lloyd Gaines went missing and was never seen again.
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Mar. 19, 1939 | Lloyd Gaines Believed to Be Killed After Winning Missouri Desegregation Case
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
We’re always looking for ways to better promote our backlist titles. At #WI2025, our associate director of marketing @alyssahassan.bsky.social noted how we mark anniversaries by issuing new editions of them, like our Beacon Press Classics series!
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A Historic Winter Institute 2025 Kicks Off in Denver
Winter Institute 2025 officially kicked off Monday morning in Denver with close to 1,000 booksellers expected to attend. For the first time, the American Booksellers Association hosted a…
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"From what I can tell, Mahmoud Khalil has moral courage of the type Eugene Debs spoke about more than a century ago in a speech that he was unjustly arrested for."
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The Labor Movement Should Stand Up for Mahmoud Khalil
Unions have a moral imperative to defend against illegal attacks on political speech. That means demanding justice for Mahmoud Khalil.
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Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
just a reminder that we shouldn’t be disappearing ANY people to El Salvadoran prison camps, whether they have been convicted or even accused of crimes or not
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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 18/03/2025
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
COMING SOON THIS MAY!🌈 @publisherswkly.bsky.social calls @doctressstory.bsky.social’s THE RAINBOW AINT NEVER BEEN ENUF “a sharp critique of racism, misogyny, and transphobia in the LGBTQ+ community.”
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The Rainbow Ain’t Never Been Enuf: On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity by Kaila Adia Story
Gender and sexuality studies scholar Story debuts with a sharp critique of racism, misogyny, and transphobia in the LGBTQ+ commu...
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Pilsen Community Books @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Join us on Monday, March 24th at 7 pm for a discussion of WE ARE 'NATURE' DEFENDING ITSELF: ENTANGLING ART, ACTIVISM, AND AUTONOMOUS ZONES. pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/45447
Copies of WE ARE 'NATURE' DEFENDING ITSELF arranged in rows on a wooden floor in the sunlight.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 19/03/2025
The @legacysites.eji.org are currently featured in Atlanta Magazine. "The powerful Legacy Sites help us remember who we were—and who we can become."
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Must-Do South: Montgomery, Alabama
As a destination, Montgomery is a journey in contrasts. The Alabama capital is both a proud epicenter of the mid-20th-century civil rights movement and a landscape curiously steeped in Confederate memory. Here, history isn’t merely preserved; it is powerfully experienced.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
@bill-ayers.bsky.social has been embarrassed watching colleges and universities capitulate and call the cops on student protestors. We’ve been here before in the past, too. #Resist
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Get Busy with Acts of Repair - WORT-FM 89.9
Bert Zipperer speaks with scholar and activist Bill Ayers about abolition, dignity, and the need for people to stay engaged.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Yes, the wave of EOs is overwhelming. But as @bill-ayers.bsky.social says, the noise and chaos are meant to distract us from the real work of mobilizing ourselves and energizing ourselves to stand up for freedom and democracy.
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Bill Ayers on Freedom & Abolition, 12-05-24 at the Sanctuary
Bill Ayers will be at The Sanctuary for Independent Media on Thu., Dec. 5 from 7-9pm to discuss his new book "When Freedom is the Question, Abolition Is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberatio
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
“When you see the most radical representations of freedom in the counterculture in US history, there is not a clear divide between the personal and the collective. The 2 are deeply synthesized.”—Alex Zamalin in convo with @bill-ayers.bsky.social
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Episode #118: Culture/Counterculture with Alex Zamalin
Human beings are suspended in webs-of-significance—we make sense and we make meaning—and culture is nothing more nor less than the webs. Those webs-of-significance are alive, forever trembling and …
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Pilsen Community Books @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Tonight @mayaschenwar.bsky.social, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @bill-ayers.bsky.social & Anya Tanyavutti on what care looks like in movements for liberation in celebration of WE GROW THE WORLD TOGETHER ✨ pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/UfU8gx4...
Maya Schenwar, Kelly Hayes, Bill Ayers & Anya Tanyavutti sit in chairs in front of an audience in a full bookstore.
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 14/03/2025
The GOP funding bill is a direct attack on working people. If Democrats won't act like a real opposition party, we need a party that will.
Republicans can't meet their own budget target without cutting Medicare or Medicaid, budget office says
The House GOP has ordered the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicare and Medicaid funding, to cut $880 billion in a bill to advance Trump's agenda.
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Bill Ayers @bill-ayers.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Thxxx PCB! You’re the best.
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Under the Tree w/Bill Ayers - A Seminar on Freedom @underthetreepod.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Another beautiful evening with our @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social community! Thank you @mayaschenwar.bsky.social for this book and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and Anya Tanyavutti for the wonderful discussion.
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Bill Ayers @bill-ayers.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Excellent!
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Under the Tree w/Bill Ayers - A Seminar on Freedom @underthetreepod.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
NEW EPISODE! Link in bio. Conversation with Barbara Smith and @bill-ayers.bsky.social recorded on Dec 5, 2024 at the @mediasanctuary.bsky.social in Troy, NY. Visit our webpage to listen to the episode or watch a video of the event!
An older black woman with short salt & pepper hair in a blue knit cardigan looking off to the right. She is smiling and has her arms crossed.
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A Public Affair @apublicaffair.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
🎙️On today's show @bill-ayers.bsky.social tells us to get busy with acts of repair. www.wortfm.org/get-busy-wit...
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David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Please look at it this way—MuskTrump is trying to make it impossible for anyone who is not a multimillionaire to have a decent, secure life. They are also trying to break our bonds to each other so we have no one to rely on. Don’t let this happen.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Benefit concert for @oilchange.bsky.social with the incomparable Kronos Quartet, dance by Bandaloop, and yeah, me mc'ing. If you are or can be in Oakland April 19th and can swing a ticket, please come. secure.givelively.org/event/oil-ch...
A Celebration of Change: Journey to a Fossil-Free Tomorrow
Saturday, April 19, 2025
5:30 - 8:30 pm

Featuring a concert for the climate by Kronos Quartet
With a special performance by BANDALOOP
and Cesar Aguirre, Associate Director, Air and Climate Justice team 
Central California Environmental Justice Network
Hosted by Rebecca Solnit

This event benefits Oil Change International's work to expose the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitate a just transition to clean energy.
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Oligarchy: After the DCA crash, Transportation Secretary and MTV Real World’s Sean Duffy ordered that helicopters couldn’t fly in DCA space when planes land. Good! But in practice, planes are now circling for hours, often landing at Dulles because of what pilots call VIP helicopters. Fuck dem VIPS.
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Clément Petitjean @clementpetitj.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Depuis 1 semaine, je participe à une formation pour devenir prof de yoga 🧘‍♂️ #SociologueYogi Je suis en désaccord avec plein de trucs, mais j'en ai plus appris sur la pédagogie en 1 semaine qu'en 10 ans à la fac, qui ne forme pas à enseigner. Et les coupes budgétaires vont pas améliorer les choses.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 23/02/2025
On this day in 2020, two white men killed Ahmaud Arbery, a young unarmed Black man out jogging. Local officials lied and did not hold the men accountable for months, until a video was released.
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Feb. 23, 2020 | Two White Men Kill Ahmaud Arbery; Police Decline to Arrest Them for Months
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 23/02/2025
Greenpeace faces a $300 million lawsuit from Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Protest Rights Are at Stake as Pipeline Company Brings Greenpeace to Trial
Greenpeace faces a $300 million lawsuit from Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/02/2025
Rather than reject climate science like many on the right, some have followed the path laid out by environmentalist and white nationalist John Tanton, using concerns about population growth and scarce resources to rationalize their hateful agendas. (Published Oct. 2024)
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Far-Right Extremists Embrace Environmentalism to Justify Violent Anti-Immigrant Beliefs
Climate change and anti-immigrant hate are colliding, foretelling a volatile future.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Good for these federal workers, concerned about the sabotage of a functioning, safe park, for us and for nature. www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
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Photos: ‘Distress flag’ towers over Yosemite to protest cuts as crowds view firefall
Saturday’s protest sought to bring attention to the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration this month.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 23/02/2025
Literary scholar Farah Jasmine Griffin discusses how Black yearning keeps surviving in the face of racist violence.
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Black History Testifies to the Impossible Creative Power of Black Resistance
Literary scholar Farah Jasmine Griffin discusses how Black yearning keeps surviving in the face of racist violence.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
You didn’t think New Year’s was over, did you? Because this reading line up with books by @michaelbrodeur.bsky.social, @yrfatfriend.bsky.social, @bill-ayers.bsky.social, and others are here for you on your transformation journey. 😉 @colemanthe2nd.bsky.social #NewYearNewYou
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11 New Year’s Reads to Put You on the Runway of Transformation
By Christian Coleman | And the New Year’s category is . . . Transformation! As the oligarchs of the free world steer us on a rocky ride toward dire changes we didn’t want, we’ll be focused on changing...
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
@bill-ayers.bsky.social is often accused of being an optimist, a romantic. The truth is that he chooses a politics of hope. He refuses to cave into despair to a rising fascist reality. And so should we!
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Naming THIS Moment: Contradiction - BustED Pencils
BustED Pencils; Fully Leaded Education Talk is a powerful radio show/podcast dedicated to public education. BustED Pencils is known for its commitment to the hard facts with a humorous twist. Hosts…
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Bill Ayers @bill-ayers.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Thank you, Beacon!!!
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This handful of titles from by @serenekhader.bsky.social, @yrfatfriend.bsky.social, @piercesalguero.bsky.social, @bill-ayers.bsky.social, and others will set you on the runway of life to get 10s across the board for progress and self-reinvention! #NewYearNewYou
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11 New Year’s Reads to Put You on the Runway of Transformation
By Christian Coleman | And the New Year’s category is . . . Transformation! As the oligarchs of the free world steer us on a rocky ride toward dire changes we didn’t want, we’ll be focused on changing...
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 23/02/2025
Dismantling the department would put Pell grants and other need-based aid programs at risk, which would disproportionately harm low-income students.
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What Will Happen to Your Student Loans if Trump Closes the Department of Education?
Dismantling the department would put Pell grants and other need-based aid programs at risk.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Social imagination is key to our feminist world view. It’s what @bill-ayers.bsky.social calls “the collectively creative, inventive, resourceful forces that embrace all of humanity & are explicitly pro-emancipation & pro-liberation for the many, for all.”
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Our Feminist Future Must Include a Liberated Palestine | Common Dreams
The co-opted war mongering feminism of this era is leading us down a path that puts all women who aren’t in the ruling class in the line of fire.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
It’s what @bill-ayers.bsky.social calls our moment of contradiction. While we have an avowed fascist returning to the White House, we have incredible resistance to the war in Gaza, the Black Lives Matter movement, and more!
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Naming THIS Moment: Contradiction - BustED Pencils
BustED Pencils; Fully Leaded Education Talk is a powerful radio show/podcast dedicated to public education. BustED Pencils is known for its commitment to the hard facts with a humorous twist. Hosts Dr...
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Of course, Americans are for freedom. But you will notice as @bill-ayers.bsky.social has that freedom is a contradictory idea depending on who you ask what it is. Is it individual or collective?
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Bill Ayers on Freedom & Abolition, 12-05-24 at the Sanctuary
Bill Ayers will be at The Sanctuary for Independent Media on Thu., Dec. 5 from 7-9pm to discuss his new book "When Freedom is the Question, Abolition Is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberatio
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
As our population becomes ever-increasingly diverse, efforts to celebrate that diversity will come under attack at the behest of our returning reality TV star in chief. So where do we go from here? We turn to @bill-ayers.bsky.social.
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Naming THIS Moment: Contradiction - BustED Pencils
BustED Pencils; Fully Leaded Education Talk is a powerful radio show/podcast dedicated to public education. BustED Pencils is known for its commitment to the hard facts with a humorous twist. Hosts…
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
@bill-ayers.bsky.social started @underthetreepod.bsky.social to get people involved in the freedom movement, then and now, to talk about freedom and what it meant to them. This led to him writing WHEN FREEDOM IS THE QUESTION, ABOLITION IS THE ANSWER.
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Bill Ayers on Freedom & Abolition, 12-05-24 at the Sanctuary
Bill Ayers will be at The Sanctuary for Independent Media on Thu., Dec. 5 from 7-9pm to discuss his new book "When Freedom is the Question, Abolition Is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberatio
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