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IWW Freelance Journalists Union

@iwwfju.bsky.social
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A union for all freelance journalists, bloggers, and other writers in news media - www.freelancejournalistsunion.org. Part of the IWW (iww.org). For assistance, please email freelancejournalists@iww.org

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IWW Freelance Journalists Union @iwwfju.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
LAST CALL TO GIVE TO & SHARE FUNDRAISER FOR LEBANESE JOURNALISTS — We're over 90 percent to our goal! Help get us there NOW: chuffed.org/project/1756...
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IWW Freelance Journalists Union @iwwfju.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thanks to the following IWW branches for donating to our fundraiser for the Union of Journalists in Lebanon! Help us get over the finish line by sharing: chuffed.org/project/1756... @chicagoiww.bsky.social @iwwnyc.bsky.social
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Union Communiste Libertaire 37 @ucl37.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Dans notre communiqué ⬇️ nous dénoncions aussi l'attaque contre Austistici/Inventati : le collectif annonce son auto-dissolution... Il faut renforcer et financer les collectifs et assos libristes comme @framasoft.org et @laquadrature.bsky.social et @eff.org ! @lesjours.fr @basta.media @solidaires.org
A/I shuts down - Stay human
Sep 6, 2026

The day we discovered we had been designated a global terrorist organization, we promised that we would try to resist as long as this was possible, that we would not back down as long as we could see options to stand our ground. For years, we have proudly maintained and defended a free, privacy-friendly, autonomous and politically committed infrastructure. 

“Stay human” is not an empty phrase to us.

It means, above all, that we have a responsibility to protect our users, those who build the human networks we rely, and for the communities who flooded us with messages of support and solidarity.

We cannot engage in a fight or expose ourselves to manipulations that threaten the lives of these people and their loved ones, leaving them at the mercy of autocrats, fascists and agencies that take extra-legal courses of action. The possibility that our work may cause legal and financial consequences to those who are close to us - or even only have something to do with us - leaves us no choice.

A/I is shutting down. The Autistici/Inventati collective is shutting down and will soon discontinue all of the services we provide.

There is no easy way to announce or explain this

Every day we stayed online after August 26, 2026, has been a victory, but now we are forced to stop.

None of us holds eroic gestures and martyrs in high esteem, therefore we will demand no sacrifices. Not from us, not from anyone else. In this political climate, continuing to offer our services endangers our users and anyone who is part of our communities. In a world where allegations are disconnected from reality, we can only expect repression to be increasingly disproportionate. Under these circumstances, we are no longer able to maintain our original mission - offering secure and non-commercial digital tools.

These 25 years have been amazing. It’s been an “incredible ride”.
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Daytona Slim @daytonaslim.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The Israeli invasion of #Lebanon has killed over 4,300 people including at least 14 journalists. IWW-FJU is raising money to help Lebanese journalists continue to report from the front lines. Please consider donating and/or sharing. #WritingCommunity #HandsOffLebanon #MutualAid #donate
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Daytona Slim @daytonaslim.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#Lebanon #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #UnionStrong #IWW #ICLCIT #Solidarity #MutualAid #JournalismIsNotACrime #HandsOffLebanon
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This reinstatement happened for one reason: a union contract. She was brought back against managements wishes because she won the highest level of the grievance procedure, arbitration. This is how you can take the power back from people like Jeff Bezos: form a union.
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La Kolera Doktoro @reddebrek.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Freelancers can unionise too @iwwfju.bsky.social
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🦋🧿Tempestori 🌬🌊 @tempestori.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"The Wobblies" film says that immigrant Chinese workers had trouble pronouncing IWW and so they articulated it as “I wobble wobble” and now we all wobble but don’t fall down. @iwwfju.bsky.social @northumbriaiww.bsky.social @portlandiww.bsky.social @iwwnyc.bsky.social @iwwmanchester.bsky.social
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Organizing Identities
Vinícius Rodrigues de Souza, Vecteezy. Our individual, collective, and institutional identities organize us. The common view suggests that identity is a stable given. You are X or Y and nothing cha…
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IWW Freelance Journalists Union @iwwfju.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Fellow Workers: We are nearly at our fundraising goal for the Union of Journalists in Lebanon! Please give & share to get us there — chuffed.org/project/1756...
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M_Beltza @beltza.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Estos días, la internacional @iclcit.org, y a iniciativa del sindicato de periodistas de la IWW @iwwfju.bsky.social, está moviendo una campaña de apoyo a los colegas libaneses bajo ataque israelí. Una de los primeros pasosha sido crear una caja de resistencia. Toda ayuda es bienvenida. #Solidarity
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Prensa y Comunicación CNT Madrid @cntprensacom.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Esta es la caja de resistencia del Sindicato de Periodistas de Líbano para atender las necesidades más urgentes de las trabajadoras de medios de comunicación locales desplazadas por los ataques israelíes en curso: chuffed.org/project/1756... Vía @iwwfju.bsky.social
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Solidarity with Union of Journalists in Lebanon
In light of the ongoing Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Industrial Workers of the World Printing and Publishing Workers Union and Freelance Journalists Union expresses its solidarity with the Union o...
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IWW Freelance Journalists Union @iwwfju.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Thanks to the @iclcit.org for sharing our fundraiser for the Union of Journalists in Lebanon! www.iclcit.org/solidarity-w...
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SOLIDARITY WITH JOURNALISTS IN LEBANON!
In light of the ongoing Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Industrial Workers of the World Printing and Publishing Workers Union and
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 31/07/2026
Well, it’s invoicing day, and since they’re really apparently not going to pay me for something I wrote for them two months ago, I guess today is the day to post about how @vulture.com fucks over its film freelancers. Long (sorry) thread, with receipts:
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paul de revere @pderevere.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
join @iwwfju.bsky.social if you haven’t already brother I will onboard you myself
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 31/07/2026
And, less than an hour after posting this, there is an apology email and an invoice being generated. It just.... should not work like this, ya know
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Daytona Slim @daytonaslim.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“…While the humanitarian crisis is immense and growing with each day the Israeli invasion persists, UJL is seeking an initial contribution of $10,000 to address the most pressing needs...” #Lebanon #Writercommunity #writerscommunity #writerslift #writingcommunity #journalism #NotATarget #donate #1u
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IWW Freelance Journalists Union @iwwfju.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Thanks to @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social for sharing our fundraiser in this article! Readers can also give directly at: chuffed.org/project/1756...
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Israel Is Deliberately Targeting Lebanon’s Journalists
The list of civilians deliberately killed by Israel in Lebanon includes journalists trying to report on the invasion. The Union of Journalists in Lebanon is campaigning for justice while the US works ...
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Daytona Slim @daytonaslim.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
“…While the humanitarian crisis is immense and growing with each day the Israeli invasion persists, UJL is seeking an initial contribution of $10,000 to address the most pressing needs...” #Lebanon #Writercommunity #writerscommunity #writerslift #writingcommunity #journalism #NotATarget #donate
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Chris Kazantzoglou (#CEMedia) @contenteditor.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Οργάνωση των Ταυτοτήτων @iwwfju.bsky.social #CEMedia #IWW #press open.substack.com/pub/contente...
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Οργάνωση των Ταυτοτήτων
Οι ατομικές, συλλογικές και θεσμικές μας ταυτότητες μάς οργανώνουν.
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Daytona Slim @daytonaslim.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
#Líbano #periodistas #escritores #ElPeriodismoNoEsUnDelito ¡Ya hemos recorrido más de tres cuartas partes del camino hacia nuestra meta de recaudar 10.000 dólares para el Sindicato de Periodistas del Líbano! Por favor, ayúdanos: dona y comparte ahora:
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Daytona Slim @daytonaslim.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“…While the humanitarian crisis is immense and growing with each day the Israeli invasion persists, UJL is seeking an initial contribution of $10,000 to address the most pressing needs...” #Lebanon #Israel #Writingcommunity #donate #journalismisnotacrime #unionstrong #mutualaid #solidaridad
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Daytona Slim @daytonaslim.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“…While the humanitarian crisis is immense and growing with each day the Israeli invasion persists, UJL is seeking an initial contribution of $10,000 to address the most pressing needs...” #Lebanon #Writercommunity #writerscommunity #writerslift #solidarity #IWW #1u #journalism #HandsOffLebanon
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Mark Misoshnik @misoshnik.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
If you were at the Trans March in SF and witnessed police brutality, vehicular violence, or anything else, DM me or hit me on Signal @misoshnik.13 I’ll be writing about this for @lcrw.news
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IWW Freelance Journalists Union @iwwfju.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We are more than three-quarters of the way to our goal of raising $10,000 for the Union of Journalists in Lebanon! Please help us get across the finish line — donate and share now: chuffed.org/project/1756...
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Solidarity with Union of Journalists in Lebanon
In light of the ongoing Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Industrial Workers of the World Printing and Publishing Workers Union and Freelance Journalists Union expresses its solidarity with the Union o...
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Green Country Collective @gsustulsa.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
IWW members and active unionizing campaigns are preferred. Membership is on a sliding scale, so I would recommend becoming a member before registering. Especially if you want to organize your workplace, they are an invaluable resource! Instructions for joining the IWW: www.centralokiww.org
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Central Oklahoma IWW
An Injury to one is an injury to ALL
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Industrial Worker @industrialworker.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The IWW Printing and Publishing Workers Union and Freelance Journalists Union (PPWU-FJU) are doing a fundraiser for the Union of Journalists in Lebanon. industrialworker.org/in-solidarit... #IWW #unions #labor #lebanon #journalists
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In Solidarity with the Union of Journalists in Lebanon
In light of the ongoing Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Industrial Workers of the World Printing and Publishing Workers Union and Freelance Journalists Union expresses its solidarity with the Unio…
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Daytona Slim @daytonaslim.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
“The Israeli invasion has already claimed the lives of at least 1,268 people in #Lebanon …Among the dead are at least four journalists, per IFJ…” #NotATarget #Writerslift #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writercommunity #freelance #journalism #solidarity #1u #HandsOffLebanon #donate
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IWW Freelance Journalists Union @iwwfju.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
We are fundraising to provide the Union of Journalists in Lebanon with $10,000 to address the most pressing needs of local media workers displaced by ongoing Israeli attacks. Please contribute and share widely! chuffed.org/project/1756...
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Solidarity with Union of Journalists in Lebanon
In light of the ongoing Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Industrial Workers of the World Printing and Publishing Workers Union and Freelance Journalists Union expresses its solidarity with the Union o...
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IWW Freelance Journalists Union @iwwfju.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In Solidarity with the Union of Journalists in Lebanon: freelancejournalistsunion.org/statements/2...
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In Solidarity with the Union of Journalists in Lebanon
In light of the ongoing Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Industrial Workers of the World Printing and Publishing Workers Union and Freelance Journalists Union expresses its solidarity with the Union of Journalists in Lebanon, a member of the International Federation of Journalists.
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The Asheville Blade @avlblade.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Like many in our city, the Blade has struggled in Helene's ongoing aftermath. We're a local journalism co-op of working class trans people. It has not been an easy year. Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
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Donate to Help the Asheville Blade survive Helene's long aftermath, organized by Asheville Blade
Like many groups in our city, the Asheville Blade has faced … Asheville Blade needs your support for Help the Asheville Blade survive Helene's long aftermath
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IWW Freelance Journalists Union @iwwfju.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
In Support of Writers Against the War On Gaza's Call for Comprehensive Coverage of the Israeli Genocide 1/ In September 2025, Save the Children estimated that Israeli forces had been killing more than one Palestinian child per hour since the start of Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip—
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IWW Freelance Journalists Union @iwwfju.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Gaza-based journalist Addulruhman Ismail has started a crowdfunding campaign chuffed.org/project/youn... Please boost
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IWW Freelance Journalists Union @iwwfju.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
aje.io/ecbker Fellow workers, we are quoted in this article about GFM blocking funds to Palestinians. please take time to read.
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As Gaza starves, GoFundMe accused of blocking ‘millions of dollars’ raised
GoFundMe is accused of unfair restrictions and financial freezes on Palestinian aid fundraisers.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I could go on forever about this, but I’ll just say—a healthy democracy functions best when its people are informed, and it’s extremely important that journalism remains an independent & robust enterprise. Many issues with the industry, but its current dismantling is a net negative for any community
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I’m proud to be a journalist, even as the industry in the US is cratering and being stripped for parts and reporters here and all over the world are risking life and livelihood to tell important stories. Especially proud to be amongst a group of truly talented, endlessly empathetic, intelligent ppl
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
It’s World Press Freedom Day, and I want to step up on my little soapbox and remember those of us who didn’t make it last year—in Gaza, especially, but all around the world; & those of us who are doxxed/threatened/intimidated/arrested/killed for doing vitally important work, and keep doing it anyway
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IWW Freelance Journalists Union @iwwfju.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Fellow Workers, Please consider signing this petition to release Mahmoud Khalil. actionnetwork.org/forms/urgent...
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URGENT: Demand the Immediate Release of Mahmoud Khalil
On Saturday, March 8, 2025, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian American permanent resident and Columbia University graduate student, without demonstrat...
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IWW Freelance Journalists Union @iwwfju.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 🧵 On March 5, at 3:30pm CST (4:30pm EST) there is a hearing in the case of Nate A Lindell XRE vs. Terri Rees et al. The case, being heard by Judge Everett Mitchell, centers around Wisconsin’s Open Records law, and will determine whether the Wisconsin 1/
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IWW Freelance Journalists Union @iwwfju.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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BDS Claims Victory in Closure of a Leading Exporter’s Israeli Factory
Yokohama’s departure from Israel is a victory for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, according to activists.
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IWW Freelance Journalists Union @iwwfju.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
🧵 Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl    ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈 Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year. Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID 1/5
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IWW Freelance Journalists Union @iwwfju.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 07/12/2024
Here we see the Heritage Foundation explicitly accusing Jewish Voice for Peace and many other Jewish people of being "antisemitic." They want Jewish people to be harassed and terrorized as "antisemites" if they don't participate in the Christian Nationalist project represented by gentile Zionism.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
NEW: For the first time in its 248-year existence, the United States government investigated its own Federal Indian Boarding Schools, a genocidal element of the racist settler colonial project by which the country was formed. unicornriot.ninja/2024/histori...
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Historic Investigation of U.S. Boarding Schools for Native Children Ends With Scathing Report - UNICORN RIOT
For the first time in its 248-year existence, the United States government investigated its own Federal Indian Boarding Schools, a genocidal element of the racist settler colonial project by which the...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
CW: extreme violence people used to gather in huge crowds to view and participate in lynchings, often festival like fanfare. photographs were used as postcards. people were often tortured to death, body parts sold in stores as memorabilia - sometimes in stores. just so we're on the same page
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Piper Furiosa 🇵🇸🏴🌲🏴‍☠️ @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
1. The Israeli genocide on Gaza is also causing intense enviromental & climate damage. 2. We already have increased catastrophic storms due to climate change. So, 3. Both are magnifying the already-devestating effects of the Israeli genocide on the Palestinian people in ways like this flooding.
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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
You can't run on warnings of creeping authoritarianism and then bend yourself toward authoritarianism by embracing the GOP's trans panic. Wrote about this for @vanityfair.com: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/h...
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How the GOP’s Trans Panic Has Shades of Putin’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Playbook
When it comes to trans rights, will Democrats be the willing handmaidens of the hard right?
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
"Israeli draft resisters are refusing conscription and deployment to...Gaza...the only reasonable response is to say “no.” Everyone who lives in the U.S. has a responsibility to help ensure that soldiers know that saying “no” to their commanding officers is an option." truthout.org/articles/tru...
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Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Can’t Happen If US Military Members Resist It
Trump plans to use the military to enact the mass deportation of immigrants. As a veteran, I know orders can be refused.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Don't miss the latest installment of In Contempt, our monthly roundup of news, action, and updates on political prisoners, abolitionist media, state repression, and beyond. itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-...
Flyer for noise demonstrations on NYE. Flyer for benefit event.Flyer for benefit event and pie eating contest. Flyer for 'Shut Em Down' event in Tacoma, WA.
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Jan Willem Goudriaan @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The lists of journalists killed each year is long, very long, too long... we want clean sheets... Aggression against journalist alas so common. The lists of detained ones would also occupy much space. Impressive pictures @efjeurope.bsky.social @iwwfju.bsky.social @djv.de @education.dsausa.org
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 15/11/2024
On the latest episode of our Working People podcast, @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social sits down with Cornell grad student union members Jawuanna McAllister and Jenna Marvin to talk about campus repression of pro-Palestine activism and how the union is fighting back. inthesetimes.com/article/corn...
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After Cornell Cracked Down on Pro-Palestinian Activism, its Graduate Student Union Fought Back
Members of Cornell's Graduate Student Union stand in solidarity with Momodou Taal, a Ph.D. candidate and student protestor who was suspended after pressuring the University to divest from Israel.
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