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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Atlah church - coming in with not one but two vans plastered with expensive propaganda/delusions. And this pic is from yesterday!

Picture of van plastered with manning as Muhammad Ali standing over Mamdani.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Queens is amazing- lots of zohran posters in storefronts and goat for 6.99 a pound? As opposed to 18.99 per pound in curry hill…

Storefront with a picture of Zohran and sale of goat sign

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Rally for zohran volunteers tonight in Washington heights. On stage is a 15 and 80 yr old volunteer talking about volunteering bec they are New Yorkers worried about fascism and inequality.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I am so grateful for the thinking of Raul Peck. One early line in film is haunting quote from Orwell: “my starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice.”

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Raoul Peck. I think I snagged the very last seat sold tonight… he is to also speak afterwards.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Fall canvas Zetrocard! From a Jackson heights shift where I got to talk to folks in Urdu, Spanish, and English

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Sign up for the big fall mayoral canvas for Zohran this weekend New Yorkers and you can get this card! I’ll be in Jackson heights volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/canvass-for-...

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

NYC has its own dating app (Oh Hi) and they published a manifesto: www.ohhi.dating/manifesto Their entry for Andrew Cuomo's dating profile: "An overbearing, pestery creep...Doesn't know how to act. Loud. Oblivious. Bad tipper. Doesn't get the joke. Can't take a hint. "Well actually..."

picture of Andrew Cuomo on "Oh hi" dating app. describing his qualities...

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

At the rally with @sangaymishra.bsky.social + army of volunteers for Zohran, & chatted with his parents in the line. No kings- to a city we the people will make!

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social thanking his mom Mira Nair for canvassing. He said that after the debate he went to Cuomo to shake his hand & say "You should come around more often" (Cuomo lives mostly in Westchester, & does scarce controlled appearances). Cuomo said "Nah, I don't think so" off camera.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

6/6 books: Solidarity. The Past, Present, and Future of a World-changing Idea by @lhh.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social from @haymarketbooks.org. I loved this book for many reasons, (authors were all working on these books at the same time)- and their tagline is in the description of our book.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

5/6 books on solidarity. #SolidarityCities by @uminnpress.bsky.social. "Between these paired logics of what might be familiar to readers as the Gentrified City and the Disinvested City, North Philadelphia's community gardens reveal a third dimension of city life that organizes urban space in a

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

4/6 books on Solidarity. Solidarity is the Political Version of Love by @rvilkomerson.bsky.social & @alissashira.bsky.social "A classic internationalist example is the global solidarity movement with Black South Africans against apartheid. As a Jewish organization fighting against Israeli apartheid

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

6 days, 1 book on Solidarity per day. Theory of Water, by @biidaasamose.bsky.social "Sintering is a joining... It is a collective effort, involving many different spirits, plants and animals. World-making, as we see, is necessarily a collective effort of diverse beings. It is a workers' collective."

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

6 days, 1 book on Solidarity per day (peak ahead, ordered randomly). In Solidarity. Essays on working-class organization in the US. by Kim Moody. labor organizer on mass strikes in US: "Each of these strikes began in a different way, but all unfolded in solidarity with strikers under attack."

6 book covers, 5 of which have solidarity in title. 6th title is Theory of Water, Nishnaabe Maps to the times ahead.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

of course this remains the favorite metro map of any city I have ever visited in life:

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Black Food Rising! The People’s Lunch. Come check out NYC Black food solidarity economies, 12-4, May 18, sliding scale tix

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

May 2-5, Atlanta. Resist and Build. national Summit Planning Circle includes reps from American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Black Nashville Assembly, Boston Impact Initiative, Kola Nut Collaborative, Living World Studios, May First Movement Technology, Next System Studies (NSS),

Poster for Resist and Build. A better world won’t build itself.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Exiting union station in DC which has a direct view of Capitol Hill but I was only interested in this Solidarity City project!

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This piece generated controversy but thankfully made it into Letters from Home: The Black ABCs Reimagined, an extraordinary exhibition at the Schomburg Library, by the Schomburg Junior Scholars Program.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Letters from Home: The Black ABCs Reimagined, an extraordinary exhibition at the Schomburg Library, by the Schomburg Junior Scholars Program.

Has a picture of young child behind fence with subtitle “s is for segregation”

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

"They spoke to the sun in the mornings and the moon at night as cherished relatives" from Theory of Water by @biidaasamose.bsky.social. Makes me think anew on my family- my birthday is on 23 Rajab, niece on 22, and mum on 24, all in the lunar calendar which actively organizes Muslim family life.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

What an immense honor to have Rabbi Wise @alissashira.bsky.social in my class today! I'm holding her recent book Solidarity Is the Political Version of Love, Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing. she's holding mine from @uminnpress.bsky.social. She talked about @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Whatupdoe Detroit! She is a most incredible city. This underpass was just one of many moments that take your breath.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

and they sent me a ridiculous dreamcatcher + socks, reusable tote, and cleaning cloth. In case you are wondering what genocide looks like in banal marketing terms in March 2025, here you go. also- multiple lawsuits, for priest abuse, and their marketing of "poverty porn."

pic of dreamcatcher, socks, cloth, and bag

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Asking me to be a "dreamcatcher"- their fundraiser letter says "Native Americans live in day to day survival mode, in fear, poverty, violence, homelessness, and hunger...your generous donation helps protect children from the unhealthy cycles of poverty that surround them."

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

You know how some people think Indian boarding schools are a historical thing-a way back atrocity? NOPE. I got a packet YESTERDAY from St. Joseph's Indian boarding school, a Catholic boarding school for Indigenous kids in South Dakota. they included a sample day in the life of a kid:

elementary school drawing of pencil with hourly calendar for school kids from 6:30 to 9 pm

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Don't miss this March to Stop the Cuts on Saturday afternoon! Who's coming, you ask? me, everybody and their moms: @1199seiu.org @citizenactionny.bsky.social Indivisible One NYS, @investinourny.bsky.social @maketheroadny.bsky.social, @nychange.bsky.social @nynurses.bsky.social +

march to stop cuts poster- 11 am Foley Square in Manhattan

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Judge Furman ordered that Khalil cannot be deported unless the court says otherwise, and ordered the administration and attorneys for Mahmoud to appear for a conference at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at a court in Lower Manhattan. Protest yesterday swelled hopefully. Another today. Another tomorrow.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

National Students for Justice in Palestine- coordinating this nationwide so find one near you: "join our students in solidarity. OUR CAMPUS. OUR STREETS. OUR STRUGGLE." for NYC- Washington Square Park at 2 pm.

poster for SJP protest at washington square park at 2 pm March 11th.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Ironic to stand in front of a building with justice written on it, when the state is the actor perpetrating injustice by allowing the ICE kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil. Our students have to be safe to learn.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Thank you @makingworlds.bsky.social for hosting an amazing conversation last weekend, guided by Alex Stewart from PACA, about our book #SolidarityCities by @uminnpress.bsky.social. Coop folks, activists, students, people interested in real solidarity work and how to do it better.

photo of Alex Stewart, Craig Borowiak, and Maliha Safri at Making worlds Bookstore, seated and discussing.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

local bookstores with the jokes…

Picture of books like 1984 by Orwell with sign saying “unfortunately this fiction was a relevant”

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I am reading this more seriously this time- some lightning bolts here. Publicity addressed to working class promises Cinderella fantasy (particular product). Middle class publicity works via ‘enchanted palace’ (buy ensemble of products)

Cover of John Berger ways of seeing book.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

7 days after clasping hands with trump, macron embraces zelensky. He doesn't get the contradiction.

Macron/Napolean-complex-haver half-hugs Zelensky

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

A shero in every sense, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, at the end of her talk yesterday "Weapon of Geography" kicking off the 75th anniversary of Geography Department at Rutgers. Dropping 'medicine for resistance' truths about abolition schools, recursive politics, and how to turn proximity into solidarity.

picture of Ruthie Gilmore making a heart sign with her hands in front of a picture of Frantz Fanon Political School.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Go! Spectacular exhibition "Indigenous Identities: Here, Now and Always" curated by the legend Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, who died just a day before this opened. This image is a still from a video by New Red Order, showing the cathartic dissolution of the racist monument of AmerMuseumoNaturalHistory.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Reminder- the "opposition" to Trump will not come from leaders who now clasp hands lovingly with him.

Macron and Trump hold hands and laugh while the world burns

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Giving a talk tomorrow at the Economics and Society seminar at the University of Rhode Island: "Worker cooperatives and solidarity economies inside cities today."

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

People chanting “Down with deportations, up with liberation!” And first time in a long time, I saw a guy come off the sidewalk and join us.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

If you are in NYC- come to this anti-deportations action at 2 pm in Times Square. I know- who wants to show up there? BUT- this is the crowd you wanna be with and make friends with in these times.

Protest poster that says stop the deportations, Feb 9th 2 pm Times Square NYC

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I took my college students to the African Burial Ground National Monument today. This pic shows the forensic research on the effects of enslavement. Every single student (BIPOC and white) was moved by the exhibition (many to tears). Black history matters a lot, don't pay attention to the noise.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social raised more donations than any other mayoral campaign in the race. He is gunning for free buses, free childcare, city-owned groceries, everyday benefits for everyday NYers. let's get ready to concentrate on radical politics and economics that we need at the city level.

pic of press release from Zohran Mamdani

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

There is widespread consensus on the fact that undocumented migrants in the US commit less crime across the board. Easy free article: Light, Michael T., and Ty Miller. "Does undocumented immigration increase violent crime?." Criminology 56, no. 2 (2018): 370-401. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

5 scatter plot graphs show negative correlation between crime (homicide, robbery, assault, and rape) and proportion of undocumented migrants. the more undocumented migrants, the less crime there is in a community.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I learned so much from the excellent book Solidarity by @astra.bsky.social and @lhh.bsky.social. They dig into Roman law origins of 'obligatio in solidum,' (a debt held in common), to French usages of 'solidarite,' plus #solidarityeconomies + @debtcollective.bsky.social + @solidaire.bsky.social.

book cover of Solidarity, past, present, and future of a world-changing idea.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Today (jan 7) is the official publication date for our new book! SOLIDARITY CITIES: CONFRONTING RACIAL CAPITALISM, MAPPING TRANSFORMATION. Collectively authored by quartet pictured, published by @uminnpress.bsky.social Either it's solidarity forever, or our time is up as a species.

four authors holding up book and smiling.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

A thousand people on night two of deportation defense by Mijente!! Checking in:mums, students, first timers, old timers.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Holding 11yrs, our book #SolidarityCities Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation. 40% discount till Dec 31st. w code MN92000. Postcapitalist economies in housing, food, finance, work. #Cooperatives in midst of race, segregation, & exploitation. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791602...

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Opening the conference with an intention. I wept so many times during the night during talks I’m taking some Tylenol for the long train ride back to Harlem. She ended night with Mosab Abu Toha’s words: “hope is a difficult word for Palestinians..it must be cultivated.”

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