#dispossession — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dispossession, aggregated by home.social.
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In East Jerusalem, ‘a whole Palestinian community is about to be expelled’
Israel is forcing out Al-Bustan’s 1,500 residents to build a biblical theme park. To avoid paying huge fines, families are demolishing their own homes.
https://www.972mag.com/al-bustan-east-jerusalem-self-demolition/
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"... With this arrival, this conquest, one idea reigns supreme. You are a numbers person. You believe in possession through measuring the thing. The land is this many metres, the elevation is this high off the ground. Where a traveller may have seen the land, been curious about what 50 names say about the tree, already your mind was quartering, the stake hammered right in..."
"Possession—the numbers game—requires brute strength and the willingness to eradicate the speakers too."
- Yumna Kassab, The Conquest of Land and Dream
#land #biodiversity #life #quality #diversity #dispossession #commodification #quantifiability #ratability #scalability #values #language #naming #LanguagePolicies #SettlerSociety #EuropeanColonisation #IndigenousPeoples #writers
https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-conquest-of-land-and-dream/
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"... With this arrival, this conquest, one idea reigns supreme. You are a numbers person. You believe in possession through measuring the thing. The land is this many metres, the elevation is this high off the ground. Where a traveller may have seen the land, been curious about what 50 names say about the tree, already your mind was quartering, the stake hammered right in..."
"Possession—the numbers game—requires brute strength and the willingness to eradicate the speakers too."
- Yumna Kassab, The Conquest of Land and Dream
#land #biodiversity #life #quality #diversity #dispossession #commodification #quantifiability #ratability #scalability #values #language #naming #LanguagePolicies #SettlerSociety #EuropeanColonisation #IndigenousPeoples #writers
https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-conquest-of-land-and-dream/
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"... With this arrival, this conquest, one idea reigns supreme. You are a numbers person. You believe in possession through measuring the thing. The land is this many metres, the elevation is this high off the ground. Where a traveller may have seen the land, been curious about what 50 names say about the tree, already your mind was quartering, the stake hammered right in..."
"Possession—the numbers game—requires brute strength and the willingness to eradicate the speakers too."
- Yumna Kassab, The Conquest of Land and Dream
#land #biodiversity #life #quality #diversity #dispossession #commodification #quantifiability #ratability #scalability #values #language #naming #LanguagePolicies #SettlerSociety #EuropeanColonisation #IndigenousPeoples #writers
https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-conquest-of-land-and-dream/
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"... With this arrival, this conquest, one idea reigns supreme. You are a numbers person. You believe in possession through measuring the thing. The land is this many metres, the elevation is this high off the ground. Where a traveller may have seen the land, been curious about what 50 names say about the tree, already your mind was quartering, the stake hammered right in..."
"Possession—the numbers game—requires brute strength and the willingness to eradicate the speakers too."
- Yumna Kassab, The Conquest of Land and Dream
#land #biodiversity #life #quality #diversity #dispossession #commodification #quantifiability #ratability #scalability #values #language #naming #LanguagePolicies #SettlerSociety #EuropeanColonisation #IndigenousPeoples #writers
https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-conquest-of-land-and-dream/
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"... With this arrival, this conquest, one idea reigns supreme. You are a numbers person. You believe in possession through measuring the thing. The land is this many metres, the elevation is this high off the ground. Where a traveller may have seen the land, been curious about what 50 names say about the tree, already your mind was quartering, the stake hammered right in..."
"Possession—the numbers game—requires brute strength and the willingness to eradicate the speakers too."
- Yumna Kassab, The Conquest of Land and Dream
#land #biodiversity #life #quality #diversity #dispossession #commodification #quantifiability #ratability #scalability #values #language #naming #LanguagePolicies #SettlerSociety #EuropeanColonisation #IndigenousPeoples #writers
https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-conquest-of-land-and-dream/
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Some reading on our climate:
The Journal of Environmental Research Letters - Editor's Choice Awards
https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1748-9326/page/Best_article_awardsSome random choices:
Estimating the sea level rise responsibility of industrial carbon producers
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adb59fPotential impacts of marine carbon dioxide removal on ocean oxygen
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ade0d4Interplay between climate and carbon cycle feedbacks could substantially enhance future warming
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adb6beWeather disasters and their underreported transboundary impacts on Amazonian communities
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae20a7Key drivers and pressures of global water scarcity hotspots
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad3c54Dams and tribal land loss in the United States
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acd268Achieving net-zero emissions in agriculture: a review
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acd5e8Extreme heatwave over Eastern China in summer 2022: the role of three oceans and local soil moisture feedback
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acc5fbExisting fossil fuel extraction would warm the world beyond 1.5°C
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6228Unmasking the impunity of illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: a call for enforcement and accountability
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5193Global warming and population change both heighten future risk of human displacement due to river floods
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abd26cClimate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab83a7Feedback between drought and deforestation in the Amazon
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab738eThe effects of climate extremes on global agricultural yields
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab154b#ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #freshwater #ecosystems #ocean #deoxygenation #IndigenousePeoples #dispossession #GHG #deforestation #heatwaves #bushfires #agriculture #extractivism
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"australia", a photo booklet, or booklet of photo-poems, with some accompanying uh "notes".
published in that annoying way/place, on my blog:
https://anarchive.mooo.com/blog/australia/
#photography #langugae #signs #violence #colonialism #anonymity #foucault #valorization #dispossession #whiteness etc etc
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗮𝗻" 𝗯𝘆 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗘𝗿𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵 -
I've never done anything but love my experiences with Erdrich's words and worlds. And somehow, this one slipped past me. Maybe, even, worth a 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘕𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘴 podcast episode later this week?
#books #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #louiseerdrich #thenightwatchman #fiction #novel #indigenousliterature #IndianTerminationAct #TribalSovereignty #Dispossession #Assimilation #ojibwaliterature
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#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #uspeaceplan / #reconstruction / #occupation
„#ProjectSunrise outlines a “smart city” with AI grids. It’s only possible with the continued #dispossession of Palestinians.“
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/21/gaza-ceasefire-phase-two-rafah-project-sunrise/
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Israel seeks a rebrand amid Gaza genocide
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"We are all #Palestinians" -- #Zapatistas Resistances and Rebellion Underway in
#Chiapas#Indigenous leaders and international delegates meet “to resolve and organise against #capitalism and all pyramids”
by Mateo Sgambati, Freedom News, August 4, 2025 (via #CensoredNews)
"The gathering is being hosted in Chiapas by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (#EZLN), aiming “to reach an agreement on what, how, where, and why” of demolishing capitalism and all hierarchical systems. The gathering opened over the weekend with a
marching display where all carried Palestinian flags.
" 'We are all Palestinian children,' said Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés at the opening of the meeting. 'Today, in one of the small parts of this land, the capitalist system is committing #genocide against the Palestinian people. We cannot forget, we cannot set aside'.
"In the statement ahead of the gathering, Zapatista speaker El Capitan (aka Marcos) had referred to 'what it means to be born, grow up, live, and struggle as #IndigenousPeople in a geography where
being ‘other’ is a cause of contempt, #exploitation, #repression, and #dispossession. ‘To be’ where ‘not to
be’ is the norm and and the stigma for those who are different'.The inauguration was done by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) with a deployment of militia and a speech by the insurgent Sub-Commander Moises."Via Censored News:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/08/zapatistas-in-morelia-we-are-all.htmlContinue reading at Freedom News
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/08/04/zapatista-gathering-of-resistances-and-rebellions-opens-inchiapas/#Colonialism #CorporateColonialism #Resistance #GazaGenocide #GazaSolidarity #Genocide #CapitalismKills
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OnlineFirst - "Accumulation by repossession: Capitalist settler colonialism in Coast Salish territory" by Thilo van der Haegen and Heather Whiteside:
#capitalism #dispossession #land #repossession #settlercolonialism
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X241312890
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OnlineFirst - "Accumulation by repossession: Capitalist settler colonialism in Coast Salish territory" by Thilo van der Haegen and Heather Whiteside:
#capitalism #dispossession #land #repossession #settlercolonialism
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X241312890
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Imperial violence
"Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace is a panoramic history of how these routines of violence remapped the contours of empire and reordered the world from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries."
The book "brings vividly to life a world in which warmongers portrayed themselves as peacemakers and Europeans imagined “small” violence as essential to imperial rule and global order."
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https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691248479/they-called-it-peaceBenton, Lauren: They Called It Peace. Worlds of Imperial Violence. Princeton 2024
The book analyses imperial violence between 1400 and 1900.
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https://history.yale.edu/people/lauren-benton
#book #history #empires #violence #war #warmongers #massacres #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #HyperViolentPeace #Pacific #GlobalOrder #peace #TruthTelling -
#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #dispossession / #idp
„The Israeli army has distanced itself from comments made by a brigadier general that ground forces are getting closer to “the complete evacuation” of the northern Gaza Strip and residents will not be allowed to return home. (…)
International humanitarian law experts have said that such actions would amount to the war crimes of forcible transfer and the use of food as a weapon.“
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/07/idf-israel-military-no-return-remarks-north-gaza
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"Fire-resilient landscapes” and “fire-adapted communities” through biocultural restoration as a fire risk mitigation strategy.
A clear-eyed view on historic harms by settler societies: Settler transition to large-scale agriculture (plantations) transformed ecohydrological conditions and introduced weeds. The neglected land and extractive tourism practices drive increases in fire risks.
"We argue that decolonizing postplantation landscapes through the restoration and reconnection of people to land will not only help prevent future catastrophic fires, but also address social and environmental inequities.The connections of colonialism to contemporary extreme fire regimes are not unique to Hawaiʻi. The dispossession of Indigenous communities worldwide has suppressed cultural burning and altered fire regimes that support the production of food and material culture."
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On the anniversary of the Maui fires, a call for Indigenous land care to mitigate future disasters, D. Nākoa Farrant et al
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401045121
#bushfires #fires #colonialism #SettlerSociety #extractivism #water #plantations #SettlerSocieties #unsustainability #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousKnowledge #BioculturalRestoration #CulturalBurning #restoration -
OnlineFirst - "Material subjects: Wetland enclosure and the making of a speculative peasantry in peri-urban Vientiane" by Wanjing Kelly Chen and Miles Kenney-Lazar:
#periurbanization #agrariansubjectivity #materiality #dispossession #Vientiane
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486241285646
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#israel #palestine #lebanon : #history / #conflict / #refugees / #displacement / #dispossession / #uno / #unwra
„On the outskirts of Lebanon’s second capital, Tripoli, lies a Palestinian refugee camp that is almost as old as their plight itself.“
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Today at the #food and #clothing #relief #outreach that I help with on #Fridays I found this rare-ish #Australian 1c #coin.
It's a strange thing to be excited about: a product of #dispossession, #massacres, #racism, #ecological destruction, with the kicker that it's now obsolete.
How the feathertail glider on one side contrasts with QEII (decorated with what I'm told are stolen gems, and under whose rule #genocidal acts were perpetrated) on the other just floors me.
What is evil, if not this?
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Don't ignore the rights of those on Pandora Avenue in Victoria
Individuals sheltering on Pandora Avenue need to be treated as individuals with individual needs
>>> A commentary by British Columbia’s former deputy health officer Dr. Shaun Peck
#homeless #housing #HumanRights #sweep #police #bylaw #dispossession #justice
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#Submission from #CJPME to MP Matthew Green’s #Nakba Bill #Initiative, authored by Lena El-Malak, PhD, LLM; Nadia Abu-Zahra, PhD; Michael Bueckert, PhD; and Alex Paterson, MA.
It includes #recommendations for how #CanadianGovernment can acknowledge this #historical #injustice & its own role in the #EthnicCleansing of #Palestinians & take steps to combat #Canadian #complicity in ongoing #Israeli policies of #erasure, #displacement & #dispossession.
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#Israel #Palestine : #war / #gaza / #dispossession / #displacement / #destruction / #family / #warvictims
„It took a unit of 14 Israeli soldiers storming her apartment to force her out. They ordered al-Haddad, her husband and his elderly parents — one half-blind and the other in a wheelchair — their two teenage sons and seven other family members to leave in the middle of the night on March 21. (…) Later, she learned the troops set fire to the house after they left.“
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‘Property poetry’?
"Real estate is another way to say Australia.""Kate Holden connects Turnbull’s persistence in illegally clearing vast tracts of koala habitat, and his murder of Turner, to British Enlightenment theories of property. The English philosopher John Locke, she observes, “placed emphasis on labour to morally justify the owning of property. The more work put into the land, the more settled a man was upon it. Holden traces associations between Locke’s ideas, the history of terra nullius and the “strange, morbid fixation in Australian myth of just how hard a person has to work on this land.”
"[b]y the time of Australia’s settling, the ineluctable mark of a British citizen was land ownership. It enfranchised him, gave him rights […] Land – elemental, foundational – was the desperately prized asset in a new colony. Without it, man was only an object."
"Yet the contradictions and inequities surrounding the trade in stolen land are rehearsed largely without reflection or analysis across contemporary Australian culture."
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https://theconversation.com/property-poetry-real-estate-ads-and-literature-have-more-in-common-than-you-might-think-214835#SettlerSociety #TruthTelling #dispossession #silence #IndigenousRights #RealEstate #speculation #HomeOwnership #HouseHunting #NationalImaginary #Australia #writing #degradation #koalas #JLocke #books #deforestation #AusCulture
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We are pleased to announce that DiPLab’s Aishik Saha (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), has just published a remarkable article in the journal TripleC – Communication, Capitalism & Critique, entitled “Theorising Digital Dispossession: An Enquiry into the Datafication of Accumulation by Dispossession”. Here it is in #openaccess: https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1406 #colonialism #dispossession #platforms #digitallabor #foodtech #disinformation
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https://www.thenation.com/article/world/hunt-hamas-narrative-gaza-israel-palestine/
laid out in an op-ed by Gila Gamliel, the Israeli minister of intelligence, in the November 19 Jerusalem Post, made clear that the government’s preferred outcome is ethnic cleansing. The only option that she proposed was “to promote the voluntary resettlement of Palestinians in Gaza, for humanitarian reasons, outside of the strip.”
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@m Wikipedia to the rescue! I see that guy was Paul Kane, an ICANN insider, through Internet Computer Bureau which he sold to Afilias for US$70m; that a complaint has been lodged on behalf of the Chagos islanders, but Mauritius is now claiming jurisdiction which may complicate matters further...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ioMost recent update I saw was the OECD Ireland assessment of the complaints in March 2023: https://enterprise.gov.ie/en/publications/publication-files/initial-assessment-afilias-101domain-grs-icb.pdf
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"It will be a dull march back into history, a return to the denialism and silence that has defined white Australia. Honesty will be torn from the trees. Any notion of shared understanding will be shredded."
"For all the misinformation and deceit, all the lies of the campaign, we will be left with one ugly truth: given the chance, Australia would still sooner destroy Indigenous people than listen to them as equals. The central impulses of colonisation are all still there, brutal and unrepentant."
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https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/editorial/2023/10/14/mothball-politics#mtr
#Australia #culture #denial #dispossession #FirstNationsPeoples #indigenousPeoples #recognition #constitution #democracy #VoicetoParliament #SettlerSociety #TerraNullius #21stCentury -
Check out my new article, co-authored with some very swell gents. We find that lynch victims' surviving family members were more likely to move out of the county than were other people living in their census districts. People victimized by the US regime of violent racial terror respond the same way that other terrorism victims do. Implications for dispossession & reparations.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10881293
@demography @sociology #terrorism #lynching #USHistory #dispossession #reparations
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Haaretz:
The disaster that befell #Israel on the holiday of Simchat Torah is the clear responsibility of one person: Benjamin #Netanyahu. The PM, who has prided himself on his vast political experience & irreplaceable wisdom in #security matters, completely failed to identify the dangers he was consciously leading Israel into when establishing a govt of #annexation & #dispossession,
#Israel-#Gaza #War
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2023-10-08/ty-article-opinion/netanyahu-bears-responsibility/0000018b-0b9d-d8fc-adff-6bfd1c880000 -
A confronting 1-hour #documentary about #refugee policy in #Australia, The pivotal action of the documentary is the 2002 #Woomera refugee prison outbreak
– after months of #protests, including hunger strikes, 53 refugees escape during the Easter protest, supported by hundreds of outraged #Australians. After witnessing the outbreak the audience is invited to consider the complex issues arising from this border crossing; in particular the diversity of constructions about protest, #activism and the success of #directaction.
Holiday Camp (#Adelaide/ #Hamburg 2002) investigates the current Australian immigration policies, in the context of 200 years of #colonization, connecting the issues of indigenous #dispossession, #genocide, and the #incarceration of refugees.
It explores the implications of the mandatory #detention #system and the construction of national borders. ‘Holiday Camp’ challenges us to consider what risks do we take…Holiday Camp - how is your #liberation bound up with mine?
https://vimeo.com/110098606/description
https://t.me/AntifascistSolidarity/16642
#ausgov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas #classwar #refugeeswelcome #nobodyisillegal #noprideingenocide #eattherich #antinazi #antinationalist #antiracist #asylumseekers #nolawsnoborders #nobordersnonations #antifa #antifascist
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🗣❗ She explains that people belonging to the ejido de Bacalar, and others who haven’t identified themselves, are the ones who are intimidating them.
Read "Bacalar: Those Left Behind and Forgotten by the Dispossession of the Maya Train" here 👉 https://avispa.org/?p=102386
#México #Dispossession #MayaTrain #Bacalar #QuintanaRoo #Yucatán
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🗣❗ Alongside the tourist fuss in the #Mayan town of Bacalar, Quintana Roo, lies the dispossession and ecological destruction caused by the construction of the Mayan Train
👁👁 Check all the info here 👇 https://avispa.org/?p=102386
#México #Yucatán #QuintanaRoo #MayaTrain #Dispossession #Bacalar
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Carlson mused, “It does seem like #anarcho-#tyranny is one of these ideas, you know, that some political philosopher thought up a long time ago.”
Well, no. The expression belongs to #Sam #Francis—the late #paleoconservative columnist whose disgust with establishment Republicans, managerial elites (of any party), and the idea of a majority-minority America has led him to be widely cited by intellectuals of the #MAGA movement.
Francis’ idea was not that anarcho- tyranny was an age-old problem, but rather that it was the product of an “entirely new form of government” that was “unique in human history.”
In a 1994 article, Francis proclaimed that a first-of-its-kind “Hegelian synthesis” had been created by the upper class as the 20th century closed. This perversion forced the aggrieved masses to live under both anarchy and tyranny at once.
Here, he suggested, was a government imposing on "us" while allowing "them" to do as they pleased.
And the identities of us and them were clear: Francis wrote from a home office that was once #Robert #E. #Lee’s childhood bedroom. He was pushed out of the right-wing Washington Times in 1995 for, essentially, being #too #bigoted. He obsessed over any restrictions that could touch a middle-class white person: #speed #limits, the #tax #code, #gun #laws, and even #child #porn #statutes.
But he often ignored other oppressions enforced by the state: #slavery, #Jim #Crow, and generations of deliberate #economic #dispossession.
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#FreePalestine #VivaPalestina #Nakba73 #HopeToGaza #IsraelExposed #IsraeliTerrorism #HandsOffAlAqsa #SaveSheikhJarrah #NakbaDay #ChicagoProtests #GazaUnderFire #GazaUnderAttack #PalestineWillBeFree #EndTheOccupation #WeChargeGenocide #PalestineBleeding #BoycottDivestSanctions #BDS #PalestinianYouthMovement #Palestina #Palestine #NoJusticeNoPeace #SavePalestine #Dispossession #StandUpFightBack #Netanyahu #IDF #HearGaza #Keffiyeh #Solidarity #SavePalestine #StopKillingChildren