sending you all an abundance of love. 🖤

oh chicago, the beautiful city you are. 😍🍂

BREAKING — A group of four self-described elders have blocked the entrance of the construction site for the proposed training center known as Cop City by sitting in chairs draped with a large banner reading, “Stop the Construction, Let the People Decide”

NDN Live I Elders Take Action to #StopCopCity I #Atlanta #GA twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

if you care about food deserts, environmental racism, environmental justice, you must ALSO care about fat liberation and fat justice. it’s very simple.

to not care about the latter is to make null your care for the former.

i think everyone who is very committed to liberating Palestine NEEDS to be very familiar with what just went down in Atlanta today.

whether you are defending your city from a fascist cop murder base or demanding the end of a genocide, the state will try and devour you whole

this was probably them before pressing “delete post”

from us at Scalawag, with love. 🖤

We mourn every life taken since the onset of this brutal occupation; our hearts are especially with the Palestinian people who have contributed their stories to Scalawag. Even in our grief, we will not look away.

With love and righteous rage,
Scalawag

We will continue to speak out about the impact this atrocity has on Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, and across the diaspora; we will be steadfast witnesses to Palestine's fight for survival in the face of immeasurable cruelty.

The work that Scalawag and similar publications have done and will continue to do brings our readers the words of oppressed people rather than the words of those with the institutional power to maintain oppressive systems.

This moment serves as a reminder that abolitionist and independent media are incredibly important in the face of misinformation and propaganda from mainstream outlets.

It is our responsibility to uplift Palestinian voices and amplify Palestinian writers as they share their experiences with the world.

As fascism and other systems that seek to fracture our shared humanity continue to rise in the West, it is our duty as journalists, essayists, and abolitionists to profess our commitment to our decolonial and anti-carceral values.