How many banned books can a room of dedicated volunteers pack in an hour? Yesterday we found out! 💪📦
At our first Banned Books Back! packaging party, community members turned out in droves to sort through dozens of cartons of books removed from Duval County Public Schools in Florida. Together we prepped 642 chapter books and 936 picture books to return to young readers. Despite the chill in the air—and the Christofascism in the political system—the mood was festive. Participants jumped in, swapping tips and innovating strategies to ensure that each box was lovingly assembled, filled with beautiful stories, and addressed to a child in Florida.
As the pugilistic unicorn puts it in our fave kids zine: "Not everyone fights how I fight, but all unicorns fight because we are magical creatures and as magical creatures we believe in a better world." Yesterday we fought by sending banned books back to kids, because we're also magical creatures who believe in a better world!
If it wasn't for #Masto I would have no idea that hundreds of thousands of Germans have been protesting against #NaziAFD in towns and cities throughout #Germany
I've only found one report of the protests in the BBC where they fail to mention the scale of the protests. Nothing in the Guardian or Independent.
Is British mainstream media worried about showing how good the Germans are at saying "no" - #AfDVerbot to the extremists, worried the Brits will be out on the streets too?
Israeli lies.
Zionism is a genocidal settler colonial program that has no problem killing Jews either - it will level anything in its way. It has been doing so since before 1948.
How do we even keep track?
📌From those 40 beheaded babies by h@mas - false
📌When people were first fleeing bombings in October, it was reported that h@mas bombed the road. But later evidence indicated it was Israel.
@palestine
4/4 Israeli lies cont'd
*Some of these things have been laughably faked and yet i know I'll hear these trotted out in a few years to say why someone thinks it's ok for Israel to murder more Palestinians and for Palestinians not to have the right to exist or of self-defense.
On the basics or origins of what's called the Israel-Palestine conflict. It's always been an attempt at or desire for genocide. Zionists want the most land with the least number of Palestinians, not democracy
10 Myths About Israel should be great for people wanting to know the timeline and basic mythbusting on Israel & Palestine.
You really can just take the opposite of what the Israeli government says & get closer the truth.
There is a satirical blog post from 13 years ago going around again. I'm surprised i hadn't seen it before - almost believed it. It was written to call attention to the horrific crimes of Netanyahu, but a Pakistani outlet reported it as fact and it's being circulated.
"However counter-intuitive it may sound, there are three good grounds – ethical ones, at that – for refusing to join in the chorus of condemnation of Hamas' actions on October 7."
"She says the bodies had unusual markings and signs of gnawing, as crows picked on them by day and stray animals converged on them by night when no one was in the area. These are the areas where the ground invasion has closed in, the same areas the ambulances can no longer reach, and where people’s bodies have been left to rot."