Maryam Ivette Parhizkar
@miparhizkar.bsky.social
Poet/writer, scholar of 20/21c hemispheric aesthetics, literature & culture, periodic editor & translator, member of Central American diaspora collective Tierra Narrative.
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"Before," by Amada Libertad, tr. Yvette Siegert.
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We also invite people to take a look at the website of the Women's Active Museum on War and Peace (WAM) wam-peace.org/en/ and this excerpt of Hong Yunshin's book, "Comfort Stations" As Remembered by Okinawans During World War II apjjf.org/2022/9/tomiy.... These show how the US military's current
April 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
We also invite people to take a look at the website of the Women's Active Museum on War and Peace (WAM) wam-peace.org/en/ and this excerpt of Hong Yunshin's book, "Comfort Stations" As Remembered by Okinawans During World War II apjjf.org/2022/9/tomiy.... These show how the US military's current
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Historian Greg Grandin says disappearances, used by right-wing governments in Latin America against political opponents, is now a key part of President Trump's agenda as he sends immigrants to El Salvador. The difference, he notes, is that Trump has dropped the pretense of denying the practice.
April 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Historian Greg Grandin says disappearances, used by right-wing governments in Latin America against political opponents, is now a key part of President Trump's agenda as he sends immigrants to El Salvador. The difference, he notes, is that Trump has dropped the pretense of denying the practice.
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I think it’s flying a bit under the radar that the U.S. is currently trying to install a DMZ on the southern border
April 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I think it’s flying a bit under the radar that the U.S. is currently trying to install a DMZ on the southern border
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‼️3 DAYS AGO, SAMEER PROJECT SENT OUT AN SOS, SAYING THEY WILL RUN OUT OF FUNDS IN 3-4 DAYS‼️
"Please support us so we can continue to help Gaza, to give them hope, to allow them to hang on. Donate to any of the campaign links in our Linktree. We need our community now 🍉❤️🙏🏼" linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
"Please support us so we can continue to help Gaza, to give them hope, to allow them to hang on. Donate to any of the campaign links in our Linktree. We need our community now 🍉❤️🙏🏼" linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
The Sameer Project | Instagram | Linktree
We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,
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April 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
‼️3 DAYS AGO, SAMEER PROJECT SENT OUT AN SOS, SAYING THEY WILL RUN OUT OF FUNDS IN 3-4 DAYS‼️
"Please support us so we can continue to help Gaza, to give them hope, to allow them to hang on. Donate to any of the campaign links in our Linktree. We need our community now 🍉❤️🙏🏼" linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
"Please support us so we can continue to help Gaza, to give them hope, to allow them to hang on. Donate to any of the campaign links in our Linktree. We need our community now 🍉❤️🙏🏼" linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
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Sameer Project needs your help. They are in urgent need of funds to continue to help supplying water to people in Gaza. Yesterday they supplied 85,000 liters of fresh drinking water to people who otherwise would receive none. Please donate and share.
Hi new followers! What list did we get on?
Anyway, quit your genocide orgs and parties, stop sending your money to NGOs and redirect anything you can spare to mutual aid orgs in Palestine like the Sameer Project! chuffed.org/project/help...
Anyway, quit your genocide orgs and parties, stop sending your money to NGOs and redirect anything you can spare to mutual aid orgs in Palestine like the Sameer Project! chuffed.org/project/help...
North and Central Gaza: Food, Water, Diapers + Milk, Medical Aid
Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...
chuffed.org
April 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Sameer Project needs your help. They are in urgent need of funds to continue to help supplying water to people in Gaza. Yesterday they supplied 85,000 liters of fresh drinking water to people who otherwise would receive none. Please donate and share.
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In Mahmoud Khalil's letter from ICE detention in Louisiana, he cites Japanese American incarceration and Mitsuye Endo, who was incarcerated in the Tule Lake concentration camp, and whose case before the Supreme Court led to the closing of the camps.
Read his letter here: t.ly/A04cc
Read his letter here: t.ly/A04cc
April 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
In Mahmoud Khalil's letter from ICE detention in Louisiana, he cites Japanese American incarceration and Mitsuye Endo, who was incarcerated in the Tule Lake concentration camp, and whose case before the Supreme Court led to the closing of the camps.
Read his letter here: t.ly/A04cc
Read his letter here: t.ly/A04cc
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Bare-bones docket for Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez (misspelled in the file as "Jaun")
April 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Bare-bones docket for Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez (misspelled in the file as "Jaun")
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seems like an opportune moment to tap the sign: a society that has any chance of defending itself has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authority figures
Bondi is escalating the rhetoric against Abrego Garcia, who she calls "one of the top MS-13 members" and "a terrorist"
April 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
seems like an opportune moment to tap the sign: a society that has any chance of defending itself has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authority figures
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Hardly anyone talks about this but U.S. citizens have already been imprisoned under El Salvador's State of Exception. This is an article I translated in 2023. As far as I know, Nelson is still in prison.
North Carolina Rapper Among 15 Hip-Hop Artists Jailed under State of Exception
elfaro.net
April 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Hardly anyone talks about this but U.S. citizens have already been imprisoned under El Salvador's State of Exception. This is an article I translated in 2023. As far as I know, Nelson is still in prison.
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I'm happy to share my interview with John Warner, aka the Biblioracle - @biblioracle.bsky.social - on Techtonic.
In his excellent book "More Than Words," John explains why AI *can't write*, no matter what the tech bros claim.
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In his excellent book "More Than Words," John explains why AI *can't write*, no matter what the tech bros claim.
Click "Pop-up Player" to listen:
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John Warner, author, "More Than Words": Techtonic with Mark Hurst
Audio & playlist from April 14, 2025
wfmu.org
April 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I'm happy to share my interview with John Warner, aka the Biblioracle - @biblioracle.bsky.social - on Techtonic.
In his excellent book "More Than Words," John explains why AI *can't write*, no matter what the tech bros claim.
Click "Pop-up Player" to listen:
wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
In his excellent book "More Than Words," John explains why AI *can't write*, no matter what the tech bros claim.
Click "Pop-up Player" to listen:
wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
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Why is the media saying “mistaken deportation?” It’s not an accident.
April 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Why is the media saying “mistaken deportation?” It’s not an accident.
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Everyone knows something is up with gofundme and raising funds for Palestinians
April 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Everyone knows something is up with gofundme and raising funds for Palestinians
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How many students is Columbia University responsible for subjecting to even more state violence due to its surveillance and militarized suppression of the student movement protesting the genocide of Palestinians and the university's complicity in it?
SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...
Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE
Palestinian Columbia student leader Mohsen Mahdawi was called in for a citizenship interview. Instead, ICE arrested him for deportation.
theintercept.com
April 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
How many students is Columbia University responsible for subjecting to even more state violence due to its surveillance and militarized suppression of the student movement protesting the genocide of Palestinians and the university's complicity in it?
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This is horrifying and should, in any reasonable world, lead to immediate impeachment. On a hot mic, before the media arrived, starting around 7:15 on the time index, Trump tells Bukele he is going to start sending "homegrown criminals" to El Salvadoran gulags. This is fascism.
Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”
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April 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is horrifying and should, in any reasonable world, lead to immediate impeachment. On a hot mic, before the media arrived, starting around 7:15 on the time index, Trump tells Bukele he is going to start sending "homegrown criminals" to El Salvadoran gulags. This is fascism.
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Maria Hinojosa: El Salvador's "Dictator" Key to Disappearing Migrants Like Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Maria Hinojosa: El Salvador’s “Dictator” Key to Disappearing Migrants Like Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele is meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, part of a growing alliance between the two right-wing leaders. In recent months, El Salvador has...
www.democracynow.org
April 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Maria Hinojosa: El Salvador's "Dictator" Key to Disappearing Migrants Like Kilmar Abrego Garcia
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Ended. Up.
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April 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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No human being belongs there, and no one should have been sent there. We need to keep repeating those parts, too.
60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP
Trump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El Salvador
A gay man with no known criminal record sought asylum in the U.S. He's since become one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration.
cbsn.ws
April 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
No human being belongs there, and no one should have been sent there. We need to keep repeating those parts, too.
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“My detention at Guantanamo changed me. The isolation, the deprivation… it broke us down.”
A Venezuelan man who entered the US for a CBP One appointment on Jan. 19, 2025—and violated no laws—describes the horrors of Guantanamo detention aka imprisonment.
ccrjustice.org/sites/defaul...
A Venezuelan man who entered the US for a CBP One appointment on Jan. 19, 2025—and violated no laws—describes the horrors of Guantanamo detention aka imprisonment.
ccrjustice.org/sites/defaul...
April 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“My detention at Guantanamo changed me. The isolation, the deprivation… it broke us down.”
A Venezuelan man who entered the US for a CBP One appointment on Jan. 19, 2025—and violated no laws—describes the horrors of Guantanamo detention aka imprisonment.
ccrjustice.org/sites/defaul...
A Venezuelan man who entered the US for a CBP One appointment on Jan. 19, 2025—and violated no laws—describes the horrors of Guantanamo detention aka imprisonment.
ccrjustice.org/sites/defaul...
Please join us for this reading full of people I admire deeply. More importantly, RSVP as soon as you can so that the Gaza Poets receive support as soon as possible.
🌊 Patiently waiting for this stellar reading w/ @workshops4gaza.bsky.social hosted by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social & featuring @summ.bsky.social @miparhizkar.bsky.social Ignacio Carvajal, Ayling Zulema Dominguez, Destiny Hemphill, Mallika Singh & Jesús Valles | www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-p...
A Poetry Reading for Gaza IV — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to Gaza Poets Society here (suggested donation $30). Step 2: Register for “A Poetry Reading for Gaza IV” here . Join Workshops4Gaza for our fourth online poetry readin...
www.workshops4gaza.com
April 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Please join us for this reading full of people I admire deeply. More importantly, RSVP as soon as you can so that the Gaza Poets receive support as soon as possible.
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Listen - the conditions in El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Centre, where Trump is sending anyone accused of being a gang member right now - are full on human rights abuses. Yes, it's terrible that folks who aren't gang members are sent there. But it's also not okay for ANYONE to be sent there.
March 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Listen - the conditions in El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Centre, where Trump is sending anyone accused of being a gang member right now - are full on human rights abuses. Yes, it's terrible that folks who aren't gang members are sent there. But it's also not okay for ANYONE to be sent there.
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This is the first case I’ve seen so far of a returning permanent resident detained without any acknowledged rationale (family says she has no prior convictions and that they haven’t been given any information)
Immigration crackdown now hitting green card holders
A former Hawaii resident, and longtime green card holder, is among those being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This is the first case I’ve seen so far of a returning permanent resident detained without any acknowledged rationale (family says she has no prior convictions and that they haven’t been given any information)
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In the NYT right now, from a Justice Dept lawyer: “I will tell you right now that Columbia has not in my opinion — and the opinion of the Department of Justice — has not cleaned up their act,” Mr. Terrell said. “They’re not even close, not even close to having those funds unfrozen.”
"acceding to the ... demands is not going to restore the funding." From @danifriedrich.bsky.social in @chronicle.com
www.chronicle.com/article/faci...
www.chronicle.com/article/faci...
March 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
In the NYT right now, from a Justice Dept lawyer: “I will tell you right now that Columbia has not in my opinion — and the opinion of the Department of Justice — has not cleaned up their act,” Mr. Terrell said. “They’re not even close, not even close to having those funds unfrozen.”
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Israel just committed *the largest child massacre in its history*, according to Haaretz. Two hundred Palestinian children murdered in a single day, with direct support from the US and UK, and zero outrage from Western media. What stage of barbarism is this...
March 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Israel just committed *the largest child massacre in its history*, according to Haaretz. Two hundred Palestinian children murdered in a single day, with direct support from the US and UK, and zero outrage from Western media. What stage of barbarism is this...