Bill Ayers
@bill-ayers.bsky.social
Educator and author of Demand the Impossible! (http://haymarketbooks.org) Teaching Toward Freedom, Fugitive Days, Public Enemy, and To Teach: the journey in comics.
What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less.
August 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less.
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@bill-ayers.bsky.social hosted fellow @beaconpress.bsky.social author @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social on this latest episode of his @underthetreepod.bsky.social series. Have a listen!
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Episode #121: A Radical Reframing with Jeanne Theoharis and Erik Wallenberg
When a popular leader emerges from the whirlwind of a struggle for justice, power always stands in opposition—ignoring the rising demands where possible, ridiculing and coopting, and eventually fig…
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April 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
@bill-ayers.bsky.social hosted fellow @beaconpress.bsky.social author @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social on this latest episode of his @underthetreepod.bsky.social series. Have a listen!
underthetreepod.com/2025/04/02/e...
underthetreepod.com/2025/04/02/e...
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For @bill-ayers.bsky.social, being hopeful is a politics and a choice. This is an important stance to take during these terrible times. #Resistance
Get Busy with Acts of Repair - WORT-FM 89.9
Bert Zipperer speaks with scholar and activist Bill Ayers about abolition, dignity, and the need for people to stay engaged.
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April 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
For @bill-ayers.bsky.social, being hopeful is a politics and a choice. This is an important stance to take during these terrible times. #Resistance
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Sadness, grieving, anger are all reasonable responses to the 2024 election. But @bill-ayers.bsky.social is right: we have to pick ourselves up, brush ourselves off, and name this political moment for what it is so we can get busy in acts of repair and revolution.
Get Busy with Acts of Repair - WORT-FM 89.9
Bert Zipperer speaks with scholar and activist Bill Ayers about abolition, dignity, and the need for people to stay engaged.
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March 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Sadness, grieving, anger are all reasonable responses to the 2024 election. But @bill-ayers.bsky.social is right: we have to pick ourselves up, brush ourselves off, and name this political moment for what it is so we can get busy in acts of repair and revolution.
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"We live in a fascist dictatorship," @thenation.com's @elienyc.bsky.social says of Trump administration attacks on the judiciary. "There's not a coming constitutional crisis. We are in the constitutional crisis right now."
March 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"We live in a fascist dictatorship," @thenation.com's @elienyc.bsky.social says of Trump administration attacks on the judiciary. "There's not a coming constitutional crisis. We are in the constitutional crisis right now."
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On this day in 1939, just months after he prevailed in a lawsuit to force the University of Missouri to accept him to its all-white law school, a young Black man named Lloyd Gaines went missing and was never seen again.
Mar. 19, 1939 | Lloyd Gaines Believed to Be Killed After Winning Missouri Desegregation Case
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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March 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
On this day in 1939, just months after he prevailed in a lawsuit to force the University of Missouri to accept him to its all-white law school, a young Black man named Lloyd Gaines went missing and was never seen again.
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We’re always looking for ways to better promote our backlist titles. At #WI2025, our associate director of marketing @alyssahassan.bsky.social noted how we mark anniversaries by issuing new editions of them, like our Beacon Press Classics series!
A Historic Winter Institute 2025 Kicks Off in Denver
Winter Institute 2025 officially kicked off Monday morning in Denver with close to 1,000 booksellers expected to attend. For the first time, the American Booksellers Association hosted a…
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March 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We’re always looking for ways to better promote our backlist titles. At #WI2025, our associate director of marketing @alyssahassan.bsky.social noted how we mark anniversaries by issuing new editions of them, like our Beacon Press Classics series!
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"From what I can tell, Mahmoud Khalil has moral courage of the type Eugene Debs spoke about more than a century ago in a speech that he was unjustly arrested for."
The Labor Movement Should Stand Up for Mahmoud Khalil
Unions have a moral imperative to defend against illegal attacks on political speech. That means demanding justice for Mahmoud Khalil.
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March 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"From what I can tell, Mahmoud Khalil has moral courage of the type Eugene Debs spoke about more than a century ago in a speech that he was unjustly arrested for."
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just a reminder that we shouldn’t be disappearing ANY people to El Salvadoran prison camps, whether they have been convicted or even accused of crimes or not
March 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
just a reminder that we shouldn’t be disappearing ANY people to El Salvadoran prison camps, whether they have been convicted or even accused of crimes or not
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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
March 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
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COMING SOON THIS MAY!🌈
@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls @doctressstory.bsky.social’s THE RAINBOW AINT NEVER BEEN ENUF “a sharp critique of racism, misogyny, and transphobia in the LGBTQ+ community.”
@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls @doctressstory.bsky.social’s THE RAINBOW AINT NEVER BEEN ENUF “a sharp critique of racism, misogyny, and transphobia in the LGBTQ+ community.”
The Rainbow Ain’t Never Been Enuf: On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity by Kaila Adia Story
Gender and sexuality studies scholar Story debuts with a sharp critique of racism, misogyny, and transphobia in the LGBTQ+ commu...
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March 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
COMING SOON THIS MAY!🌈
@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls @doctressstory.bsky.social’s THE RAINBOW AINT NEVER BEEN ENUF “a sharp critique of racism, misogyny, and transphobia in the LGBTQ+ community.”
@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls @doctressstory.bsky.social’s THE RAINBOW AINT NEVER BEEN ENUF “a sharp critique of racism, misogyny, and transphobia in the LGBTQ+ community.”
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Join us on Monday, March 24th at 7 pm for a discussion of WE ARE 'NATURE' DEFENDING ITSELF: ENTANGLING ART, ACTIVISM, AND AUTONOMOUS ZONES.
pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/45447
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March 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Join us on Monday, March 24th at 7 pm for a discussion of WE ARE 'NATURE' DEFENDING ITSELF: ENTANGLING ART, ACTIVISM, AND AUTONOMOUS ZONES.
pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/45447
pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/45447
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The @legacysites.eji.org are currently featured in Atlanta Magazine. "The powerful Legacy Sites help us remember who we were—and who we can become."
Must-Do South: Montgomery, Alabama
As a destination, Montgomery is a journey in contrasts. The Alabama capital is both a proud epicenter of the mid-20th-century civil rights movement and a landscape curiously steeped in Confederate memory. Here, history isn’t merely preserved; it is powerfully experienced.
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March 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The @legacysites.eji.org are currently featured in Atlanta Magazine. "The powerful Legacy Sites help us remember who we were—and who we can become."
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@bill-ayers.bsky.social has been embarrassed watching colleges and universities capitulate and call the cops on student protestors. We’ve been here before in the past, too. #Resist
Get Busy with Acts of Repair - WORT-FM 89.9
Bert Zipperer speaks with scholar and activist Bill Ayers about abolition, dignity, and the need for people to stay engaged.
buff.ly
March 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
@bill-ayers.bsky.social has been embarrassed watching colleges and universities capitulate and call the cops on student protestors. We’ve been here before in the past, too. #Resist
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Yes, the wave of EOs is overwhelming. But as @bill-ayers.bsky.social says, the noise and chaos are meant to distract us from the real work of mobilizing ourselves and energizing ourselves to stand up for freedom and democracy.
Bill Ayers on Freedom & Abolition, 12-05-24 at the Sanctuary
Bill Ayers will be at The Sanctuary for Independent Media on Thu., Dec. 5 from 7-9pm to discuss his new book "When Freedom is the Question, Abolition Is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberatio
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January 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Yes, the wave of EOs is overwhelming. But as @bill-ayers.bsky.social says, the noise and chaos are meant to distract us from the real work of mobilizing ourselves and energizing ourselves to stand up for freedom and democracy.
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“When you see the most radical representations of freedom in the counterculture in US history, there is not a clear divide between the personal and the collective. The 2 are deeply synthesized.”—Alex Zamalin in convo with @bill-ayers.bsky.social
Episode #118: Culture/Counterculture with Alex Zamalin
Human beings are suspended in webs-of-significance—we make sense and we make meaning—and culture is nothing more nor less than the webs. Those webs-of-significance are alive, forever trembling and …
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March 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
“When you see the most radical representations of freedom in the counterculture in US history, there is not a clear divide between the personal and the collective. The 2 are deeply synthesized.”—Alex Zamalin in convo with @bill-ayers.bsky.social
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Tonight @mayaschenwar.bsky.social, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @bill-ayers.bsky.social & Anya Tanyavutti on what care looks like in movements for liberation in celebration of WE GROW THE WORLD TOGETHER ✨ pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/UfU8gx4...
March 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Tonight @mayaschenwar.bsky.social, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @bill-ayers.bsky.social & Anya Tanyavutti on what care looks like in movements for liberation in celebration of WE GROW THE WORLD TOGETHER ✨ pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/UfU8gx4...
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The GOP funding bill is a direct attack on working people.
If Democrats won't act like a real opposition party, we need a party that will.
If Democrats won't act like a real opposition party, we need a party that will.
March 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The GOP funding bill is a direct attack on working people.
If Democrats won't act like a real opposition party, we need a party that will.
If Democrats won't act like a real opposition party, we need a party that will.
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#OtD 14 Mar 1993 Spanish anarchist feminist Soledad Estorach died in Paris aged 78. She had fought on the barricades in the Spanish revolution, and helped organize working class women in the worker-run city of Barcelona. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8...
March 14, 2025 at 5:10 AM
#OtD 14 Mar 1993 Spanish anarchist feminist Soledad Estorach died in Paris aged 78. She had fought on the barricades in the Spanish revolution, and helped organize working class women in the worker-run city of Barcelona. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8...
Thxxx PCB! You’re the best.
Another beautiful evening with our @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social community!
Thank you @mayaschenwar.bsky.social for this book and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and Anya Tanyavutti for the wonderful discussion.
Thank you @mayaschenwar.bsky.social for this book and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and Anya Tanyavutti for the wonderful discussion.
March 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Thxxx PCB! You’re the best.
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Another beautiful evening with our @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social community!
Thank you @mayaschenwar.bsky.social for this book and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and Anya Tanyavutti for the wonderful discussion.
Thank you @mayaschenwar.bsky.social for this book and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and Anya Tanyavutti for the wonderful discussion.
March 14, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Another beautiful evening with our @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social community!
Thank you @mayaschenwar.bsky.social for this book and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and Anya Tanyavutti for the wonderful discussion.
Thank you @mayaschenwar.bsky.social for this book and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and Anya Tanyavutti for the wonderful discussion.
Excellent!
“When you see the most radical representations of freedom in the counterculture in US history, there is not a clear divide between the personal and the collective. The 2 are deeply synthesized.”—Alex Zamalin in convo with @bill-ayers.bsky.social
Episode #118: Culture/Counterculture with Alex Zamalin
Human beings are suspended in webs-of-significance—we make sense and we make meaning—and culture is nothing more nor less than the webs. Those webs-of-significance are alive, forever trembling and …
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March 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Excellent!
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NEW EPISODE! Link in bio.
Conversation with Barbara Smith and @bill-ayers.bsky.social recorded on Dec 5, 2024 at the @mediasanctuary.bsky.social in Troy, NY.
Visit our webpage to listen to the episode or watch a video of the event!
Conversation with Barbara Smith and @bill-ayers.bsky.social recorded on Dec 5, 2024 at the @mediasanctuary.bsky.social in Troy, NY.
Visit our webpage to listen to the episode or watch a video of the event!
March 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
NEW EPISODE! Link in bio.
Conversation with Barbara Smith and @bill-ayers.bsky.social recorded on Dec 5, 2024 at the @mediasanctuary.bsky.social in Troy, NY.
Visit our webpage to listen to the episode or watch a video of the event!
Conversation with Barbara Smith and @bill-ayers.bsky.social recorded on Dec 5, 2024 at the @mediasanctuary.bsky.social in Troy, NY.
Visit our webpage to listen to the episode or watch a video of the event!