Jyothi Natarajan
@jyothinatarajan.bsky.social
cultural worker, editor, writer/artist 📚 lives in Portland, OR 🌿 #FreePalestine #CeaseFireNow #FreeThemAll (she/they)
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If you’re looking to do something meaningful in the next few days, tell your city councilors — particularly @councilordunphy.bsky.social & Steve Novick — that they made the right vote diverting $ the cops don’t even need to parks.
They are getting pressure from conservatives to flip their votes.
They are getting pressure from conservatives to flip their votes.
June 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
If you’re looking to do something meaningful in the next few days, tell your city councilors — particularly @councilordunphy.bsky.social & Steve Novick — that they made the right vote diverting $ the cops don’t even need to parks.
They are getting pressure from conservatives to flip their votes.
They are getting pressure from conservatives to flip their votes.
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new music out april 2nd, ambient + folk/country(ish) 6-some EP collaboration w Alicia Jo Rabins, WILD NIGHTS ✨🌜💛 thx to @portlandmercury.com for the review! we’ll be at @turnturnturn.bsky.social on April 2nd!
March 28, 2025 at 6:41 AM
new music out april 2nd, ambient + folk/country(ish) 6-some EP collaboration w Alicia Jo Rabins, WILD NIGHTS ✨🌜💛 thx to @portlandmercury.com for the review! we’ll be at @turnturnturn.bsky.social on April 2nd!
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We are beyond excited to share that after months of hard work, a segment Kwaneta authored will air on
@thisamericanlife.org. Tune in this weekend to your local
@npr.org station for the live broadcast and/or listen to the show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.
@thisamericanlife.org. Tune in this weekend to your local
@npr.org station for the live broadcast and/or listen to the show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.
March 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
We are beyond excited to share that after months of hard work, a segment Kwaneta authored will air on
@thisamericanlife.org. Tune in this weekend to your local
@npr.org station for the live broadcast and/or listen to the show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.
@thisamericanlife.org. Tune in this weekend to your local
@npr.org station for the live broadcast and/or listen to the show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.
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My weekly list of must-read articles and some final thoughts for the week.
Must-Reads and the Work of Unsettling
We must resist the impulse to settle in, and that will sometimes mean unsettling others.
organizingmythoughts.org
March 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
My weekly list of must-read articles and some final thoughts for the week.
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Don't forget to nominate your favorite incarcerated writer for a Stillwater Award. It's free! The Stillwater Awards are a national awards program honoring journalistic excellence by incarcerated writers.
February 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Don't forget to nominate your favorite incarcerated writer for a Stillwater Award. It's free! The Stillwater Awards are a national awards program honoring journalistic excellence by incarcerated writers.
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In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
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Something people (including me whoops) have not been mentioning much, is that LA is straight up on it’s 4th day of anti-ICE protests, predominately led by the HS students. As in students are ditching class to walk out to protest ICE in our city.
February 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Something people (including me whoops) have not been mentioning much, is that LA is straight up on it’s 4th day of anti-ICE protests, predominately led by the HS students. As in students are ditching class to walk out to protest ICE in our city.
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Submissions open today for the Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize. This prize uplifts the work of writers who are currently & formerly incarcerated.
truthout.org/articles/kee...
Spread the word!
The prize honors my sister, who died five years ago after many years in and out of incarceration. 💔
truthout.org/articles/kee...
Spread the word!
The prize honors my sister, who died five years ago after many years in and out of incarceration. 💔
Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize
The annual prize is awarded to two writers who are currently or formerly incarcerated.
truthout.org
February 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Submissions open today for the Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize. This prize uplifts the work of writers who are currently & formerly incarcerated.
truthout.org/articles/kee...
Spread the word!
The prize honors my sister, who died five years ago after many years in and out of incarceration. 💔
truthout.org/articles/kee...
Spread the word!
The prize honors my sister, who died five years ago after many years in and out of incarceration. 💔
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If you're looking to get started with getting your personal and/or community/organizational digital security house in order, @eff.org has a great resource: ssd.eff.org
Surveillance Self-Defense
We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an independent non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting you and y...
ssd.eff.org
November 16, 2024 at 5:44 AM
If you're looking to get started with getting your personal and/or community/organizational digital security house in order, @eff.org has a great resource: ssd.eff.org
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Love this letter from David Velasco (the former Artforum editor fired for publishing an open letter against the carnage in Gaza) responding to that Harper’s piece lamenting the contamination of contemporary art by politics.
!["Sorry, I could barely get through Kissick’s orgy of grievances. I lived through the years he elegizes, saw some great art and even more middling art. Anyone reading his piece with a gimlet eye will notice that it was speculation, not ‘politics,’ that sucked the air out of the room. I do agree with him on one point: the art world is boring right now. But you’re not going to save it by being boring yourself. And you’re definitely not going to get art that ‘tears open [your] consciousness’ through nostalgia for Hans Ulrich Obrist. Go outside, look around. Stop being sad because markets and institutions aren’t pandering to you. Go where the energy is. Go make some real friends. Break a magazine. Go to a protest. Free Palestine.
David Velasco
New York City”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x7xmggpwlgtotuxi5as5igwy/bafkreihrenoebwsv5fnp2z63jnlvgvdmeoswiwbonxuwywtv4u2bzqhexq@jpeg)
January 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Love this letter from David Velasco (the former Artforum editor fired for publishing an open letter against the carnage in Gaza) responding to that Harper’s piece lamenting the contamination of contemporary art by politics.
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New poem in Mizna from the great Randa Jarrar
not the day after the war but a day after
the day after the war,
—that day—
. . .
mizna.org/mizna-online...
not the day after the war but a day after
the day after the war,
—that day—
. . .
mizna.org/mizna-online...
A Palestinian Tomorrow—A New Poem by Randa Jarrar - Mizna
Because today there is still a war and maybe after the war there will be a day, if after the war I have a drum or even a mouth to fix to say that we will dance and laugh so hard a day after the da...
mizna.org
January 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
New poem in Mizna from the great Randa Jarrar
not the day after the war but a day after
the day after the war,
—that day—
. . .
mizna.org/mizna-online...
not the day after the war but a day after
the day after the war,
—that day—
. . .
mizna.org/mizna-online...
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A lot is really discouraging about the rise of fascism in the US. I feel particularly distressed at how difficult and unlikely a popular front between liberals and the left is, largely as a result of the horrible turn of liberalism this last year. 1/19 🧵
January 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
A lot is really discouraging about the rise of fascism in the US. I feel particularly distressed at how difficult and unlikely a popular front between liberals and the left is, largely as a result of the horrible turn of liberalism this last year. 1/19 🧵
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In addition to the 12 Dem senators that voted to pass the Laken Riley Act, Biden and Harris deserve just as much blame for capitulating to the right and showing no leadership on the issue. It’s a a result of their cowardice. Harris positioned herself as more hardline than Trump and now here we are.
January 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
In addition to the 12 Dem senators that voted to pass the Laken Riley Act, Biden and Harris deserve just as much blame for capitulating to the right and showing no leadership on the issue. It’s a a result of their cowardice. Harris positioned herself as more hardline than Trump and now here we are.
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Poet and journalist Husam Maarouf on Marwa al-Hasanat's bookstall in Deir al-Balah – the first in a new series from @arablit.bsky.social on reading, writing, and publishing in Gaza
arablit.org/2025/01/15/w...
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What Do Gazans Read During War?
This is the start of what we hope will be a series of pieces by poet and journalist Husam Maarouf on reading, writing, and publishing in Gaza. By Husam Maarouf Bookselling in times of war might see…
arablit.org
January 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Poet and journalist Husam Maarouf on Marwa al-Hasanat's bookstall in Deir al-Balah – the first in a new series from @arablit.bsky.social on reading, writing, and publishing in Gaza
arablit.org/2025/01/15/w...
arablit.org/2025/01/15/w...
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🚨BREAKING🚨
Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency
After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency
After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
January 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🚨BREAKING🚨
Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency
After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency
After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
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BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row.
“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.
“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.
November 28, 2024 at 3:07 PM
BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row.
“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.
“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.
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Workers at 11 unionized New Seasons stores in Portland and Beaverton will walk off the job the day before Thanksgiving for a one-day strike. Union members say they're at a "pivotal point" in bargaining for their first labor contract.
www.portlandmercury.com/news/2024/11...
www.portlandmercury.com/news/2024/11...
Unionized New Seasons Workers to Strike on Wednesday Before Thanksgiving
New Seasons workers at 11 unionized stores in Portland and Beaverton plan to walk off the job on Wednesday, November 27, for a one-day Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike. Union members say they schedu...
www.portlandmercury.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Workers at 11 unionized New Seasons stores in Portland and Beaverton will walk off the job the day before Thanksgiving for a one-day strike. Union members say they're at a "pivotal point" in bargaining for their first labor contract.
www.portlandmercury.com/news/2024/11...
www.portlandmercury.com/news/2024/11...
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"Israeli food manufacturer Strauss Group is divesting its 50 percent stake in Sabra Obela, the maker of hummus...it has grappled with increased competition as US superstores were looking to diversify hummus offerings, and heightened anti-Israel sentiment."
www.timesofisrael.com/strauss-dive...
www.timesofisrael.com/strauss-dive...
Strauss divests stake in Sabra US hummus venture to PepsiCo for $244 million
Food manufacturer sells holding in joint venture after declining sales, amid fierce competition and an uptick in the anti-Israel boycott campaign in the US
www.timesofisrael.com
November 27, 2024 at 2:45 AM
"Israeli food manufacturer Strauss Group is divesting its 50 percent stake in Sabra Obela, the maker of hummus...it has grappled with increased competition as US superstores were looking to diversify hummus offerings, and heightened anti-Israel sentiment."
www.timesofisrael.com/strauss-dive...
www.timesofisrael.com/strauss-dive...
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2024 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
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November 26, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
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It seems we've been added to a list of Anti-Caste writers/academics!
We have an anthology of ➡️ANTI-CASTE SPECULATIVE FICTION⬅️ coming out next month, edited by R.T. Samuel, mostly by Dalit/Bahujan/Adivasi writers.
You can pre-order here:
kickstarter.com/projects/bla...
We have an anthology of ➡️ANTI-CASTE SPECULATIVE FICTION⬅️ coming out next month, edited by R.T. Samuel, mostly by Dalit/Bahujan/Adivasi writers.
You can pre-order here:
kickstarter.com/projects/bla...
Anti-Caste Speculative Fiction - by Blaft Publications
An anthology of weird, fantastic, supernatural, Dalit futurist, & magical realist fiction by writers from South Asia and the diaspora.
kickstarter.com
November 18, 2024 at 6:19 PM
It seems we've been added to a list of Anti-Caste writers/academics!
We have an anthology of ➡️ANTI-CASTE SPECULATIVE FICTION⬅️ coming out next month, edited by R.T. Samuel, mostly by Dalit/Bahujan/Adivasi writers.
You can pre-order here:
kickstarter.com/projects/bla...
We have an anthology of ➡️ANTI-CASTE SPECULATIVE FICTION⬅️ coming out next month, edited by R.T. Samuel, mostly by Dalit/Bahujan/Adivasi writers.
You can pre-order here:
kickstarter.com/projects/bla...
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New writing cohort opportunity for formerly incarcerated and detained folks working on book projects (mostly focused on Californians) details at the link. please apply/share! www.unicornauthors.club/boltcutters-...
Bolt Cutters Cohort — Unicorn Authors Club
www.unicornauthors.club
January 15, 2024 at 11:31 PM
New writing cohort opportunity for formerly incarcerated and detained folks working on book projects (mostly focused on Californians) details at the link. please apply/share! www.unicornauthors.club/boltcutters-...
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so, there has been a 40% drop in ships going through the bab al mandab
Red Sea crisis triggers 40 per cent drop in Suez Canal revenues
Egypt's Suez Canal's revenues are reportedly down by 40 per cent compared to 2023 amid escalation in the Red Sea.
www.porttechnology.org
January 16, 2024 at 11:18 AM
so, there has been a 40% drop in ships going through the bab al mandab