Jason Ferreira
profedesanpancho.bsky.social
Jason Ferreira
@profedesanpancho.bsky.social
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“We absolutely did not mean that we would work with people who were only identical to ourselves. We strongly believed in coalitions and working with people across various identities on common problems.” —Barbara Smith, founding member of the Combahee River Collective
Identity Politics and Elite Capture - Boston Review
The wealthy and powerful will take every opportunity to hijack activist energies for their own ends.
www.bostonreview.net
March 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Read Erakat’s recent essay on this subject here:
March 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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New pub on Chicanx-Palestine solidarity and the movement for Ethnic Studies. Happy new year! ✊🏽🇵🇸

www.ethnicstudiespedagogies.org/gallery/Vol2...
December 31, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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My thoughts on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s radical labor politics and the times to come for my MLK Day piece for @truthout.org

truthout.org/articles/as-...
As Billionaires Consolidate Power, We Need to Recommit to MLK’s Radical Vision
MLK was assassinated on the cusp of a strike wave in a time of counterrevolution. We need his “revolution in values.”…
truthout.org
January 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Q. Why are the Black Panthers building their own medical center

A. ...Educate the People to the fundamentals of socialism and also to heighten the contradictions within this capitalist system
January 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Folks are rightly marveling at Mike Davis's prescient work on Malibu fires.

He issued other warnings, too.

20 years ago he published The Monster at Our Door on avian influenza aka bird flu, a "history of a viral apocalypse in the making" now coming to pass.

thenewpress.com/books/monste...
The Monster at Our Door | The New Press
Avian influenza is a viral asteroid on a collision course with humanity. In 1918, a pandemic strain of influenza killed at least 40 million people in three months. Now, leading researchers believe, an...
thenewpress.com
January 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Article by Claudia Antunes, from @sumauma.com, on degrowth, including Latin American perspectives. Glad to have shared some ideas for it, alongside other members of the Ecosocial Pact of the South:

sumauma.com/en/um-freio-...
Degrowth: When to pull the emergency brake on the world economy - SUMAÚMA
Post-extractivist and eco-socialist thinkers want to halt the capitalist pursuit of infinite expansion as the best way to avoid a socio-environmental crash
sumauma.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM