Billie Swift
@swiftb.bsky.social
Poet & bookseller; runs Open Books: A Poem Emporium, a bookstore devoted to poetry.
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Breaking: ICE arrests a Palestinian student at Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, whose wife is 8 months pregnant. They revoked his student visa and his green card.
BOYCOTT COLUMBIA. WRITE & Demand answers.
This is fucking sickening.
zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...
BOYCOTT COLUMBIA. WRITE & Demand answers.
This is fucking sickening.
zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
zeteo.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Breaking: ICE arrests a Palestinian student at Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, whose wife is 8 months pregnant. They revoked his student visa and his green card.
BOYCOTT COLUMBIA. WRITE & Demand answers.
This is fucking sickening.
zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...
BOYCOTT COLUMBIA. WRITE & Demand answers.
This is fucking sickening.
zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...
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One of the 13 core principles of @interruptcrim.bsky.social's Beyond Do No Harm Network - learn more at bit.ly/BDNHLaunch and our discussion guide section on this principle: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/bdnh-4
January 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
One of the 13 core principles of @interruptcrim.bsky.social's Beyond Do No Harm Network - learn more at bit.ly/BDNHLaunch and our discussion guide section on this principle: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/bdnh-4
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Did you know @palestinestudies.bsky.social created a digital encyclopedia dedicated to Palestinian history?
Meet PalQuest—the first interactive bilingual platform on Palestinian history. Discover THOUSANDS of timelines, biographies, places, events, and rare documents:
palquest.org
Meet PalQuest—the first interactive bilingual platform on Palestinian history. Discover THOUSANDS of timelines, biographies, places, events, and rare documents:
palquest.org
Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question – palquest
Explore events, biographies, highlights and documents, in a platform entirely devoted to the history of the Palestine Question
palquest.org
January 22, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Did you know @palestinestudies.bsky.social created a digital encyclopedia dedicated to Palestinian history?
Meet PalQuest—the first interactive bilingual platform on Palestinian history. Discover THOUSANDS of timelines, biographies, places, events, and rare documents:
palquest.org
Meet PalQuest—the first interactive bilingual platform on Palestinian history. Discover THOUSANDS of timelines, biographies, places, events, and rare documents:
palquest.org
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one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies
January 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies
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As we witness these heartbreaking scenes from the fires in LA, an important reminder that incarcerated people make up over 30% of California’s forest firefighters.
30 percent of California's forest firefighters are prisoners
About 4,000 inmates battle blazes in the Golden State's woodlands.
www.motherjones.com
January 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM
As we witness these heartbreaking scenes from the fires in LA, an important reminder that incarcerated people make up over 30% of California’s forest firefighters.
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They will continue until no one is left and the whole world will let them. If you're wondering why we're laughing about your faux outrage at Trump trying to claim Greenland, Canada or the Gulf of Mexico, this is why. Fuck you and your selective empathy.
Israeli military killed 49 people in Gaza on Tuesday, including five children in a bombing of the so-called al-Mawasi ‘safe zone.’ At least nine more people have been killed in pre-dawn attacks, including a 15-day-old infant in Gaza City.
(Video below)
(Video below)
January 8, 2025 at 6:37 AM
They will continue until no one is left and the whole world will let them. If you're wondering why we're laughing about your faux outrage at Trump trying to claim Greenland, Canada or the Gulf of Mexico, this is why. Fuck you and your selective empathy.
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Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or event—every theater, every archive, every historic landmark and site—has been completely destroyed. They no longer exist.
January 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or event—every theater, every archive, every historic landmark and site—has been completely destroyed. They no longer exist.
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We made it, and only a day late 💖
My next challenge for us: 10k by next Monday. That’s a modest 138 a day - it may sound like a lot but gosh it really isn’t, trust me!
Give: chuffed.org/project/help...
Sign up with your receipt by end of Friday: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/rei...
My next challenge for us: 10k by next Monday. That’s a modest 138 a day - it may sound like a lot but gosh it really isn’t, trust me!
Give: chuffed.org/project/help...
Sign up with your receipt by end of Friday: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/rei...
Final day to raise this short goal of 9k ‼️👋🏾
I’m confident that anywhere between 1 and 25 people can help do this today. Remember the power of $5 + a share.
chuffed.org/project/help...
use your receipt:
🍊 w4g: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/rei...
🍊 art & more: tiny.cc/DivyaShop
I’m confident that anywhere between 1 and 25 people can help do this today. Remember the power of $5 + a share.
chuffed.org/project/help...
use your receipt:
🍊 w4g: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/rei...
🍊 art & more: tiny.cc/DivyaShop
January 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
896
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Only $35,787 until $2M CAD! Soooo close.
We are having to significantly slow down reimbursing volunteers. Please consider sending us an etransfer if you are in 'Canada' as this would involve no fees:
cripsforesimsforgaza[at]gmail[dot]com (autodeposit on)
bit.ly/eSimsRUs
#ConnectingGaza
We are having to significantly slow down reimbursing volunteers. Please consider sending us an etransfer if you are in 'Canada' as this would involve no fees:
cripsforesimsforgaza[at]gmail[dot]com (autodeposit on)
bit.ly/eSimsRUs
#ConnectingGaza
January 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Only $35,787 until $2M CAD! Soooo close.
We are having to significantly slow down reimbursing volunteers. Please consider sending us an etransfer if you are in 'Canada' as this would involve no fees:
cripsforesimsforgaza[at]gmail[dot]com (autodeposit on)
bit.ly/eSimsRUs
#ConnectingGaza
We are having to significantly slow down reimbursing volunteers. Please consider sending us an etransfer if you are in 'Canada' as this would involve no fees:
cripsforesimsforgaza[at]gmail[dot]com (autodeposit on)
bit.ly/eSimsRUs
#ConnectingGaza
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Another matching opportunity from poet Eduardo Corral ❤️
✨ Fundraising goal! Poet Eduardo Corral has offered to match $1k for all donations through this @workshops4gaza.bsky.social bookshop page: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g.... All funds will be sent to
The Sameer Project's South Gaza campaign. Your $1k = $2k. Let's go! 🌿💞
The Sameer Project's South Gaza campaign. Your $1k = $2k. Let's go! 🌿💞
[W4G] $1,000 Matching Campaign for The Sameer Project
Support The Sameer Project's South Gaza: Tents, Cash Aid & Medical fundraiser! Poet Eduardo Corral has offered to match $1,000 in funds collected here! Help us raise $1,000 --> which will mean ...
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com
January 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Another matching opportunity from poet Eduardo Corral ❤️
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Those gofundmes some of you are complaining about are the only thing keeping Palestinians in Gaza alive. There are many governments who could intervene & say "if regular people can get money to Palestinians to buy food, so can we" but nobody has said that. Everything happening in Gaza is intentional
December 10, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Those gofundmes some of you are complaining about are the only thing keeping Palestinians in Gaza alive. There are many governments who could intervene & say "if regular people can get money to Palestinians to buy food, so can we" but nobody has said that. Everything happening in Gaza is intentional
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I always thought if there is ever a genocide again in our time, everybody I know will stop everything they're doing and fully focus on ending it. Now I'm trying to figure out how to live in a world where this didn't happen at all.
December 10, 2024 at 4:06 AM
I always thought if there is ever a genocide again in our time, everybody I know will stop everything they're doing and fully focus on ending it. Now I'm trying to figure out how to live in a world where this didn't happen at all.
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Join us for our SECOND in-person workshopat Recirculation in NYC! @esmat.bsky.social will be discussing Muin Bseiso's GAZA DIARIES (1971) with us. All proceeds to the Sameer Project, which is distributing tents, cash aid and medical supplies. Register here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/mui...
December 10, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Join us for our SECOND in-person workshopat Recirculation in NYC! @esmat.bsky.social will be discussing Muin Bseiso's GAZA DIARIES (1971) with us. All proceeds to the Sameer Project, which is distributing tents, cash aid and medical supplies. Register here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/mui...
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Friends, I have a project for you. This is verified.
My sister @shantini.bsky.social & I are working to help Bakr, a 🇵🇸 child evacuee, get life-saving surgery for brain cancer. He needs $4000 by 12/8 to book the surgery.
We are matching the next $500!
I believe we can do it!
tiny.cc/HelpBakr
My sister @shantini.bsky.social & I are working to help Bakr, a 🇵🇸 child evacuee, get life-saving surgery for brain cancer. He needs $4000 by 12/8 to book the surgery.
We are matching the next $500!
I believe we can do it!
tiny.cc/HelpBakr
December 5, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Friends, I have a project for you. This is verified.
My sister @shantini.bsky.social & I are working to help Bakr, a 🇵🇸 child evacuee, get life-saving surgery for brain cancer. He needs $4000 by 12/8 to book the surgery.
We are matching the next $500!
I believe we can do it!
tiny.cc/HelpBakr
My sister @shantini.bsky.social & I are working to help Bakr, a 🇵🇸 child evacuee, get life-saving surgery for brain cancer. He needs $4000 by 12/8 to book the surgery.
We are matching the next $500!
I believe we can do it!
tiny.cc/HelpBakr
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This is how Jabalia camp is destroyed.
Everything was destroyed.
Everything was destroyed.
December 10, 2024 at 11:35 PM
This is how Jabalia camp is destroyed.
Everything was destroyed.
Everything was destroyed.
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We're still here - the campaign had just gotten out of stagnation, but is stagnated again, which presents a very urgent need & burden on this family as they contend with high costs & new displacement.
We can change this together !
chuffed.org/project/help...
We can change this together !
chuffed.org/project/help...
Friends, can you do me a favor?
I use different social media for different campaigns for wider reach. But I'm shadowbanned on the bird app.
After months of stagnation, we're only 185 from $5k for this newly-displaced family.
Give: chuffed.org/project/help...
Use your receipt: tiny.cc/DivyaShop
I use different social media for different campaigns for wider reach. But I'm shadowbanned on the bird app.
After months of stagnation, we're only 185 from $5k for this newly-displaced family.
Give: chuffed.org/project/help...
Use your receipt: tiny.cc/DivyaShop
Help Remas and Toleen Escape from Death
Greetings to All Who Believe in New Beginnings!
chuffed.org
November 25, 2024 at 7:44 PM
We're still here - the campaign had just gotten out of stagnation, but is stagnated again, which presents a very urgent need & burden on this family as they contend with high costs & new displacement.
We can change this together !
chuffed.org/project/help...
We can change this together !
chuffed.org/project/help...
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Monthly Crips for eSIMS fundraising total for @workshops4gaza.bsky.social bookshop in Nov is more than $5,500 🌿🙌 Can we get to $7,500 by the end of the month? 💞 So many incredible books here, including @brandonshimoda.bsky.social's newest:
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
[W4G] [12/10/24] Shimoda, Brandon: The Afterlife Is Letting Go
City Lights Books, paperback Publication Date: December 10, 2024 Publisher's Marketing: "The Afterlife Is Letting Go is a meditative consideration of Japanese American incarceration during WWII by Bra...
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Monthly Crips for eSIMS fundraising total for @workshops4gaza.bsky.social bookshop in Nov is more than $5,500 🌿🙌 Can we get to $7,500 by the end of the month? 💞 So many incredible books here, including @brandonshimoda.bsky.social's newest:
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
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November 24, 2024 at 5:41 AM
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Available for preorder @workshops4gaza.bsky.social's store @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social: Mohammed el-Kurd's Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal @haymarketbooks.org, an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal: t.ly/teBTo. Proceeds to Crips for eSims for Gaza.
November 23, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Available for preorder @workshops4gaza.bsky.social's store @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social: Mohammed el-Kurd's Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal @haymarketbooks.org, an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal: t.ly/teBTo. Proceeds to Crips for eSims for Gaza.
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Support Massage Parlor Outreach Project www.mpopsea.org/en/get-invol...
November 21, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Support Massage Parlor Outreach Project www.mpopsea.org/en/get-invol...