Wesley Hogan
wesleyhogan.bsky.social
Wesley Hogan
@wesleyhogan.bsky.social
Historian of freedom movements. Let's get free. snccdigital.org/ and
sites.duke.edu/ncpostdobbs/
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July 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Did those who signed HR 1, just take one such step? Not hard to imagine there being a sign outside the former Congress building in 2075: (16/21)
July 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
In Jackson, MS, as pedestrians pass site of a former poultry plant in 2075: "March 2025 'He didn’t come home. I thought he died.' —9-year-old after ICE raid near Laurel, MS. ICE tore families apart in the middle of workdays, leaving schools and churches scrambling to care for children." (15/21)
July 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
In Miami, FL next to the former Krome facility (now a museum) in 2075: JULY 21, 2025, “'They made us kneel. The food was thrown at us.'— Migrant held at Krome ICE facility, HRW report. Detainees were shackled, denied heat and medical care, and subjected to degrading treatment in Florida." (14/21)
July 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
In Koreatown, next to an elementary school in 2075: "THE GOVERNMENT TOOK CHILDREN. 2,800 KIDS WERE NEVER PROPERLY TRACKED." It's back side: “'What did 'zero tolerance' mean to a 4-year-old?' —Testimony, former Border Agent, 2039. Recordkeeping failed. Many children were lost in the system." (13/21)
July 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
For instance, in Los Angeles' Boyle Heights, perhaps its residents will walk through and pass this daily in 2075: (12/21)
July 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
-- but instead complained to the Nazis that the dogs and cats belonging to their kidnapped Jewish neighbors were barking + meowing -- disturbing their "peace." The Nazis responded by forbidding Jews from keeping their pets after Feb. 15, 1942. (5/21)
July 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Or when you walk by the local elementary school, you see this sign: "Jewish children are prohibited from public school" as of Nov. 15, 1938. And after June 20, 1942, "Jewish children can no longer attend any school," private or public: (3/21)
July 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
So today, when you walk by a neighborhood supermarket, you see this sign, showing that from July 4, 1940 on, Jews were forbidden from buying groceries except between 4-5 pm ( 2/21)
July 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
SNCC vet Judy Richardson, 81, last week answered a student who asked how Freedom Movement people found the courage to resist armed racists in the South. "Bullies," she looked the young man straight in the eye. "Their oxygen is our fear. Cut off the source." sncclegacyproject.org/sncc-grassro...
April 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
So many reminders along the way this week of the vital necessity of this quote from Edward Abbey, *A Voice Crying in the Wilderness* 1989
March 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Yesterday in TX Ken Paxton arrested a reproductive care worker. He claimed she provided 'illegal abortions.' No other details. We do know: Community health care workers have been relied on as trusted supports to accompany people through pregnancy, birth, miscarriage, + abortion for 20,000 yrs here
March 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
There might be some researchers, doctors, university leaders + faculty who feel inspired by this Rosa Parks quote today, print by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.
March 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Then he reminded us we have to fight, together!
March 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"At what point are you going to stand up for what's right, and not bow down to what's wrong? "
March 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
March 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Listening to Robert Cray's "This Man". Song of the moment as my train moves through DC. open.spotify.com/track/06s7QR...
February 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Mari Tepper, presenté
February 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Please share this information with people in your life who are capable of pregnancy. We're in that new world, and not enough of us know how to protect ourselves. For more info on keeping reproductive life private, see this excellent guide digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/a...
February 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The Courage To Be protects us
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The powerful details include
February 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Malu Brooks💥 from @dreamdefenders.bsky.social, bringing this fire reminder for the role of activist archivists during "shock and awe"--"We no longer armchair revolutionaries...we're using academia for our people"
January 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
People who love and support K12 teachers-elementary, social studies- please consider spending a few dollars this season to support @zinnedproject.bsky.social .They provide so many lessons, documents, ideas + networks to support those who teach essential civics to all our children. Thank you ZEP!
December 15, 2024 at 5:15 PM