Gaza Conflict vs. Black History: Competing Agendas Define Current Social Justice Battleground

@gawdy Kindly, whether or not it’s intended, when people try to talk about the history of #slavery & the systemic abuse of #Black people & others change the subject, it can be a form of #BlackErasure. From my experience I’ve found that people do the “What about this group” most when #Black issues are brought up & it’s something all of us who aren’t #Black should be aware of. What’s happening in Gaza is devastating, it’s just not what I’m talking about here. #BLM #Blackmastodon

‘Reverse-gentrify the country’: how Black and Indigenous intentional communities are reclaiming land https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/12/black-indigenous-ecovillage-community-reclaim-land #UsNews #Communities #IndigenousPeoples #BlackUsCulture #Race #Environment #Housing

"Meagan Day: What accounts for the Left’s relative failure to replicate this? Lea Ypi: The abandonment of the critique of capitalism as a class project. You have the environmentalist left, the feminist left, the anti-racist left, and there’s been a critique of universalism that has made it difficult to connect these identity-based struggles into one vision. Paradoxically, the Left has inherited the same culturalist approach that the Right takes to understanding conflict — saying it’s about racism or gender without fitting those critiques into a critique of the broader mode of production. What the Left really lacks is an alternative cosmopolitanism. When I was a student in the late ’90s and early 2000s in Italy, that was the moment of the alter-globalization movement. You had the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, the emerging idea of an alternative globalization. But that movement was suffocated by the hegemony of neoliberalism, which insisted that you didn’t need another politics, you just needed the right policy. All you had to do was cater to the Third Way: policy fixes, a little redistribution, compromise with economic elites. Those of us who were on the streets were seen as ridiculous romantics who didn’t understand that the Cold War was over and there was no alternative. That’s what we lost, and that’s what we’re struggling to recover. Meagan Day: The Left has been suspicious of the nation-state for good reason. But in recent history, it’s largely been within this context that the weak have been able to express their power. Is there anything redeeming about the nation-state? Lea Ypi: Pragmatically, yes, because the nation-state is the site of coercive power. If you want to take and exercise power, you need to know where it resides. Otherwise, the social struggle just remains everywhere and nowhere." https://jacobin.com/2026/04/left-cosmopolitanism-politics-internationalism-ypi #PoliticalTheory #Cosmopolitanism #Internationalism #Nationalism #Left #Politics

Combating racism takes more than awareness—it requires coordinated global action. At an international day event, #ALLATRA highlighted real cases and practical solutions, reinforcing a clear message: dialogue must lead to action. 🔗 allatra.org/press-release/… #AntiRacism #HumanRights #GlobalAction #SocialJustice #Equality #ActNow

🚨CORRECTION: “TERMINOLOGY MATTERS. CONTEXT MATTERS. OUR TRUTH MATTERS. SO CALL IT LIKE IT IS.” PALESTINIAN HOSTAGES DAY #activism #palestine #europe #resistance #cdnpoli #canada #eu @socialmedia #usa #news #middleeast @politics #war #Hezbollah #Lebanon #Gaza #education #justice #humanrights #mastodon #Hamas #Iran #Yemen #Iraq #Syria #freePalestine #torture #rape #hostages #NEVERAGAIN #genocide #Israel #palestinianprisonersday #icc @law

Those of us who remember Section 28 don’t want to see its warped logic inflicted on another community, writes Kat Brown – and using my safety as an excuse to discriminate against trans people has got to stop https://trib.al/XIJrYR8 #TransRights #TransLives #allyship #trans #LGBTQIA #scapegoating #Transphobia

“‘We know the extent to which the government has worked to destroy (Black rights) organizations and is continuing to do that work …. One of the things that makes Black Lives Matter so fascinating and so enduring over these last few years is it is decentralized …. You can’t necessarily identify a specific leader of #Black Lives Matter, so a single person can’t be identified, targeted, and neutralized. The movement becomes resilient’” #blacklivesmatter #protest https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/news/fbi

‘Death Should Never Be the Answer’: Why Jewish Abolitionists Oppose Israel’s Execution Law – JURIST – Commentary As Jews worldwide mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, the co-founder of L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty asks how… #EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel https://www.europesays.com/iran/70708/

“WHAT HAPPENED TO THE #BLACKWOMEN #TRUMP PURGED FROM THE #FEDERALWORK FORCE?” Retribution against black women for not voting for him. https://hammerandhope.org/article/trump-federal-work-force-black-women #dei #BlackMastodon #black