5LL #149 - Nakba, Care, Model Minority Myth, Student Debt, MOVE

The Nakba Demands Justice
Kaleem Hawa, Jewish Currents
Once the Nakba is understood as an individual, communal, spiritual, and material maiming of the Palestinian people, it becomes clear that what is justified and necessary is not so-called reconciliation, but rather a program of decolonization.
Who Cares?
Sarah Jaffe, The Baffler
Before Covid-19, American women were already in crisis.
Safe Asian Americans
Tamara K. Nopper, Asian American Writers' Workshop
The image of Asian Americans as only victims of violence or crime but not perpetrators, is part of the carceral logic of the model minority myth. And this logic is uncomfortably present in the current conversation about anti-Asian violence.
The Case for Canceling Student Debt — All of It
Sean Illing, Vox
Why a leading activist on student debt thinks Biden’s proposal to cancel $10,000 isn’t enough.
The History of the Black Radical Group MOVE and Its Infamous Bombing by Police
Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue
Memories of the events serve as a warning about the dangers of the police state, and a reminder of the price that black radicals have paid in their fight for liberation.
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