5LL #361: Relics, Security, Students, Louisiana, Arson
‘I Wanted to Have Something to Give My Daughter From Gaza’
Zahra Hafez, Myassar Nabil, Sundes Al-Ghandour, Tasnim Salah, Samia Al-Atrash and Danya Issawi, The Cut
Escaped Palestinian women tell the stories of the few relics they have of home.
The Israeli Firms Running Mega-Event Security
Editors, NOlympics LA
Olympic security and surveillance are big business and that business is also enabling the genocide in Palestine.
Columbia Punished our Kids for Protesting Against the Genocide in Gaza. We Condemn the University’s Cowardice
Jeff Melnick and Juliette Lamalle, The Guardian
We are the parents of students who faced disciplinary actions for pro-Palestine activism. The struggle for liberation will not end with suspensions and expulsions.
Abolition After Katrina
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs and David Stein, n+1
Why did Louisiana develop into such a stronghold of the US prison regime?
Incendiary Schemes
Charlotte E. Rosen, Protean
Without deluding ourselves into thinking this work will be absent of real perils—state capture and reformism always stalk—the history of the Bronx’s arson wave demonstrates that wielding power to demand a more just world is not only possible but winnable in our lifetimes.