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As Audre Lorde says “There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not live single issue lives?” This means our struggle against oppression is connected no matter where we are

Twelve hours.

I restarted my substack! today a friend informed me that my strategy of letting it "spread by word of mouth" and never tweeting about it was probably not going to work, so here it is -- it's about gardening :) ellieshechet.substack.com

I have been following 19-year-old Zain who tried to the best of his ability to post positive content from Gaza. This week, he was murdered by the Zionist regime. Blood is on the hands of our politicians. How do we as humans allow this to happen?!

Williamsburg Changes, But Toñita Still Reigns For 50 years, Maria Antonia "Toñita" Cay has overseen the Caribbean Social Club in Williamsburg. It's now the last Puerto Rican social club in Brooklyn. J. Escobedo Shepherd with the scene report: hellgatenyc.com/williamsburg-c…

"The reason that I became the first Puerto Rican woman to be elected to the House of Representatives is because of the work [of] people like Toñita; they paved the way for me to become that person," Rep. Nydia Velazquez told J. Escobedo Shepherd. hellgatenyc.com/williamsburg-c…

NYC: There’s no PRIDE without protesting POLICE. Join us TOMORROW (6/23) - 1PM - GRAND ARMY PLAZA. We’ll demand NYC Council vote against increased funding for Eric Adams’s lover, the NYPD, and their baby, Queens Cop City.

It's been 48 hours since Israel murdered Gaza's water & environment chief engineer along with 4 municipality officials while they were working to restore the water supply to the famine-stricken northern Gaza. Not even a single passing mention of this in any mainstream media!

The only reference to the incident. Not a word in any Western media on this. The 5 officials were slaughtered in a targeted airstrike on a Gaza municipality building. thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2024…

⚡️ Gaza Media Office: The number of journalists assassinated by the occupation army has reached 158 since October 7th. The Israeli army has assassinated 5 journalists in the past 12 hours in Gaza City and Nuseirat: - Journalist Saadi Madoukh - Journalist Adeeb Sukkar -

New York's summers are longer and hotter, while its prisons are older than ever before. So that means no AC...and absolutely stifling conditions. Hell Gate has teamed up with Prison Journalism Project to bring you what it's like inside NY prisons during a heat wave. hellgatenyc.com/ny-prisons-no-…

Biden’s crime is not being old, it’s genocide.

BRAT SUMMER IS OFFICIALLY OVER

I wrote for The Nation about the cozy relationship many American journalists enjoy with the IDF even as Palestinian journalists are killed en masse by Israel's military.thenation.com/article/societ…

Must-read from Ta-Nahesi Coates on those left out of the #DNC's diversity displays: "No Palestinian American is scheduled to address the convention from the main stage. I suspect this is because of what such a speaker might feel compelled to say." vanityfair.com/news/story/dnc…

Palesitnian journalist Muhammed Abd Rabbou, killed yesterday along with his sister in an Israeli bombardment of his home in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The child Omar Ashour, who was struck by an Israeli missile that exploded on his small body, leaving no trace of him behind.