Status Updates From Freedom Is a Constant Strug...

sometimes in the speeches you’ll get a bracketed aside: [laughter]

and I am SO glad they chose to include these. it’s too easy to stop laughing. I think it’s valuable for young people now, in our current moment, to make space for laughter in our politics. it’s an effective and affective “fuck you.”

there IS a very pre-2016 feeling of hope throughout this, I’m not sure how to get this back

She real smart

“The important issues in the Palestinian struggle for freedom and self-determination are minimized and rendered invisible by those who try to equate Palestinian resistance to Israeli apartheid with terrorism.”

“The most profitable sector of the private prison business is composed of immigrant detention centers. One can therefore understand why the most repressive anti-immigrant legislation in the United States was drafted by private prison companies as an undisguised attempt to maximize their profits.”