derecka
@dereckapurnell
http://derecka.com/contact | rooting for everyone resisting oppression | slowly transitioning from social media | author, Becoming Abolitionists
hi, i've wanted to share my book cover for a while. here it is. especially now, i believe that more people will realize that we deserve a world without police. i hope this book is an offering that will help as we dream, discuss and debate what it takes penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675803/b…
Someday soon, what’s been obvious to so many of us from the beginning will be understood by everyone: that if a city can be reduced to rubble with its people held captive inside, if they can be starved in full view of the world, everything is permitted, and this threatens us all.
BREAKING: Israel storms the World Health Organisation building in Gaza, seizing Hostages After storming the WHO’s staff residency building in Deir Al-Balah, Israeli militants took four hostages. They also assaulted the families of WHO staff, stripping, interrogating & binding…
🚨AFP issues a statement saying this is the 1st time in their entire history their journalists on the ground face death by starvation
An Israeli airstrike just killed 10 people—six of them kids—as they stood in line for water. Yesterday, 31 more Palestinians were shot dead while trying to reach an aid distribution site. This is what our tax dollars continue to fund. And most of the country couldn't care less.
I’ll be joining the Freedom Flotilla set for Gaza 🇵🇸 ✊🏽
Doing court watch in eviction court in St Louis City today and the majority of the cases on the docket are to evict elderly Black people.
I read Ali’s book. In fact, I’m the person who translated the book into English. The book isn’t about racism from Palestinians. It’s about the Israeli apartheid state. Also, Ali doesn’t live in Gaza. He lives in Jerusalem, where I’ve done my research (with him) for 10 1/2 years.…
“Well, I don't know what communism is but I know [Eric Adams] don't like it so it must be good". -Fannie Lou Hamer
- Karl Marx Author of the The Communist Manifesto
Horrific night in the West Bank: Israeli settlers are currently attacking the Christian village of Taybeh, near Ramallah—setting homes on fire and shooting at residents.
Kwame Ture is crystal clear: join a grassroots organization fighting for Black/African people and get organized. the motive force of history is collective organization, not individual spontaneity
Kyrie Irving donated $50,000 to the mother of Tamir Rice, who is currently raising funds to build a youth center in her son’s name theblackwallsttimes.com/2025/06/25/tam…
The most despicable form of genocide has recently come to light with the spread of a drug called Oxycodone among the population. Israel has reportedly been smuggling it in through bags of flour provided as aid. As a pharmacist, let me explain what this drug is: it belongs to the…
also, very, very important. 100%
Lots already written and said, at length, about hate crime prevention as an effective policy of police expansion and political repression; promising this as a Muslim who was raised amidst 9/11 NYPD & FBI expansion under ‘hate crimes’ prevention is wild, uncritical, anti-Black.
Young Black voters appear to have been Zohran’s strongest demographic. What we’re seeing is a growing generational divide among Black voters—especially in deep blue cities—about what kind of leadership and policies the Democratic Party should embrace.
It's the millennials wot won it
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BREAKING: Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani. apnews.com/article/andrew…