Asia Leeds
Recovering academic. Business Development & Strategic Partnerships. West Baltimore to West Africa. Bridge builder. Comrade. All power to the people.
📍Dakar
- Reposted by Asia Leeds"Faith Ministers are BLOCKING the entrance to the ICE Detention Center, Delaney Hall in New Jersey where Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested last week." Posted by @scootercaster.com on "X" at 1:19 pm EDT
- I went camping in the desert this weekend 📍 Lompoul, Senegal
- Reposted by Asia Leeds‘The Library’ 1960, Jacob Lawrence
- Reposted by Asia LeedsI notice a lot of you who keep asking where the anti-genocide protests are now that Trump is in office, do not in fact uplift those protests when you clearly see that they are happening. What's with that? It appears that you only want rhetorical cudgels but don't care about the genocide or protests.
- Traffic jams and blocked roads because the neo-colonial World Bank is inaugurating a new regional office in Dakar and supposed anti-imperialist president Diomaye is attending 😒
- Reposted by Asia LeedsTo save runaways from slavery who were trying to make lives in the North “illegally,” local Vigilance Committees formed. They kept watch for slave catchers, secreted away those in danger, and posted placards that outed slave catchers, sometimes hounding them till they left town.
- A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed. Learn more: boltsmag.org/how-vol...
- Reposted by Asia LeedsAt leat seven people have died while incarcerated by ICE since Trump took office, including three in April: Brayan Garzón-Rayo, a 27-year-old man from Colombia who lived with his family in St. Louis. Nhon Nguc Nguyen, 55, from Vietnam. Marie Ange Blaise, a 44-year-old citizen of Haiti.
- Reposted by Asia LeedsMore than 3,500 children below the age of five in Gaza face “imminent death by starvation”, and about 290,000 others are “on the brink of death” as Israel continues to prevent the entry of baby formula, nutritional supplements, and all forms of humanitarian aid aje.io/p407e2
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Senior UNRWA emergency officer on the genocidal conditions imposed on Gaza rn: “The situation now is so beyond imagination, so beyond words at this point, because people are being starved, basically… children are now starving. People are surviving on one meal a day. People are without medicine.” - Reposted by Asia LeedsIn 1875 Oliver Lewis (pictured) won the first Kentucky Derby. Black jockeys won 15 of the first 28 Kentucky Derbys. In 1774 Austin Curtis, an enslaved Virginian, was the nation's champion jockey & a Revolutionary War hero.
- Reposted by Asia LeedsW.E.B. Du Bois, May Day Speech, NYC, 1957 “American socialism should be planned for American conditions... It should demand freedom of thought and speech; freedom to study, travel and learn; and above all, freedom to vote for what we want instead of compulsion to vote for one party under two names”
- Happy International Workers’ Day! Today is a holiday basically everywhere in the world except the U.S.
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- Reposted by Asia LeedsJudge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’ politi.co/42TgorF
- The Lady in My Life
- Reposted by Asia LeedsI first learned Rwanda was open to accepting people not wanted in the US via a copy of a diplomatic cable sent in March. A new cable sent today confirmed that the first person had been "relocated" after the US paid the Rwandan government $100,000.
- A bmore legend
- In 2000, John Waters donated 372 pieces of his art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. They named a rotunda after him in their gallery. He requested an all-gender restroom be named for him instead. #BOTD
- Reposted by Asia Leeds“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Sinners is showing here in Senegal at Pathé Dakar. I have my ticket!
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- “Newsom’s logic here is fairly straightforward if you have neither a spine nor guts nor a brain.”
- wrote about gavin newsom claiming Abrego Garcia is a distraction, because gavin newsom is a piece of shit. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/gavin-news...
- Reposted by Asia Leedsthe pollsters, the politicians, anyone in this camp needs to be shown the fucking door
- Reposted by Asia LeedsHoward University students launched a solidarity encampment, DC and campus police threaten arrests. It's a direct attack on peaceful protest and student power. Howard students demand justice— they’re calling on community to mobilize and defend the encampment. Show up. Speak out. Stand with them.
- Reposted by Asia LeedsUS FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts reut.rs/42C4h1Z
- I, like the rest of the Black world, have 4 Kampé and the Burna Boy remix on repeat
- Al Sharpton, Head Grifter in Charge
- Reposted by Asia Leedsdo people not realize that the past four decades of US policing legislation PR and practice have made the allegation that someone is a “gang member” entirely subject to the whims of the state
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- Reposted by Asia LeedsOne of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.
- “Daniel Noboa is a business magnate, heir to a banana industry fortune…He’s been condemned for skirting legal norms in the process, including declaring a state of internal armed conflict to more easily deploy the military.“ Same right wing playbook across the Americas.
- Reposted by Asia Leeds“The Maldives reaffirms its resolute solidarity with the Palestinian cause.” Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu has announced that his country was banning the entry of Israelis in “resolute solidarity” with the Palestinian people. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/e4fv2d
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- Dakar is really a small town. You’re one degree of separation from basically everyone.
- Listening to my dad’s stream of consciousness rant on how integration ruined the Black community
- One of the more disgusting examples of the punching left that liberals/Democratic Party stans do. Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.
- Reposted by Asia LeedsToday’s lesson: “We can only be chased if we run.” —Janet Jemmott, SNCC field secretary during Freedom Summer
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- Reposted by Asia LeedsPlainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.
- Reposted by Asia LeedsOne of the most clarifying things I've seen in the past few weeks is "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."
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- Israeli Ambassador to Ethiopia Expelled from African Union Headquarters www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-amba...
- Reposted by Asia LeedsUPDATED: At least 83 students -- at campuses for University of California, California State University and Stanford -- have had their visas revoked as of Monday evening.
- LATEST: At least 45 student visas across the state have been revoked by the Trump administration, California universities report, as numbers grow. A lawsuit has been filed in a Los Angeles federal court against DHS and Kristi Noem www.latimes.com/california/s...
- Reposted by Asia LeedsIt’s the birthday of Billie Holiday, a survivor of abuse & an enemy of the state who was targeted by the FBI through her use of narcotics for bringing lynching to light, & died handcuffed to her hospital bed.
- Bonne fête de l’indépendance, Sénégal!!! 🇸🇳 🇸🇳 🇸🇳
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- Reposted by Asia LeedsNew research shows Israel's slaughter in Gaza has killed more journalists than the US Civil War, World Wars 1 and 2, the Korean War, the Vietnam war, the Yugoslav Wars, the Afghanistan War and the Ukraine War COMBINED. More: watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
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- My neighbors dropped of some lakh, which is a porridge the Senegalese eat for breakfast on Eid. It’s delicious. Kinda reminds me of rice pudding. Eid Mubarak!!
- Reposted by Asia LeedsEid Mubarak, also free Palestine.
- Day 11 of my visit to the U.S. and…two weeks is entirely too long for me to be here.
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- Everything is terrible but I did one thing today that brought me joy: I recorded my first rap in the studio 😁
- Reposted by Asia LeedsUPDATE: Palestine Studies Search is back up! They could delay us and annoy us, but they could not keep us down. Please apply, share with friends, cannot wait to meet our new colleagues. hrsa.cunyfirst.cuny.edu/psp/erecruit...
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- Reposted by Asia LeedsMust read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
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- Welcomed by a jazz saxophonist in the terminal and smiling Black faces everywhere. They can never make me hate you, ATL airport!
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- Reposted by Asia LeedsBREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.
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- This is true. And also, Canada destabilizes with its neocolonial status quo, internally with indigenous people and externally via mining in Africa.
- Anyways here’s the most read story on the most read news website in Canada today www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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- Reposted by Asia LeedsFor the @theguardian.com I wrote about the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil & Trump's exploitation of anti-Palestinian racism to descend the nation into authoritarianism, with the full collaboration of academia. No one is free until Palestine is free. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Asia Leeds“Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters, We are raising urgent funds to support Mahmoud Khalil and his family, a dedicated advocate for Palestinian rights and a recent graduate of Columbia University” chuffed.org/project/just...
- New braids, new me!
- Reposted by Asia LeedsIt’s Harriet Tubman Day. Don’t argue with people she would have shot.
