Ruth Zakarin
CEO of the MA Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence. Knitter, cat lady, grey hair evangelist. Oh, and I box. #COYS. Opinions strong, plentiful, and my own.
Check out my essays at: https://dot-connecting.ghost.io
- Book burning is an act of violence. It is an attempt to erase history and ideas, and it also an attempt to erase the people centered in that history and those ideas.
- 40 years ago today, police swarmed this street in Philadelphia and dropped a bomb on the Black community here, killing 11 people, including 5 children, and displacing hundreds of residents. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana
- It is my earliest memory of watching the news and being horrified by what I saw. I simply couldn’t comprehend how a city could bomb its own people. And now 40 years later my head can piece together a narrative but my heart will never understand.
- Trump has fired the Black woman who serves as Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, and replaced her with an unqualified white man with no experience, his personal criminal defense lawyer, Todd Blanche.
- White supremacist hire.
- Yep. It costs you absolutely nothing to leave trans people be and let them live their lives.
- Jesus... the racism is just right there... overt, unashamed, and vile.
- The Afrikaners are “just like us” but Haitian immigrants will eat your pets. They welcome white farmers while deporting Black and brown agricultural workers. This is what white supremacy looks like.
- I am in gun violence prevention work and it makes me sick to my stomach to see ICE agents toting semiautomatic weapons through neighborhoods that were peaceful before they arrived.
- Immigrants leave their countries to flee violence perpetrated with U.S. made guns. Come to the U.S. only to be violently abducted by thugs carrying U.S. made guns. It’s all violence. Perpetrated with U.S. made guns.
- Trump 2.0 made me so worried that he would again separate families at the southern border. I was right about the fear, and wrong about the location. He’s separating families and abducting people — everywhere. Including right here in Massachusetts.
- A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...
- Today in the bluest of the blue Massachusetts, a mother and baby ripped apart. We did this to enslaved through the buying and selling of human beings. We did this to indigenous people through boarding schools. And now we are doing it again. Do not say this isn’t who we are. It is.
- 🧵Update: In Worcester, MA, ICE dragged a mother away from her baby & family—without identifying themselves or showing a warrant. She’s now in San Antonio. The community tried to stop them. They were met with force. Read it. Share it. Never forget it tinyurl.com/No-warrant @lukeoneil47.bsky.social
