@PurviPoets

Author of MIRACLE MARKS @NorthwesternUP & TERRAIN TRACKS @NewRiversPress. Pursuing justice w/ joy. Garba lover. Pecan pie fan. Eyeshadow queen. #poetryaschange

 Brooklyn, NY
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It’s hereeeeeeee! Book publication day. 11 years in making. Make my day & get your copy: amazon.com/Miracle-Marks-Poe… Thank you to @NorthwesternUP & all the folks who’ve already supported this #book on #women, the #sacred, and #equity. I’m holding a blessing. #miraclemarks #poetry
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Yes. White women are the group who benefited most from DEI.
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Kim Kelly@GrimKim28 Jan 2025
Workers at a Philly @WholeFoods have just released the results of their union election—AND THEY WON!!!! 130-100, baby! 🦅 Philadelphia is now home to the first unionized Whole Foods Market in the U.S. One down, 500 more to go!
Region 4-Philadelphia conducted a ballot count today for 297full-time and part-time employees at Whole Foods in Philadelphia, PA to vote on union representation by UFCW Local 1176 Keystone State. Workers voted 130 to 100 for union representation. There were three challenged ballots that won’t be counted, because they aren’t determinative to the outcome of the election. The employer must begin bargaining in good faith with the union. Parties have five business days to file objections to the election. If no objections are filed, the result will be certified. Total number of eligible voters: 297 Void ballots: 1 Votes for union: 130 Votes against representation: 100 Challenged ballots: 3 Total valid votes cast: 233

ALT Region 4-Philadelphia conducted a ballot count today for 297full-time and part-time employees at Whole Foods in Philadelphia, PA to vote on union representation by UFCW Local 1176 Keystone State. Workers voted 130 to 100 for union representation. There were three challenged ballots that won’t be counted, because they aren’t determinative to the outcome of the election. The employer must begin bargaining in good faith with the union. Parties have five business days to file objections to the election. If no objections are filed, the result will be certified. Total number of eligible voters: 297 Void ballots: 1 Votes for union: 130 Votes against representation: 100 Challenged ballots: 3 Total valid votes cast: 233

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Democrats in Congress: WHAT IS THE PLAN? Going on Sunday shows and spewing consultant speak isn't going to cut it. Twelve inspectors general fired and there's no sit-in? No filibuster? No direction to voters? And in fact, some of you are actually voting for Trump's agenda?
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I'm sorry — the White House *doesn't know* if they're freezing health care for 72 million people?
Sahil Kapur
@sahilkapur28 Jan 2025
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt gets multiple questions about whether Trump’s federal aid freeze impacts Medicaid, which provides health insurance to ~72 million in the U.S. She’s unsure, says she will check on that “and get back to you.”
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Tell us how. What mechanisms will you use? What are you prepared to do? What exactly is the fighting you pledge to keep doing? Has anyone seen it?
Chuck Schumer
@SenSchumer28 Jan 2025
Trump's order is blatantly illegal, shortsighted, mean-spirted, and just foolish. Even though a judge has blocked it for a few days, we know that Trump and Vought will keep pushing to get it done. Senate Democrats will keep fighting to protect American communities, seniors, and families from dangerous actions like we saw last night.
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Dems can: -oppose all Trump nominees until this EO is withdrawn -deny unanimous consent to slow senate proceedings -vote no on all cloture -force quorum calls at every chance It’s a constitutional crisis. There is absolutely no reason the Senate should be connecting business as usual.
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The IMEU
@theIMEU28 Jan 2025
Palestinian, Arab & Muslim students filed a federal civil rights complaint in Jan. 2024. The DOE investigated & concluded that Harvard intentionally ignored or dismissed nearly all students who sought help facing racism, violence, doxxing & harassment. thecrimson.com/article/2025/…

Harvard Quietly Resolves Anti-Palestinian Discrimination Complaint With Ed. Department

Harvard Quietly Resolves Anti-Palestinian Discrimination Complaint With Ed. Department

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Imagine if Democrats, when in power, had pursued progressive policies with half this insistence. We would be living in very different circumstances.
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Undocumented immigrants deserve dignity not because of how their labor serves you and this country, but because we are human beings. But that seems hard to understand in a society that values people based on their productivity.
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Look at what our government spent our tax dollars on. Not a single person asked “how will we pay for it?”
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“As crimes pile up they become invisible”- Bertolt Brecht
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tenderness is no small thing—it is a planet or moon of utter warmth, it is a sweetness that can nearly wound
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i'm thinking about how working toward justice & liberation involves both a deep patience (with cumulative, collective action) and a true impatience (with oppressive systems and the powerful who maintain them).
兔兒神@chenchenwrites21 Jan 2025
Aren't you
Tired by Langston Hughes I am so tired of waiting, Aren’t you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two — And see what worms are eating At the rind.

ALT Tired by Langston Hughes I am so tired of waiting, Aren’t you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two — And see what worms are eating At the rind.

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Sarah Ali@Saritah_9115 Jan 2025
the vulgarity of it all. the fact that 2.3 million Palestinians are waiting, in the dark, in cold, fear, and hunger, for a tv 'announcement' that israeli american bombs may stop shredding their children to pieces.
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Ali A Olomi@aaolomi14 Jan 2025
“One day when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this” -Omar El Akkad
The Associated Press
@AP13 Jan 2025
A growing number of Israeli soldiers are speaking out against the Israel-Hamas war. They say they did or saw things that crossed ethical lines. Some 200 soldiers have signed a letter saying they’ll stop fighting if the government doesn’t secure a ceasefire.
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Remember her 💔.
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The heroic doctor, and director, of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza is still a hostage of the Israeli army. His family says he is in critical condition after severe torture by the "most moral army in the world".
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the whole of you has been transformed into feeling. —Cavafy
In the Same Space by C.P. Cavafy translated by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard The setting of houses, cafés, the neighborhood that I’ve seen and walked through years on end: I created you while I was happy, while I was sad, with so many incidents, so many details. And, for me, the whole of you has been transformed into feeling.

ALT In the Same Space by C.P. Cavafy translated by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard The setting of houses, cafés, the neighborhood that I’ve seen and walked through years on end: I created you while I was happy, while I was sad, with so many incidents, so many details. And, for me, the whole of you has been transformed into feeling.

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