professor/writer/activist/artist re pol violence, peace, racism, pop culture & the (in)finite; stop state violence… the rest will follow
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A new investigation maps the machine built to silence me. 100+ coordinated X accounts swarming every post I make on Kagame and his regime, AI-generated caricatures, and my late mother's name (Muteteri) weaponized into a hashtag to harass me. This coordinated inauthentic behavior is visualized. 1,000+ posts under #Byansi, one target, all of it flagged with AI markers.
Rwanda's influence network doesn't debate dissidents. It swarms them. I'm the case study.
public.flourish.studio/visua…
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WORLD PEACE
We decided that the thing we had in common was Love. And from Love came Peace. So we decided to work for World Peace. #powertothepeople
Why America can't escape its long legacy of political violence newsweek.com/why-america-can…
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🚨BREAKING🚨 The MIT Coalition for Palestine representing 19 student and faculty groups just released an 83-page report 'MIT Science for Genocide' on how MIT conducts war research on campus sponsored directly by the Israeli military.
archive.org/details/mit-scie…
Recently gave a talk at the University of Rhode Island as part of their "Democracy in Peril" series. Subtitle - How, Why and Why Not Democracy Can Help Us Solve (some of) Our Problems". A beginning...
youtube.com/live/gT9MbPcSZEE…
just started adding content to my blue sky account. peace y'all: bsky.app/profile/christianda…
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Twenty-three years ago this week, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. At least 243,000 lives were lost in a war that has cost the U.S. at least $2.3 trillion dollars. [THREAD]
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While you were having a coffee this morning and enjoying the day, this is what the Zionists did in Rafah.
Most of us support this indirectly through the taxes we pay and the support of our governments and by purchasing products from Multinational corporations that support this genocidal regime.
If you don't oppose this shit you might be part of the problem.
At some point too much silence becomes complicity.
Criticize Hamas. Criticize Israel 30 Times More. rall.com/2024/05/07/criticiz…
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Facts matter
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has anyone seen any protests or protest policing at any historically black colleges and universities?
Each One, Teach One, Then Run - Tales of Rwanda, Part 6 - [Christian Davenport] christiandavenportphd.weebly…
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the political violence in Rwanda, a group of scholars and journalists who have been doing work on/in Rwanda as well as the region came together to engage in a retrospective: mivideo.it.umich.edu/channel…
The Zone of Interest is about the danger of ignoring atrocities – including in Gaza | Naomi Klein theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Inaugural 2023 Ted R Gurr Lecture - "The Consequences of Contention" by... youtu.be/wkhr11lL7Dc?si=Iwjm… via @YouTube
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"As a country, I think we are going in the wrong direction."
On the first day of Kenya's 3-day tax protests over the rising cost of living and tax hikes, at least 12 protesters were wounded.
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Yesterday activists from across the Americas and the Caribbean gathered in Washington DC to bury the Monroe Doctrine on its 200th anniversary and fight against the neocolonial systems that uphold it order to achieve true peace & justice for all peoples.
#RIPMonroeDoctrine
