🌱 They Not Like Us | Art as Movement Resilience

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Kendrick proved that parts of the revolution can be televised, but only if we evade elite capture. To continue Black resistance and joy, we talk about the revolutionary art that Kendrick Lamar wove in front of the world. Read on for more...

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🌱 for activists: 🌱 Building from Black & Indigenous Solidarity
📚 for communicators: 📚 From Friction to Flow

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• 📚 Treasury Yields are in; Fed Rate Cuts Out - 🤓 MAGA Treasury Chief, Scott Bessent, made the announcement. This essentially means, “screw poor people, we are focused on the wealthy and stock market.” (watch fed rate cuts explained)
• 📚 Exxon Expanding Plastic Production in Texas - 🤓 A new $8.6 million plastics plant in Texas is quietly being planned by Exxon. Oil companies continue to expand into plastic to keep their profits growing. AI and plastics are one of our greatest threats to the planet...and they're both tied to oil & gas. (Read series on AI‘s social impact)
• 🎙️ U.S. Food Health & RFK's Eugenics - 🤓 Lever Time's episode on 'RFK’s Beef With Big Food' is a helpful deep dive of the U.S. food systems and how unhealthy our food is. They also weave how eugenics plays a role in RFK’s vision.
• 🎙️ Building Resilient Communities - 🤓 I am super excited to officially launch our Private Podcast Feed! Many are wondering how to build intentional communities as we work to repair our social fabric. This deeper conversation with Lisa Hurley and Sharon Hurley Hall get into what less melanated folk can do to rebuilt community and what it can look like.

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Movement Resilience to Face Our Opposition

Part III: Radical Black Joy & Resistance (See Parts I, II, III)