Mie Inouye @mieinouye Twitter profile

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Mie Inouye

9 months

In which I argue that a lack of social endurance--the capacity to keep showing up to meetings even when we don't like the other ppl in the room--is the main obstacle to solidarity today. Smart & challenging responses from @Jodi7768 , @creoleprof , @alexgourevitch & others.

Boston Review

@BostonReview

9 months

To make change, movements need to build endurance—the capacity to keep people showing up despite their differences. @mieinouye leads our latest forum:

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

4 years

Stuart Hall gives me so much life: 'The purpose of theorizing is not to enhance one's intellectual or academic reputation but to enable us to grasp, understand, and explain...the historical world and its processes; and thereby to inform our practice so that we may transform it.'

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Mie Inouye

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2 years

For @BostonReview , I wrote about why downwardly-mobile college grads are taking jobs at Amazon & Starbucks with the goal of forming unions, how today's salts differ from those of past generations, and how they could connect the rejuvenated labor movement and the post-Occupy left.

Boston Review

@BostonReview

2 years

A new class of “salts”—radicals who take jobs to help unionization—is boosting the organizing efforts of long-term workers. @mieinouye on labor's militant minority:

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

10 months

I was the “someone” in the elevator and this was the highlight of my Socialism Conference. Probably the first time in my life I’ve ever been starstruck. Much appreciation for Comrade Wallace! 🤩

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@kdgriffit

10 months

Sad I missed this @genderhorizon @reproutopia

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

6 months

I was there. Constituents spoke with a staffer and asked for a meeting. They sang songs outside his office. They dropped a banner demanding an end to the genocide. That’s violent? But killing 22,000 Palestinians is not? Stop lying @RepPatRyanNY . #CeasefireNOW

Rep. Pat Ryan

@RepPatRyanNY

6 months

Today a crowd attempted to forcibly enter our district office in Kingston, climbing the roof, interrupting work with constituents, and directly threatening my staff. My full statement below.

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

3 years

My new article on Ella Baker is out in @apsrjournal . Baker is often portrayed as a facilitator who met ppl where they are. In fact, she was also a radical democratic theorist and a strategist who started with ppl where they were and tried to move them somewhere else.

Cambridge University Press - Politics

@CUP_PoliSci

3 years

#FirstView from @apsrjournal - Starting with People Where They Are: Ella Baker’s Theory of Political Organizing - - @mieinouye

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

4 years

(What if 2020 is the best year of the rest of our lives?)

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

2 years

I spoke with @adamconover about how ordinary people have made big changes in dark times. My tips for combatting hopelessness and making a more democratic society: join a mass organization, organize your workplace & community, and prepare for future opportunities for mass action.

Adam Conover

@adamconover

2 years

Fuck hopelessness: This month on Factually, we're doing a series on how we - and YOU - can make progress on everything from climate change to civil rights. First up, @mieinouye explains how we can follow the example of past movements to create change:

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Mie Inouye

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8 months

Honestly very disappointed by some of the elders (formerly) in DSA. When I am old, I hope that I will follow in the footsteps of the great Ella Baker, who was able to profoundly influence the youth movement because she understood that she had things to learn from the youth.

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

3 years

I'm thrilled to be joining the @BardCollege faculty as Assistant Professor of political theory this fall! Looking forward to working with a vibrant community of scholars and students and to crafting a political theory curriculum with @lucasgpin and @pinarkemerli !

Simon Gilhooley

@simongilhooley

3 years

With the year coming to an end, I want to welcome the outstanding political theorists that @BardCollege has recruited this year - a powerhouse cohort of @mieinouye , @pinarkemerli and @lucasgpin ! I very excited to welcome them to Bard, and to see our theory curriculum blossom!

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

2 years

Strikes likely soon in NY, CT, NJ, or Western MA? I’m teaching a course on organizing at Bard College this spring and I’d like to take my students to a picket line. If you know of strikes between Feb and May within a two-hour drive of Bard (mid Hudson Valley), please lmk! 🙏🏼

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

6 months

Here’s what went down today. Always keep receipts because the war machine is ruthless! #CeasefireNOW @RepPatRyanNY

Daniel Atonna (he/him) 🌹

@danielatonna

6 months

Congressman Ryan is lying about his constituents who are peacefully calling for a #CeasefireNow . His staffer even said "I genuinely appreciate . . . these conversations." Here's video proof 👇

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

2 years

Background checks are good but they won’t change the fact that this country is flooded with guns. We need to build a society that does not constantly produce mass murderers. A starting point would be universal access to housing, healthcare, a basic income, and an education.

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

3 years

If I could make a new year's resolution for the left it would be to spend less time fighting the left and more time fighting the right.🌹✊🏼

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

4 years

1000%. Anti-union academics will go to any absurd length to avoid saying they are anti-union.

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

2 years

This part! While canvassing for @sarahana 's campaign, I was struck by how explicit the campaign was about her DSA affiliation & goals. Every convo I had focused on her plans to create a public renewable utilities option in NY. People intuitively understood why this was important.

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We did not water down messaging. Every conversation was an organizing conversation based in the work Sarahana and all of us have been committed to on issues like Public Power / BPRA, NYHA, taxing the rich, and Good Cause Eviction.

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Mie Inouye

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4 years

I see a lot of versions of "I understand that I can never understand, yet I stand" around lately. This statement gets at an important truth (i.e. non-black people can never experience what it's like to be black in America) but it's a dangerously superficial form of solidarity.

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

6 months

This morning more than a dozen of Pat Ryan’s constituents confronted him at a swearing-in ceremony in Gardiner to demand a permanent ceasefire and no military aid to Israel. @RepPatRyanNY , how many Palestinians need to die before you will support a ceasefire?

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

6 months

Footage from the peaceful protest at @RepPatRyanNY 's Kingston office last night. #CeasefireNOW

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

2 years

I wrote about how organizing is (a lot like) church for a @PolTheoNetwork symposium on @shulman_george 's provocative lectures on political theology. Always thinking about this connection and had fun writing about it.

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

3 years

Forced arbitration protects bosses who abuse their workers and allows the abuse to continue even beyond the term of employment. I’m so proud of Tatiana for making such a powerful case to end it. #EndForcedArbitration #afiniti

House Judiciary Dems

@HouseJudiciary

3 years

WATCH: Tatiana Spottiswoode shares her devastating story of the workplace sexual violence she experienced and the subsequent, secret arbitration process she was forced to endure. #EndForcedArbitration

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

4 years

What's most revealing about this country's response to the pandemic is the lack of respect for life in general that it exposes on the right. Not just black lives or poor lives, but their own lives. This suicidal nihilism is much harder to reckon with than hatred of others.

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

6 months

Last night a broad coalition of nine organizations held a beautiful rally outside @RepPatRyanNY ’s Kingston office. Our message was simple: It’s been 90 days. 22,000 Palestinians have been killed. No more! #CeasefireNOW

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

9 months

This was inspiring. So many people we called immediately agreed to take action. I spoke to someone who said to their crying baby, “Hold on, I’m talking to a comrade!” I recommend everyone to do the shift tomorrow:

No Money for Massacres Solidarity Phonebank - 10/14

Join us on Saturday, October 14, 4-6pm ET for this solidarity phonebank to end the siege on Gaza and decisively reject US military funding for war crimes. To attend, you must be a DSA member in good...

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Gustavo

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9 months

Shout out to all the phonebankers making calls for Palestine today 🇵🇸🇵🇸🌹🌹 6 people joined DSA in order to make calls w us! (was members only for security reasons.) Shout out to Alana, Eleanor, Emma, Faiza, Jasmine, and Miranda — new DSA members ✊

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

6 months

So many brave and beautiful people from all walks of life are coming together in the movement for a free Palestine. We're fighting for a better world and we're taking care of each other. We get there together or we never get there at all. 💗 #CeasefireNOW @RepPatRyanNY

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

2 years

What will happen to public services as we continue to do nothing in the face of 600 mass shootings a year? The logical outcome is ppl hunker down in their houses, drive rather than using public transport, home school. Inaction on gun control feeds the neoliberal agenda.

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

4 years

CA burning bc it released the inmates who fight climate-change fueled fires for $1/hr. A CO quoted in NYT: "How do you justify releasing all these inmates during prime fire season?" How do we justify ourselves? The case for abolition could not be clearer.

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Mie Inouye

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2 years

More than any other industry, academia has succeeded in making workers believe that they are not workers. Uncompensated teaching positions are just the most flagrant result of this pervasive mystification.

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

9 months

Call your rep and tell them to stop fueling the destruction of Gaza. Takes less time than writing a tweet and is probably more useful.

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

2 years

A lot of smart and persistent organizing produced this weed legalization bill, which now includes automatic expungement and worker-owned weed coops and protects cannabis workers’ right to organize. So proud of @reclaimri and our allies in this fight! ✊🏼

Reclaim RI

@reclaimri

2 years

HUGE VICTORY: the amended RI cannabis legalization bill includes automatic criminal record expungement! This bill, which also makes RI first state to reserve retail licenses for worker-owned cooperatives, ensures that those who suffered from prohibition benefit from legalization.

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Mie Inouye

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10 months

Honored to be in conversation with Daniel Martinez HoSang (one of my all-time favorite political scientists) on 9/19. Come talk with us about the theory and practice of solidarity and check out this incredible collection of essays!

Boston Review

@BostonReview

10 months

Solidarity is a keyword in struggles for a more just world—but what does it mean, and how can movements build enough of it to change society? Join us on 9/19 as @mieinouye and Daniel Martinez HoSang discuss this and more! Free and virtual. Register now:

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

2 years

The role of charisma in a social movement is not only an ethical question; it’s also strategic. Charisma serves important functions, but it can also make movements too dependent on the actions and popularity of a single figure, as Ella Baker pointed out half a century ago.

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

4 years

I knocked a lot of doors for @LeonelaFelix with @reclaimri and the district was ideologically mixed -- from Trump to defund the police. If we can win in D61 the Left can absolutely take over this state. And we WON. ⚓🌹

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

4 years

2/ It depicts black Americans as a monolith. With whom do you stand, exactly? Lori Lightfoot? Angela Davis? Black Americans are ideologically diverse. That means that white solidarity can't be based on a blanket deferral to black people's authority. Allies have to think.

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

2 years

Had to wait for a PCR test indoors for 45 mins this morning, in a room full of people who presumably also have reason to believe that they have covid. #failedstate

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

3 years

Think about your mom. Does she support m4a? Mine does. Would she take to the streets, smash windows, and fight cops if she learned that David Cicilline did not support m4a? Mine, sadly, would not. It's GOOD to want to build a mass movement to fight for m4a...

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

3 years

RI is poised to pass an unprecedented cannabis legalization bill that would put the industry in hands of workers. Get involved with our campaign by joining @reclaimri !

Reclaim RI

@reclaimri

3 years

Our campaign calling on Rhode Island to reserve a portion of legal recreational cannabis market for worker-owned weed cooperatives continues to gain national attention! @krystalball on why the people should own the legal weed market—not big corporations.

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

10 months

Have loved thinking with these many brilliant respondents on this most important and challenging of topics for the left today. Can’t wait to read the whole issue!

Boston Review

@BostonReview

10 months

Our new issue, ON SOLIDARITY, clarifies a key idea in struggles for a more just world. @mieinouye leads a forum with @RevDrBarber , @astradisastra , @blackleftaf , @Jodi7768 , @roediger_david , @creoleprof — plus work by Mariame Kaba, @gbahadur , & much more!

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Mie Inouye

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4 years

Out here with @reclaimri , @ri_wfp , @ProvDSA , @renterpowerpvd and many other orgs to say NO to austerity. We call on @GovRaimondo , @brettpsmiley , and the General Assembly to #TaxTheRich and divest from prisons and policing to invest in people and communities. #NoCuts

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Mie Inouye

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8 months

This Thursday in Kingston! Hudson Valley residents demand a #CeasefireNOW .

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Mie Inouye

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1 year

Excited to announce the second annual Political Organizing speaker series at @BardCollege ! Join us for conversations with these brilliant labor and community organizers.

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4 years

@IolaElla "The Toad in the Garden: Thatcherism Among the Theorists" in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. It's so so good.

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4 years

Yeah I said it. And yeah @dennismhogan called out "Shame!" 😂 #TaxTheRich #NoCuts

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

4 years

I got to interview one of my favorite social movement scholars about the current uprising. Here's what she had to say about property destruction, multiracial protest, and what organizers shouldn't do.

Frances Fox Piven on Why Protesters Must “Defend Their Ability to Exercise Disruptive Power”

Just last month, social movement scholar Frances Fox Piven predicted “waves of mass protest” in the US. She was right. In an interview with Jacobin, Piven discusses why disruption must be central to...

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

9 months

I learned a lot from this conversation with @philosopher1923 and Daniel Martinez HoSang. We discuss the ways neoliberal capitalism atrophies the muscles we need for sustained solidarity, the problem with deference politics, and the need for sociality.

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3 years

What a condescending and classist way to describe people who were smart and organized enough to beat hedge funds at their own game @nytimes .

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@mieinouye

4 years

You couldn't write a more perfect tragedy: man who will do anything for adulation dying alone in the White House.

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3 years

Belatedly: we need to spend some time analyzing the charisma of social media influence. Influencers have vertical relationships with many individuals who lack horizontal relationships to each other and whose only influence over leaders lies in their ability to like or r/t...

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

9 months

This forum on solidarity brought out some clear and important differences between the participants. In my response to my interlocutors, I discuss those differences and reflect on the contradictions involved in building a new world from within the old.

Enduring Solidarity - Boston Review

We can love our comrades without liking them.

www.bostonreview.net

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

4 years

1/ It obscures the work involved in building ideology and strategy. Having a particular experience doesn't immediately translate into understanding or not understanding the sources and consequences of racism. It takes analysis to move from experience to understanding.

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Mie Inouye

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1 year

Proud to have been a part of this as a public rep on Kingston's Rent Guidelines Board. The rent reduction we passed was reasonable and legal. I hope the state steps up its defense of our decision against greedy landlords.

‘It’s legal, there’s just no precedent’: the first US town to demand a rent decrease

In Kingston, New York, tenants say their survival depends on the city ordering a rent reduction – something that’s never been done before

www.theguardian.com

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

4 years

This points to a bigger question: where is this multiracial movement going? Will it bottom out with BLM yard signs in wealthy suburban neighborhoods or will it lead to a revolutionary transformation of the systems of capitalism and mass incarceration that oppress us all?

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

8 months

Read this powerful open letter by Jewish students at Brown. “It is not only blatantly false but obscene to frame a call for liberation and justice as genocidal while Israel is carrying out genocide in Gaza funded by millions of American tax dollars.”

An open letter from Jewish students - The Brown Daily Herald

Serving the Brown community since 1891

www.browndailyherald.com

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

4 years

Taking the tiniest state by storm.

Reclaim RI

@reclaimri

4 years

All of Reclaim's endorsed candidates— @LeonelaFelix , @DavidMoralesRI , @SamuelWBell , @MeghanEKallman —are way up w/ in-person ballots so far. We won't know for sure until mail ballots but clear that our members knocking thousands of doors paid off. RI wants working-class champions!

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4 years

We can hope for the latter. 10% of Americans have recently protested. Historically, it takes 3.5% to overthrow a state. There will be more uprisings in the fall. In the meantime, the 10% need to work to understand why they protested and what we all have to gain from abolition.

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@mieinouye

8 months

Next Wednesday I’ll speak with colleagues and students at @BardCollege about what it means to take a position on the war in Gaza. Please join the conversation!

Center for Human Rights & the Arts

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8 months

The Human Rights Program invites the Bard community to ask questions and hear from panelists about Gaza, Palestine, and Israel. Wednesday November 15th at 4PM in RKC 103 (Bard College).

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Mie Inouye

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10 months

Phone bank with DSA tonight at 6 pm ET to Stop Cop City! RSVP:

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2 years

Many thanks to @DebChasman , Hannah Liberman, @eidlin , @DanielDenvir , and Lucia Hulsether for their very helpful edits!

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@mieinouye

2 years

ALU seems to have taken William Z. Foster’s approach to “special group work”: “To reach Spanish-speaking workers…the campaign used Spanish-speaking organizers; to reach African immigrant workers, it brought in food from a local African caterer.” 1/3

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4 years

3/ It takes the burden off of allies to learn about policies that can address racism. Most Americans now support M4BL but not its central demand, 'Defund the Police.' That shows that we need a lot more education and organizing for symbolic solidarity to become meaningful.

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7 months

I have rarely been so proud to be a member of @DemSocialists as I have in the past month.

Ashik 🌊🌹⛈

@ahSHEEK

7 months

While the attention economy boosts a handful of outliers, most of @DemSocialists 80,000 members judge ourselves by what matters: our organizing to stop genocide in Palestine. In @newrepublic , I wrote about why we must look at the streets, not the tweets:

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4 years

Surprise, surprise. 60% of RI covid cases are from community spread, the vast majority from indoor dining. @GovRaimondo , there is no excuse for keeping this info from Rhode Islanders until now.

Analysis of new COVID infections shows risks of Thanksgiving, restaurants

The data analysis highlights the biggest risk areas: Indoor settings where people aren't wearing a mask.

www.providencejournal.com

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4 years

John Mackey is a terrible person.

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3 years

That's the only way we'll win it. But we can't will mass movements into existence. So what is our strategy? Do the slow, incredibly difficult, often tedious work of educating people and building organizational infrastructure so that when the movement emerges, we're ready for it.

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10 months

Come chat with me and Dan HoSang about solidarity next Tuesday eve!

The Philosopher

@philosopher1923

10 months

Tues @ 7pm ET/9am (Wed) AET What does solidarity mean, and how can movements build enough of it to change society? "The Theory and Practice of Solidarity": @mieinouye w/ Daniel HoSang Co-hosted with @BostonReview

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2 years

Compare Chris Smalls’s “this is not a left or right thing, it’s a working class issue” to Obama’s unity rhetoric. Uniting people around their labor is so much more powerful than telling them to set aside their differences and “put country first.” This is how you build a majority.

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7 months

The movement for a free Palestine is spreading to every US city. We are puncturing the imperialist mindset that prevents the American working class from seeing that we, too, are an oppressed people and that we have a world to win by standing with our comrades in the global south.

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Mie Inouye

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2 years

As an agnostic who left an oppressive religious community, I pray in social contexts where it allows me to relate to people I care about for whom it’s a meaningful practice. Participating in a meeting that has a prayer doesn’t make you a Christian and is not oppression.

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Mie Inouye

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10 months

Simultaneously v excited to present at the Political Theory Colloquium and experiencing intense fomo re: the other workshops and events! 😅

Dr. Melvin Rogers

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10 months

We have a busy year planned for Brown's Political Theory Colloquium. We also have some big names presenting at The Democracy Project. More info to come.

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3 years

These platforms have a lot of political utility but they are NOT democratic organizations. Nor are they anarchist zones. The rules are written by Twitter and Facebook. Don't let your politics be shaped primarily by the forms of speech these corporations incentivize for profit.

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4 years

Projo completely omits the black youth organizers who confronted BLM Rhode Island leaders for a) not letting them speak at this protest b) not showing up for previous youth-led protests c) not being an official chapter of BLM d) embezzling donations.

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4 years

"As different as they are, both street rebellions and electoral campaigns can leave behind a legacy of organizational infrastructure. This infrastructure is absolutely vital. There’s no way to win without it." @triofrancos on the Left's path forward.

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2 years

Deeply confusing. Why not just try to make Our Revolution good? And why wouldn’t the problems with Our Revolution (including its failure to become a mass organization) recur in this new “party-like” org?

Jacobin

@jacobin

2 years

Since Bernie Sanders’s defeat in 2020 and the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US left has been largely disorganized. The time is ripe for Bernie and the Squad to create a new mass organization to confront today’s crises.

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2 years

The second event in the Carceral Studies Speaker Series at @BardCollege was a great success! Thanks to Geo Maher for speaking with us about the path to PIC abolition; @KwameHolmes , @AllisonMcKim , & @DanielleRiou for co-organizing, & our students for asking the best questions!

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3 years

@erinrpineda Also a striking mismatch between the passion people are channeling into this and the possibility that it will accomplish anything. It seems like a very thinly-veiled nihilism.

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4 years

On an exuberant run just exchanging smiles and waves with everyone on this beautiful morning!!! 🌞🌈💃💝

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1 year

Unequivocal yes! The Dig is one of the best political education resources out there and an invaluable archive for future generations of leftists. So glad have Dan’s interviews with Denning, Davis, Gilmore, McAlevey, and so many other brilliant socialists. 🙏🏼

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

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1 year

It’s behind paywall for the moment, but here is my Nation interview with Daniel Devnir/ @DanielDenvir re his amazing podcast, The Dig. We discuss its origins, key topics of discussion and its many guests (Barbara Fields, Melinda Cooper, Mike Davis, etc):

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@mieinouye

8 months

I stand with @MSanchezPVD and the growing number of public officials calling for a ceasefire. Shame on @DanMcKeeRI for this cowardly act of retaliation.

Miguel Angel Sanchez

@MSanchezPVD

8 months

I join the 80% of Democrats who support a ceasefire and the increasing number of elected officials who are speaking out in favor of de-escalation. Gov. McKee may have taken away my job, but he won’t pressure me into silence while a genocide is occuring in front of our eyes. 3/3

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

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Please join Bard faculty, staff, students, and community members for a funeral ceremony for the victims of the Gaza genocide this Friday. All are welcome.

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@mieinouye

2 years

At @socialismconf , I'll be talking with Aziz Rana, @orangebegum , and @TheDuhalde about why our constitution is so bad and what it would take to get a new one. We'll also discuss lessons from Chile's recent experience for the US left. Join the convo in person or via livestream!

DSA

@DemSocialists

2 years

@organizeworkers The US Left’s path to power is blocked by one of the world's oldest & least democratic founding documents. So "How Do We Get a New Constitution?" Will it take a revolution to rewrite it? 👀 Chile's recent Constituent Assembly may show a way forward...

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@mieinouye

9 months

Yoshi reporting for strike support night shift. Solidarity with @UAW workers! ✊🏼🐾

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@mieinouye

2 years

Turns out America is still waiting on its bourgeois revolution

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@mieinouye

1 year

Student at end of advising session: “Okay! Enjoy your spring break thinking about capitalism and stuff, or whatever you do in your free time!” 😭😭😭

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

2 years

@MarxianDialogu1 Yes “dialectically transcend the police” is clearly a much better demand 🥴

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

6 months

Why is @RepPatRyanNY allowing our public money to fund a genocide when we need housing and funding for public schools in the Hudson Valley?

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

3 years

I see "Stop Asian Hate" signs popping up in boutiques and wealthy suburban neighborhoods etc. Who is the intended audience, and does stopping Asian hate include stopping homelessness and providing universal access to mental healthcare?

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

4 years

I love the way @triofrancos says extremely radical things that are completely credible in a compelling and authoritative voice and thereby challenges the entire field of political science. Buy this book!

Thea Riofrancos

@triofrancos

4 years

🚨📚Exciting news! You can order *RESOURCE RADICALS: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador* @DukePress ! Thru archives & ethnography, I trace radical movements contesting development, the state & ecological foundations of global capitalism

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

3 years

Why is RI such a shit show? Some plausible answers here, including @GovRaimondo 's business-first approach to governance. Puzzled by the general lack of reporting on this and so glad @jul1arock did this research.

Julia Rock

@jul1arock

3 years

Rhode Island is one of the nation's leaders in COVID infections and deaths––in part, experts say, because of @GovRaimondo 's choice to prioritize the hospitality industry and holiday shopping over public health. Raimondo is Biden's Commerce pick.

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

6 months

You call this “political violence,” @DanTorresNPZ ? I see a Jewish constituent demanding that your boss support a ceasefire, you smirking, and protestors moving out of the way so someone can get down the hallway. You and @RepPatRyanNY should be ashamed of yourselves.

Austin Jefferson

@AJeffNY

6 months

More footage from Friday

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

6 months

The pressure on @RepPatRyanNY is indeed “relentless.” Our multi-generational, multiethnic, multiracial coalition will not stop until @RepPatRyanNY supports a #ceasefire and no military aid to Israel. And we will remember in November!

Rep. Pat Ryan faces repeated pro-ceasefire protests

Ryan faces a tough reelection fight in November, but his stance on Israel is alienating a small but vocal group of progressive supporters. The tension came to a head last week when protesters tried...

www.cityandstateny.com

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

3 years

Great article by @erinrpineda . Political Science has long been obsessed with the fantasy of ideological neutrality. This pretense to neutrality is dishonest and mirrors the "both sides" logic of Democrats and Republicans that gave us Trumpism.

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

3 years

Great to see that Rep Slater’s bill reflects movement demands for automatic expungement and social equity! But we need at least 50% of all contracts to go to ppl directly affected by the drug war, more worker-owned coops, & unions for all weed workers! 🌱✊🏼

Legalization push faces crunch in Rhode Island

Marijuana supporters are hoping a new legislative proposal can create momentum in Providence.

www.politico.com

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

4 years

Many Americans would apparently rather die than give up a single comfort or opportunity to get rich. How to address climate change when large swaths of the population know it's real but would rather destroy the conditions for human life than make any change to their lifestyles?

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

3 years

Marijuana legalization must have racial and economic justice at its core. @KDicupe and @tylerbrown_88 make the case for automatic expungement of criminal records + worker-owned coops. Join @reclaimri to fight for a just legalization! ✊🏼🌱

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

3 years

Grateful to @IolaElla , @alybatt , @erinrpineda , @KMantena , @landemore , @DanielDenvir , @NScheinerman , @AnneMishkind , @leibenabdallah , @samuel_e_bagg , @laura_grattan , @devarashida , @demmwah , Nica Siegel, Michael Denning, Noreen Khawaja, James Scott, and others for generous feedback!

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

1 year

Love to fall asleep to a @leftofphil episode on Gramsci and dream of Gramsci all night 🥰

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

3 years

Thank God 2020 is over, amiright?

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@mieinouye

3 years

This is outrageous. @EnriqueGeorge24 is a dedicated teacher who fights for his students and the community. He is exactly the kind of teacher the Providence school district should be trying to hire.

State Representative Enrique Sanchez

@EnriqueForRI

3 years

Yesterday I was removed from my position at Mount Pleasant High school by the Providence school district. I was removed because I made a tweet that apparently made some people uncomfortable in regard to the “smart clinic” at MP high school. As a working class teacher of color

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

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This piece was profoundly shaped by my conversations with @NicaSiegel over the years. She & I have been thinking together about the same problems from different angles for so long that sometimes it’s hard for me to separate my thoughts from hers. I love that about our friendship.

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Mie Inouye

@mieinouye

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“Whose needs is it that are constantly on the chopping block? Somehow, in these compromises, it’s always the poorest and most vulnerable people who have their needs not met. It’s always people like me." 🔥from @KDicupe w @ProvDSA & @reclaimri #TaxTheRich

Lawmakers and Advocates Demand Higher Taxes on Wealthy Rhode Islanders to Invest in Social Services

Lawmakers and advocates gather at the State House with a clear demand to increase taxes on the wealthiest Rhode Islanders and support essential social services. Rally organizers emphasize the need...

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