Notices by joshuaphilll (joshuaphilll@spore.social)

The police work for billionaires.

They’ll attack a strike, they’ll arrest protesters, and they’ll devote themselves to making CEOs feel safe.

Not only do cops defund our cities, they work overtime to stop us from building a better world.

My latest: https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-cops-work-for-jeff-bezos.

Whatever happens next week, the next four years we will see the ruling class trying to demolish the worker wins of the last century.

Billionaires have seen a hint of regulation, unions making a comeback, and young people move left.

They want none of it.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/richie-rich-strikes-back

My latest: https://www.jphilll.com/p/no-one-is-expendable

Seeing Greta Thunberg arrested at a Palestine solidarity protest is striking, both because it draws our attention to how as she got more radical she lost her media darling status, and because it shows how we too can grow and strive for real transformation.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/gretas-growth

Centrism will not beat fascism.

When the far-right attacks immigrants, the center moves right. The the far-right attacks the homeless, the center moves right.

Now we're seeing the results in the form of lynch mobs and the criminalization of the homeless.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-center-wont-beat-fascism

The dehumanization of the homeless has brought us to a point where existing without a home is now a criminalizable offense. That means poverty is being criminalized, public space is increasingly inaccessible, and existence is becoming harder for all of us. We have to resist, both in action and in shifting the paradigm away from the dehumanization of our fellow human beings who struggle in this capitalist world.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-homeless-are-not-alone

A ceasefire is proposed, Israel undermines it, the West tries to blame Hamas.

The cycle just repeated itself, again.

But this time Biden himself announced it, then Netanyahu rejected the entire “permanent ceasefire” section. This sick cycle must end.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/israel-rejects-peace-again

I'm a Jew who's been afraid at Palestine protests.

Then, I learned more. I learned that I didn't know what people were chanting. I learned there was a lot to unlearn.

Then I decided I don't want my identity used to shield a genocidal apartheid state.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/being-afraid-does-not-mean-youre

You're going to hear a lot about celebrating Kissinger's death.

It’s a distraction. What matters is this man embodied the U.S. willingness to kill millions civilians to further its interests.

In death he should not be absolved; the empire should be examined.

Link: https://www.jphilll.com/p/dont-rehabilitate-henry-kissinger.

While it's been gut wrenching to see a rise in antisemitism, it's also been horrifying to see the realities of the danger exaggerated and falsely equated with what Palestinians are experiencing. We are not facing another Jewish Holocaust. This has to stop.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/no-jews-are-not-facing-a-second-holocaust

World leaders swiftly express their solidarity when Israeli civilians are killed.

But when Israel calls Palestinians “human animals,” silence. When Israel cuts off fuel, food, water, and medicine, silence. When the bombs fall on Gaza, silence.

Link: https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-world-ignores-palestinian-civilians

I wrote about how growing up I was fed a completely one-sided narrative.

And how there will be no lasting peace or justice if we don’t acknowledge the truth.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/a-jewish-case-against-zionism

Eleven years ago, the subways flooded during Hurricane Sandy.

Two years ago, 13 people died in during Hurricane Ida.

Now we get regular flash floods, our infrastructure remains terrible, and the NYPD gets $12 billion.

We need to change everything.

https://t.co/ozK5T5dVMH

It’s just so funny that there are bootlickers out there saying “so these aUto WoRkerS want to work just four days a week?? For the same pay!?!”

Yeah man. We all do. Please grow up and realize most people don’t want to spend their lives at work.

The autoworkers strike is huge for so many reasons.

But number one is they're open about this being class war. UAW knows that the class war has been the ruling class relentlessly attacking the working class for too long.

And now they're fighting back.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/its-happening-united-auto-workers

Some people will tell you it's "too radical" or "too extreme" to say capitalism relies on hurting workers.

But what about when a millionaire CEO says it?

That's exactly what Tim Gurner said when he advocated for more unemployment and more economic pain.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/when-the-rich-tell-you-who-they-are