Showing posts with label activism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label activism. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 01, 2026
Mamdani-backed socialist primary winner founded group whose goal is to ‘eradicate' Western civilization
Darializa Avila Chevalier helped launch Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which said it wants to end the West
Published June 25, 2026 9:50am EDT
The socialist backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani who won Tuesday night’s primary election in New York’s 13th Congressional District founded a group in college that called for the total destruction of the West.
Darializa Avila Chevalier, 32, a Democratic nominee for U.S. Congress who made career out of "community organizing," wrote in her biography for an opinion piece in independent news outlet The Electronic Intifada that she "helped launch the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign Columbia University Apartheid Divest."
"We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization," the group said in a now-deleted 2024 Instagram post.
In May 2024, eight years after she graduated from Columbia, Chevalier was back on campus advocating alongside the group she founded, known as CUAD, wearing a keffiyeh and a t-shirt emblazoned with the group's name.
Darializa Avila Chevalier, Democratic candidate for Congress in New York's 13th Congressional District, speaks with a voter in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan on June 14, 2026, in New York, N.Y. (Shuran Huang/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Avila Chevalier was interviewed by the Associated Press at the school's infamous encampment against Israel that year, which was later broken up by police.
Only months after that, CUAD, caused a firestorm when it reportedly posted its goal of eradicating Western Civilization.
Avila Chevalier was interviewed by the Associated Press at the school's infamous encampment against Israel that year, which was later broken up by police.
Only months after that, CUAD, caused a firestorm when it reportedly posted its goal of eradicating Western Civilization.
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
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Friday, June 12, 2026
Can Performative "Outrage" Be Trusted?
Simon Stapleton
Exploring the hidden psychology behind leadership, ambition, confidence and performance | Founder of Openmind™ Psychometrics and Truthsayers Neurotech®
November 8, 2024
Performative outrage: the flashy, loud, and often theatrical outbursts we see from celebrities, influencers, and, yes, even some of our friends on social media. It’s the moral grandstanding, the high-octane reactions, the hashtags, and sometimes the outrage that catches headlines. But here’s the kicker – in a world where every thought, reaction, and hot take can be amplified at a moment’s notice, how much of it is genuine, and how much is simply an act? Can we actually trust performative outrage, or is it just another tool people use to navigate – or manipulate – the landscape of public opinion?
Let’s cut through the noise and figure out where performative outrage truly stands.
What is Performative Outrage?
At its core, performative outrage is a display of anger or indignation, often delivered in public and meant to show others how morally upstanding or righteous someone is. While authentic outrage is a genuine reaction to something unjust or offensive, performative outrage tends to have a few distinguishing traits:
- It’s attention-seeking: The outrage is designed to attract an audience, typically via a social media post, a public statement, or even a full-blown press release.
- It’s superficial: It rarely delves into real issues or solutions; it’s more about the display than the depth.
- It’s trendy: Performative outrage often centers on topics that are hot-button or current. It fades as quickly as it appears when the topic isn’t trending anymore.
Friday, June 05, 2026
Delaney Hall hunger strike ignites a week of violence, full report
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On the above May 25, 2026 video at Delaney Hall, Newark NJ @ approximately 0:43 Mins. Kason Little identifies himself as a Community Organizer and Activist. Here's some information about Kason Little, found on CANARY MISSION:
Kason Little
Status: Unknown
State: New Jersey
Organizations: BDS, BLM
Kason Little
Kason Little [Kason J. Little] led chants at the pro-Hamas encampment at Columbia in 2024. Little called for Israel’s destruction and spread hatred of America online in 2024.
Little was featured in an April 30, 2024, Instagram video leading a chant at the encampment and then shouting [00:00:58]: “End the genocide! F**k Israel! Free Palestine!”
During the course of the video, Little stood in front of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, which had been stormed and barricaded by encampment protesters immediately after midnight on April 30, 2024. The video was captioned: “
Protesters Occupy Columbia University…”On April 30, 2024, participants in Columbia’s second pro-Hamas encampment forced their way into the university’s Hamilton Hall, barricading themselves in the building and taking three Columbia custodians hostage. Protesters also vandalized [00:00:55] and destroyed university property inside the hall. A police raid on Hamilton found knives, gas masks, ropes and literature that read: “...DESTROY zionist business interests everywhere!...DEATH TO AMERICA!...”
On April 21, 2024, Little posted a photo of himself on Instagram. He wrote: “Nightlong encampment at Columbia University in solidarity with the students demanding full financial divestments from Israel. We're in solidarity with Palestine!!!...#FreePalestine
.” The encampment was also in support of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.Also on April 21, 2024, Little posted on Instagram a photo of himself with another anti-Israel protester from the Columbia encampment. The post said: “Live from Columbia University…demanding all student demands in solidarity with Palestine are met!!...”
Columbia is located in New York, New York.
Kason Little Led Chants at the Pro-Hamas Encampment at Columbia University (Columbia)
Wednesday, June 03, 2026
Giving Ventures Ep. 100 - Arabella: The Left's Dark Money with Scott Walter
Giving Ventures Ep. 100 - Arabella: The Left's Dark Money with Scott Walter
DonorsTrust
Jan 13, 2026 Giving Ventures Podcast
For the past decade, one entity has become predominant in secretive giving on the left of the political spectrum: Arabella Advisors. It goes by a lot of different names, like the New Venture Fund, the Windward Fund, 1630 Fund. This panoply of organizations represents hundreds of nonprofit entities ranging from full-fledged 501(c)3s and 501(c)4s to astroturf groups that only exist as websites. Billions of dollars have flowed into and out of these Arabella entities, all working to counter free markets and conservative ideas and to advance progressive ideology.
Despite its major influence, Arabella is still pretty secretive. But one individual thoroughly understands the reach of Arabella and its tentacles: Scott Walter, the president of Capital Research Center, which focuses on the sources and influence of philanthropic dollars on the left.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026
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Friday, May 29, 2026
Federal agents in New Jersey beat back anti-ICE agitators in chaos outside Delaney Hall detention facility
Confrontation follows days of protests over alleged hunger strike and conditions at the privately run facility
By Stephen Sorace Fox News
Published May 27, 2026 10:23am EDT
Federal agents in New Jersey beat back anti-ICE agitators in chaos outside Delaney Hall detention facility
Federal agents and anti-ICE agitators clashed outside the Delaney Hall detention facility in New Jersey. (Credit: FNTV)
Federal agents deployed pepper spray and beat back anti-ICE agitators outside the Delaney Hall detention center in New Jersey on Tuesday night, following days of chaos outside the privately run facility.
The confrontation, captured on video shared by FreedomNewsTV, shows the agitators trying to stop vehicles from leaving Delaney Hall in Newark. Authorities are seen attempting to stop agitators from obstructing vehicles and clearing them from the road.
The video shows the encounter turned physical as federal agents forcibly pushed back agitators who made contact with the hood of a vehicle trying to leave the facility. Some agents were also seen deploying pepper spray while others used batons against the agitators.
BLUE STATE ICE FACILITY RAMPS UP SECURITY WITH NEW BARRICADES AMID CLASHES WITH PROTESTERS
Federal agents pushed back anti-ICE agitators who were blocking vehicles from leaving Delaney Hall, a privately run immigration detention facility, in Newark, New Jersey, on Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (FNTV)
On Tuesday night, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin addressed the latest confrontation in a post on X.
"ICE law enforcement officers were assaulted by anti-ICE rioters who sprayed law enforcement with an unknown chemical substance," Mullin wrote, adding that two individuals were arrested for allegedly assaulting, resisting and impeding federal officers.
Federal agents were seen hitting some agitators with batons during the encounter outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, on Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (FNTV)
The clashes extended a weekend protest over conditions for detainees in the facility, prompted by a reported hunger strike undertaken by the detainees themselves.
Mullin on Monday denied the claims, writing, "There is NO hunger strike at Delaney Hall. There are no subprime conditions."
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
From the Bronx to the Lecture Hall: What My Jesuit Education Taught Me About Voice and Vocation
by Etienne C. Toussaint
May 18, 2026
The candles were everywhere. That is the first thing I remember—their light flickering on Wheeler Avenue, a few blocks from where I grew up in the South Bronx. I was 14, holding a dry-cleaning ticket for my mother’s dress.
Amadou Diallo, a 23-year-old immigrant from Guinea, had been shot 41 times by New York City police officers in the vestibule of his apartment building. He had reached for his wallet. They thought it was a gun.
People were saying his name, saying they could not believe he was gone, wondering whether this time would be different. Others answered their own questions: It always ends this way, the cops always get a pass, this is how the system works. And some said nothing at all—just stood staring, or walked past trying to look unbothered, as if violence had become weather in the neighborhood, ordinary as air.
I stood there in that light and felt something shift. I was about to graduate from elementary school as my class valedictorian. I was on my way somewhere. My teachers had told me so. My mother had told me so. I was doing everything right. But that night I understood, without yet having the language, that success did not guarantee safety. The world I was entering had rules not written with me in mind. There were walls I had not built but would still have to face.
I did not yet know that those walls would become the architecture of my vocation. Diallo’s death did more than teach me that policing can be brutal. It taught me that the world was more dangerous for people who looked like me. And somewhere on Wheeler Avenue, without choosing it, I stopped being a child.
My grandmother, whenever she asked about school, had a way of leaning forward, veins rising in her neck and forehead, eager to hear my grades even though she could barely read. She knew an A meant I was going somewhere further than she could go. But when news like this came, she would simply say “bondye” in Creole, speak a silent prayer, then turn to me: “Etienne, don’t go by there. You have to be careful, you know. Stay home. Do your homework.” She said it as if the words could hold the world in place a little longer. Yet even as she spoke, I could see in her face a silent knowing—that homework and staying home were not enough.
Later that night, after I gave my mother her dress—the one she would wear to my graduation—I crumpled the dry-cleaning ticket and let it fall into the trash. But even after it had left my grasp, I still felt the weight of Wheeler Avenue in my hands. And a few months later, even after I had walked through the doors of Regis High School in Manhattan, I still did not understand the tradition I was entering.
The candles were everywhere. That is the first thing I remember—their light flickering on Wheeler Avenue, a few blocks from where I grew up in the South Bronx. I was 14, holding a dry-cleaning ticket for my mother’s dress.
Amadou Diallo, a 23-year-old immigrant from Guinea, had been shot 41 times by New York City police officers in the vestibule of his apartment building. He had reached for his wallet. They thought it was a gun.
People were saying his name, saying they could not believe he was gone, wondering whether this time would be different. Others answered their own questions: It always ends this way, the cops always get a pass, this is how the system works. And some said nothing at all—just stood staring, or walked past trying to look unbothered, as if violence had become weather in the neighborhood, ordinary as air.
I stood there in that light and felt something shift. I was about to graduate from elementary school as my class valedictorian. I was on my way somewhere. My teachers had told me so. My mother had told me so. I was doing everything right. But that night I understood, without yet having the language, that success did not guarantee safety. The world I was entering had rules not written with me in mind. There were walls I had not built but would still have to face.
I did not yet know that those walls would become the architecture of my vocation. Diallo’s death did more than teach me that policing can be brutal. It taught me that the world was more dangerous for people who looked like me. And somewhere on Wheeler Avenue, without choosing it, I stopped being a child.
My grandmother, whenever she asked about school, had a way of leaning forward, veins rising in her neck and forehead, eager to hear my grades even though she could barely read. She knew an A meant I was going somewhere further than she could go. But when news like this came, she would simply say “bondye” in Creole, speak a silent prayer, then turn to me: “Etienne, don’t go by there. You have to be careful, you know. Stay home. Do your homework.” She said it as if the words could hold the world in place a little longer. Yet even as she spoke, I could see in her face a silent knowing—that homework and staying home were not enough.
Later that night, after I gave my mother her dress—the one she would wear to my graduation—I crumpled the dry-cleaning ticket and let it fall into the trash. But even after it had left my grasp, I still felt the weight of Wheeler Avenue in my hands. And a few months later, even after I had walked through the doors of Regis High School in Manhattan, I still did not understand the tradition I was entering.
Monday, April 06, 2026
US lawmakers visit Cuba as embargo pressure intensifies
P.S.
Thinking of Cuba's 1959 Socialist Revolution brings to mind the idiom:
"You've made your bed, now lie in it"
Friday, April 03, 2026
Thursday, April 02, 2026
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