from Chapel Hill to NYC, we are all SJP
❗️ MOMENTUM [IS] BUILDING ❗️
-- National Students for Justice in Palestine, 19 Apr 2024 12:22 PM EDT
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Front page of The Daily Tar Heel – independent student newspaper for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – for Wednesday August 30, 2023 is a collection of text messages sent and received by students on Monday during an active shooter school lockdown. A faculty member was killed by a student with a gun. Our son was in lock down for three hours in a building near Caudill Laboratory where the shooting took place. Professor Dr. Zijie Yan was killed; he is survived by his wife, a professor at NC State, and their two daughters, ages 2 and 7. All Chapel Hill-Carrboro area primary schools also went on lock down procedures for many hours and school release was delayed – it was the first day of school for these students, kindergarten through twelfth grade. It was the start of the second week of classes for the Tar Heels.
It was the sixth school shooting in the United States of America this month alone. When is enough?
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Announcing The Lost Cause Tour: LA, Stratford, Concord, Simsbury, Toronto, New York and Chapel Hill!
I'll be at the Studio City branch of the LA Public Library on Monday, November 13 at 1830hPT to launch my new novel, The Lost Cause. There'll be a reading, a talk, a surprise guest (!!) and a signing, with books on sale. Tell your friends! Come on down!
There's just one week until my next novel, The Lost Cause, goes on sale, and I'm hitting the road with it! I hope you can make it out – tell your friends!
Los Angeles: I'll be at the Studio City branch of the LA Public Library on Monday, November 13 at 1830hPT; there'll be a reading, a talk, a surprise guest (!!) and a signing, with books on sale. Tell your friends! Come on down!
Stratford, Ontario: I'm onstage on November 16 at 19hET with Vass Bednar at the University of Waterloo Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business. I'll also be doing a talk for middle-schoolers at the Stratford Public Library on November 16 from 1330hET-1430hET.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cbc-ideas-visionaries-in-conversation-tickets-729692809837
Simsbury, CT: I'm at the Simsbury Public Library on November 20 at 19h.
Toronto, ON: I'm at the Metro Reference Library on November 22, at 19hET, hosted by Vass Bednar.
Toronto, ON: I'm hosting Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, on November 27 at 19hET, at the Metro Reference Library.
New York City: I'm at the Strand Bookstore on November 29 at 19hET.
Chapel Hill, NC: I'm at Flyleaf Books on December 5, live with Sarah Taber, at 18hET.
If you don't see your city on this list, don't panic! I've got another tour coming in a couple of months, when The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, comes out in February:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/08/fiduciaries/#the-lost-cause
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The Electric Co. gay club, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1973.
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