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Update on our Sick Dogs

okay so, we took our dogs that we believed to be sick with parvo into the vet today and they do have it just like we thought they did.

we’re going to continue to take them in like the vet is saying and let them try to help with keeping them hydrated like they are, since there is no cure and all they can do is help them try to fight it off. it could take days or maybe weeks and there’s not guarantee that they’ll survive or that any of them will, but we have to try at least. we love our dogs too much to put them down without a fighting chance.

thing is, we still aren’t going have enough money and we don’t know how much we will need. again, it could take days to weeks for their bodies to fight off the virus on it’s own with the vet’s help. without getting too specific, we’re going to need 50 dollars per dog each day that they’re there. and there’s three dogs so, 150 dollars per day.

but, instead of using the gofundme we were going to use a few days ago (we made it when we only assumed that this was going on and wasn’t too sure that they were this sick and didn’t know what we would be paying at the time); we’re going to take paypal donations, since we don’t know how much we’re going to need in particular.  i don’t feel right setting a specific goal with gofundme since we don’t know how much we’ll need. that and, i feel that a specific goal would be intimidating towards people.

but yeah, we’re going to take donations and i have a button set up on my blog so you can help us all out with donations if you can.

and i’ll keep you all updated on all of our dogs’ condition as the days go on if you’re at all concerned about them. thank you for listening and i’d appreciate it a lot if you spread this around.

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Update on our Sick Dogs

okay so, we took our dogs that we believed to be sick with parvo into the vet today and they do have it just like we thought they did.

we’re going to continue to take them in like the vet is saying and let them try to help with keeping them hydrated like they are, since there is no cure and all they can do is help them try to fight it off. it could take days or maybe weeks and there’s not guarantee that they’ll survive or that any of them will, but we have to try at least. we love our dogs too much to put them down without a fighting chance.

thing is, we still aren’t going have enough money and we don’t know how much we will need. again, it could take days to weeks for their bodies to fight off the virus on it’s own with the vet’s help. without getting too specific, we’re going to need 50 dollars per dog each day that they’re there. and there’s three dogs so, 150 dollars per day.

but, instead of using the gofundme we were going to use a few days ago (we made it when we only assumed that this was going on and wasn’t too sure that they were this sick and didn’t know what we would be paying at the time); we’re going to take paypal donations, since we don’t know how much we’re going to need in particular.  i don’t feel right setting a specific goal with gofundme since we don’t know how much we’ll need. that and, i feel that a specific goal would be intimidating towards people.

but yeah, we’re going to take donations and i have a button set up on my blog so you can help us all out with donations if you can.

and i’ll keep you all updated on all of our dogs’ condition as the days go on if you’re at all concerned about them. thank you for listening and i’d appreciate it a lot if you spread this around.

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Update on our Sick Dogs

okay so, we took our dogs that we believed to be sick with parvo into the vet today and they do have it just like we thought they did.

we’re going to continue to take them in like the vet is saying and let them try to help with keeping them hydrated like they are, since there is no cure and all they can do is help them try to fight it off. it could take days or maybe weeks and there’s not guarantee that they’ll survive or that any of them will, but we have to try at least. we love our dogs too much to put them down without a fighting chance.

thing is, we still aren’t going have enough money and we don’t know how much we will need. again, it could take days to weeks for their bodies to fight off the virus on it’s own with the vet’s help. without getting too specific, we’re going to need 50 dollars per dog each day that they’re there. and there’s three dogs so, 150 dollars per day.

but, instead of using the gofundme we were going to use a few days ago (we made it when we only assumed that this was going on and wasn’t too sure that they were this sick and didn’t know what we would be paying at the time); we’re going to take paypal donations, since we don’t know how much we’re going to need in particular.  i don’t feel right setting a specific goal with gofundme since we don’t know how much we’ll need. that and, i feel that a specific goal would be intimidating towards people.

but yeah, we’re going to take donations and i have a button set up on my blog so you can help us all out with donations if you can.

and i’ll keep you all updated on all of our dogs’ condition as the days go on if you’re at all concerned about them. thank you for listening and i’d appreciate it a lot if you spread this around.

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[Picture shows 19 year old woman, standing with use of a cane. She has a red “x” on her hand and is holding a purple pillow with statement taped to it, reading the following] My name is Abby. I am a female, 19 year old, disabled college student and I stand with Emma Sulkowicz, but I have something to say to her that I truly hope she hears.

Emma Sulkowicz is a student at Columbia University who has been carrying around the mattress on which she was sexually assaulted as a performance art piece. Earlier today in her call to action for others around the country to carry their own mattresses in a show of support for victims and survivors of sexual assault, Emma asked that her supporters not carry pillows, stating that “pillows and ‘light’ and ‘fluffy.’” She stated that “sexual assault is neither a “light” nor “fluffy” matter, and we cannot treat it as if it were,” and suggested that by carrying pillows we are simply taking away from the number of hands to carry mattresses and instead said that people mark should themselves with a red “x” to show their willingness to help carry the weight.

But I cannot help carry a mattress. Carrying a mattress, even with a team of people, is not simply a difficult task for me, it is an impossible one. I have rheumatoid arthritis, and I walk with a cane. I am disabled. For me, even carrying a pillow is incredibly difficult, and I am far more privileged than many people with physical disability in that I can even carry that. If I were on crutches, in a wheelchair, or the use of my arms was more inhibited in any way, carrying anything would be out of the question.

According to Rape Response Services, almost 80% of people with disabilities are sexually assaulted on more than one occasion. Women with disabilities are at least twice as likely as the general population of women to be victims of sexual assault.

While I understand that Emma Sulkowicz wants to make an impact and retain the artistic integrity of her piece, disability is the often forgotten intersection in feminist activism, and I was disappointed to see her lack of consideration for those of us who cannot carry the physical weight, but are at a much greater risk to be forced to carry it emotionally.

We can’t all stand with Emma Sulkowicz.

Edit: This is a link to her original op-ed in which she presents her call to action: http://columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2014/10/26/call-carry-weight-together

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Protesters gather at the Ferguson police department, where they are immediately met with harassment.

Wednesday, October 22nd

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The first U.S. President who was a KKK member was William McKinley, who was a former Union officer, according to kkk.org. Not much is known about his involvement with the Klan, but many union men joined the KKK during its First Era during the Radical Republican’s anti-white Reconstruction Era.

Woodrow Wilson was the second U.S. President to be a KKK member. According to Nick Ragone’s book, “Presidents’ Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Extraordinary Executives, Colorful Campaigns, and White House Oddities,” Wilson was known as a virulent racist and actually helped Klan membership skyrocket by providing screenings of The Clansman and Birth of a Nation for members of his Cabinet, Congress, and the Supreme Court. Wilson’s ideology helped pave the intellectual foundation of the campaigns of racist Dixiecrats Strom Thurmond and George Wallace. Wilson is also credited with allowing Washington D.C. to become Jim Crow territory. He also never shied away from speaking publicly about the ‘benefits’ of segregation.

Warren G. Harding was the next president who was a KKK member. According to kkk.org and the book The Fiery Cross, Harding was actually sworn in at a KKK ceremony that was held at the White House by Imperial Wizard Colonel Simmons. Harding was not the only president to allow Klan activities to be held on White House grounds.

Calvin Coolidge was a well known and active Klan member who allowed cross lightings on the Capital steps and also reviewed the giant Klan parades of 1925 and 1926 that were held in Washington D.C..

Harry S. Truman is the final U.S. President to have ties to the KKK that are known and documented. While he was not a prominent member, he did pay dues to the organization between 1920 and 1922. He eventually parted ways with the Klan due to their disapproval of his appointment of Roman Catholics to key political positions.

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The Mike Brown they don’t want you to see. Never forget. #nojusticenopeace #staywoke #arrestdarrenwilson

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It looks like the family is getting help printing flyers and such, but this showed up on my feed and I wanted to share. Not just to help find Ian, but to spread awareness for the dangers of meeting people on Craigslist. If you live in the Portland Area please be aware of the Craigslist scam. This scary has been posted in others places in Oregon and Washington as well.

Please share to help find Ian!

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The parents of VonDerrit Myers speak with a local radio station.

Part One

Part Two

Sunday, October 12th

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Happening Now (10.13.14): Thousands of students from SLU join Ferguson and Shaw protesters, in solidarity with their fight for justice for victims of police brutality. This is a movement in action. #staywoke #fergusonoctober

I’m literally ugly sobbing right now. Had to pull over just to put this post together. More to come when I get back to Florida.

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Follow the Rebel Z’s Livestream as events unfold tonight.

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A concerned woman tried to grab the baby, and a police officer slammed the door on her.

LOS ANGELES, CA – Around the block from where Ezell Ford was killed by LAPD, officers from the Newton Division stopped, Brandon Dawson, 26, on Sunday evening. Dawson had just finished his shift as a dental assistant and was picking up his seven-month-old daughter from his grandmother’s house. He was strapping the baby’s carrier into the car when officers stopped Brandon asking why Brandon had parked in the private driveway. Brandon explained that there were no other spaces available and he had just pulled up to pick up his daughter. The police asked for no papers, and told Brandon to put his hands up as they snatched the father’s baby. Soon after, Brandon would be tazered, beaten, and arrested by police on suspicion of assaulting a gang officer from LAPD’s Newton Division, according to Officer Lilliana Preciado. However, Officer Preciado claims not to have any details regarding what led to Dawson’s arrest.

An eyewitness on the scene that asked not to be identified or recorded due to police terrorizing members of low income communities that call for police accountability, watches the confrontation between Daawson and LAPD. A witness who says that after LAPD snatched the baby from Brandon’s arms, an officer began violently shaking the seven-month-old back and forth as if they were intentionally trying to make the baby fly out of the carrier.

“My baby! My baby!” screamed Brandon. LAPD then put the infant on the sidewalk. Alone.

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A concerned woman tried to grab the baby, and a police officer slammed the door on her. Upset, Brandon’s grandmother came and took her grandchild from the sidewalk. Ten cop cars soon pulled up. Police officers piled on top of Brandon, tazering and beating him. A beating that was recorded on video that has yet to be released. Witnesses and angry community members surrounded the officers recording the police. Police told witnesses to stop recording, but community members continued to film the police anyway.  Police responded to by taking photos of those recording them. A tactic that police use to intimidate community members with threats of arrest and deportation according to the witness.

Upset, community members gathered calling police out, “He did nothing to nobody.” “They (police) threw his baby.”

The community response was caught on tape by Ceebo Tha Rapper. Ceebo has been organizing the neighborhood and recording music about police brutality ever since the same police department killed his cousin, Ezell Ford. However, as the community filmed, police swiftly formed a line. With hands resting on their guns, officers aggressively push the crowd back in the video as community members remind police, “We’re unarmed.” This incident which began as a traffic stop between 7-8 pm, had 65th & Broadway sealed off and occupied by a small army of LAPD until midnight.

photo by Nash Baker from A Million Hits on YouTube

Following Brandon’s arrest, his mother, Linda Washington, was shocked when she received a call from her sister. She had just gotten off the phone with her son. He had called to say goodnight and ask how her day was. “(My) sister called saying I needed to come down because something happened with Brandon and the police.” Mrs. Washington didn’t believe her at first. After all, it was only minutes ago that Brandon was fine and now suddenly, her family was thrust into an emergency.

Given the wrong information several times by police, Mrs. Washington says she had to do a lot of running around just to locate Brandon and his impounded vehicle. Out on $50,000 bail, Brandon is being treated at the hospital. He has injuries and scars on his neck, forehead, and wrist from being beaten by LAPD. To make matters worse, Brandon’s wallet containing $1200 for his rent, was inside his car. Both the wallet and his rent money are now gone. According to witnesses, Brandon’s vehicle was driven away by a police officer, not a tow truck.

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This seems to be about more than a traffic stop, according to Mrs. Washington. One of the officer’s recognized Brandon from two years ago when they had stopped and arrested him in the very same place destroying his pending opportunity to join the marines as an officer on Monday night reminded Brandon: “You thought you were going to the Marines last time.”

This is a young boy with a baby in the car. And it’s obvious, he’s got on work clothes. What harm is he doing?

Washington asked regarding LAPD immediately using force on her son. Residents of Dawson’s grandmother’s building and his Mom all say Dawson is a sweet and hardworking young father. He has nothing to do with gangs or drugs. In fact, the only other problem Brandon has ever had with police, was in the very same place by 65th and Broadway two years ago with the very same notorious Shootin’ Newton Department.

Concerned about the psychological affects police targeting may have, Mrs. Washington remains determined to support her son.

What happens if every time you take two steps forward someone pushes you two steps backward? Once the police come at you, you’re almost tagged… It’s almost as if they intentionally want to get him to the point to get him locked up.

Brandon Dawson & Linda Washington

The eyewitness expressed similar sentiments about local police targeting the community:

They’re racist against the black and latino community. They insult us. They humiliate us. They belittle us.

Statistics back up their sentiments regarding police targeting and racist policing.

According to the NAACP:

African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated population

African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites

Together, African American and Hispanics comprised 58% of all prisoners in 2008, even though African Americans and Hispanics make up approximately one quarter of the US population

The Newton Police Department has been under fire from community members since August when officers from the department killed unarmed Ezell Ford nine days after they killed unarmed Omar Abrego. Regular demonstrations demanding justice for Ford and Abrego and an end to police brutality have been ongoing, but have yet to be met with any response other than force from the Newton Police Department. All of this of course occurring while those rallying for #FergusonOctober are making it look like there will either be justice against racist killer cops or revolution in America. One more family may be joining the efforts to stop killer cops and end police brutality. Mrs. Washington said her family hopes to attend the October 22nd day of national action against police brutality in Los Angeles.

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Here are the faces of the 43 teachers’ college students who have been missing for more than two weeks following a police ambush in the Mexican state of Guerrero. “These students were politically involved in their communities, so that makes us think this is political,” says Valeria Hamel, an activist and law student at Mexico City, where students have launched a 48-hour strike, calling for the students to be returned alive. Watch her interview on Democracy Now! today.

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She couldn’t find help for her family so she held it down!!! #QueenAppreciation #Queens #FatuKekula #Ebola #strength #love #health #news

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"I live in a neighborhood where my husband & I are 1 of the 3 Black families that live here.. Tonight the KKK knocked on our door!!! I was already looking out the window and seen them coming down my driveway. I screamed for my children to come upstairs in my room and into my master bath. . As I seen there faces in fear.. my mind flash back to Malcom X. My oldest understand but not the rest. My husband prides his self on teaching his wife & family self defense when he not home…. My heart was pounding! Palms sweating! Voice weak.. I look at my son.. And my mind drifted to Micheal Brown, Treyvon.Martin, Shawn Bell. WE legal over here.. everything registered! As the knocks kept coming .. I mustard up the voice strength to say just a minute! My body weak.. but my mind strong! I open the door.. Scope on! Beam on! Safety off!!! WHAT CAN I DO FOR YALL!!! Cause you at THE WRONG HOUSE! #FacesPriceless!! I will Protect. My Home, My Children, MY LEGACY!!!"