#protests2020

[helgaduval]

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[abandoned-monarchy]

[nanamins-overtime]

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?

- Malcolm X

[emerald-studies]

She was just 19....

[Trigger Warning: Sexual assault]

I know I’m late on this but I thought I’d write about Oluwatoyin "Toyin" Salau’s murder. Please read on to learn more about this gorgeous Woman.

This intelligent Woman was, and still is, an inspiration. She taught herself to sew, paint, and design clothes. She was honest and wanted to bring people together. She encouraged people to unite against police brutality. She also loved to protest. 

Toyin spoke at a protest for Tony McDade and said,

"At the end of the day, I cannot take my fucking skin color off," --"Everywhere I fucking go, I am profiled whether I like it or not... So guess what? I'm gonna die by it. I'm going to die by my fucking skin. You cannot take my fucking blackness away from me."

I feel such a connection to Toyin. I’m also 19. I also love all forms of art. I love to protest. 

Her death makes me want to do more. Protest more, voice my opinions more, and be proud of my brown skin. She’s such an inspiration and I thought more people should know about her. 

I also want to discuss the fact that she was sexually assaulted before her death. Black Women are often forgotten in general but especially in terms of violence.  I myself have been sexually assaulted.

For every black woman who reports rape, at least 15 black women do not report.

1 in 4 black girls will be sexually abused before the age of 18.

1 in 5 black women are survivors of rape.

35% of black women experienced some form of contact sexual violence during their lifetime.

40% - 60% of black women report being subjected to coercive sexual contact by age 18.

17% of black women experienced sexual violence other than rape by an intimate partner during their lifetime.

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research reports that:

More than 20% of Black Women are raped during their lifetimes — a higher share than among women overall.

Black Women were 2.5 times more likely to be murdered by men than their White counterparts. And, more than 9 in 10 black female victims knew their killers.

Black Women also experience significantly higher rates of psychological abuse — including humiliation, insults, name-calling and coercive control — than do women over all.

(Source)

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People don’t think about Black Women in a different light than the strong Black Beyonce, sassy Rihanna, or any other box. 

Black Women are complex, sexual, beautiful, flawed, strong, vulnerable. Our hearts break, we laugh at memes, we dance while cooking, we listen to music, we breathe...until we can’t anymore. 

We are multifaceted just like any other human being. 

Thanks for reading this far. 

Now check in on your Black Sisters! Just be there with them during this horrendous time in history. You don’t have to understand our experience fully, just please show love and support.  

Rest in Power Toyin.

Sign the Petition Here

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SOURCE: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/31/opinions/trump-antifa-domestic-terrorist-bergen/index.html

For those worried about being classified as a terrorist. Trump is spewing nonsense yet again. 

[nastyelf]

I know for some people it may not seemed very important, interesting, just some small country in the east of Europe, but people should know what happpens there. Incredible Belarus people are trying to overthrow their crazy dictator, they use peaceful protest, but that's what they get. Belarus people deserve life in a civilized progressive country with a normal democracy, and not with a tyrant headed by and subordinate to him groups of security forces.

Жыве Беларусь.

https://belarusfeed.com/roman-bondarenko-beaten-plainclothesmen-die/

[rockofeye]

If you are taking to the streets tonight, please protect yourself as much as is possible. Wear a mask, wear good shoes, and have an exit plan if it no longer feels ok to be there.

Remember that the police are not your friends and they will not protect you. They are rioting too.

If you are not going to the protests, you can still help:

Most metropolitan areas have set up a mutual aid bail fund. Give them money.

Provide jail support (and court support when it's time). Go to the jails with food and water, cash for taxis or the ability to Uber folks, a phone people can use to make a call, disposable masks, painkillers like tylenol and ibuprofen, tampons...all the things people are denied in jail and all the things they will need directly after.

Contact your local Black Lives Matter chapter and ask how you can help--not tell them how you want to help, but ask what they need.

Call your elected officials and ask them to come out in support of the protests and to condemn violent police responses.

Call police commissioners in cities where police violence has taken over and ask them why they are tacitly supporting terrorist behavior. Demand that they order their officers to stand down.

Call police unions and demand the same things.

This is only a start; there is lots more to do.

If your religious leader or religious authority is not speaking in support of the systematically oppressed or says they are sitting this out, hold them accountable. This uprising is holy work, and our spiritual leaders must lead.

There is a lot of work to be done. Remember that the humanity of those who have suffered is more important than corporations, inanimate objects, and a racist police force.

Be blessed and know that your action--big or small--is seen and counted.

[media-observer]

You turned Libya from the country with the highest standard of living in Africa into a failed state run by Al-Qaeda “rebels” who now sell Africans in open air slave markets.

Plus you and your husband pillaged Haiti for billions.

Since when did #BlackLivesMatter to the Clintons?

Hillary Clinton helped destroy entire nations and murder thousands of people, yet she continues to be celebrated across the media as some sort of hero.

Obama and Hillary Clinton are out here giving speeches about #BlackLivesMatter, while Africans are being sold in open air slave markets in Libya thanks to the illegal “humanitarian” intervention that they waged alongside their NATO buddies.

mediaobserver.net/2020/06/18/since-when-did-black-lives-matter-to-the-clintons/

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[magickkate]

the thread i made is pretty easy to understand however if you have any questions, let me know! i would love to help! this is such a neat opportunity.

Zoe Amira created this video packed with ads in order to get views and donate. it’s 56 min long so if you can have this playing in the background while you work or watch it for what it is, that would help tremendously! i have three youtube accounts watching atm but

you have to follow the guidelines explained in my thread in order to not be marked as spam

[thehalfwaypost]

https://halfwaypost.com

[thestar-grimoire]

[daydreamxart]

[voyagerprobe]

National guard massing outside Milwaukee (oak creek). Saw a few humvees with what looked like mounted guns, jeeps, and at least one city bus. Drove around to get pictures but they'd already left. Stay safe everyone.

[workersolidarity]

I really cannot emphasize enough how long I've been on blogs warning people that we were moving like a slow motion riot towards disaster in this country.

We are literally tumbling slowly towards a Civil War.

Let me make this much perfectly clear. We live in a Police State, and we have for a very long time. And if you're my age or younger, this is all you've ever known.

People living in Major Cities being Policed like a War Zone, especially black and brown folks, the LGBTQA Community, and our Nation's Immigrant Communities, are ANGRY, and they have been angry for a very long time.

Every time a Cop is caught on camera MURDERING a black man, and we all line up in Protest, they tell us to be Peaceful. They talk about having Patience. They want to talk about "dialogue".

What's the point of dialogue when it's no more productive than taking to a wall? What are we supposed to be being patient for? Another all white jury to find a Killer Cop innocent???

And why should we be Peaceful any longer, when nothing changes but the names and faces of the dead???

No, the time for Peaceful dialogue is over. The time for patience was over a LONG time ago.

In fact, the only thing that's actually surprising about these angry Protests and nightly Riots is that it took this long to reach this point!

To make matters worse, we've all been in death grip between low wages, excessive housing costs, rising food prices artificially kept at excessive cost by corrupt Government Regulations favoring super Corporations like Mansanto, DuPont and others; as well the endless mountains of debt incurred to attend College and in some places just to attend a decent fucking Highschool.

If you're the average Working Class American in a City in the Deep South, making barely more than the Federal Minimum Wage, then chances are your Employer might as well just cut the pretense and admit we're just there slaves except we're no longer even given enough to afford Housing, Food, and Utilities, and certain not enough to afford basic everyday necessities like clothes, shoes, and hygeine products, forget about trying to raise a FAMILY in that Economic Vice.

As if living in a Police State without basic necessities wasn't bad enough, we have two useless Political Parties, one of which is less an actual Political Party than it is a Fascist Organization infiltrating all levels of Government from local school boards to the Presidency and the Senate.

THIS IS NOT BY ANY MEANS DEMOCRACY

It doesn't resemble anything like a Democracy or Republic or whatever the hell they want to call it.

Then we now have roving openly Neo-Fascist Organizations operating throughout the Country with little to know resistance by Government and being openly encouraged by the President, his allies, and the nod and winks and more coming from so-called "Establishment" Republicans, whatever the fuck that means.

Not only that but these wannabe Fascists in the White House have their own State Television in FOX News.

But FOX wasn't Fascist enough for the Fascists so now they have new media sources popping up around the Wig in the White House.

The Fascists even have a whole network of Organizations supported by the wealthiest of the Ruling Class to support the ability of Fascists to Organize and Police to kill weaponless lawyerless Minorities.

With almost no pretext or attempt the shield their maneuvering these people have taken over or blocked from proper functioning most Congressional responsibilities, Regulatory Agencies meant to protect the Public from out of control greedy Corporations, and the Courts, meant to be our absolute last line of Defense against abuses.

So anyone acting "surprised" on TV with the violence in the streets, is merely being facetious.

We're on the edge of a major tipping point whether people yet realize it or not.

Just like how it only takes one person throwing a bottle at police or starting a dumpster fire to turn a "Peaceful Protest" into a Riot; it only takes one of these riots going from Glass Bottles, Fireworks, Dumpster Fires and Tear Gas; to Pipe Bombs, Molotov Cocktails, Assault Rifles, Snipers and Residential fires.

It may not be tonight or tomorrow, or even this particular wave of Protests, but we are teetering on the edge.

How long before openly Fascist Paramilitary Organizations and Neo-Nazi groups are firing on Protests at the side of Police Officers?

I'm sorry, but groups of disorganized cells of online chats hitting the streets and calling themselves Antifa or Black Bloc or Anonymous, are simply no match for the Paramilitary Organizations of Racists that have been collecting weapons, training community members, Organizing with like minded groups, and hiding out in Idaho or Utah waiting for a moment just like this to make their move and take over physical and Political Infrastructure of the Country openly.

This is why it was important to be Organizing among Socialists, Communists, Anarchists and sympathetic Civil Libertarian Groups. Instead people fell for bait and switch from Democrats and left it to Liberals to defend their Rights.

And look at the results! How's that working out for us??? Where are our Liberal and Democratic Party defenders now???

Oh right, they're hiding in the background or calling for Peaceful dialogue AGAIN.

We SHOULD have been Organizing from the moment we saw how Occupy Wall Street was abandoned by it's so-called Allies in the Democratic Party.

We SHOULD have abandoned ANY illusions we might have had when we saw Black Lives Matter Protests scrutinized and tarred by Democrats and in the Media in a way Fascists NEVER have been.

We should have known and we should have been preparing and Organizing just like the Fascists.

Now we're at the edge of a very different kind of conflict and we're ABSOLUTELY unprepared. How many Leftist Organizations have been storing assault rifles and building Pipe Bombs or training Sleeper Cells to rapidly arm and deploy on the streets of their Cities. We should have been Recruiting potential ally Organizations and getting ready to be a line of Defense for the Workers, Black and Brown families, LGBTQA Community and Immigrant Rights Groups.

All I see is a lot of kids playing with fire and NO FUCKING CLUE how to put it out or control it.

If Anarchy hits the streets, it's going to be the Fascists regain control of our Communities working with Military members, the National Guard and Police. Does ANYONE really think they're going to protect your Rights or your family's Safety????

It's good to see people pushing back for once, but I also see potential for disaster. You damn well better have a big fucking hose if you're going to start a big fucking fire.