#snipers and riot cops beating people. incredibly dystopian and also history coming back around again. all to prevent an end to genocide | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

leonardcohenofficial · 6 months ago

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studying the long sixties as an artistic and sociopolitical era for dissertation research and seeing the exact same tactics used by institutions—especially the "liberal universities"—over and over and over again to surpress organizing and protest while personally still trying to find ways to make tangible and meaningful change is at minimum incredibly fucking haunting

#quite obviously my feelings are not the most important thing in this moment but when there are snipers on the roofs of your university #buildings it is really difficult to not be reminded of kent state and jackson state and the watts riots and the riots after MLK'#death and every single fucking vietnam protest and it is really difficult to feel like things can change but the only fucking thing we can #do is hold the line like. there is quite literally no other way #snipers and riot cops beating people. incredibly dystopian and also history coming back around again. all to prevent an end to genocide #what a fucking nightmare world

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