if i look back, i am lost
we're not kids anymore.
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just going to leave this entry level literature here
follow-up; a good primer on the basics of treating gunshot wounds if you or someone in your community is the victim of gun violence, as well as a good start for assembling an IFAK
a quick introduction to self-defense
ok maybe now is a good time to remind everyone that you need to court military members for your anti-war activism for it to mean any amount of a good goddamn. like. that was a really, really, indispensably important aspect of the anti-war movement during the Vietnam war. That's how you get mutinies to happen. Do not be stupid about this.
Benefits of allying military members: potential to disrupt function, chance to foment mutiny, ability to attain crucial information needed to attain our goals, ability for friendly connections within the force to propagate ideology and give good optics, exciting potential of saboteurs, just having some kind of in with the guys who will be asked to kill you during states of unrest, long-established historic precedent of successful revolutionaries utilizing connections within the armed forces, you might stop the guys from doing the war stuff you don't like
Benefits of ostracizing military members: asserts morally upright character
Bystander Intervention Training
so, the US just attacked Iran, and that is fucking terrible. Something we all need to think about right now is how we can stop the harassment and violence against Muslims and Arabs in the US that got so much worse in the early 2000s from happening again to people now.
To that end, I wanted to share some resources on Bystander Intervention. One of the biggest things I learned from training like this is that there are many ways to intervene, and they don't all involve putting yourself in front of the person who may harm you or others. It's ok if you feel intimidated by that because there are more ways to help! And once you do the training, it might not be so scary.
Right to Be has Bystander trainings based on the 5Ds of Bystander Intervention (Distract, Delegate, Document, Delay, and Direct). The trainings are free!! sign up here.
I took one of their trainings a few years ago (when the org was called Hollaback!) and it was really very good, they have trainings at multiple levels and focused on various topics. They also partner with other orgs to focus on specific issues (like anti-AAPI harassment and with CAIR Chicago for anti-Muslim harassment, etc.).
Here are a few more resources:
APA Bystander Intervention Tip Sheet
RAINN Practicing Bystander Intervention
I think I'll sign up for one as a refresher.
Trans Rights petitions in the UK
Following the ridiculous and inhumane news out of the UK yesterday, two out of the top 3 petitions on the UK parliament petition site relate to trans rights:
Let me point you in the right direction!
1. Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services
Sign here
See graph of signatures here
Deadline: 28 July 2025
Signatures so far: 24,709 of 100,000
2. Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender
Sign here
See graph of signatures here
Deadline: 12 June 2025
Signatures so far: 22,107 of 100,000
Who can sign?
Anyone living in the UK, regardless of citizenship
UK citizens living anywhere in the world
Just an extremely Normal thing to say
Reminder they want to increase the budget for ICE from 3.5 to 45 billion dollars.
Reminder the majority of that will be for building new detention centers.
Reminder ICE are *currently* detaining tourists who can pay for a plane ticket home and people with visa issues that were already resolved, because they have to make quota so Trump can brag about the numbers going up.
Reminder most of these people were already in the immigration system - that's why they were easy to detain.
Reminder this is all at taxpayer expense.
Reminder these are people.
Reminder that these are people
Source
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“Detainee under 18”
The queer community needs to declare a state of emergency, especially for trans people.
I realize this post alone is not very meaningful. I don't have the energy nor clarity of mind to elaborate rn. I will.
No queer gets caught alone. We go out in packs. At minimum, in groups of 2-3.
No queer gets caught defenseless. We carry a weapon for self-defense at all times. We educate ourselves and our friends on self-defense basics.
No queer gets caught unaware. If approached or harassed by police, we start filming. We educate ourselves and our friends on how to interact with law enforcement.
No queer gets left in the cold. We pull people in to strengthen the community network. All discourse and identity policing stops right now.
No queer goes without a roof, plate, or connection. We pool our community resources. We work to ensure that every queer has a safe place to stay, meal to eat, and ear to listen.
Memorize it.
No queer gets caught alone.
No queer gets caught defenseless.
No queer gets caught unaware.
No queer gets left in the cold.
No queer goes without a roof, plate, or connection.
Live it.
We cannot rely on politicians and legislation to protect us. Government does not give us the right to survive and thrive, and they do not get to take that right from us. There are more of us than them.
Queer people will always exist. They cannot kill us. They have never succeeded, and they never will.
Fascism is nothing but a fragile ideology. May it be crushed and left to rot. It has no right to exist.
You have to love each other more than you hate your oppressors, or you are doing their jobs for them.
Memorize it and fucking live it.
I have never been so angry in my life. This is what we do about it.
When communities strengthen, fascism struggles. We need to jam them up at all points.
Bro absolutely COOKED with this.
If you ever hear the phrase "fascism is aesthetics as politics," that's what this post is talking about.
It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.
It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.
This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don't want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against "crime" because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.
I'ma just leave these here for like... *Cough* Research purposes and such.
Elon Musk's government email address for DOGE has been revealed; here's how Americans can use FOIA to uncover more details about his departm
The Laughing Man - Confessions of a Murderer (GDR, 1966) Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary Siegfried “Kongo” Müller, pump him with booze, and get him to talk. Müller fought in Congo’s civil war in the 1960s, and the more Pernod he imbibes, the more fascinating this interview becomes. He asserts that blacks are no better than animals and shares his dream of enlisting in the U.S. Army to fight communism in Vietnam and beyond. He flaunts his military paraphernalia, including the Iron Cross he was awarded in Germany in 1945, and proceeds to deny his earlier statements about civil killings, the ethics of war, and the defense of Western libertarian values. This documentary tour-de-force is interspersed with pictures of Müller and his comrades proudly posing with severed skulls, and it touches on other Nazis who are active in Africa as well as American world dominance.
Watching the full documentary is worth while and changed me as a person
this is the part in history where the working class would have bread riots and a senator would end up drawn and quartered.
The note inside a bullet.
B-17 bomber is riddled with German anti-aircraft fire but miraculously survives. Later they discover the explosive shells were all inert; sabotaged by Nazi slaves working in armament factories.
Inside one empty shell is a written note: it's all we can do for you now.
The most important part of all this is that these small acts of bravery and noncompliance cannot be known as long as the enemy still stands, and might never be known. Just because it doesn’t seem like anyone is doing anything doesn’t mean it’s true. The best malicious compliance or subtle sabotage is the one that’s never detected, but makes ravages nonetheless.
A critical part of any resistance is
Do not post your crimes
Do not brag. Do not look for brownie points. Do not publicly recruit. Keep your mouth shut.
do you know of any diy recipes for protective gear someone might need to make if they hypothetically were in a situation where they needed to fight back against a mass oppressive force?
CrimethInc has a few
How to mitigate the effects of batons, knives, rubber bullets, bean bag rounds, handgun bullets, rifle fire, and more.
Everything you need to know to choose the right gas mask or goggles to protect your eyes and lungs from chemical agents and projectiles.
Three kinds of batons that police use, how they employ them, what kind of damage they can do, and some ways of defending against them.
An extensive guide to less-lethal police weaponry—including chemical weapons and impact munitions—and how to defend against and treat their
Controversial opinion: If they're not going to turn out to town halls, you need to turn out to their homes and offices.
It's called "escrache", and the Argentinians invented it: you just organise demonstrations, noisy ones, lengthy ones, in front of the private residences of politicians.
BOYCOTT AIRBNB
These people are trying to take over every aspect of our lives.
Longtime Airbnb hosts say they want nothing to do with Airbnb now that co-founder Joe Gebbia is reportedly joining Elon Musk’s government in
they've also been a pressure target on the bds list for a while!!!
Incarcerated trans women in New Jersey have been pushed to self-harm amid delays in necessary medical care
Article published: December 11th, 2024.
A trans woman incarcerated in a New Jersey men’s prison severely mutilated herself after waiting years for gender-affirming surgery that would create a pathway for her to move to the state’s only women’s prison. She is one of several trans women in recent years to resort to self-harm amid delays in necessary medical care.
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The New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC) contracts with University Correctional Health Care (UCHC) at Rutgers University to provide medical, dental, and mental health care for those in NJDOC custody. Valentina and other trans women have repeatedly criticized UCHC and NJDOC for what they say is substandard treatment, unreasonable delays, and opaque decision-making.
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The dispute over the treatment of trans women in New Jersey prisons dates largely back to October 2022, when the state changed an internal policy to give corrections officials greater leeway to override trans prisoners’ housing preferences.
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Other trans women, including Valentina and Belladonna, say the policy change—coupled with years long delays in obtaining surgeries that would alleviate officials’ concerns—was used to similarly relegate them to men’s prisons where they’ve face sexual abuse, harassment, and violence from both staff and incarcerated men.
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According to ACLU attorney and expert on transgender rights Chase Strangio, courts have repeatedly found that denying incarcerated people medical care, including transition-related care, is unconstitutional—though the practice of providing that care remains a different story.
“The government, once it confines someone against their will, cannot deliberately withhold needed medical care,” Strangio said in an interview with Them. “This basic constitutional requirement is being treated as controversial because the media and state and federal lawmakers have so effectively demonized transgender people … that the idea that the Constitution would protect us is itself seen as something bordering on a joke.”
