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Urgent Call from the Women of Standing Rock

Produced by women, featuring women, here is a video of the women of Očhéthi Šakówiŋ asking for more people to stand with them before the police begin to raid the #NoDAPL camps on Feb. 22nd. Militarized law enforcement have now surrounded the camps. In less than 48 hours, at 2pm on Feb. 22nd, law enforcement will raid the camp and arrest any water protectors and journalists who attempt to remain.

This is Očhéthi Šakówiŋ treaty land. This is Očhéthi Šakówiŋ water at stake. 

Water Protectors are asking media, supporters and those who can come to come now. Right now. Please pay attention and share their truths. Come if you can. 

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New life for the critically endangered rhino at Lewa Conservancy in Kenya. Photo: Andreas Fox

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{❀} / Maria Grazia Marrulli

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In two days, two black people, James Means and Will Sims, have been killed for being black by white supremacists. But these murders went unnoticed due to Thanksgiving and Black Friday, and this is very sad.

Sending all my love to the families of these victims. Y'all don’t deserve this. We will fight for you because we love you.

The lives of James Means and Will Sims mattered. Their lives had inherent value and worth.

#JamesMeans #WillSims

[thetolerantleft-deactivated2017]

Defend the gains of the cuban revolution. This does not mean we can’t be critical of its failures, but we cannot cede the narrative to capitalist propagandists. 

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fascist: minorities aren't people and should be killed

anyone else: it doesn't seem like people should be allowed to openly feel this way without fearing any consequence

liberals: oh my god... who's the REAL fascist... both sides are exactly the same I can't tell the difference...

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Okay, here’s the problem with the idea that oppressed groups can “alienate allies” by not being nice enough:

You shouldn’t be an ally because oppressed groups are nice to you. You should be an ally because you believe they deserve basic human rights. Hearing “I hate men” shouldn’t make men stop being feminist. Hearing “fuck white people” shouldn’t make white people stop opposing racism.

Your opposition to oppression should be moral, and immovable. Your belief that all humans should be treated with equal respect shouldn’t be conditional based on whether or not individual people are nice to you.

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plot twist: free menstrual products AND free condoms. free food. free housing. 

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It is necessary to understand that the police army at Standing Rock wants to start killing the water protectors. You don’t deliberately inflict hypothermia on people, especially older people, unless you are cognizant of the fact that this can be lethal. Their use of water cannons in this context is lethal force. I imagine they’re delighted at the opportunity; they’ve only held off on live ammunition this long because massacres are bad PR. 

(Oh, and a quick sidenote: “rubber” bullets are not made of rubber. They are metal pellets with a thin rubber coating. You can absolutely kill or severely injure someone with a rubber bullet.)

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Water protector Sophia Willansky was critically injured last night – she’s in surgery facing amputation of an arm – after being hit by what is called a “stun grenade” while distributing water bottles to her fellow protectors. “Stun Grenade” is an interesting euphemism for a concussive weapon that is not significantly less destructive to living things than a regular grenade. If you would like to see what a “stun grenade” does to a person’s body, you can google Sophia Willansky, but the images are graphic and I’m not sure she has consented to their release. Rest assured that it’s fucking horrific. This isn’t, like, “set phasers to stun”; this is “use words that sound nicer for stuff that kills people” and it’s scary and garbage.

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Confirmed now that Sophia’s arm did indeed need complete amputation.

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There’s now a Gofundme to donate money toward Sophia Wilansky’s medical costs associated with needing to have her arm amputated after police hit her with a concussive grenade. https://www.gofundme.com/30aezxs

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