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I know many of you, like me, are horrified by the results of the US election and the swing to fascism the US will likely take over the next four years. But there are many of us and we have power, too.
I will be distributing this zine locally, and you may want to read/ sites it around too:
https://justseeds.org/graphic/40-ways-to-fight-fascism/
According to a recently popular post on this app, all it took for boys and men to cozy up to others they know to be racist, rapey, and to have generally violent tendencies toward women, people of color, non-Christians, and anybody who isn’t straight … was to be called “brother” and have their feelings coddled (at least superficially).
It was framed as a failing of decent people because we supposedly weren’t nice enough to these boys and men, but i want you to just think about that entire premise… be nice to me even if i’m shitty … or else.
Rest In Peace baby girl smh
Wow wtf HIV/AIDS was discovered by Flossie Wong-Staal, an Chinese-American woman, and she’s the reason the HIV test even exists. AND THEN she invented the molecular knife that lead to treatments for HIV/AIDS. And she’s STILL ALIVE. We don’t hear about the contributions of Women of Color enough, my word. Madness.
Flossie Wong-Staal - Wikipedia
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flossie_Wong-Staal
you can always tell a major breakthrough is made by a woman, a woc or any poc because it’s either completely ignored or never credited like it just happened by itself
I clicked the link to her wiki to queue this for her birthday but found out she passed away last July. Thank you for everything you did Flossie. You’re an inspiration to us all.
happy holidays! this is your yearly reminder that wrapping paper is NOT recyclable! it can even contaminate an entire neighborhoods recycling, and none of it can be recycled! please make sure to keep your wrapping paper separate from your recycling!
Reminder that brown paper and newspaper are cheap and easy to recycle, and you can make them look classy, vintage and/or fun and funky by adding a ribbon or coloured ink stamps!
HOWEVER DO NOT ADD PAINT OR OTHER ART SUPPLIES. This will make them non-recyclable again. BUT, ink is fine - it’s removed in the recycling process.
I did not know this!!
HI I’M A RECYCLING PROFESSIONAL AND THIS LITERALLY DEPENDS ON YOUR PAPER AND YOUR RECYCLING SYSTEM Sweeping information about what is and isn’t recyclable looses necessary nuance. Check with your local municipality, but if you live in NYC and you don’t have metallic/shiny bits to your paper, it is recyclable, and can even be composted. CHECK LOCALLY.
Edit: I’m actually digging a little more and most major municipalities agree that wrapping paper is recyclable as long as it isn’t metallic or waxed. Again, check if you’re not sure, but don’t listen to sweeping statements by strangers because rules vary WILDLY by region
Why is amazon treating its employees like teachers treat students
Because infantilizing your underpaid workers is the best strategy to instill feelings of inferiority and fear, while also encouraging them to want to please middle managers for better treatment while not actually improving their situation at all. Its very effective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
Everybody needs to take a good, hard look at the history of West Virginia, so they can understand just how badly companies will sink their claws into your life, and how to stop them from doing it again.
We are really gonna replay the 1920s all over again
Former manager here. I HATED forcing this mess onto employees because ALL it was at the end of the day was their way of having to get around actually paying you for the extra work you were often made to do. That fucking gift card will NEVER sing like a $2.50 to $3.00 pay increase over numerous checks would and they know this! And anytime I didn’t take the incentive seriously they threatened my position. At the place I worked at, I know they felt like they could easily get away with it simply because most of the employees hired were high schoolers, but if it’s one thing despite it all that I always let them know was let NO employer make you believe these cheap little things were in their best interest. Oh and did I mention that often times I NEVER got paid back for some of the prizes I paid for out of pocket?
Lady Gaga and Everyone Who Worked with R. Kelly Is an Enabler
The music and entertainment industry and mainstream media need to stop enabling, excusing, and euphemizing R. Kelly's sexual abuse.
As Chicago reporter Jim DeRogatis said in his dogged reporting on the case:
“The saddest fact I’ve learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.”
R. Kelly’s case reinforces how young black women’s bodies are seen as sexually available. Trumping their age and legal status, they are seen as unrapeable. In all of it, we see that justice is neither blind nor balanced. A lot of this comes down to money: when it’s rich, famous men having sex, their behavior is seen as acceptable. When it’s small groups of women and queer folks having sex to make a living, they are criminalized, prohibited, stigmatized, and marginalized.
R. Kelly is a predator. He preyed on young black teen girls, cultivating them with gifts, cash, and attention. He knows just where young poor and working class girls are vulnerable. We grow up without our dads, or if they’re physically present, we don’t feel we fully have their love. We grow up hungry to be special. Many of us lack material resources in a community where young people judge and attack each other viciously if our poverty shows on the outside.
In our rape-friendly culture, women are so beleaguered that a male artist could win a legion of adoring female fans for writing a song called, “Only Fuck Her if She Says Yes.” The bar has gotten that low.
my skater girl Diana agenda
10.10.20. Washington DC
BLM protests continue, over 120 days now. DC protesters have been in the streets for months to defund the police. In response to calls to defund the police, the police have increased their brutality. How could reform work on those who abuse power to maintain it?
“Still protesting bc police reaction to protests against police brutality is police brutality”
it's interesting how I haven't seen news coverage about it in months. I wasn't even aware they were still ongoing.
people drop everything as soon as it isn't trendy.
It's not that people are dropping it; it's more like corporate media making a conscious choice not to cover the ongoing protests.
Look into who owns the local news stations
Dead on. CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, these stations are ALL bought and paid for. Regardless of what news comes through that door it is ALL filtered and packaged to maximize ratings and to maximize the messages they WANT to slip through to the public conscience.
JUST SO WE’RE CLEAR:
Dec 18th - House Impeaches Trump
Jan 8th - First CDC warning
Jan 9th - Trump campaign rally
Jan 14th - Trump campaign rally
Jan 16h - House sends impeachment articles to Senate
Jan 18th - Trump golfs
Jan 19th - Trump golfs
Jan- 20th first case in South Korea
Jan 20th - first case of corona virus in the US, Washington State.
Jan 22nd - “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
Jan 28th - Trump campaign rally
Jan 30th - Trump campaign rally
January 30th- WHO declares global health emergency
January 31st- banned foreign nationals from entering the US if they had been in China within two weeks prior.
Feb 1st - Trump golfs
Feb 2nd - “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.“
Feb 5th - Senate votes to acquit. Then takes a five-day weekend.
Feb 10th - Trump campaign rally
Feb 12th - Dow Jones closes at an all time high of 29,551.42
Feb 15h - Trump golfs
Feb 19th - Trump campaign rally
Feb 20th - Trump campaign rally
Feb 21st - Trump campaign rally
Feb 24th - “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
Feb 25h - “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
Feb 25h - “I think that’s a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”
Feb 26th - “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
Feb 26th - “We’re going very substantially down, not up.” Also “This is a flu. This is like a flu”; “Now, you treat this like a flu”; “It’s a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we’ll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner.”
February 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
Feb 28th - “We’re ordering a lot of supplies. We’re ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn’t be ordering unless it was something like this. But we’re ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”
Feb 28th - Trump campaign rally
March 2nd - “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don’t think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
March 2nd - “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”
March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
March 5th - “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
March 5th - “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”
March 6th - “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
March 6th - “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”
March 6th - “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”
March 6th - “I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault.”
March 7th - Trump golfs
March 8th - Trump golfs
March 8th - “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”
March 9th - “This blindsided the world.”
March 13th - [Declares state of emergency]
March 17th - “This is a pandemic,” Trump told reporters. “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
March 18th - “It’s not racist at all. No. Not at all. It comes from China. That’s why. It comes from China. I want to be accurate.”
March 23th- Dow Jones closes at 18,591.93
March 25th - 3.3 million Americans file for unemployment.
March 30th - Dow Jones closes at 21,917.16
April 2nd - 6.6 million Americans file for unemployment.
April 4th - The US has 300,000 (documented) COVID-19 infections and 8,000 deaths.
And we’re BELLY DEEP In this mess now. Y’all talking about 2021 will be better? HA, 2021 COULD’VE been better if these idiots didn’t squander 2020, but we all know how that went. Biden or no Biden this is going to last for a long time now. If we’re lucky we might begin to see a reprieve by fall 2021. And that’s a big IF.
ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER EVERYWHERE.
ZIMBABWE NEEDS YOUR HELP (please read and signal boost!) there is little to no coverage on this crisis worldwide. Rally for it just like you have for Black Lives Matter in the US, Yemen, Australian bushfires etc.
˗ˏˋ Link to petitions/donations! ˊˎ˗
reposted from: @theslacktivists on IG
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/03/1408341/-Psychologist-openly-admits-he-trains-police-officers-to-shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later S-I-G-N-A-L B-O-O-S-T
No. YOU DON’T GET TO DO THIS AND SLIP UNDER THE RADAR. Anyone who’s seeing this, I beg you to reblog. I want as many people to see this shit as possible.
this is really true tho!!! my uncle was a cop in NY & FL and they taught him to shoot first if he had to. anytime a cop feels threatened (and they basically teach cops they’re always threatened) they can shoot. its rlly sick psychological torture shit to help create a police state tbh
W H A T
He should be put on trial for crimes against humanity.
I’m not even joking.
He’s a mass murderer.
Idk how to explain to people that the US isn't declining into fascism, it's been a fascist state since the moment it started with genocide and slavery.
People on this post keep insisting that it's not fascism because of lack of authoritarianism and not realizing that that's the fucking point.
There was a lack of authoritarianism for most people, most notably white people.
But what about the Native people who were forced into reservations that they weren't allowed to leave without permission? Who weren't allowed to speak their languages or sing their songs or dance their dances?
What about the black people who were forced into slavery and then into segregation? Who were separated from their families and weren't allowed to read or write?
What about the brown immigrants who were paid next to nothing for backbreaking work building a country that they weren't considered a part of? Who were forced to live in controlled housing where their every movement was monitored in case they tried to leave?
The US is and has always been a fascist state. Some people just have the privilege to ignore it.
Basic signs of fascist states:
Powerful and continuing nationalism:
Do I even need to explain this? This country was built on nationalistic propaganda and "AMERICA IS BEST" has been the justification of every single thing our government has done for the last 200 years.
Disdain for human rights:
Slavery. Genocide. The Trail of Tears. Indian boarding schools. Japanese internment camps. Forced sterilization. Separation of black and brown families. Forced servitude of immigrants. Jewish refugees being turned away and sent back to their deaths. Forced medical experiments on black and brown people. Mass incarceration. Families to left die in poverty. Need I go on? Because there's a lot more.
Identification of enemies for a unifying cause:
Literally everything relating to foreign powers from the very beginning of the US's formation. Even now, we're trapped in a Red Scare that's lasted for 70 years and pretty much every "conflict" we've been involved in has been justified with claims of foreign countries being a threat to us. On a local scale, so much of this country is built on fostering fears of black people, indigenous people, immigrants, and anyone else that can be framed as a threat to white Americans.
Rampant sexism:
Not going to get into this, there's already plenty of detailed discussions about the US's misogyny.
Controlled mass media:
This is more difficult because mass media is a very recent thing, but the government has had a chokehold on news and books and everything along that nature since those things became even slightly popular. Ever listened to early radio broadcasts? Those were chock full of blatant propaganda.
Obsession with national security:
Hoo boy! Again with framing everyone outside of the US as a threat! This became a really obvious issue recently with the border wall and was really kicked up after 9/11, but huge parts of US policy have been centered around so-called invaders, both in society and in government. Everyone is a threat to democracy and the American Way and if you don't agree, then you're a threat too.
Religion and government intertwined:
lmao "separation of church and state" my ass
Corporate power protected:
Modern corporations in the US are a pretty recent invention, but monopolies have existed since the late 1800s at the latest. Governments have thrown huge support behind both monopolies and standard corporations for as long as those things have existed, at the cost of everything else.
Labor power suppressed:
Slavery. Immigrants forced into indentured servitude. Corporations and pre-corporate monopolies outright murdering striking employees. Companies BOMBING striking people. Company towns. Unions being systematically broken down. Health and housing being tied directly to labor. There's more but I'm tired.
Disdain for intellectuals and the arts:
Art and literature programs in every aspect of the country being defunded or outright ended. So many artists, especially leftist and anarchist artists, going missing or being brutalized or being driven out of the country. Political satire has existed for over a century and satirists have been harassed by the government for just as long. It's believed that the New English Canaan was the first banned book in the United States— and it was banned in 1637.
Obsession with crime and punishment:
The largest mass execution in the US took place in 1862, when 38 Dakota people were hanged under the orders of Abraham Lincoln. The 13th Amendment, passed in 1865, criminalized slavery except as a punishment for criminals and ensured our country's future of mass incarceration.
Rampant political favoritism and corruption:
LMAO
Fraudulent elections:
Jim Crow laws and literally everything else relating to the voting rights of black people, Native people, and immigrants. “Nothing [besides United States Citizenship] will so tend to assimilate the Indian and break up his narrow tribal allegiance, as making him feel that he has a distinct right and voice in the white man’s nation.”
Anyway, there you go, everyone leave me the fuck alone.
Rest in power brother. You left us too damn soon...
We have got to be some of the biggest idiots on the PLANET. We could’ve had this virus under some decent control, but NOOOOO. We had to politicize masks. We HAD to eat out at clubs and restaurants. We HAD to open schools. I’ve had my problems with most folks before, but I think this just really put a bigger dent into my thoughts about people than anything from beforehand.
I guess the only decent news in this is that they’re all showing their true colors now and we all know where they stand. The bad news is that, well, there’s a LOT of people like this right now...
Make no DAMN mistake....
…and, at the time of his death, he was one of the most hated people in the USA.
The FBI sent him a letter trying to convince him to commit suicide. Don’t let this revisionist bullshit slide. The things they say now about protests, kneeling, etc, are the same things they said about the sit-ins and marches.
respectability politics is a trap.
respectability politics is a trap.
respectability politics is a trap.
Look at this vintage political cartoon. Reactions to MLK and BLM are near identical.
His own kids are telling yall not to fall for the bullshit
