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25 // Canada // they/he

[thememedaddy]

[catchymemes]

[sacred-portal]

[modern-politics111]

[birdsareblooming]

I want to show this to an animal crossing player 10 years ago

[enjoying-this-hellsite]

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

State machinery always goes easy on its defenders

[curseworm]

just a reminder to everyone that those warnings to cover up tattoos and wear nondescript clothing are serious

[stevviefox]

FYI

[stealth-science]

Yike

[hemulpajun]

she’s facing a huge fine and about 45 years in prison, as are anyone they could trace to messing with a cop car. i don’t know what jail support/legal support stuff they’re doing but please donate to your local NLG if you can. <3

[thefiresontheheight]

What "abolish the police" doesn't mean:

Privatize the police.

Give the police less money.

Rename the police.

Shrink the police.

Diversify the police.

Give the federal government control of the police.

Repaint the police cars.

Get rid of police unions.

Maybe take tanks away from the police?

Fire police and then hire some again.

[somethingaboutsomethingelse]

What it does mean:

The full dismantlement of the police institution, without compromise or euphemism

Abolishing the prison and prison industrial complex

Preventing and dismantling further institutions (as well as cultural and economic modes) of societal control from arising and replacing the police ala Cops v2.0

Destroying the white supremacist and class hierarchical bedrock that necessitates police/police-like forces

Spitting in the face of state control

[news-queue]

[virgoprivilege]

ok there’s a video going around of someone advising protesters on how to stop a horse should they find themselves up against mounted police but the advice they give is just…literally shit that will get people killed i feel like i have to pick it apart 

[virgoprivilege]

SIGHS OK so this is the video in question.

“i am not a horse trainer, i’ve just been around horses my whole life” SHOULD give you enough warning to not take this person’s advice, like. i don’t give a fuck if that’s gatekeepy to you or whatever but that really sums up why you shouldn’t be listening to their advice in the context of these protests. you cannot make light of the situation, and as an extension, do not settle for who is giving you advice

“push your weight against their chest” what’s missing here is either a lack of understanding of what makes horses so powerful, or a lack of context given depending on what that horse is even doing. a horse moving towards you at any sort of speed is not going to be deterred by you trying to place pressure on it. you’re gonna be mush before that horse even registers you’re even there, particularly with all the stimulation of a crowd and having to listen to its rider through that.

“some horses are trained to ignore their natural instinct” YES. GUESS WHICH HORSES. SPECIFICALLY. ARE TRAINED. TO IGNORE THEIR INSTINCTS? a police horse is not going to listen to you, a person out of hundreds or even thousands surrounding them, because you want to try and lean against their withers or something. not stationary, and definitely not at speed. your own pet horse, or your favourite horse at the stables you ride at, is NOT analogous to a horse conditioned into being used as a weapon. would you look at a police dog and think, “well fluffy back home listens to me when i tug on his collar a bit, surely this police dog will respond the same way and not rip my arm to shit if i do the same thing”? 

if you see this video going around i IMPLORE you to report the shit out of it, this is the kind of video that gets people killed. i wouldn’t try this shit with someone else’s domestic horse, i dread to think what would happen if someone took this advice against one of the behemoths ridden by the cops. it’s ignorant both in terms of horse training and protest, and it’s dangerous to the point where it can get people killed. 

here’s the real advice on how to use your body to stop mounted police: you fucking DON’T 

[yeah-just-ignore-me-thanks]

The only decent way to use white privilege

[pangur-and-grim]

#BlackLivesMatter

Resources for Canada:

Mental health resources for the Black community in Toronto

A script for Torontonians to follow when contacting city officials

Podcast detailing racism and corruption in Ontario

How non-Black folk can support Black Canadians

Resources for America:

Thread of bail relief funds for different states/organizations 

Split a donation between 38 bail funds

How to donate when you have no money 

Podcast on racism in American

Podcast episode on racial inequality in medicine, and protest safety

How to stop a horse from being used as a police weapon 

Fund for Black Trans women in Atlanta

Twitter thread with compiled petitions, organizations, and other information

How to safely film police misconduct

Resources for biologists and naturalists:

Information on #BlackBirdersWeek 

Boost for Black paleoartists

Free Field Ornithologist memberships for Black students (must be sponsored by a mentor/advisor)

Opportunity to bird/botanize/geologize the Californian desert

Donation to supply Black birders with binoculars 

Article on structural racism in Natural History museums

Free to use antifascist paleoart/paleontology icons

Resources for the arts:

Google drive with Black revolutionary texts

Graphics you should be posting on Instagram instead of the ‘BlackOut’ square

Boost for Black Gamdev/Art streamers

Resources for Black animators

More resources for Black animators

#DrawingWhileBlack directory

Portfolio reviews for Black artists

Rad screenprinted shirts that benefit the Louisville Community Bail Fund

Feel free to add to this!

[skella-bro]

WCVB Channel 5 Boston: Vandals defaced an iconic statue of Christopher Columbus in Boston’s North End by covering it in red paint and tagging it with the phrase “Black Lives Matter. | http://wcvb.tv/6187BBCw5

[skella-bro]

Now that’s what I like to see, Boston!

[rhymewithme]

FUCK YES

[caroldanversenthusiast]

‘I’m speaking to you from my heart. Look, I don’t know if I’m going to have a career after this, but fuck that. Today is about innocent people who were halfway through their process, we don’t know what George Floyd could have achieved, we don’t know what Sandra Bland could have achieved, but today we’re going to make sure that won’t be an alien thought to our young ones. Every black person in here remembered when another person reminded you that you were black. So none of you out there, all those protesters on the other side, protesting against what we want to do, protesting against what we want to try and achieve, burn you, this is so vital. I need you to understand how painful this shit is. I need you to understand how painful it is to be reminded every day that your race means nothing and that isn’t the case anymore, that was never the case anymore.’ John Boyega at The Black Lives Matter protest in Hyde Park

[lagonegirl]

Solomon’s Shield is the name of the app

OMG Download this!!!! Stop Police Brutality!

[tronmac]

‘Boro coming in clutch

[kirishima-hates-terfs]

this feels like an important time to bring this back

[robotsandfrippary]

thank you! I was looking for this!

[stardead]

Alberta CANADA is making it ILLEGAL to protest

http://chng.it/tbQDqVq6jQ

http://chng.it/tbQDqVq6jQ

The Alberta government passed Bill 1: Critical Infrastructure Defence Act in order to allow RCMP and other officers to arrest, fine, and jail protestors who occupy places the government deems a place of “critical infrastructure” and includes legislative buildings, mining sites, railways, and PUBLIC ROADS in or outside cities!  This is likely in response to the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs protests and the solidarity protests across the country which blocked railways and pipelines in early 2020.

It will likely also effect future BLM, environmental, and other human and land rights protests.  I think this is a very relevant and scary bill right now, and we need to tell the Premier that we will not be silenced!  

Please share, read the petition, and sign!!!

http://chng.it/tbQDqVq6jQ

http://chng.it/tbQDqVq6jQ

http://chng.it/tbQDqVq6jQ

[stardead]

@allthecanadianpolitics @torontopoli 

[bioticdisaster]

Fuck Jason Kenney and the United Conservatives Party!

The bill wasn’t likely in response to the protests this January, it was made in response to the railway blockades that happened in JANUARY OF THIS YEAR to stand in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en. Kenney made that bill to silence Indigenous voices and he’s ramming it through now to silence Black voices and their allies because there is a rally planned this Friday June 5th at 6:30pm at the Legislature Grounds. He wants to silence us and use the Covid-19 social distancing public health orders to stop the protests too! (No gatherings over 50 people and you need to be 2m apart)

Please signal boost and sign the petitions. Kenney doesn’t speak for Albertans. He is a mediocre white man from Ontario who came out here in Alberta to stir shit up and use populist tactics to turn people on each other so he can control us. I never voted for him and I miss Rachel Notley every single day.