Against The Dark

A blog to document the current political climate. A place to record what comes next. With the goal to unite the resistance.

[grabthewind]

Today I want to remember the Americans who have fought for our freedoms.

Not only the Military.

Today I want to remember:

The Protestors. The Union Members. The Picketers. The Marchers. The Glass Ceilings Breakers. The Strikers.

Today I am grateful for all of the Americans who have stood up to corrupt systems in our Nation and demanded the Freedom and rights they deserved.

Today I want to remember those who exercised their right to protest an unfair government.

Or unfair working conditions and evil corporate fat cats.

Today let’s remember:

The May Day Parade. The Coal Strike of 1902. The Southwest Railroad Strike. The Dearborn Hunger March. The Textile Workers Strike. The Harlan County War. The Birmingham March. The National March on Washington. the US Postal Workers Strike. The Stonewall Riots. Fountain House. The Million Man March. The Los Angeles Riots. Ferguson. Standing Rock. The Women’s March. The March for Our Lives. The March for Science.

Sojourner Truth. Mother Jones. The “Rednecks”. The Suffragist. Francis Perkins. Lucy Parsons. Martin Luther King. Rosa Parks. Malcolm X. Ruby Bridges. Kent State. SANE. MADD. Occupy Wall Street. Black Lives Matter. Times Up. Emma Gonzalez.

And all the other groups and unnamed/forgotten individuals who put themselves in harm's way to fight for the rights we deserve.

Freedom isn’t free.

*Sometimes yes that will mean war and the lives lost protecting America*

Sometimes, however, it means using your voice to stand up against the wrongs that our own country is allowing or committing. Freedom then comes at the price of being blacklisted, rubber bullets, tear gas, lives lost, and long nights spent in jail. Do not forget the cost it took to get to where we are today. Even when it feels like we have so far left to go.

Remember protest is patriotic. It’s the very freedom our Founding Fathers wanted to ensure we had when they wrote the Bill of Rights. Even if we have used those rights to grant more freedoms then they ever anticipated. Expanding and evolving the concept of freedom to reach more than just rich, white men.

Protesting is the very reason America exists.

Never forget those who have fought for our rights.

Never forget that you yourself hold this same power.

This Fourth of July educate yourself on the movements, marches, and protests that it took to make America the nation we know today. Then think about the ways you can use your voice to continue to improve America and make it a place we can all be proud to call home. A place where even the most marginalized groups can feel free.

Happy Fourth of July.

Let Freedom Ring.

[grabthewind]

Today I want to remember the Americans who have fought for our freedoms.

Not only the Military.

Today I want to remember:

The Protestors. The Union Members. The Picketers. The Marchers. The Glass Ceilings Breakers. The Strikers.

Today I am grateful for all of the Americans who have stood up to corrupt systems in our Nation and demanded the Freedom and rights they deserved.

Today I want to remember those who exercised their right to protest an unfair government.

Or unfair working conditions and evil corporate fat cats.

Today let’s remember:

The May Day Parade. The Coal Strike of 1902. The Southwest Railroad Strike. The Dearborn Hunger March. The Textile Workers Strike. The Harlan County War. The Birmingham March. The National March on Washington. the US Postal Workers Strike. The Stonewall Riots. Fountain House. The Million Man March. The Los Angeles Riots. Ferguson. Standing Rock. The Women’s March. The March for Our Lives. The March for Science.

Sojourner Truth. Mother Jones. The “Rednecks”. The Suffragist. Francis Perkins. Lucy Parsons. Martin Luther King. Rosa Parks. Malcolm X. Ruby Bridges. Kent State. SANE. MADD. Occupy Wall Street. Black Lives Matter. Times Up. Emma Gonzalez.

And all the other groups and unnamed/forgotten individuals who put themselves in harm's way to fight for the rights we deserve.

Freedom isn’t free.

*Sometimes yes that will mean war and the lives lost protecting America*

Sometimes, however, it means using your voice to stand up against the wrongs that our own country is allowing or committing. Freedom then comes at the price of being blacklisted, rubber bullets, tear gas, lives lost, and long nights spent in jail. Do not forget the cost it took to get to where we are today. Even when it feels like we have so far left to go.

Remember protest is patriotic. It’s the very freedom our Founding Fathers wanted to ensure we had when they wrote the Bill of Rights. Even if we have used those rights to grant more freedoms then they ever anticipated. Expanding and evolving the concept of freedom to reach more than just rich, white men.

Protesting is the very reason America exists.

Never forget those who have fought for our rights.

Never forget that you yourself hold this same power.

This Fourth of July educate yourself on the movements, marches, and protests that it took to make America the nation we know today. Then think about the ways you can use your voice to continue to improve America and make it a place we can all be proud to call home. A place where even the most marginalized groups can feel free.

Happy Fourth of July.

Let Freedom Ring.

[rickmctumbleface]

[curvethemoonshine]

Yup and FUCK YOU if you think this is ok. There's more to life than work ffs.

And...this pandemic proved get few of us have to be at the office. It can be done from home

[grabthewind]

I’m so mad that shit didn’t change. Back to normal is not a goal

[rcmclachlan]

Turns out, 2000 was 20 years ago. Which is odd, since 1980 was also.

[rhube]

The thing Gen-Z really needs to understand is that no one older than them is ever going to be able to estimate time correctly because the Millennium.

The Millennium will always be Not That Long Ago. Everything since the Millennium will always be, in some sense, ‘new’.

It just broke us, OK? It was too big and we’ll never quite be able to deal.

[lrgcarter]

Was the real millennium bug inside us all along?

[transfemmbeatrice]

“I don’t think that I accepted that I wasn’t gonna die young until I was 26 or 27. I really don’t think I fully…when I was 14, 15, 16, 17–I mean I knew as sure as I know that I am wearing green shoes that I was going to die before much happened. It was a certainty for me. And I had shaken off the directly suicidal urge by the time I was 21 or 22, but I still was pretty sure I was going to die pretty young, it really felt like an inevitability. It takes a long time to realize no, you’ve changed…if you shared those feelings with people at some point you go, ‘well, I guess we’re going to stick around.’ And it’s a funky thing to admit because there’s a part of your inner younger self that kind of judges you for that.”

John Darnielle fucking me up with the single most relatable thing he’s ever said

[insurrectionary-frybreadism-dea]

[superunfriendlyreminder]

[ratliker1917]

weird how they call it “the british museum” yet practically none of the items on display are british or have any justifiable reason to be in britain

[sherlock-is-ace]

[officialunitedstates]

Take me back to before the Great Recession, when the girl sitting in front of the overflowed class with the starry-eyed eyes and the everlasting words did her homework better. Let me feel that time when each day was repetition capitalized and paralyzed and it was fine and just and right. Let me know that the wars were on and they were on and on and on, but we regulated it; we stored it away nicely. Take me back to the swing sets after school, the first cell phone kind of year, the ravishingly-wonderfully watchable episodes of Deal or No Deal. Take me back to strolls in the nature preserve with my eighth grade class, wondering how it was relevant but reveling in its wonder. Take me back to not minding the weekday but getting the most out of the weekend. Take me back to petting zoos and homemade grilled cheese and sleeping in and waking up. Put me in that year, drop me in that season of the century, close and lock the door, and let time cease cease cease until I am at peace once more.

[no-this-is-jarod]

they got mad

[oh-archivist]

Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong wrote this about his father, who died of cancer on September 1st, 1982. At his father’s funeral, Billie cried, ran home and locked himself in his room. When his mother got home and knocked on the door to Billie’s room, Billie simply said, “Wake me up when September ends.”

So I’d be angry too if people kept this shit up every single year.

[skelebon3r-blog]

i am going to reblog this until i die

[sparrow-va]

…oh

[mintedwitcher]

Seriously its just not funny and I wish people would stop

[literallywhatthefuckispolenta]

I reblog this every fucking year. Leave them alone.

[geekandmisandry]

Every year.

[grabthewind]

My odkests sons father died on September 4th. This song always reminds me of that fall.

Leave Billie alone aight

[whitepeopletwitter]

[garzabird]

Don't mind me, I'm just researching the crossover between Home Ec And Shop Class vs Adulting Things Millennials Can't Do. The timing lines up pretty well. The fall of Home Ec and the rise of Adulting Blogs.

Anyway, what do you wish you learned in school? I'm gonna pitch some Adulting Class concepts to the library.

Also, super depressed to find my first page of Google results for "Adulting" came back with people deriding the term and calling millennials useless special snowflake babies?? Man alive. Chill.

[theweirdwideweb]

[tinfoilbowler]

2020: Everyone on this show is an actor pretending to buy houses in order to create capitalist propaganda.

[clayandsorcery]

Non-fiction Punk

We’re living in the Cyberpunk Future that we were promised in the 1980s. I know everyone associates cyberpunk with a different aesthetic - and that’s a trap. Mega-corporations control substantial parts of our lives, and the protections offered by an increasingly hostile to citizens government are being diluted or willfully ignored. Everyone is a gig worker now, a contractor without protections, glued to tech that is both designed to break and that we are obligated to have to participate in society. No phone? No job. No computer? How do you get anything done?

Our things are listening to us and giving us ads for more things. Your identity is data that everyone seems to have - what you wear, what you eat, where you go, who you hang with, your sexuality, your preferences in every single fucking thing. And that information is sold like currency.

We are the products being passed around in our society.

Solarpunk is being tossed around like a fashionable answer to the horrors of today - but isn’t that the logical response to the cyberpunk reality that we are inheriting?

I say they can and should be the same thing. How do we take back ourselves from the data-space that owns us? We must:

Repair our things

Recycle-hack new items

Open-source material necessities

Expand our green-spaces

Reject hi-tech, high energy solutions for low energy problems

Begin the reclamation of discarded raw materials

Recenter the focus of every civic policy: health and environment at the core of every law.

This list is not exhaustive. I am tired of people treating the visions of tomorrow as fictions that exist only to create a pleasing fantasy aesthetic. There is still time to put the brakes on global climate change. There is still time to pry ourselves away from the mega-corps, from an increasingly hostile government, from imperialism, from colonialism.

[makingdonalddrumpfagain]

[ginger-ale-official]

Friends it is our responsibility to vote! I want Donald laughed off the stage when he sees the numbers we turn out in. It’s time for us to cement him in history as a nobody who failed his country

[lynati]

If you don't show up to vote, they've already won. Please vote, so "my vote won't make a difference" doesn't become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It definitely won't count if you don't even try to use it.

[aqueerkettleofish]

"my vote won't make a difference" is an idea that was put into your head by someone who didn't want you to vote.

[coffinsjane-deactivated20221202]

What really annoys me in all this discussion about the Amazon that has started recently is that a lot of people engaging in it - gringos and brazilians/other south-americans who don't live in the region - are acting as that forest is just a bunch of trees. It isn't just this, it's much more. There are people living in there, you understand? Indigenous people of various cultures, some of them not even contacted yet. The ribeirinhos, a typical population of the Amazon. Important towns such as Manaus are located in the Amazon, and thousands of people live in there. All of them are facing the consequences of these events right now. The Amazon means a lot to their lives and culture. And you must remember that the land of the forest is theirs by right before you enter this conversation.

[weirdmageddon]

the wrong amazon is burning and the wrong ice is melting

[kalevala17-deactivated20201116]

[asundergrowth]

IT DIDNT CATCH FIRE IT IS BEING DELIBERATELY CLEARCUT AND BURNED BECAUSE LARGE AGROBUSINESS CONGLOMERATES PAID THEIR FASCIST GOVERNMENT TO IGNORE THIS COURT RULING

[starshals]

It’d explain why it isn’t getting coverage for sure.

[unculture]

You can give *directly* to Indigenous forest protectors in Brazil by supporting @ApibOficial (Brazilian Articulation of Indigenous Peoples). Indigenous groups are the only reason there is any rainforest left in Brazil at all at this point.

Here’s the link. 

[unculture]

Link

[alienswonderland]

I'll tell you whats happening

Our president (Bolsonaro) told the farmers to make the "burning day" to show him their hard work as farmers(rich man running a farm trying to get the right to make their staff slaves and pay less then they already pay)

Brazil have a facist with a president power and he is devastating our country.