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hey everyone, a friend of mine just told me that a woman in her community of friends, a black activist and sex worker being identified by the name bambi, was recently entrapped by a cop, raped, and arrested. the new york branch of the red umbrella project is collecting money for her commissary and legal fund and you can donate at the link above. please boost and donate a few bucks if you have some. thanks.
The 89th Academy Awards - BEST PICTURE MOONLIGHT (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins
me: how do my credit card bills get so big
me: i’m gonna fucking die if i don’t buy this Gone Squatchin hat
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amidst all this celebration i hope we can also take a sec to remember Ramsey Orta who will be in prison for another 3.5 years for simply catching clear police brutality on tape, and i hope we can remember all the people that we don’t know about who have been effectively silenced and imprisoned for trying to reveal corruption within government
Ramsey Orta found rat poison in his food, so he doesn’t trust prison meals, and is only eating pre-wrapped snacks from the commissary, WHEN they let him have access to the money on his books. They’re trying to break him and kill him, All because he filmed police killing Eric Garner. Don’t forget about Ramsey Orta and his family. This is the official page for information on his well-being and donation efforts.
CHELSEA MANNING REPORTEDLY ON OBAMA’S SHORTLIST FOR POSSIBLE COMMUTATION
According to a source at the Justice Department, Chelsea Manning has reportedly been placed on a shortlist for commutation by Obama–she could have an answer to her request as early as NEXT WEDNESDAY
Email the White House here
Quick script for calling the WH at 1-202-456-1111
THIS IS THE FINAL PUSH. PLEASE CALL. PLEASE WRITE. PLEASE CALL THE DOJ AT 1-202-353-1555 AND REQUEST THE COMMUTATION OF CHELSEA MANNING
everybody is accountable for the fate of the people of aleppo at this hour. time is blood. call your russian and iranian embassies to voice your opposition to the bombings. call your congressional representative and ask them to support the end to the genocide. call your parliamentary representative and ask them to support the end to the genocide. organize protests and rallies and sit-ins. stay informed and inform those around you. listen to actual syrians speaking as they fight for their lives inside aleppo (not assadist propagandists). aleppo doesn’t truly “fall” until everybody in the world falls silent on the massacre. syrians’ desperate pleas for freedom and democracy are still viable until everybody in the world forgets about us. this extermination continues until the international community takes accountability for its continuing allowance and support for assad + collaborators’ actions. every single person’s voice counts. if the martyrs’ cries for freedom are not kept alive, they will have died in vain.
if you are in the united states, you can call the state department and the russian embassy right now to demand safe passage for syrians out of east aleppo
state department: +1 202-647-9572
russian embassy: +1-202-298-5700
Chelsea Manning has only 10 days to secure 62k more signatures on her petition for the commutation of her sentence and release. please take a moment to sign. you do NOT have to be american to sign the petition.
like not to be negative but yr not gonna get someone’s sentence overturned or commuted with a whitehouse.org petition
Chelsea Manning’s legal team filed for a formal commutation of her sentence on November 14th. you can read the full application here. while the petition is not the sole basis for her release, it is being used to expedite the process of assessing her eligibility for commutation while obama is still in office and the acting president.
comments like this are not only a little irritating but they’re also just totally misinformed. like political prisoners rely on petitions a lot to gain local, national and eventually international support and have been effective in the past in expediting their release process. this defeatist “nothing will ever change oh well” attitude is such a waste of time and kind of pretentious. like i can understand the cynicism and pessimism–but it would be worthwhile to recognize that there is no better time than right now to campaign for her release. this is the most optimal time period to apply pressure to the obama admin to commute her sentence. sign the petition.
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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.)
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.
Confirmed now that Sophia’s arm did indeed need complete amputation.
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
A Caddo Nation tribal leader has just been freed after spending two days behind bars in North Dakota. Family members say she was simply an innocent bystander in a clash between police and protesters, and was not guilty of anything the police claimed. Jessi Mitchell, of local News 9 reports that "family members of Caddo Nation chairwoman Tamara Francis-Fourkiller said an anonymous donor paid $2.5 ...
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Holy shit.
HOLY SHIT
This is a fake. Sorry. And it’s slowing down real donations.
(Snopes says they’re reaching out for confirmation but I can tell you that I just donated to the legal fund like four hours ago (11/10/2016) and they’re not in the clear yet - they’re also accepting Paypal donations but they’re only 75% of their goal on the crowdfunding website. Lawyers are expensive, legal fees are expensive, they arrested well over a hundred people and are trying to stick them with felony charges. Bail alone is four figures. Please don’t let them disrupt NDN lives and break up NDN families and social structures with a prison sentence - not any more than they already are.)
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The 49ers quarterback, known for his kneeling protests, stands up for no one.
Why the fuck are you going to make an article shaming him for not voting - when 1 It was the white vote along w the system that brought Trump to win the presidency & 2 Make black lives matter an auto hashtag when I go to share the article but not express an agreement w/ his sentiment that neither candidate cares about black lives but rather twist it to demonize the man
here’s ya'lls reminder that huffington post is a disgusting neoliberal website and took off the footnotes on trump being a racist from all their articles the minute he got elected because they’re cowards
the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ need your help more than ever now, because trump has money in dapl and construction is continuing in secret and things are about to get a whole lot worse for natives across the country, tbh.. here is a place with donation resources, including items needed, legal funds, etc and make sure you follow @nativenews for regular updates
Fifth day of no calls from Chelsea. We *still* have *no idea* what is going on. We continue to be very worried. http://FreeChelsea.com
This is from today, October 9, 2016 (posting from EST time zone).
Chelsea Manning has gone missing. She has missed five days of planned phone calls with her support team. This is really serious and worrying.
#FreeChelsea
My job is reading through 20+ news platforms every day and guys, in almost every ‘why is no one talking about this’ case someone actually is - but genuinely no one is covering this right now outside of Twitter and Chelsea’s immediate support network and it’s pretty shocking.
Please, please make people aware of this - contact your representatives, point this towards people on social media with big audiences, demand coverage from your favourite news outlets, share widely. Press coverage is one of the few things that can actually make some difference to this fucking terrifying situation.
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An entire season is not defined by one game, but last night it felt like it. As amazing of a game it was, we were left crushed. Devastated. This has been my favorite Mariners team since I can remember - most of my years as a fan have been spent at the bottom of the division. As the collective Seattle fan base turns it’s head completely to football, as the air gets brisker and the trees turn bare it will be sometimes easy to forget this team that gave us 161 meaningful games. This season has been amazing, and thank you to all of you who interacted with us, enjoyed our posts and shared the team enthusiasm. Happy Felix day - it’ll be April before you know it.
in light of the incomprehensible loss of jose fernandez at the age of 24, i wanted to write something unrelated to football today. for those who aren’t baseball fans, or for those who didn’t know much about who jose fernandez was, i wanted share some of the stories that we’ve been remembering today in the baseball community as we struggle with the impossible task of trying to find the right words to explain how truly special he was…
jose was cuba native and made three unsuccessful attempts to defect when he was a child. after one of the attempts, despite his age, he was arrested and spent approximately a year behind bars among convicted adults - a terrifying experience he was unable to find proper words to explain in english, only describing it as: “believe me, you don’t want to know. to [his cellmates], their lives were already over. what did it matter to them if they killed me? that’s just one more murder…”
after he was released from prison, his fourth attempt to flee in 2008 was a journey he would never forget. in the darkness of the night, jose heard a splash which seemed to indicate that someone had fallen off the boat carrying him, his family, and several others aspiring to defect that night. nobody could see who exactly it was, but the instincts of a 15 year old jose pushed him to jump into the water and save the person - the stranger, based on his knowledge at the time - from drowning and being left behind. jose was able to save the individual, but it was only when he got much closer that he realized that it was his own mother who had fallen overboard - it was his mother’s life that he saved. but even before he knew it was her that had fallen, he risked his own life at only 15 to ensure the safety of another.
in the end, the defection attempt in 2008 was successful. he moved to tampa, florida and was eventually drafted by the miami marlins in the first round of the 2011 MLB draft, with the 14th overall selection. two years later, he started the season with their major league team. the age of 20 years old, he brought a sense of overwhelming joy, pride and excitement to south florida, and especially to the latinx community in miami.
and he never took that for granted - inviting kids from the local neighborhood to spend time with him before every Sunday home game at Marlins Park during the pregame…
the only missing piece in his new life was the woman he called “the love of his life” - his grandmother, olga. his first baseball coach, one of the greatest forces in his life. olga was forced to stay in cuba for his entire rookie season. her favourite thing to do was listen to what she could of her grandson’s games, available to her only through weak radio signals. she hadn’t even seen a picture of her grandson as a marlin until a neighbor passing by had shown one to her. during an interview, jose was asked what he thought his grandmother might say to him if she was here right now. he stopped for a moment, shook his head, and said: ‘i don’t think she could ever be here…’ - to which marlins owner jeffery loria responded by unexpectedly bringing his grandmother through the door to greet him, reuniting olga and a speechless jose after six long years. thanks to the marlins’ effort, cuban authorities had finally granted olga permission to visit florida to see her grandson.
those moments they went on to share on the field still bring tears to my eyes
a lot of you might remember jose fernandez for this moment that went viral - not only for his impressive catch after a laser beam line drive hit by troy tulowitzki, but for the reactions by both players that followed:
“did you catch that?!”
and jose flashed that smile as he walked off the mound.
“yes, i did.”
a smile he couldn’t even contain when he himself was bewildered by fellow pitcher kenta maeda:
he always recognized and celebrated the talent he saw in others
he brought joy wherever he went, whenever he could
the passion that he felt for the game and for life shone so bright, and that’s one of the greatest reasons that this tragedy has cast such a dark shadow across all those who knew, loved, played with, and watched him. he was the embodiment of why we call the major leagues “the show”.
i once saw a very blunt explanation of the tradition of using black and white photography to commemorate someone who has passed on: “colour is life, black and white is death”. this is the reason i chose to leave the three pictures above in colour; this is how i believe we should remember jose fernandez. not only as the incredibly talented florida marlin, whose brilliance on the field will remain in baseball history forever. but also for the infectious joy he carried throughout his life and illuminated all those around him with every day.
all my love and thoughts are with those experiencing a pain i could never imagine today: the fernandez family, carla mendoza and her unborn child (who jose had announced they were expecting only five days before his death), the marlins organization, and all the marlins fans.
may he rest in peace, and may his passion live on forever.
