awareness

Science, spirituality, politics, activism, news, information about the world around you and inside you.

[salon]

Ocean acidification is like global warming’s sad, ignored twin. It results, like climate change, from human emissions of greenhouse gases, much of which, we know, are absorbed into the sea, lowering the water’s pH level. And while we don’t talk about it as much, the oceans have already become 30 percent more acidic over the past 200 years, with disastrous consequences for coral reefs, creatures with shells and vulnerable fisheries.

Rapid carbon emissions 252 million years ago wiped out the majority of the planet’s species. So it’s kind of a big deal.

[revolutionarykoolaid]

When will it end? My heart is raw and bleeding, and yet they attack again and again. #staywoke #farfromover

[sandandglass]

The Daily Show, June 2, 2015

[theslayprint]

[ricki-minaj]

“I feared for my life…” 1st video 2nd video

IS HE OKAY???????

[theslayprint]

He left on a stretcher, no word if he’s still going to be arrested or not.

[funkybug]

if this isnt the most obvious example of white privilege and whats going on in baltimore right now then i dont know what is

[krxs10]

NEW VIDEO RELEASED OF MENTALLY ILL MAN TASED TO DEATH IN POLICE CUSTODY FOR “SAGGING PANTS”

On November 26, 2013, 38 year old Ervin Edwards, partially deaf and mentally ill, was arrested by police for sagging his pants and taken to the West Baton Rouge Parish jail in Louisiana. He only lived for a few more minutes inside of the cell.

For 18 months, police have lied over and over again about what happened the night Ervin Edwards died in their custody. Now that a video of their despicable actions has been released, ( Warning very tough to watch ) it’s clear they murdered this man and left him to die all alone in his jail cell. 

Here are the 5 things you need to know:

The Video Shows an Officer Held a Taser on Him for 1 Minute, Contradicting Earlier Claims

Edwards Was Left Alone & Unresponsive in the Cell for 10 Minutes Before He Was Given Medical Aid

An Internal Review Found No criminal wrongdoing by the Officers

His Girlfriend Told Officers He Had Health Issues That Could Make the Use of a Taser Fatal

A Corrections Expert Said the Video is ‘One of the Worst Things I’ve Seen’

Source / Source / Video

#Stay Woke

[themoonisfree]

Jacob keeping it real.

[partakerofpeachesinthepuss]

Damn brah

[brownies4myybrownie]

Damn… Wasn’t ready for that

[cheyennecheyenne]

hmm.

[errorschacha]

I’ve honestly been watching Joseph Kent’s being stormed and dragged into a Humvee on repeat.

I can’t stop—it’s just so absurd?

Horrifying?

Farcically dystopian?

But it’s real.

A protestor who was just walking, hands up, was suddenly pounced on by a crowd of police over a fucking curfew violation, shoved into a military vehicle and driven away to God knows where (while CNN went on about “restrained” things were, mind you).

It happened last night—April 28th, 2015, in a place I’ve even been to before.

[thenathanzed]

Today my teacher said MLK wept last night because of the riots in Baltimore…

[melanin-diary-deactivated201710]

dis is why people in Baltimore are angry!

[thatdiva]

Watch the Baltimore Police LIE and get called out by a reporter for The Guardian. 

[swodaemk-deactivated20190726]

jesus fucking christ

[abolitionjournal]

When I say, “abolish the police,” I’m usually asked what I would have us replace them with. My answer is always full social, economic, and political equality, but that’s not what’s actually being asked. What people mean is “who is going to protect us?” Who protects us now? If you’re white and well-off, perhaps the police protect you. The rest of us, not so much. What use do I have for an institution that routinely kills people who look like me, and make it so I’m afraid to walk out of my home? My honest answer is that I don’t know what a world without police looks like. I only know there will be less dead black people. I know that a world without police is a world with one less institution dedicated to the maintenance of white supremacy and inequality. It’s a world worth imagining.

Mychal Denzel Smith, Abolish the Police. Instead, Let’s Have Full Social, Economic, and Political Equality. (via abolitionjournal)

[mysharona1987]

[sheholdsyoucaptivated]

THIS.

[kropotkindersurprise]

April 25 2015 - Protesters take to the streets in Baltimore to express their anger over the Death of Freddie Gray, who was murdered by police.  [video]

[queenie-of-sass-deactivated2016]

Yup. Protesting against violence with more violence. Because that totally fucking works. I swear to god these protesters are fucking stupid half the damn time.

[tuth9]

They should probably learn about Martin Luther King Jr. Read his “I have a dream” speech, in which he specifically says violence will not help.

[kropotkindersurprise]

Or maybe You should learn more about MLK than the one speech by him that they constantly repeat because it is nice and friendly and toothless?

[gluten-free-pussy]

Whites need to keep MLK’s name out their mouths before they catch this fade

[yuzupool]

whtie people fucking love to meme the hell out of MLK when its the tame as hell middle school assembly version

[godswerepoetsonce]

BOOOOOOST!!!!

[tranqualizer]

here’s the thing about violence: 

baltimore and many other cities have been entrenched in anti-black violence from the get go. every effort that has ever been made in richmond, philly, baltimore, durham… to build black power, black culture, black community has been met with fires, guns, bombs, murders. the black youth growing up in these cities have been trapped by the legacies of anti-black violence and slavery: an economy that does not employ black people, underemploys and then underpays, a system that ships black youth to segregated schools in segregated neighborhoods on segregated buses, a system that kneels and begs at the hands of investors and bankers and promotes gentrification in coded language, a system that humanizes and sympathizes with cops whose repeat offenses will never get them jailed. 

there’s the thing about violence. you do not kill, repress, entrap a people and then complain about having rocks thrown at you when you show up in the neighborhoods you gerrymandered to tell them to quiet down.

[justice4mikebrown]

April 25

[ethiopienne]

yoooooo