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Unbroken, Black, and Free: A statement on the politics and principles of Black Lives Matter Portland
What We Believe
We understand colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism to be the material basis of Black/African oppression. Our ancestors were the world’s first capital - kidnapped, sold, and forced into chattel slavery to build the foundations of Western empire. While we labored as slaves, our motherland was raped and looted to fund the violent expansion of European and American settler colonial states. Today, the masses of Black/African people suffer through poverty, terror, genocide, and constant state terrorism, surveillance, and control wherever we exist in the world. Our lives, land, resources, and futures are stolen to sustain the agents of our oppression and fuel the destruction of the earth.
And yet, we survive. Black/African people have resisted capitalist destruction and annihilation for hundreds of years. The masses of Black/African people living today are heirs to a furious, brilliant, and continuous struggle for justice and liberation. From slave ship mutinies, to plantation uprisings, to Native and African Maroon communities outsmarting and outfighting European military powers, to warrior queens crushing colonizing armies on the continent: our people have organized, fought back, and won throughout history. Revolution is in our blood.
But even as we recognize and uplift the power of our people, we must also acknowledge the winning strategies of our enemy. Capitalism and colonialism have adapted in order to manipulate, control, and destroy the resistance of the colonized - from the slave ship to the prison block, from the hangman’s noose to the nightstick and taser, from fields, slave quarters, and plantations to abandoned schools, shanty towns, and crumbling tenements, and from white European agents of colonial and capitalist violence to Black/African ones - this system has expanded and evolved at each step to try and crush our will to fight.
We know that a lie can’t live forever. Capitalism, colonialism and imperialism can not exist without lands and peoples to exploit - they can not exist without us - and the colonized peoples of the world outnumber our oppressors by a factor of thousands. The odds are with us. Our task now is to unlearn and reject the lies of capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism and organize the masses of Black/African people to destroy these systems once and for all. We must reclaim our histories and our future.
We are a Black/African only organization. We see the revolutionary awakening and organization of the masses of Black/African people as our contribution to the worldwide struggle for the liberation of all life on earth from the theft, murder, and destruction of colonialism and capitalism. We organize and resist in solidarity with all peoples fighting colonialism and capitalism all over the world. We understand that all Black/Africans today exist in a continuum of resistance which began when our ancestors fought back against the first colonizer to set foot on the shores of Africa centuries ago and we fight everyday to honor those ancestors, reclaim our history, heal our people, save our children, and preserve the future of humanity and the planet.
We are femme-centered. Black/African women and femmes, whether they are trans, non-binary, or cis, exist at the bottom of a worldwide hierarchy of capitalist oppression. Black/African femme identity has been commodified, objectified, marginalized, and cannibalized since the rise of colonialism and capitalism on this planet. We reject a global capitalist culture based upon greed, violence, and blind consumption which claims Black/African femme bodies, wisdom, power, and magic as commodities to be possessed and exploited. Our power and magic belongs to our people and our bodies and minds belong to ourselves. We will not be consumed. We will not be owned. We will not be bought or sold. We resist the oppression of the Black/African femme in all of its forms:
We reject patriarchy - whether it wears a Black, brown, or white mask - as a lie created to violate, suppress, and control the power of the Black/African feminine, twist and poison the power of the Black/African masculine, and manipulate our people into destroying and subjugating themselves.
We reject cis-heterosexism - we are queer, trans, and non-binary Black/Africans and we struggle beside and for queer, trans, and non-binary Black/Africans. We embrace and fight for the full and free expression of the entire spectrum of Black/African gender, sexuality, and identity.
Freedom Is
We are organizing for the overthrow of colonialism and capitalism. Liberation is not power or representation in a violent, backwards system. Liberation is not slightly more comfortable or tolerable oppression. Liberation is not the ability to exploit other oppressed people for the illusion of safety and a few creature comforts soaked in blood. Liberation is every human of every identity on earth coexisting with safety, self-determination, and a connection to all of humanity, the ancestors, the water, and the land, with free healthcare, free housing, free food, free education, and the warmth and protection of a thriving planet, culture, and community.
How We Organize
All Black Lives Matter Portland events, spaces, and organizing are open to ALL Black folks including: Black trans folks, Black queer folks, Black non-binary folks, hood Black folks, poor Black folks, houseless Black folks, undocumented Black folks, Black femmes, currently and formerly incarcerated Black folks, Black single parents, Black elders, Black Latinx folks, Black Muslims, not yet woke and still getting woke Black folks, Black folks living with mental illness, Black nerds, Black weirdos, Black hoes, differently abled Black folks, anxious as fuck Black folks, Black folks who’ve never organized a day in their lives, ain’t shit but trying to do better Black folks, and more.
We are welcoming and accepting of all intersections within the universe of Black/African identity and all levels of political knowledge and revolutionary consciousness so long as the individual Black/Africans doing this work are engaged in principled struggle, constant learning, and a process of continuous personal and ideological self-criticism, accountability, reflection, and growth.
We, as individuals and as an organization, are accountable to the masses of Black/African people and to our communities, we engage at all times with honesty and respect, we own our shit, make amends, and do better when we do harm or fall short, and we are focused on building the revolutionary consciousness and capacity of ourselves and the masses of our people above all else.
Oppressive, abusive, or reactionary language and behavior of any kind will be interrupted and challenged in all BLMPDX spaces and work. We will respect, embrace, and defend the identities and complexities of all people and all life. We will not tolerate threats - in any form - to the safety of any member of our organization or any part of the communities we are accountable to. We will respect the boundaries, consent, and emotional and bodily autonomy of all persons and we will ask about them - we will not assume to know them. We will unequivocally believe and fight for survivors of rape, trauma, and abuse.
Organizers with Black Lives Matter Portland commit to build, learn, grow, and struggle beside each other for revolution and ultimate liberation. We commit to unlearning, revealing, and rejecting the lies of capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism everyday.
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Scotland’s welcome to trump is so special
From the Facebook page of Blacks Be Like
A plantation that saw about 600 slaves in Thomas Jefferson’s lifetime. Men, women, and children all abused and worked to death never knowing freedom. A plantation that had infamously violent overseers. Women being subjected to rape so much that it was said these slave women (and young teenage girls) had higher fertility rates, when really it had more to do with the fact that they were forced to have sex often and at unthinkable ages with these pigs.
Black slave labor built Monticello, unspeakable abuse happened here, and then we stamp it into our currency to memorialize it’s legacy. This legacy.
Well, hello there friend! Ember loved seeing the #butterflies on our #hike a few days ago with our friend Anna. It’s so beautiful to watch a person come alive, to watch them as they see so many firsts, watch them as they wake up to the world. Anna kept giving Ember moose hands which had them laughing a lot. When we see her again, I now have a signal to remind Ember who Anna is, moose hands! There are often key things that people like say or joke with Ember about already that I use to try to talk to them and remind them of those wonderful people, just for fun or when were preparing to see someone… Like, for example, for Ember’s Tía, it’s saying “pachetes!” (como cachetes) and grabbing Ember’s cheeks, because Tía always does that, lol. 😂 #swollowtail #pnw #latergram #takemeback #momlife #flowers #feels #family #friends #babies #development
In case your day needs a baby laughing about stomping in the rain!
Ember riding in this car cart for the first time!!! We've been temporarily watching a friend's almost-two-year-old recently and Ember loves them! I teared up a bit today, thinking about how it's almost like Ember has a big sibling whether this friend is over. 💞 Plus, it's been grounding to remember Ember's almost able to talk and things are about to get way easier for us as#parents... Especially for my two #coparents who didn't really have childcare experience going into parenting, like I have, who've really been scared and insecure (like most #newparents). They're getting guidance and glimpses of the future on the days we've added in this AMAZING (one of the friend's favorite words) playmate into our routine. Also their mom doesn't mind me ranting about capitalism 😂 and it's good to hang with mom friends. #babies #friends #toddlers #latinx #development #momsunite #genderneutral #genderautonomous #threeparents #noassignmentsnomasters #underminecapitalism
Ember inspecting river rocks on our hike....
Ember enjoying and exploring our new, little backyard pool with Daddy Matty. 💞
Ant on a log feels at Brightenbush.. #hiking #pnw #latergram
This Saturday, were having A Casual Potluck Brunch To Celebrate Mom's and Mom Feelings... You're invited! This weekend is Mother's Day! So, if you're in Portland, let's take the excuse to get together and eat! We also have a nice backyard, so let's enjoy together. Saturday from 11am to 4pm. Please note, this is on Saturday, in case you have personal Mother's day (Sunday) plans already. This will be the first Mother's Day I have an actual child wandering the world to whom I am Mama. I feel really wonderfully about it, but it's also hard! If you are also a mom, you know it's a lot work... Though a commercial holiday, let's take a moment and appreciate ourselves and mothers we know while sharing food and company. If you have hard deep feelings about your own mom, it's okay, I don't even have contact with mine, so I sympathize. I'm setting up a little time and space for something like a shrine to put tributes to mothers we know, mothers we've lost, or mothers we've never had. Maybe you aren't a "mom," but you do a lot of "mothering" work (caretaking, teaching, nannying), so let's celebrate you too. Bring food or drink if you're able, but it's okay if you can't, just bring the pleasure of your company. We'll definitely be making a gigantic fruit salad, mimosas, and cooking up vegan biscuits and sausage gravy (we'll make a vegan gluten free version as well). As always, we have many board games and a couple instruments, so gaming out playing music while hanging out is always an option, you can bring yours too. PM me if you don't have our address! Hope to see you Saturday!
Ember, head of the table at Breitenbush... #babies #latergram #polyamory #hotsprings #mealtime
THE BACKSTORY: Sometimes you just have to wait…
In this week’s #comic we arrive in #SanDiego to darkness, which fit the mood.
Waking up and hanging out in the tent, Marco caught this sweet moment when Ember was just alternating between starring at me and grabbing my hair. We got into the campgrounds late Friday night, but Saturday we found the best campsite in the daylight, secluded and next to a river. We went with some great friends for @grandmas_dentures birthday, and hanging out at the campsite was fun and relaxing, even though Marco and I were so tired from the week and the amount of energy Ember has been needing lately. We didn't pack enough warm bedding for the night, so we were cold the first night, but Saturday Marco drove out and picked up one for us and one to share with Megan. Saturday morning Megan and @raaacharles also made an amazing #vegan breakfast over the fire in a cast iron wok that was essentially tofu, potatoes, and greens.. After we set up Saturday morning, we hung out around our beautiful campsite together and made more food and waited to go to the hotsprings until later. When we went to soak just before dusk, the hike was beautiful, but the private tubs were all full there were a lot of drunk bros (mostly of the country variety) in the community area who were posturing to each other and neglecting their dogs. We tried to fix the drain of the one empty private tub for, like, an hour, until realizing it just wasn't going to happen, then almost went on the community area were all the bad boundaries bros were, but finally just decided to leave without soaking because of a weird violent remark one of them made to Marco as we were starting to set up our stuff and their other behaviors we observed. The people were clearly unsafe, some were peeing off the balcony, they had glass containers, they were sexually harassing people, they were stumbling drunk. I need to NEVER go to #bagbyhotsprings again. Sunday morning my friend Erica and I left camp in the morning with Ember to try to soak before the #badboundariesbros or other crowds were there with success! Though the place was a mess with glow sticks, candles, alcohol containers of all kinds, clothing, and general garbage strewn about everywhere. #camping #parenting #badboundaries #hotsprings #PNW
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Working mom feels, pumping and #breastfeeding. "Working mom," how #redundant. #babies #radmoms #genderautonomy #workingmom