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One of the biggest lies of capitalist propaganda is that Black people “live off” white workers.
By Stephen Millies
One of the biggest lies of capitalist propaganda is that Black people “live off” white workers. This racist falsehood has been used for decades to justify cutbacks that hurt all poor and working people.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis doesn’t want students to know this truth. That’s why this bigot is trying to ban Black history.
Law enforcement killed at least 1,176 people or about 100 people a month last year, making it the deadliest for police violence
US law enforcement killed at least 1,176 people in 2022, making it the deadliest year on record for police violence since experts first started tracking the killings, a new data analysis reveals.
Police across the country killed an average of more than three people a day, or nearly 100 people every month last year according to Mapping Police Violence.
Thirty-one members of the white supremacist Patriot Front from across the U.S. were detained after preparing an assault on a Pride festival in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, June 12.
By Melinda Butterfield
In the 1980s, the Reagan administration used witch-hunts against “welfare mothers” and AIDS victims to distract from its union busting, Cold War nuclear buildup and vicious austerity measures. Today the U.S. ruling class has settled on trans people as a scapegoat for the crisis of its system: the stripping away of people’s basic rights, skyrocketing inflation, abandonment of public health, proxy wars that threaten to ignite World War III and global environmental catastrophe.
fuck this handmaids tale country.
Marsha P. Johnson, transgender gay rights activist (1944 – 1992).
Marsha “P.” Johnson fought back against the police during the Stonewall Rebellion. She stated the “P” stood for “pay it no mind.” Marsha was photographed by Warhol and was part of the Hot Peaches Review. Marsha co-founded STAR (Street Transvestite/Transgender Action Revolutionaries) with Sylvia Rivera, to help aid, feed and shelter for queer/trans homeless and runaways. STAR advocated trans inclusion in the mainstream gay movement.
Marsha P. Johnson was an American, born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, as Malcolm Michaels, Jr. and was a transgender gay rights activist and popular figure in New York City’s gay and art scene from the 1960s to the 1990s.
**trigger warning violence in the next paragraph**
Marsha was likely murdered — her body was found floating in the Hudson River shortly after the 1992 Pride March — though the police declined to investigate and ruled her death suicide.
Marsha P. Johnson remains a legendary figure in the foundation of the modern fight for queer equality.
Photographer Diana Davies. Title: Marsha P. Johnson at Gay Liberation Front meeting. Alternate Title: Marsha P. Johnson (ok G.L.F. + “S.T.A.R.”) at a GLF meeting.
abortion is a human right. my partner and I have compiled an exhaustive document with links to abortion funds and pro-choice organizations to support during this time, including state-specific resources. please consider donating + sharing!!!
linked: here
“You can only ban safe and legal abortions. Abortion will never go away.” x
“On this day (5th March) in 1959, 69 black boys were padlocked in their dormitory at school and it was then set on fire.
21 burnt to death while 48 managed to escape.
On March 5th, 1959, 69 African American boys, ages 13 to 17, were padlocked in their dormitory for the night at the Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville. Around 4 a.m., a fire mysteriously ignited, forcing the boys to fight and claw their way out of the burning building.
The old, run-down, & low-funded facility, just 15 minutes south of Little Rock, housed 69 teens from ages 13-17. Most were either homeless or incarcerated for petty crimes such as doing pranks. 48 boys managed to escape the fire.
The doors were locked from the outside and fire mysteriously ignited on a cold, wet morning, following earlier thunderstorms in the same area of rural Pulaski County.
The horrific event brought attention to the deplorable conditions in which the boys lived. The boys all slept in a space barely big enough for them to move around & theyre one foot apart from one another & their bathroom was a bucket at the corner where they had to defecate in.
The victims were:
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I cannot recommend reading this article enough if you want to truly understand the reality of our prison system and specifically the extreme human rights crisis happening at Rikers right now.
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2022/feb/1/living-and-dying-rikers-island-latest-installment/
Living and Dying on Rikers Island: The Latest Installment | Prison Legal News
Some sections I found most important:
 “The Hart Island public cemetery was first used in 1869 and now holds over 1 million deceased. It is so full of the unclaimed, unidentified, and unwanted cadavers that interment of multiple bodies in the same grave is allowed. The city’s Department of Corrections (DOC) began using prisoners to dig graves there after an increase in deaths at the jail complex during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prisoner rights advocates call it an abuse of prison labor. But the city found it difficult to fill these positions, leading to the exploitation of prisoners who are also exposed to potential infection handling bodies of COVID-19 victims.”
“From 2016 to 2019 the annual number of use-of-force incidents by guards at Rikers Island increased from 390 to 600, a rise of 54 percent. This increase continued even as the jail population declined due to reductions after the COVID-19 crisis began in March 2020. As a result, the number of use-of-force incidents per prisoner doubled.”
“Equally concerning are suits that highlight the depth of corruption and misconduct at Rikers Island. Take the case of Jerome Murdough, 56, a homeless veteran arrested in February 2014 after he sought shelter from the cold in a public housing complex in Harlem, only to bake to death in a Rikers cell where staff left him unattended for hours while a broken heater raised the temperature above 100 degrees.”
“Statistics show that the majority of people detained in the jail who could not afford bail are minorities, the mentally ill, and drug addicts. Activists believe these people are being treated unfairly and are being prejudiced against in preparing a proper defense. It is a fact that those detained pretrial are more inclined to sign unfavorable plea agreements, even if not guilty, as a means of ending their current situation.”
Today in Black Excellence: Maya Angelou—a literature titan whose 1969 memoir was the first nonfiction bestseller by an African American woman.
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” —Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
What was the early life of Maya Angelou?
She became a celebrated writer and Black icon, but it came from a childhood of tragedy. Born on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, Angelou was quickly exposed to racism as a child. Her parents split when she was young, and while visiting her mother, aged eight, she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend: her uncles killed the boyfriend in revenge. These horrors left Angelou mute for five years, as she discussed in an interview with Oprah, a close friend. At age 16, she gave birth and was forced to work grueling jobs to support her son—including fry cook, sex worker, and nightclub performer.
She recounted her traumas to close friend James Baldwin—fellow writer and Black icon. He challenged Angelou to write about her experiences, and she published the wildly successful memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. It catapulted Angelou to international stardom and was nominated for a National Book Award in 1970. It remained on The New York Times’ paperback nonfiction bestseller list for two years—the longest record in history.
What made her such a Black icon?
Angelou was a close friend of Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated on her birthday in 1968. Angelou stopped celebrating her birthday for years afterward. In 1964, Angelou helped another activist friend Malcolm X in founding the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Spanning over 50 years, she published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, books of poetry, and plays. Her 1971 poetry collection, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’Fore I Die, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Because of her tireless work in literature and political activism, Angelou became widely respected as a spokesperson for the Black experience, particularly of women. You can even find her legacy in your pocket—she recently became the first black woman to appear on a US quarter.
Original portrait by Tumblr Creatr @inuqo
"I was filled with such deep gratitude while working on this illustration of Maya Angelou. Her talent, creativity, strength, power and resilience is inspiring to us all and I wanted to display how beautiful her Universe was. How important her words and life's journey was because it showed us that no matter how hard we fall, still we can rise".”
—@inuqo
Martin Luther King pictures in Color to remind you that the Civil Rights movement is not as “ancient” as we’re taught in class
My friend sent me this with the message of "Swag whilst even being arrested."
(Image Description: Image of Martin Luther King Jr being arrested looking super classy. / End Description)
-fae
you can tell a lot about the values of the culture you’re in when it comes to making hard decisions, and what decisions are considered “extreme, but necessary” versus what decisions are considered “unthinkable.”
right now, the culture I’m inside of says that over 400,000 people within our borders dying from covid-19 is “extreme, but necessary” but that taxing billionaires and using the money to give everyone guaranteed shelter, food, clean water, and supplies, and to pay everyone to stay home until there are no cases left is considered “unthinkable.”
Approaching one million deaths now.
George Floyd's niece was shot while she was sleeping
(She did survive with a punctured lung and 3 broken ribs)
As the young victim recovers in the hospital, Houston police are looking into whether officers' response to the shooting was delayed.
It took 4 hours after the shooting for police to arrive.
Her father doesn't know why his house was targeted.
And police say they have no suspects.
George Floyd never wanted to be a martyr, but regardless, he's become the face of the latest BLM movement.
So, it's kind of suspicious that his brother's house was shot up, and police can't find any suspects.
Just kinda weird...
Kinda sketchy...
(Obligatory images to humanize her)
-fae
January 1, 1804: Haiti proclaims independence.
On January 1, 1804, Jean-Jacques Dessalines—who had assumed leadership of the revolution after Toussaint L’ouverture’s 1802 capture by the French army–declared Saint-Domingue’s independence. The new republic adopted the original pre-Columbian Arawak name of Haiti, meaning “mountainous land.“
The Black revolutionaries, who had been fighting since 1791, had crushed Napoleon’s 43,000-man army in December 1803. Within 12 years, they had fought against and defeated not only the French colonists but also the French, Spanish, and British armies.
For an army of ex-slaves to turn their rebellion into a decade-long revolution, and to defeat an entire network of empires, is stunning. Add that to Haiti’s unprecedented title of first Black republic (a political anomaly of the time), and you have quite the victory. Take today to honor the freedom fighters and the history!
Via Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
December 29, 1890: The Wounded Knee Massacre
We remember Wounded Knee.
December 29 is the anniversary of the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, when U.S. soldiers murdered more than 300 Lakota people, babies and elders, men, women, two-spirit.
The U.S. government awarded 20 Medals of Honor to some of the perpetrators. Those medals still have not been rescinded.
Via United American Indians of New England
