Out of Context Mennonite

Seriously, that's what this is (featuring "choir-robe black")

[cuddlycharizard]

It’s a crime they typecast Daniel Craig as a serious action man for so long when it’s clear he was born to play a silly little gay detective

[spideyyeet]

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It won’t end until Israel has ethically cleansed all Palestinians! This cannot happen! Keep sharing and reblogging! It may not feel like much, but spreading awareness makes a difference!

[forpalestine-deactivated2024020]

Please reblog! We need to spread awareness about this. Media censorship is still present so we need you guys to reblog as many posts as you can so that your followers can see and reblog as well.

We need to keep speaking up!

[pointlesstrashyexistence]

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Screenshot from eye.on.palestine on Instagram. Image of 3 unmasked Israeli soldiers in padding and open helmets arresting a man with a mask over his mouth and nose, a long sleeved green shirt, a green vest, and white pants.

The description says “#Palestine | In the next 48 hours, thousands of Israeli soldiers will invade hundreds of homes of Palestinian citizens in Israeli area with the goal of arresting 500 Palestinians in an operation entitled “Operation Law and Order,” the goal of which is to “settle accounts” with young Palestinian activists. The Israeli police claims that it has a “bank of targets” for the coming hours. According to the statement by the policy, thousands of security forces of all units and brigades, including the notorious border patrol and the reserve brigades, are being deployed to execute this violent operation in our villages and cities.

This is a declaration of war. The Israelis will invade more than 500 homes to kidnap our children and youth. This is not a mere “attempt to terrorize” or a “policy of fear-mothering,” this is an unprecedented declaration of war on Palestinian citizens of Israel and will be implemented under a humiliating silence.

Our people must take action now to resist this war, the world has got to move now. Now before the criminals invade our neighborhoods and communities.”

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[spaghettioverdose-deactivated20]

https://twitter.com/jijijibli/status/1391829463630024704?s=19

[cargopantsman]

*whistles nonchalantly *

[panspanther]

Palestinian throws a rock. Media : “terrorism”

Israel bombs people in their homes. Media : “self defense”.

[moonlayl]

[cundtcake]

CBC Journalists Told They Can’t Cover Israel-Palestine After Demanding Fairer Coverage

More than 2,000 people signed an open letter saying Canadian media outlets “tiptoe around coverage of Israel and Palestinians.”

On May 14, an “open letter to Canadian newsrooms on covering Israel-Palestine” began circulating online. The letter, which has now been signed by more than 2,000 people, including many journalists, said Canadian media does not include enough context or Palestinian voices when covering “the ongoing nature of the Israeli occupation.” It ended by asking for “fair and balanced coverage” of the conflict.  

Since the letter was published, two employees with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation told VICE World News they were advised that they could no longer cover the issue because they signed it.

CBC spokesman Chuck Thompson told VICE World News that no employees are being disciplined for signing the letter but the broadcaster is ensuring “editorial distance between signatories (of the letter) and our daily coverage for the near future.”

…The letter also highlighted the CBC’s decision not to cover a Human Rights Watch report that described Israel’s conduct towards Palestinians as apartheid.

One CBC reporter told VICE World News they signed the letter because they believe the Canadian media’s coverage of the conflict is one-sided.

“With all our resources, how do we not cover (the Human Rights Watch report)?” the reporter said, claiming the CBC has received hundreds of complaints about its coverage of the issue since last week. The CBC did not respond to questions about the nature of those complaints.

…The issue comes as the media industry has faced increased scrutiny over its treatment of journalists who are Black, Indigenous, and people of colour, including how “journalistic objectivity” is used to paint racialized journalists as being biased. 

[genuinelyshallow]

Mona Alkurd , one of the Palestinians Israel is trying to kick along with 28 families out of their decades long homes in Sheikh Al Jarrah , the last Palestinian block in Al Quds ( Jerusalem ), to complete the restriction of the area to Israeli Jews .. simply an Apartheid by settlers.

“ Your posts and tweets are treasures to us “

Here a rough translation of what she said:

“ It falls on us and Palestinians and the honorable people supporting us with posts and tweets. You have no idea how much that means to us. Everyone who shares even one short post or tweet. Don’t feel like you’re doing nothing. Those posts and tweets are treasures to us. Help us get our cause heard. We are 28 families. 500 individuals. If we are removed, then there will be no Palestinians in Al Quds. And in the end, Allah is our hope. And it falls on us. And we will remain here to our last breath defending our lands and homes”

[el-shab-hussein]

Palestine's case is one of the rare ones where retweets, hashtags, reblogs, etc... are one of the most effective forms of support (besides boycotting and protesting) because donated money goes nowhere and petitions do not work in an apartheid state that seeks to eliminate its victims openly. We need the rest of the world watching and protesting and speaking out.

[daredeviil]

ICE made a decision to order all international students whose universities are online to leave the country or risk facing immigration consequences and getting deported which essentially means that students will have to decide between leaving the US or risk their health. many countries don’t even have their borders open and some people may not even have places to go so please sign this petition which requests that international students get the option to finish their degrees and remain in the USA

[daredeviil]

ICE made a decision to order all international students whose universities are online to leave the country or risk facing immigration consequences and getting deported which essentially means that students will have to decide between leaving the US or risk their health. many countries don’t even have their borders open and some people may not even have places to go so please sign this petition which requests that international students get the option to finish their degrees and remain in the USA

[sammyblep]

this is an official whitehouse.gov petition - americans, PLEASE sign this and don't let our country's obsession with deportation ruin even more lives

[emerald-studies]

George Floyd - change.org

George Floyd - amnesty.org

George Floyd - colorofchange.org

Get The Officers Charged

Charge All Four Officers

Breonna Taylor - moveon.org

Breonna Taylor - colorofchange.org

Breonna Taylor - justiceforbreonna.org

Breonna Taylor - change.org

Breonna Taylor - thepetitionsite.com

Ahmaud Arbery - change.org

Ahmaud Arbery - change.org 2

Ahmaud Arbery - change.org 3

Justice for Oluwatoyin Salau

Pass The Georgia Hate Crime Bill

Defund MPD

Life Sentence For Police Brutality

Regis Korchinski - change.org

Tete Gulley - change.org

Tony McDade - change.org

Tony McDade - actionnetwork.org

Tony McDade - thepetitionsite.com

Joao Pedro - change.org

Julius Jones - change.org

Belly Mujinga - change.org

Willie Simmons - change.org

Hands Up Act - change.org

National Action Against Police Brutality

Kyjuanzi Harris - change.org

Alejandro Vargas Martinez - change.org

Censorship Of Police Brutality In France

Sean Reed - change.org

Sean Reed - change.org 2

Kendrick Johnson - change.org

Tamir Rice - change.org

Tamir Rice - change.org 2

Fire Racist Criminal From The NYPD

Jamee Johnson - organizefor.org

Darius Stewart - change.org

Darius Stewart - moveon.org

Abolish Prison Labor

Free Siyanda - change.org

Chrystul Kizer - change.org

Chrystul Kizer - change.org 2

Andile Mchunu (Bobo) - change.org

Eric Riddick - change.org

Amiya Braxton - change.org

Emerald Black - change.org

Elijah Nichols - change.org

Zinedine Karabo Gioia - change.org

Angel Bumpass - change.org

Sheku Bayoh - change.org

Angel DeCarlo - change.org

Sandra Bland - change.org

Sherrie Walker - change.org

Darrien Hunt - change.org

Cornelius Fredericks - change.org

Elijah McClain - change.org

James Scurlock - change.org

Darren Rainey- change.org

http://www.pb-resources.com/

https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/

Do something!

[luntfontanne]

i put together a list of readings on the history of agriculture, food & food justice in black communities in america that i’ve been working through, thought i’d share it here in case others are interested:

articles/lists

“Black Communities Have Always Used Food as Protest” by Amethyst Ganaway

“Restaurants Must Use This Moment to Change, Too” by Amethyst Ganaway

“Cooking Up Change: How Food Helped Fuel The Civil Rights Movement” by Nancy Schute

“How to Eat to Live: Black Nationalism and the Post-1964 Culinary Turn” by Jennifer Jensen Wallach

“There were nearly a million black farmers in 1920. Why have they disappeared?” by Summer Sewell

“The Great Land Robbery: The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms” by Vann R. Newkirk II

“Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It.” by Lizzie Presser

@/NFUDC (National Farmers Union): How to fight racism in agriculture (twitter thread dated June 2, 2020)

Want to See Food and Land Justice for Black Americans? Support These Groups.

21 Individuals and Organizations Building Stronger Black Communities and Food Systems

The Ultimate List of Black Owned Farms & Food Gardens

LISTS OF BLACK-OWNED FOOD BUSINESSES

books (**full text available for free)

**Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Monica M. White

**Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability ed. Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman

**Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. by Ashanté M. Reese

**Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights by Peter Daniel

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty

Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power by Psyche A. Williams-Forson

In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World by Judith A. Carney & Black Rice by Judith A. Carney

Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning by Rafia Zafar

Southern Food and Civil Rights: Feeding the Revolution by Frederick Douglass Opie

Every Nation Has Its Dish: Black Bodies and Black Food in Twentieth-Century America by Jennifer Jensen Wallach

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain

Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman

podcasts / television

Sporkful – When White People Say Plantation & When Black Chefs Created Plantation Food

The Kitchen Sisters / Hidden Kitchens – Hercules and Hemings: African American Cooks in the President’s Kitchen – King’s Candy: A New Orleans Kitchen Vision – Georgia Gilmore and the Club from Nowhere: A Secret Civil Rights Kitchen

1619 – Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 1 & Part 2

Chef’s Table – 6x01: Mashama Bailey (on Netflix)

further reading lists

A Reading List For Learning About Anti-Black Racism and Food

A Black History Month Reading List Centered Around Food and Farming

47 Food Studies Books, Not Just for Black History Month

A Food Justice Reading List

[eowyntheavenger]

What have the protests accomplished?

5/26 4 officers fired for murdering George Floyd 5/27 Charges dropped for Kenneth Walker (Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, who police accused of killing her) 5/28 University of Minnesota cancels contract with police 5/28 3rd precinct police station neutralized by protesters 5/28 Minneapolis transit union refuses to bring police officers to protests or transport arrested protesters 5/29 Activists commandeer Minneapolis hotel to provide shelter to homeless 5/29 Former officer Chauvin arrested and charged with murder 5/29 Louisville Mayor suspends “no-knock” warrants 5/30 US Embassies across Africa condemn police murder of George Floyd 5/30 Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison takes over prosecution of the murdering officer 5/30 Transport Workers Union refuses to help NYPD transport arrests protesters 5/30 Maryland lawmakers forming work group on police reform, accountability 5/31 2 abusive officers fired for pulling a couple out of their car and tasing them - Atlanta, GA 6/1 Minneapolis public schools end contract with police 6/1 Confederate monument removed after being toppled by protesters - Birmingham, AL 6/1 CA prosecutors launch campaign to stop DAs from accepting police union money 6/1 Tulsa Mayor agrees to not renew Live PD contract 6/1 Louisville police chief fired after shooting of David Mcatee 6/1 Congress begins bipartisan push to cut off police access to military gear 6/1 Atlanta announces plans to create a task force and public database to track police brutality in metro Atlanta area 6/2 Minneapolis AFL-CIO calls for resignation of police union president Bob Kroll, a vocal white supremest 6/2 Pittsburgh transit union announces refusal to transport police officers or arrest protesters 6/2 Racist ex-mayor Frank Rizzo statue removed in Philadelphia 6/2 6 abusive officers charged for violence against residents and protesters - Atlanta, GA 6/2 Civil rights investigation of Minneapolis Police Dept launched 6/2 San Francisco resolution to prevent law enforcement from hiring officers with history of misconduct 6/2 Survey indicates that 64% of those polled are sympathetic to protesters, 47% disapprove of police handling of the protests, and 54% think the burning down of the Minneapolis police precinct was fully or partially justified 6/2 Trenton NJ announces policing reforms 6/2 Minneapolis City Council members consider disbanding the police 6/2 Confederate statue removed from Alexandria, VA 6/3 Officer fired for tweets promoting violence against protesters - Denver, CO 6/3 Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art cut ties with the MPD 6/3 Chauvin charges upgraded to second degree murder, remaining 3 officers also charged and taken into custody 6/3 Richmond VA Mayor Stoney announces RPD reform measures: establish “Marcus” alert for folks experiencing mental health crises, establish independent Citizen Review Board, an ordinance to remove Confederate monuments, and implement racial equity study 6/3 County commissioners deny proposal for $23 million expansion of Fulton County jail 6/3 Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board unanimously votes to sever ties with MPD 6/3 Seattle withdraws request to end federal oversight/consent decree of police department 6/3 Breonna Taylor’s case reopened 6/3 Louisville police department (Breonna Taylor’s murderers) will now be under review from an outside agency, which will include review on training, bias-free policing and accountability 6/3 Colorado lawmakers introduce a police reform bill that includes body cam laws, repealing the “fleeing felon” statute, and banning chokeholds 6/3 Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announces plans to reduce funding to police department by $150M and instead invest in minority communities 6/4 Virginia governor announces plans to remove Robert E. Lee statue from Richmond 6/4 Portland schools superintendent discontinues presence of armed police officers in schools 6/4 MBTA (Metro Boston) board orders that buses wont transport police to protests, or protesters to police 6/4 King County Labor Federation issues ultimatum to police unions: admit to and address racism in Seattle PD, or be removed 6/5 City of Minneapolis bans all chokeholds by police 6/5 Racist ex-mayor Hubbard statue removed - Dearborn, MI 6/5 NFL condemns racism and admits it should have listened to players’ protests 6/5 California Governor Gavin Newsom calls for statewide use-of-force standard made along with community leaders and ban on carotid holds 6/5 2 Buffalo officers suspended within a day of pushing 75 year old protester to the ground, and lying about it 6/5 2 NYPD officers suspended after videos of violence to protesters 6/5 The US Marines bans display of the Confederate flag 6/5 Dallas adopts a “duty to intervene” rule that requires officers to stop other cops who are engaging in excessive use of force 6/5 Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax releases an 11-point action plan for immediate police reforms 6/6 Statue of Confederate general Williams Carter Wickham torn down - Richmond, VA 6/6 2 Buffalo officers charged with second-degree assault for shoving elderly man 6/6 San Francisco Mayor London Breed announces effort to defund police and redirect funds to Black community 6/7 Frank Rizzo mural removed, to be replaced with new artwork - Philadelphia, PA 6/7 Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disband the police department, invest in proven community-led public safety 6/7 Protesters in Bristol topple statue of slave trader Edward Colston, throw it in the river 6/7 NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio vows for the first time to cut funding for NYPD, redirect to social services 6/7 A Virginia police officer faces charges after using a stun gun on a black man 6/8 NY State Assembly passes the Eric Garner Anti-Chokehold Act 6/8 Democrats in Congress unveil a bill to rein in bias and excessive force in policing 6/8 Black lawmakers block a legislative session in Pennsylvania to demand action on police reform 6/8 France bans police use of chokeholds 6/8 Seattle council members join calls to defund police department 6/8 Boston reevaluates how it funds police department 6/8 Honolulu Police Commission nominees voice support for more transparency, reforms 6/8 Rights groups and Floyd’s family call for a UN inquiry into American policing and help with systemic police reform

No, it’s not enough, but this is only the beginning. Keep fighting!!!

(I adapted this list from this blog post and added sources and new entries. Please reblog with additions.)

[kropotkindersurprise]

Could you recommend some anti-police literature for a newbie?

This [link] has a really good collection of articles on alternatives to police and how to create a world without police.

Here are some more articles and books:

The police: the case against - Polite Ire

Rebellion against police violence - toward community defense, dual power and revolution - First of May Anarchist Alliance

Stop kidding yourself: the police were created to control working class and poor people - Sam Mitrani

Our Enemies in Blue - Kristian Williams

Kropotkin - Law & Authority

Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?

Foucault - Discipline and Punish; the Birth of the Prison

[kropotkindersurprise]

Communique from an Ex-Cop - Christopher Dorner

Who Needs Fascists When There Are Police? - Reflections on the Anti-Fascist Mobilization in Portland of August 4

The Thin Blue Line is a Burning Fuse - Why Every Struggle Is Now a Struggle against the Police

[kropotkindersurprise]

Slave Patrols and Civil Servants - A History of Policing in Two Modes

Cameras Everywhere, Safety Nowhere: Why Police Body Cameras Won’t Make Us Safer

Seven Myths About the Police

The Two Faces of Fascism: How Police Are Complicit in the Rise of Fascism

“Dear Citizens, This Is Your Police”: In Praise of the Police-Free Zone in Hamburg

[kropotkindersurprise]

Collusion Between the Police and Alt-Right Is Inevitable

When the Police Get Into Doxxing

Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind

A post that imagines a series of common public safety concerns and the ways they could be dealt with without police

Police and Thieves: Insurgency, Control, Crime

[kropotkindersurprise]

We Want a World Without Police. These Organizers Are Charting the Way

More Trainings Are Not the Answer to Police Violence Against Disabled People

The Myth of State Neutrality

Against the Logic of the Guillotine - Why the Paris Commune Burned the Guillotine—and We Should Too

The Anarchy Police: Militant Anti-Fascism as Alternative Policing Practice

Incarcerated Anti-Fascists Report Targeted Beatings by Guards

[kropotkindersurprise]

Good post with links about prison abolitionism

Another good post with links about police and prison abolitionism, and transformative justice

The #coronavirus and the police

The other death toll from the coronavirus pandemic - The police are harassing, beating and killing people while enforcing COVID-19 lockdowns across the world.

Unrest in Beaubreuil, France: “We are at war”… against the police!

[kropotkindersurprise]

Rights, riots and police brutality

How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct

No More Cop Unions

Reading Towards Abolition:  A Reading List on Policing, Rebellion, and the Criminalization of Blackness

[kropotkindersurprise]

Thread on research-based solutions to combat police violence - real good thread with sources

The answer to police violence is not ‘reform’. It’s defunding. Here’s why

How Much Do We Need The Police?

A Short History of U.S. Law Enforcement Infiltrating Protests 

When Police View Citizens as Enemies

[roseofithaca]

Do you think Jesus ever got many carpenter requests after he started preaching? Like did anyone ever go up to him and be like; "My Lord! My Lord!" And the disciples are all: "The Master won't do anymore miracles today." But obviously Jesus is like; "Yes, my child?" And they just ask what his basic rate is to fix their door.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

harry potter but the wands are fancy backscratchers 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Exhibit 1. 

[outofcontextmennonite]

NO I WILL WIN THIS POLITENESS CONTEST

[amazingspidey16]

[eroscestlavie]

okay but why is that kylo cosplayer so good omfg

[kemonos]

that isnt cosplay this is real movie footage

[bitchinasparagus]

@outofcontextmennonite @bringmeachicken