Protestify: Protest and Testify

Visit http://weprotestify.com  for a 24/7 feed from Twitter streaming over 1700 protest hashtags, over 68 countries, dozens of languages.

[sparklesmccheesy]

One time Hillary Clinton was going to some benefit in my building and my dad was waiting for the elevator to come so he could go to his apartment and Hillary walked in and when the elevator came Hillary got in with her bodyguards and then my dad was about to go in and she was like “take the next one” and he was like “I live here and also I was here first” and then she pressed the door closed button and the door closed and that was that.

Bernie 2k16

[thevisionofpeerpressure-deactiv]

[phroyd]

No, He Is Not, He Can’t Be Bought!

Phroyd

[phroyd]

Go Bernie Supporters!

Phroyd

[mysharona1987]

[starbucksfaster]

The High Cost of Acting Happy

http://anniemurphypaul.com/2014/02/the-high-cost-of-acting-happy/

“Surface acting is when front line service employees, the ones who interact directly with customers, have to appear cheerful and happy even when they’re not feeling it. This kind of faking is hard work—sociologists call it “emotional labor”—and research shows that it’s often experienced as stressful. It’s psychologically and even physically draining; it can lead to lowered motivation and engagement with work, and ultimately to job burnout.”

RELEVANT. 

[almightybob]

Welcome to mah realm

[themindisawindowtothesoul]

the truth has never been spoken more clearly before this

[goldenheartedrose]

This is my life.

[psybee]

IT HAS A A NAME THANK GOD I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO FELT LIKE THIS

[jaharts93]

THE ACCURACY OF THIS TWEET! No, but since the guy who made bomb threats and shot up a holy place is white, where is the manhunt with all the armed forces? Where is the curfew? Where is the swat team invading people’s homes? This is a terrorist attack. A hate attack. A race attack! I hope they find that white kid.

[oddbeing]

[sensei-aishitemasu]

Burn them all

[thechanelmuse]

Not only is the music African-Indigenous, the food, dances, traditions, etc. It’s evident. But y’all know how whiteness works. White folks have takeover spirits and find some way to include themselves in the things and spaces we create while erasing us completely or calling us “influencers” (if that) like it was a group effort with them. Nah, we made that! You’re invaders.

[fomysquad]

Girl who watched her father be shot to death by police grows up to become mother who watched her son be shot to death by police

On July 4, Icarus Randolph woke up in a bad mental place.

The 26-year-old Marine veteran had served in Iraq and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, his family says.

That afternoon, he became a casualty on his mother’s front lawn when a Wichita police officer shot him in front of his family. It was supposed to be a good day at the family home on East Clay, near Rock and Lincoln. Randolph’s mother planned a cook-out. But when Beverly Allen returned from the store, her son’s eyes told her he was upset. She knew it was serious enough to call for help and ended up talking to a 911 dispatcher.

The purpose that day, his family says, was to get help for him. Instead, they say, the two police officers sent to the home allowed the situation to escalate.One officer – the one who fired the shots – spent crucial minutes arguing with the family in the small front yard when he should have been trying to diffuse things before Randolph came out of a door, says his older sister, Ida Allen.

The family disagrees with the police account, saying Randolph didn’t run or charge at the officer, but walked.It is the latest shooting by a Wichita police officer to raise questions about how police respond to mentally ill people.

When Randolph’s mother moved forward, the officer “aimed his gun at her and said, ‘Get back, or I’ll shoot you too.’”

Although “a knife was reportedly found near” Randolph’s body, the claim says, “none of the family saw it in his hand when he came out of the house before he was shot.”

July 4 is Ida Allen’s birthday. Now, it is the day that she saw her brother get shot.

“The irony of it all,” she said, “is now we all suffer from PTSD. …

“That didn’t have to happen the way it did that day.”             /source/

I am 100% sure that the cops completely guilty for what happened. Firstly, for what fuck they started to argue with the family, who asked them for help? Second, they were taught how to deal with mentally ill people, not to harm them, but these morons ignore all this. Because the cops do not care for the safety of us, as citizens, they only care about their own safety. That’s disgusting … It is totally unfair …

#PoliceAbuse #IcarusRandolph #Wichita

[corinnestark]

[sandandglass]

Jon Stewart on the Charleston shooting:

I didn’t do my job today. I’ve got nothing for you in terms of jokes and sounds because of what happened in South Carolina. And maybe if I wasn’t nearing the end of the run or this wasn’t such a common occurrence, maybe I could have pulled out of the spiral. But I didn’t.

I honestly have nothing other than just sadness once again that we have to peer into the abyss of the depraved violence that we do to each other and the nexus of a just gaping racial wound that will not heal yet we pretend doesn’t exist. I’m confident though, that by acknowledging it – by staring into that and seeing it for what it is…We still won’t do jack shit. Yeah, that’s us. And that’s the part that blows my mind.

I don’t want to get into the political argument of guns and things. What blows my mind is the disparity of response between when we think people that are foreign are going to kill us and us killing ourselves…

If this had been what we thought was Islamic terrorism, it would fit into our [narrative]. We invaded two countries and spent trillions of dollars and [lost] thousands of American lives and now fly unmanned death machines over like five or six different counties, all to keep Americans safe. We’ve got to do whatever we can – we’ll torture people. We’ve got to do whatever we can to keep Americans safe. But nine people shot in a church, what about that? “Hey, what are you going go to do? Crazy is as crazy is, right?”

That’s the part that I cannot, for the life of me, wrap my head around. And you know it’s gonna go down the same path. “This is a terrible tragedy.” They are already using the nuanced language of lack of effort for this.

This is a terrorist attack. This is a violent attack on the Emanuel Church in South Carolina which is a symbol for the black community. It has stood in that part of Charleston for a hundred and some years and has been attacked viciously many times – as many black churches have. And to pretend that – I heard someone on the news say – “tragedy has visited this church”. This wasn’t a tornado. This was a racist. This was a guy with a Rhodesia badge on his sweater. So the idea that – I hate to even use this pun – but this one is black and white. There’s no nuance here. And we’re gonna keep pretending like, “I don’t get it, what happened. This one guy lost his mind.”

But we are steeped in that culture in this country and we refuse to recognize it. And I cannot believe how hard people are working to discount it. In South Carolina, the roads that people drive on are named for Confederate generals who fought to keep black people from being able to drive freely on that road. That’s insanity. That’s racial wallpaper. You can’t allow that.

Nine people were shot in a black church by a white guy who hated them – who wanted to start some kind of civil war. The Confederate flag flies over South Carolina and the roads are named for Confederate generals. And the white guy is the one who feels his country’s being taken away from him. We’re bringing it on ourselves.

And that’s the thing – Al Qaeda, all those guys, ISIS – they’re not shit compared to the damage that we can apparently do to ourselves on a regular basis.

[onlyblackgirl]

Can we trade him for Don Lemon yet?

[s0cietiesmenace]

Never heard of a black person shooting up a movie theater

Never heard of a black person shooting up a elementary school

Never heard of a black person shooting up a temple

Never heard of a black person shooting up a navy yard

Never heard of a black person shooting up a mall

Damn sure ain’t never heard of a black person shooting up a church

[humansofnewyork]

“We teach that education is a great privilege that can lead anywhere, but sometimes I worry that I might be selling them a dream. So I try to teach them what’s possible, but also what’s real. They need to learn that hard work leads to success. But I also tell them that they might need to be a bit more patient than others. Sometimes they ask hard questions, and I try to answer as honestly as possible. A few weeks ago, I was teaching a lesson about segregation, and one of my students raised his hand. He said: ‘If segregation is over, then why are there only black kids at our school?’”

[betterthankanyebitch]

HE WENT INTO THE CLASSROOM I AM CRYI NG

[yeahmicah]

This man is doing the Lord’s work.

[fuckyeah4chair]

Happy Black History Month

[justice4mikebrown]

May 25

Memorial Day protest at Coney Island

More pictures here.

[micdotcom]

Meet the designer behind the first “alternity” maternity line for genderqueer parents

Some expecting parents would rather forgo the ruffly dresses and pink bows, which is why ButchBaby & Co., an “alternity” line for genderqueer people, trans men and masculine women that fits with their bodies, gender expressions and identities, was born. But their dream isn’t a reality yet.