On FIRE: Free Independent Radical Existance

If you aren't being political? If you aren't being active? If you aren't fighting against what is killing you? What are you doing. This is feminism, womanism, anti-racism, queer pride and liberaiton in action. 

[profeminist]

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F*ck you Donald Trump and F*ck you Ivanka, Minister of #LipService. 

Ivanka you’re “moderating” JACK and SHIT, and JACK just left town. 

The face of a “KINDER GENTLER WAR ON LGBTQIA+”

[kimreesesdaughter]

I just left a plantation tour in Louisiana. I have a lot to say…

[purplechocolatekisses]

SAY IT!

[kimreesesdaughter]

I honestly thought I knew everything about slavery. Not so.

The owner of this particular plantation had it built by slaves for 3 years. Every brick was handmade. Over 120,000 bricks on 2,000+ acres of land (this place was huge.) The clay used for the bricks came from the Mississippi River. The majority of the slaves are buried under the Levees and water. Some are buried with their Masters. Not allowed to live with them but could be dead with them.

Before you enter the house, there’s a list of slaves who lived here including their age and how much they were purchased for. 124 total. Some slaves were worth as little as $25. As young as 5 years old.

On this particular plantation, the owner was big on punishment…he used noise making neck restraints. Imagine three 4lb balls around your neck with bells inside. Children were restrained by ankle locks that connected between their ankles.

This was a sugar cane plantation, one the worst practices to involve slaves because of its danger. A lot of slaves were decapitated, amputees and killed from the fields and machinery. A lot of kids lost their lives creating sugar. Speaking of children, a child stood in the living room and operated the fan with a string while guests ate dinner. As young as 3 years old.

Here’s what shook me even further: Before the Civil War, a lot of slave owners were going in debt and could not afford their properties and were not producing enough cotton and sugar to maintain their lifestyles. Slaves were used as HUMAN CREDIT CARDS. Slaves were a guaranteed line of credit. You could get HALF of your property’s value depending on how many healthy and able slaves you owned.

My people were human credit cards and lines of credit to BANKS. We were property. We were labeled as equipment and nothing more.

There is no such thing as a good slave owner. They owned my PEOPLE and used them as checks and balances. This cycle continues with prison and brutality. I do not want to hear shit about “Why can only Black people say this or that?” I don’t want to hear shit about “we’re all human.”

And by the way, not one of those slaves are at rest. Those spirits were so alive, you could feel their presence, their pain and someday, their revenge.

[kimreesesdaughter]

The front of the house and yard. This plantation was huge. Just thinking about my ancestors tending to all this land…

SOME of the enslaved names, ages, race and purchase price.

The living room.

Interior.

The dining room. That piece hanging above the table is ORIGINAL to the house. That’s the fan that a slave as young as 3 years old had to operate manually with a string.

The view from the balcony in the main hallway. This is how they looked over the slaves while they worked in the yard.

*sigh* Names of the enslaved that occupied the shacks. Children included. Their names are written inside one of the shacks. I’m not sure if there are other names inside other shacks because I could only handle 2. After I saw the punishment equipment, I left.

Slave Shacks. These are NOT the original shacks. These were built to imitate them.

Slaves for Sale Ads.

The landscape of Slavery throughout the United States in 1860. JUST 1860. Let that sink in.

Note: The last time the home was OWNED by a Louisiana citizen was 1972. This is her original bedroom, her lipstick is STILL on the dresser. This is why the house has been updated since slavery times because it was occupied up until 1972. Regardless, this used to be where house slaves slept.

[sourcedumal]

Jesus.

[fluffgawd]

The balcony picture really just fucked me up. I’m sick.

[legendarywomen]

#Equalpayday perspective. What are we going to do about it? 🗯 #Resist

[tismilly]

💪🏿💪🏾💪🏽💪🏼💪🏻

[with-practice]

[autohaste]

amazing

[yibambe]

HahahahahahHhhhaahahahahah

[micdotcom]

Activists call for a nationwide general strike on February 17

In a column for the Guardian on Monday, American writer Francine Prose called for a “nonviolent national general strike” to demonstrate “how many of us there are, how strong and committed we are, how much we can accomplish.”

She wrote: “Let’s designate a day on which no one (that is, anyone who can do so without being fired) goes to work, a day when no one shops or spends money, a day on which we truly make our economic and political power felt.”

Calls to do just that have been circulating online recently, with activists setting Feb. 17 — the Friday before President’s Day — as the day for a #nationalstrike against the presidency of Donald Trump. Read more

[ferncutie]

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[librasign-deactivated20170528]

i will not support your feminism if it doesn’t include black, latinx, transgender, disabled, muslim, jewish, lgbtq+ women

[zamzamafterzina]

Over 1,000 New York City Bodegas Will Close On Thursday To Protest Trump’s Immigration Ban

Organizers in the city’s Yemeni community have also planned a meeting on Thursday evening to “share the impact the Ban has had on them and their loved ones.”

[sauvamente]

Damn this gamechanging

[slayediest]

The Badlands National Park Twitter has been tweeting in open defiance of the administration’s gag order today, though most of them have been deleted.

This one is extra special. I’m sure it won’t last.

[slayediest]

Aaaannnd!  They’re still going.

[mysharona1987]

[weavemama]

HE’S TRYING TO PROTECT US ALL BEFORE THE ORANGE CHEETO TAKES OVER 

Here are some articles confirming these plans that go against trump’s future presidency

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

[weavemama]

obama cares

[abloodymess]

So, what did we learn from this weekend?

We learned that a giant mass protest that shuts down large streets of major cities will be met with cops on their best behavior if the protests are made up of “regular” white people. We are shown that most news organizations reported favorably and used positive rhetoric (for the most part) and nice photos of families protesting together. It was viewed in a very kind light, which is the opposite of what most major (BLM for example) protests get. 

If only there was a way to harness or organize the suburban white lady privilege into other protests. These women act as cop repellent because cops are far less likely to split Sharon from Accounts Payable’s head open or Sandy and her daughter Keighleeanne from Naperville or Susan the wife of a CEO. If more of these ladies showed up I think we could curb some of the violence that people of color face. Operation white shield or some shit like that. This is a way to use your privilege and power to back up what you say you believe in. I am just spitballing here, but man, I have never seen such lax police at such a large protest in my life. 

[akamuffintop]

BRILLIANT POST

[spoonmeb]

Guys check your twitter accounts. Twitter is auto-following Trump and Pence from millions of accounts.

Check, @Potus @Flotus and @VP.

Tweet Thread : https://twitter.com/Elle_Lo/status/822618402095329282

Tweet 2 : https://twitter.com/rebekahwsm/status/822632019817598976

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whattheactualfuck!!!

I’m not even American FFS!!!

[spoonmeb]

Guys this is serious. please check your accounts. My other friend who is living outside of the US was also force following these accounts. Doesn’t matter where you live. CHECK YOUR ACCOUNTS!!!

[weavemama]

OH MY GOD

[dulce-de-guayabaa-deactivated20]

This is unreal

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listen to pop pop