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New York City, 1976.
This extraordinary map must be viewed full-sized, so click or tap on it to enlarge. It depicts the legacy of the New Deal in New York and covers almost a thousand works of all kinds—murals, parks, civic buildings, schools and more—and features 50 outstanding examples of public works and public art that transformed the nation’s leading city during the 1930s.
Photo: Living New Deal
Basic action organization, concept 2
Since ‘what do I actually need to organize an activist thing?’ is a question that new groups seem to ask over and over, I’m thinking of writing a little overview of what you might need. Which teams you have and what tasks they have will obviously vary from place to place, but maybe we can put together some kind of basic starting guide, ya know? Advice welcome.
So I’d say you have a general meeting and then a number of teams concerned with organizing and a number of basic safety teams and for long term organizing you have internal communication teams:
The organizing teams:
Logisitics team
Decides on gathering point, route, finishing point and whether there is a place for people to hang out afterwards. Often arranges warm drinks at the action and plenty of good food afterwards.
This team might have a trained and experienced Police Spokesperson. The most hostile the police is towards your action, the more useful it is to have someone that can keep them busy with prepared answers, can manipulate or delay them and can inform the logistics team of a chance in attitude that might mean arrests are coming soon.
A logistics team may have a subgroup that forms a Self-defense team that plans the immediate response to danger. This may consist of physical self-defense but it can also involve planning ways to get vulnerable people to a safer place inside the group, planning escape routes, filming the aggressors, and more. Physical self defense often depends on safety in numbers. For that the self-defense team prepares and initiates, but once the self-defense is needed they do not go in alone: doing the self-defense part is everyone’s job.
The self-defense team or the logistics team will probably have spotters that keep an eye on the area and report things like the amount of police, riot police, arrest vans, or fascists to the logistics team.
Message and decorations team
Arranges banners, posters and other things that express the message of the action. Arranges speakers and materials such as megaphones, microphones, amplification. (If it is a public action. Obviously not relevant if you’re doing a direct action that doesn’t want any attention.)
This team might have a trained and experienced Media Spokesperson. The most hostile the media is towards your action, the more useful it is to have someone that can keep them busy with prepared answers and away from people not prepared for how shit the media can be.
Mobilisation team
Promotes the action. Often works closely with message and decorations team. Depending on the type of action, this team may write a press release, may make a social media event, may distribute flyers, or could just quietly spread the word from mouth to mouth that there is going to be a surprise action soon.
Fundraising team
Raises and manages the funds for the action.
The safety net teams:
The safety teams are important if an action is likely to be risky. For example if it involves large numbers of people, if it involves a blockade or other lawbreaking, if arrests are expected, if a confrontation with fascists is expected, if the action involves a lot of people of color (= increased likely hood of police brutality) or if the topic of the action is focused against police brutality.
The safety teams are composed of trained and experienced people. Reach out to other groups for this if you need help. Do not hand people without experience a few zines and expect them to handle it!
Legal Team
Offers activists the opportunity to sign in and sign out. Keeps track of arrests and tries to get everyone out of the police station as fast as possible. Has a lawyer on standby. Organizes a welcome party outside the police station to make sure people don’t walk home alone. Does the immediate things the arrested mentioned on their sign in sheet, like ‘tell my boss i am sick if i am still under arrest by monday morning’.
Legal observers
Observe and report, carefully document arrests and police brutality for later use. Communicate arrests to legal team.
Jail Support
For long term support.
Medics
For immediate physical first aid.
Out of Action / Support and Recovery team
For immediate psychological first aid, trauma prevention and aftercare.
Internal communication teams
Depending on the size of your group, how much you organize and how long you work together you may have:
Evaluation team
Facilitates general meetings focuses on learning from our successes and our mistakes and getting better at what we do over time.
Sustainable activism team
Focuses on burnout prevention, makes sure the community prioritizes healing and collective care instead of running from action to action.
Awareness team
Watches for oppressive behavior and power imbalances forming within the group and addresses them. Can be contacted by people that witness oppressive behavior and don’t feel ready to step in and address is themselves.
Mediation team
For conflict resolution
Transformative justice team
For long term transformative processes that address interpersonal harm.
Vibes team
Organizes parties, movies, dinners, picknicks and other things that focus on having fun together and maintaining the sense of community that is vital to our organizing.
So far that makes:
Did I miss anything?
Smoke Camel. New York City. 1943.
Photographer: Getty Images
Emma Goldman at a rally in Union Square, 1916
“So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.” ― Emma Goldman
In other words, Be Gay, Do Crimes
Protesting the high school dress code that banned slacks for girls, Brooklyn c.1940
via reddit
These girls really look like they could kick your ass, though.
I want to know everything about this picture- What high school was this? Who did their hair? Is that dude in the back trying a proto-photobomb? Did they succeed?
There should be a White History Month in America. That way we can teach all about the things White Americans have done in history, like:
1 Cherokee Trail of Tears 2 Japanese American internment 3 Philippine-American War 4 Jim Crow 5 The genocide of Native Americans 6 Transatlantic slave trade 7 The Middle Passage 8 The history of White American racism 9 Black Codes 10 Slave patrols 11 Ku Klux Klan 12 The War on Drugs 13 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 14 How white racism grew out of slavery and genocide 15 How whites still benefit from slavery and genocide 16 White anti-racism 17 The Southern strategy 18 The rape of enslaved women 19 Madison Grant 20 The Indian Wars 21 Human zoos 22 The colonization of aboriginals in australia 23 White flight 24 Redlining 25 Proposition 14 26 Homestead Act 27 Tulsa Riots 28 Rosewood massacre 29 Tuskegee Experiment 30 Lynching 31 Hollywood stereotypes 32 Indian Appropriations Acts 33 Immigration Act of 1924 34 Sundown towns 35 Chinese Exclusion Act 36 Emmett Till 37 Vincent Chin 38 Islamophobia 39 Indian boarding schools 40 King Philip’s War 41 Bacon’s Rebellion 42 American slavery compared to Arab, Roman and Latin American slavery 43 History of the gun 44 History of the police 45 History of prisons 46 History of white suburbia 47 Lincoln’s racism and anti-racism 48 George Wallace Governor of Alabama 49 Cointelpro 50 Real estate steering 51 School tracking 52 Mass incarceration of black men 53 Boston school busing riots
By the way I got this list from facebook so I’m not an expert but I encourage everyone to look some of this stuff up, and so much more, if I missed something, go ahead and add!
Oh yeah,
54 chopping off indigenous women´s breasts off of leisure during the genocide
55 slamming indigenous children against huge rocks during the genocide
56 spaniards dividing into groups the indigenous women each white settler was gonna own and rape during the american genocide
57 In the catholic missions nailing native americans on crosses to represent the 12 disciples
58 and this: (I recommend the book The American Holocaust)
I don´t think yall understand how wicked these people are
59. The Unangan evacuation and internment during World War II
60. Dropping an Atomic Bomb on Japan even though the military knew that Japan was beaten and was near surrender.
61. The government assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
62. White america’s support of Apartheid
63. Nazism
64. Skinheads
65. Various lies attempting to paint Ancient Egyptians as white Europeans
66. “Modifying” authentic Egyptian artworks that demonstrate Black characteristics so they instead made it seem that Egyptians were white
67. Raping of Native American women and girls
68. The murder of Taíno Natives on the island of Ayiti (which we now call Haiti)
69. White racism ingrained in GI Bill, New Deal, Social Security Act and more
70. Second class badge (The History of Racism within Police Departments)
71. The ordering by the PBA to have cops terrorize NYC’s black and Puerto Rican communities
72. The destruction of Black Wall Street
73. The destruction of at least 10 other thriving Black communities
74. The History of Serial Killers (aka white males on murderous rampages)
75. White corporate sweatshop (Nike, Adidas)
76. Human trafficking
77. High rate of child molestation and rape among white communities
78. Forced sterilization of Blacks and Native women
79. Racist indoctrination of Black women through the media (ex: convincing Black women that unless they straightened their hair, they would not be considered beautiful, hired for jobs, make a living and etc)
80. “Last Hired, First Fired” racist hiring practices
81. Creation of various racial slurs
82. Poisoning of the environment through illegal disposal of toxins
👀 y'all still want it or???
They always ask for it every February
83. Whitewashing in Hollywood 84. Using National Guard to barricade black folk in a literally burning neighborhood during Watts Rebellion (portrayed as Watts Riots) 85. Mass cultural appropriation by white-owned and white-market brands for profit of Navajo, African-American, Hindi, etc. traditions
This is the America they’re referring to when they say Make America Great Again.
You know, this would make this BEST master post.
Make it happen
I fucks wit’ dis, HEAVILY.
Wow, I’m saving and screenshotting this for the next time a white person says “Black people get a whole month, white people should have something too”
“You’re so right Susan, lets dedicate an entire month with 31 days so we can learn about y’all history”
86 CIA assisting in the destabilising of multiple governments and plunging countries like Iran into either extreme poverty or dictatorships or violent governments willing to trade with America
we’re almost in the ‘20s and dadaism is thriving, europe’s in a shambles, everyone is broke and the right wing is on the rise so i guess we really don’t learn a goddamn thing huh
Inmates in three NY prisons can no longer receive donated books in the mail from family and community groups. They have to buy books from state-approved vendors with a limited selection.
Instead of inmates being able to receive donated books in the mail from family members and community groups, inmates at three New York prisons now have to purchase books selected by six, state-approved vendors. And the selection is limited. And expensive, activists say.
Novels cost $11.25 from one vendor.
A book about chess costs $29.95 from another.
And about a quarter of the titles are coloring books.
According to the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, the directive is in an effort to restrict contraband from entering the prison “through a more controlled inmate package program.”
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office has made the point that inmates still have access to prison libraries, but some say it’s not enough. “The problem with prison libraries is that [the prisons] control who has access to them,” said Amy Peterson with NYC Books Through Bars. “So people who are in solitary confinement don’t have access to prison libraries.”
Peterson’s group has been mailing books to prisoners all over the country for nearly two decades, with a focus on New York. “We get letters from people saying they had to borrow a stamp in order to write to us. So if these people can’t even afford postage, we don’t know how they’re going to be able to afford buying books from a vendor,” she said.
Read more
From the NY Daily News:
Over the past several days, inmate advocates pointed out that the vendors combined offered only five romance novels, 14 religious texts, 24 drawing or coloring books, 21 puzzle books, 11 how-to books, one dictionary, and one thesaurus.
“No books that help people learn to overcome addictions or learn how to improve as parents. No Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway, Maya Angelou, or other literature that helps people connect with what it means to be human. No texts that help provide skills essential to finding and maintaining work after release from prison. No books about health, about history, about almost anything inside or outside the prison walls,” advocacy group Books Behind Bars complained in a letter to the governor.
Actions you can take that I’ve found so far:
Sign this petition from the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee
Send postcards to Gov. Cuomo and Acting Prison Commissioner Annucci
Leave a message about it at Gov. Cuomo’s office (you can follow the script from the postcard link): 518-474-8390
If you’re in NY, contact your State Senator and State Assembly Member
Donate to NYC Books Through Bars
Tell your friends and family to do the same!
That’s so fucked up
This is nothing more than a blatant way to try and extort money from inmates while also controlling what they can and can’t read
It’s utterly disgusting
Wait, and they have to pay to Skype family, too? Soooooo….basically all they can do is work??!!
UPDATE:
Oh there’s more. So fucking vile…
All of this info was listed in the DOCCS breakdown before they “magically” deleted it from the database…
Manhattan: 5th Avenue and 42nd Street -With A View Of The New York Public Library Under Construction (July 3rd 1906) -NY Public Library Archives
You forgot to mention also setting his house on fire in there, but yes.
Brooklyn, 1948
Rae Russel
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I saw a sad facebook post from the gay bookstore back in Ann Arbor where I used to live about how they hadn’t sold any books that day so I went on their online store and bought a couple, and while you don’t get #deals like elsewhere online, I’d love it if y’all would consider buying your next gay book from them instead of like, Amazon.
!!!!!!!
Sometimes Tumblr is a force for good. :’)
I’m getting tired of this cold weather. Looking forward to summer and some beach weather. Have a good one -Al
Brooklyn: Coney Island (c 1950s) -photographer unknown
Andy Warhol photographed by Gianfranco Gorgoni in his New York home, 1971.
Walker Evans (1903-1975) Subway Portraits , 1938-41 Gelatin silver prints