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"Darkness and night are mothers of thought."

[n-ppn]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/119740068@N03/14201503672/

[naylor-archive]

also, if you missed it, chris redd from SNL put together a gofoundme to help black protestors who might test positive for covid-19 in the upcoming weeks as well as pay for urgent medical care for those severely hurt during the riots.

[oessa]

2/5/16

[oberynmartell]

List of Black Lives Matter and Racial Equality Petitions to sign:

Justice for George Floyd

Justice for George Floyd 2

Justice for George Floyd 3

Charge the Officers Responsible for George Floyd’s Murder 

Charge the Officers Responsible for George Floyd’s Murder 2

Justice For Ahmuad Arbery

Justice For Ahmuad Arbery 2

Justice for Breonna Taylor

Stand with Breonna

Charge Officers Responsible for Breonna Taylor’s Murder

Justice For Tamir Rice

Justice For Joāo Pedro

Justice for Alejandro Vargas Martinez

Justice for Belly Mujinga.

Justice for Rashad Cunningham

Justice For Tony McDade

Justice for Dion Johnson

Justice for Jennifer Jeffley

Justice for Young Uwa

Justice for Elijah Nichols

Justice for Tete Gulley

Justice for Tazne Van Wyk

Justice for Michael Dean

Justice For Amari Boone

Justice for Darrius Stewart

Justice for Shukri Abdi

Justice for Ashton Dickson

Justice For Darrius Stewart

Justice for David McAtee

Justice for Cameron Green

Justice for Crystal Mason

Justice For Zinedine

Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet

Justice for Christopher Josey

Justice for Amiya Braxton

Justice For Emerald Black

Justice for Andile Mchunu

Justice for Cameron Green

Justice for Tamla Horsford

Justice for Collins Khosa

Free Siyanda

Reopen Sandra Bland’s Case 

Free Willie Simmons who has served 38 years for a $9 robbery

Get Washington State to Hold Police Officers Accountable for Police Brutality

Arrest Officer Jared Campbell for macing a child 

Demand Jail Time for Dylan Mota and Jacob Robles

Demand Jail Time for All Police who Murder Innocent People

Fire Racist Criminal Michael J Reynolds from the NYPD

Petition for Nationwide Police De-Escalation Training

Petition for Nationwide Police Required Racial Bias Test

stop immigrants being poisoned by ICEBan the use of inhumane rubber bullets

Demand a retrial for Angel Bumpass wrongfully convicted 13 year old with a life sentence

End Police Brutality and Violence Against BIPOC in the USA

Ban the use of rubber bullets for crowd control

Join Campaign Zero

Drop All Charges Against Incarcerated Trafficking Survivor Chrystul Kizer!

Reopen Kendrick Johnson’s Case

Abolish Prison Labour in the USA

Require Dash and Body Cameras for the King County Sheriff’s Office

Donation Links

A thread of Youtuve videos you can stream to donate to BLM

Official George Floyd Memorial Fund

OFFICIAL Gianna Floyd Fund (George Floyd’s child)

Black Lives Matter

We Cant Breathe

43 Bail Funds to Support

Homeless Black Trans women fund

Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers

Minnesota Healing Justice Network

Women for Political Change

Spiral Collective

When We All Vote

National List of Bail and Mutual Aid Funds/Organizers/Black Owned Businesses

Venmo names of black trans people that need help

Latino Community on Lake Street

Black Immigrant Collective

Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha

Atlanta Black Owned Business Relief

Al Maa'uun

Remembering Shana Isuroon 

Fundraising for destroyed black owned businesses

Joyce Preschool

Black Table Arts

Northside business support

Du Nord Riot Recovery Fund

Unicorn Riot

Donate to Destiny Harrison & her daughter Dream’s Legacy

Pimento Relief Fund

Southside Harm Reduction

West Broadway Business and Area Coalition

Division of Indian Work

TC Care Collective

Justice for Breonna Taylor

Justice for Jamee

Justice for David McAtee

[kyoto4]

20200512/0514 社会変動への予感

寺町を北へ。三月書房もまだやっている。

[redrola]

[k-ayo]

[k641739021]

(via Stairway to Heaven　by YD3 （ID：6863173）　- 写真共有サイト:PHOTOHITO)

[jasmiiine]

happy birthday breonna taylor. we’re all fighting for you too.

[sheabutterbitch]

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Here’s a free PDF of “Are Prisons Obsolete” if you are interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the prison abolitionist movement. This reading answers many of the questions you likely have regarding the call to abolish prisons and police.

One of the things I love about Angela Davis is that her writing style is so easily digestible, even when covering complex theory such as this. Do not be intimidated by the subject matter, it is fairly easy to grasp and I think everyone should read it.

[stargazerinmoksha]

i’ve passed by your smile a few times every so often when i look up, sometimes as a passing thought, sometimes clouds part the sky like hair that’s hanging off the side of faces that we really never got a chance to meet. the world isn’t happy right now and it’s not particularly safe to be outside. i know that peace can only come through patience and pushing forward, sometimes things are fucked up. sometimes people stand around, sometimes we waste time. i don’t want to spend anymore years of my life being unconsciously sad because that’s not how life should be. you should always aim to be in a place that’s going to make you feel alive. so do something that makes you feel that liveliness. feel alive. i know these are letters sent to the moon, and i’m sure you haven’t had one from me in awhile. i’m sorry, i guess life has been strange. maybe it has always been strange. a writer typing something to someone he has never even meant, but at least i try to be consistent with you. it has been raining really bad lately, i think the world is crying too. won’t you tell us about another one of your dreams? i promise it won’t take too long and i’ll listen. sometimes we need a reset, sometimes we need to start over. rome wasn’t built in a day, but rome also didn’t last forever. i can only pray that we’ll do better than rome. i love you friend, thanks for reading from your comfortable seat in heaven. talk later. thanks for smiling down on me tonight. it means a lot.

— a moon and its reflection

[koreantunes]

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방예담 (BANG YE DAM) (TREASURE) - 왜요 (WAYO)

[sandman-kk]

Sumida, Tokyo. March 2019. 9367

(via 2019-06 - Sandman-KK)

[janvranovsky]

Urban patchwork, Kanazawa | © Jan Vranovsky, 2015 

[girlelectric]

[sleeplessintokyo87]

Let’s start walking at midnight and see the sunrise together

[rose-garden-over-madison-square]

Protesting works: don’t let it die

Reminder to not give up, you are bringing about change.

List of positives to come out of the recent protests as of June 4:

- George Floyd’s murderer charged with murder and manslaughter, then had charges increased, then the officers that watched it happen were charged with aiding and abetting

- Louisville police (Breonna Taylor’s murderers) department will now be under review from an outside agency, which will include review on training, bias-free policing and accountability. (Unfortunately her killers have still not faced charges yet as far as I could find.)

- Charges are to be dropped for Kenneth Walker

- Atlanta has announced plans to create a task force + public database to track police brutality in metro Atlanta area

- Minneapolis city council members are considering disbanding police force in favor of a “community-oriented, nonviolent public safety and outreach capacity”

- Colorado lawmakers have introduced an incredible police reform bill that includes body cam laws, repealing the “fleeing felon” statute, banning chokeholds, and more

Feel free to add more if you know of more!

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- LA Mayor announces plans to reduce funding to police department by about $150M and instead invest that in minority communities for jobs and education