#protests2020

[abandoned-monarchy]

[nastyelf]

I know for some people it may not seemed very important, interesting, just some small country in the east of Europe, but people should know what happpens there. Incredible Belarus people are trying to overthrow their crazy dictator, they use peaceful protest, but that's what they get. Belarus people deserve life in a civilized progressive country with a normal democracy, and not with a tyrant headed by and subordinate to him groups of security forces.

Roman Bondarenko, 31, Dies After Being Beaten Into Coma By Plainclothesmen

"We will not forget, we will not forgive."

Жыве Беларусь.

https://belarusfeed.com/roman-bondarenko-beaten-plainclothesmen-die/

[rockofeye]

If you are taking to the streets tonight, please protect yourself as much as is possible. Wear a mask, wear good shoes, and have an exit plan if it no longer feels ok to be there.

Remember that the police are not your friends and they will not protect you. They are rioting too.

If you are not going to the protests, you can still help:

Most metropolitan areas have set up a mutual aid bail fund. Give them money.

Provide jail support (and court support when it's time). Go to the jails with food and water, cash for taxis or the ability to Uber folks, a phone people can use to make a call, disposable masks, painkillers like tylenol and ibuprofen, tampons...all the things people are denied in jail and all the things they will need directly after.

Contact your local Black Lives Matter chapter and ask how you can help--not tell them how you want to help, but ask what they need.

Call your elected officials and ask them to come out in support of the protests and to condemn violent police responses.

Call police commissioners in cities where police violence has taken over and ask them why they are tacitly supporting terrorist behavior. Demand that they order their officers to stand down.

Call police unions and demand the same things.

This is only a start; there is lots more to do.

If your religious leader or religious authority is not speaking in support of the systematically oppressed or says they are sitting this out, hold them accountable. This uprising is holy work, and our spiritual leaders must lead.

There is a lot of work to be done. Remember that the humanity of those who have suffered is more important than corporations, inanimate objects, and a racist police force.

Be blessed and know that your action--big or small--is seen and counted.

[media-observer]

You turned Libya from the country with the highest standard of living in Africa into a failed state run by Al-Qaeda “rebels” who now sell Africans in open air slave markets.

Plus you and your husband pillaged Haiti for billions.

Since when did #BlackLivesMatter to the Clintons?

Hillary Clinton helped destroy entire nations and murder thousands of people, yet she continues to be celebrated across the media as some sort of hero.

Obama and Hillary Clinton are out here giving speeches about #BlackLivesMatter, while Africans are being sold in open air slave markets in Libya thanks to the illegal “humanitarian” intervention that they waged alongside their NATO buddies.

mediaobserver.net/2020/06/18/since-when-did-black-lives-matter-to-the-clintons/

[comatose--overdose]

[thehalfwaypost]

https://halfwaypost.com

[thestar-grimoire]

[sistertaxon]

National guard massing outside Milwaukee (oak creek). Saw a few humvees with what looked like mounted guns, jeeps, and at least one city bus. Drove around to get pictures but they'd already left. Stay safe everyone.