I posted this response on my personal Facebook page.
"The battle may of been lost. The system is broken, likely beyond repair. Yet, do not despair. Fight, Online against the misinformed. Fight, In the streets with signs and blockades. Fight, In the halls of congress and Senate. Fight, as mad bastards who lost the last round in boxing who's just too pissed off to notice the blood.
Fight. Is all the people can do."
Things are bleak and as an older millennial, I feel that I have more or less failed the future generations. Yet, all I can do is keep fighting for a better world. Hopefully, with the lost on this round, people will come back swingging.
Violence at Belgrade protest over government's handling of lockdown ---- Wed 8 Jul 2020
Protesters and police have clashed in Belgrade for a second night amid anger over the return of strict lockdown measures to tackle coronavirus. Clouds of teargas and smoke filled the city centre in chaotic scenes on Wednesday that mirrored violence the night before, when thousands came out to protest the return of a round-the-clock weekend lockdown.
ph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images & Andrej Isaković/AFP/Getty & & Koca Sulejmanovic/EPA
Police have fired teargas to disperse protesters hurling flares and objects in Serbia’s capital as violence erupted for the second day in a row during demonstrations against the president’s handling of the country’s coronavirus outbreak. The president, Aleksandar Vučić, backtracked on his plans to reinstate a coronavirus lockdown in Belgrade this week, but it did not stop people from firing flares and throwing stones while trying to storm the parliament building.
On Tuesday Serbia recorded 13 more coronavirus deaths, its highest daily toll to date, as well as 299 newly recorded infections.
“Nobody can endure these numbers. We don’t want to kill our doctors,” said the president, Aleksandar Vučić, announcing the strict weekend curfew. He said a government body would decide whether it should apply nationwide or only to the capital.
Serbia’s coronavirus strategy was shaped by a group of Chinese experts dispatched to Belgrade by the Chinese government in the spring. They recommended strict measures to try to prevent the spread of the virus, but in recent weeks the country had opened up again.
Last week Vučić’s party won a crushing majority in a parliamentary election that was boycotted by most of the opposition, who complained over increasing authoritarianism. Some accused Vučić of ending the lockdown too early to facilitate holding the election and much of the anger at the protest was over a feeling that the security measures had been tailored to fit the political situation..
“Seven days ago I thought to impose once again lockdown in the entire country,” he said. “If we would have done that, we would have no chance to survive economically, and we need to live with this, we need to take all precautionary measures but we need to keep on working very hard, just to protect our business community and our workers.”
Serbia and Montenegro were two of the 15 countries that the EU added to a travel green list last week, allowing citizens to enter the bloc with no restrictions, but some EU nations have kept stricter measures.
I seriously just cannot fathom the fact that black racism is still a thing, in fucking 2020, like why? Why does it matter what colour someone's skin is, or even their sexuality, ethnicity, religion, gender, fucking hair colour? The only thing we should be judging people by is simply their humanity. Just be a decent person, have respect; it's really not that hard people. Even a child could figure that out.
