My beef with the American political landscape is this:
Everyone, no matter who they are, is more or less tired of this stupid bullshit.
There is not enough rich white and rich people doing anything.
The people with the largest support networks aren't doing much with them.
The most disenfranchised (disabled, minority, queer, brown, poor) are supposed to fix all this
While most of the power lay in the hands of those who don't want to do shit.
As someone who has been poor with very little support throughout my life - I have done what I can. Mostly giving money to people in need when I can. I'm poor. So it's nothing to brag about
But when I need help?
8/10 no one is going to be there -- physically, mentally, financially and/or socially.
Most people are fucked up in one way or another.
But it seems to me (as someone on the lowest rungs) that a lot more could be done by say...
The evacuation of the Donndorf printing plant, which was reoccupied last Saturday, began on Thursday and is still underway thanks to the incredibly strong perseverance of the last occupiers on the roof of the building. Once again the university is refusing to engage in dialogue and once again the cops are using brute force to try to break our desire for freedom.
We now want to express our anger together and show that our movement cannot be broken.
We call on everyone to join our demonstration against the eviction on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. at the Bockenheimerwarte.
Comes angry! Come in large numbers!
Every eviction has its price!
+++ Clearance demo +++
+++ Räumungsdemo +++
Die Räumung der letzten Samstag wieder besetzten Donndorf Druckerei hat am Donnerstag begonnen und ist dank dem unglaublich starken Ausharren der letzten Besetzer_innen auf dem Dach des Gebäudes immer noch im Gange. Wieder einmal verweigert sich die Uni dem Dialog und wieder einmal versuchen die Bullen mit roher Gewalt unseren Wunsch nach Freiräumen zu brechen.
Wir wollen nun gemeinsam unserer Wut ausdruck verleihen und zeigen das sich unsere Bewegung nicht brechen lässt.
Wir rufen alle auf sich unserer Demostration gegen die Räumung am Sonntag um 16:00 an der Bockenheimerwarte anzuschliessen.
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Sometimes flashpoints are unplanned, as with the murder of George Floyd. Sometimes people can stage big moments, as environmental activists did when they organized arrests at the Obama White House to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. Those moments are opportunities to gather thousands of activists together ... to train them in a vision and techniques of how to launch campaigns when they go back home. ...
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The challenges we face are so large and daunting that without many thousands of people capable of understanding the power relationships in our society and what the leverage points are, we aren’t going to win. A big hope of this book is that it ... makes strategy accessible to many more people in the years to come.
F. W. Woolworth's Building; International Civil Rights Center & Museum
Surfing around I saw this photo out of the corner of my eye. I knew exactly where it was taken and its significance. I was kinda shocked.
The photo link is to a page at The Civil Rights Trail, The Civil Rights Center and Museum are in Greensboro. There's a short video of Robert Petterson talking about the lunch counter sit-ins in 1960. Four freshmen students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University--Aggies--led the demostrations: and became known at the Greensboro Four : David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell A. Blair, Jr., and Joseph McNeil.
I was pretty little in 1960, I am not even sure we had a televison set at home. That those stools at Woolworth"s are so iconic to me shows how powerful the movement of sit-ins were. Certainly I'm old enough to remember racist segregation. The thousands of young people who participated in sit-ins inspired me as a lad. I knew they were creating something good. At least trying to make living better for all of us.
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