I’m hoping all my followers and their loved ones register as donors. It is a unique, life-altering opportunity to gift folks, mostly for folks who have transitioned to the ancestor plane. I’m sitting and praying we get the opportunity for the organ transplantations my dad needs.
*Half* the people on Nassau County Police Department’s 1,700-person “gang database” have no criminal history.
“Several officer notes cited someone attending a barbecue” as justification for being on the list.
@_charleslane
reports:
Texas Gov Abbott has installed circular saws between the Rio Grande border buoys to maim or kill anyone who attempts to climb over. Two bodies have already been found trapped in the floating barrier.
He wants more migrants to die.
“After shooting Guardado, who was working as a security guard at the shop, 6X, the LASD deputies reportedly seized and possibly destroyed nearby security cameras and took the DVR that stores all the video footage filmed by the surveillance cameras before obtaining a warrant.”
If you not an abolitionist yet think about this: Doggface, the native/Mexican foo that went viral in midst of pandemic while skateboarding and sipping cranberry juice while Fleetwood Mac played and made y’all’s lives better was arrested. For marijuana possession.
I don’t know how people can go on thinking that a state force that is willing to shoot at medical professionals is a force that can be reformed or rescued. That even deserves to exist.
From 1960-1996 Guatemalan govt engaged in a US funded genocidal war targeting Indigenous communities throughout the nation. The apex of the violence happens from 1981-84ish. Indigenous peoples and lands continue to be assaulted and encroached upon in service of global capitalism.
#TW
. This is
#AndresGuardado
’s mother. Her Salvadoran accent coming through her pain and tears. She’s sharing here her gratitude for the support the community has offered her and her family. That her son was a hard worker. He was trying to pay off his car. He helped his parents.
Andres Guardado's mother speaking at today's vigil. Andres was 18 when
#Compton
Sheriffs murdered him yesterday. Shooting him in the back 7 times! Police terrorism has no place in our city. We need action! Another family mourns, yet police continue to be funded in our community.
I condemn the mass detentions and sham trials that are the Cuban regime's efforts to threaten the Cuban people into silence. My Administration stands with the Cuban people, and is imposing new sanctions targeting those in the Cuban regime responsible for this crackdown.
To be clear, predominantly white, middle- to upper-class youth protested against the expansion of public transit that would foreseeably make it easier for working-class Black and Brown youth to have access to things like the beach, food, libraries, parks etc....
El Súper is owned by Grupo Comercial Chedraui. A multinational conglomerate. They are now part of a multi billion dollar merger and own 122 stores across southwest that in 2017 generated over 3 Billion dollars in revenue. Stop whining for billionaires. They don’t care about u.
If you’re upset about Krispy Kreme and revelation of their Nazi ties... wait til you realize how many wealthy families and corporations and universities have direct ties to racial chattel slavery and indigenous genocide and elimination... lol.
I really don’t trust what the CDC is saying about gathering indoors if you’re fully vaccinated. This feels like another justification to be able to open up non-essential businesses and get people back to work instead of waiting until enough folks get vaccinated...
Just so people are reminded: folks are having to smuggle Palestinian flags and things like keffiyahs into their graduations. I hope all the folks who hold on to the idea that there’s “democracy” in this settler hellscape think about how draconian this is…
UCLA GRAD DISRUPTION
Despite mainstream media’s insistence on reporting a “back to normal at UCLA” there were unavoidable disruptions yesterday
The stadium erupted in cheers, not because of a speaker or speech but because the Palestine flag was smuggled in and waved in the air
When folks begin to understand and narrate these acts and exhibitions as expressions of white power and not just of some version of white “privilege” we will be on to something. Bc then the problem will not b about these individuals but civil society that marks only them as human
CAMPUS 'TRASHED': Garbage, tents, water and old food were seen littered in UCLA's quad area as KTLA's Annie Rose Ramos made her way to Royce Hall, which was also vandalized with spray paint and messages such as “from the river to the sea” and “Free Palestine.”
Watch Annie's
“We reached our second hotel and it looked like an hacienda… so cute.” An hacienda is a plantation for those that don’t speak this particular brand of colonial language.
The
#LAPD
shot and killed this young man on January 3rd. His name was
#OscarLeon
. He is part of the working-class, large immigrant and Indigenous community in
#LosAngeles
from Puebla. He was a human being who was loved. He struggled w mental health and was in deep grief.
What does this look like to y’all? Please understand how impactful system of racial chattel slavery has had on modernity. We’ve seen this before.
#AbolitionNow
Madeline Pantoja was found deceased in Midland, Texas yesterday. She went missing after an argument with her ex-boyfriend, Mario Juan Chacon on May 10th. He has been arrested and charged with murder. I am really tired of this. Not sure why it is so difficult for these men to walk
In 1994, when the EZLN launched its offensive on strategic urban centers in southern state of Chiapas, people clamored for “peace.” Children wrote letters to EZLN calling for “peace.” This was the Zapatista’s written response:
#FreePalestine
Calm is when Gaza is bombed, villages are invaded, homes are bulldozed, journalists are shot, ambulances are attacked, mosques are vandalized, schools are tear-gassed, and Palestinians are massacred
Calm shattered is when Palestinians finally respond
It isn’t justice. It isn’t. And it’s something that would have never happened w/o mass scale actions and movements. Everyone involved this past year can sit w this. And we still demand more. And F Derek Chauvin.
A lot of Oppenheimers now probably have Spanish surnames like Rodriguez, Hernandez, and Gonzalez. They probably put inspiring messages on their cap and gowns at some point, too.
I’ve always thought about how some of us (Latin American) have photos of our families/ancestors from turn of the 20th century or right before that and some of us don’t. I always think of class dimensions of these countries and who had access to having photos taken and developed.
So many people out here turn their attention and ire towards Florida as if it’s singularly bigoted while the reactionary fascist movement has been cohere to this shit since summer of 2020. I’m so pissed right now. And folks need to crack back and fight.
Anti-LGBT protestors attack Pro-LGBT demonstrators outside of a Glendale, CA schoolboard meeting.
The schoolboard is voting on recognizing June as Pride month.
It is knowing that these elders lived through the dark periods in Chile’s history where terror was always lying in the shadows that makes this all the more powerful. Que viva el mundo al revés!
I was near this brother when he was speaking to Spanish language news. It was really moving. I introduced myself as his daughter was getting arrested and said I’m with them. 💙✊🏽💙
Father shows up for his daughter protesting against genocide at USC in Los Angeles 🇵🇸
“I imagine being a father in Palestine.. to see my kid be assassinated by Israel.”
@QueerXiChisme
My therapist said something parallel. She told me that healing within a family (whether bio or not) is like a mobile. You are one part. And maybe your healing will make the rest of the parts move. It may not always be in your same direction. You may not be around to see it.
Folks take these very serious risks bc they recognize and feel the depths of the inequity and violence that has been animated by the state, local settler elites, and global capitalists in the country. Our people are beyond brave. And changing presidents don’t change system.
Somos los hijos de esos españoles que salvaron a América de la barbarie de los indígenas. Por eso hoy debemos sentirnos orgullosos de ser hijos de España. Feliz día de la hispanidad!!🎉🎉
#DiadelaRaza
#12deOctubre
Please stop acting like Florida is only state that has these kinds of things happening. Please stop narrative of California exceptionalism. A lot of these people probably have domestic workers. Who will prob b asked or have continually gone to clean these peoples’ homes.
Settler colonialism and colonial violence continue to haunt our present. And the environmental impacts of all of this on working-class communities literally sticking to our lungs and respiratory systems. This is a sharp video.
This young man is named Brian Chuc. His father is from Guatemala. His mother from Mexico. He was part of a family that loved him dearly. He was a student ready to graduate w a sociology degree from
@ucmerced
about 7 months ago until he was killed by a driver who fled scene.
Academic/professional associations need not have their dumb ass conferences in these big ass hotel spaces and do them at local universities or community colleges and give money to local organizing efforts that fight for justice and better world.
Perspective: at the beginning of the pandemic stores like Target did not shut down. They also did not provide and in some cases allow workers to wear PPE.
Yesterday and today? Target shuttered it’s doors to protect its inventory.
For corporations it’s always Profit > People.
To be clear: I'm pro-rioting/rebelling/looting by those who are most aggrieved, neglected, abandoned, and criminalized by a white supremacist, fascist, capitalist, and patriarchal world. Take it all!
So many caged folks are Black, South Asian, and Central Americans of all races/ethnicities and been organizing hunger strikes/writing letters/op eds to protest family separation and treatment in these prisons. In addition, they just organized solidarity hunger strike for BLM.
I will not ever show any love for this country. This country is terror. Their borders are war zones. Their history littered with bodies of human beings eviscerated for simply existing or trying to have a chance at living. And their terror extends beyond its settler outlines.
Universities continue to incubate and foster the most disturbing white supremacist ideologies under the guise of “science.” These places, departments, and researchers are the purveyors of insidious ideologies that shape state’s policies and embolden their deadly state agents.
We don’t make these things up. These stories of our people fleeing. These stories of how violence and trauma and war has lingered...
#JusticeForAndresGuardado
Lots of people out here with El Salvador flags.
#AndresGuardado
’s family is from El Salvador. His aunt told me that, like many others, they fled the war in their country
@CumbertoEco
Shame is inconsequential to info I was asking for and asking for folks to reflect on. Of course in settler imperial capitalist country thinking that firms and companies are somehow sentient entities and not cutthroat genocidal projects for benefit of a fractional elite is silly.
@PalmTreesnGz
Cochrane, in this case. They attempt to cover themselves by reporting that "spike bouys" are for waterborne craft, while "smooth buoys" are ideal against humans, to save them from perilous crossings, but we see in the original post how they are used.
Link:
I been out and about for the past 3 hours w my fam and I came back and just saw a whole mess of comments and replies to this that just add to the funny! The Kohl’s Krip walk got me dying!
We don’t have to imagine what would happen if it were Black, Indigenous, or other folks of color protesting. It happened already. It happens all the time. We would be met with a hail of live rounds. The lack of understanding that this does happen all over world is insulting.
This is beautiful. Hope we continue to have this kinda relationship w our kid so when they have their first heartbreak we can just listen and affirm them. 😢
Y’all already know who is bussing those tables right? Who is in the back cooking that food and being exposed and tasked overtime right now. This is the time to look beyond these images and think about who is being obscured. Who prob don’t have access to compassionate health care.
Cesaire talked about how the architects and arbiters of genocide weren’t always just the military leaders. It was the bankers, philosophers, and really, the capitalists. He gestured towards the logical end of capitalism was to be this:
And she, like so many mothers have stated after the state snatches up their children, reminds folks that today it was her son and tomorrow it could be your kid.
#JusticeForAndresGuardado
I want people to know that folks like these also hate poor Mexicans. They also hate Mexican deportees. And ideas around a heteropatriarchal, mestizo nationhood animates a lot of it. Myths of belonging are made possible through violent exclusions like these.
The afterlife of slavery is to reduce systematic and institutionalized anti-Black terror to something like this out of context and absurd analogy. This is disgusting.
This is not a good take. Reconsider centering tropes like these that rely on the political myths that US is somehow some beacon of light and not the catalyst for displacement, corruption, and dispossession throughout Central America for the past 100+ years.
How much do you have to believe in the promise of America to walk 1000 miles with your children, get tear-gassed at the border, and *still* want to come live here?
An African woman who is in Mexico is engaging in protest in an immigration station. She is resisting the displacement of Black migrants by Mexican federal authorities.
The precedent for white supremacist terror was set when first settler stepped foot on these lands. And today is another reminder of another link in that chain. That decision is not an aberration. It’s emblematic and reflective of what this country and all it’s institutions are.
BREAKING: 9th Circuit has given the Trump administration a green light to proceed with deportation of about 300,000 El Salvadorans by ending the 'temporary protected status' they've had for up to 20 years. 2-1 ruling today. Doc: More to come
As the violence of
#LAPD
continues to make national headlines remember the folks stolen are real people who belong to real families. Financially challenged families. In memory of
#OscarLeonSanchez
organized by South Central Mutual Aid
#GoFundMe
Let’s take a moment and realize that thousands of people are walking thousands of miles w very few resources and no real guarantees for a chance to live and to build a future for their families and communities. That’s something.
URGENT: Coup attempt is underway in Bolivia right now. People’s movements are calling for mass mobilization to stop this attack on democracy.
This is the 2nd coup since 2019 which overthrew Evo Morales in a plot supported by U.S. govt & Elon Musk
Community members in some of the most targeted regions continue to face violence and threats in order to placate and/or dispossess them of their lands and rivers in
#Guatemala
for mega projects like hydroelectric dams or mining projects for things like Barite.
A country that’s fundamentally grounded in and animated by violence continues to beget that violence. A violence that increasingly becomes a collective trauma as we all witness these acts of routinized violence from Akron to Highland Park.