@AlchemicCowgirl Pasta salad is always a good choice for a warm day and a decent sized group. Rotini or rigatoni pasta, pepperoni or whatever protein works and any vegatable you have. I always use tomatoes, cucumber, red onions and lots of basil and salt. Toss with olive oil & balsmic vinegar.
The reason why counter-organizing feels so difficult/impossible is because they only need a vocal minority and you feel like you need a majority. You don't.
Everyone you need already agrees with you. They just haven't been organized yet.
Andrew Lytle notes that the heights of the Cumberland Mountains were home to great flocks of “Cumberland Parrots” at the time of settlement. Another name for “Louisiana” subspecies of the Carolina Parakeet, sadly extinct. Imagine…
He tries again: "I've been stabbed"
Someone, I presume, the murderer, cuts in: "He hasn't been stabbed"
"I know, but we have to check" says the clipboard-voiced woman officer
The kneejerk "I know" is so telling. Her instinct is just to agree the dying boy on the ground is lying
"There will come a day when the power of the British state that concealed your atrocious crimes for so very long is turned against you. It will be swift. It will be brutal. It will be severe... We will show you the same mercy you showed our girls."
It is truly heartbreaking to think of the last moments of Henry Nowak. Like Iryna Zurutska, he bled out alone while those around him couldn’t have cared less than his life was slipping away.
He must have known he was dying. Can you imagine the terror he must have felt, feeling his life drain out of him while he was restrained and unable to even act to try to save himself? You remember watching Iryna die. That was Henry’s fate, too.
The police acted with the same callous disregard for human life as Iryna’s killer. That they weren’t the ones who opened his veins matters not— they failed in their duty of care (intentionally, not even accidentally) and they are as guilty as the killer they tried to cover for.