we should be clear about what political violence is.
1. starving people when there is enough food for all of us to eat.
2. denying people healthcare so they die from preventable illnesses
3. denying people shelter
4. increasing police budgets across the country
Stop using Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act to dismiss disabled people warning about the dangers with assisted dying.
4 out of every 5 recipients are on Medicare or Medicaid, they only provide death with dignity because they’re too cheap to allow us to live with dignity.
Never forget that the power structure benefits from sanitizing revolutionary movements of the past to misrepresent them in a way that does not threaten power. They’ll try to tell you Malcolm X wasn’t talking about white liberals but instead white leftists who don’t vote democrat.
i did a workshop last week w/ a group of yt queer organizers and i told them that their so called « activist fatigue » is b/c they don’t have an embodied liberation practice they can draw from since they spend more time appropriating the knowledge systems of non-yt people instead
“I’m literally a land back leftist”
Then you should know land back doesn’t only mean physical land. It is the sovereignty/reclamation of Indigenous practices, religions & spiritual beliefs that were demonized for 550+ years.
Mass blocking Indigenous ppl only shows your racism.
Keep in mind:
They abandoned neighborhoods rather than live with Black people.
They cemented swimming pools than share with Black people.
They closed down schools than learn with Black people.
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They’ll absolutely destroy democracy to avoid sharing power with Black people.
Yo, just saw this Black nurse’s long form TikTok video on why we all need to stop everything to wear masks.
He shared that hospital floors are now being locked down and med staff are whispering to each other abt what’s happening bc the media/govt no longer wants to cover it.
Indigenous Land Defender has been missing almost 4 months. Ivy Perez was on the frontlines at ICE in 2021. They have worked on seceral Indigenous Rights causes. Ivy is Purépecha last seen downtown PDX.
I met with a group of teenagers yesterday. One of their teachers had suggested that I talk to them about career paths because they're all anxious about exams, university choices and future work.
Instead of talking to them, I listened, and the actual problem was very different.