To power, violence is never called violence. Beating protesters is “maintaining order.” Looting wages is “the market.” Erasing freedoms is “security.” The dictionary is always rewritten to disguise the hand that holds the baton.
Want to hear something amazing about crying?
Emotional tears have higher protein concentration than irritant tears, which makes them fall down your cheeks more slowly—increasing the chance they’ll be seen and solicit care.
In literal ways, your body is built for community.
🚨 URGENT ACTION NEEDED 🚨
~12 pregnant or postpartum people are being held indefinitely in an Alabama county jail with essentially no medical care to “protect the ‘unborn”
➡️ CALL to demand their release: 256-549-5362
➡️ GIVE to their @NAPW legal fund: https://t.co/QH2cxvqbFC
Happy Labor Day! Trader Joe’s employees across the country are making an extra $10 an hour today thanks to collective action and community organizing. That’s WOW worthy!
The last 24 hours of this app has just been people posting stuff like, "Let me get this straight: the urinal cleaners of my community owe hipsters $10,000 now?" and then a reply that says, "This you?" and it's a PPP loan receipt for their podcast Reassessing Franco.
The theft of land from Native American nations wasn’t just for the Whites to live on. Most of America is uninhabited. What they really craved were our resources. Now, most Native people are poor and have health problems. That’s the most odious thing about this country to me.