the fact the US used the full force of the federal government to eliminate the Black Panthers while the KKK is still running around tells you a lot about this country
Juneteenth 2024 🎉💚💛🖤❤️
Join us for our FIFTH annual Juneteenth Celebration for free food, games, music, and more!
📅 Wednesday, June 19 from 6-8pm
📍The Willkie House (900 17th St. Des Moines)
The lesson of literally almost every single successful social movement in modern US history (women’s suffrage, civil rights, LGBTQ, Act-UP, antiwar, disability rights, etc) is that dissent *must* produce disorder to provoke the kind of response that enables meaningful change.
They didnt even have this many police show up when those losers stormed the Capitol on Jan 6
Believe America when it shows you what kind of country it is
Around 3:00AM at "Hind's Hall," Columbia students chant:
"Went down to Columbia
And I took back what they stole from me
Took back my dignity
Took back my humanity
Now they're under our feet, under our feet
under our feet, under our feet
Ain't gonna let no system walk all over me"
a desperate activist tells Malcolm X that the situation is hopeless as there are too many powerful interests and too few to oppose them. Malcolm's response is as important today as it was then: "Never let your enemy tell you how many of you there are."
Someone on tiktok said, “they’re messing with the Sandy Hook generation”. And that sentiment has reverberated in my head all morning. Lived through the thoughts and prayers of an elementary school shooting just to be brutalized by cops in college. Fucking crazy.