crossposting from my instagram. text and link to original article under the cut.
in response to a tweet from SYSCAbout (shit you should care about) saying "hi just letting you know it's now illegal to protest in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. this is not good 0_0" referencing the article linked here.
clarifying because i read the article: it is still legal, but it is no longer safe, specifically to ORGANIZE a protest. the 5th circuit court ruled that if any one attendee of a protest does something illegal (even something arbitrary as throwing stones, as was the cause for the case), the organizer (s) of said protest could face legal and financial ruin. this is still horrific and a threat to the livelihood of so many people, but for the love of god do not stop protesting for one minute. to only protest when it's safe (or legal) is no protest at all. free palestine and hands off iran 🇵🇸🇮🇷.
and frankly, shame on you SYSCAbout, for blatantly fearmongering. how many people are going to read this and assume if they show up to a protest, they will be arrested no matter what? how many people is your wording going to stop from mobilizing? oh but did you get your clicks? did you get your engagement? shame.
continue to mobilize, continue to organize, but do not do it under your personal social media account, legal name, or attached to your visage. if you weren't already (why???), mask up at protests and cover any tattoos/peircings/dyed hair. carry no identification if you are able. if the state governments think the people, the angry, fed up, those fighting for their own right to exist, the people who have been subjected to the conditions for marginalized people in these states, are going to roll over and take it, they are dead wrong. if they think giving those same people nothing to lose is going to stop them, they have another thing coming.
sorry to all the kate middleton photoshop truthers but teenagers on tumblr were doing this 8 years ago for louis tomlinson’s fake baby and u called us crazy 🫡
Hey, that's interesting. Kristen Stewart is trending. Wonder what that is about, let's take a look in the- oh fuck. Not to be a bisexual on main but oh my fucking god. Oh my god. Jesus fucking Christ.
Something I haven’t seen talked about is that the Super Bowl Americans distracted themselves with during the terror bombing of Rafah—the latest manifestation of the Gaza Genocide—featured the “Chiefs,” named for the victims of US genocide, and the “49ers,” named for an instigating faction in the California Genocide.
I saw this map today
Of the THIRD most spoken language behind English and Spanish in every state. Notice of course that the languages reflect massive displacements from victims of US empire, but also that more states’ tertiary language is German or French than an indigenous language.
The American ideology and its representative culture factually inspired the Holocaust. The American West was the model for the Nazi East.
Trump lost in 2020 and the US is still enabling a genocide, despite ostensibly being “anti-fascist.”
The United States IS genocide. Its biblically-esteemed founding documents prescribe ethnic cleansing and apartheid. The American soldier, subject to bipartisan fawning, is the universal symbol not of freedom and democracy, but of oppression and tyranny.
Any critical lens beyond the usual Western hagiography will show that fascism did not lose the Second World War, it just evolved into liberalism.
It’s easy really. Other than having a soul, it’s because when the Nazis had our people in ghettos, when we were sent to death camps, when we asked for help and nobody listened. We know what it’s like to be begging for someone to listen. Because we know what the pain of loss, of starvation, of losing your home, of being mocked and dehumanised and othered feels like. Because we know that no life is above anothers.
on tiktok people have started to quit vaping in protest of the congolese genocide because the cobalt used in the batteries is mined by slaves. this is exactly the kind of small but important action we all need to be participating in and sharing!
Some of the younger children were scared of the shooting tonight, so they started singing. There is a silent genocide in Congo l for minerals, for instance phones and electric cars... 10 million dead and counting.
Friendly reminder that Palestine isn’t the only place in the world that has been suffering and continues to suffer to this day as well as the fact that Lebanon, Yemen, Congo, Iran, Armenia, Ukraine, Sudan, Tigray, and Haiti are suffering as well.
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