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everlastingrandom · 10 months
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Please Support the Atlanta Solidarity Fund!!
Within the last hour, an audio recording of Atlanta PD just dropped, with police admitting that the arrest of the three members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund (ASF) this Wednesday was a blatant attempt to disrupt support for the Defend the Forest Movement, by cutting off mutual aid and bail funds.
The first trial hearing today was to determine if the arrestees would get bail. Even the judge could tell the charges were BS—money laundering and charity fraud—When all their transactions are public knowledge. But the court still set bail at $15,000 each to appease prosecution.
The ASF has been forced to use their own funds to avoid being jailed over the weekend, and with one of them denied disability aids and medications! One of the stipulations of the bail is that they can’t use their resources to support (deliberately vague at to what counts as support) the Defend the Forest movement.
The police are worried that the timing of the arrest before the City Council’s final Cop City budget vote on Monday June 5th may have galvanized protesters instead of disrupting them. But APD will follow this pattern of targeting bail funds and charities on the grounds of “enabling violence.” There is a high likelihood of more arrests more coming, and they see it as an opportunity to get overtime pay.
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bfpnola · 7 months
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i dont even have the capacity right now to make as robust of a post as i would like but i really think we all need to be aware of these updates regarding the stop cop city movement taking place in atlanta, georgia, united states of america. bold added for emphasis in the quotes below:
According to the state of Georgia, buying $11.91 worth of glue can land you on a RICO indictment, if the glue is used to protest the police. That’s exactly what it says in yesterday’s indictment against 61 people who have allegedly been protesting Atlanta’s potential Cop City. If you don’t know what Cop City is, it’s a plan to spend at least $90 million and destroy over 300 acres of forest to build a sprawling training center with a mock urban neighborhood to practice police tactics, specifically tactics of repression. Now, sweeping and overreaching charges claim that “militant anarchists” are engaged in a criminal conspiracy to stop this repression training center from being built. But, the indictment proceeds to lay out actions like handing out fliers, giving people food, and even running a bail fund to help arrested protesters as grounds for this case. The social media activity of people involved is referenced, simple acts of free speech are cited, and even ideas like solidarity and mutual aid are discussed as problems which somehow add to the necessity for this indictment.
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U.S. police killed more people than ever last year and have not changed or reformed since the murder of George Floyd, and the people in Atlanta organizing against Cop City are very much aware of this. Yet instead of acknowledging the simple fact that cops should not kill, and that their power should not be endlessly expanded while they murder without consequence, the state of Georgia is instead choosing to grossly overreach. They’re instead trying to tie the movement to Stop Cop City to George Floyd and say that efforts to limit police violence are criminal rather than justified. Regardless of whether or not activists and organizers fighting the massive police repression training center were in the streets in 2020, they are informed by the knowledge that sparked the biggest protest movement this country has ever seen: police murder without consequence, and expanding police power, means more violence, more killing, and more repression of movements to improve society. We must be clear that anyone who opposes police murders and the expansion of the police state is fighting on the side of justice. The details listed in the RICO indictment, like small Venmo charges, an individual signing their name as ACAB, and people attending a concert show that the state is very much on the other side, the side of ruthless oppression. But maybe even more clarifying is the broad, sweeping condemnation of basic tenants of human goodness. The state lists, “mutual aid, collectivism, social solidarity” as tenants of anarchism that run rampant in the movement to stop Cop City. The charges condemn, word for word, “the notion of social solidarity,” which, “relies heavily on the idea of human altruism.” In a tale as old as time, the indictment of these activists and organizers, of these people, these residents of Atlanta, is more an indictment of the state than of the movement opposed to the state’s interests. The state is revealing itself to be the real villain.
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The state has given the people of Atlanta, and everyone opposed to the eradication of democracy, no choice but to fight tooth and nail. They have gone for the nuclear option, and in doing so have exposed themselves. They have revealed the fascist underbelly they typically try to keep hidden. They have exposed that when people exercise every democratic avenue available, and are on the verge of success, they will resort to anti-democratic tactics to crush dissent. Beyond just this RICO case, the city of Atlanta is challenging the 100,000+ signatures gathered by grassroots organizers and volunteers working their asses off. Mayor Andre Dickens and his team are using the exact same regressive signature checking and discounting strategy he formerly opposed now that he wants to ram Cop City through against popular opinion and against the democratic process. Between the Mayor, the police, and the state, what choice do we have but to fight. When the government declares itself opposed to the very ideas of solidarity, mutual aid, and care for one another they seek to crush resistance. But instead they spark it. People everywhere are seeing the illegitimate nature of the institutions that kill, repress, and incarcerate anyone struggling for a better world. People everywhere see that institutions opposed to collectively looking out for each other, which seek to ban compassion and care with the threat of violence, have no legitimacy and must be opposed. They cannot be upheld or sustained. In a world where we need each other more than ever we can’t abide a repressive state that would rather police us into an early grave than grant us the resources we need to survive. And although it won’t be easy to overturn the system of capitalism and the violent police state that works to uphold it, we’ve been given no choice. We will Stop Cop City in Atlanta, and we will stop every attempt to build a Cop City anywhere. Officials in other Georgia counties, Baltimore, Ohio, and elsewhere are currently proposing their own Cop Cities, mimicking what they see in Georgia and attempting to build up their capacity to suppress dissent rather than building up their capacities to help people survive and thrive. We will out organize and out mobilize and out build the oppressive systems and institutions that seek to turn this country and the planet into one large police state. We have to. Be careful, but be determined. And get organized. Solidarity.
For over seven years, the fund—a nonprofit fiscally sponsored by the Network for Strong Communities—has provided legal defense and bail support for Atlanta. For aiding #StopCopCity protesters, the three fund organizers were arrested on charges of money laundering and charity fraud. Of what did this “fraud” consist? The warrants cited standard nonprofit reimbursements such as COVID tests and forest clean-ups in their rationale for the arrests. In the words of Kamau Franklin, an organizer with the Atlanta-based collective Community Movement Builders: “This is an arrest which is meant to, again, criminalize the movement, chill dissent, stop organizing, and stop activism from happening to stop ‘cop city’.” In so much as the work is radical, it will be under attack. Organizing that challenges capitalism, White supremacy, policing and prisons, and imperialism always carries risk. In the case of the bail fund, for example, what can movements do in the face of state repression? Potentially by shining a light on how mutual aid funding strategies are under siege, a clearer picture may emerge of ways to protect this valuable activity. Multiple people have noted that the Atlanta arrests represent yet another novel authoritarian and growingly fascist tactic to intimidate grassroots organizing and also draws on a long tradition of state repression against the Black freedom struggle. If successful, it could have far-reaching impacts on the swell of bail funds, abortion funds, transgender healthcare funds, and immigrant justice funds that have grown in recent years.
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The Atlanta Solidarity Fund arrests did not occur in a vacuum. There is a long history of state repression against radical, grassroots power-building efforts—and those efforts continue today. Historian Say Burgin and political scientist Jeanne Theoharis aptly point out that across 1960 Southern sit-ins, 1961 Freedom Riders, and 1964 Freedom Summer, bail funds were a critical organizing effort for crystallizing and sustaining solidarity action. Where politically motivated captivity for civil rights activists loomed, bail funds responded. Mutual aid funding for these bail efforts were not just tactical, they were cultural. Mutual aid fundraising, in these contexts, gave everyday people a way to invest and engage in the very struggles they supported and needed. Mutual aid would provide yet another cultural outlet for radical, anti-repressive intent. This opportunity to mobilize people in radical efforts clarifies a threat to stakeholders in White supremacist institutions.
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There are also increasing examples of state actors co-opting both the language and practices of mutual aid. In an interview with mutual aid organizer and writer Dean Spade, the Chicago Community Bail Fund highlighted examples of sheriffs welcoming the arrival of bail funds to support unaffordable bonds, city council-supported ordinances to protect bail funds “while continuing to take the money of Black and Brown community members paying bond for their loved ones,” and the city of New York’s own philanthropically backed bail fund created in 2017. As members of the Chicago Community Bail Fund reflected on New York’s system: “In effect, New York was funding the arrest, prosecution, and release of people caught in its criminal legal system instead of not arresting or prosecuting them in the first place.”
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cock-holliday · 11 months
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National Bail Out is doing a mother’s day bail fundraiser to bail out Black mothers and caregivers!
“Every day tens of thousands of people languish in jail simply because they cannot afford bail. In addition to the over $9 billion wasted on incarcerating people convicted of no crime, pretrial incarceration has catastrophic impacts on families and communities. Black people are over two times more likely to be arrested and, once arrested, are twice as likely to be caged before trial. Our LGBTQ and gender nonconforming families are targeted and caged at even more alarming rates, and once in jail, are significantly more likely to be sexually and physically abused.”
More information in the above and a direct link to the fundraiser is here:
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pervysmirks · 10 months
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butchspace · 3 months
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BAIL FUND FOR DFW PROTESTORS ARRESTED FOR BLOCKING BIDEN’S ARRIVAL IN DALLAS ⬇️⬇️⬇️
12 people were arrested today. The link below was provided by PYM’s Instagram.
Update: they have been released!
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[video description:
Police put two people into their squad cars while onlookers chant “ceasefire now.”
Other people are being escorted away by police in the background.
The video pans around the crowd, who begin chanting “shame on you”. Police put more people in their cars.
End video description]
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melodr-o-matic · 2 years
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Hey y’all, I know I don’t have many followers on here but I have a huge favor to ask.
Last night 13 people at a Riverside protest for Abortion Rights were wrongfully detained for allegedly vandalizing the courthouse. Eventually they were all taken in, and early this morning, 5 were released, but 8 were arrested and charged with felony vandalism (for chalk and washable kids paint) and for conspiracy to commit a crime (a bullshit charge normally given to protesters). Here are some images of what the “damage” looked like (the courthouse photo shows how the paint was washed off easily):
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Now we need to post bail to be able to get them released. I’m calling on you to help out with donations, every dollar counts, and PLEASE stand up and show out for these protesters. I know them personally, and they organize protests and attend these protests on a FREQUENT basis (which is more than other organizations can say). We need to show them that protesters are VALUED and the work they do is so important, even just as important as abortion funds.
These fascist pigs would rather spend their time arresting protesters than take on the lives of many young women, girls, and people with uterus’ who have been affected by the decision to overturn roe. Peoples lives are being DISRUPTED, and that’s why we as protesters need to DISRUPT ALL OF SOCIETY. When we are not free, no one is free.
Here’s the GoFundMe:
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If you aren’t able to donate to this bail fund there is another way you can help. The 8 protesters are being detained at the Presley Detention Center. No matter where you are, please call 951.955.4500 ( you don’t need to give them any names, just say the 8 Abortion rights protesters) and DEMAND THAT THEY RELEASE THE 8 ABORTION RIGHTS PROTESTERS THAT WERE WRONGFULLY ARRESTED.
Thank you for reading, and please help out wherever you can.
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donationspetitions · 2 years
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Holler Health Justice is a West Virginian mutual aid fund providing bail money for Black activists, abortion assistance, voter registration support, and free emergency contraception https://www.hollerhealthjustice.org/programs-and-services
Last updated 7/19/2022
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gwydionmisha · 2 months
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Short version, they are trying to get rid of cash bail for things protesters and the very poor are likely to be arrested for. It also makes bail funds not a things as they'll be limited to posting bail thrice a year. It's a way to clear out protesters and render the 1st Amendment mostly a dead letter.
If you live in Georgia, please make your voice heard now, lest you lose the ability in future.
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johnpriceyaoi · 10 months
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so called free thinking artists when they see the ken and barbie image
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lotterpotter · 1 year
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garreth someone tries to speak to the MC:
sebastian:
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gothhabiba · 4 months
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you can send me anything on Palestine to be image or video described or transcribed (from written Arabic or written or spoken French or English)
I have jstor access (plus a few other archives) and can email you any pdf that I post quotes from (or something else you request) if you can’t get access to it via scihub et al.
also if you want to donate somewhere or buy an e-sim for distribution in Gaza but are worried about using your bank account to do so because of political repression wherever you are, you can paypal me (paypal.me/Najia) and send a note or DM about where you want it to go. I also have zelle if you DM me for the info.
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forcearama · 1 year
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Still delighted at the idea of Vader angrily, wistfully pining away in his completely ridiculous lava castle and Obi-Wan sending penpal letters to and getting care packages from Leia WHILE the events in Andor are happening. 😅
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thoughtportal · 1 year
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The Atlanta Solidarity Fund bails out activists who are arrested for participating in social justice movements, and helps them get access to lawyers.
Your contribution will go directly to supporting those facing repression. Please contribute what you can.
When we stand together, we are strong!
https://atlsolidarity.org/#support
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So currently Biden's response to the deaths of Americans in Palestine is to put sanctions, essentially just travel bans, on Israeli soldiers who kill Americans or "directly perpetrated violence, and those who have engaged in repeated acts of intimidation property destruction, leading to the forced displacement of Palestinian communities" which is all of them, everyone in the IOF is doing this as their mission but he's individualizing it to limit the very weak punishment and avoid standing against the genocide as a whole
Then yesterday, Feb 2, the U.S. struck more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria. The reason given was that Iranian backed militant groups were allegedly responsible for the deaths of 3 Americans. And strikes against Yemen justified by 'Houthis action' continue.
The Biden administration has now targeted 5 nations in the middle east, Palestine, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. We have directly bombed 3 of those countries and are funding bombs in a fourth one.
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Even though I’m gathering with some family in an inadvertent commemoration of this “holiday”, I’m going to try to use it - as I did last year - as an opportunity to encourage donations to our local tribes. This year I’m also going to discuss gathering for Hanukkah and Rosh Hashanah instead, and I’m going to try and make a list for any friends & family who want it of BIPOC-owned businesses and causes to support.
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#Repost @itsmirastern — Links in bio for more ideas! 'another year and another opportunity to switch it all up and work for repair. ⚡️ if we’re committed to rewriting narratives, we have to take bold moves to do so. when my wifey and i began to boycott the holiday, it felt lonely, i longed for community and gathering. i mourned giving up the childhood memories i kept trying to create as an adult. but what nourishes me much more is knowing i have a hundred other opportunities to center into gratitude, land reverence, and community beyond the last thursday in november. ⚡️ especially for us white folks and other non-white settlers…divesting from the american regime of colonial whitewashing is our only salvation- physical, mental and spiritual. we’ve all been dragged into the lies of american amnesia and hegemony, but our power lies in our commitment to reshaping. ⚡️ here are some alternatives to commemorating thursday’s holiday. message me if you want handles or links to any of the suggestions here! ⚡️ what other practices or reimaginations allow you to resist thankstaking? what movements or individuals do you want to support this season? please share below!
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secretmellowblog · 2 years
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More wips of the illustrated Les Mis book I’m working on ;_; I plan for it to intertwine Valjean and Cosette’s backstories, ending with the two of them escaping the Thenardiers together <3
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