As your Riot Dad I need you to drink water and carry water and cliff bars or other high calorie food with you.
You know what this means?
You get a fanny pack and some cargo pants. The benefit of this is having pockets for food and water so you won't pass out, but also you can carry sharpies for writing NLG numbers on people's arms who may not have a sharpie
You can also carry your meds!
If you need medication I recommend taking your bottles with enough for two to three days keep it on you.
Dumb historical metaphors
Everyone said that the 2010s were a repeat of the 1960s when they were more clearly in line with the 1920s (increasing class divide and division between rural and poor areas, relatively good economy, xenophobia and racist organizations gaining power, new immigrant communities forming)
hi all, the minnesota freedom fund (which afaict is getting a lot of the donation traffic) has recommended also donating to reclaim the block (https://t.co/RfymLGhVc2) and black visions collective (https://t.co/7L4oV1LKtz), both of them local mutual aid organizations
if you're in the same boat as me (i.e. getting a paycheck from a tech job today) consider whether you've got the resources to keep giving, including if you've already made a donation
here's the tweet where they request this btw: https://twitter.com/MNFreedomFund/status/1266053143512653826
@cdmnky tag yrsefl i'm all of them
I don't really have a solution because I believe in violent revolution but the reality is they will take your actions out on us.
@sireffe ....ok but Is there any difference between this and a girlfriend bc i don't think so
White people cause majority of the destruction during protests against injustice when black lives are taken. White people smash windows. White people set fires. And some of those agitators are cops.
When the cops retaliate (and they will) black lives will be at risk because white people don't know how to protest without putting black lives at risk.
And obviously some agitators are cops inciting violence to make their later retaliation justified.
If you have the means, please donate. If you dont, let me know, Id like to help make a donation in your name.
this MLK day, consider actually giving Letter from a Birmingham Jail a read. It's not long, and MLK criminally gets mostly digested through trite soundbites and quotrs. His thoughts deserve to be read and understood in full.
https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own