This is what putting people in a pressure cooker of $8/hr minimum wage, state violence and $1500/mo rents yields.

Also, whatever you think of this action (I happen to be against it because it's illegal.), acknowledge that mobilizing this many people is the result of invisible forms of organizing, not neccesarily legible to the "left" whose traditions cross-polinate with the professionalized activism of ngos, labor unions and political parties.

It's just a shame that it was expressed this way. We need major social democratic reforms and avenues for disenfranchised people to exercise political power so these kinds of desperate actions don't disrupt our lives.

The provocative title is a way to call attention to the ways that overseas reporting and domestic reporting on social conflict differ. A detournament of imperialist propaganda if you will.

  • Judge_Jury [comrade/them, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I want us all to reflect just a minute,

    On all that it took just to get one convicted.

    We voted, we won, but we still lost the Senate.

    Turns out it don't matter who we got elected.

    We rallied, retweeted. We let it get heated.

    We called out this country and the whole world had heeded.

    No matter how filthy nor hilly or chilly,

    Millions had marched in hundreds of cities,

    Just to find a single U.S. cop guilty

    Of a murder we all watched on Instagram.

    -Faith Santilla, For Bella & Robert, Diana, Cassandra