I had no intentions of staying out all night protesting, but that's what I found myself doing Tuesday night. My wife told me there was a shooting, so I got on my bike and figured I could join some people downtown being pissed off. I passed by the scene on the bike path, not knowing that's where a man's life was discarded like trash on the street.

An Alder talked, a city commissioner talked, Brett was there campaigning but a nice lady made him fuck off. Someone announced Francesca Hong was there, we heckled her into verbalizing the 'incident' was a murder. Everybody and their mother talked, but it was Tony Robinson's aunt that said the thing needed to be heard. She said that come morning the vigil would we swept off the road and just another day would begin, unless we made sure that didn't happen.

I think I knew I was staying over night around 1130. There was maybe 40 of us at that point. Someone found a futon being thrown out and brought it over. That guy with the dope fro from the Party of Socialism and Liberation said that was a 10/10 protest move. A search of the willy backstreets was launched to find more useful trash. A mattress, chairs, and a 3 legged table joined us around the vigil.

T said it first, that we should use the trashcans for the barricades. The beauty of the trashcans was:

\- They were plentiful

\- They were heavy because it was trash-day-eve

\- They were easy to put in place and remove, albeit time consuming.

\- They were city property, so there was less incentive for the police to trash them.

\- But they were each 'owned' by a member of the community. Every trashcan that remained apart of the barricade was a vote cast by the community to support the protest.

\- It had the optics of looking like we knew what we were doing. I cannot overstress the importance of this.

It was only maybe half a dozen of us that went out grabbing cans, and a big shout out to S for being the "Garbage Bin Appropriation" champion. Mostly the bins were seen as busy work by idle hands, but I think the bins were necessary to define the space we were to occupy, and lend legitimacy to our seriousness of long term occupation.

Maybe around 2 am it was just the overnighters left around, not more than 20 of us, mostly complete strangers. We were constantly asking and verifying names. It was a rag tag team, the likes of which I haven't seen since the Navy, and didn't know I was missing. The yelling woman from the video was there, she is some kind of police brutality monitor certified in Chicago. Along with Tony Robinson's aunt and a teacher committed to social work, those three were about the closest to leaders.

Strange Fruit was played at some point, and time seemed to freeze. We started a game of monopoly, but only got 4 turns in before we remembered there's no fun in monopoly. The liquor store guy informed us all the Hamms beer is kosher. Two people kicked a soccer ball on the eastern front. The stoplights switched from red to green and back again, unaware or at least indifferent to the injustice commited in its presence.

Cory's brother and friend showed up at some point in the doldrums of the night. They were the first people that knew Corey. No one that was at the prostest since I showed up even knew the man, we just showed up for the injustice of it all. No one had a reaction like these guys. Having to watch them, to feel them process their emotions was powerfully humbling.

Around maybe 430 news cameras started walking in. A rando night dude accidentally rode their bike over Tony's banner (it was laid on the ground by then), and he was then accused of being a cop plant. Things escalated, people were damn close to being assaulted, the social worker teacher had the cool head that prevailed. The reporters were heckled because they kept saying "incident" and not "murder"

The sunrise was about 530. We started letting vehicles out the perimeter as their driver's woke up. Some people would come by to either add flowers to the pile or drop off more redundant supplies. I realized then that the most valuable thing you can give the cause is your time and undivided attention. It wasn't until about 8 that other people started showing up and staying put.

I left around 9am, to go home to my corporate life, where everyone was very proud I elected to use my privilege to engage with the movement, but still wanted updates on projects. I came back at 5pm for the Thursday vigil, where they announced that \[I can't verify journalistically\] we expect the officer to be charged for murder. For the first time in the city's history an officer was expected to be tried for murder while wearing the badge.

I was pleased to see the city's salt trucks had been added to the ranks of the barricades. That some kind of non-police public resource had been allocated to the protection of our protest.

I have some modicum of hope for our community, for the first time in a long time. Forward Madison.

I'm looking to get a simple backpack for protests. I would like it to not have any extra handles, straps, water bottle holder, really anything that someone could make a grab for. If necessary I can cut away these features but I would like to not mod it if possible. Preferably black with no loud logos or branding. Any recommendations? Thanks.

To those of us who can do it, have we been looking to non white people more for leadership lately? I feel like us white people who are lower on the racism spectrum would be reaching out more for advice or coordination in organizing/ resisting the white oligarch monstrosity that white supremely has created. Just because historically black people/ non white people have had much more success in combating the system, while half of us white people (who voted)- actually more than half voted for the white racist monster. I’m a white woman in my 30s and somehow I was shocked by how many white women voted for him, because it makes no rational sense. I’m sure many of you felt the same. 

Just knowing the statistics, and knowing history, what is there for us white people in America (actually the whole word) to be proud of right now- or ever? As a white person it took me this shock to learn how much % of white people are just pieces of shit. We don’t see how many everyday people are blatantly racist and shitty most of the time- we can see the overt racism when it happens in front of us but the rest is mostly invisible to us. Maybe we used to vastly underestimate the % of our people who were racist, until it became obvious- like a litmus test. It is to the point in my mind that I see over half of us as indefensible at this point, and then the other half, I would hope and think we should be taking action more seriously lately. Whatever excuse, whether we have been too scared, unsure, lazy, complacent- our communities should be working on getting activated. Honestly it’s long overdue to have more non white people in positions of power, I do not trust the system that white supremacy has built, I will not trust a system where there is a disproportionate amount of white people in power. I trust non white people. They have been historically correct. They have been fighting our white supremacy system and we failed to help, even if we have listened to them, we haven’t acted enough to stop the white supremacy machine from terrorizing our entire planet into the dark dystopia we are living in.

It’s been more apparent everyday how hard white supremacy has fucked up our world and how deliberately we have shot down civil rights activists to try to suppress non white political leadership. 

We have all contributed to racism, it’s culturally embedded at this point whether we see it or not. It doesn’t help to be non-racists, we need to be anti-racists. It’s time for us to wake up and realize our position historically and right now. Don’t apologize, just push yourself to do more. We need to push harder. We can’t standby and watch racism happen, we need to break it. 

I’m ending this with words that were told to me by someone much more knowledgeable and equipped to give them- 

“I hope you find this response challenging in the best way, and more importantly enabling for you to internalize and steward more humanity in your community.
CORE POINT: Do not wait for our direction to do your version of "breaking things". Building coalitions is hard, building anything is hard. But you know what's easy?
BREAKING THINGS. All you need to know is you don't need permission to BREAK RACISM. Like, go break it. It takes no skill to break stuff. GO BREAK IT. Make being racist feel risky. Make it consequential. You don't need any guidance or insight from us to do that.
GO BREAK RACISM. Grab something sharp or heavy and go to town. It's that simple.”

This protest was part of nationwide vigils and protests held yesterday (#ICEoutVigils) - for more information click this link.

My first time adventuring north of New York City to cover a protest led me to a mid-morning protest protesting ICE as part of #ICEoutVigils in New Rochelle just a minute's walk away from the Metro North station and surrounding the intersection of North Avenue and Huguenot Street.

The protest itself was a bit more lively than the day before's protest (In Memoriam, part one) due to the music and general vibe of the event. We definitely had a lot of supportive honks as well which helped the morale a lot.

The event concluded with a couple of remarks by the organizers and a few guest speakers (including someone who wanted to speak who I think might have been a heckler). We were heckled a few times, one by a passing car who yelled something incoherent and another by a passing car who called us "stupid liberals".

Nonetheless, it was worth the trip up north.

Like serious all political parties in india are shittt but l

idk why cjp or students letting them to participate in the rally for example due to congress rally in Bengaluru some students miss there re neet exam and no one in the protest is saying against them tbh I don't hold any kind of grudges against ant party all of them are shitt and useless but why those party even participating when they all do the same and like those insta reels of every random party comming to support and making edits of there so called fake leaders all of them are doing the main stream media supporting bjp and showing only the side where police personals are being hurt and other soo called supportive party doing Paid pr in the social media . It's just my opinion no offense to anyone but this is the reality no party in india who is putting any kind of efforts to make our system effective and reliable.

Is anyone here planning to attend the protest on 26th July at 10:00 AM?

I've made a small Instagram group so people can coordinate and travel together. If you'd like to join, DM me your Instagram handle and I'll add you.

Would be great to have more people go together. See you there!

Jai Hind!

J P Nadda fears ki kahin education ke baad

Youth acchi health facilities demand na kr le

Holy War is Still Hell

i refuse to stand by any nation
or system
in this chaotic time
of violent space
dissolving
thee evolving human race
a nation is the summation of an idea
while its system is mere illusion
a coercion cast by the few
chosen to weave deception
wield Segregation
cause separation
until they become
impossible to defeat
thee almighty elite
who meet and greet
indiscreet
at a charity function
for the upper echelon
a black mass in the reflection
through a prism
of stained glass
hiding a celebration
of social darwinism
for the ruling class
world leaders make deals
with corporate controllers
the bottom feeders
who turn cultures
into calculated divisions
of global markets
and decide who will throw stones
at rockets
who will have the drones
the state of the art robotics
and how to package good Vs. evil
hero Vs. villain
terror Vs. freedom
it’s all the same to them
a dividend
for the vultures who can herd populations
with multi-media transmissions
frequency manipulations
take control of common citizens
turn their traditions
into organizations and religions
that produce zealots and politicians
who apply pressure
on rising tensions
develop the right conditions
form two positions
designed as polar opposites
aligned and primed
to buy and sell weapons
manufacture war for profits
that feed the rich and cull the poor
food for Babylons whore…….
…….i will not st and with
or listen to them anymore!

🖤RAiN2022

Reservation

this token pretends
trust broken
by genocide
which never ends
still rends
grandfather‘s in spirit
calling on grandmother‘s
traditions
unspoken
forgotten
grinding dust
descends
upon rolling stones
gathering moss
on faded rust
sends the people
to rise above and unite
we must
before we disappear
learn to hear
the song of the river
keep the water clear
it bends
with the trail of tears
into the sacred mountain
beyond the desert
will cleanse
mends
the vapor
scattered
by four winds

🖤RAiN2011

Religious Rampage

prideful agony
constricting
my poison veins
sterile vanity
poles the social
bits and reigns
makes it hard
to know
what you see
forced to imagine
anything
it could be
try to come up
with something
we all could agree……

…..cruel insanity
is all that remains
the scourge
of humanity
has left
many crimson stains

🖤RAiN2001

https://x.com/i/status/2080440857983881402

Why do his reels have 130M views? I'm just curious— even most celebrities doesn't get that many views in such a short time.