The cops saved nobody but a yt supremacist fascist shooter today.

If only children in Michigan drinking lead-contaminated water enraged us, like losing an hour for Daylight Saving does…

#Priorities

theconcealedweapon:

Courts have literally ruled that the police are a gang and not lifesaving heroes. And people still think otherwise.

I cannot believe this. My elder, Yuri Kochiyama, has become an ancestor. This hits hard and deep. I recall being a child in her small, dark Harlem apartment; hidden amongst the stacks of papers, listening to my mom and others discuss strategies for black liberation. I remember talking to her here, in Oakland, about how sickle cell had impacted both our lives. Her fierce determination, her love for all the people, will live on forever. Rise in power.

Malkia Cyril is a writer, communications organizer, and director of the Center for Media Justice, the home of the Media Action Grassroots Network.

the reactionary white slogan “all lives matter”. ideologically, it signifies not a universalism, but the eradication of the particular within another. It’s not about “all lives” but the consumption of any difference by the ideology of whiteness. It’s a call to keep ‘blackness’ within the bounds of Amerikkkan ideology, where the 'blackness’ of “black lives matter” a declaration of subjectivity, is being treated like what it is: a slave escaping. By negating this subjectivity, whiteness is declaring, “no, you are NOT black. You are just a life. And ALL lives matter. You do not have the right to break away from this project. You are a part of it. We don’t give you permission.” It’s like a shark trying to keep food in it’s belly.

“All lives matter”, it’s a painting of the world in a grey. It betrays the assumption of whiteness itself as a universality, in this way mirroring the drab false globalism of 21st century capitalism, a capitalism that transforms the world into Mcdonalds and Walmart. “All lives matter” is the chant of TNCorporations.

It isn’t a universal. It’s a false universal.

By Michael Kimble, from Anarchy Live!

As all yall who have been visiting my site are aware, the Free Alabama Movement called for a statewide work strike in protest to the slave system in Alabama prisons, and the conditions prisoners have to exist in that are deplorable. From January 1 – 15, 2014, prisoners at Holman answered the call of the Free Alabama Movement. The strike was suspended on the 15th because Alabama legislators who were in negotiations with F.A.M. supporters agreed to address the grievances of the F.A.M., but put those same grievances on the backburner once the strike was suspended and the special legislative session began.

FromAnarchy Live!

what i am seeking to clarify on our understanding of grief is that total healing is not possible for Black folks precisely because we exist as the underbelly of humanity and are therefore always grieving, as we live in Grief.

if we accept that to be healed means to have grieved, as opposed to actively grieving, then there is no way for Black folks to ever be healed. i don’t believe complete healing is possible for Black folks in an antiblack world; in a world wherein we are experiencing “the afterlife of slavery,” as Saidiya Hartman names it.

Da'Shaun Harrison

How do we heal in an antiblack world? We don’t.

“The point I am making is that, as a ‘leader,’ I could talk over the ABC, CBS, or NBC microphones, at Harvard or at Tuskegee; I could talk with the so-called ‘middle class’ Negro and with the ghetto blacks (whom all the other leaders just talked about). And because I had been a hustler, I knew better than all whites knew, and better than nearly all of the black ‘leaders’ knew, that actually the most dangerous black man in America was the ghetto hustler.

Why do I say this? The hustler, out there in the ghetto jungles, has less respect for the white power structure than any other Negro in North America. The ghetto hustler is internally restrained by nothing. He has no religion, no concept of morality, no civic responsibility, no fear-nothing. To survive, he is out there constantly preying upon others, probing for any human weakness like a ferret. The ghetto hustler is forever frustrated, restless, and anxious for some ‘action.’ Whatever he undertakes, he commits himself to it fully, absolutely. What makes the ghetto hustler yet more dangerous is his ‘glamor’ image to the school-dropout youth in the ghetto. These ghetto teen-agers see the hell caught by their parents struggling to get somewhere, or see that they have given up struggling in the prejudiced, intolerant white man’s world.”

–Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of” (1964)

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“I am certain that with the first big popular revolt, the world of tramps, thieves and brigands, which is firmly embedded in our life and constitutes one of its essential manifestations, will be on the move and will move powerfully and not weakly.

Be it good or bad, it is an undisputable and inevitable fact, and whoever really wishes for a Russian popular revolution, wants to serve it, help it, organize it, not on paper only but in deed, must know this. Moreover, he must take this fact into account and not try to avoid it; he must establish conscious and practical relations with it and be able to use it as a powerful instrument for the triumph of the revolution. It is no use being too scrupulous about it. He who wishes to retain his ideal and virginal purity should stay in the study, dream, think, write discourses or poetry. He who wants to be a real revolutionary in Russia must take off his gloves; no gloves will save him from the deep and all-embracing Russian mud. The Russian world, both privileged state and popular, is a terrible world. A Russian revolution will certainly be a terrible revolution. Whoever is frightened of horrors or dirt should turn away from this world and this revolution. He who wants to serve the latter must know what he is facing, must strengthen his nerves, and be preparing for anything.

It is not easy to use the world of brigandage as a weapon of the people’s revolution, as a catalyst of separate popular revolts; I recognize the necessity, but, at the same time, am fully conscious of my incapacity for this task. In order to undertake it and bring it to a conclusion, one must be equipped with strong nerves, the strength of a giant, passionate convictions, and iron will. You might find such people in your ranks. But people of our generation and with our upbringing are incapable of it. To join the brigands does not mean becoming wholly one of them, sharing with them all their unquiet passions, misfortunes, frequently ignoble aims, feelings and actions; but it does mean giving them new souls and arousing with them a new, truly popular aim. These wild and cruelly coarse people have a fresh, strong, untried and unused nature which is open to lively propaganda, obviously only if the propaganda is lively and not doctrinaire and is capable of reaching them. I could say much more on this subject should our correspondence continue.”

–Mikhail Bakunin, Letter to Sergey Nechayev, June 2, 1870