#black lives matters
As a nerdy black girl, I wanted to make these stickers to show support to the black community and for black women. Black lives matter and black girl magic stickers are available in my Etsy Shop! These will look great on a notebook, tumbler, iPad, Nintendo 3DS, laptop, etc!
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With school around the corner, this is a reminder to not allow the history textbooks have you go & discredit revolutionary heroes that fought & died for your rights. It’s important to educate yourself & others about COINTELPRO, an FBI government-sponsored series of covert, and often illegal, projects aimed at spying on, infiltrating, discrediting, disrupting & destroying leftist political organizations & leaders they deemed “subversive” including the Black Panther Party, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Civil Rights organizations, the Brown Berets, the Young Lords, the American Indian Movement, women’s liberation groups, LGBT activists, & anti-Vietnam war organizers.
“COINTELPRO used informants, agent provocateurs, infiltrators, legal and illegal wiretaps, break-ins, false correspondence, and “bad-jacketing,” which was the act of making a legitimate member of a group appear to be a collaborator with the state. Psychological warfare included calling the parents of young civil rights activists to inform them that their children had been murdered or kidnapped. FBI agents worked with journalists to plant stories in order to discredit leadership and organizations. Across the country, the Bureau collaborated with local police to repress targeted groups. Sharing resources & intelligence, activists were arrested, fired from jobs, expelled from schools and lost business contracts. COINTELPRO even used switchboard operators and postal workers to spy on citizens, with or without court order… The effectiveness of COINTELPRO was overwhelming. Many organizations were destabilized with arrests, raids, break-ins, & killings. The most famous raid of the Panthers occurred in December 1969 in Chicago when a 14-man police raiding party killed two Panthers, Fred Hampton & Mark Clark. Several other Panthers were injured in the pre-dawn attack. Nationally, the Panthers insisted that the FBI and local police were involved in a conspiracy to destroy them. Hoover denied it. The magnitude of these coordinated activities, however, were not known until the 1976 congressional hearings.” -Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar
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I DON’T WANT TO WATCH SLAVERY FAN FICTION byLeonardo Santamaria. An illustration for an op-ed by Roxane Gay on The New York Times.
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Scottish people prevented a Home Office attempted kidnapping in Edinburgh yesterday
Immigration officers turned up with multiple vans to detain and inevitably deport two Edinburgh residents. The local Anti Raids team put out an alert over social media and quickly people from across the city converged, blocked the vehicles with bins, their bodies, and bikes.
They then blockaded the road at both ends, and forced the kidnappers to eventually release their victims. Residents came together and used community power to prevent a government-sanctioned and police assisted kidnapping of people who’ve lived and worked in Edinburgh for years. They’re now safe at home, the Home Office have gone away empty handed, and we stand together in defense of our communities.
Get in touch with your local anti-raids team, time and time again it’s been proven when we organise we can stop the home office from kidnapping in our cities. Antiraids.net
