#no ban no wall
It’s time to get loud. Call your Senator now to tell him/her to say no to the border wall. 1-844-305-9050 #NoBanNoWall #TrumpShutdown
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The U.S./Mexico border wall wouldn’t just cost us billions of dollars — the human cost, in tribal lands divided, families torn apart, and lives lost in dangerous border crossings — would be immense. http://fal.cn/r0LW#NoBanNoWall
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Source: bell hooks’ 2010 lecture at the New College of Florida.
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Screech stands at the front door, holding it open. Zack faces him, pointing at him accusingly, and holding a yellow duffel bag. The caption reads “In fascist regimes, teaching populations to fear terrorism is one way the system garners support.”
Source: bell hooks’ 2010 lecture at the New College of Florida.
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Source: Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Kelly, Lisa, Jessie and Slater are standing in front of the lockers, looking toward Zack as he speaks. Everyone has solemn expressions on their faces (interpretation of scene my own). The caption reads, “All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.”
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Here is one way. Donate to a kickass humanitarian org, and get funky music in return.
If you can’t be in the streets protesting, this is a simple thing you can do from home. Pre-ordering “Elements” supports the Karam Foundation, which houses, supports, and educates Syrian refugees; it also supports independent musical artists (led by the son of Syrian immigrants in Chicago).
Fuck the power. Rise above.
Today is a long one. You should do each of these separately and not in the same letter if you are writing.
–Call/fax your Senators and Congressional representative and tell them you OPPOSE HR 620, which would allow businesses more freedom to not comply with disability access and would put the burden of asking for access on the disabled. (URGENT– this is on the docket for TODAY)
–Call/fax your Senators and Congressional representative and let them know you OPPOSE the Graham/Cassidy/Heller ACA repeal.
Key points to bring up: (choose one or two that matter to you most if you don’t want to write or say too much)
–This repeal is estimated to cause a spike in premiums of up to 20% in one year.
–This repeal is estimated to allow 32 million Americans to lose health insurance.
–This repeal gets rid of the Medicaid Expansion which covers about 11 million low-income Americans.
–This repeal will gut pre-existing condition protections.
–This repeal will gut women’s healthcare and family planning in the guise of “pro life” actions but the blow to women’s health affects care far beyond abortion.
–End by asking them to support Medicare for All or a similar single payer program.
– NEW YORK AND CALIFORNIA 12TH DISTRICT: Call/fax Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi and tell them that you will not accept a border wall as part of a compromise effort with Trump over the DREAM Act. Reiterate that you will only accept a clean DREAM Act that protects ALL immigrants who were brought here as children (not only those who are able to go to prestigious universities or get high-paying jobs in lucrative industries) and that does not tear families apart.
–Demand more transparency on their meetings with Trump and make it clear that while you understand the necessity of private discussions among lawmakers in typical situations, based on Trump’s reputation, you do not feel comfortable with private meetings in this case.
You can do this with other Democratic Senators and Representatives, too, but Schumer and Pelosi need to hear us express concern that they may be compromising on things that are unacceptable to their constituents.
“Don’t call Trump supporters nazis, it hurts their feelings.”
Yes, this is real (link to tweet). Yes, Tucker Carlson is literally repeating Nazi propaganda that aided the genocide of the Romani during the Holocaust. Yes, I am furious.
(Also, although there is a large population of Romani in Romania, they aren’t indigenous to Romania. They’re a diasporic group originally from northern India.)
Romani and Jewish have been screaming at the top of their lungs for years about neo-fascism in Europe, and Americans were totally aloof.
Then neo-fascism reared its head in America, but Roma and Jews were left out of the conversation in terms of people being impacted, because our oppression was “over.”
Now Tucker Carlson is on live TV using slurs and Nazi propaganda about Romani people, and I’m 90% most people on the left are just going to ignore it.
It’s fucking starting y'all. It’s happening again.
If you’re not Jewish or Roma PLEASE BOOST THIS.
BecauseOF COURSE I’d come upon this thread just as the following video came across my YouTube feed:
{sigh} Just…
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I asked the universe to describe 2017 White people in ten words or less.
This is how the universe responded.
(Click the photo for the actual BBC News article)
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May Day pro-immigration march in SF.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I ❤ my hometown.
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I’m not even kidding.
This is from UAE’s official YouTube:
Yup… they went there.
Le mic has been dropped.
