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The life of a cat is dangerous and difficult
The life of a cat is dangerous and difficult
Well, I found your problem. You have minor water damage… Probably due to a leak somewhere. It might take a while to find it.
water boy
with each passing day of news about immigrant children being taken from their parents and literally kept in cages in detention centers, i just keep wondering… what’s keeping people from mass direct action on this? What is the #Resistance doing to physically, immediately, put a stop to this? What’s going on beyond just retweeting horrific news stories and donating a few dollars to some national org and calling senators to beg them to pass a bill to put an end to this. To me this is a situation that requires direct, actual resistance. This is when people should be shutting down streets and forming human chains around detention centers to stop them from bringing in any more children. This calls for vandalizing ICE property and vehicles, for people to take shifts outside of officials’ homes blaring bullhorns and banging pots and pans so that they can’t get any sleep until this ends. If there was ever a time where it’s worth it to get arrested fighting for a cause, this is it. This is an atrocity that needs bolder opposition than phone-banking and city hall-approved protests. I don’t know who this post is even aimed at but im just generally begging for people on the left to get together and organize what it will take to stop this
Hello, hi, first off let me say, I love your passion and you are not wrong — now is not the time to be passive. But I’d like to add a couple things, particularly some stuff I’ve learned from being part of activist and political movements over the years!
First, protests on the street are happening. People are out there. They’ve shouted Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen out of a restaurant and shut down the Portland ICE facility. They’re marching en masse at the detention facilities in Texas and in front of Mike Pence’s hotel in Philadelphia and at the US embassy in Toronto. Whenever you get impassioned with a cause, the most important thing I can say is: Look for the people already doing the work. They’re out there, they’re fighting, and they could probably really use your help.
Secondly, don’t discount the other, quieter forms of protest, especially “donating a few dollars.” Money is so important—I wish it wasn’t, but we live in a capitalist society, and so many good organizations need your donations to keep running. Organizing requires a lot of labour. Money can pay for legal fees, for translators, for the day to day costs of keeping a movement alive. Likewise, calling your reps can be an effective way to communicate how you feel to those who have the power to change laws (remember - they work for you!). Even sharing news articles from reputable sites on social media helps: there is so much misinformation and propaganda out there, and the president keeps trying to silence the free press. Supporting, sharing, and reading trustworthy news outlets will not only keep people informed, but will help those outlets continue their essential investigative reporting.
Movements take all kinds of work. Taking to the streets is powerful, and I encourage those who are able to do to so. But it’s also not an option for many people, including some people with disabilities, those who are undocumented themselves and don’t want to risk deportation, those who have valid reasons to fear for their lives around the police, caretakers and those who are precariously employed who just can’t make it out.
So: Do what you can, do everything you can, and do it to the extent that you can do it. Find out where you can realistically be the most helpful. Remember to take care of yourself. Good luck!!
it’s weird how a society that thrives on innovation and simplified ways of doing things criticizes shit like this… Did everyone just forget about the people of Flint?
DID EVERYONE JUST FORGET ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF FLINT???!!!!!!??
“School is universal. That means, on the street when you talk about these things, with people at the grocer’s, the school is at the grocer’s at that moment.”
— Joseph Beuys