1. “Goodbye Apathy” - christianSoul

    My contribution to the Occupy Movement back in 2011… The visual evokes the emotion I was striving for while making the audio.

    (Source: christiansoul)

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  2. Oakland Policeman Throws Flash Grenade Into Crowd Trying To Help Injured Protester

    “Those who make peaceful protest impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.”

    - J.F. Kennedy

    3. 1 year ago  Notes (6)

  3. socialistexan:

    abaldwin360:

    mindbabies:

    thephrygiancap:

    Police State Brutality Made Apparent Tonight @OCCUPYOAKLAND

    These make me flinch. I can’t believe these were taken in my country, let alone my state. What a sad, sad day for America.

    The police have maintained that they did not use such methods, and yet, here’s photographic evidence.

    Can’t wait to see how Fox news spins this.

    They think they can get away with it just because they got journalists to leave, but I think they forgot that people have the ability to take pictures of this stuff. This is the same shit that happened in Egypt: the people peacefully protest, the police then attack them with tear gas and then deny it, and then Fox news denounces them as rioters and terrorists. We maybe protesting different things, but police violence has linked us even more.

    Are they going to keep denying it if it gets to this level?

    No justice… just us.

    4. 1 year ago  Notes (3364)
  4. socialistexan: stfusexists: complex-brown:  BLACK OUT! At Occupy Philadelphia We had a Black Out! at Occupy Philadelphia. Why? Saturday,  two sisters were called Niggers by two of the volunteers at Occupy Philadelphia at the cell-phone charging stations.  They were also told to go back to Africa, and that each white man should own a slave. When the sista’s called security, security asked them to leave the premises because they thought they were apart of the UHURU movement.  Even if they were a part of that movement, they should not have been asked to leave. Especially  without any mention of their verbal and spiritual abuse. So a small collective formed a drummer’s circle and started a rally, only to be met with on-lookers who didn’t understand why there was a Pan-African flag at an “American” event.  We were called racist.  Many of the people there to support Occupy Philadelphia came to us to tell us that all of us are people and that race is behind us! They told us that we were being divisive. Bullshit. When we circled up to come up with a constructive way to address the people, we were constantly interrupted by white people who could not respect our safe space. These people said that it was a public space, and we couldn’t have a group that excluded them. Why is it when black people want to get together to work out our issues in our community we are called out? Sadly, one of the black women who came up to our group suggested we move to another location away from city hall. What?!! When we wanted to address the people at the people’s assembly, we had to beg to get a spot on the program.  They wanted us to wait until afterwards and get on the open mic.  Also, we had  two people come up to the group and ask if we were going to be violent.  Why would be violent?? Because we are black? We eventually told the gate-keepers that we were going to be given the mic, or we were going to take the mic. We eventually got our spot. As the sister was talking about her experience, there were some members in support, and there were even members who came up to us afterwards to show support. But many of the people were asking us to hurry up, calm down and finish. One white guy used signals to get us to hurry up. We spoke out about RACISM IN THE 99 percent. We spoke out about how nobody was talking about the racist foundation of corporate greed. How do we talk about classism without taking about racism? We were called racist because we empowered ourselves and stood up for what was right. And shockingly (sarcasm), not one white person stood in solidarity with this group of people, but instead decided to condescend to them and ignore their concerns. More power to you, Black Out!, I hope that people shut up and listen to your message. Uuuugh. Can I renounce being White? Because I’m tired of racist motherf*ckers doing sh*t like this and I don’t want to be associated with it. And to the people who just sat on the side, you’re just as bad! You think it’s wrong? You think you’re more “enlightened” than that? THEN SAY SOMETHING AND JOIN THE CALL AGAINST IT. It’s not like you’re “not allowed” to. This is REALLY disgusting. Still think racism doesn’t exist?

    socialistexan:

    stfusexists:

    complex-brown:

     BLACK OUT! At Occupy Philadelphia

    We had a Black Out! at Occupy Philadelphia. Why?

    Saturday,  two sisters were called Niggers by two of the volunteers at Occupy Philadelphia at the cell-phone charging stations.  They were also told to go back to Africa, and that each white man should own a slave. When the sista’s called security, security asked them to leave the premises because they thought they were apart of the UHURU movement.  Even if they were a part of that movement, they should not have been asked to leave. Especially  without any mention of their verbal and spiritual abuse.

    So a small collective formed a drummer’s circle and started a rally, only to be met with on-lookers who didn’t understand why there was a Pan-African flag at an “American” event.  We were called racist.  Many of the people there to support Occupy Philadelphia came to us to tell us that all of us are people and that race is behind us! They told us that we were being divisive.

    Bullshit.

    When we circled up to come up with a constructive way to address the people, we were constantly interrupted by white people who could not respect our safe space. These people said that it was a public space, and we couldn’t have a group that excluded them. Why is it when black people want to get together to work out our issues in our community we are called out? Sadly, one of the black women who came up to our group suggested we move to another location away from city hall. What?!!

    When we wanted to address the people at the people’s assembly, we had to beg to get a spot on the program.  They wanted us to wait until afterwards and get on the open mic.  Also, we had  two people come up to the group and ask if we were going to be violent.  Why would be violent?? Because we are black? We eventually told the gate-keepers that we were going to be given the mic, or we were going to take the mic. We eventually got our spot.

    As the sister was talking about her experience, there were some members in support, and there were even members who came up to us afterwards to show support. But many of the people were asking us to hurry up, calm down and finish. One white guy used signals to get us to hurry up.

    We spoke out about RACISM IN THE 99 percent.

    We spoke out about how nobody was talking about the racist foundation of corporate greed.

    How do we talk about classism without taking about racism?

    We were called racist because we empowered ourselves and stood up for what was right.

    And shockingly (sarcasm), not one white person stood in solidarity with this group of people, but instead decided to condescend to them and ignore their concerns. More power to you, Black Out!, I hope that people shut up and listen to your message.

    Uuuugh. Can I renounce being White? Because I’m tired of racist motherf*ckers doing sh*t like this and I don’t want to be associated with it. And to the people who just sat on the side, you’re just as bad! You think it’s wrong? You think you’re more “enlightened” than that? THEN SAY SOMETHING AND JOIN THE CALL AGAINST IT. It’s not like you’re “not allowed” to.

    This is REALLY disgusting. Still think racism doesn’t exist?

    5. 1 year ago  Notes (2767)
  5. The way to understand all of this is to realize that it’s part of a broader syndrome, in which wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is.
    Paul Krugman

    (Source: The New York Times, via damekatharsis)

    6. 1 year ago  Notes (36)