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The path to justice is seldom polite.
| Thomas Sugrue, White America’s Age-Old, Misguided Obsession With Civility (via stoweboyd)
“No Justice. No Peace” "If kids don't eat in peace, you don't eat in peace.”
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“young adult dystopian novels are so unrealistic lmao like they always have some random teenage girl rising up to inspire the world to make change.”
a hero emerges
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And just like in the novels, grown men and women are going out of their way to destroy her. Support our hero.
And it’s not even like it doesn’t happen regularly.
Teenage girls are amazing.
Sometimes they’re not even teenagers
I’ve been reposting this a lot to argue with conservatives who wanna mouth off, but here is a Genuinely Good Addition. 💖💖💖
#emma gonzalez#emma gonzález#malala yousafzai#linda brown#civil disobedience#role models#student activism#student activists#fight like a girl#teens#young girls#social justice#neveragain#gun deaths#gun violence#education#social injustice#social just warrior#warrior#warrior women#religious freedom#misogyny#segregation#school segregation#wecallbs#fight for your rights#fight for the future
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The danger of these mis-histories, the danger of this fable, is the ways then it’s used to shut down sort of conversation and protest… You know, Mike Huckabee saying to Ferguson protesters that he wished they would be more like MLK. And in my head, I’m thinking, ‘You know, be careful what you wish for, because they are, and you don’t like it, right?; It is disruptive. It is uncomfortable. It is relentless. It’s not just injustice exposed, and injustice changed. That’s not how the civil rights movement actually proceeded. It was injustice exposed and exposed and exposed and exposed, and you move the needle slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly.
Historian Jeanne Theoharis on the way Black Lives Matter’s critics white-wash civil rights history to serve nationalistic interests.
Read the full interview: A More Beautiful & Terrible History: The Whitewashing & Distortion of Rosa Parks and MLK’s Legacies
(via democracynow)
Huckabee, Trump and Republicans: NFL Players were ‘more like MLK’
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Martin Luther King, Jr., was arrested 29 times
Donald Trump is probably going to end his life never being arrested.
Greatness is not always in following the law. Sometimes it’s in the moral courage to challenge unjust laws.
Where is the ‘moral courage’ of Republicans?
#mlk#mlkday#martin luther king jr#martin luther king#american history#black history#blm#activism#social activism#civil rights#civil liberties#civil disobedience#right to protest#racial injustice#racial inequality#social injustice#social justice#republicans#gop complicit#racism#racism in america#social action#resist#resist hate#takeaction#united we stand#trump#donald trump
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The image of Martin Luther King, Jr., serves as a reminder, all the more urgently needed this year, that the march of progress can be made even in the face of forces pulling us back. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the Cover of The New Yorker
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SLAPP LAWSUITS: THE BIGGEST THREAT TO THE RESISTANCE YOU NEVER HEARD OF
Have you heard of SLAPP lawsuits? You soon will.
SLAPP stands for “Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.” It is a lawsuit brought by big corporations intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the overwhelming costs of a legal defense until they’re forced to abandon their criticism or opposition. And it may be the biggest threat to the resistance you’ve never heard of.
Here’s an example: Resolute Forest Products, one of Canada’s largest logging and paper companies, has sued, in a U.S. court, environmental groups that have been campaigning to save Canada’s boreal forest.
Resolute based its lawsuit on a U.S. conspiracy and racketeering law (RICO) intended to ensnare mobsters. Resolute alleged that the environmental groups have been illegally conspiring to extort the company’s customers and to defraud their own donors.
The suit wasn’t designed to win in court. It was designed to distract and silence critics. This is punishment for speaking out. Thankfully, a federal court agrees and a judge just dismissed Resolute’s claims. But other corporate bullies are still trying to use this playbook.
Here’s another example: Remember the indigenous led movement at Standing Rock, when hundreds of nations and their allies came together and stood up against the destructive Dakota Access Pipeline?
In August, Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind that pipeline, filed a similar RICO case against Greenpeace entities and two other defendants over Standing Rock. The suit accuses them of participating in a sprawling criminal conspiracy to disrupt business and defraud donors. The lawsuit even alleges they support eco-terrorism and engage in drug trafficking.
The lawsuit claims Greenpeace cost the company $300 million. Since RICO claims entitle plaintiffs to recover triple damages, the case potentially could cost Greenpeace $900 million. That would be the end of Greenpeace.
But, again, winning isn’t necessarily the goal of SLAPP suits. Just by filing the suits, Energy Transfer Partners and Resolute are trying to drain environmental groups of time, energy, and resources they need, so they can’t continue to fight to protect the environment.
Connect the dots, and consider the chilling effect SLAPP suits are having on any group seeking to protect public health, worker’s rights, and even our democracy.
Who’s behind all of this? Both the lawsuits I just mentioned were filed by Michael Bowe. He is also a member of Donald Trump’s personal legal team. Bowe has publicly stated that he’s in conversations with other corporations considering filing their own SLAPP lawsuits.
If the goal is to silence public-interest groups, the rest of us must speak out. Wealthy corporations must know they can’t SLAPP the public into silence.
Lawsuits are a financial tactic used by Corporations and Trump to shut people up. Keeping an eye out for Energy Transfer Partners, Resolute Forest Products and Trump’s lawyer, Michael Bowe
The Resistance is REAL #RightToProtest #CivilDisobedience #RESIST
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L'applicabilità deve essere evidente
Trump’s daily tirades are proof that Sun Tzu’s strategy works.
To irritate Trump and his supporters; unite, resist, troll, call out his flaws, and mock Trump and his administrations hypocrisy, lies and tyranny. Keep exercising your guaranteed rights of free speech by:
- protesting
- creating cartoons
- creating art
- writing stories
- writing and singing songs
- creating videos
- creating memes
- mashing up content
- civil disobedience
- call your representatives to voice your concerns and vote them out
- running for office
- Using social media to blog, re-blog, tweet and retweet the above
In America, Truth Trumps Tyranny
#Unite #Resist #TakeAction #TakeBackDemocracy #Vote2018 #Vote2020
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The First 100 Days Resistance Agenda
Trump’s First 100 Day agenda includes repealing environmental regulations, Obamacare, and the Dodd-Frank Act, giving the rich and big corporations a huge tax cut, and putting in place a cabinet that doesn’t believe in the Voting Rights Act or public schools or Medicare or the Fair Housing Act.
Our 100 days of resistance begins a sustained and powerful opposition. Here’s what you can do (it will take about an hour of your time each day):
1. Get your senators and representatives to pledge to oppose Trump’s agenda. Reject his nominees, prolong the process of approving them, draw out hearings on legislation. Call your senator and your representative and don’t stop calling.
2. March and demonstrate. The Women’s March on Washington will be the day after the Inauguration. There should be “sister” marches around the country. And then monthly marches against hate. Keep the momentum alive and keep the message going.
3. Make your city and state sanctuaries that won’t cooperate with federal immigration authorities in deporting undocumented immigrants, especially people who have been here since they were very young.
4. Boycott all Trump products, real estate, hotels, resorts, everything. And then boycott all stores (like Nordstrom) that carry merchandise from Trump family brands.
5. Write letters to the editor of your newspaper and op-eds, with a steady flow of arguments about the fallacies and dangers of Trump’s First 100 Day policies and initiatives.
6. Contribute to social media with up-to-date daily bulletins on what Trump is up to, and actions in your region in opposition.
7. Contribute to the most effective opposition groups. The American Civil Liberties Union, Common Cause, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Economic Policy Institute, Inequality Media, MoveOn, and others.
8. Make the resistance visible with bumper stickers, lapel pins, wrist bands.
9. Push progressive causes at your state and local level – environmental reform, progressive taxes, a higher minimum wage, ending gerrymandering, stopping mass incarceration. Make your state a model of what the federal government should do.
10. Start a move in your state to abolish the electoral college by committing your state’s electors to vote for the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote.
11. Reach out to independents and even Trump supporters who agree with this agenda, and get them involved.
12. Your idea goes here. Meet with family and friends this weekend, and decide what you’ll contribute.
The First 100 Days Resistance Agenda. An hour a day. Send a powerful message. We aren’t going away.
The American Resistance
Keith Forsyth, John and Bonnie Raines actions exposed Hoover's secret FBI. Is General Keith Alexander is the new Hoover? Hopefully, history is repeating itself and the NSA's abuse of power ends.
The burglary in Media, Pa., on March 8, 1971, is a historical echo today, as disclosures by the former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden have cast another unflattering light on government spying and opened a national debate about the proper limits of government surveillance. The burglars had, until now, maintained a vow of silence about their roles in the operation. They were content in knowing that their actions had dealt the first significant blow to an institution that had amassed enormous power and prestige during J. Edgar Hoover’s lengthy tenure as director.
“When you talked to people outside the movement about what the F.B.I. was doing, nobody wanted to believe it,” said one of the burglars, Keith Forsyth, who is finally going public about his involvement. “There was only one way to convince people that it was true, and that was to get it in their handwriting.”
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Unlike Mr. Snowden, who downloaded hundreds of thousands of digital N.S.A. files onto computer hard drives, the Media burglars did their work the 20th-century way: they cased the F.B.I. office for months, wore gloves as they packed the papers into suitcases, and loaded the suitcases into getaway cars. When the operation was over, they dispersed. Some remained committed to antiwar causes, while others, like John and Bonnie Raines, decided that the risky burglary would be their final act of protest against the Vietnam War and other government actions before they moved on with their lives.
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Since 1956, the F.B.I. had carried out an expansive campaign to spy on civil rights leaders, political organizers and suspected Communists, and had tried to sow distrust among protest groups. Among the grim litany of revelations was a blackmail letter F.B.I. agents had sent anonymously to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., threatening to expose his extramarital affairs if he did not commit suicide.
“It wasn’t just spying on Americans,” said Loch K. Johnson, a professor of public and international affairs at the University of Georgia who was an aide to Senator Frank Church, Democrat of Idaho. “The intent of Cointelpro was to destroy lives and ruin reputations.”
Source: The New York Times