fiction or fascism

Lots of fat shaming going around in anger towards the cops with the “fat pig” talk. It’s a bit like calling a misogynist a weak little bitch. Criticizing the state with patriarchal masculinity and ableism is the kind of shit I expect from rightwing libertarians. It’s not even about hurting a cop’s feelings; it’s about what you’re indirectly saying to everybody else and how you’re normalizing ableism and shitty body standards. Radicals, get it together, quit the fat shaming.

Fucking pigs.

fuck pigs.

Clashes broke out in Greece on Wednesday when thousands of demonstrators protested at the spot where a neo-Nazi allegedly stabbed and killed 34 year-old leftist hip hop artist Pavlos Fissas.

LOS ANGELES — Nearly 29,000 inmates in California state prisons refused meals for the third day Wednesday during a protest of prison conditions and rules. The protest extended to two-thirds of the 33 prisons across the state and all 4 private out-of-state facilities where California sends inmates, corrections officials said.

Thousands of prisoners also refused to attend their work assignments for a third day, and state officials were bracing for a long-term strike.

Once the state tallies the official number of participants, the hunger strike could become the largest in state history. A similar hunger strike over several weeks in 2011 had about 6,000 participants at its official peak, corrections officials said, and a strike that fall had about 4,200.

The protest is centered on the state’s aggressive solitary confinement practices, but it appeared to have attracted support from many prisoners with their own demands for changes in prison conditions.

Jules Lobel, the president of the Center for Constitutional Rights and the lead lawyer in a federal lawsuit over solitary confinement, said he expected the strike to go on for much longer than previous ones because inmates would refuse to accept anything less than a legally binding agreement for immediate changes.

“Last time, they took promises of reforms, but they are not going to do that again, because two years later the reforms have not materialized in any real way,” Mr. Lobel said.

“This could become a very serious situation over time, because it seems we have a substantial group of people who are prepared to see it to the end if they don’t get real change,” he said.

Using this image is only making me want to say “thank god”

ugh this means that covering your face by any means for any reason at a demonstration/action will land you with 10 years in Canada and they’re starting to slap us with terrorist charges in the US.

WHICH MEANS THAT. at a demonstration, if police see a person (usually a POC or someone else they’ll target for funzies) with anything on their person that can be used to cover their face, that can easily mean arrest, and they aren’t super gentle about it.

if for whatever reason you feel the need to cover yr face, yr fucked.

if you need a rag over your face because of threat of chemical weapons, you don’t have legal ground to stand on.

but sure go ahead and make fun of anyone who wears the V mask cuz hurrdurrluls..

There was an exception for medical purposes, so in case of a teargas attack using a gas mask shouldn’t be illegal.

it's a nice thought but the police often do not even follow the 'law' whatever the law should be, and especially not for health purposes;

they will usually just use whatever authority they have granted themselves with a dispersal order to attack protesters or incite chaos/fear and panic; this is their 'crowd control' but it also opens up the opportunity for them to target people they want or perceive as agitators or leaders

if people are in a situation in which they are already being teargassed in order to incite dispersal, those who are masked will most often be viewed as targets and arrests will be made for the purpose of escalation and intimidation not specifically for charges to stick

however more often than not charges will be added; this is just another way to add charges and increase jail time while discouraging anonymous autonomous action

charges are usually merged; protesters who were assaulted are then charged with assault; protesters who were targeted and assaulted are then charged with 'resisting arrest'; protesters who attempted to disrupt the arrest of another are charged with anything the police officer can fabricate which is then corroborated and lied about in court

the police always act against resistance, especially by using snatch squads, especially against masked individuals or individuals who do not immediately comply, or individuals who speak out loudly against compliance. 

police may even target and 'snatch' an individual early in an action or march before dispersal or teargassing to intimidate a crowd from taking streets or agitating beyond their political agenda. or especially to draw criticism against masked individuals as being 'responsible for police intervention' 

it's important to use any police presence as an opportunity to learn police tactics to better help you create contingency plans for actions (in terms of expecting and accounting for police escalation). 

police and political oppression is a reason to be organized, not intimidated.

there are multiple reasons to wear masks, not just one or two. fuck your hype- in the wake of so many people who protest openly in such surveilled times it can be dangerous to be one in a few of masked people at an action; know this and don't demonize these actions/actors any more than they are already traditionally fearmongered and then criminalized;

don't make assumptions on the intention of a masked individual; don't film the face of a masked individual; don't write off all masked agitators as 'police infiltrators' this only leads to police apologism; don't tag masked individuals; don't hug masked individuals at an action etc etc etc

FTP

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