- Vote against the war on drugs.
- Vote for drug treatment – not punishment.
- Vote against mandatory minimum sentencing. Mandatory minimum sentencing takes the sentencing power away from the judge.
- Spread the word about mass incarceration and The New Jim Crow.
- Vote for better public schools – schools for everyone – not charter schools for a few.
- Tell everyone that we want to be a land of opportunities, not a land of oppression.
- Vote to have drugs controlled by pharmacies and taxed.
- Get angry.
- Stay angry.
activism
The role of the revolutionary press
In December 1964, Malcolm X gave a speech at Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. In one of his most famous statements, he told his audience,
“If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing…[The oppressor] fighting you in the morning, fighting you in the noon, fighting you at night and fighting you all in between, and you still think it’s wrong to fight him back. Why? The press. The newspapers make you look wrong. As long as you take a beating, you’re all right. That’s the press. That’s the image-making press. That thing is dangerous if you don’t guard yourself against it.”
See on abetterworldisprobable.wordpress.com
Settler Ally vs. Settler Brother/Sister
“You want to learn to become a brother or sister to me, then start treating me like one, and I will reciprocate. If you are still confused, come hang out with me, and walk with me.” -Giibwanisi
the majority of people will never grasp this term Brotherhood/sisterhood. The wounds are just too deep.
-Paraphrase from Giibwanisi
Sign the petition: No father should be deported for driving to work!
I just signed a petition to Jon Gurule, Immigration & Customs in AZ, John Sandweg, Director of ICE, and ERO ICE Community Outreach: No father should be deported for driving to work!
See on petitions.moveon.org
Protesters shut down Border Patrol checkpoint for hours | KVOA.com | Tucson, Arizona
AMADO – Protesters rallied for Customs and Border Protection to remove a checkpoint on Arivaca Road near Interstate 19 on Sunday.
See on www.kvoa.com
Community Village Hub
This site has a collection of blogs on the topics of migrant rights, decolonization, human rights, equity, pluralism, intersectionalism, cultural studies and artists who fight oppression.
Community Village‘s insight:
Cops in Miami Gardens, FL Arrest & Abuse Residents Simply for Showing Up to Work (this is not an exaggeration!)
Miami Gardens, Florida is a place where racial profiling is carried out so often and so maliciously by police that even local business owners have had enough of it.
See on ushypocrisy.com
Why I’m Thankful for 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance & Why You Should Be To
“There is resistance: in Canada it’s coming from First Nations. But it’s worth remembering that that’s a world-wide phenomenon. Throughout the world, the indigenous populations are in the lead. They are actually taking the lead in trying to protect the earth….It’s pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.” ~ Noam Chomsky
“The goals of settler colonial state have always been the same, remove Indigenous populations whether through extermination, relocation or assimilation, appropriate lands and resources and expand the reaches of the settler state.” ~ Matt Remle, Last Real Indians
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Mumia Abu-Jamal “Some Who Feel No Reason For Thanksgiving”
“Some Who Feel No Reason For Thanksgiving” To this day, I can hardly bear to think of that quintessentially American holiday—Thanksgiving. When I do, however, I do not dwell on Pilgrims with wide b…
Undoing Border Imperialism
“Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices into an exciting new book. By reformulating immigrant rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism, labor exploitation, settler colonialism, state building, and racialized empire, it provides the alternative conceptual frameworks of border imperialism and decolonization. ”