You probably also don’t need to know that yes, all forms of digital communication constitute “writing things down” to one degree or another. Some would need to be caught in the moment, more than you would think can be checked any time
One of the reasons it’s important to know that the US has done things like this before (for almost any value of this, not just the current border situation) is because people have fought things like this before. Knowing what tactics they used tells us what worked and what didn’t.
And some of those policies stopped because of activism. It’s possible to win.
All I’m seeing in most “This is America” posts is incitement of despair and hopelessness. Don’t encourage people to give up.
Yes, this! I’ve been trying to be careful myself to avoid reblogging posts with too much despairing commentary, but I see an unfortunate amount of them.
I’ve seen some commentary positing that at least some of those posts are psyops specifically designed to impose a sense of inevitability and helplessness, but whether they are or not (although I’m inclined to believe that at least some are), that is certainly the effect they have.
“Should a tolerant society tolerate intolerance? The answer is NO. It’s a paradox, but unlimited tolerance can lead to the extinction of tolerance.” —Karl Popper
I feel that in the wake of the recent “let’s be civil” discussion, this is an important point to bring up again. You CANNOT be “civil” to people who actively want to harm you or take away your rights.
When our government is actively imposing travel bans on Muslims, deporting Mexicans, separating families and children, working towards enriching themselves while poor families and citizens live without clean water and food, ignore citizens who still don’t have power in Puerto Rico, and encourage sexism, racism, and bigotry at every turn… you cannot try to “reason” with them “civilly.”
There HAS to be CONSEQUENCES to their actions. And treating them with “respect” is not one of them. Every single member of the GOP is responsible for this mess we’re in, and they shouldn’t have a moments PEACE anymore. There is nothing more American than rising up against a corrupt and unjust government.
So if you vote for Trump or defend any of the current GOP policies or positions, you can kindly go f***k yourself.
Mugshot of a teenage girl arrested for protesting segregation, Mississippi, 1961.
Her name is Joan Trumpauer Mulholland. Her family disowned her for her activism. After her first arrest, she was tested for mental illness, because Virginia law enforcement couldn’t think of any other reason why a white Virginian girl would want to fight for civil rights.
She also created the Joan Trumpauer Mullholland Foundation. Most recently, she was interviewed on Samatha Bee’s Full Frontal on February 15 for their segment on Black History Month.
Don’t reduce civil rights heroes to “teenage girl”.
Her great-grandparents were slave owners in Georgia, and after the United States Civil War, they became sharecroppers. Trumpauer later recalled an occasion that forever changed her perspective, when visiting her family in Georgia during summer. Joan and her childhood friend Mary, dared each other to walk into “n*gger” town, which was located on the other side of the train tracks. Mulholland stated her eyes were opened by the experience: “No one said anything to me, but the way they shrunk back and became invisible, showed me that they believed that they weren’t as good as me. At the age of 10, Joan Trumpauer began to recognize the economic divide between the races. At that moment she vowed to herself that if she could do anything, to help be a part of the Civil Rights Movement and change the world, she would.
In the spring of 1960, Mulholland participated in her first of many sit-ins. Being a white, southern woman, her civil rights activism was not understood. She was branded as mentally ill and was taken in for testing after her first arrest. Out of fear of shakedowns, Mulholland wore a skirt with a deep, ruffled hem where she would hide paper that she had crumpled until it was soft and then folded neatly. With this paper, Mulholland was able to write a diary about her experiences that still exists today. In this diary, she explains what they were given to eat, and how they sang almost all night long. She even mentioned the segregation in the jail cells and stated, “I think all the girls in here are gems but I feel more in common with the Negro girls & wish I was locked in with them instead of these atheist Yankees.
Soon after Mulholland’s release, Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Hamilton E. Holmes became the first African American students to enroll at the University of Georgia. Mulholland thought, “Now if whites were going to riot when black students were going to white schools, what were they going to do if a white student went to a black school?” She then became the first white student to enroll in Tougaloo College in Jackson, where she met Medgar Evers, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Reverend Ed King, and Anne Moody.
She received many letters scolding or threatening her while she was attending Tougaloo. Her parents later tried to reconcile with their daughter, and they tried to bribe her with a trip to Europe. She accepted their offer and went with them during summer vacation. Shortly after they returned, however, she went straight back to Tougaloo College.
She ultimately retired after teaching English as a Second Language for 40 years and started the Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Foundation, dedicated to educating the youth about the Civil Rights Movement and how to become activists in their own communities.
I watched a YouTube video once (by a guy who’s name escapes me) about the importance of making sure the stories of white activists are told. His point was that it’s not about lavishing praise on them just because they were white and “woke”, it’s about letting other white allies see that others have come before them who were willing to sacrifice and do the hard work. This way they can see themselves in someone and realize that destroying inequality isn’t a fringe interest or just an “us vs. them” issue. It has to be ALL OF US.
for anyone in NYC (credit to @evandahm on twitter)
[id: a flyer. “We are blockading I.C.E.
I.C.E. is an out-of-control paramilitary police force with an $8 million budget.
I.C.E. imprisons 30,000 people a day in over 200 internment camps around the country.
I.C.E. vans leave the processing center at 201 Varick Street and prowl the streets of New York City. They grab people from their homes, churches, and jobs. Starting now, we will halt the operation of I.C.E. at their Varick Street location.
Join us at 201 Varick Street, NYC.
Please share widely.
NYCstopICE@gmail.com
Twitter.com/NYCstopICE”
/end id]
Today is day 3 of #OccupyICENYC. Protesters have been gathering every day at 10 am.
700 children are being detained in the state of New York, 200 of which are in NYC.
The protests started in Portland on Sunday and activists are following suit across the United States:
Join or start an occupation at your nearest ICE office.
She deserves shaming.. Fascism is at play here in America, we must resist in every civil peaceful way
Fascism cannot be met with peace you must crush fascism and fascists at every turn they do not deserve peace they deserve fierce retribution, consequence and reckoning
I would never suggest putting those links in a reply so they can be accessed from tumblr.
[Images: Tweets by ALT-Immigration ( @ALT_uscis ), and one by Arianrhod7 ( @Arianrhod_777 ); transcripts and links follow]
ALT-Immigration: Contrary to the rumors, I am not organizing the biggest protest outside every ICE detention center including private detention centers nationwide on July First. Falsehood.
One person can not organize civil protests at all of these immigration detention centers. [Attached is a map of the US with immigration detention centers marked.]
I mean, the idea of having over a million people drive up to the nearest ICETAPO DETENTION CENTER and make a day out of it is just ridiculous. Even if chances are there is a detention center within an hour drive of where most live
One last correction: I definitely did not come up with the idea of bringing diapers, baby formula, children books and toys to throw over immigration detention fences.
FYI June 30th is the anniversary of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 signed by President Lyndon Johnson at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. I would have picked June 30th and not July 1st if i were part of this. [Pic of the Statue of Liberty attached.]
No one volunteered to create a google doc with the list of all the ICE detention centers per state from that link and make it available to everyone to see and organize locally, carpool etc.
to end this thread. I was asked on a date by the Goons who do this. I do not feel like giving them a second date at the moment until at least after the World Cup is over. Busy. [In response to/attached link/pic of two people on their phones in front of the Twitter logo; caption reads, “Twitter sues federal government to keep anti-Trump user @ALT_uscis anonymous…”]
Oh dear, I seem to have fallen on my keyboard and transcribed all of the above tweets, with full links included! How clumsy of me!
And it didn’t even end there: I was so uncoordinated, I happened to stumble upon a google doc for arranging carpools, as was absolutely not suggested by ALT-Immigration. I only hope I’m not so clumsy as to accidentally include a link to it in this post.
Sections 553 and 554 of Article 27 of the Maryland Code prohibited sodomy (punishable with a sentence of “not less than one year nor more than ten years”), oral sex, and “any other unnatural or perverted sexual practice with any other person.”
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