Red Oak @redoak@social.coop

If you are white or NBPOC and you want to actually learn what you may be doing wrong and how to stop, here is some more words on it:

https://twitter.com/pgorski/status/1267067209450434560

Black Lives Matter LA has started a new bail fund for the thousands of protestors arrested the past two days: 👇👇

https://linktr.ee/ActionBailFundLA

“Without the police/prisons/carceral justice system what will we do with rapists/abusers/etc.”

Lemme let you in on a secret that’s not a secret. The police literally did nothing about those things in the first place. As a survivor the police just escalated abuse and gaslit me, demonized me, called me a liar. And they did the same to almost every survivor I know when they got involved. A lot of the police are fucking domestic abusers and rapists themselves. Fuck the fucking police

@mood I forget there are 2 Louisas

@eldrichtTerror for 99% of what cops do what you really want is a social worker or a crossing guard or a free car repair. we could have on call public security without armed racists patrolling the streets 24/7 & locking people up in labor camps.

reading stories about the reign of terror and how some of those decapitated continued briefly to attempt to speak. if it was me i would simply quit while i was a head

i built a tool for quickly scrubbing metadata from images and selectively painting / blurring faces and identifiable features. it runs on a phone or computer directly in the browser, and doesn't send info anywhere:

https://everestpipkin.github.io/image-scrubber/

Extend. You're. Bun

it pisses me off to no end the way that institutional white christianity makes conversations about morality all about an obsession with victorian-esque sexual purity and gender roles while turning a blind eye to egregious systemic injustice. it would be one thing if they protested police brutality with the same vigor as when they protest outside of abortion clinics. i would still disagree of course. but they dont. and the implications are obvious

Do each of the following according to your level of ability and privilege:

1. Call for the de-funding of your local police departments.

Local and state governments have continuously divested from community organizations while throwing massive amounts of funding at militarized police. Show up at councils, send e-mails, and make calls to de-fund the police to invest in education, safe housing, food security, and healthcare.

2. Hold your employers accountable for racist business practices. Use whatever power you can risk exerting at work to oppose normalized racism.

3. Anti-racism isn't just self-improvement. Prioritize taking action over seeking your comfort. You're needed to save lives and spare people suffering, solidarity is key.

All cops are bastards, and not lovable bastards like your pal Diogenes. Cops are sons of bitches who signed up to be an occupying force and get away with murder.

Black Lives Matter
Abolish Police

"read the Bible!" oh you mean like the parts where God talks about toppling unjust rulers for their wickedness, and destroying the lives of those who murder, and afflicting those who withhold wages from their workers, to help the stranger in your land, to feed the hungry and clothe the naked? the white evangelical church cares only about its own whiteness

we've got rallies beginning in philly today

philly bail fund
https://www.phillybailfund.org/