“Peaceful protests” are theater pieces and theater needs an audience. Do you think you can make a fascist sit down and watch your performance? like a child begging a parent to watch the new dance they made up?
Besides, no protest will ever remain peaceful under fascism. Cops will escalate. You’ll probably be tear gassed. You might even be arrested. If you wanna join the fight against fascism, you need to be ready to FIGHT.
Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.
Her death was announced Tuesday by the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation. Ashley D. Roseboro of the organization confirmed she died in Texas.
Colvin was arrested months before Rosa Parks gained international fame before refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus.
Plus make sure to take breaks regularly - and stop if anything starts to hurt!
especially with gift knitting I know it can be tempting to push through it for a deadline, but it’s really not worth causing long term injury. (And anyone knit-worthy should be understanding of that, imho.) Stay well :)
Also good for artists drawing with pencils/on a tablet/with a pen!
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She spent hours upon hours just beating the canvas with a belt…
when you look at the finished painting, you can almost see letters - but there aren’t any. It’s all noise. a lot of adults process this sort of beating by insisting there is a lesson in it. with the title and artist statement in mind, it’s like they’re trying to read a message of love written in that chaotic canvas.
like how sad is it that so many artists are like Aw man too bad im really into this new thing that is a discrete commercial property that belongs to somebody else this is really eating up time that i could spend creating my own discrete commercial properties…. and by sad i mean totally infuriating that people think their inclinations towards derivative work is basically creative junk food (deliberately using a loaded term there) when what’s actually limiting their creativity is the market that systematically devalues certain kinds of transformative works at the behest of IP landlords and the fandom that thinks of themselves as temporarily embarrassed IP landlord billionaires
Commercially produced media that is based on another media is just Officially Sanctioned Fan Fiction. Whether the IP is owned or if it’s public domain, all new commercially distributed media that is based on another media happened because people with money liked a writer’s headcanons so much that they invested in their fan fic concept (agreed to produce the media).
When an IP is transformed, more art is created. Whether or not it’s sanctioned by the owners or people with money does not matter. You don’t need to be an IP landlord (ie IP owner/creator) or an IP renter (ie IP license recipient) or an IP investor (ie IP producer) to make a home you love. Go squat in their houses and tear down the fucking the walls.
If you would report an undocumented immigrant to ICE you would have reported me to the Nazis and I don’t fucking trust you
A note:
I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:
Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.
Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.
And then, if you’re asked: no, you haven’t seen anyone residing illegally in the United States. Just people visiting.
Very good very important addition
Essentially, this is the civil society version of a work-to-rule strike.
Don’t do more than is expressly asked of you, and do what you are asked with such an intense attention to protocol that not asking you at all becomes more effective than even bothering.
In this case:
“Have you seen an illegal immigrant?”
“Could you describe an illegal immigrant, officer?”
*officer describes a person who is in the country without appropriate paperwork, or who has crossed the border illegally*
“No, sir, I haven’t seen any illegal immigrant.”
And this is correct. You have NOT seen an illegal immigrant, because you have no way of knowing if Jose Fulano is here legally or not. And since you can’t see his paperwork (or lack thereof), and did not personally see him cross the border illegally, you are only answering precisely the question asked.
I’m not American, and I have like, three followers, but this is important.
So, I’m a lawyer, who deals with immigration though does not specialize in it. But here’s the thing(s):
1) Even someone who’s working could be here on a migrant (or other sort of) visa (hey, there are a few thousand per year, and *someone*’s got to get them, right?) or could be waiting for their case to resolve in immigration court, after having come to America to join a born or naturalized American family member.
2) Even people who are working improperly could have come into the country legally – and just overstayed their visa or be violating the conditions of their visa, and you have no idea what the niggly little regulations that govern that might be.
3) If a law enforcement officer asks you about a neighbor/friend/etc., take this moment to remind them that, unlike them, you cannot ask a random person off the street for their ID and be entitled to a response.
4) Even if someone has told you that they are undocumented, you still don’t know, do you? Humans lie all the time. How could you know for sure? You can’t, because they can’t prove that they have a lack of papers. Just because you haven’t seen papers doesn’t mean they don’t exist!
5) Don’t ever talk to cops in general. Why are you talking to a cop? Stop that, as soon as it is safe and feasible.
