Context: A Portland Fred Meyer lost power for many hours due to bad weather and decided they had to throw out a shit ton of perishable but package sealed food. An employee tipped off local activists who showed up to retrieve and distribute this perfectly good food to people in need. Then cops showed up an guarded a literal dumpster with guns because that food Fred Meyer decided was garbage was their “property.”
ACAB and fuck Fred Meyer too for calling the cops and for trying to fire the employee who tipped off activists.
If most cops were good, they’d be offended by someone even suggesting that they do this.
Okay but like don’t count the BLM movement as a 2020 disaster. The US prison system, cops, and white supremacy are the disasters. If one of the things you count in your ‘Why 2020 sucked’ posts is the riots, you’re victim blaming.
To paraphrase Micky Dolenz, media outlets are calling the BLM movement “Riots” because they don’t know how to spell “demonstration.”
The BLM movement is NOT RIOTS. These are civil rights protests.
I’ve seen several media outlets count the BLM movement as something that was “wrong” with 2020. Honestly the ability to organize and protest is one of the only things that’s gone RIGHT. It’s the counter protesters that are fucked up.
They’re called protests when they accomplish nothing and riots when they’re effective.
Stop fucking shying away from the word “riot”, this summer saw a police precinct burned to the fucking ground – it was a riot, and rioting works, and rioting is good.
Rioters could be looting department stores for a hundred years and still they would not have taken back what has been stolen from us by the ruling class, stop moralising revolt.
Your daily reminder that Black Lives Still Fucking Matter. Casey Christian Goodson Jr. was mudered by police on December 4th and no one is talking about it. He was shot three times in the back entering his own home. The police are not going to get any better under Joe Biden, in fact, they will continue to get worse because there will be less media scrutiny. There is little to no media coverage of this story because of that very reason. We have to keep these stories in the public eye and continue to fight to defund the police just as hard in 2021.
Here’s a link to the full story from one of the few media sources reporting it.
Just found a petition. So far it has less than 5,000 signatures. Sign here:
It should not be that low. White middle class liberals don’t actually care about Black Lives Matter, which they are proving with their disinterest of all police shootings since Joe Biden was elected.
His family has organized a GoFundMe to help with the cost of his burial, and also has a CashApp and Venmo to donate to. If you want to donate to help the family, donate via one of these options and not to Change.org. Taken from the People’s Justice Project facebook page:
a report by the university of texas at austin came out showing that 80% of people who died in texas jails from
covid were not convicted of a crime, 73% of those who died were eligible for parole, and that deaths occurred at 115% the national rate (x)
reminder that criminals don’t deserve death either.
