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charlie puzzlehat here! i wanted a fresh start on tumblr after having the same blog (galaxycaesar, then atomicpleb) throughout middle school and freshman year so here i am with a brand new account.

i won’t be very active until i can get everything on here sorted out. but once i do i’ll Mostly be posting about the interests listed in my carrd, because woah! i have one of those now!

think about how unventilated dorm rooms are. think about how you somehow have a cold for 4 months straight at school. think about how fast the flu moves through a dorm. think about how foolish people act at when they’re drunk with friends. all it takes is one get together where 5 people remove their masks to play kings cup and the whole school is fucked. 

justice for kionte spencer

arrest the paramedics who injected elijah mcclain with deadly dose of ketamine

justice for dennaia kimberly

pass the black history education bill

tik tok stop punishing black creators for speaking up

justice for robert fuller

reopen the kendrick johnson case

justice for miciah lee

today the navajo nation surpassed new york state and new jersey for the highest per-capita coronavirus infection rate in the country. that’s 2,304 cases per 100,000 people. 173,600 people live on the navajo nation, roughly. below are a number of organizations & community groups raising money & resources. it would mean so much to me if you’d consider supporting these communities right now - & continue to think about how you can support the indigenous communities near you, & understand the indigenous land you might currently occupy. 

the navajo water project helps bring running water to navajo families without, and also helps families pay their water & electricity bills 

the adopt an elder project helps feed navajo elders during the pandemic

the navajo health command operations center is the navajo nation’s only official fundraising and donation effort

rez rising is a database of native american small businesses across the southwest

the kinlani mutual aid group is a flagstaff, az based volunteer group collecting supplies

the native american relief fund operated by the native american community foundation provides emergency grants to communities for supplies & more

and a number of community-run fundraising efforts:

northern diné covid relief effort

navajo & hopi families relief fund

native student emergency fund

bluff area mutual aid - supply delivery in utah

navajo nation relief project

Against Me’s Laura Jane Grace burns birth certificate on stage in North Carolina  

The band turned the concert into a protest over the trans-bathroom law recently approved by the North Carolina legislature.

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/23/the-u-s-supported-coup-in-bolivia-continues-to-produce-repression-and-tyranny-while-revealing-how-u-s-media-propaganda-works/

the united states is fucking with latin american democracy because of their own greed. AGAIN.

here’s a little background:

bolivia is a country that is beautiful and very rich in natural resources. & right now, the united states is supporting the ousting of the popularly-elected socialist left-wing party (MAS) in favor of the capitalist right-wing party in bolivia. bolivia could have been considered a fairly stable democracy for many years, but that has all changed with american intervention.

president morales is unpopular with american politicians because the main platform he ran on back in 2005, advocating for the people’s control of the country’s ample natural resources like the cocoa plant and its supply. cocoa in particular is something that is primarily cultivated by and is very important to indigenous communities in bolivia. he is a huge advocate for indigenous rights in bolivia, in a country that has the largest population of indigenous people in south america.

i’m not gonna say that evo morales is perfect though. much of the current civil unrest began in bolivia when morales tried to get the bolivian courts to allow him to run beyond the constitutionally mandated term limit.

american politicians have been trying to pressure bolivia for years to eradicate their supply of cocoa plants as a way “to stop the flow of cocaine” into the united states. sure jan, okay. whatever you say. not as if you wanna just control it yourself and exploit a less powerful country’s resources in the process? 🙃

there’s really no other reason. the united states is mad that one of the poorest countries in latin america had the gall to stand up to the united states’ drug policies, and not only that, they were successful.

i only bring up cocoa to put this in perspective, how bolivia has successfully stood up to the west when it comes to the refusal to privatize of its own resources or bend to the whims of the west — but bolivia has many important natural resources that the west needs desperately for their capitalists, including lithium. most of the country’s important natural resources are controlled & owned by the people & the government, and that has made american capitalists really fucking angry for a long time, especially considering how resource-rich bolivia is.

after constant western pressure for nearly 15 years on bolivia and a fucked up election in 2019, the left-wing bolivian president evo morales was exiled to mexico, but civil unrest in bolivia has not stopped. the current president of bolivia, jeanine áñez, is NOT democratically elected — she tries to say she is but don’t get it twisted. MAS is still very popular there. the right-wing party of bolivia knows that they’re gonna lose in the coming election and so they are trying everything they can to stop the election from happening in the first place.

tldr; how does elon musk benefit from this? bolivia has one of the largest supplies of lithium in the world, a material that is required to make electric cars.

elon musk supports the american-backed coup in bolivia because the bolivian government told him that it was not going to privatize the country’s natural resources.

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