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haha no i wish! i found it on google, and adopted those cute little dancing plants immediately!!
A Gentle Reminder: Canada Day (Today) is a celebration of indigenous genocide. Celebrations like Canada Day, Victoria Day and St-Jean-Baptiste Day are symbols of colonialism. š¤š
āThe most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.ā
-Malcolm X (1962)
there's a petition going around right now calling for one of the cities in alabama to rename three major predominantly black high schools named after confederate generals, and i'd really appreciate it if anyone could help out and sign it because they've been trying to get those schools to do something about it for years, but nothing's ever happened and this is the most anyone's ever talked about it. they only need about 5,000 more signatures to go!

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here is a carrd for BLMĀ
here is a carrd for the crisis happening right now in Yemen
here is a carrd for Hong Kong
here is a carrd for Palestine.
here is a carrd for trans rightsĀ
What have the protests accomplished?
5/26Ā 4 officers fired for murdering George Floyd 5/27 Charges dropped for Kenneth Walker (Breonna Taylorās boyfriend, who police accused of killing her) 5/28 University of Minnesota cancels contract with police 5/28 3rd precinct police station neutralized by protesters 5/28 Minneapolis transit union refuses to bring police officers to protests or transport arrested protesters 5/29 Activists commandeer Minneapolis hotel to provide shelter to homeless 5/29 Former officer Chauvin arrested and charged with murder 5/29Ā Louisville Mayor suspends āno-knockā warrants 5/30Ā US Embassies across Africa condemn police murder of George Floyd 5/30Ā Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison takes over prosecution of the murdering officer 5/30Ā Transport Workers Union refuses to help NYPD transport arrests protesters 5/30Ā Maryland lawmakers forming work group on police reform, accountability 5/31Ā 2 abusive officers fired for pulling a couple out of their car and tasing them - Atlanta, GA 6/1Ā Minneapolis public schools end contract with police 6/1Ā Confederate monument removed after being toppled by protesters - Birmingham, AL 6/1 CA prosecutors launch campaign to stop DAs from accepting police union money 6/1 Tulsa Mayor agrees to not renew Live PD contract 6/1Ā Louisville police chief fired after shooting of David Mcatee 6/1 Congress begins bipartisan push to cut off police access to military gear 6/1 Atlanta announces plans to create a task force and public database to track police brutality in metro Atlanta area 6/2 Minneapolis AFL-CIO calls for resignation of police union president Bob Kroll, a vocal white supremest 6/2Ā Pittsburgh transit union announces refusal to transport police officers or arrest protesters 6/2Ā Racist ex-mayor Frank Rizzo statue removed in Philadelphia 6/2Ā 6 abusive officers charged for violence against residents and protesters - Atlanta, GA 6/2Ā Civil rights investigation of Minneapolis Police Dept launched 6/2Ā San Francisco resolution to prevent law enforcement from hiring officers with history of misconduct 6/2Ā Survey indicates that 64% of those polled are sympathetic to protesters, 47% disapprove of police handling of the protests, and 54% think the burning down of the Minneapolis police precinct was fully or partially justified 6/2 Trenton NJ announces policing reforms 6/2Ā Minneapolis City Council members consider disbanding the police 6/2Ā Confederate statue removed from Alexandria, VA 6/3 Officer fired for tweets promoting violence against protesters - Denver, CO 6/3 Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art cut ties with the MPD 6/3Ā Chauvin charges upgraded to second degree murder, remaining 3 officers also charged and taken into custody 6/3Ā Richmond VA Mayor Stoney announces RPD reform measures: establish āMarcusā alert for folks experiencing mental health crises, establish independent Citizen Review Board, an ordinance to remove Confederate monuments, and implement racial equity study 6/3Ā County commissioners deny proposal for $23 million expansion of Fulton County jail 6/3 Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board unanimously votes to sever ties with MPD 6/3Ā Seattle withdraws request to end federal oversight/consent decree of police department 6/3Ā Breonna Taylorās case reopened 6/3 Louisville police department (Breonna Taylorās murderers) will now be under review from an outside agency, which will include review on training, bias-free policing and accountability 6/3 Colorado lawmakers introduce a police reform bill that includes body cam laws, repealing the āfleeing felonā statute, and banning chokeholds 6/3 Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announces plans to reduce funding to police department by $150M and instead invest in minority communities 6/4 Virginia governor announces plans to remove Robert E. Lee statue from Richmond 6/4Ā Portland schools superintendent discontinues presence of armed police officers in schools 6/4Ā MBTA (Metro Boston) board orders that buses wont transport police to protests, or protesters to police 6/4 King County Labor Federation issues ultimatum to police unions: admit to and address racism in Seattle PD, or be removed 6/5Ā City of Minneapolis bans all chokeholds by police 6/5Ā Racist ex-mayor Hubbard statue removed - Dearborn, MI 6/5Ā NFL condemns racism and admits it should have listened to playersā protests 6/5Ā California Governor Gavin Newsom calls for statewide use-of-force standard made along with community leaders and ban on carotid holds 6/5 2 Buffalo officers suspended within a day of pushing 75 year old protester to the ground, and lying about it 6/5Ā 2 NYPD officers suspended after videos of violence to protesters 6/5Ā The US Marines bans display of the Confederate flag 6/5Ā Dallas adopts a āduty to interveneā rule that requires officers to stop other cops who are engaging in excessive use of force 6/5Ā Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax releases an 11-point action plan for immediate police reforms 6/6Ā Statue of Confederate general Williams Carter Wickham torn down - Richmond, VA 6/6Ā 2 Buffalo officers charged with second-degree assault for shoving elderly man 6/6Ā San Francisco Mayor London Breed announces effort to defund police and redirect funds to Black community 6/7Ā Frank Rizzo mural removed, to be replaced with new artwork - Philadelphia, PA 6/7Ā Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disband the police department, invest in proven community-led public safety 6/7Ā Protesters in Bristol topple statue of slave trader Edward Colston, throw it in the river 6/7Ā NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio vows for the first time to cut funding for NYPD, redirect to social services 6/7Ā A Virginia police officer faces charges after using a stun gun on a black man 6/8 NY State Assembly passes the Eric Garner Anti-Chokehold Act 6/8Ā Democrats in Congress unveil a bill to rein in bias and excessive force in policing 6/8Ā Black lawmakers block a legislative session in Pennsylvania to demand action on police reform 6/8Ā France bans police use of chokeholds 6/8 Seattle council members join calls to defund police department 6/8Ā Boston reevaluates how it funds police department 6/8Ā Honolulu Police Commission nominees voice support for more transparency, reforms 6/8Ā Rights groups and Floydās family call for a UN inquiry into American policing and help with systemic police reform
No, itās not enough, but this is only the beginning. Keep fighting!!!
(This list comes fromĀ Mara Ahmedās blog postĀ and was compiled by Fahd Ahmed; I added sources and new entries. Please reblog with further additions.)
Please protect our trans people! Especially our BLACK trans people!Ā Black transgender people have an extremely high unemployment rate at 26 percent, two times the rate of the overall transgender sample and four times the rate of the general population. A startling 41 percent of Black respondents said they had experienced homelessness at some point in their lives, more than five times the rate of the general U.S. population. Black transgender people lived in extreme poverty with 34 percent reporting a household income of less than $10,000 per year. This is more than twice the rate for transgender people of all races (15 percent), four times the general Black population rate (9 percent), and eight times the general U.S. population rate (4 percent). Black transgender people were affected by HIV in devastating numbers. More than one-fifth of respondents were living with HIV (20.23 percent), compared to a rate of 2.64 percent for transgender respondents of all races, 2.4 percent for the general Black population, and 0.60 percent of the general U.S. population.
From education to employment and housing discrimination, from police brutality to health care disparities, Black transgender people are suffering at extremely high rates due to bigotry and transphobia. Nearly half of all Black transgender respondents report being harassed at work and at school. Twenty-six percent are unemployed and 34 percent report annual incomes of less than $10,000 per year. These numbers are appalling and these living conditions are unacceptable for any human being ā gender conforming or not.Ā Ā
The black community particularly has a tendency to turn a blind eye to the hate that trans people get. We as a community are being discriminated against daily, and yet we can be the main ones who discriminate our OWN people sometimes. If Black lives matter, then ALL BLACK LIVES should matter. Yes, that includes all the QUEER and non-conforming lives as well.
Here are some links that can help with information on trans lives and advocacy:
National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) Ā (advocacy)
Transgender Law Center (TLC) Ā (legal services and advocacy)
Gender Proud Ā (advocacy)
Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) Ā (legal services)
Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF) Ā (legal services)
Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC) Ā (advocacy)
Trans People of Color Coalition (TPOCC) Ā (advocacy)
Trans Women of Color Collective (TWOCC) Ā (advocacy)
Black Trans Advocacy Ā (advocacy)
Trans Latina Coalition Ā (advocacy)
Gender Spectrum Ā (support for families, trans youth, and educators)
Gender Diversity (support for families, trans youth, and educators)
Trans Youth Equality Federation Ā (support for families and trans youth)
Trans Youth Family Allies (TYFA) Ā (support for families and trans youth)
TransTech Social Enterprises Ā (economic empowerment)
SPART*A Ā (advocacy for trans military service members)
Transgender American Veterans Association Ā (advocacy for trans veterans)
TransAthlete.com Ā (info about trans athletes)
I hope these links help! Use your voice and stand up for whatās right! Far too many black trans people have died at the hands of bigotry and violence and police brutality. We need a CHANGE and we need it NOW.
One of the most important things I learned in my Language and the Law class is that law enforcement will intentionally misinterpret every type of statement asking for a lawyer as not asking for a lawyer. Even directly saying it like this āI will not speak to you without a lawyerā can be taken as a simple statement of fact rather than a request for a lawyer. You literally have to state āI am now invoking my right to a lawyerā and every time they try to proceed with an interrogation you have to answer every question with āI am invoking my right to have a lawyer presentā. You canāt just tell them you wonāt talk without a lawyer or that you want a lawyer. You have to state that you are invoking your rights. Otherwise they could just say āwell they just said they wouldnāt speak without a lawyer present. Thatās not invoking their rights to a lawyer. Itās just stating a fact.ā even just stating your right to a lawyer doesnāt count!
PLEASE share this addition. I am a lawyer who works in criminal defense, and this is one of the most avoidable things that people consistently get wrong about the Miranda rights.
Here are some more āambiguousā phrases which courts have found DO NOT invoke your right to a lawyer:
āMaybe I should speak to my lawyer first.ā
āI might like a lawyer.ā
āI think I should have a lawyer present for this.ā
āCould I speak to my lawyer first?ā
āHow long until my lawyer gets here?ā
And perhaps most egregiously ā āGet me a lawyer, dawg ā ācause this is not whatās up.ā
Here are the magic phrases which you need to know if you want to invoke your Miranda rights:
1) āAm I free to leave?ā
Itās worth asking this even if the answer is obvious. Even if the officer does not let you leave, by forcing them to admit that you are not free to leave, you are creating a record which your attorney can use to prove that you were in custody. Miranda rights only apply if the interrogation is custodial, meaning that police officers will frequently claim that their suspects wereĀ ānot in custodyā to get around their Miranda rights.
2)Ā āI am invoking my right to remain silent.ā
Simply staying silent will not invoke your right to remain silent. As absurd as this is, you must explicitly say that you are invoking your right to remain silent in order to invoke that right.
3)Ā āI am invoking my right to an attorney.ā
As stated above, you must be not only clear and unambiguous, but clear and legallyĀ unambiguous. Donāt get cute. Donāt get sassy. And on the flip side, donāt get intimidated and use verbal ticks to minimize your request. Say the line with those words exactly ā say it clearly, and say it once, and then say nothing else.
Because even after youāve done all this, the police can still try to get you to talk. Theyāre not supposed to interrogate you, but theyāre allowed to make casual conversation, and if that conversation just happens to circle back around to the thing they wanted to question you about, well, thatās really your fault for talking after you said you wouldnāt, isnāt it? Canāt possibly fault the poor officers when you initiated ā if you really wanted to have your rights respected, you wouldnāt have talked to them in the first place.
The police know this, and they will mercilessly exploit this loophole. So, once youāve successfully invoked your Miranda rights, any and all conversation you have with police officers will put those rights back into jeopardy.Ā
Putting it all together:
Ask: āAm I free to leave?ā
If they say no, say:Ā āI am invoking my right to remain silent and I am invoking my right to an attorney.ā
And then shut up and do not say a single thing to them for any reason whatsoever until you have actually spoken to an attorney. Yes, even if it takes hours. Yes, even if they start talking to you about something else.
Finally, a very important disclaimer:
I may be a lawyer, but Iām not your lawyer, and I cannot guarantee that what Iāve just laid out here will always work for every situation. We didnāt get to this bizarre and absurd place overnight ā we built this ridiculous system piecemeal, by deciding on a case-by-case basis that certain phrases were ātoo ambiguousā or certain types of questioning werenāt actually questioning at all. The law is still in flux, and is still fundamentally out to get you, and willing to bend plain meaning beyond all recognition to do it.Ā Even if you invoke your rights perfectly, exactly as I have specified above, thereās a chance that your invocation of rights will be disqualified on some new technicality that no oneās even thought of yet ā and thatās precisely the problem.
Watch this video: āDonāt Talk To The Policeā
i haven't seen posts about yemen so im making one
here's how we can help them. sign these petitions and donate money
Kalsuma's Yemen crisis appeal - Emergency food aid - donate money
Stop the war and end the famine in Yemen - petition
Yemen emergency appeal - donate money
Yemen Crisis: Save Lives Before its Too Late! - donate money
Iftiak's Emergency Yemen Appeal - donate money
DONATE TOĀ PROTECT CHILDRENĀ INĀ YEMEN
Stop selling weapons to Saudi Arabia. They help fuel the Yemeni civil war - petition
SUPPORT OUR YEMEN HUMANITARIAN APPEAL - donate money
Yemen Food Appeal - donate money
Yemen is starving - donate money
resources to help yemen which is in the worldās current worst humanitarian crisis.
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Justice for Lakeith Smith and AāDonte Washington!
Please sign the petition!!!
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And be extra careful if you are out in Philly tonight
EDIT: The cops are trying to turn this into a race war. They are trying to make the narrative blacks vs whites and are using white supremacists. That way all the blame deflects away from them and their fucked actions. Donāt let them fool you, remember ACAB !!
yeah sure say fuck you to jk rowling but dont forget to like. actually support trans women.
Donate to the Trans Women of Colour Coalition
Stop using the word femboy
āMen in dressesā jokes arenāt funny theyāre just transmisogynistic. Stop making them and stop supporting creators who make them.
Stop engaging with terfs. it doesnāt matter if youāre proving them wrong, youāre still giving them a platform. block them and move on.
Install shinigami eyes
Stop insisting trans women canāt use he/him pronouns or dressĀ āmasculinelyā
Stop insisting trans women have to medically transition to beĀ āreal womenā
Donate to the homeless black trans women fund
Read some books by trans women
Check out the Trans*Scribe category on Autostraddle
Donate to or volunteer at the San Francisco LGBT Center (they run the Trans Employment Program)
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This Pride, donāt forget about us
ID: āThis Pride remember to respect all trans people : Trans women who donāt shave with a drawing of a woman whit a yellow and pink beard, trans men who donāt bind, masculine trans women and feminine trans men with a drawing of a trans woman with short pink hair wearing a yellow baseball T-shirt holding hands with a trans man with a yellow crop top and short curly blue hair, fat trans people with the drawing of a fat trans woman with short white hair, dark skin and a pink cropped top, disabled trans people with a drawing of a wheelchair and a walking cane in the color of the trans flag, neurodivergent trans people with the symbol of the autistic community, trans people who are sex worker with a drawing of blue bra and pink underwear, poor trans people who canāt afford transition, trans people who arenāt out yet with a drawing of a closed door, trans people who donāt plan on transitioning, black trans people with a black fist holding a trans flag, and any trans people who isnāt white with multiple hands of different skin tones, muslim trans people with a drawing of someone wearing a hijab in the color of the trans flag, jewish trans people with a drawing of someone wearing a white shirt and a kippah in the color of the trans flag, non binary people even those who donāt identify as trans with the non binary flag, those whose identity you might not understand with the genderfluid flag, the agender flag, the demi gender flag and the genderqueer flag, trans people who donāt pass and donāt want to with a drawing of a trans woman with a beard and dark skin raising her fist, every pronouns with dialog box in which are different sets of pronouns, trans people of every identity with the gay flag, the lesbian flag, the ace flag, the bi flag, the pan flag and the aro flag, every trans person is beautiful and deserving of so much love so donāt forget the T.ā End ID
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our momentum is slowing down. we canāt let our dashes go back to normal when the world is not normal. so, if you are reading this, you are ~legally~ obligated to choose 2 numbers below; you must complete the task of those two numbers today. donāt pretend you didnāt see this. either do them right now or set a reminder to get it done before the sun goes down. the timer starts now. choose two.Ā
sign some petitions. LINK HERE. if change.org hasnāt accused you of being a bot yet, you havenāt signed enough.Ā
watch these youtube videos. LINK HERE. do not skip the ads. this is a way to help raise money without having to donate any.
sign up to get daily actions. LINK HERE. after filling out the form, you will receive texts Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays telling you what action to take.Ā
text or call for any of these victims. LINK HERE. this website is extremely helpful, well organized, and practically does all of the work for you.
donate some money. LINK HERE. if you have any more money to spare, please donate it to one of these funds.
follow every single one of these organizations on social media: blcklivesmatter, colorofchange, reclaimtheblock, showingupforracialjustice, and civilrightsorg
post these important sources to your social media. LINK HERE. you have no idea who it might help.Ā
read this article and forward it to at least one person. LINK HERE.Ā
watch this video explaining the racial wealth gap. LINK HERE. itās really informative and only about 15 minutes long.Ā
do some reading. LINK HERE. this link has a ton of great resources to educate yourself. read at least one.Ā