The Owl Perch

This is dedicated to the smug asshole who was all “ThEsE tHiNgS tAkE tImE tHeReS a PrOcEsS” a few months ago when the uprisings were in full swing. This was always their plan. Put it off until Seattle liberals have moved on and leftists are exhausted and fighting trumped up charges from the police and then vote to keep everything the same.

Seattle didn’t defund shit. Democrats will always fight to protect the status quo because it’s the same system that protects and enriches them. They won’t even do the bare minimum to challenge police power.

Trump proved you can defund the military as he stole billions for his worthless wall.

End the military industrial complex.

White male terrorists enjoy a massive double standard and reflexive biased media coverage.

End the Electoral College. Give statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington DC.

Investigate voter suppression and strengthen voting rights.

Even intervention from Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom wasn’t enough to rescue the measure that died without a vote before the legislative session ended early Tuesday. It failed hours after Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies fatally shot Dijon Kizzee after the Black man dropped a a bundle that included a gun.

The legislation would have created a way to permanently strip badges from officers who commit serious misconduct. Law enforcement groups successfully argued that the proposed system would be biased and lack basic due process protections.

Proposals to reveal more police misconduct records, require officers to intervene if they witness excessive use of force, and limit their use of rubber bullets and tear gas against peaceful protesters also died without final votes.

Watching the drawn-out bureaucratized failure of even the most bare-minimum changes to how policing works has been a real-life morality play about how the Democratic Party will tell you repeatedly that they are the only bulwark between you and a Republican horror show but will not actually pass legislation that meaningfully improves your life unless you have a well-funded well-organized lobby group to wine and dine and flatter them. The changes here are not police abolition or police defunding or anything - this is bare-minimum bad-apple territory, and still the police unions were able to persuade the California government to back down. And just so we’re clear, both chambers are more than two-thirds Democratic, so it’s not some kind of Republican filibuster but rather the same legislators who have been using the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag on Twitter and posting about how they stand with protesters who are tossing away any kind of reforms to the administrative process around policing.

Jorge Gonzalez, suffered a broken neck, and a compressed spine at the hands of 3 sheriff deputies in Texas. He couldn’t even hold his head up for this mugshot…so they had to hold it up for him. They actually thought the mugshot was more important than a hospital visit.

After a deputy tripped him he hit his face hard and went unconscious. They tased him couple of times “to wake him up”.

He was left paralyzed neck down, went through a series of surgeries, and was in ICU on the ventilator for over a month after the arrest.

Here’s the Standing Rock Syllabus: 

https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/standingrocksyllabus/

Allyship and Solidarity Guidelines of Unsettling America:

https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/allyship/

Towards Decolonization and Settler Responsibility:

https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/2016/10/04/towards-decolonization-and-settler-responsibility-reflections-on-a-decade-of-indigenous-solidarity-organizing/

Sample Syllabi of the DEcolonization Resource Collection:

https://nationalhistorycenter.org/decolonization-resource-collection-sample-syllabi/

Further Readings:

https://decolonization.wordpress.com/decolonization-readings/

Every time I say "don't nationalize Amazon, they have nothing worth nationalizing" this is what I'm talking about.