Ya Me Canse

Stand for food justice wherever you shop. Support the farmworkers fighting for a fair wage and safe working conditions.

August 30, 2016

– Colin Kaepernick on sitting during the U.S. national anthem

On September 11th 1973, US-backed General Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected leader of Chile, Salvadore Allende. Pinochet ordered an air strike on the Presidential Palace, labor activists and famous folk guitarists were rounded up for torture, disappeared, and killed. Pinochet converted the national football stadium into a detention facility like Guantanamo Bay. Chile’s economy was turned into a plantation for the 1%, as inequality and poverty skyrocketed under the imposed Milton Friedman-style economic model. Over 40,000 Chileans became victims of Pinochet’s terror. In response, the Nixon administration committed more money, more training, more torture equipment. The world didn’t begin on September 11th, 2001. Rather, for the first time in modern history, Americans were visited by the same violence the US has imposed since its creation. In Chile, the US murdered tens of thousands and impoverished millions. This wasn’t America’s first foray in international terrorism, nor would it be the last. The United States security state is a terrorist and a plague on the people of the world.

Via Shibasis Praharaj

He was only 16 when LAPD shot and killed him. Join us today to demand #Justice4JoseMendez! ✊ 4:00PM at the LAPD Hollenbeck Community Station at 2111 E 1st St.

Source: UW-Madison Library Archives

Source: El Sur Piensa

Children Of Mexico by Hideki Naito

‘The Red Banner’, August Twenty Ninth Movement (Marxist-Leninist), Los Angeles, 1977. August Twenty Ninth Movement (1974-1978) was the first independent Chicano Marxist-Leninist organization.