El fotógrafo Alejandro Cartagena tiene una serie llamada #Carpoolers donde retrata a obreros de Monterrey en camino a sus empleos en San Pedro, uno de los municipios más ricos de América Latina.

Realize that many dead bodies in recently flooded areas will make people still in disaster zones extremely sick, there are babies and little children that are reported being sick by survivors who have live streamed videos.

Survivors have witnessed bodies floating and bodies strewn about in debris. (Video is not graphic, it’s a woman talking about seeing it all and her and her family’s experience during the storm).

There is no water in one Hospital in Freeport

People are still stranded and there are hundreds missing in the Abacos

Homicide rates have skyrocketed as people have entered survival mode searching for supplies— food and basic needs.

Recently, Bahamian evacuees from Abaco and Grand Bahama have been denied entry to the US if they don’t have visas which is unusual if you’re from Florida and know the mutual lax travel between Bahamas and Florida/the US, usually they just “need passports and clean police records” if flying but because all airports are shutdown, the only options is via ferry. This was CBP’s response.

Reports of Oil spills in Grand Bahama

Undocumented Haitians in Bahamas have been mistreated on the islands for years, many of them reside in the Abacos. Many Bahamians speculate this is the reason why the Bahamas goverment is giving inaccurate numbers of deaths. Many Haitians are being scapegoated of looting in Abaco. (Note: Antihaitianismo, although commonly tied to the DR, is a common thing throughout ALL of the Caribbean and Florida. Read more about that here and here.)

Where to send supplies/ monitory donations:

Bahamas Hurricane Relief (Monitary donations) NOTE: put pressure on the cruise line industry and Caribbean hotel industries, harass them. They’re vile, leechy scum. they should not be asking for donations. they have profited COUNTLESS amounts of money from Bahamas tourism and tourism to other Caribbean islands. It’s APPALING what they’re doing and are barely giving the bare minimum. Royal Caribbean and Disney Cruises especially.

Miami-Dade Cares (for drop off locations in Miami Dade only. They have other links for monetary donations.)

National Association of the Bahamas (if you want to send money, run by Bahamians living in the Miami Metro Area)

Bahamas Strong (If you live in Miami Metro Area only. emergency and primary supplies only, no monitary donations. Note: do not donate to the Red Cross, they provide a link to the Bahamas RC.)

Food for the Poor (Broward County)

If any Haitians on the island or Florida/other diaspora know sources on how to help the Haitian community in Bahamas, please include any!

I know Puerto Ricans and Virgin Islanders especially are also wanting to help Bahamas and are watching this news closely, please put information down below.

Who to follow currently for news updates (Twitter):

NEMA Bahamas

Jacqueline Charles

Brian Entin

Patricia Mazzei

Frances Robles

David Begnaud

Danny Rivero

(I know I’ve linked a video from Bahamas Press, however, some of their reports seem to be incorrect. Also a few of their videos are very inflammatory/hateful towards Haitians.)

Here’s a map of the Bahamas so y’all know where the areas were impacted most (The Abacos and Grand Bahama island. I remember seeing some people from southern islands say they were impacted too but I can’t find much info unfortunately).

🚨ATTENTION IF YOU LIVE IN SOUTH FLORIDA🚨:

Most major schools are doing donation drives. go check out your local elementary/middle/high schools, community college or university’s Student Life center. Idk if other parts of Florida are doing these drives, but I would recommend asking, please.

In Miami-Dade County: all fire stations are accepting primary supplies. Broward, Monroe and Palm Beach counties: I suggest you check if your fire stations are doing the same. Here is a list of all the places accepting primary care donations in Miami Dade.

One more thing: Bahamas is not part of either the US or the UK so stop making those stupid ass comments you geography incompetent clowns.

FUERZA BAHAMAS!! 🇧🇸

[Date of post: 9th of September 2019]

By: @noodle-dragon

Date: 2017

More: The borzoi dog featured here is a Russian breed. It’s also known as the Little Russian Lady or Walking Cloud.

The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well.

Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead in the eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.”

She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable”. She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”

tldr: the French family was shopping at our local Costco when their nonverbal son with schizophrenia pushed an off duty police officer. the officer was holding his baby and quickly gave it to his wife and immediately pulled a gun. The French family begged with the officer and explained that their son was sick and that it was an accident. the cop ignored, shot and killed their son, then shot Mr. and Mrs. French (who were simply begging him not to shoot) and put both of them in ICU. Mr. French was in there for a short period while Mrs. French was in ICU for even longer. 

While they were recovering, the police wouldn’t release video footage, and the officer who shot claimed he was ‘knocked unconscious’ by Mr. and Mrs. French’s son. Everyone who witnessed the incident said that was a lie, and that the officer was never unconscious at any fucking point.

It’s hard to picture this, but I need you to. A nonverbal man, who was shopping for groceries with his family for fathers day, was shot and killed. Both parents begged multiple times and tried to explain. 

His mother recalls: ‘Paola French also says she pleaded with the officer. “I told Officer Sanchez not to shoot twice. I even said please,” she recalled between sobs. “I was pleading for our son and our lives. I was still shot in the back. What threat did I pose to him?“’

Kenneth French (the nonverbal son) was shot at least twice. Russel (the father) French was shot in the abdomen. Paola was shot in the back and had to go through SEVEN SURGERIES in an attempt to recover. That is at least 4 shots right there. All because of one accidental push. These were shots at unarmed, innocent people who were just trying to take care of their son and go get some groceries so they could have a nice fathers day.

There’s so much more, but please read it all here.

please don’t let this die. this officer needs to have his fucking reality checked.