But some of you still aren’t ready for that conversation.
iamhalsey: It’s become very clear to me that some of you need to see what I’ve seen. Please swipe through this. These pictures and videos don’t even scratch the surface. It’s easy from the comfort of your home to watch looting and rioting on television and condone the violent measures being taken by forces. But what you don’t see is innocent peaceful protestors being shot at and tear gassed and physically assaulted relentlessly. You think it’s not happening, it’s only the “thugs” and the “riots”, right? The police are keeping you safe right? You’re wrong. This is happening everywhere. And innocent people exercising their rights to speech and assembly are facing violence and abuse of power. With all of our medical professionals being CONSUMED and EXHAUSTED with Covid, there is little to no medical attention available. I have first hand treated men women and children who have been shot in the chest, the face, the back. Some will lose vision some have lost fingers. I have been covered in innocent blood. My father is a black man. My mother is an EMT. This week I had to put those two associations together in ways that have horrified me. This is NOT a virtue signaling post. But I HAVE to show you what I am witnessing with my own eyes. With Trump’s decision today to enforce the mobilization of armed forces on our own citizens, this has escalated beyond your privilege and comfort to not care. Please care. We are begging you to care. This is war on Americans. This is everyone’s problem. Everyone’s. #BLACKLIVESMATTER
my respect for halsey just keeps growing and growing
the mere fact that john boyega's career could be ruined because he's standing up and speaking out against racism while rich white celebrities careers are safe as they do the bare minimum, if anything, is fucking disgusting.
as an audience we need to show our support for john as well 🙏🏼 we’ve done it before and we’ll continue to show our support for him. FUCK RACISTS
i understand that not everyone can donate rn even if they really wanted to. i myself am currently unemployed and cannot donate much more than i already have atm !! not donating is okay - pls don’t feel guilty if you do not have the means to do so.
if donating is not a possibility right now, ive found this 1 hour video you can watch on youtube where all proceeds from the ad revenue will go to an organization to help the cause (more info in the video’s description). op has compiled songs and art from Black artists to listen to. you can leave it on to play in the background or plug in earphones and go about your business as usual. it can’t get more simple than that.
as a fandom that’s known to mass stream, it would be amazing if you could channel that energy into watching this video !!!!!
List of Black Lives Matter and Racial Equality Petitions to sign:
- Justice for George Floyd
- Justice for George Floyd 2
- Justice for George Floyd 3
- Charge the Officers Responsible for George Floyd’s Murder
- Charge the Officers Responsible for George Floyd’s Murder 2
- Justice For Ahmuad Arbery
- Justice For Ahmuad Arbery 2
- Justice for Breonna Taylor
- Stand with Breonna
- Charge Officers Responsible for Breonna Taylor’s Murder
- Justice For Tamir Rice
- Justice For Joāo Pedro
- Justice for Alejandro Vargas Martinez
- Justice for Belly Mujinga.
- Justice for Rashad Cunningham
- Justice For Tony McDade
- Justice for Dion Johnson
- Justice for Jennifer Jeffley
- Justice for Young Uwa
- Justice for Elijah Nichols
- Justice for Tete Gulley
- Justice for Tazne Van Wyk
- Justice for Michael Dean
- Justice For Amari Boone
- Justice for Darrius Stewart
- Justice for Shukri Abdi
- Justice for Ashton Dickson
- Justice For Darrius Stewart
- Justice for David McAtee
- Justice for Cameron Green
- Justice for Crystal Mason
- Justice For Zinedine
- Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet
- Justice for Christopher Josey
- Justice for Amiya Braxton
- Justice For Emerald Black
- Justice for Andile Mchunu
- Justice for Cameron Green
- Justice for Tamla Horsford
- Justice for Collins Khosa
- Free Siyanda
- Reopen Sandra Bland’s Case
- Free Willie Simmons who has served 38 years for a $9 robbery
- Get Washington State to Hold Police Officers Accountable for Police Brutality
- Arrest Officer Jared Campbell for macing a child
- Demand Jail Time for Dylan Mota and Jacob Robles
- Demand Jail Time for All Police who Murder Innocent People
- Fire Racist Criminal Michael J Reynolds from the NYPD
- Petition for Nationwide Police De-Escalation Training
- Petition for Nationwide Police Required Racial Bias Test
- stop immigrants being poisoned by ICEBan the use of inhumane rubber bullets
- Demand a retrial for Angel Bumpass wrongfully convicted 13 year old with a life sentence
- End Police Brutality and Violence Against BIPOC in the USA
- Ban the use of rubber bullets for crowd control
- Join Campaign Zero
- Drop All Charges Against Incarcerated Trafficking Survivor Chrystul Kizer!
- Reopen Kendrick Johnson’s Case
- Abolish Prison Labour in the USA
- Require Dash and Body Cameras for the King County Sheriff’s Office
Donation Links
- A thread of Youtuve videos you can stream to donate to BLM
- Official George Floyd Memorial Fund
- OFFICIAL Gianna Floyd Fund (George Floyd’s child)
- Black Lives Matter
- We Cant Breathe
- 43 Bail Funds to Support
- Homeless Black Trans women fund
- Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers
- Minnesota Healing Justice Network
- Women for Political Change
- Spiral Collective
- When We All Vote
- National List of Bail and Mutual Aid Funds/Organizers/Black Owned Businesses
- Venmo names of black trans people that need help
- Latino Community on Lake Street
- Black Immigrant Collective
- Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha
- Atlanta Black Owned Business Relief
- Al Maa'uun
- Remembering Shana Isuroon
- Fundraising for destroyed black owned businesses
- Joyce Preschool
- Black Table Arts
- Northside business support
- Du Nord Riot Recovery Fund
- Unicorn Riot
- Donate to Destiny Harrison & her daughter Dream’s Legacy
- Pimento Relief Fund
- Southside Harm Reduction
- West Broadway Business and Area Coalition
- Division of Indian Work
- TC Care Collective
- Justice for Breonna Taylor
- Justice for Jamee
- Justice for David McAtee
Important stuff is happening. Here's some great tweets!!
Here's a link to the doc! Take care and sign petitions, educate yourself, and donate!
HOW TO DONATE TO BLM WHEN YOU HAVE NO MONEY! a black woman named zoe amira posted a video on youtube. this video is an hour long and filled with art and music from black creators. 100% of the ad revenue from the video will be dispersed between various blm organizations, including bail-out funds for protesters. it has a ton of ads, and in result will rack up a ton of revenue. turn off your adblocker and do not skip ads. between each time watch 3-5 other videos (mix it up) before restarting. this will ensure you aren’t marked as spam by youtube. don’t mute the video itself. and let. it. play.
donations will be dispersed among the following organizations:
1. brooklyn bail fund
2. minnesota freedom fund
3. atlanta action network
4. black visions collective
5. george floyd’s family gofundme
6. blacklivesmatter.com
7. reclaim the bloc
8. aclu
9. the bail project inc
10. chicago bond
PLUS MORE
#BlackLivesMatter - Petitions to sign.
14-year-old Joāo Pedro was killed by the Rio de Janeiro police. Joāo was shot at his home and his body was taken by the Rio de Janeiro police. His family waited 17 hours until receiving news of his whereabouts. They finally found his dead body at a medical examiner’s office. The family counted 72 bullet marks on the walls of the house.
George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer.
George was handcuffed and restrained and being completely cooperative when this all went down. The officer put his knee on George’s neck choking him for minutes on minutes while George screamed that he could not breathe.
Bystanders beg for the police officer to take his knee off George’s neck, but the officer didn’t listen and continued to choke him.
Petition for the punishment of Minneapolis police officers after the assassination of George Floyd.
Julius Jones has only 122 days before being executed for a crime he DIDN’T COMMIT. Julius has lived on death row for almost 20 years, and is held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. He is allowed one hour of sunlight a day, and three showers a week. Every minute we wait to take action, Julius is suffering. Every second that goes by brings Julius closer to being executed for a crime he didn’t commit.
Tony McDade was a transgender black man who got killed by police in Tallahassee. No one is talking about it.
A 12-year-old girl has drowned in the River Irwell in Greater Manchester.
Greater Manchester Police said it was treating what happened as a “tragic incident” and did not believe there were any suspicious circumstances.
Ahmaud Arbery was chased and gunned down by Travis McMichael, son of retired Brunswick investigator Greg McMichael, under the father’s and son’s pretenses of witnessing a burglary in Satilla Shores of Glynn County.
Jennifer Jeffley was 15 years old when she was arrested for the murder of Maria Palomina. A murder that she did not commit. Innocent of the crime that she was convicted of, Jennifer has been behind bars more than 20 years serving a life sentence.
Regis Korchinski-Paquet was murdered by Toronto Police. A call was made for a domestic incident and Toronto police officers were present on the 24th floor in a High Park apartment building to “observe” 29-year old, Regis. Shortly after, she allegedly fell off the balcony.
Sean was a victim of police brutality. He was running from the police and was on Facebook live. The police officer tased him while he was going down and then shot the man 14 times in the back.
On October 4th 2016 Amiya was stepping off of her school bus and was hit and killed by a car.
11 months later my family and I met with the District Attorney John Weddle and Sadie Gardener. Neither of them took the case seriously and it showed because shortly after that my family was informed that Karen Carpenter would not be charged.
On June 7th, 2019, Emerald Black a pregnant, black woman, and her fiance were pulled over by police officers after coming from a doctors appointment.
The officers spoke to Ms. Black’s fiance while she stayed in the car.
The officers began to order her out of the car. Ms. Black was clearly pregnant and she had let them know that she had just gotten back from a doctors appointment where she was also informed that she was at a high risk for a miscarriage. Despite this, the officers yanked Ms. Black, still in her hospital clothes, and threw her to the ground. They taunted her, piled on top of her, and stomped on her stomach causing her to miscarry. The stomp had also left a shoe mark.
Chrystul Kizer is an incarcerated trafficking survivor who is being charged with life in prison for acting in self-defense against her trafficker.
The punishment that Chrystul is facing for defending her own life signals that black women and girls have no selves to defend.
Tamir was only 12-years-old when he was shot and killed last year by a Cleveland police officer as he played in a park with a toy gun. Timothy Loehmann, an officer in training, shot and killed Tamir within two seconds of arriving at the park. The police car hadn’t even fully stopped before he began shooting.
Siyanda was racially abused and beaten by a group of people. After defending herself - instead of being protected by the justice system - she was sentenced to 4 ½ years of prision.
One month ago, a division of the Louisville Police Department. performed an illegal, unannounced drug raid on Breonna’s home. Not a single officer announced themselves before ramming down her door and firing 22 shots, shooting Breonna 8 times, killing her.
Alejandro is a innocent 15 year old, African American who got shot 7 times while walking to Boone High School, in December of 2018. NO ARREST HAVE BEEN MADE!!!
We need legislation now that prohibits police officers from shooting unarmed citizens!!!




