Tiarra Hill

The thing that sucks about being poor is how expensive it is.

— bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (via nervous-lesbian)

Maya Angelou

Y'all I just want you guys to know that at the protest tonight in Rochester, cops keep gassing the Frederick Douglass statue on the sidewalk because they think he's a protester who isn't leaving

You cannot MAKE THIS SHIT UP

Start setting up mannequins and cardboard cutouts everywhere, hopefully they'll waste all their time and resources

Ah yes, the “Straw Boat Borrows Arrows“ trick (~250 AD)

It gets better:

the last addition was fucking iconic

And for some reason, people still think the police are the good guys.

People insist that protesters who destroy property should be put to death on the spot, but those same people believe that these police officers who destroy property deserve a free pass or even praise.

‘I Can’t Breathe’: Video shows white policeman laying on top of crying black girl

I haven't seen anyone talk about this yet on here and I'm not sure what else to do. The Instagram post was taken down but the video has spread to Twitter. Officers arrested her mother for asking to loosen her daughter's handcuffs, and Martin was reportedly not wearing his bodycam properly as well.

Please PLEASE fucking share. This monster has used his badge to abuse this girl and borderline sexually assault her and was only placed on leave.

Aaaand sign off. Mainstream Western media, Ladies and Gentlemen. Believe it or not, this reporter was actually somewhat professional by the typical standards we see from channels like CNN. I’ve seen much worse.

Watch the full interview here: https://www.instagram.com/p/COuuzG1l_yj/ 

Kurd’s comment on the interview: “I knew this interview was going to have a biased, inaccurate framing, and it did from the start. But I made sure I course corrected. I’m happy that you cannot edit a live interview, because there’s no way I could have spoken so bluntly about the myth of “both sides” and Israeli “self-defense” had this been prerecorded. Thanks CNN for taking my testimony about settler-colonialism.“

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Here are some backups. Because some social media - like Instagram, occasionally delete some posts about what’s happening in Palestine.

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✍🏿What’s Your📖Story? (WYS?)

What’s Your Story?: Dwayne A. Jones: Dwayne the Contractor

“WYS?” is a guest post feature on BCBA’s Our Stories Matter blog. It’s for indie/self-published authors.

Read an👇🏿excerpt:

🔨The book series Dwayne the Contractor is based on my career as a developer, general contractor, and international missionary. As a general contractor, I’ve built many homes and commercial projects and traveled to Ghana and Togo, West Africa, India, and Haiti. My mission trip focused on ministering and spending time with children at orphanages… During my time at the orphanages, I was often asked by the children what I do for work in the United States. I often had to explain my work as a contractor on a level a 3-8-year-old child could understand, and that’s how my journey of writing children’s books started. I’ve completed and published two books of the twelve-book series. My goal is to expose children at an early age to construction or contracting as a career opportunity and allow them to see an African American male as a business owner with projects being completed at primarily minority homeowners.🔨continue reading Dwayne A. Jones’ story.

Dwayne the Contractor Series:

📖Dwayne the Contractor Uses a Hammer (Bk. 1)  

📖Dwayne the Contractor Paints a House (Bk. 2)  

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Donate what you can everything helps ❣️❣️❣️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Please shareeeeeeee

If we want REAL CHANGE we have to hold ourselves accountable

Evaluate our NEEDS and what we have to share

The homeless are going through even more bullshit because of the pandemic

We need to recognize the power we do have and not forget it

We are society

Everything adds up guys ❣️❣️❣️❣️ please like & reblog

Help if you can!

First Screenshot : Savannah Georgia Mutual Aid Fund (Go Fund Me)

Keiajah Brooks and Rose Waldron are organizing this fundraiser

Second Screenshot : For centuries, we have faced systemic racism in every form at the hands of the City of Savannah. A city that actively acknowledges its deeply entrenched role in slavery and the Jim Crow that followed it, but does nothing to reparate and undo the harm caused to the black community.

Savannah is facing a lot of issues. From gentrification, low quality education, gun violence, to police violence, the standard of living for black folks in our city is getting lower and lower. We make up over 53% of the population but do not own a nearly equitable amount of wealth. The white people here live off of generational wealth attained through slavery while we work in restaurants and establishments meant to uplift and serve them. Most generational black families in this city came directly off of the River Street ports and due to centuries of oppression, have been unable to pull themselves out of what the United States government chartered and paid for — suppression.

We are launching a mutual aid fund in hopes of greatly impacting black folks in our city and changing their standard of living for the better.

Third Screenshot : This fund will be used for:

This mutual aid fund will be ran by KJ Brooks and Rose Waldron of “Black Radical Tradition Club” in Savannah and in complete transparency, honesty and dedication to the Savannah community.

Fourth Screenshot : To counter possible concerns of where the money is being spent in the community, we will have a monthly transparency report available for viewing. Those who have helped will be listed through a letter system.

Example: Ashley Doe receives help with her $100 light bill.

THIS will be listed as SAVAD - $100.

For the reasons of anonymity and safety, we will have sole access to this information and to the contact information of the community member helped and will render this information to the proper outlets and authorities should any allegations or concerns of money misuse arise.

We thank you for your donation and/or share and look forward to liberation, with your help.

(Then the link to the Go Fund Me page)

Fifth Screenshot : (KJ Brooks Instagram post, her username is @kjg.brks)

Caption: SAVANNAH GA. 🚨

look at this shit. look WTF we got people living in.

LOOK.

(The fifth, seventh, eighth and ninth screenshots are pictures of a homeless encampment with terrible, inhumane living conditions. They all live in tents, if they have one and they all live under a highway with a dirt ground. The Ninth picture is a picture of a tub of water on a wheelbarrow type thing labeled “drinking water”)

Sixth Screenshot : (caption continued)

THIS IS DOWN THE STREET FROM SCAD. DOWN THE STREET FROM AN INSTITUTION WHERE @paulaswallace MADE MORE THAN 19 MILLION DOLLARS BETWEEN 2008-2014 ALONE.

they asked me not to go all the way back where their personal items were kept...

what. the. fuck.

what is this shit????? is this who we are????

I spoke with a few of our folks at this encampment and they simply asked for more water but we can do better than that ‼️ ‼️ apartments average 800$ a month on the south side.

WE CAN PUT FOLKS IN HOUSES. THEY SHOULD NOT BE SLEEPING OUTSIDE IN TENTS. IT IS 80 DEGREES TODAY. THERE IS A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. HOUSING IS A HUMAN FUCKING RIGHT. We’re making moves but I’m putting my foot down. We’re making moves quicker. Idek what to say bro just go donate to the Savannah Mutual aid fund in my bio.

My comrades and I will be back out here this weekend to assess everyone’s needs.... I literally can’t believe this shit. I ain’t even finna tag the mayor. Or scad. Or the city council. This is a result of a complacent SOCIETY. Not only a complacent GOVERNMENT. I’m so livid.

10th screenshot is another screenshot of the go fund me page.

Here is the link they gave.

Follow Resist Line 3 on Twitter.

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#Line3 would be a disaster for life on our planet, all the way from the pipeline's source to its destination. Here's why.

At the source of Line 3 is the tar sands extraction industry in Alberta, Canada. Here, Canadian oil workers clear-cut ancient forests to get at the oil tar beneath. These forests are one of the best carbon sinks on the planet - but when they're gone, they're gone.

Once the trees are gone, all of the life-sustaining topsoil is then scraped off of the ground. Without it, nothing will grow here again. Beneath that soil is bitumen, what @Enbridge wants - the most impure form of oil on this Earth.

Bitumen is so impure that it needs to be mixed with many toxic chemicals to even get the tar out of it, thus creating massive pools of toxic liquids called tailing ponds. The ponds are so toxic that strobe lights and sound cannons need to be used to keep birds away.

Leaving the destroyed earth of northern Alberta behind, the diluted bitumen is sent through the Line 3 oil pipeline that goes south into North Dakota, crosses Minnesota, and eventually arrives in Superior, Wisconsin. But the journey is far from painless.

Since 2002, @Enbridge has reported 307 hazardous liquid incidents in its operations. On average, that's one toxic spill every 20 days, totaling 66,059 barrels of hazardous liquids. How many more spills can the land take before it's irreparably poisoned?

As a matter of fact, the old Line 3 was responsible for the largest inland oil spill in US history, back in 1991 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The existing #Line3 has already caused dozens of oil spills on treaty land. A bigger pipeline will just spill more.

And when construction is finished on the new Line 3, @Enbridge wants to abandon the old Line 3 to corrode away in the ground. Contaminants from the pipe will likely make their way into the soil, the water, and eventually all life in the surrounding area.

This tar, marked by ecocide at every point of its journey, eventually arrives in Superior, Wisconsin. From here, some of it will be shipped south towards Chicago, and some will go east towards Michigan. The Michigan-bound oil will eventually travel through the Great Lakes.

And if the pipeline in the Great Lakes ruptures (which pipelines always do eventually - especially old and corroded pipelines such as that one), it will contaminate the source of 84% of the fresh water on this continent. That’s water we depend on to drink. /end ID]

Email/call your congressman ,representatives they work for us

Bring attention to your fave creators, celebs or any big account, so they can speak up about it

ALL ACCOUNTS SHOULD REBLOG, MAKE POSTS ABOUT IT NO MATTER HOW MANY FOLLOWERS YOU HAVE

WE CAN ALL MAKE THIS TRENDING

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING RIGHT NOW , THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS THIS ILLEGAL PIPELINE WILL HAVE ARE IRREVERSIBLE

Black Panthers dir. Agnès Varda (1968)

Quilters. Photographs by Henry Groskinsky (1971)

Additional information about these photos: Women of the all-black cooperative at the Martin Luther King Freedom Quilting Bee, hand sewing a quilt, Alberta, Alabama. (Photo by Henry Groskinsky/The LIFE Picture Collection)

Officer Caught planting evidence in a civilians car during stop… little did he know he was being recorded

25th of July, 2021.

It's been 499 days since Breonna Taylor was killed by the LMPD & Brett Hankinson, Jonathan Mattingly & Miles Cosgrove haven't faced charges or been arrested for her death

Happy 80th birthday to Emmett Till born on this day, July 25, 1941.  Rest in peace, Emmett.