if my bones are gonna crack like glow sticks every time i move i think i deserve bioluminescence. both to complete the aesthetic and as a consolation prize
Brennan “in the same way your heart feels and your mind thinks, you, mortal beings, are the instruments by which the universe cares” Lee Mulligan and Brian “the world should have protected you but you have been asked to protect it, what an honor, what an injustice” Murphy really be out here trying to destroy my peace of mind
if these petitions reach 500 signatures they must be addressed in the house and that’s not even that many signatures so you see a cause you support you should sign it
Please share! only canadians can sign but for some reason it’s hard for international posts to get a decent reach on here.
i think (largely white) leftists on the wider internet think the chaz is an anticapitalist project but, like, the bagel place and and poke shop and hot dog stand are doing really good business. not everyone in there is an anarchist and in fact most people aren’t. i think it’s a really beautiful project to prove seattle doesn’t need police and we can look after each other, but it’s literally just neighbors looking after each other and in this case that does include bok a bok chicken among the art and the community gardening. local restaurants and breweries and even hair salons have provided space for aid stations and opened their bathrooms to protesters and that doesn’t fit prettily into what i think a lot of leftists are hoping the chaz will be. and honestly that’s ok! it isn’t a white leftist project. it’s something black protesters of many political stripes are leading to try and keep the police from taking the precinct back. that’s a noble goal on its own and fully worth prioritizing right now
these are chaotic times. the autonomous zone was born out of necessity, and all it’s going to be exactly what it needs to be in this place and time. quote some graffiti in the chaz, “black rage and arguing is more radical than any dead white theorist. the revolution will be messy or it will be centrist bullshit.” just something to be mindful of
Oh right the death that only happens to people who die in police custody and has never been proven to actually exist. Can’t believe I didn’t think of that, thank you NYT for showing all sides of the issue.
A sudden acute case of “Die in Custody Syndrome,” the disease where you suddenly and inexplicably die in police custody
From a completely naive perspective- what do we replace these institutions with? What’s the plan?
The short answer: We don’t replace them.
Longer answer:
ICE was only formed 17 years ago in 2003 and exists solely to punish, terrorize, and intimidate people of color from movement across settler imposed boarders. Get rid of it and replace it with nothing.
Police were formed out of “slave catchers” and repurposed after the 13th amendment shifted the practice of slavery from chattel slavery whereby people were legally owned as property by individual capitalists to a system where people were forced into labor by both the state and by private prisons. Their purpose is to protect capitalist “property” and to ensure the perpetuation of slave labor. Get rid of it and replace it with nothing.
Prisons and jails are primarily for the purpose outlined above, but also as a form of punishment and containment of those classed as “criminals” for various amounts of time. Instead of a system of criminalization as a form of assigning legal identity which allows the use of state violence, we can create systems of community accountability practices, robust survivor support systems, disability justice, harm reduction, and mutual aid. These will consist of entirely new frameworks for addressing harm by centering human needs and honoring a diversity of ways of being.
Detention Centers and Concentration Camps are designed for the purpose of eugenics. Get rid of them and replace them with nothing.
The US military exists to use violence and force as a tool of white supremacist imperialism. Get rid of it and replace it with nothing.
The US government is a white supremacist settler state. Get rid of it and return all stolen land to indigenous nations.
All settler states should be abolished and returned to sovereign indigenous nations. We don’t need to, and shouldn’t, replace settler states with other settler states.
Whiteness as an ideology was created to justify racialized and ethnic oppression and eugenics. Get rid of it and replace it with nothing.
