How to have a protest and accomplish nothing other than a police record in five easy steps!
Activism: A How-Not-To-Do in pictures
they decided they didn’t want to be like occupy or black bloc so that public opinion would be more favourable, but they fail to realise that such tactics have evolved to deal with state repression/violence of the kind that these middle class liberal organisers don’t have to put up with day-to-day.
And now they’re discovering that the state will literally lock them all up to end the protests if they make it that easy to do
Peak liberalist ignorance and foolishness.
Poor Karen and Chad, they watched all the documentaries on the civil rights and never understood anything.
I like the idea of working with BC. If Eastern Canada hadn’t promised to get a Railroad to them faster than US could they may have joined us in 1871. BTW they were several years late with he RR, but BC was already locked in.
trump cares about “liability.” He intends to make certain that when these deregulated companies spew out contaminated food, or when their workers are injured, or sicken and die, or when all other businesses in the area of meatpacker plants fail because of virulent infection rates, there will be no consequences paid by these plants trump is “ordering” to stay open.
He did not order OSHA to ensure workplace safety with mandatory rules. Eugene Scalia, having centered his career on maximizing indemnified harm to workers, was selected by trump to run trump’s anti-OSHA.
‘I’m hard pressed not to think that this is political. Blue states like California got a pathetic number of loans issued. Nebraska got nearly 75% of loans requested. I smell a rat with orange hair.’
— Democratic Congresswoman Jackie Speier
And she’s surprised? Open an investigation into it now.
With them stuffing the courts with sympathetic judges, especially ones that the Bar says are incompetent, forget about getting resolution.
I just finished reading Bloods; An oral history of the Vietnam war by black veterans by Wallace Terry. It’s a good book, and it has a lot of interesting accounts of the daily life before, during, and after the Vietnam war of African-American Vietnam veterans, but mostly it’s just page upon page of horrific, senseless war crimes.
However, there are also some heartwarming accounts of men threatening, attacking, and fragging officers and racists, of which I wanted to share a few.
Harold “Light Bulb“ Bryant:
Well, I ran into this officer. Second Lieutenant. Just got out of OCS. He asked me if I was authorized to wear a combat infantryman’s badge and jump wings. I told him, “You damn right. I earned them.“ He didn’t like that answer. So I said, “You can harass me now, sir, but you can’t go over in Vietnam and do that shit.“ […]
So when I heard he had orders for ‘Nam, I went and found him and laughed at him and told him that he wasn’t gon’ make it back. “Somebody’s gon’ kill you,“ I said. “One of your own men is gon’ kill you.“
Richard J. Ford III:
In the rear sometimes we got a grenade, dump the gunpowder out, break the firing pin. Then you’ll go inside one of them little bourgeois clubs. […] We act real crazy. Yell out, “Kill all y’all motherfuckers!“ Pull the pin and throw the grenade. And everybody would haul ass and get out. It would make a little pop sound. And we would laugh. You didn’t see anybody jumpin’ on them grenades.
One time we saw these [Confederate] flags in Nha Trang on the MP barracks. They was playing hillbilly music. Had their shoes off dancing. Had nice, pretty bunks. Mosquito nets over the top of the bunks. And had the nerve to have this camouflaged covers. Air conditioning. Cement floors. We just came out the jungles. We dirty, we smelly, hadn’t shaved. We just went off. Said, “Y’all the real enemy. We stayin’ here.“ We turned the bunks over, started tearing up the stereo. They just ran out. Next morning, they shipped us back up.
Before I went home, the company commanders in Bravo and Echo got killed. And rumor said their own men did it. Those companies were pressed because the captains do everything by the book. And the book didn’t work for Vietnam. They had this West Point thing about how you dug a foxhole at night. Put sandbags around it. You couldn’t expect a man to cut through that jungle all day, then dig a hole, fill up the sandbags, then in the morning time dump the sandbags out, fill your foxhole back up, and then cut down another mountain.
Guys said the hell with some foxhole. And every time you get in a fire fight, you looking around for somebody to cover your back, and he looking around to see where the captain is ‘cause he gon’ fire a couple rounds at him. See, the thing about Vietnam, your own men could shoot you and no one could tell, because we always left weapons around and the Viet Congs could get them.
Haywood T. Kirkland:
You would see the racialism in the base-camp area. Like red-necks flying rebel flags from their jeeps. I would feel insulated, intimidated. The brothers they was calling quote unquote troublemakers, they would send to the fields. A lot of brothers who had supply clerk or cook MOS when they came over ended up in the field. And when the brothers who was shot came out of the field, most of them got the jobs burning shit in these 50-gallon drums. Most of the white dudes got jobs as supply clerks or in the mess hall.
So we began to talk to each other, close our ranks, and be more organized amongst ourselves to deal with some of this stuff. The ones like me from the field would tell the brothers in base camp, “Look, man, you know how to use grenades. If you run into any problems, just throw a grenade in their hootch.“
Robert E. Holcomb:
One night, we had come in for a stand-down. I was laying in bed, just about to go to sleep. We hear this burst, and the bullets went through the tent. Everybody jumped off on the floor. We didn’t have any weapons, ‘cause they’d always disarm us when we came in. What happened was this black soldier had taken some drugs, and he just sort of went crazy. A lot of his anxieties and hostilities came out. He got an M-16, and he sprayed a Sergeant, killed him and two others.
After another stand-down, we lost a second-lieutenant. A white guy. He had been in country about six months. And he had made a lot of enemies because he was really tough on some of his people in the field even though the pullout had started. Someone wired a claymore mine to the door of his hootch.
Arthur E. “Gene“ Woodley, Jr.:
So on [this Sergeant’s] birthday, which was three days [after he demoted me], he was havin’ all the officers in his barracks. They was partyin’. Music was playin’. Me and some friends of mine got a M-79 grenade launcher, got behind some sandbags, and we M-79′ed his birthday party. A couple of people got hurt.
When you really realize this goes on and is not limited to any single group, race, or war, you understand why so many of us older people questioned the story about Pat Tillman.
“We only wish that this administration cared as much about the lives of
working people as it does about meat, pork and poultry products,” Mr.
Appelbaum said. “When poultry plants shut down, it’s for deep cleaning
and to save workers’ lives. If the administration had developed
meaningful safety requirements early on as they should have and still
must do, this would not even have become an issue.”
Trump to slaughterhouse workers: drop dead.
Unless they use level “C” protection for entire process they are making the food itself a source of the virus.
Below is what we had to wear to work in the fish plants in Alaska 20 years ago.
Wait, what? Even with the global economy at a near-standstill, the best analysis suggests that the world is still on track to release 95 percent of the carbon dioxide emitted in a typical year, continuing to heat up the planet and driving climate change even as we’re stuck at home.
A 5.5-percent drop in carbon dioxide emissions would still be the largest yearly change on record, beating out the financial crisis of 2008 and World War II. But it’s worth wondering: Where do all of those emissions come from? And if stopping most travel and transport isn’t enough to slow down climate change, what will be?
“I think the main issue is that people focus way, way too much on people’s personal footprints, and whether they fly or not, without really dealing with the structural things that really cause carbon dioxide levels to go up,” said Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist and the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City.
Transportation makes up a little over 20 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, according to the International Energy Agency. (In the United States, it makes up around 28 percent.) That’s a significant chunk, but it also means that even if all travel were completely carbon-free (imagine a renewable-powered, electrified train system, combined with personal EVs and battery-powered airplanes), there’d still be another 80 percent of fossil fuel emissions billowing into the skies.
So where are all those emissions coming from? For one thing, utilities are still generating roughly the same amount of electricity — even if more of it’s going to houses instead of workplaces. Electricity and heating combined account for over 40 percent of global emissions. Many people around the world rely on wood, coal, and natural gas to keep their homes warm and cook their food — and in most places, electricity isn’t so green either.
Manufacturing, construction, and other types of industry account for approximately 20 percent of CO2 emissions. Certain industrial processes like steel production and aluminum smelting use huge amounts of fossil fuels — and so far, Schmidt says, that type of production has mostly continued despite the pandemic.
This doesn’t stop just because we aren’t using it.
