I’m just super fucking bitter that once the flint water crisis got it’s 15 minutes of fame people stopped giving a shit. The water is still poisoned, people! Donations have plummeted and people have been forced back into drinking and bathing with the water! The medical effects of this are astounding, cases of legionnaires disease have skyrocketed, people are having seizures, people are having weird rashes break out over their body, people (including me!) are having their blood poisoned, and it’s not just lead! it’s coliform bacteria! it’s THMs! it’s all in the water and it gets into the bloodstream and breaks down blood vessels, causing bruising and petechiae and internal bleeding and no one gives a shit anymore and it’s only gotten worse like how many people are going to have to die until people realize this is still a problem
I would like to add that the people of Flint cannot sell their houses, because selling a house with leaded water is illegal. Additionally, households with children can’t stop paying for the water because living in a house without running water is cause for CPS to take their kids. Flint has been living this way for over two years.
Mari Copeny has taken the initiative to create a water filter. I’ve linked her GoFundMe that’s she using to raise money for it. She’s been able to raise $50k in donations but her next goal is $1 million
April 27, 1937: Death of Comrade Antonio Gramsci, Italian communist leader and political prisoner under the fascist regime of Mussolini.
<Comrade Gramsci> “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” In this interregnum where our people experience fear, hopelessness, and desperation we must stay connected and clear. The same brutal monsters are reorganizing themselves and continue to wage war in different forms against our people. We must remember that we are here to serve our people… and to take necessary time for assessment, reflection, gathering strength and building organization. We must prepare for what is to come and how to respond strategically in ways that advance our class struggle. In the spirit of Comrade Gramsci, may we have the pessimism of intelligence and optimism of the will. Capitalism must and will die, but it won’t die a natural death… we must educate and organize to end it, as we build anew.✊🏾
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