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The situation in Venezuela is very serious and we radicals and progressives need must avoid the reactionary romanticization of protests, uprisings, rebels, and the “opposition” as some kind of revolutionary force that will bring freedom to the people of Venezuela. We on the left need to pay very close attention to the ways that corporate and mainstream liberal media is distorting EVERYTHING going on in Venezuela. Case in point: this article. “Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles has told the BBC that early general elections are the only way to put an end to the country’s crisis. “How long can Maduro stand denying Venezuelans the right to vote? I don’t think much long,” he added.”
Venezuela has one of the most democratic governments in the world and BBC wants to talk shit about how elections will solve a crisis created by the most UNDEMOCRATIC ECONOMIC SYSTEM, CAPITALISM, which is a system eternally in crisis?! like are you serious right now bruh? these opposition aka capitalist mofos stay salty from losing elections time and time again and stay tryin to overthrow the govt afterwards and they use the media as a way to hype up these lies in order to justify their illegal UNDEMOCRATIC coup de'tat. this the shit people are eating up. savage repression? are we just gonna pretend like the U.S. is not involved in this whole thing? like they’re not funding for the overthrow not only of the Venezuelan govt but also the Cuban govt? Do people honestly have no fucking clue of the history of how the socialist Venezuelan government became DEMOCRATICALLY elected into power?! you’ve got to be fucking kidding me, a simple search on the internet will answer many questions and debunk a million myths coming out of Venezuela. Do not fall for the bullshit.
Activists made their way to greet Donald Trump in NYC on April 14, 2016 for a GOP fundraiser gala that cost $1,000 to attend. Some were provoked by Trump supporters. As the sun set, 30+ were arrested. This repression is just a glance at what many say would be a common theme of fascist North America if Trump were to be elected president of the United States.
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☆ Street Cat Chronicles ☆
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When I saw this dope new mural by Panmela Castro celebrating women (background) just painted on the side of the Andrew Freedman Home in the South Bronx, I immediately parked my bike to capture it. What I didn’t know was that I had interupted the home of two beautiful street cats…
These cats seem to love each other in a city that seems to love cats (myself included). According to the @nydailynews, “…more than 576,000 cats are owned by city residents… [However,] New York’s stray cat population is booming, with more than 20,000 already brought in to city-contracted shelters so far [in late 2015]. In 2013, the shelters took in 18,000 cats for the whole year.”
Many people don’t know (myself included) that you can drop off a NYC street cat at an Animal Care Center. More from the @nydailynews: “The largest number of cats being abandoned or surrendered to Animal Care Centers came from East New York and the south Bronx. Some animal advocates say the stray cat problem is exacerbated by the fact the city has never built full-service animal shelters in the Bronx and Queens.”
Even when street cats are innocently taken to these animal centers, they are possibly facing a death chamber. In 2014, “about 14,000 cats were adopted. But Animal Care Centers was still forced to euthanize about 4,000 cats because they were sick or no one has stepped up to adopt them.” (From the @nydailynews). Hmm, better off living in the streets…
To combat the cold-blooded murders of cats in the animal shelters, the NYC mayor’s office started the Feral Cat Initiative in order to find more humane ways to “ end the killing of healthy and treatable cats and dogs at AC&C shelters.” I hope there’s a similar program for oppressed people coming to a hood near you…
However, some animal advocates still put the blame on the city. The @nydailynews reports one advocate saying: “‘Rather than blaming pet owners in the first instance, let’s look at how the city has failed to educate, provide key resources for, protect and ensure responsible pet owners,’ said Esther Koslow of the Shelter Reform Action Committee.”
Moral of the story? Be a cat person. Let’s love them and take care of them. Picket the mayor’s office demanding better treatment of pets (AND people in general). And never ever ever get in the way of a street cat’s lunch. You will be scratched.
“The Democratic Party: A Summary
The Democratic Party is the lightning rod of discontent. It adapts itself to radical movements more readily than the Republicans. It bends. It is flexible. And one of its main functions is to prevent the formation of a genuine people’s party, a party that would express the interests of the working people, of the oppressed people’s, and of all the sectors of our population interested in peace and fundamental social change. (Not shown in image) And so it accepts reform –as much as necessary but as little as possible – in order to calm the people’s anger, to coopt the people’s leaders, and ride out the storm until the crisis has passed. It then gradually curtails those reforms and cuts back programs in the people’s interest.”
-Joe Kaye, The Crime of Impunity, The Crime of Punishment
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“Knowning my people have resisted for so long. Its actually fucking amazing. Every morning when I wake up and my feet touch the earth I lay down my prayers and thank creator, Pachamama, and my ancestors. It makes me connected and whole again. It makes me ready to take on a world that tells me and all my loved ones we shouldn’t be alive. So I keep going, fighting, Dancing, eating, loving.”
~ @que_pasa_apaza
The Bronx; ex-SUNY New Paltzian; Afro-Latino/ Afro-Dominican. Photographer. Poet. Writer. Educator. Community Organizer. Member of the @People Power Movement @PPM_MPP. Anti-Oppression. Urban warrior fighting for Liberation. ~Peace & Love~
I am: anti-racism/white supremacy, anti-sexism/patriarchy, anti-capitalism/poverty, anti-imperialism/colonialism, pro-socialism, for the people, freedom, justice, equality, peace, ourstory, revolution, liberation
[aspirations] community organizer, author, freedom [hobbies] reading, photography, poetry, listening, researching, educating, agitating, organizing, learning.
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@ theJayEspyi go to sleep every day grateful to be alive, and I wake up every morning ready for liberation.
As people of color, especially Black people, we must preserve, defend, and know our history and culture, and also fight to end white supremacy & racism!
As poor and working class people, we must organize to fight for basic human rights, such as guaranteed housing, education, & healthcare, etc, for all people to use and control democratically. Capitalism gives most to a few and a few to most, and we as poor and working class people must unite against exploitation and take control back of society!
“What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help a child to learn.” ~ Afrikan proverb
"If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything." ~ Malcolm X
"Why don't you live for the people. Why don't you struggle for the people. Why don't you die for the people." ~ Fred Hampton
The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows...to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.” ~ Assata Shakur
"I will be a slave until all my people are free.” ~ Frederick Douglass
"If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power." ~ Kwame Ture (aka Stokely Carmichael)
“No movement can survive unless it is constantly growing and changing with the times. If it isn't growing, if it's stagnant, and without the support of the people, no movement for liberation can exist, no matter how correct its analysis of the situation is. That's why political work and organizing are so important. Unless you are addressing the issues people are concerned about and contributing positive direction, they'll never support you." ~ Assata Shakur
“Without revolutionary consciousness there can be no revolution. Without political education and revolutionary practice there can be no revolutionary consciousness.” ~ Sekou Ture of Guinea
"...What is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others...Strong people don't need strong leaders." ~ Ella Baker
"Cuando la tiranía es ley, la revolución es orden / When tyranny is law, revolution is order." ~ Pedro Albizu Campos
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.” ~ Nicholas Klein
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