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The nuclear family is probably the greatest enabler of child abuse, ever.

Putting two people in complete control of another person (who is particularly vulnerable and has few legal rights) and then having no oversight for the whole arrangement is the absolute worst idea.

Families are garbage.

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“Who you gonna call?” The UK activist legal support network made easy.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/explainer-the-activists-legal-support-network/

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1993 - When he spots a neo-nazi giving Hitler salutes and wearing a swastika in the crowd during a concert in Sweden, Layne Staley, singer of Alice in Chains, stops the show and asks the crowd to get the guy to him. After the nazi is pushed and shoved to the stage, Layne helps him up and punches him in the face, throwing him back into the crowd. They then continue the concert with a “Fucking Nazis, Die!”. [video]

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Too often, poverty and deprivation get covered as events. That is, when disaster strikes, when people die. Yet, poverty is much more than starvation deaths or near-famine conditions. It is the sum total of a multiplicity of factors. They include not just income and salary intake. Land, health, education, literacy (including female literacy), infant mortality rates and life expectancy are some of those too. Debt, assets, irrigation, drinking water, sanitation and job counts too.

P Sainath, ‘Everybody Loves a Good Drought’ (via indizombie)

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Americans are too poor to survive whether or not they're working

A new study from the United Way claims that 43% of American households are in a status called “asset limited, income constrained, employed” (ALICE), which denotes employed people who can’t afford housing, food, childcare, healthcare, transportation, and a cellphone – the basics of modern living.

Umair Haque (previously) connects this to the idea of America as the world’s first poor rich country, a country that is awash in wealth, yet so unequal that nearly half its residents sink deeper into debt every month – and most Americans die in debt.

As Haque says, if you work hard all your life and die with no assets, no savings, and debt, that’s not employment, it’s serfdom. America’s former middle class have now hit the limits of their ability to survive with stagnating wages by taking on debt secured by their meager assets – the family home, pensions and so on. Now, Americans are both kinds of poor: asset-poor and wage-poor. Americans aren’t poor because they don’t work hard enough: they’re poor no matter how hard they work.

And unlike poor people in countries like Pakistan or Nigeria, American poor people live in a country where things like childcare, medicine, rent and food are very, very expensive. American poor people are poorer than the poor people in poor countries.

https://boingboing.net/2019/06/10/asset-stripped-working-stiffs.html

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I have no faith in a proper investigation.

#SayHerName  #SadieRobertsJoseph

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Trump on racists being inspired by his tweets: 'It doesn't concern me because many people agree with me'

None of this is a surprise. And none of it is normal or okay.

Today, United States popular-vote-losing and illegitimate president Donald J. Trump was asked if he is concerned that he is speaking and tweeting in the language of white supremacy, and that many people view his messages as explicitly racist.

Trump replied, “It doesn’t concern me because many people agree with me.”

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/15/because-he-is-a-racist.html

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Stephen King is antifa.

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not giving your money to a business that’s currently striking is an essential part of a strike.

Amazon normally brings in over 34 BILLION dollars every day. The loss of even one day’s profits could mean massive leverage for the strikers – especially when the boycott coincides with what is usually one of Amazon’s busiest days of the year, their Prime deals day.

Do not visit Amazon.com until they agree to the demands of their striking workers.

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It typically takes coral 25 to 75 years to reach sexual maturity. With a new coral fragmentation method, it takes just 3.

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NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION TO SHUT DOWN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND ABOLISH ICE, JULY 12 2019!

On Friday July 12th, 2019, Lights for Liberty: A Vigil to End Human Concentration Camps, will bring thousands of people to locations worldwide as well as to concentration camps across the country, into the streets and into their own front yards, to protest the inhumane conditions faced by refugees. 

At Trump’s concentration camps, teen mothers and babies are held outdoors in “dog pounds.” We have witnessed the sick and elderly confined to “icebox” rooms for weeks at a time. Unbelievably, children as young as 4 months are taken from their parents, medicine is confiscated, and medical care withheld, and LGBTQ and disabled individuals are held in solitary confinement.

Perhaps most terrifying, refugees are beginning to be moved onto military grounds, where there will be a lack of oversight from the media, lawyers, and human rights monitors.

“Now is the time for every person to stand up and say, ‘We will not accept this!’ No more hesitating. No more denial. No more fear. We need to be bold, and loud, and unrelenting. That’s the only way we can stop this.”

Useful preparation resources:

HOW TO ORGANIZE AN INSURRECTION

THE DO-IT-YOURSELF OCCUPATION GUIDE

HOW TO FORM AN AFFINITY GROUP

BLOCS: BLACK AND OTHERWISE (PROTECTING DEMONSTRATIONS FROM THE STATE)

STORMING THE GATES: THE NEW WAVE OF FRONTAL ATTACKS ON PRISONS, JAILS, AND DETENTION CENTERS

LIST OF COMPANIES PROFITING FROM CHILD DETENTION CENTERS

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How To Organize An Insurrection

List of companies profiting from child detention centers

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