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When it comes to understanding migration, this needs to be taken into account: if you are in a rural area in the global south, like Honduras, you have basically no access to social services, medicine, and education. In fact, the funding for those services is actually being cut, as the social security funds have been looted by corrupt politicans appointed by a military coup. Then you have to factor in that you likely have no access to the land, and no access to credit to buy seeds, and have to sell yourself for basically pennies to an agroindustrial giant. The peasants feed the local people; the agroindustries feed the Americans. In Guatamala, there is a neo-corporate fuedalism where you are allowed a patch of land if you are willing to work, unpaid, for coffee plantations which sell their produce to the German company Ritz. If you attempt to settle unoccupied land, a local businessman will claim it is his without any proof, and the police will take his side because the Agrarian Reform Institute, which issues land titles, is controlled by coupists whose main concern is squeezing as much wealth out of the country as possible. Thugs will murder a man and his wife in broad daylight, and the judge will respond by evicting you and your family from the land.

There is nowhere else for you to go but Tegucigalpa, where you can work trying to wash car windows or selling snacks to passing cars for a handful of lempira a day. Or perhaps you could work for a few dollars a day in one of the maquila factories making textiles for the American and European market, which are set up in special economic zones called Charter Cities where the constitution and labour laws do not apply, which can close down and spirit away whenever they like to another country when they are more willing to sell their people for even less. And then you have to factor in the hurricanes that sweep through the country, destroying everything, that the rains no longer come when they used to but when they do they come in flooding torrents. Much of the north of Honduras is currently underwater; most of the banana and coffee plantations have been destroyed.

And then you factor in when you tried to change this via electing a better government in 2006, he was overthrown in 2009; when you tried to get organised and resist the coup, your friends, your loved ones, your trade union leaders and peasant resisters all turned up mysteriously dead while the military and police worked with drug gangs disguised as agribusiness like the Dinant coproration to burn down villages that opposed them. For trying to change things in the way that you were supposed to, through non violently protesting, organising, and voting for something better, you were subjected to a decade of counterrevolutionary terror and violence that the “international community” not only ignored but gave its active approval to. All of the factors listed above have not only been ongoing for the last 10 years, they’ve been intensified, hothoused by the global counterrevolutionary terror that was the response to the 2011 wave of post-financial crisis uprisings and revolutions and accelerating climate apocalypse.

And at the same time, all of this is being done so more of the country can be turned into a massive cash cow for the benefit of foreign corporations and domestic oligarchs. The wealth of your country is siphoned off and flows around the American and European financial system, benefiting them and building a consumer disneyland that looks like paradise compared to your situation. That could, even if you are worked for nothing, give you a few dollars to send home that could build your abuela in the countryside a nice home for her to live out her days. What other option is left for you and your family other than joining the exodus of people heading north, to the countries where the wealth and profits and rewards of your homeland’s suffering are being kept. And after you cross mountains and rivers which freeze you to death and sweep you away, you are faced with a massive border wall of ahte and soldiers on horses which hit you with sticks. You are faced with an immigration detention centre that will chain you to your bed while you give birth and separate you from your baby who will be given away for adoption to a white couple. When you make a charge against the border fence in Melilla, fed up with being kept in shacks with nothing while the Northerners debate what to do about the problem people their greed has forced to move, the Moroccan police will beat 35 of you to death.

And then when you get there to that golden paradise, you end up doing work not dissimilar to the work you were doing back home, working for pennies (though pennies that are valuable enough back home to buy the family that remain the tiniest slice of comfort) for an agroindustrial giant that supplies supermarkets with cheap produce picked by cheaper people. While you work in the fields, a crop duster plane will spray you with paraquat; when support organisations try to raise this with OSHA they will ask for the plane’s number, and when this can’t be provided they will say nothing can be done. In fact, inspectors are ordered to stay away from the plantations on the Texas border. A member of the Border Agricultural Workers Project says she hasn’t seen a normal child born on the border in 20 years, such is the effect of agrichemicals. If you fuck up in the slightest, have any interaction with the state, you will be deported and sent back to square one. There are a 14 million migrants in the US in the same precarious state, effectively without any way of enforcing their rights. My aunt is a Mexican migrant in California. Her son was deported because he got a speeding ticket. It was 15 years before she saw him again, other than through the bars of the border fence, when she finally got her green card.

The situation in Honduras can be repeated for almost any other country. Syria, Venezuela, Iraq, South Sudan, Libya, all the headline countries are countries that have been subjected to a severe counterrevolutionary terror. The processes of dispossession and destruction of peasant economies and communities (primitive accumulation to use the Marxist jargon) have been hothoused over the last decade by war and violence. I just wish that relatively comfortable people in the imperialist countries realised that the “migrant crisis” is the result of policies that their governments forced on others. Violence that their elites made their fortunes off. What a monstrous, barbarous way of life we have.

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Malcolm X photographing his favorite subject, mentee, brother and friend Muhammad Ali.

Where are these pictures? Imagine an exhibit of Malcolm X photos!

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Omg why did my mom just text me this 😭😭😭

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Remembering all the things i did to feel wanted

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aint nobody told me measurehead could get real asf. The conversation with him in his moms office confirms him as a hotep. He reminds me of a specific black masculinity, like the one i encounter in bisexual hoteps or spiritual studs lol. In every other aspect of their life they remain unreachable because they develop a worldview that justifies keeping urself invulnerable, and less than human by making u superhuman. everything pertains to their sexuality because thats the first thing the world thinks about when they look at them.

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it never stops striking me how deeply fucking evil and yet entirely commonplace it is for people to film others when they're distressed and exhibiting symptoms of psychosis in public to try and "go viral." the next time you see one of these videos going around i need you to remember one of the most frightening and dark times in your life and now i need you to imagine having it not in a safe or private place (which you may not even have access to at all), but out in the open with a snot-nosed fucking tiktoker shoving a camera in your face for the duration of it and then uploading it to millions of jeering strangers

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Jill scott has the spirit of a lesbian.

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Do not really know what to say. A year ago we were making posts about how Gaza was being bombed through Christmas- how the oldest Christian community was being bombed- how the birth place of Jesus was being destroyed and his people murdered. A year later, it is going to be Christmas again soon, and the bombings have not stopped. But the news, and the attention seems to have died down considerably. It feels terrible and scary.

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I just saw a youtube video claiming ice spice is falling out of favor bc she relied on “Male gaze marketing” oh, you mean a tiktok one hit wonder and bronx baddie signed to a major record label is selling sex and sex appeal as a part of her package? What a shock. We have to make up a new term to describe this phenomenon to capture the moment… lets use a term that film critics use to describe *camera work* and apply it to a real life woman plus alllll the forces of culture and capitalism that influence her work, her choices, and her audience/market

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as someone who has been involved in union organizing through my dad's union since i was literally in second grade, the way that people on tumblr think unions work drives me literally insane

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u have to just get comfortable with the idea that every medical procedure involves risk, having a body at all involves risk, & defending bodily autonomy can't be contingent on defending only the actions that (you think) correspond with the least risk

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18 year old needing abortion immediately!! hi, i want to preface by being upfront abt the fact i don't have an online presence right now. i deleted all my socials cos i posted about my pregnancy on tiktok and immediately freaked out that it would get back to my bf. basically the title. while we having s*x my bf stealthed me. he later admitted he's done this before and didn't think it was a big deal. i got really angry but he apologized and but now i'm stuck in a state where it's illegal to get an abort. i have to move. he has told me before that he WANTS to have a baby so i suspect he did it on purpose. he has lied to me before. at first i felt guilty for not believing him but now i'm convinced he's trying to trap me. i want to be out of his orbit before i make a move. i think 300 should be enough for the move. i'll only be on the road for two days. my aunt is gonna hlp me once i get there. if any of you want proof that i'm a real person you can email me at tiptoethruthetulipp@gmail.com. i have a photo of the ultrasound, just please do not post it anywhere. thank you!!

paypal.me/MarianaAvalos2

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This is so fucking insane North Gaza is literally being exterminated as we speak and we have people online debating it like it’s just some far off issue they can lament but ultimately just shrug their shoulders at…. I am actually disgusted to my core & tired of people addressing this casually when the entire healthcare system in North Gaza has collapsed and everyone’s getting wiped out with disease if not starvation. I have no interest in anyone debating me on this I think it’s so fucked up to even think there’s anything worth debating anymore

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refraining from a lot of election joke posting and instead I just donated $55 USD to gaza soup kitchen and i encourage anyone else to consider donating even a couple of dollars to the people who will be affected the most from whatever outcome happens

you can also donate to care for gaza here

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Today's vetted fundraisers

My name is Ayaa, a 24-year-old teacher from Gaza City. I used to live a peaceful life with my family in our home, a 6-story building that we built through years of hard work. Sadly, it was completely destroyed, leaving us homeless.

My brother and I ran a language training center where we taught English to kids, teenagers, and adults. We were passionate about our work and had big dreams, but the war shattered everything. One morning, we woke up to the news that our center had been destroyed, along with our family car, which my mother had bought by selling her jewelry.

We have lost everything, and now we turn to you for help. Your kindness and support would mean the world to us as we try to rebuild our lives.

@sar-soor @el-shab-hussein @nabulsi @irhabiya @wellwaterhysteria @appsa @stuckyfanart @moayesh

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We may not be able to convey the truth of the genocide in the days to come.

I hope everyone who sees this will share it as widely as possible.

Please share and donate🫂🙏

Verified by: @gaza-evacuation-funds

Thank you for your support🫂❤️

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One day we will talk about the commodification of “divine femininity” and the act of making femininity exclusive and aspirational as way to demean and belittle black women!