#freedom to assemble

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Let Freedom Ring! It is Morning in America.

The evil is DEFEATED!

"JUST ANNOUNCED THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IS DROPPING MY JANUARY 6 CASE!!!!!! 4 YEAR AND 4 DAYS IN THE GULAG WITHOUT A TRIAL IM FINALLY COMING HOME!!!! GOD BE MAGNIFIED!!! MOUNTAINS DO REALLY MOVE IN JESUS NAME!!! Right now the DC Jail prison guards are doing a LATE NIGHT SHAKEDOWN unlike I've ever seen them do in 4 years...!! Its more like they are cleaning up / preparing for US Marshals Officials to be visiting jail tomorrow.... Preparation for Immediate J6 Pardons?!?!?! I FEEL IT!! PRAISE THE LORD!!!"

Falsely imprisoned J-Sixers are being released throughout inauguration weekend. My friend, Reed Christiansen (former Secretary of the Washington County Republicans) expected to be released from federal prison by Monday. Lawsuit have been filed against the warden on behalf of Reed and he has resigned. America is back. 1:52 PM · Jan 17, 2025

Lawsuits AGAINST the CORRUPT Wardens! Wardens Resigning!

[workersolidarity]

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When we see protests being crushed by American police, we are reminded of this quote from the movie Boondock Saints:

"Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most. And that is the indifference of good men."

Nothing could be more dangerous to the personal freedoms, human rights, democratic rights, freedom from violence, freedom of speech and the freedom of the people to peaceably assemble than the indifference of good people to the injustices being committed by their government, in their name, with their tax dollars.

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[mikeluciraphgabe]

Opened TikTok, saw the message, closed TikTok, opened TikTok again so I could react with people about, crumbled in realization that we are unable to group together anymore

[soldierporn]

"Crowd-sourced patriotism" actually looks like this:

When one uses words, it's extremely important to understand what those words mean, not what one thinks they mean.

[musicalislife]

You know things are really messed up when one of the most outspoken LGBTQ+ ally bands (Carson Coma) has to explain that they appreciate the Pride flag a fan threw onto the stage, but they can't openly show it because they’re afraid of getting fined, or the venue getting penalized.

(They ended up putting the flag on the microphone stand for the last number, which was a pro-LGBTQ+ song called Pók.)

This happened in Hungary. The current government (FIDESZ lead by Orbán) has banned Pride events, claiming that they “corrupt” children (hence the so-called “child protection law”). Now, they’re also trying to shut down independent media.

If you attend Pride, you can be fined up to €497 — which might not sound like much, but considering the average Hungarian salary, it's a significant amount.

Don't judge or hate Hungarians. Most of us don't agree with the current government! We're really hopeful that next year one of the other parties will win, and after 15 years, we'll finally get a new government.

And just to lighten the mood, I'll add a song by the band I mentioned. They have songs criticizing the government, but this is the only one I found in English. And also I added the pro-LGBTQ+ song as well (which is in Hungarian, but I also added the English translation)

[summerwages]

it is March after all...

[progressivemillennial]

Don't know if I'll be able to make it, but I'm hoping to spread awareness if nothing else. Buses are being organized at the link below.

https://marchforpalestine.org/

[hale-my-nathan]

Trump Weird News - NEWSPEAK 2025

[gabrielisdead]

tumblr should know that march 15 is also the date of the hungarian revolution which has been turned into a fascist dog whistle under the orban government despite it being their worst fear, young revolutanist with western ideals rising up against a regressive autocracy with force, reclaiming their flag as a symbol of the people and not the power above them

[artisticdivasworld]

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[ivygorgon]

Chicago TeslaTakedown - Global Day of Action 3/29

Start: Saturday, March 29, 2025 •12:00 PM

End: Saturday, March 29, 2025 • 2:00 PM

Location: Chicago Tesla showroom • 901 N Rush Street, Chicago, IL 60611 US

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Elon Musk is destroying our democracy, and he's using the fortune he built at Tesla to do it. We are taking nonviolent action at Tesla to stop Musk's illegal coup.

✅ Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines.

✅ We're tanking Tesla's stock price to stop Musk.

✅ Stopping Musk will help save lives and protect our democracy.

The stakes couldn’t be higher. No one is coming to save us. Not politicians, not the media, not the courts.

Tesla Takedown is a peaceful protest movement. We oppose violence, vandalism and destruction of property. This protest is a lawful exercise of our First Amendment right to peaceful assembly.

#TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla #coup

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NOTE: Please do not display Nazi symbols such as swastikas or SS runes on your signs. It is entirely unnecessary. We'll call Elon Musk a Nazi with words.

[krissiefox]

Helpful legal rights info for people protesting in the state of Arkansas, USA.

[musicalislife]

Our freedom of speech is in SERIOUS danger.

We’re in serious trouble. We’re trying to use our voices, we’re actively protesting against the government. There’s an election next year, but sadly, we wouldn’t be surprised if Orbán changes the law to ban any parties he believes could defeat him. He’s already trying to smear the party that currently has the best chance of winning.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

As a new generation of young people speaks out against attacks on women and children halfway around the world — this time in Gaza — college administrators from Boston to L.A. are racing to call in heavily armored riot cops to shut down protest encampments at campuses they’d sold to applicants as bastions of academic freedom, open expression, and historic demonstrations that had changed the world. They are destroying the American university in order to keep it “safe.” In a week when decades happened, the lowest moments in what became a nationwide assault on college free speech by militarized police veered from shock to tragicomical irony. [...] The most tumultuous week on U.S. college campuses since May 1970 resulted in at least 600 arrests at 15 different schools as of Saturday, with more surely on the way. It’s going to take even longer to tally all the students facing suspension and in some cases expulsion for speaking out on the bloodshed in Gaza, or the now-ruined careers of principled professors who stood between their students and a nightstick. Not to mention the lasting psychological scars for young people who saw their dream college summon cops to arrest them or even fire rubber bullets or canisters of tear gas at them, which would be considered a war crime if used in Ukraine but is apparently OK in the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s hometown of Atlanta. The notion of college as the American dream — fostering not just upward economic mobility but a nation of informed citizens taught to think critically — has been steadily dying since the original right-wing backlash against student protest in the 1960s triggered the end of taxpayer support for low tuition, which caused a $1.75 trillion student loan crisis. The maelstrom around the war in the Middle East has given the enemies of higher education — and they are many — a chance to move in for the kill. [...] Their ammunition is the complicated relationship between student protests for Palestinian liberation and against Israel’s current conduct in Gaza, where its more-than-six-month assault has killed at least 33,000 people — the majority of them women and children — and the constant scourge of antisemitism. Even though some advocates lump political criticisms of the state of Israel under an overly broad definition of antisemitism, there’s no question that the despicable harassment and assaults on Jews on or around college campuses have risen since the Oct. 7 start of the war (as they also have for Muslims). A few of the claims linking the worst antisemitism to the student protests have been disingenuous, such as when some journalists cited a nonstudent and well-known antisemite stationed a block from the Columbia University main gate as an example of protester hate speech. At Boston’s Northeastern University, administrators sent in police Saturday who detained 100 students based on a shout of “Kill all the Jews!” that veteran journalists on the scene said came from a Jewish demonstrator waving an Israeli flag, apparently seeking an escalation. But there has also been some instances of antisemitism that are indeed the fault of pro-Palestinian student protesters.

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The biggest driver is right-wing authoritarianism. Red-state governors like Abbott in Texas or Georgia’s Brian Kemp have watched the new hero of U.S. conservatism, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, make crushing his homeland’s once freethinking universities the centerpiece of his strongman governance. Now they are importing the strategy. The Gaza protests have given governors and their fellow travelers on Capitol Hill a golden opportunity to squelch the notion of a liberal education while squeezing out a few more tax-cut dollars for their billionaire donors, and creating a nightly Two Minutes Hate of young people on Fox News that distracts from the 88 felony counts against their presidential candidate. [...] The complexities of never-ending conflict in the Middle East is what allows the cynical Greg Abbotts of America to get away with this. Too many would-be Democratic critics are too wedded to years of deep support for Israel, ignoring that a) the right-wing extremism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies is not your father’s Israel and b) the assault on campus free speech has much deeper implications than the current crisis. Too many college presidents have displayed extreme cowardice, caught in the headlights between Republican bullying and billionaire donors, who likely fear the protesting students might eventually question the brand of capitalism that made them billionaires.

Will Bunch at The Philadelphia Inquirer on the violent crackdowns of student protests against Israel's genocidal campaign against Gaza on college campuses orchestrated by police (04.28.2024).

Will Bunch wrote a solid column in the Philadelphia Inquirer about how the recent violent crackdowns on student protests against the Gaza Genocide and Israel Apartheid are a prelude to the fascist hell that America will be under should Donald Trump be elected come November. The violent crackdowns on student protests are also an excuse for right-wing reactionaries to wage war on higher education, academic freedom, freedom of assembly, and freedom of speech.

[heyitstaylore]

My country tried banning Pride and the general freedom of assembly. Jokes on them, now everyone and their mother is out on the streets to protest. Yes, they are probably a pain in the ass because they are taking over the streets and bridges, but maybe next time, the government should sit a bit longer on certain decisions.

Pride is once a year. These protests have been going on for three weeks now.