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NYC Protest Thread.
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For just about my whole adult life, I’ve been trying to pick the best way to enter the fight of American injustice. ‘American’ specifically. The injustice that started when the Pilgrims landed on a native land and stole it. Leaving dead native bodies
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For just about my whole adult life, I’ve been trying to pick the best way to enter the fight of American injustice. ‘American’ specifically. The injustice that started when the Pilgrims landed on a native land and stole it. Leaving dead native bodies
2/ behind them. 400 years later (exactly 400 this year in November) its the same. If you don’t look like that pilgrim that landed those centuries ago, you will suffer. ‘Suffer’ might mean you grind generationally swimming up the stream of poverty while the foot of capitalism
3/ transfers from your choked neck to the neck of your grandchild. For others, ‘suffer’ means you will be killed.
After a lot of thinking, I entered this fight as a public defender. Reason being it seemed I might not be able to make a sweeping change, but I could get alongside
After a lot of thinking, I entered this fight as a public defender. Reason being it seemed I might not be able to make a sweeping change, but I could get alongside
4/ individual people as the carceral system (a weapon of the pilgrim colonizer) tries to chain them. Well, right now we’re seeing our 2nd MONTH of many jurisdictions suspending trials and hearing in any cases. Fighting the system is effectively impossible for many of the accused
5/ right now. But the police, have no such barriers. They are out here. And we all watched a video of one kill a man slowly on camera.
The Martin v Malcom dialogue always is pretty contentious. But, how many murders will YOU watch on the news before you put your feet on the
The Martin v Malcom dialogue always is pretty contentious. But, how many murders will YOU watch on the news before you put your feet on the
6/ Ground? If you’re not in danger of being the next b/c of your privilege.. will you march for your neighbor/friend/loved one?
The videos I’m attaching were taken at the 5/28 NYC protest for George Floyd. It was the most violent I’ve ever been to. We marched for about 6 hours
The videos I’m attaching were taken at the 5/28 NYC protest for George Floyd. It was the most violent I’ve ever been to. We marched for about 6 hours
7/ from Union Square to Wall Street to the Westside Highway. I saw maybe 10-15 brawls where NYPD assaulted protestors. I saw bikes used as weapons, police punching protestors, tackling men and women, and dragging zip tied protestors who remained peaceful into NYPD vans.
8/ I saw at least 50 arrests myself.
Despite all that police violence, I saw an incredible power. A People Power. I love these people so much and their passion. I will march with them til I can’t. They are my Americans. And these marches should be OUR fight.
Despite all that police violence, I saw an incredible power. A People Power. I love these people so much and their passion. I will march with them til I can’t. They are my Americans. And these marches should be OUR fight.
9/ The videos are long & have audio problems but I’m attaching them to this thread. They show much of the brutality and arrests, but know that there were incredibly triumphant moments as well. If you want to see and feel and be those, then put on your mask and put your feet on
10/ the ground. March for the America our immigrant parents dreamed of.
