Did you catch that? Customers have had to bribe vendors with higher payment to get them off their backsides and to deliver the goods.
Did you catch that? Walmart has to had to bribe current and prospective customers with lower prices to lure them off their backsides and back behind a shopping cart.
It’s the market, bitch.
This is a true example of seething. Seethe gets tossed around a lot but this? You know this guy had to take multiple breaks while writing this to calm down
banning critical race theory in favor of mandating patriotic identity is literally a case of the government imposing identity politics to squelch academic freedom
We HAVE to stop the loony left from indoctrinating children with the essentialist idea that accidents of birth mean something about who you are. What’s important is that we are AMERICANS
This process is called phyto-remediation- Certain plants, it turns out, have a particular gift for sucking up specific chemicals, either as a quirk of their biology or as a way to make themselves poisonous and avoid being eaten. When these plants are sown on contaminated ground, they absorb the contaminants into their tissues, gradually reducing the amount in the soil until it is safe for humans.
In the article, some of the plants they list are mustard greens to remove excess lead, sunflowers to absorb radiation, water hyacinths to suck up pesticides, and willow tress to slurp up a number of heavy metals. In addition to cleaning up the soil and water, these plants can be used to harvest metals for human use (called phytomining)!
Hyperaccumulators not listed in the article are; Vetiver Latrine and Perovskia Atriplicifolka (cleans groundwater of heavy metals), Hydrangeas (draws in aluminium), and the beloved Oyster mushrooms that break down petroleum!
Of course, these aren’t conclusive lists. Plants continue to adapt to benefit the Earth~
i really think pointing out the way that the american economy (and thus the american way of life, the american ethos, culture, etc) is structured around imperialism is one of the most important things for the revolutionary movement in the us, if it wants to exist at all. this is often mischaracterized as telling american workers that socialism is not in their own self interest, and this is a characterization that only stands if you believe that self interest means access to cheap commodities, and that socialism means a continuation of life as it exists today but with less bosses.
anyways more importantly, this anti-imperialist analysis matters because without it contradiction between the american working class and third world workers will never be resolved. pointing out the contradiction does not mean american and third world workers are enemies. it means that american consciousness needs to be raised so that a revolutionary movement in the us does not depend on the products of hyperexploited labor in the global south, or make a political program it can not fulfill without keeping most of the world shackled by imperialist domination and neocolonialism.
in the words of samora machel, the first president of mozambique, international solidarity is “an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the same objective.” the objective in this case is the destruction of the capitalist and imperialist system, and revolutionaries in the imperial core are on a very different terrain than revolutionaries in the third world. we need to work to destroy the united states internally while they destroy it externally, and we will never be moving towards the same objective if we cant recognize the way imperialism factors into it
After watching 15 seconds of police body camera footage last week, viewers of various races and political affiliations had made a decision: 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant was “the aggressor” — the “fat,” “huge,” “knife-wielding attacker” and “maniac” who deserved to be fatally shot by the police on April 20 in Columbus, Ohio.
According to these viewers, Nicholas Reardon, the police officer who immediately shot and killed Bryant, who was holding a knife, was justified. That she was a teenager in the middle of an altercation, in which she was presumed to be defending herself, did not matter.
Treva Lindsey, a professor of African American women’s history at Ohio State University, told Vox that there are those who won’t see Bryant as a victim but as someone who brought this on herself. And even for those who do see her as a victim, they’ll still victim-blame, erasing the systemic oppression — including that Black children are far more likely to be in foster care than their white counterparts, and kids in foster care are often exposed to high levels of violence — that brought her to being killed at the hands of the police.
“People will say ‘I’m really sad this whole scenario happened, but had she not had that knife …’ That becomes the ‘but,’ the qualifier, the caveat. And too often we have a caveat when it comes to defending, protecting, and caring for Black girls,” Lindsey said.
I know the news is in the pocket of the ruling class and everything but I can’t fucking believe ppl in philly created an entire fucking les-mis style blockade around a city block to stop cops from evicting houseless folks and that wasn’t major breaking news.
Like CHAZ was in the news for fucking weeks meanwhile philly had a colossal group of homeless people set up a tent city, a bunch of black bloc folks erected a barricade by breaking into construction sites and stealing supplies, then used that barricade as a bargaining chip to negotiate the city into giving 100 homes to public housing, and nobody fucking knows about that except for a few of my friends irl. What the fuck.
Is there anything about this online at all? Twitter threads? Pictures? Any media from the activists?
Yeah! So I actually didn’t expect this post to leave my little online circle but I saw you and somebody else mention it so. Sorry if this is messy, I’m no source of authority here.
https://philadelphiahousingaction.info/ is a great place to start. They actually have an entire page on press behind it. I’d also recommend looking through their twitter @PhlHousing. Philadelphia housing action is as close to an organizational body behind the two encampments as exist.
There were 2 encampments, camp JTD and camp Teddy, which was parked
right out side the philadelphia housing authority. Basically what the
Philadelphia Housing Authority was doing was taking row homes that were
designated as “public housing”, refusing to let anyone rent, letting the
property value go down, and then selling to private investors, some of
which are owned by the mayor. As a protest, a large group of homeless folks set up encampments on public property, declared them sit ins as to make them protected under first amendment rights, and then proceeded to set up camps at some point in late june.
On their instagram, @campjtd, they posted this on september 27th
this thread from unicorn riot on twitter does a pretty good job of covering it, with some images here and there
The camps themselves were actually very well run, they had access to porta-potties, clean running water (I have no idea how they set it up but I spent a couple nights there on lookout, they had sinks for washing they had set up outside and for drinking water). Tents were donated so new residents could set up sleeping areas if they didn’t have one themselves. A steady stream of food, toiletries and other essentials were donated by dozens of local activist groups and individuals, they had grills and stoves for cooking hot meals, medical tents with on site street medics from volunteers and various groups. It was really incredible how well everything ran.
Below are some more pictures of the camp from their instagram
and twitter
I don’t know much about camp Teddy, as I only ever went to JTD, but a very large number of people lived there, and eventually police started routinely circling the camp and demanding it was disbanded, and threatening to mobilize, only to be met with enough pushback to prevent them. Some images of the event were posted on their instagram
and actually this video is of the police delivering the order to disband
Eventually from enough pushback 50 homes were given away to people living at the camps, but the struggle isn’t quite over as many of the homes were in a dilapidated condition and many individuals wound up not receiving a home. As of today (6/10/21) I believe both camps have been disbanded, and no further organized action has been pursued, but it was still a mind blowing radicalization in resistance.
I can’t stress enough please go through https://philadelphiahousingaction.info/, I am not an expert, I am just a random kid who happened to be there at the right time, and all information I picked up was through word of mouth.
Can’t stress enough that when we say “The LGBT community lost an entire generation to AIDS” this isn’t an abstract statement. We literally lost gay and trans Boomers **specifically**. They were the generation that was of “clubbing age” during the onset of the epidemic.
The group of LGBT folk who were 24 in 1981 would be turning 64 this year. THATS the generation of lgbt folk we lost.
