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@MsKellyMHayes
Sep 23, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
If you are going to write a piece about how something is not happening, you should really check first.
Folks who saw a piece about there being no national commemoration efforts, please know that's not true. There is a national call to action for vigils October 4-11. You can get involved here: actionnetwork.org/event_campaign…
The fact that things are happening and have been happening really is a better story and worth telling.
There have been numerous powerful online vigils that were national, starting back in May. #WeGrieveTogether was one. Naming the Lost was another. namingthelost.com
.@FacesOfCOVID is another noteworthy effort if people want to talk about commemoration. How are folks gonna not highlight online stuff when so many people are distancing? That's so incomplete.
We only recently held the most recent #WeGrieveTogether on here, which is lending content to upcoming events in the national week of vigils. docs.google.com/document/d/1Kf…
I saw a bunch of folks dramatically agreeing with that piece saying there's been no major commemoration and I can only say that I hope those folks join ongoing commemoration efforts soon. It's more helpful to join in than erase the work people are doing.
I guess I just don't understand what's stopped folks from finding out what's going on and getting involved, if they have such powerful feelings about it.
Anyway, the week of vigils is going to be powerful. I look forward to it and I hope to see the folks who so passionately agreed that no commemoration was happening, and expressed ardent concern about this, will be thrilled to learn they were wrong and get involved right away.

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Oct 6
Some leftists are echoing right-wing talking points about the South being abandoned by the .gov in the wake of Helene. It's just not true y'all. We can talk about how services could be better or about how mutual aid does things the .gov can't/won't, but let's be honest/cautious.
The people I've talked to on the ground have consistently referred to ongoing federal efforts as crucial while also emphasizing that those efforts are not reaching everyone. The scale of the disaster and the nature of the terrain are major factors. It's not abandonment.
Under Trump, we saw true abandonment after Maria. We saw 3K people die unnecessarily. Many people will be found dead in the coming days, but it won't be bc the government wasn't trying to save people. You don't have to like Biden or the .gov (I don't) to admit this distinction.
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Aug 12
Folks who are traveling to Chicago for the DNC, please be careful about who you connect with. If you meet strangers who are talking big game about doing "epic" shit, ask yourselves why they're saying these things to someone they don't even know.
They might be cops who want you to get hyped and drunk and run your mouth. We have seen this before. In 2012, a couple of undercovers latched onto three out-of-towners who showed up to protest the NATO summit. They hung out with those guys, got high with them, and talked big.
The two undercovers recorded the activists they targeted in moments of bravado and the state ultimately hit them with terrorism charges. Those young men were not a threat to anyone. They were singled out bc they had previously recorded police in a manner that embarrassed CPD.
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Jul 24
When he was still doing climate journalism before retiring young (and not bc that work pays big), Dahr Jamail wrote: "I am learning how to bridge gaps between myself and the people I love who are navigating in a different reality." And fuck if that doesn't resonate.
This is all my therapist heard about recently: what it is to hold so much painful knowledge that you can't just casually dump on other people bc that info has to be parceled carefully alongside ideas about what the fuck to do, or it just demobilizes people or shuts them down.
So you don't want to throw around bad news like Oprah giving away cars. "You get an apocalyptic scenario! And you get an apocalyptic scenario! And you get some bad news about sea mammals!" It doesn't end well.
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Jul 19
Some thoughts on "political violence." organizingmythoughts.org/what-does-peac…
"What does peace mean in the heart of empire amid the realities of racial capitalism? What does it mean to politicians whose primary concern is the maintenance of an economic system that is driving most life on earth toward extinction? It means order." organizingmythoughts.org/what-does-peac…
"As the words 'political violence' are reiterated again and again, we can see the hierarchy of our system at work." organizingmythoughts.org/what-does-peac…
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May 1
Noticing some folks reasoning that particular students don't deserve a militant police response bc they are "peaceful." I don't care if students break windows, shove back, or throw things; none of them deserve a militarized police response. They're protesting a genocide.
Folks should be careful about conjuring standards that determine whether someone is deserving of police violence. It's enough to say that the people protesting a genocide should not be harmed.
I'm not even sure whose values are being appealed to half the time. If people were really worried about "violence," they'd be objecting to the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.
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Many people in colonial societies believe (or simply accept as a norm, without argument) that any amount of suffering and death is acceptable within out-groups to sustain their in-group's way of life. This is especially true in the imperial core, where I live.
The idea of a "whatever it takes" stance being adopted by those out-groups, as they pursue a freer existence, or simply demand to survive, inspires genocidal zeal among many people in colonial societies. Standards of decency are about how their in-groups are treated, not others.
When such people are harmed, they say, "Nothing could justify this." When their governments harm others, they point to the injuries they have experienced as justification.
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