sup I know I’m nonexistent here the past few months but i’ve opened an alt twitter account so I can shout into the void with less effort & if anyone wants it pm me so we can follow each other there I guess
Ok, y'all. I’ve seen the shit commentary, I’ve seen the “lolololol wtf is this why wouldn’t you show your face at protests, don’t you want to put your face out there?”
And THIS IS WHY. Cops are ABSOLUTELY retaliating against protesters for the act of participating in protests. They ARE looking at your social media and using it to trump up charges. They’ve been doing this for… ever.
If you don’t care for yourself, fine. Take that risk yourself. But you don’t get to make that decision for other people. Don’t upload identifiable information about other protesters. This isn’t about “Main Character Syndrome” or whatever ridiculous shit you’ve convinced yourself of, this is happening.
And if someone is actively telling you to put your face out there on the internet and the face of others being at protests, either they’re SUPER naive about the potential consequences of doing so, or they’re not actually on your side. 🤷♂️
Personally, I’m leaning toward “there are a lot of uniformed and naive people out there,” because I don’t think cops are out there acting like jackasses on Tumblr. But like.
Don’t be one of those people. Don’t encourage people to upload images of the faces of protesters or shame people for not wanting images of themselves uploaded.
Don’t.
Also, according to Reddit, police have been trying to edit police brutality out of Wikipedia (both now and previously). If you edit or know someone who does, please share. (Source)
here’s a petition to sign. it’s close to it’s goal. if there’s anything else we can do to help i’ll update this post.
I don’t have the words to properly explain how horrifying this is. In April, the advocacy group Freedom For Immigrants published a report about unsanitary conditions at the detention center, where the immigrants were made to clean the facilities with only water, or shampoo. According to their report, there were sick detainees there - possibly with COVID-19, but it’s unclear since they weren’t being tested - and the conditions could easily lead to a situation in which the virus exploded among those there.
The guards are spraying this disinfectant in retaliation for the report. To be clear - HDQ is an industrial-strength disinfectant, which according to the manufacturer is
“harmful if inhaled” and “causes severe skin burns and serious eye damage.” The guards are spraying it on everything every 15-30 minutes, according to sources, and immigrants in the center have already experienced severe symptoms including
blisters, rashes, bleeding, fainting, breathing difficulties, headaches, stomach pain, and nausea.
And let’s be real - ICE doesn’t give a shit, either about protecting these people or about preventing a COVID outbreak. ICE, according to their own reports, currently has
25,911
people in custody, of which only
2,670
have been tested.
1,392
of those were positive. In simple terms - less than 10% of detainees have been tested. Of those, more than half are positive. We cannot estimate how many sick people ICE is currently holding, or how many more will get sick without any kind of prevention or care.
ICE is killing people through neglect, and when they dared complain - they started gassing them.
Unfortunately, with Trump in the white house, petitions aren’t doing much. What we can do, however, is donate to the advocacy group that is bringing these things to light, allowing them to continue their work and hopefully free more immigrants. Their donation page is here. Please spread this.
The chemical they are spraying, HDQ, is manufactured by Spartan Chemical.
Spartan Chemical also holds responsibility for allowing this to happen. They should not get to have a shiny, clean brand image.
They follow/repost stuff from the hashtag #spartanchemical on Facebook and Instagram.
Please contact them through one of these means and ask them to denounce this abuse and stop supplying ICE (or stop supplying the distributor who is then selling to ICE). Post publicly on their facebook and in their hashtags so that their brandname is tied to these atrocities.
“In the film, the economic gap between two people becomes clearest in the moments of greatest intimacy. When the Parks first hire Kim Ki-woo (Choi Woo-shik) as an English tutor for their daughter, he is welcomed into her bedroom. As a maid, Ki-woo’s mother, Chung-sook (Jang Hye-jin), is allowed within earshot of the family’s quarrels and gossip. The rich outsource their most basic needs to the poor, who need the income, and the tight connections created by this exchange tend to be self-reinforcing.
[…] There is a Korean phrase that is commonly used to police people who act above their station: niga mwonde? Though the most faithful English translation is “Who do you think you are?” the sentence literally means “What are you?” South Korea is not the only country in which the rich and poor continue to live in close quarters, even as the disparities between them widen. The danger in such a system, Bong’s film suggests, is that one day people may find it easier to discount the humanity of fellow citizens than to address the unfair divisions in their heavily stratified society.”
