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K-Dog Off Leash Newz / Re: Time for Solidarity
« on: July 19, 2020, 06:10:59 AM »
I strong poet I've published for years in the Blue Collar Review http://www.partisanpress.org/ wrote an on the ground example of real solidarity:
"George Floyd was our neighbor. White supremacists used BLM protesters as a shield to destroy the infrastructure of our community. It looks like Dresden after the bombing in some places. Grass-roots nonprofits, grocery stores, pharmacies, gas stations, post office and more turned to rubble. As neighbors, we gave succor to protestors but also had to control our own streets so the Bugaloos and Base didn't firebomb our homes. That's scratching the surface. The American Indian Movement protected Franklin Avenue and captured white suburban youths who would have burned down the Minneapolis American Indian Center and other community infrastructures, health clinics, libraries, the last grocery store. Our community has set up major food distribution from donations.
And we have homeless camps, tent cities, of mostly opioid addicts. There have been many efforts at housing, money, and construction of buildings by our local tribes. Not from local government.
Our city council is pushing for alternatives to policing. The mayor, young and idealistic, thinks the police can be reformed. We've tried that. It never works."
As I've written over the years, we have a serious infestation of fascists. We've seen the funding, empowerment and growth of hate groups and corporate-backed disruptive idiocy. With the coup that put Il Dunce in the white house this is reaching a critical point which may lead to either civil war, revolution or, of course, collapse. Our only defense and, for that matter, our only chance is militant solidarity to resist and overthrow the Jonestown rule of corporations which is actively killing us and destroying life on earth.
"George Floyd was our neighbor. White supremacists used BLM protesters as a shield to destroy the infrastructure of our community. It looks like Dresden after the bombing in some places. Grass-roots nonprofits, grocery stores, pharmacies, gas stations, post office and more turned to rubble. As neighbors, we gave succor to protestors but also had to control our own streets so the Bugaloos and Base didn't firebomb our homes. That's scratching the surface. The American Indian Movement protected Franklin Avenue and captured white suburban youths who would have burned down the Minneapolis American Indian Center and other community infrastructures, health clinics, libraries, the last grocery store. Our community has set up major food distribution from donations.
And we have homeless camps, tent cities, of mostly opioid addicts. There have been many efforts at housing, money, and construction of buildings by our local tribes. Not from local government.
Our city council is pushing for alternatives to policing. The mayor, young and idealistic, thinks the police can be reformed. We've tried that. It never works."
As I've written over the years, we have a serious infestation of fascists. We've seen the funding, empowerment and growth of hate groups and corporate-backed disruptive idiocy. With the coup that put Il Dunce in the white house this is reaching a critical point which may lead to either civil war, revolution or, of course, collapse. Our only defense and, for that matter, our only chance is militant solidarity to resist and overthrow the Jonestown rule of corporations which is actively killing us and destroying life on earth.