decolonize

screenshot from dictionary.cambridge.org that reads: wash your hands of something idiom Add to word list If you wash your hands of something that you were previously responsible for, you intentionally stop being involved in it or connected with it in any way:

thinking about the hand washing response to covid (an airborne virus) and how it was really just a metaphor…

"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."

-Angela Davis

“pandemic that we have been trying to live through over the past three years. From the start, the question was whether we would embody a “me we” ethos or a “me me” one. I think that we’ve seen both at play. The outpouring of mutual aid efforts in communities around the world encompasses the “me we,” while the hoarding of vaccines by the Global North, for example, epitomizes the “me me.” Ask yourself whether the global pandemic has increased or diminished your personal sense of Ubuntu.” Excerpt From Let this Radicalize you Kelly Hayes This material may be protected by copyright.

of course i know the answer based on how most of society has been moving in this post-pandemic simulation, but i’m curious how you might honestly answer this:

“Ask yourself whether the global pandemic has increased or diminished your personal sense of Ubuntu.”

you can’t possibly be practicing community care while simultaneously breathing covid all over folks.

“If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.”

—Assata Shakur

“Too many people in the u.s. support death and destruction without being aware of it. They indirectly support the killing of people without ever having to look at the corpses.”

- Assata Shakur

♥️ Free outdoor event
♥️ Mask required
♥️ Wheelchair accessible
♥️ Bring your own bags
♥️ First come first serve!

Have extra masks or unexpired tears to redistribute? Donations welcome!

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👀 Free Covid supply distro event! 😷 Sat, August 9th: 11am-1pm at Snow Park on Harrison Street in Oakland, CA. Come get free kn95 masks, n95 masks, and covid rapid tests!

People get abandoned when they’re sick. So people will deny they’re sick or that they can get sick by repeated Covid infections, for as long as they can to keep their social systems intact. To keep belonging. It’s sad because they’ll end up abandoned anyway and sick on top of it

“She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.”

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

As we lift up Palestinians, don't forget Sudan. The famine in Sudan is in the same critical stage with ppl suffering in the same horrific ways. Pls amplify Sudanese voices.

Feed Sudan
Feed Gaza

preface ~

give a damn

read, seek, learn
about Sudan

@typicalafrican

screenshot of lyrics that are in black text and highlighted in yellow that read: "The dominance of a people powered by the sun chased and hunted down 'til the land is overrun action added to the adage, "We shall overcome" Spear must pierce flesh quicker than soldier's gun RELAX, RELATE, RELEASE, SCREAM Attack! debase the beast's dream His nightmare filled with guerrilla rebels death is a blessing given to these devils

My gawdamn long-time anthem right here! #Algorithm #ElGrito (2002)

"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live."

- Sarah Kendzior

"i have gone to war too...i am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. it is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving."

-sylvia pankhurst

my five years young little one has been enjoying “my melody & kuromi” lately and as i was sitting next to them doing homework they said, “papa, papa, they mask too!”

“I attest to this: The world is not white; it never was white, cannot be white. White is a metaphor for power, and that is simply a way of describing Chase Manhattan Bank.”

-James Baldwin

The way so many people are stlll trying to downplay covid...

background is a fence and plant life, trees and such. standing in the center is a light complected black man wearing a black hat, black/green mask, a black jersey that says “palestine” with the same color combo red/black/green african medallion necklace

Peace to all my people resisting eugenics locally and genocides globally! #FreeSudan #FreeCongo #FreeTigray #FreePalestine

meme with faint image of a white person adjacent what looks like the u.s. flag. mostly white background with black and read text that reads: When you remember that the Nazis started with the Trans, the disabled, and the dissentors, things start making a lot more sense. "First they came for?". They are already here. What do you think the anti-vax and anti trans movement is? Why have they demonized "Antifa"? First they try to erase us from media then they try to erase us from life. Then they come for you "What would you have done in 1930s Germany?" is no longer a thought exercise. It's our new reality. How will you answer the question: "WHAT WERE YOU DOING IN 202OS AMERICA?"

“The one demographic that has been the most vulnerable and the most oppressed since humans have existed are the disabled. Those whose bodies and brains don't exist the way other people want ours to.” — LIBBY RAHL, “Victor Perez, Ableism, and You”

A hardcover copy of A Continuous Struggle and a printed-out copy of the "A Continuous Struggle Study Guide" lay side by side on top of a wooden surface.

Are you reading Garrett Felber's 𝘈 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘦: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦 with comrades? Check out the free downloadable/printable Study Guide available now: bit.ly/ACS-Study-Gu...

i wholeheartedly mean this, but fuck you if you never say shit or amplify shit being shared about congo, sudan, tigray, haiti, west papua or other black nations facing genocide!

"What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them."

- Toni Morrison

the cult of personality has the masses in a fucking head-lock!

“The mass of the people struggle against the same poverty, flounder about making the same gestures and with their shrunken bellies outline what has been called the geography of hunger. It is an underdeveloped world, a world inhuman in its poverty.”

—Frantz Fanon

stencil of black man (frantz fanon) looking to one side, background white, he and the text beneath him in red and reads: my heros have always killed colonizers

"Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence."

- Frantz Fanon (July 20, 1925 — December 6, 1961)

"Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger. To sacrifice to end colonialism. To end neo-colonialism. To end racism. To end sexism. R/evolution means the end of exploitation. R/evolution means respecting people from other cultures. R/evolution is creative.”

-Assata Shakur

"You can't tell me life was meant to be like this
A Black man in a world dominated by whiteness
Ever since the declaration of independence
We've been easily brainwashed by just one sentence
It goes: all men are created equal
That's why corrupt governments kill innocent people."
-Guru of Gang Starr