we can’t go to public libraries on the weekend. we can’t find affordable housing. we can’t protest the death of innocent human beings. we can’t find jobs. we can’t inhabit public spaces. every aspect of our lives is encroached by limits. But none for the police.

They don’t even do this for school shootings.

in america, if you don't say you love israel - either the police will beat you directly, or they'll wait around and watch as fascists gangs do it on the behalf of the state!

The Columbia Spectator, New York, Tuesday, April 30, 1968:

we are supposed to believe that the young people working to end mass slaughter are the threat and that the riot squads sent in to brutalize them are the peacekeepers

In a country where children go hungry, people die unhoused and libraries are only open part time, this is where our resources go

America only looks like a free country if you don't dissent. The moment you challenge authority, the clubs come out and the true face of the society is revealed.

In the spring of 1985 we padlocked the front doors of Hamilton Hall, renaming it Mandela Hall, and encamped on the steps for three weeks. Columbia divested from South Africa in the fall of 1985.

Everything is upside down and back to front and inside out because we haven’t built society for purpose; we’ve built it to protect a class of obscenely wealthy and powerful people who contribute nothing of worth, and everything else has to be built around preserving their wealth

I cannot stop thinking about the choice to point guns at students who spent their entire childhoods training to survive too frequent school shootings and who are out protesting because students half way across the world are being murdered

America hates its kids so fucking much

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