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LET’S TALK ABOUT SELFCARE
No, stop groaning, I’m serious. Bear with me for a moment.
Contrary to every listicle you’ve read in the last week/8 months/forever, it’s not some froofy bullshit. What it is, is the boring ass shit that keeps your life running so you can do the work.
Because we might be REALLY IN THE SHIT for a little while here & those things won’t get done then. So do them now, today, so you don’t have to think about them next week or the week after. Go grocery shopping. Do some laundry. Call your bestie over lunch. Pay the bills. Vacuum.
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In case someone out there has never gotten this advice before: DO NOT enter a whole bunch of personal information into a google form before taking political action. Especially not if that form frames it’s questions as “if you are planning to get arrested/do something illegal.”
Just — definitely don’t tell a bunch of people that you plan on getting arrested! That’s very bad security and puts you and those around you at risk!
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Here are a few from my time doing it: a released friend dissolving into hyaterical tears in my arms the moment she got out because she hadn’t slept in three days; watching a woman barely able to walk into the precinct under her own power after being beaten by cops & spending the+
Home from a 9.5 hour overnight shift doing jail support in Brooklyn. Won’t say much due to privacy/safety except: fuck the NYPD. Defund them now. I’m never going to forget the stories I’ve heard in the last week.
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+ two nights, since he was filthy & might have picked up lice while in there.
Bear in mind none of these people had been convicted of anything — most not even charged yet — when these things were done to them. The whole system is irredeemable & should be burnt to the ground.
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YAAAAAAY!!!
Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed Eric Garner’s arrest, has been released from prison rollingstone.com/culture/cul…
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