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We cannot "heal" until every treasonous tyrant is held accountable. New information is coming out every day that this insurrection was far more violent than anyone realized with people having specific targets of congressional leaders as well as VP Mike Pence that they wanted to assassinate to re-install Trump in power. People may ask why impeach now? The answer is pretty clear:
"If a president is impeached, convicted, and removed from office, they lose many of the benefits awarded to former presidents, such as a pension, security detail, and travel allowance. A president who is removed from office via impeachment may also be barred from holding future office."
The violent white supremacists on Wed, should be held accountable as should every lawmaker who encouraged the incitement of violence. We cannot allow people who swore an oath to the constitution and refused to abide by that oath to continue to hold power and somehow represent Democracy. No, that will not stand, and no we will not heal without accountability.
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The so called "Proud Boys" are the white supremacist group Trump is so fond of. They have done nothing in their lives to be actually be proud of and they live through their white privilege and by their oppression of others. And yet, they can't even walk in their own communities without a gun and they can't walk into stores with their mask on because no one better impinge on their freedom to cause harm to whomever they wish.
Pride and humans with pride is about having a sense of who you are and living through grace and kindness...of doing the right thing and not being afraid to do the right thing even though you may have been oppressed for your gender identification or orientation. This is something to truly be proud of. This is who are world needs now not those who live by hate and rule by fear.
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We spoke out. We marched at a time when we didn’t know if it would kill us and it was all because we couldn’t imagine that we could continue to live in a world so cruel as to not see the value in Black joy, talent, ideas, sorrow, stories, traditions, and identities. And, in most cities across America, budgets have not significantly changed to put more money into communities instead of policing. The only tool a cop has is a gun and the badge is his/her/their get out of jail free card. Why do we expect anything different to happen in America if we pour more money into police budgets and reforms that clearly don’t work instead of putting money into public education, job opportunities, the elimination of food deserts, equitable housing and health care, and mental health clinics? Do we really want to be a country where only rich white people survive?
Black Lives Still Matter…they still matter to me every day.
In my own city, our mayor lied about not being aware of a wrongful raid of a social worker in which her home was violated and she was naked. (Anjanette Young). Apparently, this is a pretty regular occurrence:
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Here’s a list of men who are Black recently murdered by police in America:
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Here’s how Wall Street profits from police brutality and America’s violent yet lucrative (for some) tradition of white supremacy:
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Every day we don’t demand change is a day wasted when we were not our best selves. Humans are still dying out there and we need to vote out those who only protect some of the population and leave the rest to be murdered. So, Trump will soon be gone…will Biden be any better? We must insist that it is so! Humans who are Black are not suddenly white and they still need kindness, protection, love, and policies that look out for them.
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Dear America,
We still have a lot of work to do. But, we're going to breathe and celebrate a little because for the past 4 years we've been held hostage by an entity that could not think about anyone but himself, who put the lives of the best among us at risk and who dumbed down the brains and the morals of each of us, turning us all into our worst selves and not our best selves.
I've been to hundreds of protests these past four years for every action I opposed. I've been to protests in support of Black Lives Matter, for Women's Rights, for Voting Rights, for Immigrant Rights and against ICE, for Transgender Rights, for LGBTQ rights, for health care rights and for the rights of People with Disabilities. I've been to protests against the NRA and protests against war and several of Trump's military actions. I've been on protests in support of Science and the Environment. I've been on protests even when I was on vacation in other cities.
Yesterday, after a week of grueling anxiety and treating my body and soul like garbage, not sleeping, drinking too much, eating too much, I had planned to attend a Count the Vote rally at 1pm. After it was finally announced Biden won, that rally became a party and the eye sore that has been Trump tower was taken over, reclaimed by supporters of a new vision for America and a world-a kinder one where everyone is welcomed and accepted. It was funny to see people pull up and cheer with their Kamala and Harris signs bit it was even better to see the people who I have walked alongside protesting with who now had a chance to feel the joy of imagining that all the work we did resisting this hateful fascist did pay off.
And friends, we have a lot more work to do, don't we? We must support these senators who might help us gain control of our own choices-Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff and we also must not get complacent. This is still very much a time to be vigilant. As relieved and elated and hopeful as I feel right now, we must make sure in these next four years that Biden does not uphold the same racist structures that have supported white supremacy since our nation was founded. We must establish new traditions and new ways of supporting each other to be the best country we can be. We must work together if we are going to see a future for the world because our current Climate Crisis is dire. We must support each other through this pandemic and put the needs of others before ourselves.
But, I think we can jump for joy a little, too, because that speech Kamala Harris gave I can tell you is a game changer alone. So many little girls, especially who were toddlers when Trump first grifted his way into the White House, have known no real female leadership and only blatant sexism coming from the place of the highest power in the land. Now, they will be able to see themselves and the potential they hold in their lives. We have kids whose childhood has been robbed from them between Trump's presidency and the Coronavirus who now will be able to hope and dream again. This is a big deal for the future of America.
Thanks for reading. Breathe a sigh of relief with me, I'll be posting some photos from Chicagoans in love with our new future soon.
Love,
Kirstiecat
"Our truly great presidents were tortured deep in their hearts by the race question. Jefferson with keen perception saw that the festering sore of slavery debilitated white masters as well as the negro. He feared for the future of white children who were taught a false supremacy. His concern can be summed up in one quotation, 'I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.'
Lincoln's torments are well known. His vacillations were facts."
– Source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech on September 12, 1962 at the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City that commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. King postulated that the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation were our country's greatest proclamations to the world.
–An excerpt from then U.S. Senator Jefferson Davis of Mississippi in the Senate to his abolitionist colleague Senator William H. Seward of New York, Senate Chamber, U.S. Capitol, 29 February 1860, as quoted in The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Volume 6, pp. 277–84. Transcribed from the Congressional Globe, 36th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 916–18.
This is a monument to Jefferson Davis, funded by the Daughters of the Confederacy and even the Kentucky General Assembly[!?!] during the Jim Crow era. It is now a state museum. It is here because Fairview, Kentucky is the birthplace of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. During the Civil War, Davis could not travel to Kentucky because Kentucky remained and fought for the United States. It should be noted that despite Kentucky being a slave state, the overwhelming majority of Kentuckians joined up, fought for, and even sacrificed their lives for the United States, not the Confederacy.
I find it interesting that the road sign marks Fairview as the birthplace of United States Joint Chief of Staff General J.W. Ralston, NOT the big huge monument in the background to its other native, Confederate Jefferson Davis.
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Photograph also published on July,17th 2021 to illustrate the analysis below:
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Also published on 7/20/2021 in Dissident Voice { link below}
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Photograph also published on 9/23/2022 { link below}
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Photograph also published on January 9, 2023 { link below}
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–Source: Wikiquotes, Jefferson Davis. Speech (March 1861), as quoted in Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America (2002), by William C. Davis, New York: The Free Press, p. 137
Born June 3, 1808 near this 20th Century monument to him in Western Kentucky, Jefferson Davis was President of the Confederate States of America. His cause of white supremacy and the perpetual enslavement of African Americans was lost during his first, only, and incompleted term in office. Slavery was abolished shortly after the Civil War of 1861 to 1865, in which the South bore the brunt of destruction. Nearly 200,000 African Americans joined the U.S. military to fight against the Confederacy.
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Photograph also published in Buzzflash on July 16, 2022 { link below)
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An Anti-Racism activist with a message on Regent Street, London, during Saturday's March Against Racism.
The rally was organised to mark UN Anti-Racism Day and came at a moment when ethnic minorities feel under severe assault on multiple fronts. Covid 19 and the recent surge in the cost of living have both had a disproportionate and devastating impact on black and other minority communities, while the Nationality and Borders Bill will criminalize asylum seekers and gives the government the power to strip the citizenship away from as many as six million people.
Meanwhile the Ukraine war is revealing Britain's double standards on refugees. Newspapers that were calling for the navy to be deployed to repel small boats of desperate victims of conflict and famine in Yemen, Syria and Afghanistan, are now declaring how we can be proud of our efforts to house those fleeing Ukraine. Some activists on Saturday's march carried placards reminding us that we should welcome refugees from ALL wars.
Although it is good to see Ukrainian refugees being housed in Britain, elementary morality would suggest that our responsibility to those fleeing Yemen and Afghanistan is even greater, as it is British and US aircraft and bombs that are targeting hospitals, markets and schools in Yemen, while Western sanctions are inflicting severe shortages of essentials and near famine conditions on millions in Afghanistan.
Photograph published on 11/22/2021 { link below}
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Photograph published on October 23rd, 2020 in UK website Impact Magazine from the University of Nottingham.
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Also published in the German Ecosocialist website ( link below)
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Photograph published on February 26,2021. (link below)
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That was the straw that broke the camel's back for John Wilkes Booth. In the peace that was to follow, giving black men civil rights of citizenship and a vote took Booth from planning to kidnap President Lincoln in exchange for the release of Confederate soldiers to the outright assassination of the twice elected President and his cohorts.
Artwork title: Same, 1991
Artist: Lorna Simpson, American (b: 1960)
Veue: Speed Art Museum, University of Louisville
And so it Begins..... This WAS a Billboard in Northern Michigan, but for reasons unknown, it was quickly taken down.
Photograph published on 5/07/2021 in The New Civil Rights Movement ( link below)
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Also photograph published on June 30th 2021 to illustrate the article below.
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Photograph published in Pressenza on February 1st, 2021 ( link below)
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Photograph published on January 8, 2021 ( link below)
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Photograph also published in News Junkie Post on January 12, 2021 to illustrate my article "Capitol Riots: The Day of Infamy when Populism Became Fascism"
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Also published on January 15, 2021 ( link below)
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Also published on January 19, 2021 { links below}
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Photograph published in News Junkie Post on 11/05/2018 to illustrate the article "The Global Rise of Fascism: Capitalism End Game?"
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Photograph also published on 11/07/2018 in "The Indicter" to illustrate the same article.
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Also published in Medium in February 2020.
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Peaceful, passionate, energised, noisy, good humoured musical and there was some break dance too.
A big, turnout, predominantly of the young. This is galvanising a generation. 99.9% wore masks throughout.
#blacklivesmattersheffield #blacklivesmatter
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Photograph published on November 11, 2020 in the Italian website "Antimafia" ( link below)
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Photograph also published on September 14, 2022 { link below}
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