mooncake @mooncake@ni.hil.ist

by Hyejin Shim, Aracelia Aguilar, Mouna Benmoussa, Rachel Caidor, Shira Hassan, Yves Tong Nguyen, Keisa Reynolds, Red Schulte, and Tamika Spellman

https://survivedandpunished.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IPVSafetyToolkit.pdf

I cannot recommend this safety guide/planning toolkit for survivors trying to escape their abusers/abusive living situations enough. It is thorough, compassionate, well-researched, and speaks to both current and past survivors, as well as their supporters, and it demonstrates a rigorous systemic analysis to help you and your friends navigate the criminal legal system, the bureaucracy/professionalization of victim services over the long and short term.

I urge you to share it with your networks, and to read it *now,* ahead of when you or your friend or loved one might need it in the future. Learn the info now so you're not trying to learn on the fly. 💗

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/17/burkina-faso-rescuers-find-no-survivors-in-flooded-mine-chamber

fuck

i hope their families get whatever vengeance they need/want on the mining company, on Canadian/first world extraction and mining practices, on global capital, on every thing that lead to the loss of these 8 men

#nowplaying Alice Coltrane feat. Pharoah Sanders -- Journey in Satchidananda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQtEFdyhgdE

"Jasiel insists his brother Reuel did not struggle with mental illness. But Reuel has had his share of run-ins with the law over the years. Including a recent stint in county jail where Jasiel believes Reuel emerged with a burning resentment over his treatment. And that it boiled over in front of RPD.

'Personally, I believe that my brother was protesting. Maybe protesting things that he saw in (jail). it was a way of protesting,' Jasiel said."

https://abc11.com/family-talk-reuel-rodriguez-nunez-shooting-rpd-raleigh-police/11847392/

all love and power to Reuel Rodriguez-Nunez. May his memory and actions continue to inspire others

"Starting from the premise that our prisoners are the comrades we are missing in the street, we make an open call to practice militant solidarity on all levels that will allow us to get Marcelo out of this already long imprisonment, using all our imagination and means at our disposal to eliminate once and for all the nefarious military justice, its convictions and its terrifying legacy in the recent history of this territory."

Chile: CALL FROM THE PRISONS OF THE CHILEAN STATE. Communiqué of anarchist and subversive prisoners

https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2022/05/14/chile-call-from-the-prisons-of-the-chilean-state-communique-of-anarchist-and-subversive-prisoners/

be water*

*sweaty

i hope every house falls into the sea

you're here
there's nothing i fear

(shamelessly stolen from birdsite)

"The New Jersey Supreme Court correctly upheld the law today, granting the release of 85-year-old Sundiata Acoli after serving more than 49 years in prison. The Supreme Court ruled that the parole board unlawfully denied Mr. Acoli’s petition for release by claiming that he was a risk to public safety and noted that he has shown no substantial risk of recidivism or a risk to public safety."

https://sundiataacolifc.org/sundiata-acoli-released-by-new-jersey-supreme-court/

fuck yes this is so many years overdue

#nowplaying Esperanza Spalding -- Lest We Forget (blood)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ5Sumi8MlI

"Lest we forget
Look, this leaf
Veins patterned by fractal giving
Oxygen you carry now within
A cell of blood threaded in
All parts of this body we too will grow to give and be
Blood is
Pulsing vast beyond our vein tips"

"In an anti-trafficking campaign, women of colour are portrayed as brainwashed and ignorant sex trafficking victims, speaking under the control of pimps, not capable of acting of their own free will. Anti-trafficking campaigners use this argument to claim that their repressive policies protect vulnerable women from human traffickers. But when the women themselves refute this and demonstrate that they are not human trafficking victims, anti-trafficking campaigns switch tactics and portray people of colour as nefarious criminals whose sexual immorality is a threat."

https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/anatomy-of-an-anti-trafficking-policy-campaign