Via Will Bunch at the Philadelphia Inquirer, posted 30 Apr 2020:
In the days and weeks immediately afterward, America erupted in chaos
and more violence. The largest student strike in American history shut
down most campuses for what was left of the 1969-70 school year.
As
critics have noted, government repression was heaviest not at the most
elite schools but against working-class and nonwhite students; at
Jackson State University, an HBCU in Mississippi, white police officers
fired more than 460 rounds into a crowd of black demonstrators on May
15, 1970, killing two of them and wounding 12.
But the violent backlash wasn’t confined to the police. On May 8, 1970,
an antiwar protest in lower Manhattan was broken up with the fists and
clubs of blue-collar construction workers, many (in one of those great
historical ironies) building the rising World Trade Center. A few Wall
Streeters joined in the hippie punching. A few weeks later Nixon — who’d
called student protesters “bums” right before the Kent State shooting —
welcomed the leaders of their unions to the White House.
Nixon wasn’t the only politician who looked to gain from tapping what
he called “the silent majority;“ many “Middle Americans” did vehemently
oppose the student protests, and some people even openly celebrated the
killings. In fact, Canfora and another shooting victim were among 24
students and one professor who were actually indicted for rioting,
although none were convicted and most charges were tossed.
Eight
National Guardsmen were also indicted but a federal judge dismissed
those charges before there was even a trial. That hasn’t stopped a
50-year, unsuccessful quest for justice by survivors and family members.
In 1971, alarm over college unrest was a chief driver of the pro-business community “Powell Memo”
drafted by future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell which declared
that “the American economic system is under broad attack” and proposed
fighting back with conservative think tanks and media. It was the idea
that eventually animated talk radio, the Fox News Channel, and what
would become daily attacks against “those liberal snowflakes” on campus.
Another prominent far-right thinker — the Nobel Prize-winning economist James Buchanan
— argued that low or sometimes free university tuition encouraged
protest.
Increasingly conservative governors and lawmakers — under
budget pressure during the stagflationary 1970s anyway — took this to
heart, slashing taxpayer money for public universities and sending
tuition to unheard-of levels. Ronald Reagan — who became California’s
governor in 1966 by ridiculing long-haired campus protesters — ended that state’s free tuition on his way to the White House and a new American conservative hegemony.
The
flicker of subsequent movements like South Africa divestiture in the
1970s or the 1980s nuclear freeze eventually rekindled the 2010s’ Black
Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street or The Women’s March.
Yet it seems to me — a late-term Baby Boomer who arrived at college in
the fall of 1977 — that these were candles in a wind of right-wing
repression. Over time, the fear that you might get shot for protesting
faded but most young people these days are working two or three jobs to
pay tuition, accumulating massive student debt,
or shut out of college and thus the good-job market all together — too
beaten down to protest the system even as that system gets worse.
Today, the coronavirus crisis has exposed
what America has given away since the echoes of 1970 and Kent State
faded — a nation of millions living paycheck-to-paycheck, one pandemic
away from losing their health insurance while waiting for hours at a
food bank, the social safety net all but destroyed by Reagan-inspired
conservatism. “The American economic system” was saved without those
pesky kids protesting — but at what cost to American democracy?
Via Will Bunch at the Philadelphia Inquirer, posted 30 Apr 2020:
In the days and weeks immediately afterward, America erupted in chaos
and more violence. The largest student strike in American history shut
down most campuses for what was left of the 1969-70 school year.
As
critics have noted, government repression was heaviest not at the most
elite schools but against working-class and nonwhite students; at
Jackson State University, an HBCU in Mississippi, white police officers
fired more than 460 rounds into a crowd of black demonstrators on May
15, 1970, killing two of them and wounding 12.
But the violent backlash wasn’t confined to the police. On May 8, 1970,
an antiwar protest in lower Manhattan was broken up with the fists and
clubs of blue-collar construction workers, many (in one of those great
historical ironies) building the rising World Trade Center. A few Wall
Streeters joined in the hippie punching. A few weeks later Nixon — who’d
called student protesters “bums” right before the Kent State shooting —
welcomed the leaders of their unions to the White House.
Nixon wasn’t the only politician who looked to gain from tapping what
he called “the silent majority;“ many “Middle Americans” did vehemently
oppose the student protests, and some people even openly celebrated the
killings. In fact, Canfora and another shooting victim were among 24
students and one professor who were actually indicted for rioting,
although none were convicted and most charges were tossed.
Eight
National Guardsmen were also indicted but a federal judge dismissed
those charges before there was even a trial. That hasn’t stopped a
50-year, unsuccessful quest for justice by survivors and family members.
In 1971, alarm over college unrest was a chief driver of the pro-business community “Powell Memo”
drafted by future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell which declared
that “the American economic system is under broad attack” and proposed
fighting back with conservative think tanks and media. It was the idea
that eventually animated talk radio, the Fox News Channel, and what
would become daily attacks against “those liberal snowflakes” on campus.
Another prominent far-right thinker — the Nobel Prize-winning economist James Buchanan
— argued that low or sometimes free university tuition encouraged
protest.
Increasingly conservative governors and lawmakers — under
budget pressure during the stagflationary 1970s anyway — took this to
heart, slashing taxpayer money for public universities and sending
tuition to unheard-of levels. Ronald Reagan — who became California’s
governor in 1966 by ridiculing long-haired campus protesters — ended that state’s free tuition on his way to the White House and a new American conservative hegemony.
The
flicker of subsequent movements like South Africa divestiture in the
1970s or the 1980s nuclear freeze eventually rekindled the 2010s’ Black
Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street or The Women’s March.
Yet it seems to me — a late-term Baby Boomer who arrived at college in
the fall of 1977 — that these were candles in a wind of right-wing
repression. Over time, the fear that you might get shot for protesting
faded but most young people these days are working two or three jobs to
pay tuition, accumulating massive student debt,
or shut out of college and thus the good-job market all together — too
beaten down to protest the system even as that system gets worse.
Today, the coronavirus crisis has exposed
what America has given away since the echoes of 1970 and Kent State
faded — a nation of millions living paycheck-to-paycheck, one pandemic
away from losing their health insurance while waiting for hours at a
food bank, the social safety net all but destroyed by Reagan-inspired
conservatism. “The American economic system” was saved without those
pesky kids protesting — but at what cost to American democracy?
In 1994, three friends discovered in the south of France a cave with magnificent cave paintings, more than 30,000 years old.
Under the ground of the Ardèche region, an invaluable treasure is hidden for its antiquity, its conservation and the pictorial quality of the representations; one of the oldest and most splendid examples of Arieñaciense parietal art, dating approx. between 40,000 and 30,000 B.C.
bitch that gesture and line quality...absolutely masterful. people go to $100k art school to learn how to do that and grug was out there in 35000 BC drawing better than seasoned professionals with no reference but memory
Hey guys. Because of the protesting in Minneapolis, there have been a lot of unintentional losses in the twin cities. The building of the Native non-profit Migizi was damaged last night (5/29), and some of their archives were also damaged. If you are able, please take a look at their website and consider donating. I donated 15 dollars, and if you match/exceed my donation and send me a screenshot proving you did, I’ll send you a quick sketch of a character/OC/whatever. Thank you!
here's an article on metadata and how to remove it on your phone that was shared on twitter. always good and relevant information but especially for right now.
thanks for these additions, I'm not a Mac or iPhone user anymore so there was no way for me to test these methods out. I just wanted to share these article spread awareness about metadata, especially for people who are going to BLM protests right now.
Also leave it to Apple to make digital autonomy difficult for their users 😒
this is the official navajo covid relief fund, please donate, it’ll go towards desperately needed medical supplies, as well as daily necessities for the community like canned food, drinkable water, disinfectants, and baby formula
in the wake of yet another black person being murdered by police, here’s a list of relevant fundraisers and organizations that could use your support right now.
this is specifically a call to action for fellow white people. if you’re white and you’re in any way able to, donate.
Minnesota Freedom Fund: “We value a society that values its people, their freedom and recognizes their contribution to the greater good. A society that does not condition pretrial freedom on class or identity, that has ended mass incarceration, and that invests in restorative and transformative justice.”
Black Visions Collective, an org that strives to “shape a political home for Black people across Minnesota. We aim to center our work in healing and transformative justice principles, intentionally develop our organizations core DNA to ensure sustainability, and develop Minnesota’s emerging Black leadership to lead powerful campaigns.”
Reclaim the Block, which “organizes Minneapolis community and city council members to move money from the police department into other areas of the city’s budget that truly promote community health and safety. We believe health, safety and resiliency exist without police of any kind. We organize around policies that strengthen community-led safety initiatives and reduce reliance on police departments.”
The top is my homestate. Michigan. Armed protestors against the stay at home order shouting in the faces of police because they want their haircuts.
The bottom is yesterday. Minnesota. More exact, Minneapolis. Miles from where I live. Protestors sitting while police show up in riot gear as they rightfully protest and demand justice for the murder of George Floyd.
I’m not the least bit shocked. But seeing the stark contrast from two places I’ve called home is so disappointing and infuriating that the racist system we live in allows for this and there’s still people who will say the protestors in Minneapolis were wrong. Just... I’m so angry the “land of the free” fails so many people. America was never the land of the free.
