Please please tell me where I can learn about creative and chaotic activism. I feel like I found my calling through that post and I really want to learn more. Mostly about what people did and what effects it had. Like how they went about doing things that made authorities nervous. Because that sounds fantastic, but I need to understand more about toeing the line legally so I’m disruptive enough to cause a scene, without authorities actually being able to *do* much about it.

Well, the movement that most inspires me in this regard are the Dutch Provos but there have been many other protest groups in the 60s to 80s in Europe that have used humor, chaos, spectacle and experiment to call for social change. Many of them combined bizarre theatre performances in public with a simple but … Continue reading Please please tell me where I can learn about creative and chaotic activism. I feel like I found my calling through that post and I really want to learn more. Mostly about what people did and what effects it had. Like how they went about doing things that made authorities nervous. Because that sounds fantastic, but I need to understand more about toeing the line legally so I’m disruptive enough to cause a scene, without authorities actually being able to *do* much about it.

New York cops furious that the union has reduced the number of “get out of jail free” cards they can give to their pals

euryale-dreams: mostlysignssomeportents: Every active NYPD cop used to get 30 Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association “courtesy cards” from their union per year; now they’ll only get 20 (retired cops used to get 20 and now they’ll get 10). These cards are known as “get out of jail free” cards, a kind of challenge coin that establishes the … Continue reading New York cops furious that the union has reduced the number of “get out of jail free” cards they can give to their pals

Disability doesn’t come with extra time and energy

realsocialskills: I’ve heard a lot of advocates of inclusion say things like “kids with disabilities work twice as hard as everyone else” or “my employees with Down’s syndrome never come in late or take a day off.” This sounds like praise, but it isn’t. The time disabled people spend working twice as hard as everyone … Continue reading Disability doesn’t come with extra time and energy

Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf

thecringeandwincefactory: The document – reproduced here in an easily searchable format – shows a terrifying network of coordinated DHS, FBI, police, regional fusion center, and private-sector activity so completely merged into one another that the monstrous whole is, in fact, one entity: in some cases, bearing a single name, the Domestic Security Alliance Council. Revealed: … Continue reading Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf

antifainternational: diarrheaworldstarhiphop: Reuters: 260 kurdish and islamic state fighters killed in Offensive Afrin: a region completely controlled by Kurds ever since the YPG and SDF there took over when the Syrian Arab Army retracted at the onset of civil war with absolutely no Islamic State presence Reuters publishing a blatant lie to soften the blow … Continue reading

sunlit: psa: bloggers aren’t required to list their mental illnesses, disabilities, sexual orientations, or any personal details that they don’t want to share. we need to stop acting like we’re entitled to all the bits and pieces of other strangers’ lives. & online cultures where people are required to list their privileges (white, cis, abled, … Continue reading

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