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God bless precipitation. Rain all over this nationalist parade. Please #pdx, pour for us.

So fucking sick of my dog being terrified. Also the United States.

Happy 4th
Our "forefathers" were slaveholders, patriarchs and mass murderers.

*burns flag

Very impressed by ppl's restraint

Lol, cause I feel like if I saw Jeff Sessions or Mike Pence in a restaurant I'd be struggling with some diff philosophical questions:
If I bite him will I transfigure into a dog, just confuse ppl and trot away? Or maybe this spork is really SPEAR OF JUSTICE and i shouldnt slip too hard on the, ummm... juice

Credit to the diplomats who ruin the meals of Trump bootlickers with less mess. I just got that angry, radioactive comic book squirrel stirring inside me

This.

"If either country was actually interested in “deterring” refugees in any humane way, they would stop backing coups in Central America, bombing civilians in the Middle East, and creating a refugee crisis in the first place. As long as capitalism produces violence, it will produce refugees."

"What deterring refugees means, at its core, is making the journey to seek and secure asylum more treacherous and violent than the situation the refugee originally fled.

This is how Australia’s “Pacific Solution” works: Make indefinite mandatory incarceration in tropical prison camps so vicious, hopeless and cruel that refugees would rather return to war, exile and even death than risk attempting to seek asylum in Australia."

Critical (and difficult) read about how these policies are connected and the pure evil involved.

Also some really critical insights about govt narrative scapegoating "smugglers" - a term even applied to family members of children crossing the border, when these colonizer states are almost completely responsible for these deaths and atrocities

https://truthout.org/articles/the-us-immigrant-rights-movement-can-learn-from-australias-asylum-seekers/

Aussie and US nationalism are 2 sides of same coin
Its gonna take a whole lot more than voting here

"News" agencies literally paid the white supremacist, authoritarian, hypocrite horror of a human being Melania Trump.

You cannot make this shit up. They paid _her_ for propaganda photo shoots favorable to administration.

If not #LateStageCapitalism, this is #EarlyStageHades

#Guillotine2018

Finally cleaning up my disaster of a room. It's funny, I'm pretty compulsive and love clean, elegant spaces, but it's amazing how hard things get de-prioritized when other shit is going in

I have bookshelves like a real adult and cubbies cuz fuck that I'll never grow up.

Can't wait to play Go in person sometime soon. Been loving playing online and learning, but I really don't want that part of me to just exist in a digital realm

For folks with screen readers, the text (from @pxdgdc on twitter) reads:

"A union carpenter is walking around camp at #OccupyICEPDX offering DHS/ICE agents jobs with the Carpenter’s Union if they turn in their badges & walk off the line.

You don’t have to kidnap children for a living. You could have a job with benefits, high pay, respect.

Just quit. "

Orig link: https://mobile.twitter.com/pdxgdc/status/1013136544251576320

This is fucking beautiful. A #pdx carpenter union member is at #OccupyICEpdx offering union positions to ICE agents willing to quit their jobs.

#AbolishICE

Oh yeah, this is an agency that has snuck $11 million for "transit police" (i know a hard amt to 'sneak' in w/ city commissioner complicity):
http://www.opalpdx.org/2017/03/trimet-sneaks-11m-for-police-into-budget/

Oh yeah, and these transit pigs have no qualms about killing ppl either:
http://katu.com/news/local/1-person-dead-in-officer-involved-shooting-near-se-92nd-and-flavel-st

And when they're not busy killing ppl, they mostly just discriminating against Black and Brown folks

#AbolishICE #AbolishThePolice
#FuckTrimet

Trimet (an entity that is supposed to provide public transit for ppl) has jurisdiction over the area where demonstrators are curr camped.

This "public service" is now demanding protesters vacate, despite other agencies not wanting to carry this out. Spoke with their cust service line. Was not fun

This is no surprise from an agency more concerned with giving tickets and criminalizing poverty than providing transport

#OccupyICEpdx
Call them if you can. Pressure matters:
503-238-7433

Seriously, thanks to everyone boosting and following along. First time actually posting organizing things on organizing.social and #mastodon and it means a lot to me that ppl in the federation give a shit.

Let's get organized and fight y'all. PM me if you have any interest in finding an additional home for you or comrades at organizing.social

Love and solidarity.

For folks wanting to support arrestees - ppl who threw down and risked federal charges while blocking Portland's ICE facility, here is a donation link:
https://rally.org/OccupyICEPDX

I am very skeptical / security conscious; this came directly from #OccupyICEpdx via facebook and I have worked personally w/ Portland ABC (Anarchist Black Cross). They do jail support and prisoner support work.

As much as you trust this account, trust that link. Please donate what you can.

#OccupyICEpdx
#AbolishICE

Photo credit: National Lawyers Guild

This is what a police state looks like. This should not be shocking to folks paying attention. Black, Native, Latinx folks have dealt with the violence and brutality of this system since police forces were formed to catch runaway slaves.

Peaceful demonstrators, mutual aid and community support in a beautiful camp in #pdx... and this is what our government sends

#AbolishICE #AbolishThePolice

Press release from #OccupyICEpdx RE today's raid by ICE/DHS, #pdx Police's complicity, and the horrifying intimidation tactics used against demonstrators:

https://www.occupyicepdx.org/media

"Prior to the sweep this morning, DHS agents had been trying to arouse and disorient and disrupt protestors over the past few nights. Threatening dad rock with lyrics like “sleep with one eye open” was played at high volume...
Agents were seen making hand gestures of guns and pantomimed shooting at protesters."

Photo from @portlandresists on twitter showing federal agents taping license plates.

This is what cops do with badges when they're beating on unarmed Black / African / Native / Latinx / houseless / leftist folks.

This is a such an abhorent and authoritarian tactic.

Orig link: https://mobile.twitter.com/portlandresists/status/1012351798202339330

#OccupyICEpdx
#AbolishICE

Numbers for Portland city commissioners / mayor:

Nick Fish: 503-823-3589
Chloe Eudaly (supportive of OccupyICEpdx): 503-823-4682
Amanda Fritz - 503-823-3008
Dan Saltzman - 503-823-4151
Mayor Wheeler - 503-823-4120

Please, light up these phone lines and demand that they create strong policies to actually make this a sanctuary city - not where feds can detain our neighbors and try to intimidate peaceful demonstrators.

#OccupyICEpdx
#OccupyICE
#AbolishICE

Also call the other Portland city commissioners to make these demands and have them take strong policy positions here.

They want to defer responsibility and Wheeler just wants to talk to voters about how Portland is a "sanctuary city". THAT IS BULLSHIT. If commissioners aren't making fierce policy to protect its residents - especially those most vulnerable to Trump, we are NO SANCTUARY.

Light up those lines... numbers for commissioners in following toot...

Photo from Dirk VanderHart of The Oregonian showing Portland Police assisting federal officers at the ICE detention facility in Portland.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler assured residents that PPB would NOT help ICE / DHS in any way.

No surprise, he's lying.

phone # for Mayor's office:
503-823-4120

Please please call that office to demand that the mayor keep his word, have PPB withdraw, remove #pdx from the horrible joint-terrorism taskforce and revoke permit for ICE

#OccupyICEpdx
#AbolishICE