Violent Queers: Bash Back Story Swap

sparrowszealot: 1970’s Native American protests in DC

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:30:43 -0400

1970’s Native American protests in DC

youaintpunk: The riots also offered a glimpse into how...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:59:46 -0400

The riots also offered a glimpse into how photographs can be used out of context:

‘Sir: In last week’s article about the poll-tax riot in Trafalgar Square (‘THE MOB’S BRIEF RULE’, 7 April) there is a large photograph labelled ‘A West End shopper argues with a protester’. The woman in the photograph is me, and I thought you might like to know the true story behind the picture.

I was on my way to the theatre, with my husband. As we walked down Regent Street at about 6.30pm, the windows were intact and there was a large, cheerful, noisy group of poll-tax protesters walking up from Piccadilly Circus. We saw ordinary uniformed police walking alongside, on the pavement, keeping a low profile. The atmosphere was changed dramatically in moments when a fast-walking, threatening group of riot-squad police appeared.

We walked on to the top of Haymarket, where the atmosphere was more tense and more protesters were streaming up Haymarket from the Trafalgar Square end. Suddenly a group of mounted police charged at full gallop into the rear of the group of protesters, scattering them, passers-by and us and creating panic. People screamed and some fell. Next to me and my husband another group of riot-squad appeared, in a most intimidating manner.

The next thing that happened is what horrified me most. Four of the riot-squad police grabbed a young girl of 18 or 19 for no reason and forced her in a brutal manner on to the crowd-control railings, with her throat across the top of the railings. Her young male companion was frantically trying to reach her and was being held back by one riot-squad policeman. In your photograph I was urging the boy to calm down or he might be arrested; he was telling me that the person being held down across the railings was his girlfriend.

My husband remonstrated with the riot-squad policeman holding the boy, and I shouted at the four riot-squad men to let the girl go as they were obviously hurting her. To my surprise, they did let her go – it was almost as if they did not know what they were doing.

The riot-squad policemen involved in this incident were not wearing any form of identification. Their epaulettes were unbuttoned and flapping loose; I lifted them on two men and neither had any numbers on. There was a sergeant with them, who was numbered and my husband asked why his men wore no identifying numbers. The sergeant replied that it did not matter as he knew who the men were. We are a middle-aged suburban couple who now feel more intimidated by the Metropolitan police than by a mob. If we feel so angry, how on earth did the young hot-heads at the rally feel?’

Mrs R.A. Sare, Northwood, Middlessex Source

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Thu, 16 May 2013 17:30:45 -0400

sisterresister: WOMEN’S LIB RALLY 1982

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:30:34 -0400

sisterresister:

WOMEN’S LIB RALLY 1982

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Wed, 15 May 2013 10:13:01 -0400

tranqualizer: [photo: sepia tone photograph from the Chicano...

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:30:36 -0400

tranqualizer:

[photo: sepia tone photograph from the Chicano Student Walkouts in March of 1968. students are outside marching and rallying. one student carries a sign that reads, “education not deportation.” some students have their hands raised in the air expressing the peace sign]

nezua:

easybeat310:

Chicano Student WALKOUTS- March 6th-9th, 1968

march 6, my birthday

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Mon, 13 May 2013 17:30:47 -0400

trannypowah: atriptothemorg: janetmock: Hello, Miss Major!...

Sun, 12 May 2013 17:30:44 -0400

trannypowah:

atriptothemorg:

janetmock:

Hello, Miss Major! Get into her everything.

Visited the living legend, the Stonewall Riots veteran, the self-proclaimed Glamour Puss, the prison abolitionist, the Executive Director of TGI Justice in her NYC hotel room.

We shared space, talked shoes, discussed our girls, our future, our struggles, her living legacy, and what our collective lives as trans women of color really look like.

If you don’t know her, I’m judging. (Google is your friend).

YAAASSSSSS!!! Miss Major is everything. I picked her up from the airport for the Rethinking Power and Resistance conference here in Austin. She was too fly! She stayed killing it all weekend.

It so amazing to see trans women elders of color. It gives me hope that I might get to that age!

trans elders of color getting life!

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: The only right way to mark...

Sun, 12 May 2013 13:50:32 -0400

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

The only right way to mark “Confederate Memorial Day.”

Thanks to Jordan Farrar

leavemymouth: made this for commencement on thursday in...

Sat, 11 May 2013 21:10:39 -0400

leavemymouth:

made this for commencement on thursday in solidarity with assata & also cause fuck you, grad school.

fala7idreams: Mural, Falls Road, Belfast, 1983 – “Solidarity...

Sat, 11 May 2013 19:20:43 -0400

fala7idreams:

Mural, Falls Road, Belfast, 1983 – “Solidarity between women in armed struggle”; women militants of (from left to right) Palestine Liberation Organisation, Cumann an mBan (women’s section of Irish Republican Army) and Southwest African People’s Organisation (Namibia), contained within women’s symbol.

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Sat, 11 May 2013 17:30:46 -0400

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Sat, 11 May 2013 15:40:37 -0400

femmebot-feelings: BE GENEROUS.

Sat, 11 May 2013 13:50:29 -0400

femmebot-feelings:

BE GENEROUS.

fatallyfemme: wanna come back 2 my place & have a power...

Fri, 10 May 2013 21:10:29 -0400

fatallyfemme:

wanna come back 2 my place & have a power struggle?

parentes: av j.t #17 parentes (undervattensdjur)

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:20:32 -0400

parentes:

av j.t

#17 parentes (undervattensdjur)

anarcho-queer: 3 Elderly Activists To Be Imprisoned After...

Fri, 10 May 2013 17:30:52 -0400

anarcho-queer:

3 Elderly Activists To Be Imprisoned After “Sabotaging” U.S. Nuclear Weapons Facility

Three activists, including an 83-year-old nun, who broke into a US nuclear weapons facility in Tennessee were convicted on Wednesday of interfering with national security.

In what The New York Times labeled the biggest security breach in the history of the atomic complex, the trio broke into the Y-12 National Security Complex on July 28, 2012 and defaced a uranium processing plant.

The Y-12 facility has been in operation since 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project, and today is responsible for both the production and maintenance of all uranium parts for the entire US nuclear weapons arsenal. Over the years, the facility has also been the target of nonviolent anti-nuclear protests.

Now, a jury in Tennessee has charged the three protesters with sabotaging the plant, with a second charge of damaging federal property.

Defense attorneys for the three activists - Sister Megan Rice, 57-year-old Greg Boertje-Obed and Michael Walli, 64 - maintained that the prosecution had overreached.

“The shortcomings in security at one of the most dangerous places on the planet have embarrassed a lot of people,” defense lawyer Francis Lloyd said.

“You’re looking at three scapegoats behind me,” he added

Defense attorneys also noted that, once the three refused to plead guilty to trespassing, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment, the prosecution introduced the charge of sabotage, which carries a maximum prison term of twenty years. They believed the higher charge should have been dismissed.

The three defendants spent two hours inside Y-12, during which time they hung banners, cut through security fences, strung crime-scene tape and sprayed “baby bottles full of human blood” on the exterior portion of the facility.

Prosecutors argued that the breach of security was serious, and caused the plant to shut down for two weeks as security staff were re-trained and defense contractors replaced.

Meanwhile, federal officials maintain that there was never any danger of the three activists reaching materials that could be detonated or used to construct an improvised bomb.

flozac: the principal at my school made an announcement...

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:50:43 -0400

flozac:

the principal at my school made an announcement yesterday that the girls need to start covering up and then i found this in the hallway

thepeoplesrecord: “Conventional wisdom would have one believe...

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:10:24 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

“Conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires, but what history really shows is that today’s empire is tomorrow’s ashes; that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to aquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.” - Mumia Abu-Jamal