The Black Lives Revolution (BLM)
Reactionaries are going crazy online right now over headlines saying that Seattle City council voted to "slash" police budgets when it reality they've cut the $400,000,000 budget for this year by less than 1%. It's barely even symbolically a cut at this point…
The resignation of the Chief of Police is an undeniable win for the protests in any case!
The Black Lives Revolution (BLM)
The resignation of the Chief of Police is an undeniable win for the protests in any case!
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Dae the Lawless
Police Chief Carmen Best has been used as the token Black mouthpiece for Durkan. Mayor always forced her to take the PR hits. Now they’re going to use her as the martyr to show everyone what happens when you “listen to activists”. Her identity will be weaponized…
A well-researched piece here that is getting way too little attention:
https://www.opb.org/article/2020/08/10/man-seen-in-area-of-homemade-explosive-at-portland-protest-ided-as-ex-navy-seal/
https://www.opb.org/article/2020/08/10/man-seen-in-area-of-homemade-explosive-at-portland-protest-ided-as-ex-navy-seal/
Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB
Man seen in area of homemade explosive at Portland protest ID’ed as ex-Navy SEAL
Shortly after someone threw a makeshift explosive device at protesters in Southeast Portland early Saturday morning, a man wearing dark clothes and carrying a military style helmet with night-vision goggles was videotaped near the area. Multiple people say…
Protestors and Police are facing off at the North Precinct Police Station in #Portland. Multistream link at https://woke.net/
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The police are once again being ultra violent in #Portland tonight
https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1293069575597121536
https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1293069575597121536
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Sergio Olmos
Police disperse protestors https://t.co/RppyUsk00F
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From Hong Kong to Minneapolis to Portland to Minsk, the open-source revolution continues!
Get inspired comrades! Add oil!
(And who can translate the last image into Russian? Contact @BLMProtestsBot!)
Get inspired comrades! Add oil!
(And who can translate the last image into Russian? Contact @BLMProtestsBot!)
Yesterday at jail support rally in #Chicago. Reactionaries are very very mad about this banner already. https://twitter.com/BesharmKutti/status/1292978611482492929
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high quality brown pum pum
Just @BLMChi showing cpd the truth
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Pennsylvania Business Report
Feds approve disaster declaration in Philadelphia following early summer unrest - Pennsylvania Business Report
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recently approved Gov. Tom Wolf’s request to declare a disaster in Philadelphia following the civil unrest that occurred May 30 to June 8, which resulted in millions of dollars in damages. Approval means businesses…
Small PSA:
Mozilla laid off 25% of their workforce today, which includes their incident monitoring & response team. This means that if there are any security issues with Firefox it will take longer than usual for them to get addressed - if at all.
Stay safe out there!
Mozilla laid off 25% of their workforce today, which includes their incident monitoring & response team. This means that if there are any security issues with Firefox it will take longer than usual for them to get addressed - if at all.
Stay safe out there!