A quick post to highlight vigils planned for tonight (Saturday) and tomorrow to honor the victims in Charlottesville and to stand against white supremacist violence.
Please post any additional info you have in the comments.
#StandWithCharlottesville march against white supremacy about to begin at #nn17 in Atlanta. Find a march near you: https://t.co/9hDQYhHz78 pic.twitter.com/tygkEq4ywP
— MoveOn (@MoveOn) August 12, 2017
THREAD: More #Charlottesville vigils happening around the country tonight and tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/AMw82HkpBW
— CAP Action (@CAPAction) August 12, 2017
Right now on Boston common. #Charlottesville #UniteForCivilRights pic.twitter.com/yfHjOmg4V6
— Sasha Costanza-Chock (@schock) August 12, 2017
I want to know where to get the Punch More Nazis shirt.
https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/1142671-punch-more-nazis
go punch’em
@ weirwood me too
@Scildfreja. Thanks. Gotta punch ’em all.
Of course Wonder Woman has a proud history of this sort of thing.
http://68.media.tumblr.com/1bb07f2858bc7b818e84fc12e5256517/tumblr_okg1sp9AbH1rz1rzuo1_540.png
Marco fucking Rubio is calling it a terrorist attack.
Reality seems to be seeping in.
I live in Missouri; there are no events anywhere near me, as usual. This is the proud state which just received the NAACP’s first ever travel advisory for black people to avoid for their own safety. Where it is still legal for employers to discriminate against LGBTQIA people, and the state legislature just passed laws making it nearly impossible to press a discrimination suit of any kind. Where people are suffering wildly disproportionate amounts of violent crime, drug use, and poverty for a place with this population density, because that is what conservative rule does to a society.
Sometimes I am perilously tempted to just give up.
There’s a white supremacist rally here in Seattle tomorrow. 🙁
I wish I could drive. Then I could crash shit I can’t walk to.
@numerobis
Maybe they can’t afford to lose the “minority voters who vote GOP” group.
@kupo
That’s, terrible. Stay safe friend.
@Oogly
I’m torn between staying safe and joining the counter-protest. (It’s a ways away from my home, so no danger there.) I’m still recovering from an auto-immune attack earlier this week and I probably need to take it easy. My joints are still sore and I have some brain fog and fatigue. At the same time, I hate that this is happening in my city and I want to fight back.
@kupo
It’d probably be best to rest for now. It won’t do anyone any good if you get really sick from attending the counter-protest, especially with the real possibility of physical harm.
I’m planning to attend the anti-Nazi/anti-Trump/Pence rally in downtown L.A. tomorrow. Not sure if I should be ready for Nazis to start shit.
In the meantime, I have a real dilemma. I’ve been donating monthly to the ACLU since January, when they tackled the airport immigration issue. But my understanding is that they pushed for the white nationalists to be allowed to hold this event, and their response to the aftermath has seemed pretty milquetoast. I’m debating whether I should pull my donations going forward and send them to a different org. On the other hand, the ACLU still does a lot of good. Any thoughts?
Better to be ready for them to start shit, and they don’t, than to not be ready and they do …
(Very sporadic poster here)
Re: ACLU.
In the US, free speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of association are essential democratic and justice rights, no matter how offensive the speech or the speakers.
Defending rights is not the same as endorsing any point of view.
From their blog –
aclu DOT org/blog/speak-freely/how-could-you-represent-someone-milo-yiannopoulos
This is what you’ve awoken, nazis.
@dreidl
We are all perfectly aware of their justifications. The question is whether they are valid. The answer is no, they are not. Nazi rallies are an active threat of violence against marginalized groups (which includes me, and based on your nym you as well), as we have just seen. Allowing Nazis to organise with impunity is a fundamental threat to democracy, and indeed t9 the civil liberties the ACLU claims to value.
Some images from the car attacker’s Facebook page. Draw your own conclusions.
http://ir.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/4-1-12-300×227.jpg
In Denver today
https://www.facebook.com/events/477929142586035??ti=ia
Also an anti-war rally on 8/20 I didn’t find a good link that could be shared though.
D.D. Webb, I’m not really a part of this community, but several new vigils have popped up in Missouri over the course of the night. I am going to be at the one at the site of the (I understand former or about-to-be former) Confederate Memorial in 63112… if I can figure out a way to get there. My daughter has the car, and she is not answering my texts or e-mails, possibly because she feels political gatherings of this sort are actually counter-productive and hurt the causes people support. (She may be wiser than I, but it is my car, dammit, and I am free to make my own poor choices, the last time I looked, despite many sad MGTOW rants protesting this.)
You are not alone. They want you to think you are alone, but you’re not. (Even if you were alone, history will prove you right.)
In London, tomorrow (Monday) evening in front of the US Embassy.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1023892247746065/?ti=icl
@ Aunt Podger: Thank you for that; I’m glad I came by to check the comments again. Yep, some have come up, including one in the city where I work. That is a breath of fresh air I greatly needed.
L.A. rally went well. No Neo-Nazis appeared. LAPD was very present but accommodating, even though the rhetoric on hand was semi-revolutionary.
There are reports that 4-5 thousand counter-protesters were blocked from reaching the Seattle white supremacist rally by the SPD.
My understanding is that as long as violence isn’t allowed or explicit death threats made, hate speech is okay. However; Since there has been both this time around, I imagine that the ACLU will rethink their position. They likely didn’t know it would come to this and assumed it would be just more of “Tiny group of angry bigots yelling dumb things while everyone else counterprotests by laughing at them or ignoring them”. Even David initially laughed at them with those tiki torches.
I confess I haven’t read the ACLU’s milquetoasty response.
That said; If you have doubts, you can give to another group such as The SPLC or the NAACP or something.