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Queer Liberation is Black Liberation, Justice for Black Lives Is Justice for All

Mako Fitts Ward & Marlon M. Bailey Praxis Center: Education for Liberation
The exclusion of Black LGBT people in mainstream pride events have spawned alternative Black pride events. These alternative actions are reminders that queer liberation is Black liberation, and justice for Black lives translates into justice for all.

Trump's Pandemic Failure Means A Second Great Depression Is Looming

Annie Lowrey The Atlantic
Young unmasked and undistanced supporters listen to President Trump in Phoenix, AZ.
Ending the pandemic was the only thing the government could have done to save the economy, Trump’s botched response means without a second massive federal intervention millions of US families who are just keeping their head above water will sink.

Friday Nite Videos | June 26, 2020

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How to Empty Seat | Sarah Cooper. The Chicks | March March. The Killing Floor (Digitally Restored) | Movie. "Quarantine Blues" | John Mclaughlin, Carlos Santana, Cindy Blackman Santana. Jamaal Bowman's Speech After Upset Defeat of 16-Term Incumbent.

The Chicks | March March

“If your voice held no power, they wouldn’t try to silence you.” - unknown. Use your VOICE. Use your VOTE. By The Chicks (formerly the Dixie Chicks).

The Killing Floor (Digitally Restored) | Movie

This 1985 Sundance-Award winning film speaks deeply to the present moment, exploring a true story of the struggle of black and white workers, over a hundred years ago, to build a strong interracial union in the giant Chicago slaughterhouses in the face of the mounting racism that erupted in violence in the Chicago Race Riot of 1919. It has been beautifully digitally restored and re-released by Film Movement, and is now rentable for streaming here.

You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument

Caroline Randall Williams New York Times
I am more than half white, and none of it was consensual. White Southern men — my ancestors — took what they wanted from women they did not love, over whom they had extraordinary power, and then failed to claim their children.