#Protesters

The racial anger gap =/= Black ppl getting less angry; it’s Black ppl knowing they can’t exercise their anger the way White folks do. The smoldering fire in the chest
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A photo thread from last night - July 25th/26th. I wasn’t at the earlier march, but @PDXzane was there. When I arrived at the FC, the crowd was large and
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Good evening #LosAngeles,Let’s discuss budget creep.Personally, I don’t think moore and villanueva deserve a cent.But your conservative grandpa might disagree. Let’s give him a sense of scale, and check out
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I’m in beautiful (?) downtown Portland, Oregon! Here’s a spray painting of a hand doing the middle finger, and underneath it says 12 in curly numbers. This big sign says,
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One reason I’m organizing with @STdigitalunion is our small but mighty video team. Our jobs have gotten more complex, stressful & exhausting due to pandemic precautions and protest safety/gear. And
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What frustrates me beyond belief is when I hear of folks who still approve of @chicagosmayor. You only need to look at her decisions for this wknd of lifting bridges,
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@MichelleObama said something that really stuck with me. "If you think it can't get worse, you are mistaken" paraphrasedRemember that this has been a bizarre series of events, each of
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THREAD: 1/ There are tens of thousands of protesters on the streets of Yangon today, but peaceful demonstrations against the February 1 military coup are also taking place in several
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Julie Parrish is 1) not a scientist and 2) on the board of Timber Unity, which was formed to fight climate change policies. The group is increasingly affiliated with far-right
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A terrible new anti-protest bill was just introduced in the Ohio legislature.https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/10/gop-lawmakers-cindy-abrams-sara-carruthers-protest-riot-penalty-bill/6232143002/ Among other things, HB 7
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It's reassuring to overhear our son's 3rd gr teacher devote the a.m. to addressing the insurrection at the Capitol & patiently, painstakingly answering every last one of the children's many
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This is what the NYPD did to a protestor. From the @NewYorkStateAG's just-released lawsuit: "NYPD Officers charged towards the protesters, pushing Pittenger to the ground. As she lay on the
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1. I know a lot of folks are mad that I pointed out that much of the early rooting/arsons were started by and done by white folks (and yes, I
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THREAD: A (white) teenager and his father in Georgia were being interviewed about the need for masks as school starts. Both spoke about how they felt wearing masks is unnecessary
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At this point, my theory about what may have happened is that they used their longstanding strategy for dealing with protestors and it failed catastrophically because this was a terrorist
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Protest Strategies, a thread: Paint Method:https://twitter.com/JediYoFace/status/1292212460393566220?s=19 Organized shield wall:https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1291962889323020288?s=19 Leaf blower vs Tear Gas: Tennis rackets vs Tear
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