thetimesinbetween:

hey remember how i run a sanctuary program? cool.

we got an urgent request today from another local organizer to bond an asylum-seeker out of detention because she’s in imminent danger of deportation (and, if she is deported, there is a good chance she’ll become a political prisoner in her country of origin). my committee is on board, so now here we are, a tiny team with no significant experience in fundraising trying to collaborate with some other folks to raise $5000 bond before november 8th.

if/when we get a mechanism for taking in money up and running, and i post it, will people here donate? i won’t be able to share much more information than i just did because it would put the asylum-seeker at risk. but like. i would appreciate the help and i’m sure as hell that she would too. 

burnsthrough:

i am shaking a lot right now and my heart is in my mouth and i’ve been crying on and off and on and off for the past two weeks, and i know that none of you give a fuck about brazil, and that none of you care about politics outside of the ones that directly affect you, but i am terrified. as a bissexual, socialist, umbandista, brazilian woman, i am terrified. and i am begging you to care. 

trigger warning for : swastikas, nazism, racism, homophobia, sexism, transphobia, torture, rape. 

here’s what is happening in brazil: 

in this year, we hold presidential elections. these elections are the most important in the history of brazil, for a very simple reason: now, that we are on the second round, we either elect a far-right candidate with authoritarian tendencies who flirts with fascism, or we elect a center-left candidate who belongs to the party that was in power for from 2002-2016, before a coup occurred mid 2016. 

one of the candidates is fernando haddad, the man seen on this gif:  

he was the mayor of são paulo, has been called by the new york times a ‘visionary’, was considered the greatest mayor of latin america, as his time as minister of education made over 100 federal, free institutes, ensured that the history of africa was taught in schools. he has a bacharel degree in law, a masters in economy and a phd in philosophy. he is currently a professor at an university. he gave free buses to children in public education, who could not afford it otherwise, lowered the corruption in the state of são paulo, created a better system for women to denounce harrassment and assault, and overall did a lot of good. i’m not going to spend 3 hours finding different sources for this, because you all don’t actually care. 

the other candidate, is jair bolsonaro, and he is not the “tropical trump”, he is not our version of berlusconi. he is worse.

• here’s a very good article, pointing out the horridness of him. the article is called “bolsonaro’s model isn’t berlusconi. it’s goebbel’s”
  

here’s what he looks like: 

he has praised general carlos alberto brilhante ustra, who is known as the mastermind behind the tortures that occurred during the dictatorship. when he praised him, he did so when voting to impeach our former president dilma rouseff, who was tortured during the dictatorship, and fought for freedom. he has said that “if the crisis gets worse, we’ll shut down the congress” and install a dictatorship. he has said that the dictatorship should have killed more people, and tortured less. that it should have killed 30.000 people. that it should have killed our then president fernando henrique cardoso. he has said that his son would never marry a black woman because he gave him education. he has said that gay people are only gay because they were not beaten as children. he has said that indigenous people are lazy and greedy, that immigrants are the scum of the earth. he has said that women should earn less because they get pregnant. he has said that he would not rape a congresswoman, maria do rosário, because she is not worthy of it. he has said that his daughter is a woman because he got weak and could not produce another man. are you horrified yet? do you understand the problem yet? do you care yet? 

in the beginning of the year, marielle franco, a poor, black, bissexual politician was executed. a street was named after her. here’s what people in his party did: 

he is leading the polls currently, around 54-58% against 42-46%. ever since the first round of elections, last sunday (07/10), over 50 cases of assaults to people against bolsonaro have been reported. 

here are some of them:

• a black man was stabbed to death 12 times for saying he voted for haddad. 
  
• a woman had a swastika carved onto her belly for walking around with a shirt that said “ele não”, not him, the name of a campaign against bolsonaro. 
  
• a swastika was painted in front of a university, alongside the saying “get out blacks”
  
• in different stadiums, football crowds sing “hey, fruit, beware, bolsonaro is going to kill f*gs” 
  
• a trans woman was beaten up for … well, existing. 

here’s a picture. here’s the news report. 

to make things more worrying, the united states, who has knowingly backed up a military coup in 1964, has donated 96 BULLETPROOF MOBILS TO THE BRAZILIAN ARMY. 

here are some cartoons on american newspapers: 

if you want to get informed, if you care enough to do so, here are some sources in english: 

• the independent
  
• the new york times
  
• time magazine 
  
• the guardian
  
• vox
  
• business insider
  
• if you don’t want to read any of those, then at least take 17 minutes of your day and watch last week tonight’s piece on it: 
  

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dark-eyed-harmothoe:

tracknumber-6:

arrwstaki:

9 million people fucking love dogs

Here we come 10.

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comeon-let-it-go:

🚨This is not a drill … I repeat this is now a drill 🚨 Do i have any fellow larries who want to see Harry Styles with me tonight at MSG !?

Hello friends ! It appears I have an extra ticket for the show tonight and since Harry’s motto is treat people with kindness , I want to give the ticket to someone who couldn’t get one !

If you are in NYC and want to see harry for free tonight hit me up !

Please spread the word and reblog ! I really don’t want this ticket to go to waste and it should be pretty close to the boyfriend stage 😉

This is so lovely!

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fullten:

cocconutoil:

hundondestiny:

byelkyrie:

cocconutoil:

MUSLIMS ARE GETTING PUT IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN CHINA

MUSLIMS ARE GETTING PUT IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN CHINA

MUSLIMS ARE GETTING PUT IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN CHINA

MUSLIMS ARE GETTING PUT IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN CHINA

Links to articles about this in The Independent and The Washington Post.

“Muslims forced to drink alcohol and eat pork in China’s ‘re-education’ camps, former inmate claims
‘The psychological pressure is enormous when you have to criticise yourself, denounce your thinking,’ says detainee”

these are from may 2018.

HERE’S A PETITION : https://www.change.org/p/united-nations-china-release-the-1-million-uyghurs-detained-in-nazi-style-concentration-camps

I dunno if China would give a fuck about petitions? But reblogging anyways, also it’s not all Chinese Muslims, they’re specifically going after certain ethinicies

“Samarkand said 5,700 people were detained in just one camp in the village of Karamagay, almost all ethnic Kazakhs and Uighurs, and not a single person from China’s Han majority ethnic group.”

Jesus

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