INCITE Community News shared Micah Bazant's post.
As we celebrate Pride, lets dream bigger than acceptance into an empire of death!
Free posters, flyers, videos and more info at queertranswarban.com!!
After Tru...mp's trans military ban, the media was filled with patriotic images of trans military service. We understand the trans military ban as part of a larger strategy to build power by scapegoating trans people as dangerous threats and costly burdens. But the solution is not to endorse the military. The US military is the largest source of violence in the world, including vast environmental racism and endemic sexual assault. Veterans do not get the services they need from the VA. Recruiters lie about military benefits to recruit poor people & people of color. 22 veterans commit suicide every day.
This isn't a judgement or attack on any individuals in the military. No one should have to join the military to try and get medical care, a job or an education, or to escape abuse. We are uplifting our communities’ long history of opposing war & building solutions for real peace, security, and justice.
Gender + sexual liberation for everyone requires an end to war & US imperialism.
Image description: Painting of a raven with brightly multicolored feathers and claws destroying the RQ-11 “Raven” drone — the most widely used military drone. Green background with dandelions and dandelion seeds. Text above says: “Trans liberation not more US invasion”. Text below says “No pride in war”
Thank you to Dean Spade, Dori Midnight, Lewis Wallace, Hope Dector + so many other folks on this squad.
Signed higher quality posters for sale at micahbazant.com/buy-a…/trans-liberation-not-more-us-invasion
#BanTheMilitary #TranLliberationNotUSInvasion #QueersAgainstWar #AntiWar #AntiMilitary
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INCITE Community News shared BYP 100's post.
We need your help! Do you identify as a Black woman, girl, and/or femme? If so, we'd love to feature you during our week of action next week!
Send us a photo o...f yourself in your full glory with your age, location, identity, and answer to the following question: Why is it important for us to fight back against structural violence that specifically affects Black women and girls?
Email submissions to sayhername18@gmail.com
"Most Americans are shocked by the increasingly frequent scenes of wailing mothers and babies being torn apart by government officers at the Mexican border. The Trump administration has ratcheted up the separation of children from parents as a way to deter migrants from Central America. Some critics denounce this practice as “un-American.” It is certainly immoral and violates human rights. But it’s not unprecedented. Indeed, for long stretches of American history, it was commonplace for children to be snatched from their families." -Tera Hunter
"SESTA/FOSTA disproportionately endangers marginalized communities because they are already disproportionately criminalized. In New York City, for instance, “nearly 70% of defendants facing prostitution charges in the Brooklyn trafficking courts are black,” the New York Daily News reported in 2014. ... “Historically, it’s always been about policing black people, policing women’s bodies, always under the guise of sex trafficking, trying to combat sex trafficking,” MF Akynos, a stripper and sex-worker-rights activist, tells Gizmodo... “The people that are always affected by the laws are typically black and trans people."
“Unfortunately, many of the largest national LGBT organizations constantly recall and reference the liberatory and antipolice "Stonewall" riot as a battle cry for their homonormative agenda: marriage, military inclusion, access to the market, and hate crimes legislation. The narrow and singular pressure to accept this agenda and assimilate into mainstream society elides the rich and dynamic history of our movements for liberation and self-determination. A critical analysis ab...out the dangers of aligning with the police, and an alternative practice of building real protection from violence in the form of strong and diverse communities, is part of that rich heritage. Remembering our radical history, and reclaiming ownership over it, is a powerfully transformative act of love for the value of our movements and our lives.” -Che Gosset, Reina Gosset, & A.J. Lewis
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“These failures have allowed a culture of impunity to flourish within Customs and Border Protection, subjecting immigrant children to conditions that are too often neglectful at best and sadistic at worst."
INCITE Community News shared Survived and Punished's event.
June 13, NYC: No More Violence Against Our Sistas #SayHerName
INCITE Community News shared Noura Erakat's post.
Thank you for showing up like a beloved community and making it a no-brainer to use the space we make (no one gave it to us) to speak our truth. Like so many fo...lks, I think it's revolutionary when we get to tell our own damn stories rather than have to show up in a debate, as a corrective, as a token.... thank you to the Washington Post for allowing me to share some of that struggle here in this video. We are freedom loving people teaching life to the world- as put by one of our best contemporary poet-schoars, Rafeef Ziadah. On 70 years of Nakba, we are teaching that life, forging new futures. The alternative is too ugly to even consider.
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INCITE Community News shared Jewish Voice for Peace's video.
Noura Erakat breaks down the context of Israel’s relentless and unconscionable state violence and subjugation of Palestinians. #FreePalestine
Do yourself a favor and listen to Noura Erakat as she brilliantly responds to CBS News on Gaza and the U.S. embassy move.
INCITE Community News shared Survived and Punished's event.
Thoughts? How do we engage survivors who have also done abusive things? How do we craft strategies for accountability and transformation that don't fall into racist and pathologizing disposability? How do we give survivors a platform for expressing their experiences when the person who has violated them has so much public power and public vulnerability? (So many folks have been working on transformative justice & community accountability strategies, resources, and imaginaries over the years, links in comments.)
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Sign up and get involved with the #SayHerName Week of Action: June 11-17! http://bit.ly/SAYHERNAME2018
Sign up and get involved with the #SayHerName Week of Action: June 11-17! http://bit.ly/SAYHERNAME2018
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"While some offer calls for reform, such calls ignore the reality that an institution grounded in the commodification of human beings, through torture and the deprivation of their liberty, cannot be made good. The logic of using policing, punishment, and prison has not proven to address the systemic causes of violence. It is in this climate that we argue that abolition of the prison industrial complex is the most moral political posture available to us. Because the deconstruction of the American system of mass incarceration is possible, and it is time." -Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes
