Chris Redd has started a GoFundMe to pay for COVID testing for protestors. This will probably be my thing going forward, seems like a smart way to support to interrelated causes.

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/i ... irus-tests

You guys have to pay for COVID testing?

I shouldn’t be surprised and yet.

the australian conservative would be considered an american socialist with that attitude

People in my community Facebook group are threatening to drive down protesters tonight. Cool!

My company's main office is in Providence (actually now in East Prov), and from what I heard from them today, seems worse there than here in CT.

So peaceful.

I really don't condone it, but you have to admit that "sad, but kind of hilarious" is a good caption to that one.

Its probably super naive to be filming those guys and dont think something its going to happen...I remember during the 2001 riots here in Argentina i was working in this huge ad agency that looked like a fucking bank, and some stupid guy was shooting the protesters on the roof for some kind of internal video for a brand.

Big mistake.

It didn't seem that bad. People in the suburbs are freaking out tonight thinking there are going to be roving mobs terrorizing the streets tonight.

Peaceful protest yesterday here, until the racist redneck trash showed up.

https://www.kdrv.com/content/news/Medfo ... 42221.html

There was a peaceful “gathering” organized in my city today around 2pm. It wasn’t organized by BLM. All day yesterday in the city Facebook group people were trying figure out if it was a hoax, or a trap.

"Trump’s anti-antifa statements commit rhetorical violence, and provoke physical violence, in a number of directions. For one, it is a historical racist trope to suggest that black communities could not rise up and self-organize huge revolutionary action. In every major city, it is abundantly clear that these uprisings are being led by young black people. The promulgating of outside agitator myths is an affront to the agency of communities organizing on the front lines of these battles. The divide-and-conquer strategy is as old and tired as any “bad protester versus good protester” dyad, which again and again distracts from the plague of police violence attending every moment of antiracist protest. It just so happens that it was a strategy favored by the Ku Klux Klan. In the 1930s, the Klan issued flyers in Alabama stating that “paid organizers for the communists are only trying” to get black people “in trouble.” As James Baldwin wrote in 1961, “It is a notion which contains a gratuitous insult implying, as it does, that Negroes can make no move unless they are manipulated.”"

https://theintercept.com/2020/06/02/tru ... signation/

I just got back from a BLM protest directly around the block from my condo. it was one of the most emotional experiences i have ever had. we talked the cops into kneeling with us. one of them had the same pearl jam stickman tattoo i have, he was obviously cool. the energy was absolutely overwhelming.

there's also a group of idiot white guys walking around with bats to "protect their neighborhood" but the BLM protest completely overshadowed them. i have such a rush from what i was just a part of. with everything happening around the country and in my city, in addition to just finding out an old friend passed away, this really lifted me up.

the ‘sad’ part is that they think they understand what being on their side means

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Thanks for sharing, warehouse.

Saw some local minority owned businesses putting up plywood over their windows pre-emptively. The South Asians(?) put up "Black Lives Matter" and other signs.

I would go with every knee shall bow, but the Russian (fresh off the boat) market next to them had no such signage.

They were screwing the plywood into the sheetmetal window frames. I wonder if new built retail will have better attachment points for anti-riot defenses.

Yeah thanks warehouse, great post

These conversations are insane. Talk of how groups are out "targeting white neighborhoods" tonight. Stories of people dropping bricks off highway overpasses (but always beginning with "Someone told me that they heard..."). Police stations are going to be under siege. People saying that they're going to sleep with their shoes on. "Stay safe!" "Pray for our police officers!" "So sad in our country right now!"

Shout out to the woman who posted right in the middle of this: "Does anyone install air conditioners?"