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Update: that person is @ravarielstone
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I’m at the rally in Peninsula Park and the person speaking just said, “In the future, historians will be asked what quarter of 2020 they specialize in.”pic.twitter.com/l9KoScjpKR
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Here’s the rest of the lineup: https://twitter.com/pnwylf/status/1278132324853374978?s=21 …https://twitter.com/PNWYLF/status/1278132324853374978 …
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@ravarielstone encouraging everyone to take a day off once a week to reflect, get off media, maybe drink wine and eat bread. Essentially a sabbath, without using that word.Show this thread -
The next speaker is giving a great talk on Palestinian Liberation + BLM solidarity.
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Kent Ford is speaking now. If you aren’t familiar with his name and work, I encourage you to read this: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kent-ford-interview-black-panther-party/tnamp/ …
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Mic talking about how it’s cool for “ACAB” and “Fuck 12” to become mainstream, but it’s also nuanced because working-class people know people who are cops. “This is about the institution. People have been compromised by the situation, no matter how cool and nice they are.”
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Mic giving a talk about not beefing in public and using community deescalation while... seemingly coincidentally... an older Black man tries to hop on the microphone several times and people around Mic deescalate so that Mic can keep speaking. Extremely meta!
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Eli from the the POC-youth-centered Radical Justice Party speaking now.
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Eli: “why am I fighting the exact same fight my grandfather fought 54 years ago? That’s fucking unacceptable.” Eli’s grandfather was a Black Panther in Oakland.
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Educational and passionate talk from a representative from
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Crowd now chanting: “no justice, no peace, stop the killings in the Philippines.”
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Next speaker talking about the
@TeressaLRaiford write-in campaign. “For the last four years, while Ted was brutalizing us [with tear gas at protests], Teressa Raiford has been working to protect us.”Show this thread -
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@swiggleman performing next. He says that he grew up in this neighborhood and used to hang out here with Patrick Kimmons. “We’ve been harassed by police our whole life.” His brother was tased at 15-years-old for jaywalking on Lombard.Show this thread
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