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Yesterday was the deadline for Standing Rock protesters to leave their campsites before police forcibly removed them from the area. So last night protectors in Los Angeles stood in solidarity with the protectors at Standing Rock, marching down Hollywood towards Sunset and the CNN building.
Rough with the smooth seems to be the way we’re taking things now. Fascists run the government but citizens are more politically active than ever. Bees are going extinct, but manatees aren’t. Got your Coachella ticket, realized the owner is a hater. Every victory comes laced with an L, and while some we must swallow …
In response to an angry toupée’s travel ban against refugees fleeing from their war-torn homes (wars that are likely America’s fault), citizens across the country poured into the nation’s airports denouncing the order and demanding its reversal.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of Lizzo🐍 A photo posted by Mick Jacobs (@flickjacobs) on Jan 22, 2017 at 10:57am PST If self-love is, as Audre Lorde put it, an act of political warfare, then Melissa “Lizzo” Jefferson delivered a sonic D-Day to the Echoplex this past Friday.
