qoph @qoph@octodon.social

if you work at microsoft, or at any company that serves ICE or any agency that assists them, give your bosses hell for it. publicize the contracts. demand answers. agitate! organize!

if you have ever dragged IBM for helping nazis organize concentration camps, recognize ICE's camps for what they are and hold collaborators to account! ✊ 🔥

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/20/17485238/ice-contract-microsoft-motorola-dell-hp-enterprise-deportation

3 considerations for any political action:
1. If your action couldn't possibly have negative consequences for you, it is of no consequence
2. If your action requires media attention to have any impact, it has no impact.
3. Working in the realm of ideas and symbols is not worthless, but working exclusively at that level is.

Donna Minkowitz revisits her article about Brandon Teena and attempts to make amends for the transphobia therein. This is a hell of a read. https://buff.ly/2yGcebV

Remember, the revolution will not be televised and the corporate media is not your friend. They will never frame your actions how you want them to and will only cover what is safe.

For any action you must consider what it does if nobody knows you did it. Employing symbols and ideas in your action can make it more effective, but ultimately it must have a material component. and if you face no possible risk, then your action probably isn't threatening enough to the status quo.

As for giving money to organizations:
1. If you give enough money that it srsly affects your budget, that does carry risk tru
2. Regardless of if anyone knows you gave the money, that org now has money
3. While giving money does symbolically show support; money also translates to resources.

That Said:
Money is valuable
Volunteers and accomplices are invaluable.

Staving off burnout by spreading the work or providing things like water and shelter are so so so important. accomplices keep work alive

"Thomson Reuters Selling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Access to Data"

https://medium.com/@privacyint/thomson-reuters-selling-ice-access-to-data-e4e7e6230614

IF YOU ENJOY SOMETHING, THROW MONEY AT THE CREATOR OF WHATEVER PRODUCT YOU ENJOY.

This goes for porn, art, games, books. If you actually want the thing to keep existing, actually pay for the thing please.

The essay about growing up poor, feeling immense pressure starting very young and being confronted with ongoing racism hits like a truck.
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And I am not spreading hate.

Where in the world do you read hate spreading from "structural racism, misogyny, transphobia and economic control is ruining our world' I will never understand.

Bc again, yall don't read nor do you listen

My anger is righteous. And you will not get an apology

Queer anger is righteous. Black people's anger is righteous. POC anger is righteous.

Your problem with the anger, is that you know, deep down inside, that you are in that system that we are in, except you don't deal w the shit it reaps and we do.

That reality smacks you in the face and you asking us to pipe down won't change that fact.

Some of you, usually in a privileged position in one form or another, are terrified of another's anger.

You see someone expressing frustration in a chill manner & immediately read anger. Your focus on the 'anger' instead of the issue at hand shows how little interest you actually have in 'solving the problem.'

The condescension says a lot more about you than the person you are essentially trolling.

Let me give you an example.

RT @The_Big_Quiet@twitter.com
Pro tip: The moral arc of the universe only bends toward justice if we put our goddamn weight on it.

I've said this before and I'll say it again. We all have to make the choice on what kind of community we want to build.

Do you want actual progress, or do you just want to some more token friends that you can to 'prove' you like 'diversity'.

Do you want to learn or do you just want to build a community that just affirms and validates your own biases?

We're all making some hard decisions right now concerning who will allow in our space.

This is a necessary process.

@shel we've had video & audio of what's effectively executions of black men and black boys for years now.

and the only thing that's happening is that white people are complaining about all the black folks who are locking up highways with their loud protests about some thing or the other.

as a good friend of mine put it:

"You are taking a small but not insignificant risk of getting arrested whenever you drive a car, but you do it anyway because it is necessary. The same goes for political action"