There are 38,000 undocumented immigrants in detention right now across the country. 38,000 people trapped in deadly close quarters without access to medical care. 38,000 people in the exact conditions that allow COVID-19 to spread. Right
now in California, well over 6,000 immigrants are being held in
detention centers without adequate health and sanitation measures in
place to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Most of these centers are run
by private corporations, and some are in county and municipal jails. In the
past weeks we’ve seen as the immigrants inside have taken to sit-ins
and hunger strikes to sound the alarm as public health and safety
concerns have been confirmed: dozens of people inside ICE detention
centers have tested positive for COVID-19, and it’s clear that many more
cases are being covered up or not tested. Yet conditions remain
unchanged.This is why activists, immigrants, doctors, lawyers
and lawmakers are coming together to form the Free Them All coalition.
We are extremely concerned about a deadly catastrophe that is brewing
and are calling on Governor Newsom to use his emergency powers to
release all immigrants from these detention centers before COVID-19
turns them into death camps. During a state
of emergency, California law provides the Governor with the authority to
#FreeThemAll. What is currently lacking from Governor Newsom is the
political will to use that authority.
Please join us by e-mailing Gov. Newsom to urge him to use his
emergency powers to free all immigrants held in detention in California.You can use this link to easily do so!
Please join us also in making calls and tweeting at Gov. Newsom this Thursday, April 23rd.
English Call In Script:
To Governor Newsom:
Phone Number: (916) 445-2841 Hello,
my name is ______, and I live in _____, and I am calling to urge
Governor Newsom to use his emergency powers to all immigrants currently
being held in detention in California. Governor Newsom has taken many
crucial steps to address the needs of the public during this pandemic,
but many immigrants continue to languish in deadly detention centers
right here in our state. Now is the time to take critical and bold
action to save people’s lives. Please use your emergency powers to release all immigrants who are currently detained.
Español: Hola,
me llamo _____, y vivo en _____, y estoy llamando para implorar al
Gobernador Newsom que use sus poderes de emergencia para liberar a todos
los inmigrantes que están detenidos actualmente en California. El
Gobernador ya ha hecho algunas cosas muy importantes para ayudar al
público durante este crisis, pero muchos inmigrantes siguen sufriendo
en centros de detención mortales aquí en California. Ahorita hay que
tomar acción crítica para salvar las vidas de personas en detención. Por favor, use sus poderes de emergencia para liberar a todos los inmigrantes que están detenidos actualmente en California.
Please
also join us at a COVID-safe car rally in San Francisco this Thursday
at 12pm if you can. In order to prevent the spread of disease, only drive with people who you live with and stay in your car the entire time. DO NOT CARPOOL WITH PEOPLE FROM OTHER HOUSEHOLDS OR GET OUT OF YOUR CAR. If you are living in a different city and have
capacity to organize cars around your local city hall, please do so and
share pics!!
If you can’t make it in person you can help by calling the governor, tweeting, and by signal boosting this post so that people who live closer can find out about it. Thank you!
How in god’s name I manage to still get followers on here when I haven’t even opened tumblr in over a month, I’ll never know.
Anyway, if you want to get more regular (as opposed to panicking because I remembered tumblr didn’t die in the purge) content from me, come find me at JaeDaBug1 on twitter.
If you can find my porn twitter, feel free to follow me there too.
How in god’s name I manage to still get followers on here when I haven’t even opened tumblr in over a month, I’ll never know.
Anyway, if you want to get more regular (as opposed to panicking because I remembered tumblr didn’t die in the purge) content from me, come find me at JaeDaBug1 on twitter.
If you can find my porn twitter, feel free to follow me there too.
What up I’m talking prison abolition, pandemic, and queered liberation on Twitter yall, come chat.
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I’ll be livetweeting the Nevada debates from my local DSA meetup tonight with my SEQ Podcast cohost Lore, so join us on Twitter to see me get very very angry. @JaeDaBug1 for me and @LoreoftheJungle for my cohost!
I think it’s incredible how seals experience the world.
Many of the deep-diving seals can go blind during their lifetime and live just fine.
Round whiskers flap around in the water and create their own turbulence, but the specific whisker shape they have cancels turbulence, so they can pinpoint trails of turbulence from prey.
This is the most coherent explanation of tralfamadorians I’ve ever seen, and the prettiest description of what it means to perceive time as a dimension.
idk man, maybe it’s just the british/indian in me jumping out but I’ve always just blindly assumed this lady was holding a teacup, this is the first time I’ve actually looked at her hands and now I’m mad,
Did somebody edit this? It is usually a teacup, right?
Some beautiful solarpunk designs mentioned in here.
« Copenhagen has opted for a dumb – or, as local planners call it, “a green and blue” – solution to their increasing flood risks: namely, a series of parks that can become lakes during storms. The city estimated they would cost a third less than building levees and new sewers, and come with the added ecological benefits of rewilding. […]
[… Other cities are] developing in a way that’s erasing the indigenous resilience in the landscape.”But you don’t have to erase to go forwards, she says. “You can leapfrog and embed local intelligence, using a nature-based traditional Chinese technology that’s climate resilient, ecologically resilient and culturally resilient. And we can make beautiful urban spaces with them as well.”
It is eminently possible to weave ancient knowledge of how to live symbiotically with nature into how we shape the cities of the future, before this wisdom is lost forever. We can rewild our urban landscapes, and apply low-tech ecological solutions to drainage, wastewater processing, flood survival, local agriculture and pollution that have worked for indigenous peoples for thousands of years, with no need for electronic sensors, computer servers or extra IT support. »
For better or for worse, anarchists are finding themselves in the spotlight of the mainstream news. Not since the anti-globalization movement, when thousands shut down the World Trade Organization (WTO) summit in Seattle, Washington in late 1999, has the media been so heavily focused on autonomous social movements. While the intensity of this coverage has… Read Full Article
over the last several months, we have been implementing a protocol to eliminate karybelle the sheltie’s barking surrounding her mealtimes. we have accomplished this by initially introducing an alternate activity during prep time (stuffed kong) and religiously giving her a time out gated in the yard if she stops that activity to bark, thus delaying her dinner until she’s quiet. this has been extremely successful; she’s gone from barking literally 100+ times during meal prep to barking 0 times, and only occasionally slips up. the behavior she has chosen to replace her meal-prep-screaming (after all, that energy has to go somewhere) is frantically - but silently - running circles around the coffee table to finally slam into a perfect down-stay as her bowl is set down.
this evening as the food was coming out, karybelle seamlessly slipped into her silent circling routine. except after a couple of reps, she abruptly changed course, yeeted herself out the dog door, barked once, and immediately jumped back in to resume her circling.
if that isn’t a demonstration of crystal clear understanding of criteria, i…don’t know what is lmao
she is my one and only queen and i accept no substitutes
Okay, granted, it’s been a while since I’ve seen “all trans readers
like one kind of fic, and no trans readers ever like another kind of
fic, so it is Transphobia when you write the Wrong Kind.”
…but it hasn’t been that long since I’ve seen someone quietly wonder if they’re a Bad Trans Person for having preferences.
So
it’s never a bad time to say: different people have different needs,
and it’s okay to be fulfilled by different kinds of stories!
(heck, the same person might have different needs at different points in their own life, and that’s okay too)
the fact that hamilton, which is arguably one of the biggest pieces of media in the past decade, is getting a professional release is a big deal. this is a huge step for making theatre more accessible for everyone.
like, for $10 (the average price of a movie ticket) you could watch the proshot of hamilton, with the original broadway cast. you could see the original broadway cast of hamilton for $10 dollars. you’re literally paying a hamilton to see hamilton. and you don’t need to worry about sitting in a rear mezzanine seat or having an obstructed view, since it’s a proshot.
and, since disney is producing it, they’ll most likely release it on DVD or on disney+ in the future. this is a huge step forward in making accessible theatre. you could watch hamilton multiple times a week (or multiple times a day!) for a low price.
It’s unfortunate that this is a Disney release, but I need to ask a favor of every person who wants to watch it:
DON’T PIRATE. PAY THE TEN BUCKS.
Musical theatre aficionados have been fighting for YEARS for this to be a regular thing. As far as I know, it’s only been done a handful of times: the final performance of RENT, the 10th and 25th anniversaries of Les Mis, the 25th anniversary of Phantom of the Opera, and there are a few “on a stage but reblocked and edited for video” shows like Cats, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar 2000, and Into The Woods. We have been FIGHTING for general releases of shows. This is an actual theatre industry thing.
You may notice something about the shows I listed above: only three of them aren’t Andrew Lloyd Webber shows. Love him or hate him, he’s a huge advocate for the idea that theatre should be accessible and preserved for the historic record; he actually arranged for a proshot of Love Never Dies on the basis that he was pretty sure it WASN’T going to be playing for very long, and future theatre fans who wanted to see it for any reason should have access to it. Webber has been in this industry since 1969. When a man with that kind of resume says “yes, this needs to be a thing,” it’s a fair bet he knows a thing or two of what he’s talking about. It’s one reason I love Webber: yeah, some of his shows are kind of questionable quality, but he’s on the fans’ side here.
(Also, I feel the need to defend him against the new CATS. He arranged the 1998 stage-but-edited version that was pretty good. He was PISSED about the 2019 version long before it was released.)
So basically: if you’re not a Webber fan, you’re screwed. If you ARE a Webber fan but you also want to see cool stuff like the bilingual version of West Side Story or the production of Fiddler on the Roof that was partly in Yiddish, you’re screwed. If you want to see cult classics that weren’t around long, like Spring Awakening or Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark (or, for the REALLY obscure: Chess or Bat Boy), you’re screwed. If you want to see shows that were reasonably successful but require a huge budget and so don’t get put on often, like Aida and Little Shop of Horrors, you’re screwed. If you want to see shows that require a budget SO huge that no community theatre no matter how well-endowed will ever be able to afford them, like Wicked? YOU’RE SCREWED.
I am begging you. BUY HAMILTON. DON’T PIRATE. This is a fight 30+ years old and buying it will help demonstrate that YES, there is an entire audience outside New York ready and willing to buy in; YES, it’s worth the outlay of cash to do these recordings and mix and edit them; and, and understand I am saying this as a Webber and Les Mis fan, RECORDINGS THAT ARE NOT LES MIS OR ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER ARE WORTH RELEASING.
Help us fight the good fight and make professional theatre available to everyone. BUY HAMILTON. DO NOT PIRATE. YES, EVEN THOUGH IT’S A DISNEY RELEASE. YES, EVEN THOUGH NON-PROFESSIONAL RECORDINGS EXIST.
This is important. As a theatre advocate I cannot stress HOW important. If you follow me, you know I’m all in favor of things like streaming services and breaking up the Disney monopoly. But in this, my loyalty has to lie with a fight I joined in 2005 that was going on when I was still smelling markers in kindergarten.
If you have any interest in seeing Hamilton, no matter how casual, buy it. Please.
(And while you’re at it: support your local community theatre. Most community theatres put on great shows on a very tiny budget and could, I say this totally unironically, use your $5-10 donation. It adds up and it helps keep the lights on.)
