The revolution has failed. Fascism has temporarily succeeded under the guise of reform. The only way we can destroy it is to refuse to compromise with the enemy state and its ruling class.
George Jackson, born on this day in 1941, was the revolutionary author of “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson” and co-founder of the Marxist-Leninist Black Guerilla Family.
In 1970, Jackson was charged, along with two other Soledad Brothers, with the murder of prison guard John Vincent Mills in the aftermath of a prison fight. The same year, he published “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, a combination of autobiography and manifesto addressed to a black American audience. The book became a bestseller and earned Jackson personal fame.
Jackson was killed during an attempted prison escape on August 21st, 1971. Quoting communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, Jackson freed twenty-six prisoners and took hostages at gunpoint. Jackson and five other men were killed.
Fay Stender, George Jackson’s former lawyer, was shot and paralyzed for her alleged betrayal of Jackson by Black Guerilla Family member Edward Glenn Brooks. Brooks entered her home, tied up her family, and forced Stender to say “I, Fay Stender, admit I betrayed George Jackson and the prison movement when they needed me most” before shooting her several times. Left paralyzed and in chronic pain, Stender testified against Brooks and committed suicide a year later.
“Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.”
George Jackson
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Halloween is around the corner and I’ve been thinking of some costume ideas. I’ve got a few things that I was putting together to possibly dress up as
, but I was looking on Amazon to see if there were any complete sets. Instead everything I got was for Harry Potter
Order a green suit jacket and get the rest from thrift. Green suit jackets are a bit hard to cone by the but the rest is a white dress shirt, a tie, brown pants and suspenders. Suspenders can be easily faked with strips of similar fabric safety pinned strategically. If you can get the jacket I would then suggest REALLY FUCKING UP THOSE CLIOTHES. Rub sandpaper on the edges and elbows of the jacket to get things frayed, either put put smokes on the clothes if you smoke or burn some stuff and make your own cigarette holed and also get a bunch of ash smeared around the calves of the pants, all over the shirt and all around the jacket pocket. Intentionally spill coffee and wine and on the outfit while wearing it and maybe dig a a hole and bury it over night. Get the look. Also a bit of red eyeshadow around the far edges and darker eyeshadow on the lids and then rubbing your eyes gets the look.
I actually did last year, but I didn’t get everything together in time. I even found some green [imitation] snakeskin shoes. Pretty sure I also have a white dress shirt lying around that I don’t use, so really just need the pants. Oh and I also found a tie that is ugly in its own way
Getting yourself and the outfit to really look like you’ve been really through it is crucial. Oooh! You could also get some recordings of internal voices and have em on a Playlist on your phone so you could quickly use em in a conversation with irl people, maybe even carry 2 dice and roll your responses. If you can afford it, I’d strongly recommend soaking the outfit in booze a day or two before. When I think of meeting Henry I think the dude would fucking reek of booze. It’s a pretty normal outfit without smthe weirdo touches