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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watching FD Signifier
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starts to sound like he’s about to defend :funny-clown-hammer:
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“[he] isn’t a pedialyte drinker…he’s a racist. Focus on that, it’s really easy to prove.”
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Wow, the Red Sox won again, and are somehow still mathematically alive for a playoff spot.
And the Padres beat the Dodgers with a triple play.
My sense of general doom has grown so powerful that I asked my partner to trauma dump on me just for the comfort of something familiar and mundane
try not to be impossibly hard on yourself all the time challenge: difficulty: IMPOSSIBLE
moon landing skeptics in shamblesI wouldn’t say I’m tired of being autistic, but the lack of emotional regulation is occasionally deeply unfunny.
Follow up on my previous post about doing exercise then watching a movie: I did a little bit more work than usual today and saw Come and See and it was absolutely harrowing, couldn’t imagine a more emotionally draining experience from just sitting down to watch something. But I’m pretty sure that’s gonna be the case regardless of how hard you work out. So I can’t draw any conclusions for now.
Been learning to use my ingredients properly, idk abundance mindset or whatever all I know is now I’m having less perishable ingredients going bad. The whole I’ll save it for a rough time only for the rough time to come and it moldy is no beuno.
listening to Jeremiah Wright’s “God Damn America” speech over and over today. It’s one of those days
What happened to Jesus in the VeggieTales universe? He couldn’t have been crucified, he had no arms.
That stupid video of 20 conservatives vs 1 Liberal is making the rounds, and i cant get over how much funnier it’ll be if it was 20 conservatives and 20 liberals and Matt Christman after taking a tab of acid.
THIS IS WHAT YOU ASKED FOR, HEAVY IS THE CROWN Okay what if it was mrental illness and you had to pay rent to keep your mental illness and if you stopped paying your mrental illness landlord you didnt have mental illness anymore
Roll for anal circumference
