I sit with my grief. I mother it. I hold its small, hot hand. I don’t say, shhh. I don’t say, it’s okay. I wait until it is done having feelings. Then we stand and we go wash the dishes.
I don’t want to end Amazon, because it provides an incredibly useful service to the disabled community, the elderly, and those who simply don’t have time to go shopping due to working three jobs and the like. There currently isn’t a major alternative on the market that is the same level of cheap and accessible.
What I do want to do is enforce some goddamn antitrust laws on major web-based companies like Amazon and Google and Facebook, and roll back their attempts at monopolizing entire industries, and make them pay their lowest-rung workers a fair wage and stop running their warehouses like a scene from a dystopian nightmare.
i want the working class to own the means of production and for amazon to be nationalized
Jennifer is alive & asking for help. We need eyes on her case as things progress. This shit doesn’t accidentally continue for 2+ yrs. Cops claim they can do nothing, which is directly a lie.
#standwithjennifer
Please add that hashtag if you reblog this!
She has video recordings & pictures evidence on her instagram, she has even won a court case against her neighbor (due to Jennifer getting tickets from the dog shit the neighbor threw into her yard) yet the neighbor remains & continues to harass. This same neighbor pulled similar tactics to push the previous owner, another woman of color, out as well.
I lived at a place once with toxic neighbors. They too left dogshit at my door a few times. Idk what beef they had with me personally since we both were white & hardly exchanged any words. But i know it’s not ok to not feel welcome at your own home. Jennifer not only feels unwelcomed, she doesn’t even feel SAFE at her property that she OWNS.
Please stand with jennifer & help keep her safe.
Jennifer’s twitter: @Immaculates_Mom
Jennifer’s IG: @standwithjennifer
{ ID: Picture is of Jennifer’s front door with a clear glass storm door in front. There is a large yellow sign covering her entire door, encased by the glass storm door, that reads: “Hello: My name is Jennifer and I am a single mom and Registered Nurse. My neighbors have been racially harassing me since I purchased my home. I took video footage to court and won $5000 judgement from my videos. They have thrown Human Feces on my property and it was recorded. They are now planting dead squirrels on my property and have told me to go back to where I came from. They have their friends come spit on my property and it was recorded. A blow torch was taken to my home at 3am. They have said that I can be “erased.” Their friends also threatened to get rid of me and my cameras. They walk around in the back with guns and it was recorded. The police said I need to be harmed for them to make an arrest. I live in FEAR for my life at home. You will hear prayers coming from my home. I apologize for the noise. Thank You. Follow: @standwithjennifer on instagram }
{ ID: Screenshot of IG post from @ standwithjennifer reads: “To be clear the only protest we are affiliated with is the protest on Thursday 7/16 @ 5 (valley stream train station)” }
{ ID: Screenshot of IG post from @ standwithjennifer that reads: “Do not antagonize the neighbor. This is not what Jennifer or anyone wants or will accept” }
If you’d like to keep up even more, Mr Flow been
keepin watch over her & helpin organize like a real good guy & bein on periscope live
with it, his twitter is @ flow349 i think his peri is the same? But you
can find it all on his twitter. He’s being a real hero rn keeping things
on lock & chill.
There is a gofundme if you would like to donate & help build a fund that she may use for fees & any financial challenges that come with this
You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.
I want to drill this into everybody’s head:
The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world
Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)
Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.
The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system
Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated
Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.
If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.
Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.
