9 prisoners are also on hunger strike in protest of their administrative detention without charge or trial.
Prisoners are not numbers. They have families and lives and friends. They have feelings and stories and fighting for freedom is also centered around their freedom. 
Wether the prisoners continue this hunger strike or suspend it, we have a duty to understand how bad things are for them so that they took this step.
We have a duty to learn and listen and be their voice in return.
The wildfires in Maui aren’t natural disasters, they are colonial disasters and a direct result of both the fossil fuel industry and the military industrial complex.
Realtors preying on property in Lahaina- while Kānaka Maoli who resided there for generations are now houseless- is a result of greed and disaster capitalism.
Citizen journalists on the ground are reporting on the devastating cost these fires have on their communities and the untold stories in the media about the tourists still actively extracting land and from already limited resources.
This painting was left intentionally incomplete. Haring began it when he was dying due to complications from AIDS, and knew he didn’t have much time left. The piece represents the incomplete lives of him and many others, lost to AIDS during the crisis.
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“AIDS Memorial Quilt” — Multiple
This quilt is over 50 tons heavy, and one of, if not the, largest pieces of community folk art. Many people who died of AIDS did not receive funerals, due to social stigma and many funeral homes refusing to handle the deceased’s remains, so this was one of the only ways their lives could be celebrated. Each panel was created recognition of someone who died due to AIDS, typically by that person’s loved ones.
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“Untitled” — Felix Gonzalez-Torres
This pile of candy weighs the same amount as an average adult man. Visitors are encouraged to take some of the candy. As they do so, the pile of candy weighs less and less. This is a commentary on how AIDS deteriorates the body of those who have it, as Gonzalez-Torres’ partner, Ross Laycock, had died due to AIDS-related complications that same year.
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The SF Gay Men’s Chorus
This photo was taken in 1993. The men in white are the surviving original members. Every man in black is standing in for an original member who lost their lives to AIDS.
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“Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers); Only Unclaimed Item from the Stephen Earabino Estate, 1997” — John Boskovich
After the death of his lover, Stephen Earabino, from AIDS, Boskovich discovered that his family had completely cleared his room, including Boskovich’s own possessions, save for this fan. An entire person, existence and relationship had been erased, just like so many lives during the AIDS crisis. Boskovich encased the fan in Plexiglass, but added cutouts so that its air may be felt by the viewer, almost like an exhalation. In a sense, restoring Earabino’s breath.
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“Blue” — Derek Jarman
This was Jarman’s final feature film, released four months before his death from AIDS-related complications. These complications had left him visually impaired, able to only see in shades of blue. This film consists of a single shot of a saturated blue color, as the soundtrack to the film described Jarman’s life through narration, intercut with the adventures of Blue, a humanization of the color blue. The film’s final moments consist of a set of repeated names: “John. Daniel. Howard. Graham. Terry. Paul". These are the names of former lovers and friends of Jarman who had died due to AIDS.
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“Untitled” (Perfect Lovers) — Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Created by the same man who created the previous untitled piece, this piece was also inspired by his lover’s deterioration and death due to AIDS. This piece consists of two perfectly alike clocks. Over the course of time, one of the clocks will fall out of sync with the other.
In a letter written to his lover about the piece, before his lover’s passing, Gonzalez-Tourres wrote, “Don’t be afraid of the clocks, they are our time, the time has been so generous to us. We imprinted time with the sweet taste of victory. We conquered fate by meeting at a certain time in a certain space. We are a product of the time, therefore we give back credit were it is due: time. We are synchronized, now forever. I love you.”
Yankee Liberals will talk about how the Confederacy was established around the founding principle of “racist exploitation” while acting as though this isn’t equally true for the rest of the US
Like the idea that the Confederacy in any way went against “the values of America’s founding” is soabsurd from the point of view of anyone whose understanding of US history isn’t riddled with brainworms. Like how many of your beloved “founding fathers” would have supported the (De Jure-although certainly not De Facto) abolition of plantation slavery?
Like I guess it’s just these Liberal brainworms that associate the Confederate flag with racist rednecks in contrast to the enlightened progressive freedom and democracy of the Stars and Stripes. Just more ridiculous idealism that flat out contradicts any sort of material reality
Like even Yanks who considers themselves somehow enlightened or progressive, who considers themselves daring for being willing to admit that their nation is “flawed” seemingly can’t help but worship the symbols and signifiers of their wretched empire. Like the idea that freedom has any meaning beyond a synonym for the US (at least the good parts of it, or even the idea that the US has any good in it at all) just simply does not occur to them. It’s why so many progressives and even self identifies socialists are willing to criticize their own country right up until the subject of foreign policy comes up at which point the Department of Defence is always right; Americas has it’s flaws but those guys are pure evil!
Of course I shouldn’t play dumb about this; the reason (whether they hold any conscious realistation of this or not) why they’re so unwilling to criticise the fundamental basis of the US is because of how much they benefit from it. They might have their issues with how the spoils of Imperialism are distributed but the idea of giving up those spoils altogether in inconceivable. Of course the US isn’t the only nation whose citizens do this (it’s a common feature for the entire Imperial core) but thanks to their hegemony they are certainly the most vocal about it and status as a Settler state makes adherence to imperial values especially hard so shift. As much as Imperialism shaped the societies of Western Europe these nations had a history and culture preceding and outside of it; without the horrors of Modern Empire nations like the US and Australia just flat out would not exist. There’s only so far you can go as a settler progressive before you’re forced to accept that your nation is rotten to the very core
Bigotry, Inequality and exploitation are not “dark impulses” in the USamerican psyche. They are the fundamental core of what the nation was founded on
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