WHAT TO DO AT AN ICE CHECKPOINT, ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE A WHITE CITIZEN
(please, please, please copy, paste, and share widely):
-Border Patrol can verify citizenship within 100 miles of a border or “external boundary.” This includes coastlines so NYC is within the 100-mile zone.
-Border patrol can only ask brief questions about citizenship, and they cannot hold you for an extended time without cause.
-You always have the right to remain silent. You do not need to answer their questions.
-***WITH THAT SAID, IF YOU ARE A BORN CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES AND ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE WHITE, YOU NEED TO SPEAK THE FUCK UP.***
-The most important acts of resistance are the small ones. Make it difficult and uncomfortable for ICE agents to do their jobs. They are counting on citizens to turn a blind eye and allow them to deport undocumented citizens without challenge. Disabuse of that notion.
-If you are on a train, bus, or anything else and ICE or CBP boards, you need to stand up and loudly let everyone know that they have the right to remain silent or only answer questions in the presence of an attorney, no matter their citizenship or immigration status. There have been numerous reports that confronting the agents in this way has caused them to leave without verifying citizenship. THIS CAN SAVE LIVES.
-If you see anyone being held up by immigration, loudly ask if they are being detained and if they are free to go.
-Immigration officers cannot detain anyone without reasonable suspicion, an agent must have specific facts about you that make it reasonable to believe you are committing or committed, a violation of immigration law or federal law.
If an agent detains you, you can ask for their basis for reasonable suspicion, and they should tell you.
-Always say no to a search and let everyone know that they can and should refuse consent to a search.
-They cannot search or arrest anyone without facts about that make it probable that they are committing, or committed, a violation of immigration law or federal law.
-Silence alone meets neither of these standards. Nor does race or ethnicity alone suffice for either probable cause or reasonable suspicion
-As white citizens, we have a level of privilege which protects us from retaliation from ICE for being “rude” and making a scene, which makes it our DUTY to speak up and make sure people without the same privilege know their rights. GET LOUD. YELL. YELL IN SPANISH IF YOU KNOW IT. LET PEOPLE KNOW THEY DON’T HAVE TO SAY SHIT. MAKE ICE UNCOMFORTABLE. THROW SAND IN THE GEARS OF WHITE SUPREMACY.
BONUS INFO:
-It is perfectly legal to record immigration agents as long as you are not on government property or at a port of entry. If your train/bus gets board, pull your phone out and start videotaping immediately.
-If you are detained or see someone getting detained, get the agent’s name, number, and any other identifying information. Get it on tape.
-Contact the ACLU if you see someone’s rights being violated.
Make it difficult and uncomfortable for ICE agents to do their jobs.
HERES HOW TO SAY “remember that you have a right to remain silent” in Spanish
“recuerden que tienen derecho a permanecer callados” (plural you)
“recuerde que tiene derecho a permanecer callado” (singular you)
You can also add “no tiene que decir nada sobre su estatus de inmigración” (you don’t have to say anything about your immigration status"
We all know that latines are being targeted with this. Learn from a speaker or the internet how to say those phrases aloud (you can type them in Spanish into Google translate and click the speaker button to hear them). Memorize them.
If you know just those phrases in Spanish, you could save people. Make the effort, please
anyone interested in almost 1k about gmos, monoculture and capitalism cause i just got very angry at a google doc
tldr gmos arent the problem, capitalism is
long version:
so yeah my issues arent directly abt gmos, they’re about capitalism. gmos are just a link in intensive agriculture and capitalism’s firm grip on the neck of food production professionals.
gmos are just accelerated natural selection made in a lab by a human. its good bc it makes crops more resistant and more productive, or makes for examples bananas or watermelon have actual edible flesh and not be just a bunch of seeds.
so! wild bananas? just seeds. some evolved to have more flesh, and some (cough the cavendish cough) were modified to *only* have flesh. the cavendish is completely seedless and thus sterile. to grow a new cavendish plant, you have to use the rhizomes of a first plant (parts of its roots) that you separate from the “mother plant" and plant on their own. you get a whole plantation from one “mother plant”
so what does that mean! that means all cavendish are genetically identical. and that means that since all plants and all fruits are *completely identical,* if one plant or one fruit catches a disease, all others *can* catch it, bc if one is sensible to the disease, it means ALL OF THEM ARE.
with seeds, the plants are all different and thus some can have resistances that others don’t. it’s kind of like vaccination and herd immunity. here though?…
the funniest (/sarcasm) part is that the precedent most widespread banana species, the Gros Michel, was raised the exact same way, and was wiped out by the panama disease or whatchamacallit… which the cavendish is also sensible too.
yeah.
but let’s talk about crops more common where im from like wheat, corn and canola. tomato. most vegetables. these kinds of crops, when they’re gmos, are either intentionally made infertile (as in, you do get seeds but these seeds either won’t grow crops or will grow crops that won’t bear fruits) or are under a certain number of contractual obligations.
one of these obligations is that you can’t keep seeds to plant them again the next year. if you grow wheat, it’s very easy to keep a part of your grain and plant it again the next year you want wheat. forbidden. buy seeds every year.
another can be that you have to use a certain kind of herbicide, that is sold by their own company. im not screaming monsanto rn but thats exactly what im doing. monstanto sells gmos, contractually makes you buy roundup, they get double the money and double the fun.
another thing is monoculture. this isnt directly linked to gmos but gmos and monoculture are both the degenerate children of capitalism.
im from the south of france, we’re the third biggest corn exporters of the world. all the fucking fields are corn. everywhere. all the time. if you havent worked in a corn field you’re either rich or not from here. monoculture, monoculture, monoculture.
when you plant something, this plant will take elements from the soil and reject other elements. if you only plant 1 kind of crop over and over, you create a buildup of the crop’s “wastes" and an exhaustion of the soil’s ressources in what the crop needs.
monocultures basically creates giant deserts. the soil, the ground is drained over and over by the same cultures, or yearly changes, but like i said, here its corn, wheat, canola, corn. it sort of varies but its still always the same stuff pulled from the ground. so if you wanna keep growing your shit, you gotta use fertilizers. triple the money for monsanto.
in my garden, i wanted green beans. green beans reject nitrogen in the soil. if i only plant green beans, my ground is going to get a nitrogen build up. i don’t want that. soil with too much nitrogen stunts root growth, makes the plants over produce foliage and tire themselves, and then salt burns the foliage my plant tired itself for. it also pollutes groundwater.
however! corn and cucurbits love nitrogen. love the shit. corn allows the beans to go up and around. cucurbits have large leaves that protects the ground from drying up and thorns that deter most pests.
(this isnt something i invented lol. Natives Americans from north and central america have been doing this since forever. Maya people used the technique. in the south of france it’s been used for a while with local beans and corn first imported from Mexico i dont know when but a while ago. Mexico has semi recently started using this technique again bc its good! it’s good for your ground!)
the problem, lmao, the problem is that you can’t use the three sisters garden layout is absolutely in intensive agriculture. and thats whats up isnt it? you gotta produce more.
not better, not smarter, not renewable
more
hence gmos. they grow more. they grow better. they grow faster.
but my problem isnt with them, it’s what they represent. they start as a good idea, being able to make more food for people. but the result is that: france produces 17.1 million metric tons of corn per year, and barely eats any of it.
so basically: to grow corn over and over you need to buy the seeds and transport them, buy fertilizer (bc monoculture) and transport it, buy insecticide and transport it. then you use gigantic tractors to fertilize your fields, plant your corn, spray roundup all over it. pay a bunch of teenagers to spend hours in the sun during summer to cut the male flowers of 70% of your crops so the right male flowers fertilize the right female flowers. more giant tractors to gather your corn. nobody buys it here so you transport it to an exporter, who transports it elsewhere, and it moves around until it’s transformed, and then it’s moved around again to a seller.
so much fucking diesel and ruining the soil for what?! and do we talk about food waste????!!!!!
im too angry to write a conclusion 🙃 either you get what i mean or you dont. maybe i’ll say more about alternatives later. idfk
obligatory im not a pro just someone with a brain and an access to both google & common sense
so because the bar exam is in the swanky part of boston, I had to get a hotel room in the swanky part of boston, because if I did I got a discount
and holy jesus it’s the twilight zone of rich people
this is the room service menu. guess how much a bowl of cereal costs. like, not fancy cereal, I mean a bowl of unadulterated cheerios.
…
whatever you guessed, you were wrong, it’s ten fucking dollars
oh but maybe you want something even less interesting. oatmeal’s like, what, 50 cents a bag?
JUST KIDDING IT’S ALSO TEN BUCKS
do you want something with protein? how about eggs? okay, that can be a little expensive, there’s egg shortage and labor’s involved and look, whatever number you’re guessing in your head, it’s NOT HIGH ENOUGH
oh but it’s fancy because it has ~woodland mushrooms~
do you want to know how much a glass of milk costs? GUESS HOW MUCH A GLASS OF FUCKING MILK COSTS. I’LL WAIT.
FUCKING SEVEN DOLLARS. do you know how much that is? right now, a gallon of milk is like three dollars at walmart. I could buy TWO GALLONS OF MILK AND A GLASS TO DRINK IT WITH for the price of this shit.
I finally understand this gif. this is how rich people actually think. holy fuck.
Keep this post alive so that when CARLOS is old enough he’ll know these KIDNAPPERS stole him from his MOTHER!
Guatemalan mom: “Please help me my son was taken from me”
Those two assholes: “Lol finders keepers bitch lmao”
Carlos was taken from his mom, Encarnacion Bail Romero after she was arrested during a work raid. Her words, “Nobody could help me because I don’t speak English,” are still resonating deeply within me. This child was kidnapped from a loving mother, and she went to hell and backwards trying to get him back, and a judge literally told her she had no rights to her own child.
Completely unfit parents can get their children back like it’s nothing and this poor woman who loves her child and just wants him with her again cannot? How is this not human trafficking/kidnapping?
Also:
The judge said the biological mother had no rights to even see her child, according to the mother’s lawyer.
Asked if the Mosers would allow Bail Romero to see the child, the Mosers’ attorney, Joseph Hensley, said the couple was “not willing to comment on that at this time.” source
reminder that many children are funneled specifically to Christian families and communities for the same reasons they always have: destroy culture, stack votes, add bodies to communities that otherwise wouldn’t hold majorities. it is literal, actual trafficking.
This is a part of genocide. Removing the children from their parents, who generally desperately love and want to raise them, and placing them with white American families is a way to erase their culture from existence without the ugliness of directly killing children. But it’s still ugly, and it cares nothing for the actual welfare of the child.
…But why do you need an object to go to the bathroom? Does it unlock the magic bathroom door?
a hall pass is a thing you can show to school staff to prove you’re wandering the halls with your teacher’s permission, not skipping class. once upon a time it was a piece of paper, but people kept losing those, so around the time i was in high school, teachers started taping the school-issued cardstock hall pass to things like blocks of wood, plastic flowers, and plush toys, to make them harder to lose.
apparently it wasn’t enough.
Also people would steal them so they could have a get out of jail free card if they got caught skipping class.
It’s a little bit easier to find a stolen giant pencil than it is to find a stolen hall pass
This is eaxctly why hall passes have gotten so extreme.
this is fucking surreal and only adds more weight to my theory that the american public school system is (barely) held together by a dark and arcane magic
Also a fact
Bold of you to assume that American public school systems are held together at all.
So i just got this message when i attempted to update my voter registration.
This is a lie. I became a naturalized citizen in 2005. Drove all the way to Memphis Tennessee for the ceremony.
I have voted in 2 elections; i have an American passport I’ve traveled with, and i have gone to the Department of safety and homeland security to update all information, last time i did was 2 years ago when i needed a copy of my social security card.
So, a warning to all naturalized citizens inTennessee , check your status now!!
Something is happening. *update* I have confirmed others that are having this issue. Folks, this is Not a drill!! Check your statuses. *update 2* Still trying to find answers. After calling the Department of homeland security and safety, i was told by the representative that he didn’t know what was happening and would like to refer me to an “immigration officer”. The wait time is 57 minutes. The office closed in 17 minutes. I will try again on Monday. Until then, i am taking my passport with me Everywhere!! EVERYWHERE!!!
Ugh, I can’t even help by checking cause I’m just a resident and my new card was delayed by 18 months from all the fucking nonsense that is going on in the world.
People in the notes are upset about “humanizing GWB” lmao
Important to note that he’s painting a series of portraits of veterans who were injured carrying out his orders in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of an art therapy program.
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