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Resistance exploding now all over the Palestinian West Bank as news of the genocide on the hospital in Gaza breaks. There'll be no capitulation here to the forces of Israeli fascism. Solidarity with the ppl of Palestine.
#Gazagenocide
#FreePalestine
@themermacorn
@ThrillerofSheep
motaz asking ppl to follow & support SK while his neighbors houses were actively being bombed was so fucked up. Can’t even imagine what’s happening that’s led to him boosting SK in the midst of everything rn but it feels icky.
Every Black activist/policy org who gets huge amounts of corporate money doesn't do anything with the money because White folks would never have given money to the type of Black ppl who'd challenge the system.
COINTELPRO never ended. They’re leading marches, running “peace projects”, hosting panels on police brutality, endorsing neoliberal conservative politicians, & misleading as civil rights attorneys.
The surveillance of the state on former Panthers like Jalil Muntaqim is alive and well. COINTELPRO never ended. It only got stronger. And the illegal surveillance programs of the state are still being used to this day to persecute Black people who dared to fight for liberation.
It’s hot AF. We’re in the 90° & the air quality is at a dangerous 160+. We’re out here serving the people though. You can support our work serving our unhoused friends & neighbors through our c*shapp at $VFRJ. Please share & support.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine releases statement saying it “holds the American administration and the war criminal, American President Joe Biden, fully responsible for the renewed zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip this morning”
We are outside of Oakland & SF & have experience with abduction & missing persons.
The best thing to do if someone sees Isa is to document & go live on social media with location & details and discretely FOLLOW or talk to her 1/
We can only speak to what was shared with us. But if organizers out there put the move on to establish a non-carceral solution as is our aim, then it will lessen the material pressures making folk consider calling the listed numbers. Radicals in the area git to step up for her.
There are bail funds available for those who were arrested last night in Vallejo and for those who risk arrest from here forward.
Two numbers to know:
415-285-1011 - write this number on your body to call from jail.
415-909-4654 - call this number to report arrests.
URGENT: As we head into another winter w/practically no resources to support our community while facing constant threats to our collective survival, we are at a crossroads: A vital VFRJ organizer w/kids is unhoused & needs help obtaining safe shelter.
For the past 10 days we’ve been quietly & quickly working on this important project making diy tent heaters for our unhoused friends & neighbors using
@HeaterBloc
’s guide. They cost around $7/ea. If you’d like to support this project you can hit us up in c*shapp & p*ypal $VFRJ…
The FBI raided an apartment building in central Vallejo this morning, searching three apartments and arresting at least one man. Neighbors had complained about frequent activity at the building and possible illegal gambling.
8 members of
@FairfieldChange
have been arrested at their city council meeting demanding answers from their city officials about one of Vallejo PD’s murderers being hired onto the Fairfield PD.
Call 707-784-7112 & demand their release.
Tweets about women being harassed in public & a stranger coming up pretending to know them & the harasser leaving them alone - do it. THAT SHIT WORKS. If you
#FindIsa
w/someone - keep eyes on her, go live discretely, pin your location, document, call for back up, talk to her. 2/
@noname
We’re in Vallejo, CA. Led by WOC & serving housless & poor folks in need with whatever they need. We’re also experiencing a brutal heatwave this week & need all the help we can get! ✊🏾🖤
“With grief-filled hearts and a desire for revolutionary vengeance, some friends got together and graffiti-bombed the so-called 'east bay' cities of 'pleasant hill', 'martinez', 'concord', and 'walnut creek' ~ in solidarity with the palestine resistance.”
Folks should be very concerned that after a year of abolition reaching mainstream recognition & interest, local “radical” orgs that have benefited from this are loudly mostly advocating for racist neoliberalism for personal power & as a tool for legitimizing electoral politics.
This wasn’t Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Oakland. This was right here in Vallejo.
This single mother’s struggles that led to her eviction happened *before* the pandemic & she had to go to Sacramento to get help.
When Vallejo had a nationwide record number of murders by police in 2012, who was President? Who was the state Attorney General? Who was mayor of Vallejo?
The ballot can burn for all we gaf.
Kamala Harris is a white supremacist. She built her political career by locking up Black people. And she did it with a smile on her face. Biden authored the 1994 crime bill and Kamala executed it in the streets of Oakland and San Francisco.
There are activists & orgs with no anti-capitalist principles that popped up out of nowhere during the George Floyd uprisings in 2020 because of the media attention that they profited off of bc that was the whole point of their activism.
You may not like to hear this, but cops are murdering children and we’re going to have to teach our children that cops do not keep us safe & cops cannot be trusted.
Pull up. Our unhoused neighbors got a 72hr eviction notice Thursday & are expecting the police tomorrow. Our unhoused neighbors also have demands. They’re fighting the eviction & are asking for folks to show up to support them. Tomorrow morning 8am Monday.
All Power To The People
Now's a good time to add that this organizer is unhoused in large part due to Cat Brooks & not being paid as promised for their work in 2019 which was the majority of the organizing around Willie McCoy's murder by VPD.
URGENT: As we head into another winter w/practically no resources to support our community while facing constant threats to our collective survival, we are at a crossroads: A vital VFRJ organizer w/kids is unhoused & needs help obtaining safe shelter.
Turn this up!
“Resistant Palestinian youth confront occupation reinforcements with Molotov cocktails during the ongoing invasion of
#Ramallah
.”
From Resistance News Network telegram.
i stopped arguing w/people w/ regard to police/prison abolition, because it’s v simple: if you want to end “police violence,” you want to abolish the police. if you don’t want to abolish the police, then you don’t actually want to end police violence; even if you ‘think’ you do.
We’ve been out prepping for this rain & flooding all week but one of our camps took a turn & is now underwater. They’re asking for a couple of hotel rooms so they can get dry, assess damages & needs, shower, etc. $VFRJ on $app & p*ypal.
This weekend we made a hand washing station for our unhoused neighbors!
Thanks to
@BayAreaSRA
for the instructions &
@NickyDommy
for making sure we had all the supplies we needed and teaching & guiding the build!
We recently learned that the city is preparing to evict folks from the “legal” camp at 37 in about 3 weeks. There’s ~30 folks there & no one is telling them where they can go yet. Keep in mind that houseless folks have been told to go to this camp all year.
Yesterday we helped our unhoused friends with laundry for their whole camp recuperating after all the rain. Most at this camp work. Some couldn’t access their tents for a few days bc of the water levels from the atmospheric river & rains. 5 hrs at the laundromat & all done!
“Every time we stabilize, they build upon that stability and enforce another form of theft - trauma, time theft, loss - for productivity to a state you find horrific.”
OAKLAND: We are about to re-launch our bail fund for Black protesters who get arrested during protests. Last summer we bailed out A LOT of Black youth. We need support in funds to make sure folks get out. Tap in and support!
We don’t know who needs to hear this but don’t kneel at protests with police presence. This isn’t a football game where you want to display symbolic solidarity, it’s a direct action. That shit will get you arrested, injured, or even killed.
Our place is & has always been amongst our People - the poor. We have no interest in associating with the Vallejo capitalist bourgeoisie including the social justice entrepreneurship non-profit groups & politicians.
Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are rising in a majority of American states, in what appears to be the first widespread increase since the peak of the Omicron surge in January.
Lastnight in Oakland all the supposedly pro-Palestine non-profit activists gathered with zionists to condemn the removal of a menorah, calling it terror.
The menorah had been set up immediately after the destruction & removal of this memorial honoring actual Palestinian martyrs.
These mf will have a 8ft long banner saying “NEVER AGAIN” & then peace police what’s suppose to be a direct action against actual Zionists during an actual genocide.
“we received the feedback that the White House believes the Public Safety Training Center is exemplary of what President Biden would like to see other municipalities emulate.” Cop City, coming soon nationwide.
Reading all these tweets again after knowing what JVP Bay Area actually did should piss everyone off. They didn’t shut anything down & they policed everyone who wanted to. SHAME.
STARTING NOW
Children of Holocaust survivors, anti-Zionist Jews, & allies in front of the Friends of the IDF gala in the Bay Area.
They’re having a party to fundraise for child killers. We won’t let them.
#NoGalaforGenocide
We went out tonight to a couple of camps to check on folks because of the rain & freezing cold. We served 5 hot pizzas, soda, bottled water, handwarmers, narcan, test strips, & new towels. We were able to do this bc you all sent supplies & surprise c:shapp donations. Thank you.
Cullors’ damage doesn’t just happen once in real time, it’s on repeat because of the platform & wealth she & her neoshitlib comrades have from stealing from those organizers on the ground that she’s talking about in her fucking book.
When you pick up a book that mentions you but purposely erases your name, with the same old blatant lies they think will never be challenged.
This is utter bullshit. AGAIN.
Cops are abusers, terrorizers, & murderers. Vallejo police are one of the most violent police departments in the Bay Area & country. The absurdity of them opening up “care” center for victims of violence is off the charts.
BREAKING NEWS: The Vallejo City Council will be asked Tuesday to allow "Black Lives Matter" to be painted on Santa Clara Street in front of Vallejo City Hall.
If you choose to call the police - calling the police cannot be the only action you take if you see her. Ppl joke all the time about slow police response e.g. police come 4hrs later & fill out paperwork bc it’s real. 3/
Reminder that Vallejo dispensary operators are cops and bootlickers first and foremost. While many of our elders & neighbors are or have been incarcerated due to weed criminalization, capitalist pigs have violently cashed in & gentrified Vallejo.
Fuck US Bloom.
A Vallejo cannabis dispensary is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of at least a half dozen people that broke into the store.
Everyone saw today that cops don’t need implicit bias & de-escalation trainings. Cops know what they’re doing. So do the cops that work as civil rights attorneys making money off of victims while pushing for more implicit bias & de-escalation trainings & silencing abolitionists.
Folks also need to understand that family of victims of police murder are not inherently abolitionists, anti-capitalist, anti-police, anti-establishment or even politically engaged. Most are quite the opposite. They are, however, grieving & traumatized & that’s being exploited.
It’s Mother’s Day and we’re about $1500 away from meeting this goal for this organizer & mom. Let’s get this completely funded today! Please share & support.
Landlords be like “you have to have a ~real~ job” meanwhile their wholeass job is gatekeeping shelter.
Landlords shouldn’t exist & should get that ~real~ job they’re always talking about. Fuck landlords.
Hear all that outside? Yeah people are forced to live out there in that while there are plenty of empty houses, apartments, & buildings to shelter everyone.
Fuck capitalism.
It’s hot outside & even hotter inside of a car esp for kids w/ respiratory problems. The gfm is barely covering 1 night in a room a week. Having to cover storage fees, loss of covid EBT benefits, & supplies needed to fully live outside has drained their $.
Please keep sharing:
URGENT: As we head into another winter w/practically no resources to support our community while facing constant threats to our collective survival, we are at a crossroads: A vital VFRJ organizer w/kids is unhoused & needs help obtaining safe shelter.
This full interview is devastating.
“Oct 30th, they beat many prisoners. Prisoners died at their hands…young children, whose heads were split open by the beatings. Young children, 10 and 12 years old, were being beaten. They dealt with us with the most intense violence.”
This child said: I am tired. “Israel” is killing us inside the prisons. “Israeli” forces abuse little children, as young as 10 years old, they hit them. I was in Megiddo prison. There are no worse conditions. They fed us dry rice. (He looks very meagre). We sleep 2 hours.
The struggle against state violence in Vallejo & the US and the struggle against state violence in Palestine is intertwined. Our solidarity is with the People of Palestine always. Free Palestine.
Some of these people don’t even talk to their neighbors much less build on their own block, but you’d never know that by their visibility in front of tv cameras & on the mic at protests.
how you bragging about being “on the ground” and nobody in your community knows, or fucks with you, beyond seeing you on tv every time a black person dies, is actually beyond me. these new new celebrity activists k i l l me 😭
Earlier this year Vallejo city councilwoman Tina Arriola (also behind the org Vessels of Vallejo) worked with Vallejo chamber of commerce & police to expeditiously displace a RV encampment on Lincoln Rd for a local business owner. The “business” is rental housing - a landlord.
Officials say several law enforcement entities from across the state have been called in by Uvalde police to not only assist in supplementing their police force, but to also provide extra protection to officers and the mayor following heavy criticism and threats.
#Uvalde
ICYMI, when there’s a nationwide movement to defund the police, Vallejo - a city with one of the most violent PDs in the country - has refused to defund & plans to now increase policing and pull from reserve funds to help pay for it.
Vallejo’s cop mayor wants to bring in more murderer cops because of - wait for it - sideshows??? And let’s be real - this is targeted racism against Black people in Vallejo. That’s who is & will be targeted & killed by cops in Vallejo under these orders.
Join Vallejo For Racial Justice in an exciting collaboration with the (unofficial) Vallejo chapter of the Noname Book Club for a discussion of Mariame (
@prisonculture
) Kaba’s new book “We Do This ‘Til We Free Us” as we explore abolition. June 10th 5:30pm-7:30pm pst.
Starting tonight, people who arrive at the border without using a lawful pathway will be presumed ineligible for asylum. We are ready to humanely process and remove people without a legal basis to remain in the U.S. (1/4)
To all of our new comrades & followers, we have been overwhelmed with your solidarity and support this week. All of the years organizing against police terror have felt like screaming into the abyss. This week we felt like our screams were finally heard.
We’ve been out today with unhoused being evicted & displaced from a camp in central Vallejo. This is one of several camps that was evicted today by the city of Vallejo during a pandemic.
We’ve listened to this daily since it’s release. As we commemorate George Jackson today & Black August, we encourage folks especially in our community to listen to this. It’s heavy, & it’s necessary.
NEW: “We Remember The Attempts To Be Free” Joy James on Black August and the Captive Maternal
“To The Destruction of Their Enemies I Dedicate My Life” - George Jackson
i was pulled on a call earlier by RAW with Samaria Rice and Lisa Simpson, mothers of Tamir Rice and Richard Risher, to discuss their righteous grievances with Tamika, Shaun King, Patrisse, and others. read demands and full statement below:
Blue Lives Matter rally in Vacaville.
When and where?
Same time and place that
@voicesofvv
always has their protests.
It’s HELLA important for us to show up and show out this Sunday!!!
Tonight we hosted another laundry night with dinner for some of our houseless friends & neighbors with cshapp/pypal/vnmo donations! This is something we all look forward to not just for clean laundry & bedding but the bonding & (over the weeks & years) growing together. 🙏🏽🙏🏾🙏🏿
“Banks’ wife — Dasan’s mother — had applied for two protective orders against Banks in recent weeks, saying he was stalking her. ***The first was denied by a judge***; the second was obtained only hours before Dasan was found dead.”
This is only 1 of many horrific details here.
BREAKING: A Baltimore Police officer has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his 15-year-old stepson, whose body was found hidden in the family’s Anne Arundel County home last week.