Thank You!
Devyn Eli Springer
Devyn Eli Springer
November 9 at 11:06am
[A message a hope]
Indigenous folks are still struggling at Standing Rock.
Black bodies are still catching cops' bullets.
Flint still doesn't have clean water.
Gentrification created Atlanta's worst homelessness crisis in years.
The Middle East and Africa are still drowning in drones.
Half the US still doesn't believe in climate change.
2.4 million refugees from Africa still need homes.
The US embargo is still in place on Cuba.
Private prison stocks are still on the rise.
There was an ICE raid in my neighborhood last month.
Muslim communities are still illegally surveilled.
Women still make less than men on average.
Black neighborhoods are still over-policed.
My grandma still can't afford medical bills.
I couldn't donate blood yesterday.
Racists spit in my face at protests.
Got called a "terrorist" last Friday.
And when I woke up this morning,
not much of this has changed.
The good news?
We've been organizing.
We'll continue organizing.
We will continue protesting.
Resistance will only grow larger.
There is always room for more comrades.
There is always room to educate, agitate, and organize.
We've been asking for folks to join us in the street, now do it.
All these problems and oppressions will still be here tomorrow.
The question isn't what evils will come at us, but how you resist.
I want to learn how to heal better,
how to hope better, how to build better,
how to fight better.
But I can only do that if we step away from inaction
and get comfortable with action.
El trabajo continúa, fam.
[A message a hope]
Indigenous folks are still struggling at Standing Rock.
Black bodies are still catching cops' bullets.
Flint still doesn't have clean water.
Gentrification created Atlanta's worst homelessness crisis in years.
The Middle East and Africa are still drowning in drones.
Half the US still doesn't believe in climate change.
2.4 million refugees from Africa still need homes.
The US embargo is still in place on Cuba.
Private prison stocks are still on the rise.
There was an ICE raid in my neighborhood last month.
Muslim communities are still illegally surveilled.
Women still make less than men on average.
Black neighborhoods are still over-policed.
My grandma still can't afford medical bills.
I couldn't donate blood yesterday.
Racists spit in my face at protests.
Got called a "terrorist" last Friday.
And when I woke up this morning,
not much of this has changed.
The good news?
We've been organizing.
We'll continue organizing.
We will continue protesting.
Resistance will only grow larger.
There is always room for more comrades.
There is always room to educate, agitate, and organize.
We've been asking for folks to join us in the street, now do it.
All these problems and oppressions will still be here tomorrow.
The question isn't what evils will come at us, but how you resist.
I want to learn how to heal better,
how to hope better, how to build better,
how to fight better.
But I can only do that if we step away from inaction
and get comfortable with action.
El trabajo continúa, fam.
