Some of you actually stood up and recited the pledge of allegiance in school and it shows
i stand but i don’t face the flag nor do i recite
I approve
You’re officially invited to my Heck The Rules Club^TM that I just made just now
The band kids at my school had first block in a seperate building. That building generally turned the intercom down, or off. Once the principal came in and watched our class, as he do, ya know. He was upset that we didn’t do the pledge. So the next day we had to stand and do the pledge. The only person who participated was the teacher. We sat silently. It was a group decision that wasn’t discussed before hand. He said ok. Later that week a petition was delivered to the principal about the pledge and how none of the kids wanted to do that. He doubled down, and told the teacher to send any kid not participating to the office. The following Monday when his policy of sending the kids to the office was in effect the entire band class was matched down to the office.
With our interments.
The principal tried to lecture us and the trumpet players were not having it. The drum major ran us through every song right there in the office.
After that the pledge was optional.
(Quietly, but with a lot of feeling) holy s h I t
Friendly reminder that unionizing works, even if there’s not an official union in place
Indigenous people are saying the out-of-control fires in the Amazon Rainforest were caused by people purposely lighting fires to illegally deforest indigenous land for cattle ranching.
President Bolsonaro says green NGOs started the fires to make him look bad.
Please tell me that we know well enough by now who we should believe. Please tell me that we trust and respect Indigenous peoples enough to know that they have every reason to be telling the truth and Bolsonaro has every reason to lie.
As an international community, we need to call for accountability. Not only are sacred Indigenous lands being destroyed, but the area of the world that supplies 20% of the planet’s oxygen is covered in thick smoke and burning away. This is an example of how climate change is a man-made disaster.
It’s also an example of the disaster of capitalism. Under capitalism, *nothing* matters more than money. Not Indigenous communities, not countless species of wildlife, not the babies in Sao Paulo breathing in smoke so dark it blocks the sun in the middle of the day. Surviving climate change means dismantling the capitalist system of greed at any cost.
everyone knock it off with the “everyone talked about notre dame but nobody’s talking about amazonia!!” it’s fucking because the brazilian news was being massively suppressed by the brazilian fascist government and their president, and the news on the fires finally leaked not even 2 days ago. this isn’t people not caring. it’s a fascist government attempting to silence their news. stop taking away from the issue - the amazon rainforest is on fucking FIRE. stop guilting people into not knowing about something that JUST got leaked out of a fascist state 2 days ago.
This is why they have such a problem with plastic bags. It’s because the unique structure of their esophagus makes it so that they can’t get rid of them.
“To avoid any doubt, our problem has been entirely financial. By all the statistics, Gay Star News is now more widely read, watched and loved by the international LGBTI audience than ever. It is a sad paradox that our popularity has not transferred into our survival. We are convinced we are closing at a time when more people want and need what we offer than ever before.”
her specific jump from bollywood to hollywood has given her a unique voice and position that a lot of westerners simply do not understand. in india, she’s from the elite. she’s born and bred into the highest class of bollywood royalty, her family history is tied to the military which constantly seeks to go to war against pakistan as well as oppressing the muslim community and other religious minirities in india. her ties to the disgustingly rich ambanis who have made their billions off the backs of poor indians and have terrible business practices, and the prime minister modi who is a staunch hindu nationalist who believes in and has been consistently making moves towards expelling all religious minorities from the country - not exactly woke kween behaviour
relocating to america means all these white people writing think pieces about how hashtag woke it is that this brown woman, from an oppressed minority, is the lead in her own tv show. she’s constantly asked about representation and taking up space in the industry as a brown woman. but that’s all meaningless coming from her - she’s never lived as an oppressed minority in america or anywhere, but it’s allowed her to co opt a #movement of #wokeness that the west loves. it means that her rampant blatant and dangerous islamophobia and imperialism is allowed to go unchecked because there’s no understanding at all of where she comes from and what she stands for in India.
it’s fully our responsibility as desi diaspora to speak out on this to educate fellow westerners, and to uplift the voices of desi activists in the homeland speaking out about what’s happening right now. i know it seems trivial in the face of what’s actually happening in kashmir, but i think perception is everything and in the west if this one singularly famous south asian person trivialises the matter without being called out, it really does shape how people here see the issue
it’s so insidious that priyanka chopra can straight up advocate for bombing kashmir and pakistan and label it “patriotism” with her bitchy clap back at a distressed activist trying to hold her accountable and being silenced, and meanwhile shitty uk tabloids be like
the disconnect is unreal. the fundamental lack of understanding of the situation in south asia right now and the way (this brand of) western media is so desperate to maintain the status quo of keeping celebrity culture up on its pedastal that encouraging nuclear warfare against innocent and oppressed civilians, like, doesn’t matter at all
