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Message from Frontline Protesters in Portland, OR
"I need you all to understand how not okay we are in Portland.
I'm going to start by telling you that you're seeing it in the news late. This has been happening for days. They're disappearing BLM supporters at all hours in unmarked vans, and so far, no one knows where they're ending up. I'm watching Twitter, and there are people looking for their missing people. They've been gone for days.
They are trying to scare us.
I also want you to know what tear gas does, specifically to uterus-havers. It causes miscarriages and basically makes you have a heavy, brutal period. Many, many protesters have been talking about this on Twitter and the damage it has done to them. (By the way, if you're not following things on Twitter, you are not as on top of the new cycle as you think you are. You are missing the worst of it right now, and we cannot afford to let that happen.)
They are trying to harm us, permanently.
They are trying to cage us.
If you are not with us, you are against us. If you are not actively talking about this, you are part of the problem. This is nothing less than a complete descent into fascism, and it's all hands on deck.
Because if we don't do this now? This will happen in your city. That poem about the order that came for people in? It's never been more apt, at least not in my lifetime.
Because frankly? Soon they're going to be actively killing us.
I am begging you - Make some noise.
Make sure everyone knows what's going on. Make sure everyone is calling the leadership in their city, county, and state. Our mayor has been completely ineffective in the face of all of this, and our governor isn't much better - And it won't get better unless they hear us loud and clear.
What to do:
1. Donate to the ACLU and mutual aid networks in Portland
2. RT and share - optics matter
3. Call your reps and demand action
4. Use your Karen powers for good - stand up, stand out.
5. SERIOUSLY, SPREAD THE WORD, THEY CAME FOR THE PROTESTERS, YOU ARE NEXT
silence is violence here, it is your (yes, you) individual responsibility to say something NOW, before it's too late"
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