FUCK VULTURES, AS IN THE ORCHESTRATORS OF OF PROFIT-OVER-PEOPLE EMPIRES, FROM IMPERIALIST ARMS DEALERS IN THE BUSINESS OF GENOCIDE TO RICH PRICKS RUNNING DISRUPTIVE MEGA FESTS IN DISINVESTED PUBLIC PARKS RIGHT NEXT TO TWO SAFETY NET HOSPITALS, A TRAUMA CENTER, AND A REHAB CENTER IN A QUIET ZONE.
FUCK LEECHES, AS IN LIFE-SUCKING LANDLORDS AND CAPITALISTS AND BOSSES CONTRIBUTING NOTHING TO SOCIETY EXCEPT OPPRESSIVE STRUCTURES MADE TO FILL THE POCKETS OF THE RICHEST AND PERPETUATE THE INEQUALITY NECESSARY FOR THEIR EXISTENCE.
FUCK PIGS, AS IN THE TERRORISTS THAT MURDER BLACK AND BROWN FOLKS, STEAL AND TORTURE HUMAN BEINGS, PUT PEOPLE IN CAGES FOR NO REASON AT ALL AND DETAIN THEM FOR BREAKING ILLEGITIMATE LAWS OF RAPIST-FOUNDED AND -RUN SETTLER COLONIAL STATES, AND ALLOW THE RULING CLASS TO LOOT AND EXPLOIT COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD WITH IMPUNITY.
We do not consent to giving funding, discretion, power, or legitimacy to the uniformed gangs that terrorize, kidnap, and murder our neighbors.ย
We do not consent to bestowing them with the ability to impose unnecessary arbitrary curfews that allow them to harass and deny youth their right to the city.ย
We do not consent to having our movements in public space recorded and reported to them at their request.ย
We do not consent to being governed by the police state or being represented by its fascist lawmakers.
It should go without saying that propping up these disruptive, racist, violent, extractive forces critical to the organized abandonment of Black and indigenous folks and people of color by capitalists and the state is not โinvestingโ in our communities.
Theyโre also not our only option.ย
The Black Panther Party community survival programs, Ejรฉrcito Zapatista de Liberaciรณn Nacional, and Rojava, amongst other beautiful revolutions, mutual aid projects, and unstratified and directly democratic communities across the world have shown this to be true.
UP THE REDISTRIBUTION OF POWER AND RESOURCES INTO THE HANDS OF OUR MOST MARGINALIZED SIBLINGSโDISABILITY JUSTICE, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, ECONOMIC JUSTICE, GENDER JUSTICE, MIGRANT JUSTICE, RACIAL JUSTICE, REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, AND TRANS JUSTICE NOW.
UP SELF-DETERMINATION FOR ALL OCCUPIED AND SUBJUGATED PEOPLEโWE KEEP US SAFE, HEALTHY, AND WELL WHEN WE DETERMINE OUR OWN DESTINY BY CREATING THE LIFE-AFFIRMING SYSTEMS OF CARE AND THRIVING WE WANT.
UP LIBERATION FROM IMPERIALISM AND DOMINATION EVERYWHEREโRESISTANCE TO OPPRESSION IS NOT ONLY JUSTIFIED BUT NECESSARY.
UP COMMUNITIES OF CARE THAT FOSTER AND CELEBRATE LOVE AND ART AND SELF-EXPRESSION AND CREATIVITY.
A better world is possible. Our work lies in showing this to be true and illustrating what that looks like by building it right now.ย
*We donโt actually hate actual animalsโwe have so much love for all animals, plants, fungi, and the abiotic + the distinction between โlivingโ and โnon-livingโ is a settler colonial ideology propping up extraction and domination over mutual aid and interdependence.