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Shane Burley בד
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The only lasting peace is a free Palestine.
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Shane Burley בד
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I feel like "Day 49" really needs to sink in.
@MrOlmos
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Portland protest day 49
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Shane Burley בד
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There have been 150 strikes since March, but the reopen protests are getting all the attention.
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
Ya, I don't think this is what the cops thought was gonna happen.
@JoshuaPHilll
Read Let This Radicalize You
4 years
The size of the crowd in Portland is on another level tonight.
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
The @PortlandPolice made a loud statement today. They have attacked #PortlandProtesters nightly for almost any infraction. But when the Proud Boys come with guns, shields, and metal pipes, and beat protesters and aim firearms, the police do nothing. They sent a message.
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Weird how I and about 100 other reporters were down covering the antifascist protest today and literally nothing happened to us. The narrative that protesters were attacking reporters is a blatant lie.
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
Today was the worst and most violent far-right rally I have ever seen in Portland. It completely eclipsed the ones that happened every couple of months since 2016, involved people pulling guns and beating people on the ground. The police stood blocks away and did nothing.
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Weird how it is all the "antifa" and BLM groups who in a matter of a day created over a dozen mutual aid project to house, feed, and provide resources to the 12% of Oregon that is displaced by the fires. Have not seen anything comparable on the right.
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
Troops in camo have been driving around in an unmarked minivan and snatch-and-grabbing protesters off the street. That is not a paranoid conspiracy, that was just confirmed by mainstream press. This is happening now in Portland.
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Shane Burley בד
5 years
Jack Posobiec stole this photo of mine and tweeted it with a question that suggested that they were putting quick dry cement in the cups. I watched them prepare the milkshakes and took this photo of it, and there was zero evidence of that. No one has found any concrete.
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Shane Burley בד
5 years
@PopMobPDX giving out free vegan milkshakes at the same time Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys are rallying in #pdx streets.
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Shane Burley בד
3 years
So 40,000 SEIU Kaiser workers are joining the 32,000 Alliance Kaiser workers in a "sympathy strike." Then 8,000 others may join shortly, as well as NUHW, pharmacists, and engineers. We are talking 80,000+ Kaiser workers on strike. One of the largest healthcare strikes in history.
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Shane Burley בד
3 years
Well look at that they fucking won. Just a note that it took literally 8 years of organizing and they got it.
@Oregonian
The Oregonian
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Portland State University campus police to be fully unarmed beginning in September
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Shane Burley בד
5 years
Andy Ngo has taken it upon himself to publicly drag the person, my friend, who was murdered in a hit and run last night. He has threads with people celebrating Sean’s murder. The suggestion seems to be that he had it coming. Ngo is a monster.
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
Richard Spencer pointing out that Michael Bloomburg's politics are most in line with his vision.
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Shane Burley בד
5 years
Hey y'all, every state university, major hospital and grocery store in Oregon is about to go on strike. This is as close to a state wide general strike as we have had in years.
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
Far right militias, Proud Boys, and Q-anon conspiracy people have brought hundreds into Portland to confront anti-police protesters. They are lined up with shields here, many holding batons, pipes, and even guns. Ready to attach. Police have not stopped them. #PortlandProtests
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
When I say the protesters have not been violent in comparison to the police, this is what I’m talking about. Protesters light trash fires and break windows. The police are doing this. They aren’t comparable.
@dougbrown8
doug brown
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This is what Portland Police and Oregon State police are doing to nonviolent protesters.
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Shane Burley בד
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After three months of beating protesters nightly for things as small as carrying shields, the @PortlandPolice have allowed Proud Boys and militia members savagely beat protesters literally right now and are doing nothing to stop it. Many militia members carrying guns.
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
My hometown of Seaside, Oregon was overrun by tourists going to the beach this weekend. The low-income locals who make that town run are hiding inside with a level of anger I’ve never seen and is totally justified.
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
Anyone that thinks that protesters are the violent one should just check the Twitter hashtag "call the police" where people glorify killing protesters for essentially vandalizing things. There is an epidemic of vigilantes attacking protesters and they keep blaming the victims.
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
The Portland police attacked protesters without any provocation I could see. People are injured. Apparently the local police are just as violent as federal officers, just like protesters had said.
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Shane Burley בד
2 years
There is a lot of confusion about what the term "ecofascism" means and how environmentalism has historically had some connections to white supremacy, nativism, and far-right politics, so here is a reading list of useful resources to understand this complicated subject. *thread*
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
Nobody: 4Chan:
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
Tonight was the most brutal treatment that the police have given protesters that I have seen, beating people who were running away, attacking journalists, savagely and cruely mocking people too hurt to escape. At it was Portland Police, not the feds. @tedwheeler what will you do?
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
Trump declaring “Antifa” terrorists gives law enforcement cover to run grand juries, tack on phony charges, use excessive force, and lay siege on basically any activist standing up against the Right. This should be frightening.
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Shane Burley בד
5 years
These are the kind of festivities the antifascist #PortlandProtest is having today.
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Shane Burley בד
2 years
Richard Spencer recently said that Glenn Greenwald is, perhaps, the most influential journalist on the Right today. Hard to argue with, and a testament to where Greenwald has decided to stake his reputation.
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
I have to be honest, this is infuriating. The police let the Proud Boys attack and beat protesters, who did nothing wrong, and now that the far-right has left, they are brutalizing the BLM protesters also. #PortlandProtest
@IwriteOK
Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans)
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Back at Terry Schrunk Plaza, this has been declared an unlawful assembly. As I arrive, DHS advances. This man sits shirtless in the center of the park and is pushed shot in the leg with a pepperball and then shoved down.
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Shane Burley בד
3 years
Oberlin has just made a really massive and public misstep.
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Shane Burley בד
3 years
Everything was going swimmingly until Twitter stepped in.
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
Protesters were able to get into the luxury mall and loot the Louis Vutton store. It was a stark symbol of wealth disparity, and the way that power often protects symbols of the rich. “Expropriate” was being chanted.
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Shane Burley בד
3 years
A massive strike was authorized today that will change the course of healthcare if it wins.
@washingtonpost
The Washington Post
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24,000 Kaiser Permanente workers authorize strike over pay, working conditions
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
There is a wave of right-wing vigilante violence happening right now.
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
A Blue Lives Matter flag was set on fire. #PortlandProtests
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
The silence of the right-wing "free speech" crowd as protesters are forced out of their rallies, curfews are ordered, and the press is attacked speaks volumes about what their rants are really about.
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
With all this talk of "antifa" today, I wanted to draw people back to my story about how, despite the "antifa wildfire" conspiracy theories, it was actually antifascists who led much of the relief work to support those affected by Oregon's wildfires.
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Shane Burley בד
3 years
The mood at the antifascist demonstration in Portland.
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Shane Burley בד
5 years
@USArmy My best friend from high school was denied his mental health treatment and forced to return to a third tour in Iraq, despite having such deep trauma that he could barely function. He took a handful of sleeping pills and shot himself in the head two weeks before deploying.
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Shane Burley בד
5 years
Ok, Antifa brought milkshakes. The Proud Boys brought batons. I feel like there is a difference here.
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
The crowd is just massive. There is no way they have prepared for this. Their violence is recruiting protesters #PortlandProtest
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Shane Burley בד
3 years
Ok starting a new thread for live tweeting Andy NGO’s book “Antifa Unmasked.” I’m on the Portland chapter and it’s getting good: apparently antifa has hand signals, free food, and millions of dollars. Let’s see what happens next...
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
The persistence of antiracist protesters is always astonishing. After the attacks, they stick around to march the Proud Boys out of town. These BLM protests are not disappearing from Portland anytime soon.
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
I have had 13 reporters reach out to me in the past 9 days for advice on bulletproof vests and helmets and gas masks they can use on election night. Their primary concern is the police, the second concern is armed far-right people.
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Shane Burley בד
5 years
While #AntifaTerrorists is trending, here is just a friendly reminder that all acts of political murder last year came from the far-right. Antifa had none.
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It’s almost as though it was sticking a go pro in people’s faces and following them without anything or journalistic interest taking place is what makes people mad, not reporting.
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
So militia members are actively holding up efforts to evacuate areas that are on fire because they think antifa or some other suspicious party may be responsible for the fires. This has serious consequences.
@AlissaAzar
alissa azar
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One of the dudes with the guns. First there was 3 men who approached me. More cars showed up
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Shane Burley בד
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We need to acknowledge why it is the end of an era. Because of antifascism. Full stop.
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Shane Burley בד
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There’s not enough time to take a breath in between police killings. I don’t even have enough time to get to the March confronting one police killing before the next one happens. It’s just an accelerating spiral of unaccountable violence.
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When we were doing this with Take Back the Land it became so popular with the surrounding community that pressure was put on the sheriff's office to back down, and they did.
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Shane Burley בד
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@IwriteOK The emotional responsibility I place on my cat is my mental health house of cards. He better outlive me otherwise this whole things gonna collapse.
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Shane Burley בד
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There is a full scale siege happening on Portland from a collaboration of federal and local law enforcement to put down demonstrations, and even as a protester lies in the hospital in uncertain condition the police are holding the line that their munitions are non-lethal.
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Shane Burley בד
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I was watching medics carry away protesters with serious injuries from Proud Boy attacks. This is really serious.
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
Definitely not far-right movement trying to intervene on the voting process.
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Shane Burley בד
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So Andy Ngo just published this article about a murdered young activist (my close friend) in Portland, digging up old anarchist zines they wrote. There is zero news value to this, just to try to find further reasons that people shouldn't mourn their lost loved one. Unbelievable.
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Shane Burley בד
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People should really not miss the irony of scale: The Portland Police Chief says "violence is not the answer" while ordering the violent assault of hundreds nightly. Protesters on the other hand do things like shine laser pointers, spray paint buildings, and light trash fires.
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Shane Burley בד
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My close friend was killed in a hit and run in front of Cider Riot last night. We don’t really know who was behind it, or why, yet. But today I’ll just remember Sean’s genuine kindness, it was always within reach.
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Shane Burley בד
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If I did a blog profiling antifascist and antiracist neofolk bands from around the world, would y'all read it?
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Shane Burley בד
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I wrote this just about three sets of workers taking action on the job in Portland, all working with the @iww
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Shane Burley בד
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The counter-response to Patriot Prayer was just massive, totally overwhelmed SW Portland. Patriot Prayer did bring in a large number of people, but it was less than a third of the response.
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Shane Burley בד
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Tell me again how the Proud Boys aren't white supremacists?
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Shane Burley בד
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I was approached and threatened by a member of Patriot Prayer, but that’s another story.
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Shane Burley בד
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I took a lot of photos of the milkshakes (and video) and stood there watching them be made and saw zero evidence of this. Most people were drinking them. It was hot.
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Police have received information that some of the milkshakes thrown today during the demonstration contained quick-drying cement. We are encouraging anyone hit with a substance today to report it to police.
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This is the more accurate representation of who comes out to protest drag queen storyhour. Pretty clear that we need comprehensive community self-defense to protect against this. Just ignoring them tells them they can escalate.
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Juicy Garland
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We've got some verified Nazis today! Golly, I didn't order those
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Shane Burley בד
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Portland police is now mass gassing the streets. People refuse to back down.
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Shane Burley בד
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So the KKK says they are having a rally in Portland, when they see an antifascist protest form they drop out. Patriot Front marches in DC with police protection, doing it without announcement. It’s almost like the threat of community protest is what makes them back down.
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Shane Burley בד
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Those groups defending clinics against far right attacks? Yeah, that’s Antifa.
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Shane Burley בד
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Survivor is yelling at the police for not stopping the violence.
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Shane Burley בד
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Labor board finds Amazon illegally fired activist workers
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Shane Burley בד
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I've been writing about antifascist activism for years, I did a whole book about it, and I have a very good eye for how those social movements work. There is no evidence that the Ohio shooter is involved in antifascist activism in any way. That's an educated read of the evidence.
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Fox News already reporting that there was concrete in the milkshake cups as fact despite zero evidence. Far-right figures, white nationalists, InfoWars and others drumming up rage for people to attack leftist protesters.
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Shane Burley בד
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This is one of e more shocking videos of what police have done at the #PortlandProtest . Holding someone down in CS gas.
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Shane Burley בד
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When civilization was collapsing when I was stranded at the Denver airport I came across not one, but two people reading After the Revolution by @IwriteOK , which I took to mean that we are currently living his opening chapter.
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Shane Burley בד
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I am genuinely baffled at how the Portland Police think they are going to bring the civil unrest to a close. Does firing off teargas canisters into residential districts make them more popular with the city?
@hungrybowtie
Gare (transsexual john dee)
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Police shoot teargas towards residential housing, at the group of protesters that headed west not south. #blacklivesmatter   #protest #pdx #Portland #Oregon #BLM #acab #PortlandProtests #PortlandStrong #PortlandPolice #pdxprotest
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Shane Burley בד
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Andy Ngo has been trolling the death of an antifascist in Portland. This is his reaction when someone did that to him a while back. See, he gets it. He just chooses not to care.
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This person drove their car as fast as possible in the direction of the protesters after an altercation with demonstrators. It seemed like an intentional effort to hit protesters #PortlandProtests
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Shane Burley בד
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The police seemed to work hard to protect, and coordinate with, the Proud Boys.
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Shane Burley בד
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The loud voices complaining about antifa seem really concerned about spray paint but seems totally fine with unmarked vans arresting people without warning and no easily identified crime. It's almost as if it isn't violence they object to, just who it is against
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Shane Burley בד
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Not sure when being antifascist became a bad thing to some people, but its not something I'm ashamed of.
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Shane Burley בד
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There is zero evidence that the Dayton shooter had anything to do with antifascism, antifascist organizations, or anything in between. Any claims to the contrary are cynical ideological rhetoric and click-bait, and it will get people killed.
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Shane Burley בד
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Just left the #RedHouse eviction blockade, it’s the most impressive I’ve ever seen. There is a real community that has formed, food and resources, full infrastructure of mutual aid. Will be back later, this is an example of the kind of world that’s possible.
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Shane Burley בד
6 years
Antifascists marching to meet Proud Boys. Antifascists have easily 600+
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Shane Burley בד
4 years
The luxury commercial district is totally destroyed.
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Shane Burley בד
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Could someone explain to me how this is acceptable? I'm totally open to listening and hearing you. I am baffled as to how we have created a society that sees this as normal and reasonable. But maybe I am the idiot here.
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Shane Burley בד
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What the “good protester/bad protester” narratives erase is the fundamental power differential between the police and protesters. Police behavior is laced with heavy violence at all levels, both in its maintenance of violent structures and the violence they use on people.
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I am honestly perplexed at how people can watch this and then say that it is protester behavior, not police, that are frightening. This is scary as hell.
@MrOlmos
Sergio Olmos
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Portland police returned for a third dispersal, but protesters were a block ahead and they ended up bull rushing a mostly empty street
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One of the most central messages from every speaker at the Survivor Speakout today was thanks to Antifa for providing safety to the community. A very different message than we often hear.
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Shane Burley בד
5 years
On the day after another white supremacist murderer plowed through a festival and murdered a child, we are still calling antifascists terrorists.
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Shane Burley בד
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This is a news story.
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Shane Burley בד
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Andy Ngo has decided that all journalists are now antifa. He is certainly having a normal one.
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Shane Burley בד
5 years
What's happening in Oregon right now is being called the beginning of a #GeneralStrike , a strike happening simultaneously across a range of industries. This speaks to the national strike wave happening the past 2 years. (thread) #OregonGeneralStrike
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New from me: I look at recent attempts by Matthew Heimbach and other far-right leaders to rebrand as antiwar socialists. The investigation reveals this to be a continuation of their neo-Nazi beliefs, and some on the left are providing them cover. *thread*
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I've never seen police more determined to make themselves look like the enemy of the community they are policing, and in the most public spectacle possible. via @YahooNews
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Being attacked by the police tonight was traumatic, what I saw happen to protesters and reporters was as ugly as it gets. It's really hard to do just write down observations without speaking up in total outrage about this.
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Men's Rights Activists are the gender equivalent of White Supremacists.
@Hatewatch
Hatewatch
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The @splcenter began tracking male supremacy last year. The ideology misrepresents all women as genetically inferior, manipulative and stupid and reduces them to their reproductive function.
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Shane Burley בד
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I know I'm a broken record about this, but neo-Nazi Telegram sure does love Andy Ngo.
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Shane Burley בד
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Protesters have set the justice center on fire.
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Shane Burley בד
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I should say that the federal munitions and tear gas likely caused more injuries, but the Portland police were personally savage, mocking and victimizing people. No provocation, no claim of violence, no cover of protection. The police just rioted tonight.
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