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Stop the cuts
End the Wars
Tax the Rich

Genocide out of JaxPort
Stop the Morgue in Brentwood!
A morgue and biolab doesn't belong in a neighborhood & next to an elementary school.
📍Jacksonville, FL
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Israeli military plane operating in LA

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
June 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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At least it's not the shirtless body with his face slapped on it.
May 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2024 estimates are out.

Jax crossed 1 million population threshold. Now the 10th largest city in the US.
Though Jax is a sprawling city as a result of of consolidation in 1968. Many residents lack basic city services like sewer hookup.

www.census.gov/programs-sur...
May 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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The mayor at the JSEB opening next to the new city morgue going in a Black neighborhood 3ft from homes and 32ft from an elementary school.

An industrial facility w/ventilation stacks will be pumping cancer causing chemical vapors, biological pathogens, and decomposition odors into the community
May 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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A morgue does NOT belong in a neighborhood.
May 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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@cityofjax.bsky.social opened the JSEB building next to the morgue today. Lots of flowerly language

Noticeably ignoring the giant morgue next door. 3ft from houses & 32ft from an elementary. chemical vapors & bio pathogen, SHAME

A morgue does NOT belong in a neighborhood!

#StopRedinling #Jax
May 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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For the Eradication of Chauvinism: A socialist organization of our size and with our demographic composition will undoubtedly have chauvinism of various sorts, with the main manifestations being white chauvinism and male chauvinism. Many non-white and non-male comrades have expressed dismay at the behavior of many of our white and/or male comrades in DSA spaces. The only way to address this inexcusable behavior is to orient ourselves and actively recruit nonwhite and/or nonmale comrades and encourage them to seize positions of leadership within the organization. In a socialist organization which is supposedly oriented around the needs and political power of the entire working class, the fact that much power is still in the hands of white, male, PMC comrades is proof that we have much work to do. Ignorance of nonwhite and women revolutionary theoreticians such as Fanon, Ghandy, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, and Sison is a key manifestation of this chauvinist tendency. The Settler-Colonial Contradiction is the Primary Contradiction: The United States is a settler-colony. It is not a nation, it is a prison-house of nations, with the Euro-Americans being the jailer. Many comrades commit errors of line and practice because they fail to take this into account, making allusions to the “multinational working class” and flattening the contradictions derived from settler colonialism. This is a disservice to our Black, Indigenous, and Latine comrades, and a major reason why many do not flock to our orientation. Liberation will come only when the prison-house of nations is broken open. We support national liberation for all colonized peoples in the United States. Socialism is the Rule of the Working Class: Socialism is not a series of reforms, nor is it a party calling itself “Communist” in power, allowing billionaires to exploit the people while calling themselves “red experts”. As Maoists, we recognize that class struggle continues during the socialist period, and working class revolutionaries must be vigilant about both old and new bourgeois elements that will destroy the revolution and cast the working class back into slavery. Nationalization of industries and utilities is a key part of socialism, but equally important is shifting the relations of production in a communist direction. The party apparatus must continue to submerge itself in the masses and build communist structures while also forestalling the rise of a new bureaucratic capitalist class as happened in the USSR and PRC. We Are Unequivocally Anti-Imperialist: Communists in the imperial core have as our main duty the destruction of the imperialist system which makes life for our class siblings around the world a living hell. DSA has historically wavered on questions of anti-imperialism, most recently around the question of Palestinian self-determination and national liberation. The time for such wavering is over. Our goal is to ensure that DSA takes firm stances in word and in deed against imperialism.
April 29, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Just seeing this DSA Liberation Caucus X Post.

www.liberationcaucus.org
Points of Unity We Are Marxist-Leninist-Maoists in DSA: Democratic Socialists of America is the largest socialist mass organization in the United States, with dozens of members holding elected office, and thousands of members engaged in active grassroots participation in movements that have and will continue to shape the world that we live in for the better. However, as Maoists in DSA, we believe that ideological and political struggle can not be shirked and Comrade Mao’s call to combat liberalism must be heeded and taken seriously, otherwise opportunist and revisionist trends will arise and rot the soul of the organization. Therefore, we operate under these principles and call on all revolutionary communists working in DSA to unite with us. For A Revolutionary Theory of Change: The Marxist-Leninist-Maoist theory of change, and thus that of DSA-Liberation, is revolutionary. While we do not fundamentally oppose participation in reformist struggles, our engagement in these activities should be to expose the ruling class which steals our wealth and robs us of our happiness. Concessions are not given freely by the ruling class, they are extracted through vicious, bitter struggle. Many in DSA orient towards the “middle class”, union staffers, and Democratic Party workers. This is a fundamentally rightist orientation as the organization will reflect the interests of the professional middle class. Instead, our orientation should be towards the proletariat, the colonized, the masses of queer workers, working class students, the undocumented, prisoners, and other militants who have no stake in this system and work for its end. Towards a Party of a New Type: Democratic centralism is a necessity for any revolutionary movement that hopes to win. It is an organizational method by which the masses of the workers’ party participate in a truly democratic process, freely debating and struggling over the political line and methods to implement it and then abiding by the decision reached after engaging in a vote even if individual members disagree. Lines are subject to revisiting, additional debate, and re-vote, but once passed, all members are expected to adhere to them unless they are overturned. This method of inter-formation organizing is essential to ensure that we are able to meet our highly organized, disciplined, and trained enemies with a highly organized, disciplined and trained force of our own. If DSA is to transform itself into a vanguard formation, it will be compelled by necessity to transform itself into a more disciplined organization based on a Democratic Centralist framework.
April 29, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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January 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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#Colombian 🇨🇴 President #GustavoPetro response to Trump gave me chills.

This is what leadership looks like.
Trump, I don't really like traveling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some worthy things, I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, there I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like bullshit to me, because they should unite. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller. I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, in the history of the US, are memorable and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are inside the US as well as inside my country. I don't like your oil, Trump, you are going to end the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a shot of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I am not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can, with your economic strength and your arrogance, try to carry out a coup d'état as they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I do not want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you cannot accompany me, I will go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you did not understand it, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of whom I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my town which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You do not like our freedom, okay. I do not shake hands with white slavers. I shake the hands of the white libertarians, heirs of Lincoln and of the black and white peasant boys of the USA, before whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached, after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. They are the USA and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the civilization at that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resisters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs. My land is of goldsmithing existing in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs, and of the first artists of the world in Chiribiquete. You will never dominate us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom and who is called Bolívar opposes us. Our people are somewhat fearful,They are somewhat timid, naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, now Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered. I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, immigrant in the USA, Your blockade does not scare me; because Colombia, in addition to being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and it will offer you its sweetness. COLOMBIA FROM TODAY IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY. I am informed that you put a 50% tariff on our human work to enter the USA, I do the same. Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world
January 27, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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@foodnotbombsjax.bsky.social in @folioweekly.bsky.social on the lavish parties our @mayordeegan.bsky.social and @cityofjax.bsky.social City Council attend while our unhoused neighbors struggle to survive the winter in our city
December 22, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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Ok last one bc it has some direct quotes from Lucy
December 9, 2024 at 6:10 AM
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Lucy's obituary
December 9, 2024 at 6:02 AM
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Lucy was subject to the same invasive medical exams creeps like Nancy Mace would like to force upon us today
December 9, 2024 at 5:50 AM
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Apparently, Lucy Hicks was commonly voted for in Oxnard.
December 9, 2024 at 5:41 AM
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Criminalized for being married as a trans woman
December 9, 2024 at 5:25 AM
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Lucy organizing get out the vote in 1946
December 9, 2024 at 5:18 AM
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One of many articles about Lucy
December 9, 2024 at 5:12 AM