“Police arrested 36 protesters Sunday who blocked entrances to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Elizabeth, authorities said. “Thirty-six out of approximately 100 protesters were detained yesterday and transported to police headquarters,” said Kelly Martins, a spokeswoman for the city, said in an email Monday. “The protesters did not have a permit to protest, but the police gave them a courtesy since they were not violent and peacefully protesting,” Martins said, adding arrests were made when protesters blocked entrances to the facility. The protesters were charged with obstruction of a public passage, issued city ordinance summonses and released, Martins said. “While at (police headquarters), the protesters invoked their Miranda Rights and refused to acknowledge any specific group they were affiliated with,” Martins said. “They are from various areas from throughout New Jersey and New York.” Video from the scene showed Elizabeth police leading protesters away with hands zip-tied behind their backs as hundreds chanted “Hey hey, ho ho, racist ICE has got to go” and held signs reading “Never again means close the camps.” The group “Never Again: Jews Against ICE Week Of Action” organized the protest – the first of several planned nationwide – comparing current conditions at detention centers to the Holocaust. “We effectively shut down people’s ability to go into or out of the ICE facility for an hour and a half,” said Brandon Mond, spokesman for the group. “This is the first of many (protests) planned.””
Just like the seed I don’t know where to go Through dirt and shadow I grow I’m reaching light through the struggle Just like the sea, I’m chasing the wonder I unravel myself, all in slow motion.
You cannot eat money, oh no You cannot eat money oh no When the last tree has fallen and the rivers are poisoned, You cannot eat money oh no You cannot eat money, oh no You cannot eat money oh no When the last tree has fallen and the rivers are poisoned, You cannot eat money oh no
If global warming is inevitable, then I’m gonna fight for every tenth of a degree. If fascism is inevitable, then I’m gonna save as many people as I can. This world is turning into a horror movie? Then I’ll become the final girl.
I’m done being worn down by reality. It’s time for reality to take some wearing from me.
I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was about meetin him in town somewheres and he give me some money and I think I lost it. But the second one it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin through the mountains of a night. Goin through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin. Never said nothin. He just rode on past and he had this blanket wrapped around him and he had his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. About the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
“Then what is the answer? Not to be deluded by dreams.
To know that great civilisations have broken down into violence,
and their tyrants come, many times before.
When open violence appears, to avoid it with honor or choose
the least ugly faction; these evils are essential.
To keep one’s own integrity, be merciful and uncorrupted
and not wish for evil; and not be duped
By dreams of universal justice or happiness. These dreams will
not be fulfilled.
To know this, and know that however ugly the parts appear
the whole remains beautiful. A severed hand
Is an ugly thing and man dissevered from the earth and stars
and his history … for contemplation or in fact …
Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness,
the greatest beauty is
Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty
of the universe. Love that, not man
Apart from that, or else you will share man’s pitiful confusions,
or drown in despair when his days darken.”
“Every year, at leaf-fall, Pwyll and his men rode to Arberth. Riding through a valley five valleys from home they were like an old story Taliesin would tell. And they had it in them to go with the story. They had it in them, living now, riding now to Arberth, to be a tale told by a fireside in the far past, to be a tale told by a fireside in the far future. And they would say, would sometimes say, that their only reason for being in the world was to give the world a chance to live out its own strangeness, its own danger, and its own wonder in them. And this year, reaching Arberth, that’s what they looked like. They looked like men who had survived.”
— John Moriarty, Dreamtime (1999, Lilliput Press) p.5., quoted in Kayne Coy, Place and Memory in Irish Folklore, in ‘Dark Mountain Journal: Issue 14, Terra.’ p.205.
In her speech to the UN, she addresses detractors who scold her for not
being in school. “Some people say that we should be in school instead.
But why should we be studying for a future that soon will be no more,
and when no one is doing anything whatsoever to save that future?” […] “We have not come here to beg the world leaders to care for our future.
They have ignored us in the past and they will ignore us again,” she
said to members at the UN conference. “Since our leaders are behaving
like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have
taken long ago.” […] Thunberg also has Asperger syndrome, which she says adds a special
intensity to her focus on this issue. When asked how the syndrome
affects her activism, she said, “It means I usually don’t enjoy
participating in the social game that the rest of you seem so fond of,
and I don’t like lying, and I see things black and white,” she told
Goodman in the interview. [x]
“It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that society is huge and the individual is less than nothing. But the truth is individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different.”
