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[theyarefew]

this morning in class we watched some short films about the kensington welfare rights union. i was brought to tears on several occasions. police arresting women trying to take over an abandoned building so that their children have a safe place to stay and eat and hang out. setting up tent shanties in vacant lots because their welfare checks have

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[flavia_sneech]

It's amazing how starkly different the coexisting realities in our lives can be sometimes, isn't it? It's a lot easier (and a lot gentler) to take a slower shift between scenarios that seem so vastly different than we're sometimes given. (Not that that is better or worse, but it is less jarring certainly

[skyflower]

I agree so whole-heartedly.
And I feel this way a lot, adn when I'm freaked out by how much this world sucks and how much I havre and how much institution is inbetween me and giving what I have to people who need it, Logan tells me this.
You have a responsibility to take advantage of what you have, and with that, you need to fight to give back. Revolutionaries outside this system get labeled as radicals and completely dismissed, so you need to take what this system is giving you and turn it on itself from within. It'll take time, but we can do this.