Check out our latest #ThisIsAmerica podcast, featuring an action news roundup, including updates on the recent #StopCopCity struggle, an #IWW union drive at Peet's Coffee shops in #Oakland and #Berkeley, anti-pipeline actions, and how a week of action in #Michigan is kicking off against the expansion of a national guard facility.

Listen Here: https://itsgoingdown.org/this-is-america-188/

We're excited to announce the Midwest Dual Power Gathering in August of this year. Last year held the first Dual Power Gathering, and we hope to have similar success as we split off into regional organizing in 2023.

Our website is https://dpgmidwest.org. You can find the answers to some of your questions on the FAQ, but feel free to email us if you have any other concerns/comments/inquiries.

“Fuck the Proud Boys - Antifa” spotted on Broward Proud Boy and ambulance chasing Attorney Gabe Carrera’s advertisement ambulance outside his office.

Gabe’s been having a rough time of it recently after his office was flooded by recent rains (he doesn’t have flood insurance), he’s been hospitalized for weeks, and he’s ostracized by much of the far right for working with the wrong nazi — we love to see it.

We’re unsure of when this took place but we do know that it’s been there for at least a couple weeks and has not been cleaned up, as of this morning. See for yourself outside his office on Marine Mile Blvd.

#FuckTheProudBoys #FAFO #AFA #BrowardDontLikeFascists

UPDATE: Sorry for the notification, but as this post is circulating again I wanted to make it clear that we are not using Open Collective for donations at this time. You can, however, donate through Ko-Fi here: https://ko-fi.com/blackqueerlife thank you thank you thank you!!

Hello Fediverse! I am coming before you all today to promote my new instance: blackqueer.life! You may have seen my post on my old account about it a few weeks back. I wanted to wait until I finished migrating my old account over here, got the instance up and running to where I wanted it, etc before promoting it fully.

We all know Fedi isn't always kind to Black users, doubly so for Black queers. My instance represents my attempt to continue the amazing work some folks are doing in the Fediverse to make these platforms more accessible and safer for all users, ESPECIALLY marginalized folks.

When I joined the fediverse, the first thing I was searching for almost from the beginning was an instance dedicated to or centering Black queer people explicitly. While there are a few amazing communities like that out there, many of them are either not federating, offering limited federation only, or are currently closed to new users.

This allows them to have much greater control over the content their users are exposed to, which I have tremendous respect and appreciation for. Hell, I've got alts in some of those places!

However. As a newcomer to Fedi, it was not overly easy for me to find these places and gain access, which I recognize is somewhat by design. Limited or no federation meant the only way to locate them was by word of mouth and extensive research.

This is where BlackQueerLife comes in. I want to build a place where Black queer, trans, and GNC folks can feel safe making a home while also being able to venture out into the rest of the fediverse. I want somewhere they can use as a landing pad. I want as many multiply marginalized Black folks off of corporate hellsites like Twitter and Bluesky as possible. We are not safe being corporate playthings.

Most importantly, I want every Black queer person who joins Fedi to know that they have somewhere they can go. I don't expect that all would necessarily want to join, but I want all Black queer fedizens to know that they are welcome to.

So if you see this, please boost this post to spread the word. If you already boosted the other posts that have gone out about this instance, no pressure. Thanks so much!

@[email protected] @BlackMastodon

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #BlackQueer #BIPOC #QTPOC #LGBTQ