It's like living in the not-too-dystopian future!
I got pepper-sprayed at the anti-Herzog protest yesterday, but it was actually some much less dramatic stuff today that gave me the ick; the nazis are marching, the imperial boomerang has returned (for white folk - for Blak folks it never left and is orders of magnitude worse), the genocidal head of state is lauded, the dystopian future ick. Firstly, about the pepper-spraying, I mean, I knew something like that was coming. Lizzie Jarrett, the Blak activist, warned us as we faced down the cops at Town Hall steps, but I knew it before then. We had marched up there because we heard Black Caucus and MUA comrades wanted to march and we wanted to assist. And as I pointed out after we had run from the cops, and was recovering from the pepper spray sitting talking to a nice fellow protestor, it's nothing compared to what people go through in Gaza. I would do it again today and everyday. It's nothing. I lived in Korea for years. I've eaten spicier food than that haha. What w...