Happiness Will Come To You.

this hour and what is dead, li-young lee / the last temptation (1988) dir. martin scorsese / calvary, william butler yeats / the sparrow, mary doria russell

Refugees Welcome

Justice for Muhammad Muhaymin

With at least three officers on his legs and back — and yet another applying a knee to his head and neck — the Black man in his 40s cries out “I can’t breathe” multiple times.

“Please Allah,” he says.

“Allah? He’s not going to help you now,” one of the officers struggling to cuff him says. 

“Just relax.”

“Please help me,” the man says, in between screams. “Please.”

“Relax!” an officer says. “Stop resisting.“The man’s shrieks and utterances become groans. His body goes limp, he falls silent, and vomits.Moments later in the bodycam footage, an officer can be heard saying, "He’s dead.” CASUALLY.

“Three years ago, Phoenix had its own "I can’t breathe” case. But its outcome has so far been very different than that of George Floyd’s.

In 2017, Muhammad Abdul Muhaymin Jr. tried to take his dog with him to the bathroom at a city community center in west Phoenix. The police were called, discovered he had a warrant for his arrest, and decided to detain him.

At least four officers got on top of him and held him down. Some put their knees on his neck and head.

“I can’t breathe,” Muhaymin is heard saying several times in police body camera footage. When officers eventually got off him, Muhaymin had no pulse, according to comments from officers in the video, and lay in a pool of his own vomit.

He was 43, unarmed and black”

The death of Muhaymin is the subject of a $10 million lawsuit his sister filed in U.S. District Court in Arizona. The lawsuit is against the 10 officers, a city parks and recreation employee and Phoenix. The Phoenix Police needs to be restructured  by better training officers and doing better background checks on officers while giving Muhammad and his family the justice he deserves by putting the murderers who killed him in jail.

From AZ Central Article (https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2020/06/05/phoenix-police-death-case-2017-muhammad-muhaymin-jr-resembles-george-floyd-death/3145190001/

Representatives to Contact (Call/Leave messages)

-Kyrsten Sinema (602) 598-7327

-Kate Gallego (602)-262-7111

-Doug Ducey 1-602-542-4331 / engage@az.gov.

-Phoenix Police Department (602) 262-6151) (Non-emergency number)”

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WATCH THE VIDEO HERE 

Rosanna Warren, from Departure: Poems; "From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine"

Shoko Ieiri

Alice Notley, "The Poetry of Everyday Life" (1988)

Day 6: Curse!AU. This was inspired by @halveablock‘s amazing curse (Gojo) au concept (with my own spin to it, I guess… deep down I’m just a softie is all)! If some of you haven’t seen that yet, what are you waiting for?? I’m actually low-key embarrassed to post this, lmao. But I have procrastinated long enough… :p

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Relationship: SatoSugu

Characters: Gojo Satoru, Geto Suguru. Ieiri Shoko (brief). Yaga Masamichi (brief).

Additional tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Curse!AU, Blood, Hurt/Comfort, curse!Gojo, Murder Soulmates perhaps, (past) Established Relationship, moral ambiguity - sort of??

Summary:

[While former Special Grade sorcerer Getō Suguru had been declared a Curse User, to be killed on sight, Special Grade sorcerer Gojō Satoru’s whereabouts and status remained an odd mystery.

There was no body to be found.

Neither did anyone see the boy ever again.

There were rumors, though. Hearsay. Stories shared in hushed whispers. And hillingly, morbidly, all of them led back to one Getō Suguru.]

Or: Gojō doesn’t make it out of his first fight against Tōji - he doesn’t fully die, either. Getō latches on regardless.

Since I’m trying to be more active on Tumblr, I wanted to reintroduce my webcomic Countdown to Countdown to the peeps on this site!

Iris Black, a young man that possesses the special ability to bring drawings to life, is sheltered in a correctional facility that houses other “gifted” people like him. Outcasted for his inability to suppress his powers, he yearns to find himself a space where he can use his powers freely. His chance comes one night when a handsome intruder sneaks in to the lab.

If you’re interested in rivals forced to work together to overthrow capitalism, supernatural teens, and messy families, read his story!

Comic | Patreon | Discord 

[updates every Wednesday with 2-4 pages at 8 PM EST]

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