We put together IFAKs for protests. Our group specializes in de-escalation training, environment awareness training, & life-saving street medicine awareness. One of our certified EMTs shares information about how to respond to med emergencies & get people to safety.
#streetmedicine #safety #protest
IFAKs are excellent for carrying on-the-go. You never know when there could be a medical emergency even outside of a protest environment. You never know when you could save someone's life.
This isn’t particularly new. We’ve been here before. Chechnya, #Georgia, #Crimea, #Donbas, #Syria. Each time, Europe’s response was weak. Each time, it sent humanitarian #aid and hoped the #Kremlin would come to its senses, as if it were just having a tantrum and not executing a long-term imperialist project. Even when #Putin turned Belarus into a vassal state and built military bases along #NATO’s border, too many in Brussels and Berlin whispered, “Let’s not escalate.”
U.S.-born American citizen under #ICE hold in #Florida after driving from #Georgia
#JuanCarlosLopezGomez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate 'authentic' and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an 'illegal alien.'
By Suzanne Gamboa, April 17, 2025
"A U.S.-born American citizen was being detained at the request of immigration authorities Thursday despite an advocate showing his U.S. birth certificate in court and a county judge finding no reason for him to be considered an 'illegal alien' who illegally entered Florida.
"Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, 20, was arrested Thursday evening by Florida Highway Patrol and charged under a state immigration law that has been temporarily blocked since early this month. Details of Gomez-Lopez’s arrest and detention were first reported by the Florida Phoenix news site.
"After inspecting his birth certificate, Leon County Judge LaShawn Riggans said during the hearing that 'this is indeed an authentic document,' but that she did not have jurisdiction beyond finding no probable cause for the charge.
"Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s role is to enforce immigration laws that generally apply to noncitizens. American citizens are protected under the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution from unreasonable search and seizure, arrest and detention.
"Nonetheless, he remains detained locally at ICE’s request, said Thomas Kennedy, a spokesperson at the Florida Immigrant Coalition who attended Thursday’s hearing.
" 'Everything tracks for him being sent to an ICE detention center,' he told NBC News in a phone interview.
"NBC News has reached out to state and federal authorities for comment.
"Lopez-Gomez was in a vehicle with other passengers and was traveling to work from Georgia when they were stopped after entering Florida.
:A sweeping immigration law signed by Gov. #RonDeSantis in 2023 makes it a state crime for an undocumented immigrant over age 18 to enter the state illegally."
Man with U.S. birth certificate jailed for illegally entering Florida as an "unauthorized alien"
'Attempts to silence artists will provoke response that will deal heavy blow to Ivanishvili’s regime' - https://jam-news.net/repressions-against-artists-in-georgia/ let's hope so... #georgia
Just imagine if the current #bigot-#plutocrat regime of the #USA had the backbone of tiny #Georgia
maybe Georgia has the backbone it does because they understand the government of #Russia
so i guess the USA has to learn what Georgia knows already
the hard way
because the USA is ruled by morons
"Georgia Rejects Russian Proposal to Restore Diplomatic Ties"
Marjorie Taylor Greene confronted by rowdy constituents at Georgia town hall https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/16/marjorie-taylor-greene-town-hall #HouseofRepresentatives #MarjorieTaylorGreene #Trumpadministration #Republicans #DonaldTrump #USCongress #USpolitics #Georgia #USnews
#MarjorieTaylorGreene #Georgia
"All totaled, six people were arrested. Two people were tased. As a Black man was being tased, Greene’s supporters were cheering the actions by police."
Yep! Home sweet home. 
Two people were tased and six people arrested during U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's town hall
"U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene hosts a town hall in Cobb County, GA. She affirmed support for President Trump's policies."
https://theatlantavoice.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-town-hall/
Of course, Marjorie Taylor Greene belongs in prison.
Jeffries backs stock trading ban after Greene buys market dip
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5249112-congress-stock-trading-ban/
'#Georgia is starting to move in Putin’s direction' - interview with former FSB colonel - https://jam-news.net/georgia-is-starting-to-move-in-putins-direction-interview-with-former-fsb-colonel/ and accelerating
Around 700 civil servants sacked in Georgia for political reasons — Transparency International - https://jam-news.net/700-georgian-civil-servants-dismissed/ "political repression against civil servants has become a key tactic in Georgian Dream’s effort to suppress the protest movement in the country" #georgia
@meidastouch.com host @meiselasb.bsky.social reports on Donald Trump denying emergency disaster relief to #Georgia and #NorthCarolina, two states that voted for him.
The aid that #Biden approved in February 180 days ago has now expired.
Is THIS government "efficiency"??
youtu.be/vup7ZXTzm7Q?...
Trump VERY Publicly SCREWS OVE...
https://www.europesays.com/uk/15857/ EU targets Trump’s red states with tariffs on US trucks, cigarettes and ice cream – POLITICO #Aluminum #Beef #Canada #Cars #Chemicals #China #Corn #Customs #DonaldTrump #Dumping/Duties #EU #Europe #European #Exports #Farms #France #Georgia #Imports #Ireland #Italy #Markets #Meat #Mexico #Negotiations #Plastics #Poultry #Services #Soybeans #Steel #Tariffs #Trade #TradeWar #UnitedStates #Wheat
Recordings from 29 March 2025 are now available free at the "Enslavement to citizenship: African Americans in Irish Slaveholder records" website.
Includes overview of databases "Irish slaveholders in South Carolina 1670-1865" & "They had names: African Americans in Liberty County, Georgia"
@histodons
@geneadons
@genealogy
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #SouthCarolina #Georgia #Irish #AfricanAmerican
British MP: 'There’s a 6 or 7 out of 10 chance that sanctions will be imposed on Ivanishvili — and he’s already very afraid of it' - https://jam-news.net/british-mp-theres-a-6-or-7-out-of-10-chance-that-sanctions-will-be-imposed-on-ivanishvili-and-hes-already-very-afraid-of-it/ #georgia
Not sure I posted this here: a pretty long listen, but I did an episode of the Maniculum podcast where I sat down and talked to the hosts, Zoe and Mac, about the great medieval Georgian epic the Knight in Panther Skin with a view towards re-using and understanding it anew as inspiration for modern fantasy/TTRPGs.
I hope someone out there finds it interesting! Thoughts welcome if you have time for a listen :)
State by State Pending and Recently Passed #AntiProtestLaws: #Georgia
SB 339: Mandatory sanctions for campus protesters
**Note: SB 339 was signed into law following amendments that removed the most restrictive provisions.** As originally introduced, Senate Bill 339 would have created mandatory disciplinary sanctions that could be applied to peaceful protesters on college and university campuses. The introduced bill required public universities and community colleges to adopt a policy prohibiting and subjecting to sanction individuals involved in "protests or demonstrations that infringe upon the rights of others to engage in or listen to expressive activity" on campus. Additionally, the introduced bill required administrators to suspend for at least one year or expel any student who was twice "found responsible for infringing on the expressive rights of others," such as through a protest of a campus speaker. Amendments to the bill removed the provisions related to specific sanctions, prior to the bill's passage by the Senate.
Full text of bill: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/52111
Status: enacted with improvements
Introduced 19 Jan 2018; Governor Deal signed it 8 May 2018
Issue(s): Campus Protests
SB 160: Heightened penalties for blocking traffic
**Note: This bill was amended prior to passage by the legislature, to remove the provisions penalizing obstruction of a public passage.** As introduced and passed by the Georgia Senate, the "Back the Badge" bill included heightened penalties for intentionally or recklessly blocking "any highway, street, sidewalk, or other passage." Accordingly, protesters and demonstrators peacefully obstructing a public sidewalk could have been charged with a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature, which under Georgia law is subject to up to a $5,000 fine or up to one year in jail. These provisions were removed, however, in the version of the bill approved by the House of Representatives and sent to the Governor on April 10, 2017.
Full text of bill:
https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20172018/170731
Status: enacted with improvements
Introduced 10 Apr 2017; Approved by Senate 24 Feb 2017; Approved by House 24 March 2017 without traffic-blocking provisions; Signed by Governor Deal 8 May 2017
Issue(s): #TrafficInterference
#FirstAmendment #CriminalizingDissent
#Authoritarianism #Fascism #Clampdown #CriminalizingProtest
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #PipelineProtests #CriminalizingDissent #AntiProtestLaws #CampusProtests
