Remember this day, DC!
Here’s my best bud, DC Cannabis Campaign Chairman Adam Eidinger, on election night last Tuesday:
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Last week, I was over at a friend’s house when he pulled out this lid of something really fresh, pulled out this big stinky bud, handed it to me and invited me to take a good smell — and man, was that some stanky-ass stuff.
So, anyway, my buddy asked me to guess where it was from; I ran down the standard guesses — Humboldt, Maui — but you could’ve knocked me over with a feather when he told me that sticky, smelly bud was grown right here in DC, in Ward 8.
All I could think of is how things could possibly be, this time next year, if Prop 71 goes through, allowing three mature plants. It also reminded me that DC has a state fair now. Can’t wait to see next year’s Blue Ribbon Ward 8 Skunk Bud.
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As far back as I can remember — the late ’60s or so — after every outbreak of police violence, government officials and media droids would try to blow it off with some hand-waving bullshit about “a few bad apples”.
I didn’t buy it back then, and I’m not buying it now.
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You’d have to be living in a cave to not see the clear parallels between the Israeli treatment of Palestinians — and Gazans in particular — and the police abuse and brutalization of poor black neighborhoods in the US. Poor black neighborhoods are occupied by militarized police who murder with impunity, collectively punish, threaten, harass and humiliate residents with tactics learned from the Israeli military. Tear gas, concussion grenades and other weapons used by police in towns like Ferguson, Missouri are manufactured by the same corporations which arm the Israeli military. It’s no surprise that during the Ferguson Rebellion, Palestinians in Gaza provided residents of Ferguson with tips on street fighting and proper techniques for the handling of tear-gas grenades.
This cartoon is in honor of dissident Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali — who was assassinated in 1987 — and his iconic Handala character, and is a call for solidarity between victims of US police brutality and Palestinians enduring the same kind of oppression at the hands of Israel.
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