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With the recent abortion law in Alabama, I’ve seen a lot of “progressive” and “liberal” posts doing nothing more than disparaging all of us in Alabama, using the most stereotypical tropes about everyone being barefoot, illiterate, trash, incestuous, and so forth. Many have had quips that we deserve what is done to us by this law because we “put them in office.”

First, by that logic America deserves what Trump is doing because we put him in office, and don’t be confused, plenty of people say that abroad. I’ve been on plenty of my German speaking forums seeing that sentiment.

Alabamians don’t just fairly put them in office. The extreme conservatives of our state have gamed the system to stay in power. Their main constituency is the older Jim Crow era people, and they’re dying out. There are plenty of younger and more liberal Alabamians coming up, but the extreme right in Alabama work to keep elections rigged in their favor. This is how they keep in office:

1. Alabama has had very severe laws preventing felons from voting, including those who’ve completely finished all sentences, parole, probation. Until 2017, this includes felons for victimless drug convictions. This grossly disenfranchised poor and PoC voters. One of the reasons Doug Jones won is his was one of the first elections where many of these people could vote. For example, in this article this man had been prevented from voting from 1984 till 2017 (https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/local/solutions-journalism/2018/11/02/can-felons-vote-voting-rights-restoration-alabama-felony-disenfranchisement/1835021002/).

2. Alabama straight up purges rolls and lies to voters. Centers will tell people you photo ID address and your voter reg address must match to vote, not true, and send people away. Democrats and esp black voters regularly get to polls and find they aren’t on the list.

3. Gerrymandering is a SERIOUS issue in Alabama. In Jones’ election he won more than half the votes, but only one district. This is because this one district is gerrymandered to encapsulate black populations into only 1 district. It encompasses most of the Black Belt, our rural predominately black swath of 17 counties (25% of our counties), with tentacles reaching into district 1 in Monroeville, West Montgomery, and impossibly through Tuscaloosa into Birmingham. What should be black voters mattering in 3-4 districts becomes 1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/13/how-doug-jones-lost-in-nearly-every-congressional-district-but-still-won-the-state/

4. Alabama doesn’t offer any help for voters to get time off to vote. You do have to be offered your hour lunch to go, but our counties are spread out and since you have to vote at your center based on residence, it can be impossible to vote in one hour. For example, I work .5 miles from a voting center; however, I have to drive over 20 miles away to vote near my home. If my schedule doesn’t accommodate voting before/after work, that means I leave, drive 20 miles, wait in line, vote, and drive 20 miles back. It will take over an hour. Luckily I work with great people, and it’s not an issue, but many marginalized people don’t. They lose pay they cannot afford to lose, are penalized for going over their lunch, or pressured to not go. They skip eating all together even though they have strenuous long hours just to vote. They cannot vote near their work.

5. Alabama lacks public transportation. Again, marginalized people are more likely not to have their own reliable transportation. Instead they have to carpool, walk/bike, or use our unsafe, overstretched, and not fully covering public transit (if their area has any at all which is a big if). This means many voters have no way to get to the polls, esp if that means going 20+ miles to get there. Where I live public transport doesn’t travel to our part of the metro (the poor, black, “hood” part), so if you don’t have your own car and no one can drive you, you’re not swinging back this way on your lunch break. Even people not working may have no way to get from their homes to the polls.

As a result our elections are heavily skewed to not represent our marginalised communities, which usually push blue. So no, we didn’t elect this government, because there hasn’t been a fair election.

So, though I’m beating a dead horse here, we need solidarity. There are protests, lawsuits, working with pro-choice groups and the ACLU, and groups helping women needing to get out of state for abortions.

Also, realize this law isn’t about Alabama. It’s meant to be draconian so it’s get overturned. That way they can push it up the court system to the SCOTUS. They’re hoping Trump’s appointees will overturn Roe v Wade, then it’ll be about you no matter what state you’re in, and there will be people making the same jabs at you as a stupid American who deserves what you got putting Trump in office as you’re saying about Alabama now. This isn’t an Alabama thing. It’s the conservative extremists using a state with a rigged system that keeps them in power as a dark horse so they can push their zealotry on all of you.

“Now I’m awake to the world. I was asleep before. That’s how we let it happen… Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.” Margret Atwood.

Making light of this bc you love ripping us dumb, inbred trailer trash in the South is being asleep until you see it on the Supreme Court steps.

#alabamaabortionban #alabamaabortionlaw #abortionishealthcare #abortionisawomansright #abortionaffectstransmen #alabamahateswomen #abortionisnotmurder

Holiday Mathis

Where there’s pressure to conform, most are not equipped to do anything other than fold to peer pressure. The reasons are included the human genetic code. Factor this into your behavioral predictions today, and don’t be surprised when what people theorize they’d do is very different from what actually happens under this Sagittarius moon. .

5/20/19

Accepting in totality, my non conformity, and the horrific

and inhumane test of the soul I have experienced in

67 Spins around the Sun, which have expanded me

in ways that allow me to receive the notification of

intent to strip me further , reducing my income

creating a responsibility to thwart responding to his

countering himself as written and witnessed ,

Pushing the time factor , less than 10 days , I must

respond .

Lacking $5 k Deposit quoted , $250 ph requested

I must leave this to Divinity , that indicates I will

be tried, but liberation is in target for our children

as well as our sons. It is well worth it , so physically

I am demanded to self care , grab as much from

my healers as I can afford , and welcome any

positive energy , my solar plexus reacts , I am

in a state of grace and quietude , within my tower

pushing through distractions .

So much has come together to make this possible

and I welcome this in its liberation that supports

my pushing through this last time , finding my voice

and strengthen , for my faith says , lawyer or not

the glaring proof , is enough to catch the ear of

a consciousness that Human Resources or self

is more tuned into.

If I have to hire a witness , as well as a recorder

physical presence will assist as well as deposed

witnesses , of what has transpired .

So, my intentions are sped up , as does my heart

at the triggering thoughts of being in the room

with such dark energy ..

Transmuting , I received this information in

a Scorpio Full Moon , the darkest and yes

my body took the shock, but I did very well,

in releasing the trauma , and was abled to

step out of the fear factor with spirit and logic .

Being ready for Divinity that does not quite appear

that , as clearly the intention is abusive and

never ending ..

Opening this May not resolve it , punishing me

as the target partner , serves to punish my

parenting that was induced into unfitness

has been supported in a society that is waking

as a collective to a consciousness that acknowledges

abuses , of which our family has been subject to

through a veil of denial , and status backed money .

The final attempt is just that a finials .

It cannot and should not be rushed given the

gravity of the matter .

The outcome , shall hallmark a new cycle , and

I pray for a respite , a repose , a retreat of peace

and quiet and nature and water , that I may renew

and do what I can to reach as many souls as possible

who sense the end , rather the beginning of our

New Earth 🌎, Of Peace on Earth , Of Harmony

Of Love for each other , For our Mother Earth

For our Selves , Heaven on Earth that is our Birth

Right .

Indeed it is allowing our Collective Lights To Shine

May you prosper in your light and love this day .

Yea , though I have walked through the shadow

of death …my light is not extinguished, far from

it ..

And Yes , yes I can…I will I shall.. I have mastered

this experience . Now but to articulate it in that

on high in a long over due closure , for our sons

and I ..

painful , but necessary .🥰💯🙏🏼©️

Blessings & Peace ,

Doña Luna

Written through the 11 th hour .