Racist LA cops go nuts on May Day

I want to send out my full solidarity to the families in LA who were brutaly set upon by the LAPD during the May Day demos in support of immigrant workers.

The Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at families and children who couldn’t get out of the way quick enough. One elderly woman was quickly pulled over a fence by a friendly local to help her avoid being trampled. One woman was beaten because she was trying to go back to retrieve her young, and very distressed young child.

Reuters reported it like this:

Later at the city’s MacArthur Park, Los Angeles police cut a rally short after about 80 people began throwing rocks and bottles at police, according to Sgt. R. Kanzaki. Police fired rubber cartridges to disperse the crowd of 3,000 and no arrests were made, he said.

When in reality those people were trying to defend the families, women, young children and the elderly who were trying to escape fully armoured police.

Land of the free my ass.

Cross Stitch Bling

I’ve been wanting to post this for ages but I gave this to someone without taking a photo first and I only just got round to going to her house ith a camera!

So presenting “Cross Stitch Bling”

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Basically this is a patch that can be attached to anything; bag, t-shirt, whatever.  And I gave it in a small woven box so you can also use that as a frame and just have it as an ornament.

It took me a couple of hours. Stitching with silver thread is quite difficult ’cause it’s really stiff but it’s worth the effort ’cause it comes out all shiny. And I like shiny things!

Riiight

Saw this stuck to a car in St Kilda. Quite possibly the weirdest company advert I’ve ever seen.

Sure that would’ve made some great team building in some of my previous jobs!