This is what putting people in a pressure cooker of $8/hr minimum wage, state violence and $1500/mo rents yields.
Also, whatever you think of this action (I happen to be against it because it’s illegal.), acknowledge that mobilizing this many people is the result of invisible forms of organizing, not neccesarily legible to the “left” whose traditions cross-polinate with the professionalized activism of ngos, labor unions and political parties.
It’s just a shame that it was expressed this way. We need major social democratic reforms and avenues for disenfranchised people to exercise political power so these kinds of desperate actions don’t disrupt our lives.
The provocative title is a way to call attention to the ways that overseas reporting and domestic reporting on social conflict differ. A detournament of imperialist propaganda if you will.
You can absolutely get good resale value from iPads/iPhones, they don’t know what they’re talking about.
They’re all traceable and nearly impossible to disable unless you find someone who’s willing to strip it for parts which I’m not sure if that’s something people do
Lot harder when you take it from an apple store where they’ve got a list of serial numbers and they can brick it.