Nothing says “freedom” like escorting a boat out of a parade at gunpoint for a banner expressing a political opinion.
Take that, King George III!
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran@mastodon.socialA sailboat, the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, was removed from the Sail4th 250 Parade of Ships for displaying banners about climate justice and clean water.
Source: ig/jackiemarieburton, ig/sloopclearwater
That's the boat Pete and Toshi Seeger used in their successful campaign to clean up the Hudson River and organize people to work for environmental justice.
Everybody out on that water is benefiting in immediate and quantifiable ways from the "left-wing" "politics" of the Seegers.
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran@mastodon.socialA sailboat, the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, was removed from the Sail4th 250 Parade of Ships for displaying banners about climate justice and clean water.
Source: ig/jackiemarieburton, ig/sloopclearwater
Okay this is fucking wild.
If white people rich enough to own a fucking racing sailboat can't fly a flag with words on it without some government boat with a fucking machine gun coming over to escort them back to land, nobody in your damn country has any freedom of speech.
Nobody.
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran@mastodon.socialA sailboat, the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, was removed from the Sail4th 250 Parade of Ships for displaying banners about climate justice and clean water.
Source: ig/jackiemarieburton, ig/sloopclearwater