We're Celebrating National Injustice Day!

We are living in an era of Peak Injustice. Huzzah!

Jan 06, 2025

My Fellow Americans…

We live in an auspicious time—a time of opulence, wealth and influence, where money is legislative power, where wealth writes the rules and Justice no longer bends—it bows before the golden idol.

We live in a time when unwanted speech is silenced through ridicule, not debate, where alternative facts flow through the mediasphere stoking conspiracy theories into political Hail Marys where lies can replace the truth as currency and where inconvenient truths are buried beneath viral outrage, drowned in the algorithmic void.

We live in a time when social rage is weaponized, where division is a currency and every grievance becomes an opportunity for profit. This is an era when the privileged declare themselves oppressed, screaming victimhood from gilded platforms, drowning out the voices of those who truly suffer.

A time where the oppressed are rendered invisible, their struggles dismissed as exaggerations, their existence erased from the narrative. And for those who refuse invisibility? The system sees them. It sees them all too well—legislated into the penal-industrial complex, turned into the cordwood that fuels the engine of the state, with more slaves than almost any other time in history, except for the beloved state sought by so many celebrating the stars and bars as their flag of choice.

We are living in the age of PEAK INJUSTICE, a time of cruelty on a scale unprecedented in human history. This injustice is perpetrated by the wealthiest beings to have ever existed, entities so rich and powerful they no longer resemble human society but stand apart as architects of misery. They hoard wealth that could end suffering a thousand times over, yet their greed deepens the suffering of billions.

We Are Making History!

Never before have so many been crushed beneath the weight of so few. Well, there was the Gilded Age. And the French Revolution. And, of course, Feudalism. But you get the idea...

The systems designed to sustain society have been hollowed out, their ruins now serving as monuments to greed. We are witnessing the unraveling of safety nets, the collapse of once-avoidable tragedies into inescapable realities.

Dehydration, disease, starvation, and war—these are no longer isolated crises but the destinations we are hurtling toward at full speed. What were once preventable catastrophes are now woven into the fabric of our existence.

This is the horizon of suffering: a world so broken that for many, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are no longer harbingers of fear but bringers of relief.

• When famine becomes the better option.
• When pestilence offers an escape.
• When war is a distraction from despair.
• When death itself is a mercy.

We have achieved PEAK INJUSTICE!

A Cavalcade of Atrocities

Celebrate and be as just as Donald Trump as he ascends the throne, er presidency of a land he raised an insurrection to during the last election. Whose 30,000 lies further tarnish the office of Felon-In-Chief he will come to be known as in back offices, when the cameras are off.

For the rest of you, who looked at this list and the essay to follow as a goddamn atrocity, as a sign of a Republic unclear as to its true job, to shelter and protect the body politic sheltered beneath its rhetorical wings, today is NATIONAL INJUSTICE DAY.

A day where we look at the INJUSTICES, not the pretense of a working society but the glaringly obvious challenges we are told we have to accept.

Today, on National Injustice Day, we don’t just acknowledge the myriad systems of oppression—we name them, we shame them, and we demand they be torn down. Every single one. If they can stack injustice at every level of society, we can unstack it.

National Injustice Day is not a celebration—it’s a reckoning. It’s a moment to hold up a mirror to the horrors we perpetuate, enable, or tolerate. It’s a day to acknowledge the systems built to perpetuate suffering and those who profit from the anguish of others. Today, we don’t just name these injustices—we lay them bare:

Economic Feudalism: Where wealth rules unchallenged.
Judicial Corruption: Where power absolves its own crimes.
Cultural Manipulation: Where truth is rebranded and sold to the highest bidder.
Systemic Exploitation: Where suffering is the resource most ruthlessly extracted.

“We are not amused.”

Nor are we powerless. The architects of injustice have built their empires on our backs, and the same hands that build can tear it down. Today, we demand recognition—not as victims, but as revolutionaries waiting for our moment. The world has never been darker, but the darker the night, the brighter the sparks of resistance will shine.

History may record this as the Age of Injustice (as well it should), but let it also be remembered as the time we chose to rise against it.

National Injustice Day will not end here. It begins here.

#InconvenienceEveryone

The Manifestations of Injustice

Here’s a more full accounting of the rot:

Economic and Social Inequities

Economic Injustice: Where the rich are subsidized by the blood, sweat, and despair of the poor. Wealth hoarding isn’t innovation—it’s theft.
Labor Injustice: The CEO fights the union while paying themselves 400 times the wage of the worker who built the company’s success. Exploitation is celebrated as "innovation."
Residential Injustice: Housing is a human right, yet millions are unhoused while corporations sit on empty properties like dragons hoarding gold.
Food and Nutrition Injustice: Hunger in a land of plenty. Food deserts and obesity epidemics co-exist because profit trumps public health.

Systemic and Institutional Failures

Educational Injustice: A child’s zip code is the difference between hope and despair. Public education is no longer a ladder, but a trapdoor.
Judicial Injustice: Laws that serve the powerful, courts that excuse corruption, and judges who uphold oppression with a gavel in one hand and a billionaire’s check in the other.
Policing and Judicial Injustice: Cash bail for the poor, slap-on-the-wrist fines for the rich. Mass incarceration and systemic brutality remain pillars of "justice."
Voting and Political Injustice: Democracy, redefined: "One dollar, one vote." Gerrymandering, voter suppression, and dark money ensure the status quo stays rigged.

Environmental and Public Health Crises

Environmental Injustice: Poisoned air, water, and land—always in the poorest neighborhoods. The climate burns, and the arsonists profit.
Healthcare Injustice: Life and death decisions should not come with a price tag. Yet, here we are, with medical bankruptcies thriving in the wealthiest nation on Earth. #DeathPanels #CorporateBoards

Cultural and Identity-Based Injustices

Immigration and Refugee Injustice: Borders fortified against the desperate. Refugees fleeing violence are met with violence. Labor is welcomed; humanity is not.
Gender and LGBTQ+ Injustice: Pay gaps, bodily autonomy under siege, and a relentless attack on anyone who dares exist outside the patriarchal, heteronormative mold.
Disability Injustice: Accessibility denied, employment rights ignored, and basic dignity withheld. "Legal protections" without enforcement mean nothing.
Cultural and Media Injustice: A sanitized, corporatized narrative dominates while diverse voices are silenced, marginalized, or exploited for clicks and profit.

Technological and Militaristic Exploitation

Technology and Digital Injustice: Surveillance as a business model. Algorithms perpetuate bias. The digital divide locks the underserved out of opportunity.
Military and War Injustice: Endless wars for endless profits. The people bombed abroad and the veterans abandoned at home both pay the price.

“It’s not raining, that’s urine.”

They stacked this tower of inequities allowing them to trickle down onto you. Your poverty, your disenfranchisement, now and in the future, all that you lack will be a product of our current system, not an achievement of civilization, but a cultured barbarism, disguising itself as a Republic.

Now it’s our job to burn it down—metaphorically, of course (for now). National Injustice Day isn’t just a protest—it’s an indictment. It’s an unequivocal refusal to normalize systemic harm.

We list these injustices not to wallow in despair but to remind everyone:

THIS IS DELIBERATE.

THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

THIS CAN AND SHOULD BE UNMADE.

AND WE MUST DO IT.

On this day, we demand that not only do we see the injustice, but that we name it, so there is no way it can be easily refuted without effort.

You say that my list is broken? So be it. Prove to me those injustices no longer exist and make me believe it. But you better bring receipts. Show me this is no longer a problem. No coupons will be accepted.

We demand:

An end to the worship of profit over people.
Policies rooted in equity, not exploitation.
An overhaul of every system designed to perpetuate harm.
An end to perpetual warfare.

We will speak, write, organize, and fight until this list isn’t a grim tally of reality but a record of what we tore down and replaced with something better.

LET'S KEEP THE LIGHT ON THEM ALL.

Every injustice they kept alive, we’ll shine a light on—and every step forward we take will remind them that Injustice is finite—if we dare to end it.

Celebrate National Injustice Day

Choose one of these injustices and champion against it.

Do what you can against that thing which offends you so that you are willing to spend your life fighting against it. You don’t have to fix them all.

Champion one. Just one. If we all commit to Justice, if we all commit to equality, parity, celebrating diversity, recognizing people as they are, celebrating their identities, their stories, their struggles, not as we think they should be — bringing joy to everyone we meet, that is where we should begin. Before we can be a nation, we must be a community. We must recognize all of us or none of us will matter when they are done.

#RESIST INJUSTICE. With every fiber of your being. With your life, if that is what is demanded. Because injustice demands everything from you, from birth to death and you’ll likely be getting nothing for your efforts but scorn, derision, dismissal and death. Together, these single acts of resistance can weave the fabric of a just society better than the tattered rags of economic hegemony isolating us all.

We, the builders of this nation, the architects of all that is possible, the bearers of the spirit of cooperation, of collaboration, of a belief in a collective greatness, demand more than a daily diet of INJUSTICE UNTIL DEATH.

— The Cognitive Dissident, Thaddeus Howze