January 2012
13 posts
Custer Died for Your Sins: ALERT: JUST RECEIVED... →
blackamazon:
adailyriot:
queerfury:
BIA Livestock Impoundment crews are confiscating sheep, goats, horses, cattle belonging to the Dine People of Big Mountain/Black Mesa, Arizona right now. Human rights violations against traditional Dine (Navajo) taking away one of their major food sources as well as wool essential to their livelihood. Please flood the office of Robert Carolin and tell him...
“You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing.”
– E.E. Cummings (via mermish)
VivirLatino Liveblog/Tweet of the SOTU Address... →
“Lo que me gusta de tu boca es la lengua. Lo que me gusta de tu lengua es la...”
– Julio Cortázar (via fuckyeahjuliocortazar)
“So I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in...”
– Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets (via platea)
NAM LAUNCHES 2012 WOMEN IMMIGRANTS FELLOWSHIP -... →
larepublicadedet:
This week New America Media is launching its call for applications for its 2012 Immigration Fellowship, “Women on theMove,” a national fellowship program open to both ethnic media and mainstream media reporters, including bloggers and online journalists, to report on women immigrants. Women are…
“You cannot save people. You can only love them.”
– Anaïs Nin (via beautiful-ambition)
December 2011
5 posts
Partying on New Year's Eve?
Don’t drink and drive-and don’t ride with anybody who does. Tipsy Tow offered by AAA: you don’t have to be a AAA member, from 6pm-6am on New Years Eve/day, they will take your drunk self and your car home for FREE. Save this number… 1-800-222-4357. Please reblog this if you don’t mind.
“At first, nonviolence seems like a clear moral position that has little to do...”
– Peter Gelderloos, How Nonviolence Protects the State, p. 31
“but now i decided that it’s time to bring those posts home. i reposted all those...”
– flip flopping joy » Blog Archive
Please update your links/bookmarks!
November 2011
6 posts
Montage Editing: NMAI Blog: Do American Indians... →
jalwhite:
The Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers. Courtesy of the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers
In thinking about my earliest memories of elementary school, I remember being asked to bring a brown paper sack to class so that it could be decorated and worn as part of the…
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is...”
– Audre Lorde (via shana—e)
must work on this.
someone: quit apologizing
me: sorry
someone: quit apologizing
me: sorry
October 2011
9 posts
Latinegro: Poetry/Music: Puerto Rican author and... →
magtonic:
******For Immediate Release*******
Beloved Puerto Rican author and poet Piri Thomas died Monday, October 17, 2011, in his home in El Cerrito, CA surrounded by his loving wife, Suzie, his children and caregivers, after succumbing to pneumonia.
Born…
“A young man, Jeffrey Lichtenstein, who is a part of Occupy Memphis wrote a...”
– Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin - (via facebook)
I feel so resentful toward and frustrated with the white Left.
I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE EVERYONE READING THIS TO GO TO Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin’s Facebook page and see more excellent analyses.
(via leonineantiheroine)
one reason why i’m hesitant to get heavily...
Latino Sexuality: NYC Get a FREE HIV test today at... →
latinosexuality:
for national latino aids awareness day! On Wednesday October 12 between 12-6pm, NLAAD in partnership with Orasure and many other organizations are bringing HIV testing to many subway stations in New York City. The test is FREE. You won’t get charged for the test. The test is …
“It’s important that we gain control and make sure the rules are followed, “ said...”
– Police arrest 100 in Occupy Boston sweep - BostonHerald.com
why is the *commissioner* on site during a police sweep???
i need an investigative reporter to figure out what the fuck is going on with these police shenanigans.
Was just listening to radio and in another interview with Commish, he is...
“In 1968, he accepted a teaching position at the University of Southern...”
– Derrick Bell, Law Professor and Racial Advocate, Dies at 80 - NYTimes.com (via harrietsdaughter)
September 2011
7 posts
“If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself.”
– ~ Rumi
come on up to the house: On Wall Street →
blackamazon:
No oNE should feel police brutality or poverty.
Full Stop.
I’m conflicted however.
I find it extremely had to get worked up now as Black/Latino/Native people have had the recession kick them in the head repeatedly for about 4 years now.
The protestors going “” I have a…
Yes this captures my mixed feelings towards the occupy wall street protests minus the college degree...
5 tags
Tomorrow, Georgia Murders Troy Davis →
brownanon:
Folks, please take a few minutes to flood the District Attorney’s office with your disapproval of their death warrant.
District Attorney’s Office Chatham County Courthouse 133 Montgomery St. Suite 600 (Corner of Montgomery and Oglethorpe) Savannah, GA 31401
Click Here for Map & Directions Mailing Address: P.O. Box 2309 Savannah, GA 31402 Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00...
“I was incarcerated during my third trimester. One guard shackled me around my...”
– Deanne, incarcerated pregnant woman.
Today in California, pregnant women are shackled. In many of our jails and prisons, women as far along as 8-1/2 months have been held in shackles around their wrists, ankles and even their bellies. Though the vast majority of women are incarcerated for...
Rituals , Spells, and Intuition →
crunkfeministcollective:
I come from a world where you don’t mess with your ancestors, dreams have meaning, seashells give advice, upside down coffee cups tell stories, and practicing black magic has severe…
11 tags
First Graders Handcuffed At Chicago School, Told... →
mujerinterrumpida:
soydulcedeleche:
The Chicago Tribune reports that LaShanda Smith filed the lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of her son, who she claims was one of several 6 and-7-year olds excessively punished by a security guard at Carver Primary School on the South Side.
The school allegedly authorized on-campus security to discipline disruptive first graders, Fox...
“But repression does not always come dressed up in riot gear, or breaking into...”
– Williams, Counterinsurgency and community policing
Interface: a journal for and about social movements
Volume 3 (1): 81 - 117 (May 2011)
August 2011
22 posts
“Anyone who cannot feel passionate love-for women or flowers or bibelots or...”
– Edmond de Goncourt
Latino Sexuality: seriously? this puerto rican vs.... →
latinosexuality:
can someone give this person something to do besides wreck havoc on the community please? get him in a bingo tournament or take him out to play horseshoes. this beef is old. like not even able to eat with some manwhich old.
here’s what i think, as a puerto rican broad. many puerto ricans have…
4 tags
writer of fictions: soydulcedeleche: Andromeda &... →
soydulcedeleche:
Andromeda & The Milky Way: “i am a white cuban”
eclecticalexandria:
my high school spanish teacher said this eeeeeeeeevery chance he got. he wanted to make sure he was not associated with the afro-cuban community. it bothered me so much then that it still crosses my…
Ay my mother and great aunt (rip) used to tell me this all the Damn time just replace Cuban with...
“Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than...”
– Slavoj Žižek (via shana-elmsford)
“My history, a solo journey it seems, traverses many movements of diverse,...”
– Cherrie Moraga
A Xicanadyke Codex of Changing Consciousness
4 tags
ABWH: An Open Statement to the Fans of The Help →
theycallmezorawalker:
An Open Statement to the Fans of The Help:
On behalf of the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH), this statement provides historical context to address widespread stereotyping presented in both the film and novel version of The Help. The book has sold over…
7 tags
“Rather than finding herself a good ol’ boy to marry, as all her friends have...”
– Review: “The Help,” a feel-good movie for white people | ArtsCriticATL.com
SUCH an important intervention here (and it’s noteworthy that this review is the ONLY place I’ve seen this critique) and later on in the article when the author addresses the fact that one of the maids is shown as a writer...