August 2011
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Galeano afirma que estudiantes chilenos "están... →
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“La historia es un profeta con la mirada vuelta hacia atrás: por lo que fue, y...”
– Eduardo Galeano, Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina.
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“I would like us to do something unprecedented: to create ourselves without...”
– James Baldwin (via ezec)
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“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom...”
– Frederick Douglass (via myheadisweak)
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cacerolazo santiago chile
in chile the people have taking to protesting in myriad, creative, imaginative ways. for example, an hour is set, people find out by word of mouth, graffiti, internet, reunions, and at said hour begin banging on pots and pans. this is in the streets and in their homes leaning out the window. so that when you walk around the city you hear at least five people clanging in every building and people...
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Watchmissmonet:
One of my films will be screened at the Library of Congress today; Celebrating Native language revitalization in film
The low-budget advocacy project, KIMACHIPENA: COMING TOGETHER, is one man’s heartfelt message to his tribe on preserving the Sauk language, the Native tongue of the Sac and Fox Indian Nation. (2007-Sauk with English Subtitles)
The screening at the Library of...
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Africa's A Country →
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“I don’t believe in marriage. I really don’t. Let me be clear about that. I...”
– Wedding toast, Frida (via singlifessong)
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“Ableism must be included in our analysis of oppression and in our conversations...”
– Mia Mingus, Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability (via classycoochie)
This is one of my fav quotes from her speech.
(via liquornspice)
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“Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of...”
– so important
Audre Lorde (via restoried)
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“My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity,...”
– Archbishop Desmond Tutu (via freedomforfalasteen)
“One important aspect of establishing the Beloved Community is Re-imaginiing Work...”
– Re-Imagining Work By Gloria Lowe « The Boggs Blog (via midwestmountainmama)
approximately infinite universe: Excerpt from At... →
thecurvature:
At The Dark End of the Street offers an alternate history of the civil rights movement that centers black women’s activism. McGuire argues convincingly that the mass civil rights movement began with activism by black women over the rape of black women by white men. It was also black women who…
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so i am taking a cultural lit class →
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as a filler because i got my basic english credits out of the way in high school. i am going to have to read a lot of african american literature. i am in no way racist. and i think that writing about what defines you as a person and being in touch with your roots are great things. but...
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people in the usa are revolting!
Over 110 People Arrested Outside White House in Ongoing Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Protest More than 110 people have been arrested since Saturday for taking part in sit-ins outside the White House calling on the Obama administration to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, a proposed 1,500-mile pipeline to deliver tar sands oil from Canada to refineries in Texas. Prominent environmental organizer...
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Palestinian Refugee Revolution Canada: EXCLUSIVE... →
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“ Anyone that knows me knows that I’m very proud of my Jewish heritage. It’s just that I don’t see being a proud Jew as having anything to do with support for Israel.” - Corey Balsam
Member of Independent Jewish Voices and recent Masters of Arts graduate from the Sociology and…
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“…if i know anything at all
it’s that a wall is a wall
and nothing more at all....”
– assata shakur (via zami)
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“There is no right to life in any society on Earth today, nor has there been at...”
– Carl Sagan - “Billions and Billions” pointing out the hypocrisy in pro-lifers (via rhetoricalities)
ALLEGEDLY.
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Foreign Students in Exchange Program Walk Out of...
Hundreds of foreign students taking part in a U.S. State Department cultural exchange summer program walked out of their job at a Hershey’s chocolate plant in Pennsylvania. The students said their jobs are exploitative and in many cases grossly failed to cover the costs they spent on visas in their home countries. The students have reportedly been required to lift heavy boxes, work eight-hour...
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Verizon Workers' Strike
Telecom giant Verizon has threatened to suspend benefits to 45,000 striking workers if they do not return to work at the end of the month. The strike was called after negotiations after Verizon sought to cut health and pension benefits and obtain more leeway to fire workers. The strike is “the most important labor battle going on today,” says Democracy Now! co-host and New York Daily...
“When parents neglect their children, we (rightly) call it criminal. When...”
– Melissa McEwan, On the UK Riots, Part Two (via darkjez)
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WHY POC SHOULD BRUSH AND FLOSS OUR TEETH
my sister has got me onto, for the past two and a half months, flossing my teeth at least once a day and brushing for at least 3 minutes at least twice a day (i often do much more with music on or just wandering around until i need to spit immediately). i haven’t been able to sleep without feeling that sweaky clean and it’s wonderful. my teeth feel cleaner and stronger and i keep...
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“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. in a speech to the Medical Committee for Human Rights, 1966
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