finding and pambana

"So many of our stories about technology and our paradigms for it refer to Greek and Roman myth and..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 02:12:33 -0400

“So many of our stories about technology and our paradigms for it refer to Greek and Roman myth and language: we name rocket ships “Apollo” and communication devices “telephone,” a human-machine interface a “cyborg.” It shapes not only the names for the technology we create, but the type of technology we create. I wondered what technologies a largely African diasporic culture might build, what stories its people might tell itself about technology. So a communication device that sees and hears becomes a “four-eye;” literally, a seer. The artificial intelligence that safeguards all the people in a planetary system becomes Granny Nanny, named after the revolutionary and magic worker who won independent rule in Jamaica for the Maroons who had run away from slavery. Rather than being a “Big Brother” paradigm it is an affectionate reference to her sense of love, care, and duty. The operating system that runs a dwelling is an “eshu,” named after the West African deity who can be in all places at once, who is the ghost in the machine.”

- Nalo Hopkinson (via datadrudge)

kalisherni: The Crop By Mark Anthony Johnson “But we are the...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:52:17 -0400

kalisherni:

The Crop By Mark Anthony Johnson

“But we are the crop. We declared springtime the shadows of your twin towers, our flowers like fists springing form the earth…

soon there will be no silence
there will be no sirens
there will be no silence
there will be no cracked ribs
or last breaths
or broken teeth
left in unmarked or undisclosed grey areas

dandelions check, 1….2…
dandelions check, 1….2…”

"In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn."

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 04:51:24 -0400

“In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.”

- Octavia Butler (via browngirlinorange)

YAY VENEZUELAAAA!!!!!!

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:21:04 -0400

el pueblo ganó y la lucha sigue!

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: Dr. King’s real legacy – Join the 2013...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:28:52 -0400

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Dr. King’s real legacy – Join the 2013 Poor Peoples Campaign & March & ignite a fight for people’s rights

Today April 4th, on the anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and this historic year of the 50th anniversary of the Jobs & Freedom March

Let’s rekindle what Dr. King really stood for and ignite a fight for people’s rights…

JOIN THE 2013 POOR PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN AND MARCH FROM BALTIMORE TO WASHINGTON D.C.

Where we will convene a People’s Power Assembly that will address how to open up a new movement…

We begin in Baltimore on Saturday, May 11 – Don’t miss this historic civil rights walk and March from Baltimore to D.C. or the opportunity to work side by side, in the trenches, with community activists, trade unionists, occupy veterans, students and many others.

Be with us in D.C. on Sunday, May 12.

Read the full CALL

It is no exaggeration to say that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would be rolling in his grave to see how the CEO’s of big corporations like McDonald’s have turned his legacy into its very opposite.

If he were alive today Dr. King would be sitting in the streets with the teachers, students, and parents of Chicago’s closing schools. He would be raising his voice and demanding justice for the families of the victims of police terror like Oscar Grant, Alan Blueford, Kimani Gray or Anthony Anderson Sr. He would be insisting on an end to the mass incarceration of youth, today’s “new Jim Crow.”

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Initiated by: Baltimore Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Baltimore People’s Power Assembly

mainstream+organic food industries

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:33:53 -0400

mainstream+organic food industries:

eeeek! same exploitative companies!

Healthy Native: Native-Made Health Products

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:01:00 -0400

Healthy Native: Native-Made Health Products:

healthynative:

So I’m trying to scale back my use of gross chemical-heavy health products, and have been slowly replacing them with healthier alternatives. I prefer to get these things from a Native person specializing in this kinda stuff (I trust the product more, and feel better about where my money is going),…

BRICS Countries Plan New Development Bank in Challenge to U.S.-Dominated World Bank, IMF

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 23:52:02 -0400

“A group of five countries says they have reached a deal to challenge the U.S.-dominated World Bank and International Monetary Fund by creating their own development bank. Leaders from the so-called BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — are gathered in Durban, South Africa, for a two-day summit. Together the countries account for 25 percent of global GDP and 40 percent of the world’s population.” www.democracynow.org

—i am excited about latin america, africa and asia getting together and saying fuck the imf and world bank and the usa and europe who have never put a cent towards any liberation movement and shit tons of money towards re-adjusting countries into poverty and neocolonialism. i have reservations about people in power in these nations.

"The process of writing ‘Things Fall Apart’ actually changed my life, because I had to..."

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:58:48 -0400

“The process of writing ‘Things Fall Apart’ actually changed my life, because I had to invent the language of that story. It was not something that anybody was teaching anywhere, the conversation between Igbo and English. That had not — and so I had to make it up as I went along.”

- Chinua Achebe (he went on to the ancestors)

afro-art-chick: Jamaican born painter and...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:17:25 -0400

afro-art-chick:

Jamaican born painter and mixed-media artist Tamara Natalie Madden.

note-a-bear: thatneedstogo: beautone: Kelis Reading African...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:15:08 -0400

note-a-bear:

thatneedstogo:

beautone:

Kelis Reading African American Science Fiction Author Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild & Other Stories

I am here for this

Still in love with this.

Curious to know if that’s a songwriting book there, or if it’s general note-taking.

bettiono: Mic check!! Here’s the lineup for the 1st My Art, My...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:09:14 -0400

bettiono:

Mic check!! Here’s the lineup for the 1st My Art, My Culture: Women, Media & Hip Hop Series Fri 3/22 from 6-9pm! Get your tickets here.

ABOUT Betti Ono & The Daughters of Dilla Project have embarked upon the journey of creating an opportunity for cultural, inter-generational dialogue amongst ourselves and our community artists. Read more to learn about the faces of My Art, My Culture: Women, Media & Hip Hop Series I. Your support can help make the My Art, My Culture an ongoing series. Spread the word, tickets are only $10 available at myartmyculture.eventbrite.com

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tionam: harrietsgunmedia: Bumming Cigarettes is an Official...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 05:28:17 -0400

tionam:

harrietsgunmedia:

Bumming Cigarettes is an Official Selection of the 2013 Langston Hughes African American Film Festival!

***Director tiona.m. will be attendance in Seattle, WA at the April 20, 2013 screening. This screening is sponsored and hosted by Sistah Sinema.

*see you there!

theblacksupremacist: anarcho-queer: There will be an open...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 21:12:39 -0400

theblacksupremacist:

anarcho-queer:

There will be an open assembly on Wednesday, March 20th @ 7pm and a ‘mass march’ next Sunday in East Flatbush to protest the killing of Kimani Gray.

Oakland is also having a march in solidarity with NYC on Thursday. For more info, visit their event page on Facebook.

IM GOING

claremont folks please check in!

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:38:00 -0400

so tomorrow is the night of the whickity whack conference that is disguised as a dope get-more-women-in-leadership, but is actually a state department reign of terror in latin america and globally, specifically for folks who are Indigenous, trans*, rural, wimmin, working class, disabled, queer, working cash poor. [more basic info on the program in the letter JC wrote]

basically this women in public leadership conference center/woodrow wilson foundationg/state department, in our midst, would act as the intellectual equivalent of school of the americas. as KB says, “we’re not down for massacres” so we will be letting that be known! also: we are invested in real meaningful alternatives for radical badass leadership that challenges imperialism and centers social change. no more hilary clinton’s!

info on the folks speaking tomorrow is in the flyers- they are directly involved in massive land left and targetting of oppressed folks [rising up]- which is also 4 double-sided flyers, JC made <3. (please print and distribute if you can!) we will be meeting at 4pm tomorrow in the huerta room. if you haven’t been filled in, we will fill you in! please come out! please bring folks! yayyayyay!

pambana

lacommunityorganizing: -Youth fighting against education...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:22:00 -0400

lacommunityorganizing:

-Youth fighting against education system!!!

in tuscon a group of youth activists and organizers from U.N.I.D.O.S. (United Non-Discriminatory Individuals Demanding Our Studies!)staged a direct action challenging the school board and authorities to end their white supremacist erasure of Brown peoples’ history in Arizona. woohoo! “Our education is under attack. What do we do? Fight back.” inspiring!

missphoenixhill: Happy 69th birthday Queen Alice...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:30:01 -0400

missphoenixhill:

Happy 69th birthday Queen Alice Walker!!!!

image description: alice walker looking to the side with her beautiful eyes, short grain fro, wearing a red loose fit v-neck shirt with a silver cross hand made necklace and earrings, one of her hands is up as if she is about to speak and she looks hopeful and kind and badass

kimani gray with the ancestors

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:48:02 -0400

*kimani gray with the ancestors*

"Some escaped slaves decided to create their own Quilombo in the forest of North America, and they..."

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:34:00 -0400

“

Some escaped slaves decided to create their own Quilombo in the forest of North America, and they called it A.P.O.C. - Anarchist People Of Color. APOC was a necessary step on the beginning of the self-determination of people of color inside the movement. This self-determination we seek is to analyze the problems of race inside and outside the movement in our own perspective. To create our own analysis of authority and what it means for us to be Anarchists….

APOC is our Quilombo. Our keep, our fortress, where we can meet as people from oppressed background and not only share our experiences and how they are relevant to each other, but also how they are relevant in the larger scheme of things. APOC is more than a safe zone for people to feel good about not being in a room without white folk, but is a conscious project of self-determination for people of color. It is a step closer to our freedom as a people and the materialization of the idea that community comes from something in common, something we can share.  No, APOC is no utopia. It is not even close. But that is neither here nor now. We may stumble, we may fall, we may even break our heads wide open. But at least we are walking on our own two feet….

I have to tell you a secret about APOC: it is not about white people at all. It is not, and it should not be ever. I am tired of talking about white people, thinking of white people, analyzing white people and worrying about white people. I want to know what I have in common with my Korean sister and my Guatemalan brother. I want to know about the great struggles for liberation in Uganda and how the Filipino resisted imperalism. What can we learn from each other as people of color? What does my bairro in Rio de Janeiro has in common with a Latino barrio in East Side San Jose?   This is something I wrote for my sisters and brothers at APOC. We need to understand ourselves in order to understand the world around us and be able to fightand destroy the bourgeois plague which eating away our homes, our lives and our cultures.  As a black person, my anarchism is Black Anarchism. As a member of the exploited class, my anarchism is Class-Struggle Anarchism. As a person who wishes for a better future, my anarchism is Anarchist-Communism.

  Vamos a ela, porque temos muito, muito para construir.
 Não tá morto que peleia!
Viva a Anarquia!  

”

- Pedro Ribeiro, a class-struggle anarchist.

image description: fotos of the diverse artists in the...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:26:12 -0400

image description: fotos of the diverse artists in the collective, they look of afro, native, euro, asian, middle eastern, latin american descent (though i don’t know), some photos are of shoes, scarves, faces with colorful backdrops, folks wearing cool queer clothing, and together look like a motley/mosaic/collage of multiplicity in community

thugzmansion:

SICK is an artist-driven collective that aims to unite a community of artists who are simultaneously navigating chronic illness and gender-variant identities in the Bay Area and beyond. Such populations are often made to choose one of these identities in order to maintain safety, alliance, and visibility. As a new organization, SICK will provide an essential community conversation and outlet for artistic expression, culminating in its first exhibition and performance in May 2013 at the SF LGBT Center.

Bay Area: Save the date! Come to El Rio for HOMOCHROMATIC on March 16th, a queer dance party benefitting SICK.