February 2012
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miseengarde:
white girls who want my culture’s bindis and saris and henna
take my skin colour too
and my dark brown lips
take my self-hatred because i don’t fit into the euro-centric ideals of beauty
take the oppression too
take the history of colonization that has devastated my country
and the drones that currently devastate my country
take all the bad stuff too
not just the pretty,...
January 2012
44 posts
Racialicious: madamethursday: The amount of white... →
madamethursday:
The amount of white whine in comments for the poster about racism and “fair skin” is kind of making me facepalm so much right now.
Oh, fellow white people. That ad? Was mild. It was a mild and rather polite way of trying to tell you something that’s been an obvious…
“The laws of capitalism, blind and invisible to the majority, act upon the...”
– Ernesto “Che” Guevara (via laureloutloud)
“One of the fables we live by is that some day the killing will stop. If only we...”
– Derrick Jensen, The Culture of Make Believe (via thenewwomensmovement)
'Citizenship Law – declaration of war on Israeli... →
verbalresistance:
Israeli Arab says court’s decision to reject petition against law will lead to ‘expulsion of thousands of families.’ Rahat resident: Why are we being treated like enemies?
The State has “declared war on Israeli-Arabs,” an attorney from the village of Qara said Thursday in response to the High Court of Justice’s decision to reject another petition against a law which aims to...
“”One day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in...”
– And this is what really got Dr. MLK killed. (via black-culture)
THIS
(via killthemass)
All things Mexico.: Mexico: Indigenous people... →
mermaidcomplex:
univisionnews:
The Raramuri live in Mexico’s Sierra Tarahumara, near Chihuahua city. Hundreds are said to be facing starvation. (photo: flickr Lon&Queta)
By MANUEL RUEDA
Channel: Latin American Affairs
At least 50 indigenous people are said to have…
“This new type of man turns his interest away from life, persons, nature,...”
– Erich Fromm (via cultureofresistance)
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“Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or...”
– Michelle Alexander, on the number of blacks in the criminal justice system. On Monday’s Fresh Air, Alexander details how President Reagan’s war on drugs led to a mass incarceration of black males and the difficulties these felons face after serving their prison sentences. (via cultureofresistance)
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Reblog if capitalism sucks
amodernmanifesto:
Also, 100 million notes???
Hmmm, I will get my coat and my beret and my Marxist literature, I propose a revolution.
After tea.
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“What do we want? We want global warming to stop. We want to end the globalized...”
– Aric McBay, Deep Green Resistance (via cultureofresistance)
“We need a collective recognition of the real systemic roots of the problem. The...”
– Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay, What We Leave Behind (via cultureofresistance)
Culture Of Resistance: amodernmanifesto: Animal... →
amodernmanifesto:
Animal liberation is a feminist issue
nekroterrorist:
“We cannot be true to ourselves in believing that men cannot dominate women if we feed into the idea the humans should, and do, possess the right to dominate, exploit, and destroy the lives of the earth and…
“The exemplary figures of evil today are not ordinary consumers who pollute the...”
– Slavoj Zizek, “Violence.” (via cultureofresistance)
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It’s better (and worse) than we thought: UN... →
Excerpt from the environmental bit:
First, some sobering bits of information from the report. Many rural poor people depend overwhelmingly on natural resources for their income. This is important because how environmental degradation will affect people depends on whether they are net producers or net consumers of natural resources, whether they produce for subsistence or for the market and how...
Culture Of Resistance: Indicators of Ecological... →
cultureofresistance:
On a whole, coral reefs are dying.25
Oceanic dead zones found all over the world are increasing at alarming rates.26
Concerning oceanic pollution, corporations “dump on equivalent, at the smallest, 5,000,000 gallons per day of toxins…everything from benzene, acrylic nitrile, mercury,…
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Eaters, beware: Walmart is taking over our food... →
Excerpt:
Neighborhoods that gain Walmart stores end up with more poverty and food-stamp usage than communities where the retailer does not open, a study published in Social Science Quarterly found. This increase in poverty may owe to the fact that Walmart’s arrival leads to a net loss of jobs and lowers wages, according to research [PDF] by economists at the University of California-Irvine...
Dispatch From Detention: A Rare Look Inside Our... →
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“Democracy…does not and cannot mean that the people rule in any obvious sense of...”
– Joseph Schumpeter
Let’s all keep this in mind during election season!
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“Small bands of people living predominately off of foraging and a little bit of...”
– Dr. Robert Sapolsky (via cultureofresistance)
This is probably the only sustainable way of living for humanity—the way we have lived through most of our history.
“Famines - throughout at least the last century of our history - have not been...”
– Renowned violence expert Dr. James Gilligan (via cultureofresistance)
“There are many more addictions than simply those related to drugs. There’s...”
– Dr. Gabor Mate (via cultureofresistance)
“So we don’t own anything right?
We don’t own our land, so people steal it...”
– that-cherokee-bitch.tumblr.com (via cultureofresistance)
“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our...”
– Audre Lorde (via cultureofresistance)
“Fat acceptance doesn’t simply advocate in favor of fatness. Fat acceptance is...”
– Why the world needs fat acceptance. by Lesley Kinzel (via rufflesnotdiets)
“The defeatist attitude makes me want to scream. The battles we are fighting are...”
– Waziyatawin, quoted by Derrick Jensen in Dreams (via cultureofresistance)
Happy Haitian Independence Day
kosdetermination:
To all my fellow Haitians and Black revolutionists!
208 years today Haiti officially declared freedom from their colonial slave masters, France, making a stance for all victims of the African Slave Trade, thus becoming the worlds first black colony and most successful slave revolt. It also became the world’s symbol for revolution inspiring similar strides in Latin American and...
