December 2009
WatchDoctor Who Christmas Special 2008 - Trek Through Time Part 1
(via Google Video)
Food is Freedom- LaDonna Redmond
wordsandsteel:
To change our food system, we need to change the way we talk about it. There is a pervasive idea in the sustainable-food movement that simply returning to a food system of the past would right all that is wrong in the food world. However, history does not show that there has ever been a time when our food system was fair or just. Reflecting through my eyes, the eyes of an...
Femme & Feminine Queer Heroines
fuckyeahfemmes:
Dorothy Allison, Carol Queen, Oscar Wilde, Angela Davis, Sylvia Rivera, all the queens at the Stonewall Rebellion, the Whore of Babylon, Hermila Galindo, Gloria Anzaldúa, Dolores Huerta, Cherríe Moraga, Theodora - Byzantine Empress, Miss Scarlet [from Clue], Catwoman, Cleopatra, Madonna, Nina Simone, Octavia Butler, Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez, Mattilda Bernstein...
“The only sure guarantee we have of survival is that which we construct from our...”
– Essex Hemphill (via blackfeminismlives) (via guerrillamamamedicine)
Watchcurate:
Indian Environmentalist Vandana Shiva: “It Is Time for the US to Stop Seeing Itself as a Donor and Recognizing Itself as a Polluter, a Polluter who Must Pay”
The world-renowned Indian environmental leader and thinker Vandana Shiva spoke before thousands. On Sunday, I spoke with her at Klimaforum, the People’s Climate Summit, and asked for her assessment of President Obama and what he...
Rwandan Parliament to Vote on Criminalizing... →
sexismandthecity:
This draft provision targeting LGBT people closely follows the introduction of a similar measure in neighboring Uganda, where the nation’s parliament is currently debating an Anti-Homosexuality Bill. The proposed Ugandan law would prohibit all LGBT activism and organizing, would further criminalize consensual same-sex conduct between adults, which is already illegal in Uganda,...
Cara Mia Theatre Company proudly presents the... →
Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the historic student walkout of Crystal City, Texas. The project is based on the true story of Mexican American students who walked out of school and into Chicano civil rights history. Students demanded that they be treated equally without prejudice. They wanted what many teenage students in 1969 wanted - an opportunity to become a cheerleader, the homecoming...
We Support the SFSU Occupation - The Petition Site →
We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with those who occupied the Business building, (or the Oscar Grant Memorial Hall, as it has been renamed) on December 9, 2009. We recognize that the actions taken on Wednesday reflect a profound anger on the part of the students, and a refusal to accept the powerless role they have been assigned by the SFSU administration, the CSU Board of Trustees and...
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Inflowential - “Sheriff” A Modern twist to Bob Marley’s I Shot the Sheriff (via @-lei-)
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Mayor and City Council Members City of Austin 301 W. 2nd St. 2nd Floor Austin, TX 78701
Dear Mayor Leffingwell and Council Members:
We represent a broad base of faith-based organizations, responsible businesses, community groups, unions, legal organizations, and individuals. We are writing to express our concern over unsafe and inhumane working conditions in Austin’s construction...
