January 2011
declaring war: [Know the Names of Things] by Lorna... →
parasaakin:
for immigrants everywhere anytime Know the names of things. How 3+1 equals nada in a barrio flat. How many unknowns there are in a single bottle of pills. How much it costs to breath through the nicotine, the anxiety, the three times a million lost nickels in the foreign exchange, in…
Putting the MOVEMENT back into civil rights... →
As one of the most commonly taught stories of people’s struggles for social justice, the Civil Rights Movement has the capacity to help students develop a critical analysis of United States history and strategies for change. However, the empowering potential is often lost in a trivial pursuit of names and dates. Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching, published by Teaching for...
curate: Don’t Let the Anti-Sex Conservatives Win!... →
curate:
Don’t Let the Anti-Sex Conservatives Win! If you support free speech and my mission of sexual empowerment, please voice your opinion about OSU’s decision to cancel my appearance at the last minute (and not reimburse me for travel expenses) to the following people. I would really appreciate your…
John Ross, 1938-2011, Beat Poet, Revolutionary -... →
salmonrojo:
By Tom Robbins
published: Tue., Jan. 18 2011 @ 4:45PM
John Ross — beat-era poet and revolution-championing journalist — died this week in Mexico of liver cancer. He was 72 —- or was it 73? The Associated Press says the former,Counterpunch’s Frank Bardacke, another veteran of the Bay Area left, says the latter. Whatever, the age matters less than the life lived, and Ross got...
Thesaurus Day
idealisting:
bruj:
Thesaurus Day When : Always January 18th Thesaurus Day celebrates the birthday of the author of Roget’s Thesaurus. Peter Roget was born on this day in 1779.
Funny, I went on my lunch break WISHING I had my thesaurus with me today.
“Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the...”
– James Baldwin
(via housingworksbookstore)
brown. round. boi.: [And When You Leave, Take Your... →
brownroundboi:
ur white sisters radical friends love to own pictures of us sitting at a factory machine wielding a machete in our bright bandanas holding brown yellow black red children reading books from literacy campaigns holding machine guns bayonets bombs knives Our White sisters radical friends should think again. Our white sisters radical friends love to own pictures of us walking to the...
“Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection...”
– Cesar Chavez (via alittlebitofcuteness)
Don Sotero: Poesia:Juan Bañuelos →
Lienzo de las tejedoras Madre Seno Santa caja parlante palpitación de los vivos Madre Hormiga sendero de ocote —delante de ti misma va el copal Madre Agua algodón que camina jaguar que baila entre palomas azules Padre Fuego ojo de colibrí diente de colibrí humo de abejas licor florido: que se vuelva amarilla la luz de la luna amarillos los párpados del río Bajo la tarde martajado sea el...
La Jornada: Asesinan en Ciudad Juárez a la... →
larebelde:
Asesinan en Ciudad Juárez a la activista social Susana Chávez
Rubén Villalpando Corresponsal Periódico La Jornada Miércoles 12 de enero de 2011, p. 10
Ciudad Juárez, Chih., 11 de enero. La activista social contra los feminicidios y poetisa Susana Chávez, quien acuñó la frase Ni una muerta más, fue asesinada y su cuerpo hallado en una calle de la colonia Cuauhtémoc, informaron...
The Student Loan Debt Abolition Movement in the... →
Debt has had a crushing impact on the lives of those who must take student loans to finance their university education in the US. For tuition fees that have been so notoriously high in private universities now are rising in public universities so quickly they are far out-pacing inflation. Student loan debt in the US has been much higher than in Europe (with the exception of Sweden), though...
