February 2013
1 post
: Using Video Games in a Writing Classroom →
jarodrosello:
I’m going to give my students the option of playing Home (created by Benjamin Rivers)and writing about the experience instead of doing a more traditional writing assignment.
I’m not a huge gamer, but my brother got me this game and we played it the other day. It’s a horror-survival…
August 2012
91 posts
the struggle to unlearn internalized shit
listenorshutup:
deliciouskaek:
is real as fuck
srsly
Bahraini Human Rights Activist Gets Three-Year... →
Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab, one of the most outspoken critics of country’s government, has been sentenced to three years in prison for leading anti-government protests last year.
Bahrain, a U.S. ally and base for the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, has seen a year of unrest and protest suppression since pro-democracy protests led by a Shi’ite Muslim majority erupted last year...
Israel Kicks Out Migrants – By Changing Their... →
Sudanese asylum seekers in Israel are being issued with documents changing their nationality, allowing them to be removed from the country or imprisoned.
The Bureau has identified migrants who have recently been issued with documents labelling them as South Sudanese – despite holding passports showing they were born in areas that remain in Sudan.
Four migrants from the Republic of Sudan have...
Baseless Deconstruction: How Your Dollars Became... →
A war and occupation thousands of miles away that lasted seven years and involved more than 1.5 million Americans, military and civilian, has passed into the history books and yet we still know remarkably little about so much of it. Take American military bases in Iraq. There were, of course, none in March 2003 when the Bush administration launched its regime-change invasion with dreams of...
'U.S. violates domestic and international laws... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Press TV has conducted an interview with Abayomi Azikiwe, director of Pan-African News Wire, from Detroit, to further discuss the issue. The following is a rough transcription of the interview. Press TV: Let’s look at what the Syrian envoy is saying; actually now, he’s called the new, I guess, “axis of evil”, the centers are Tel Aviv and Washington. How accurate is what...
“The media reports began to filter in on Wednesday afternoon with the news that...”
– Natalia Sacha, Families of Kidnapped Lebanese in Syria Cut Off Access to the Airport in Beirut, on Jadaliyya (via arielnietzsche)
Watchclimateadaptation:
Beautiful restoration occurring along the Bronx River by non-profits, young people, landscape architects, and city planners.
“I come here all the time,” he said. “It’s incredible, no?”
Yes, it is.
For years one of the most blighted, abused waterways in the country, the southern end of the Bronx River has been slowly coming back and with it the shoreline that meanders...
African-American Youth at Risk: Stress from Racial... →
tbgptumbles:
Exposure to stress can increase the risk for violent behaviors and depressive symptoms for African-American young adults. Different types of stress, particularly racial discrimination, can influence the level of this risk, finds a new study by Lorena Estrada-Martínez, PhD, assistant professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
To read the study, “Stressors...
“[TW: discussion of rape] 98% of rapists are male. Though boys and men are...”
– Truth about Rape (via femalestruggle)
Long May Our Crimson Flag Inspire: ultraleftist: I... →
ultraleftist:
I internet-know a lot of anarcho-communists and other assorted leftists who subscribe to the liberal positions on porn and prostitution. It’s pretty infuriating, because they tend to acknowledge that at least 90% of the time, both porn and prostitution are filled with rape and…
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“One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties...”
– Noam Chomsky, “Media Control” (via siegfriedandfreud)
Three or four million Asians killed by the US — and three Southeast Asian countries (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) shattered for several generations — is nothing to US Americans, not even worth a footnote. In World War II, 20 million Chinese were...
“[M]any nations of the third world are described as ‘underdeveloped’. These less...”
– Robert B. Moore, “Racist Stereotyping in the English Language” (via wretchedoftheearth)
“Beirutis go by landmarks of memory or desire: a narcissist may tell you to go...”
– Bread of Beirut, Annia Ciezadlo (via oldworldwandering) 