March 2012
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“there exists a certain point in the human mind at which life and death, the real...”
– Surrealist Manifesto
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February 2012
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is it because
the alarm clock had show-tunes, or pandora was good to me, as i made my breakfast? regular sleep, and good smelling soap: today was a good day, under an umbrella. rain ran up the legs of my jeans, soaked my socks—class was a miserable puddle—it just made the tea taste better. today was a good day. i snapped my fingers and wiggled my toes, walking through hallways of indoctrination:...
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“Speaking to me. They wash and tub and scrub. Agenbite of inwit. Conscience. Yet...”
– Ulysses
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Watch“Haiti and the Dominican Republic: An Island Divided,” nice piece about race and identity; part of the series, Black in Latin American. Re: double consciousness, imperialism.
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Worth it--made in palestine →
economic independence ++
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I know
where I’m going, and I know what it will look like when I get there. I know what a smile feels like, and I’ve heard the echos of silence.
Something, something, ‘be the change you want to see in the world’—communities in classrooms, classrooms in communities. Gardens cracking through concrete, music through the horns, a skip in your stride and a beat on your mind....
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“Society will need more and more intellectual work. It’s this topic of...”
– Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher/ sociologist/ psychoanalyst (via rethinkcapitalism)
Absolutely. If you’ve had the privilege of an education, you’d best make damn good use of it — educate your comrades.
(via ideasandopinions)
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“Like him was I, these sloping shoulders, this gracelessness. My childhood bends...”
– Ulysses
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“Noon painted the downtown skyscrapers. Smoke-stacks fumed among copper green...”
– Childhood and Other Neighborhoods
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“But no one tried to show her her mistake and, when she had ended her song, Joe...”
– Dubliners
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“His eyes moved to the chair over which she had thrown some of her clothes. A...”
– Dubliners
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California prisoner dies during hunger strike
A 27-year-old inmate passed away while participating in a hunger strike in California this month and the details surrounding his death and the jail’s handling of it are just now surfacing.
Christian Alexander Gomez barely lasted one week while engaged in a fasting protest at the Corcoran State Prison in California. He’s believed to be one of 32 inmates that participated in the hunger strike,...
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