May 2012
97 posts
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
– Zora Neale Hurston (via anthologyz)
Critical Race Theorist: decolonize yo activism →
emeraldtriangleprincess:
do you know how many anti-oppression activists have told me I’m the first Native they’ve ever met? do you know how many of those activists have been POC? do you know how many of them had to be sat down and taught what it means to be an ally to indigenous communities?…
Gadhafi’s crime: Making Libya’s economy work for... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
By Stephen Gowans
The Wall Street Journal of 5 May offers evidence, additional to that already accumulated, that last year’s NATO military intervention in Libya was rooted in objections to the Gadhafi government’s economic policies.
According to the newspaper, private oil companies were incensed at the pro-Libyan oil deals the Gadhafi government was negotiating and...
“Poverty is not simply having no money — it is isolation, vulnerability,...”
– Megan Lee (via sociolab)
“The choice is with us still, but the civilization now in jeopardy is all...”
– Carl Sagan (via theworldofsleepers)
“…intelligence is no guarantee against being dead wrong.”
– Carl Sagan, Cosmos (via booksanddoctorwho)
The Pen is Mightier than the Molotov: Employment... →
In 1996, 19 percent of organizations said they used credit checks as part of the screening process, according to The Society for Human Resource Management, a professional association that represents workers in the human resources field. By 2003, that number had jumped to 35 percent, and by…
“Is gender something people need to get? Is it something that can be quantified...”
– http://meloukhia.net/2012/01/beyond_the_binary_but_what_does_it_all_mean_i_dont_get_it.html (via ninjabikeslut)
“We are told ‘if you work hard, you’ll succeed’-but if that were true, black...”
– Stokely Carmichael (via elegantlytasteless)
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“You come to the United States and the United States begins immediately,...”
– Junot Diaz (via lukut)
“The origin of anti-Black racism among southern Indians clearly rests in...”
– Brian Klopotek, indiVisble: African-Native American Lives in the Americas. p 86. (via a-lostbird)
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“I’m not sure I have more than a shrug of my shoulders about it. The Caine Prize...”
– links included, at the source, to this year’s short list of a very short list—english language ‘african’ writing
http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/zunguzungu/blogging-the-caine-prize-2012/
“If there is one student attitude that most all faculty bemoan, it is...”
– Stop Telling Students to Study for Exams (via world-shaker) 