January 2011
2 posts
Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking...
Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public Schools is a much-needed critique of public school privatization.The book is essential reading for anyone concerned for the future of public education, the possibilities of sustaining a viable democracy, as well as for anyone interested in the intersections of culture and policy-making.
Kenneth Saltman describes the ways for-profit companies...
5th Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium: Race &...
The 5th Annual CRS Symposium will explore the relationship between race and sovereignty. Sovereignty, like race, has been invoked, understood, and deployed in contradictory ways. Historically, sovereignty has been an important vehicle through which hegemonic power has been enforced, for example, by articulating citizenship as a racial project rooted in the power to exclude.
Sovereignty has also...
December 2010
14 posts
“I’m sorry to say that the subject i most disliked was mathematics. I have...”
– the autobiography of malcolm x
A Moment for Movement-Building: Statement of... →
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A Moment for Movement-Building: Statement of Solidarity with Georgia Prisoner Strike On December 9, 2010, thousands of prisoners in at least six Georgia state prisons initiated the largest prisoner strike in U.S. history, uniting across racial boundaries to demand an immediate end to the cruel and dehumanizing conditions that damage prisoners, their families, and...
Filipino graduate student from U.C. San Diego... →
Mark Farrales fled to the United States with his family to seek political asylum after the life of Mark’s father, a prominent lawyer who spoke out against government corruption, was threatened by two gunshots to the head in 1990. Mark Farrales’ father, Jaime, had just announced a bid for congress during that time. Mark was only ten years old when he left the...
georgiasolidarity.tumblr.com →
Speak! Radical Women of Color Media Collective CD →
These are three tracks fom the SPEAK! Radical Women of Color Media Collective CD. In the summer months of 2008, the collective created and sold this compilation of spoken word, poetry, and song to raise money for single mothers and other financially restricted SPEAK! members to attend the Allied Media Conference in Detroit, Michigan. With works from artists and poets from all over the country, the...
Public Power in the Age of Empire
It’s important to understand the nature of the beast [we are] up against..
Empire has a range of calling cards….For poor people in many countries, Empire does not always appear in the form of cruise missiles and tanks, as it has in Iraq and Afghanistan or Vietnam. It appears in their lives in very local avatars—losing their jobs, being sent unpayable electricity bills, having...
“But there are no criminals here
Just people surviving against all odds
Multi...”
– Jonathan Daniel Gomez, “There Are No Criminals Here,” There Are No Criminals Here: Writings of East Los Angeles, Views from City Terrace Hills (via salmonrojo)
Credit Goes to People's Struggle, Not a... →
jackiemaegan:
News Statement
December 10, 2010
Reference: Yoko Liriano, Coordinator, NY Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, email:nychrp@gmail.com
Credit Goes to People’s Struggle, Not a President’s Benevolence, for Withdrawal of Charges Against Morong 43
The New York Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (NYCHRP) welcomes the recent order from Philippine President Benigno...
Blue Scholars Kicks!
iheartbluescholars:
This is totally random, but during a search for the lyrics for “Life & Debt’ for my previous video post, I stumbled upon this.
Custom Sneaker Designer Falsequest created these for a client who enjoyed the aforementioned Blue Scholars track so much, that he wanted his sneakers to represent it! Now you know you’ve made an impact if you’ve got people wanting their shoes to...
Protect Sacred Sites in Mexico! Tell President... →
Mining is destructive to our environment and the lives and culture of indigenous communities in Mexico, the Philippines, Indoneisa and other countries are continuously threatened by it. A Canadian mining company is about to embark on a silver mining project on a sacred mountain called Leunar—a pilgrimage destination of the Wixarika peoples. This mountain is protected by the Wirikuta Cultural...
writeaction: I began to think about how, during... →
writeaction:
I began to think about how, during our present times, we are digging up remains with great care and much contemplation while also dumping epic amounts of our personal consumer waste (as well as industrial waste), and this waste is going unexamined. Staggering amounts of toxic waste—the notion of disposability has become so prevalent, the norm. Of course, it is obvious that nuclear...
November 2010
8 posts
A Filipino prayer for giving thanks →
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salamat, salamat O Dakilang Manlilikha sa buhay, pag-ibig, kapayapaan apoy na nagbibigay ng buhay turuan kaming umibig hininga, hangin turuan kami ng kapayapaan ilog, tubig, dagat turuan kami ng katarungan lupang nagluluwal ng buhay salamat sa iyong biyaya salamat O Dakilang…
our deep gratitude, O Great Creator
for life, for love, for peace
life-giving fire
teach us...
M.JACQUI ALEXANDER,PH.D: Video by USF WOMEN’S... →
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We know that those were tears that tugged at a certain experience of what it meant to reach, to go beyond the limits of our own unfreedom. … I think it was interesting for me to formulate it even in those terms because I fancy myself as pretty free. I fancy myself as pretty free. So to think of myself as unfree is startling. … We have to continue further to wonder whether or not we...
WatchMumia Abu-Jamal Debate: 11/8 @ Philadelphia Constitution Center
Living in the Age of Imposed Amnesia: The Eclipse... →
“Enforced forgetting subordinates public time to corporate time and eliminates those public spheres that might challenge it. Corporate time demands that we never stop moving - it is time organized around increased production, the speeding up of labor time and it embodies a resistance to any space or mode of time that would allow us to think critically about how time might be...
October 2010
20 posts
Hindi na Ako Mangangako (I will no longer...
Hindi na ako mangangako
Na i-aalay ko buhay ko
Sa bayan.
Gagawin ko na lang.
Hindi na ako mangangako
Na babalik pa rin ako ng babalik
Gaano man kahirap
Ang pakikibaka.
Gagawin ko na lang.
Hindi na ako mangangako.
Gawa na.
Mula sa malalim na bakan
Ng pagmamahal
Para sa iyo
Para sa mga kasama
Para sa masa.
Gagawin ko na lang.
I will no longer promise that I will offer my life to...
“When a cause comes along and you know in your bones that it is just, yet refuse...”
– Mumia Abu-Jamal
(via irresistiblerevolution, redguard)
“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate...”
– Paulo Freire
ECOAESTHETIC MANIFESTO
Global environmental struggles are creating an aesthetic. The planet is entering a new phase.
What is the purpose of art in this global transformation? A new aesthetic has emerged: “conceptual” art with a purpose, simple devices to help people and the environment around the world. Materials from industrial waste are recycled to protect nature. People are becoming artists of...
WatchEnemies of the People: One Man’s Journey to the Heart of the Killing Fields
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM James Bridges Theater Melnitz Hall UCLA Campus
The Khmer Rouge ran what is regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most brutal regimes. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Until now.
In ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE the men and women who perpetrated...
Shaking the Foundations: The West Coast Conference... →
If I have known about this sooner, I would have attended the following panels:
Critical Race Theory in Practice : A Look at the Legal Profession
Tribal Constitutions
Transposium: Healthcare Access and Quality for Transgender Individuals
Locked up and Locked Out: Reproductive Rights for Women in Prison
Events like this keeps me motivated during this grueling process of applying to law...
lowendtheory: Courses that focus on issues which... →
lowendtheory:
Courses that focus on issues which concretely and materially affect Black women are ideally what Black women’s studies/feminist studies should be about. Courses should examine such topics as the sexual violence we suffer in our own communities; the development of Black…
Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White...
“We often assume that all of our communities will share similar strategies for liberation. In fact, however, our strategies run into conflict. For example, one strategy that many people in US-born communities of color adopt, in order to advance economically out of impoverished communities, is to join the military. We then become complicit in oppressing and colonizing communities from other...
3rd International Assembly of Migrants & Refugees:...
OBJECTIVES OF IAMR3
To further expose and oppose GFMD as a tool to sell neo-liberal anti-poverty and financing strategies; delegitimize GFMD as a process
To expose and oppose US-led NAFTA and the militarization of borders in the region
To mobilize the broadest possible force coming from the ranks of migrant and grassroots organizations, institutions and individuals resisting GMD.
To gather...
No to the Global Forum on Migration and... →
Georgia Bans Undocumented Students from Public... →
Queer Horizons: Call for Papers →
July 2010
2 posts
I want out
so-treu:
kissestokashmir:
of a world in which human bodies and lives, like everything else on this earth, are expendable, disposable, and worthless beyond what they can do for billionaires in mansions sucking the life out of everything.
I want out of a world in which people scramble all over themselves to justify racist thought and the ‘superiority’ of light (white) skin instead of...
The Disappearing Intellectual
“As potential democratic public spheres, institutions of higher education are especially important at a time when any space that produces “critical thinkers capable of putting existing institutions into question” is under siege by powerful economic, military, and political interests. The increasing disappearance of any viable public sphere coupled with the reduction of the...
June 2010
3 posts
“Borders are the ultimate man-made walls separating and differentiating us beyond...”
– Borders Are… by Serj Tankian (via ihatethismess)
(via chaichangechaos)
(via thingsimreading)
May 2010
14 posts
Leaving all my fears to burn down Push them all...