March 2013
4 posts
Reflections on Collective Trauma and Healing →
thatsjodi:
Below is a conversation on support and healing, between myself and organizer and therapist, Iresha. To read more of Iresha’s views on trauma and healing, please read: Thoughts on Mental-Health and Revolution
Iresha: Hey jodi. You were in New Orleans for a while. What made you go and live there?
jodi: I initially went to New Orleans to make connections with Post-Katrina survivors and...
November 2012
1 post
Watchkassandramarriellee:
Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs interview by Signified
I love her so much!
October 2012
40 posts
“We resist not to overthrow a government or to take political power, but because...”
– Russell Means
“If we could link up erry gang
And niggas is willing to bear the pain
We’d put...”
– Terrorist Threats - Ab-Soul ft Jhene Aiko & Danny Brown (via ninjabikeslut)
“No nation can slave a race of people for hundreds of years, set them free...”
– Randall Robinson (via fernandoacoello)
URGENT: Gender Anarky Members Resume Hunger Strike... →
notyrcisterpress:
Gender Anarky members Amazon and Catarina LePre restarted their hunger strike on October 5th after promised changes to trans women’s housing were not met by Warden Paramo and their case worker at the R. J. Donovan Correctional Facility. Warden Paramo and Amazon’s case worker promised to change the housing conditions of trans women in the facility after a number of days of...
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Disappointing #StrikeDebt Affinity Group Banner...
On Saturday, October 13th, as part of a convergence at Columbus Circle for #GlobalNoise actions, an affinity group affiliated with Strike Debt dropped a banner reading: “DEBT IS THE NEW COLONIALISM”
Banner drops with banners that have rad messages are awesome! But a banner, at Columbus Circle, reading “DEBT IS THE NEW COLONIALISM” which purports to be a “solidarity...
We Have Always Known: Embodying Community... →
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A Soliloquy of Sorts: The Glorification of White... →
iamabutchsolo:
Take a facet of crime, and then look at television shows/movies that feature those criminals as protagonists.
White mobs.
White pirates.
White serial killers.
White political corruption
White drug dealers
I mostly want to talk about this as a TV phenomenon, but pick…
highvoodoopussypope:
maybe if we started calling privilege “welfare for the oppressive”, people might actually try harder to get rid of it or at least make welfare more accessible for needy people
“The case of residential segregation shows that we cannot understand White racism...”
– Jane H. Hill, The Everyday Language of White Racism (via wretchedoftheearth)
“Janice Jackson, another team member who is also working on a Ph.D. in...”
– But black Children are spose to be stupid… (via howtobeterrell)
I LOVE THIS.
(via formerlytheafrosistuh)
Angela Davis - The Prison Industrial Complex →
jaeboogie:
01 - On Becoming An Activist.mp3 02 - Race, Class & Incarceration.mp3 03 - Young Black Men & Prison.mp3 04 - Technologies Of Punishment.mp3 05 - The Specter Of Crime.mp3 06 - Political Persecution.mp3 07 - Enemies Are Needed.mp3 08 - Targeting Women.mp3 09 -…
September 2012
59 posts
“yesterday, in new york city
the gravediggers went on strike
& today, the...”
– quincy troupe, after hearing a radio announcement. (via black-poetry)
Number of young African American women in prison... →
darkjez:
Nikki Jones, a sociologist from UC Santa Barbara and Meda Chesney Lind, University of Hawaii, and attendee of the conference, has studied the statistics of imprisoned black girls for over 10 years and explained, “we have never seen these kind of numbers before,” reports EthnoBlog.
So far, the cause for this epidemic has been attributed to national zero tolerance policies and a justice...
