May 2012
searchingforknowledge:
notime4yourshit:
Mexican Farmers Block Monsanto Law to Privatize Plants and Seeds | NationofChange
flowerfood:
“Progressive small farmer organizations in Mexico scored a victory over transnational corporations that seek to monopolize seed and food patents. When the corporations pushed their bill to modify the Federal Law on Plant Varieties through the Committee on...
The kids have it all figured out.
anarchymydear:
“I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white...”
– Stokely Carmichael (via iwasabearonce)
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“Before you speak, ask yourself: is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it...”
– Sai Baba (via earth-beat) (via subhanallah)
using ‘W.A.I.T’: “Why Am I Talking?”
(via tranqualizer)
“If you let one (truant student) run loose, what are you gonna’ do with the rest...”
– Houston judge Lanny Moriarty • On his decision to sentence a 17-year-old honor student, who (since her parents divorced and both skipped town) has had to work both a full and a part time job just to support two siblings, to spend a day in jail, after she missed school recently. Diane Tran, who also...
“I was born to an undocumented Mexican mother in San José, Califaztlán. When my...”
– Agustin Palacios PhD Graduation Speech From UC Berkeley
via vickyinfinity
(via thinkmexican)
i was humbled to listen to this speech at the ethnic studies graduation. “I Promise” was such a heartfelt moment.
(via desahogovoz)
“The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than...”
– Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (via humanformat)
Y'all should be grateful we're not blowing up...
so-treu:
liquornspice:
That’s what confuses me every time folks start complaining that Riley or so-treu or whoever, are mean assholes.
Y’all are really mad that we called you a hoe bitch cuntface piece of shit prick who need to go die in a fire while all your family watches?
You should be happy that we are not ACTUALLY at your doorstep with flamethrowers.
I don’t think y’all can...
“A reporter for the Israeli daily Maariv described it as an “unbridled rampage”...”
– The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب (via guerrillamamamedicine)
propaganda-duende:
you say something vaguely hopeful about venezuela or belarus or cuba or whatever and immediately 5 or 6 posters dogpile you shouting “but those are capitalist countries” yeah well i hope y’all have a dream about ayn rand giving you oral sex for hours while making direct eye contact
“You start out in 1954 by saying “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968, you can’t say...”
– Lee Atwater, a head republican strategist, in an anonymous interview in 1981. He is admitting that republicans use coded-language to appeal to the racists in their base. Because, as he always said, “people vote their fears.”
Lee, who would eventually become the head of the Republican National...
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“While it is rare to find such a direct statement of a slave past as that of...”
– Cassandra Pybus, A Touch of the Tar: African settlers in colonial Australia and the implications for issues of Aboriginality (2001)
So basically Creole Mauritians have slave heritage and we come at least partially from Madagascar, where obviously our ancestors were Malagasy. This passage describes...
'Can I touch it?' The fascination with natural,... →
colormelolita:
Tamara Winfrey Harris tells a story of being in a chain restaurant with her husband when their names were called for a table.
Just as the couple rose to go, a middle-aged white woman standing nearby reached out swiftly to touch Winfrey Harris’s hair which at the time was styled in natural twists.
“She missed by mere seconds, she was actually going to grab my hair as I walked...
“I Kissed A Girl is a boner dyke anthem for straight girls who like to turn guys...”
– Beth Ditto (via chubby-bunnies)
African traditions, hoodoo and their influence on...
nok-ind:
Q: What is the African-American tradition called “hoodoo,” and what role did magic play in the lives of Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey and other black leaders?
Mitch: The entire idea of Africa as a cradle of world civilization – today very popular, but was once very marginal – This idea began to enter the American mindset through the migration of African magical and esoteric ideas...
a poem about butts
pigfarts-pigfarts-here-i-come:
butts are great
butts are nice
let me slap
your butt twice