Understanding Ghosts

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searchingforknowledge: notime4yourshit: Mexican Farmers Block Monsanto Law to Privatize Plants and...

Mon, 28 May 2012 14:30:05 -0700

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 Agriculture and Livestock of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies on March 14, organizations of farmers from across the country sounded the alarm. By organizing quickly, they joined together to pressure legislators and achieved an agreement with the legislative committee to remove the bill from the floor.

“What’s at stake is free and open access to plant biodiversity in agriculture. The proposed modifications promote a privatizing model that uses patents and “Plant Breeders’ Rights” (PBR) to deprive farmers of the labor of centuries in developing seed. The small farmers who worked to create this foundation of modern agriculture never charged royalties for its use.”

YESSSSSSSSSS

latimes: Epithet that divides Mexicans is banned by Oxnard...

Mon, 28 May 2012 10:29:55 -0700

latimes:

Epithet that divides Mexicans is banned by Oxnard school district: “Oaxaquita” (little Oaxacan) is used by other Mexicans to demean their indigenous compatriots — who are estimated to make up 30% of California’s farmworkers.

Educators and others in the U.S. often don’t recognize diversity within the Mexican community, said Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, a researcher at the UCLA Labor Center who has written extensively about indigenous Mexican migration.

“We forget that it’s a multilingual, multiethnic community,” he said. “We forget about the fact that 62 indigenous languages are spoken in Mexico.”

The organizing project’s campaign, Rivera-Salgado said, “is a really interesting way to confront, very directly, something that the Mexican nation and the Mexican immigrant community sometimes sweeps under the rug, and that’s the prevalence of racism and discrimination that indigenous people have to endure in Mexico and that is reproduced here in the United States.”

Photo: Abelardo Popec, left, and Romaldo Lopez listen to speakers as indigenous Mexican students and leaders of Ventura County public schools launched the “No Me Llames Oaxaquita” (Don’t call me little Oaxacan) campaign at the Center for Employment Training in Oxnard. Credit: Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times

bankuei: moniquill: jennthem: dolgematki: moniquill: sonneil...

Mon, 28 May 2012 10:27:29 -0700

bankuei:

moniquill:

jennthem:

dolgematki:

moniquill:

sonneillonv:

wintercoffin:

the-unpopular-opinions:

Just because it came from Star Wars, it doesn’t make Jediism any less of a religion.

Talk to me here: http://my-nerd-senses-are-tingling.tumblr.com

What? The Jedi Code:

There is no Emotion; There is Peace.

There is no Ignorance; There is Knowledge.

There is no Passion; There is Serenity.

There is no Chaos: There is Harmony.

There is no Death; There is the Force.

This is their doctrine. There’s nothing about this that bothers me in the least. If it speaks to people, it speaks to people… modern myths aren’t any less relevant to the human condition, or to human spirituality, because they’re modern.

Jedi are down with breaking families and abducting children for indoctrination from infancy, cutting them from all previous cultural ties and identity. Just sayin.

Also that code is whole heap of bullshit. Just sayin’.

Why not cut out the embarrassing middleman of George Lucas and practice a Jung-based spirituality, as interpreted by Joseph Campbell. Because that’s basically all Star Wars is, an intergalactic “The Hero With A Thousand Faces.”

While we’re at it, Joseph Campbell is kind of a huge steaming turd too.

or, you know, people could just go look up Taoism and Chan Buddhism instead of the watered down white boys in space version.

Oh, wait, that’s right, they’d rather HAVE a green puppet as their teacher than real living people - because puppets are easier to relate to than Chinese people…

whoiusedtobe: I was shopping today and I found Kente print...

Mon, 28 May 2012 10:18:33 -0700

whoiusedtobe:

I was shopping today and I found Kente print skirts at American Apparel. I’m on the fence when it comes to traditional prints being sold commercially.

On the one hand, exposing the world to these beautiful colours and textures can certainly lead to greater engagement and learning about the cultures which produce them. Whenever I wear the prints that I brought back from Ghana, I always do my best to talk about where they came from and what they mean with my friends. I’m also very careful about wearing them casually; I think I’ve worn my clothing from Ghana twice since I returned eight months ago.

On the other hand, the hipster girl who buys this skirt and wears it all summer probably doesn’t know that each of those squares has a different meaning (let alone what the meanings are). She also probably won’t know that the print she’s wearing is distinct from other kente prints because it was produced by a different tribe. She will be taking part in the commodification of a complex and rich culture about which she knows nothing. That’s the basis of cultural appropriation. Make no mistake: it’s a form of exploitation.

I don’t even know if I can comment on the designing of this skirt. I’m going to assume that it was created by an American (AA is all about sourcing stuff in the states, right?). If that assumption is correct, then this skirt is doubly exploitative, because it represents the use of someone else’s culture to produce money for North Americans. How screwed up is that?

This is why I can’t get too excited about seeing beautiful prints from African cultures in the mall in downtown Ottawa. Just because they’re pretty doesn’t mean you should forget about the people(s) who created and produced them.

lowtax: i had refused to aknowlege my life was falling apart...

Mon, 28 May 2012 10:17:19 -0700

lowtax:

i had refused to aknowlege my life was falling apart but horse_ebooks opened my eyes to the light

dailybungalow: Sears Kit Home::The Elsmore::C on Flickr. The...

Mon, 28 May 2012 09:00:16 -0700

dailybungalow:

Sears Kit Home::The Elsmore::C on Flickr.

The Elsmore - Bungalow

The kids have it all figured out.

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fuckyeahmarxismleninism: Comrade Tatiana Farina, Chilean...

Mon, 28 May 2012 08:25:38 -0700

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Comrade Tatiana Farina, Chilean communist youth militant, died in service to the armed struggle against the fascist regime on May 14, 1985.

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so-treu: done. and it’s not even 7am yet.

Mon, 28 May 2012 06:47:43 -0700

so-treu:

done. and it’s not even 7am yet.

"I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black..."

Mon, 28 May 2012 06:45:24 -0700

“I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. For example, I am black. I know that. I also know that while I am black I am a human being. Therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people don’t know that. Every time I tried to go into a public place they stopped me. So some boys had to write a bill to tell that white man, “He’s a human being; don’t stop him.” That bill was for the white man, not for me. I knew I could vote all the time and that it wasn’t a privilege but my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived. So somebody had to write a bill to tell white people, “When a black man comes to vote, don’t bother him.” That bill was for white people.”

- Stokely Carmichael (via iwasabearonce)

kit-kat-o-graham: cruelestyouth: lmfao

Mon, 28 May 2012 06:43:22 -0700

kit-kat-o-graham:

cruelestyouth:

lmfao

catbountry: melvinmelbourne: boodapug: Is this just the most...

Mon, 28 May 2012 06:42:05 -0700

catbountry:

melvinmelbourne:

boodapug:

Is this just the most adorable thing or what? This is Lulu and Violet (of Where’s Violet?)

nyx and me <3<3<3

Cuddlepugs.

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