January 2012
7 posts
Herding Sluts: The Paternalistic Feminism of Hugo... →
studentactivism:
Like Hugo Schwyzer, I’m a white male professor teaching history in an urban community college. Like Schwyzer, I consider myself a feminist. Like Schwyzer, I work with young people extensively outside of the classroom. And it’s from that perspective that I offer him this piece of advice:
You’re doing it wrong. You need to stop.
Why Teach For America Is Not Welcome In My... →
urbanafrofuturism:
palatial-bear-messages:
Every spring, without fail, a Teach for America recruiter approaches me and asks if they can come to my classes and recruit students for TFA, and every year, without fail, I give them the same answer.
“Sorry.”
Until Teach for America becomes committed to training lifetime educators and raises the length of service to five years rather than two,...
December 2011
5 posts
“There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just...”
– Lemony Snicket (via amantesuntamentes)
“If you’re gonna have pizza with someone else, what do you have to do? You gotta...”
– NY Times: Teaching Good Sex (via ffolkthepainaway)
A metaphor about pizza and sex? Perfect!
(via dreadhawkedmuckaround)
oh this is beautiful. let’s make sure all consent-based education involves pizza metaphors? well, actually that’d be a shit idea. but still. this is lovely.
(via...
November 2011
9 posts
“People sometimes ask me, ‘If things are so bad, why don’t you just kill...”
– Derrick Jensen (via cultureofresistance)
High Childhood IQ Linked to Subsequent Illicit... →
katmayer:
roropcoldchain:
darkjez:
A high childhood IQ may be linked to subsequent illegal drug use, particularly among women, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
READ MORE →
via ScienceDaily
Well, damn.
why do i find this not at all surprising?
“The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men...”
– Sophie Scholl (1921-1943). Anti-nazi activist, and one of the members of Die Weisse Rose (The White Rose).
PREACH!
(via notaskingforpermissin)
<3 sophie scholl forever
come on up to the house: midwestmountainmama:... →
midwestmountainmama:
reading tons and tons of stuff about the sexual violence taking place at OWS actions across the world. And I have to say that this seems to be a perfect moment to notice that radical women of color organizers have already been addressing a LOT of the concerns I’ve seen brought up (sexual violence in communal space, sexual violence being communally ignored, not depending on...
October 2011
31 posts
“DETROIT — Angry Detroit protesters defied police and stalled international trade...”
– Detroit protesters block trucks on bridge
Tears all over the fucking place. HELL FUCKING YES. no coherent words right now, but this is big. This is SO big.
(via midwestmountainmama)
YEAAAHHH blockin them commodity flows
For a Radically Democratic Oakland without Cops,... →
“By cowing so unhesitatingly and obviously to the demands of the police lobby, Mayor Quan did a massive service to the movement, showing in the brightest light of day what many of us have known for years: that OPD runs Oakland. A parasitical and colonial force which draws its members predominantly from outside Oakland, the OPD nevertheless demands the lion’s share of the budget and political...
“My part of Oakland is full of poor people. There’s at least one murder a week....”
– @el_gallo on BoingBoing.com (via cultureofresistance)
“In Africa, we are not fighting wars of intervention. They aren’t declared wars...”
– ——-Commenters on the root be telling some truth! (sometimes)
Why Africa Is Uneasy About Qaddafi’s Death
By: Joel Dreyfuss | Posted: October 21, 2011
(via howtobenoladarling)
Memphis Bleek makes Jay-Z a sandwich
rapindustryfanfiction:
Memphis Bleek makes the sandwich with care. He selects the finest cheese and lays it meticulously on the bread on both sides. He then spreads Hellman’s mayo on the cheese, because experience has taught him that Jay-Z likes the mayo on the cheese and not the bread. Memphis Bleek thinks this is crazy but has never said to anything to Jay-Z out of respect.
He cuts...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
hey, my friend is making this zine and i bet some of you might have things to say on these topics—-
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Dear Friends Far and Wide, This is a CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for a zine compilation on issues surrounding healing, culture, and capitalism. We are looking for people to submit writing and art that offers perspectives on how Yoga, Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, Spiritual Healing, and many...
Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while... →
rosinhabela:
tendingtotend:
1. If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t mean you would be a midget if you were bald.
2. “Fortune” is a word for having a lot of money and for having a lot of luck, but that does not mean the word has two definitions.
3. Money is like a...
“As far as I can understand it myself, here’s why I burst into tears at the...”
– Occupy Writers, by Francine Prose (via flourhoneyandmilk)
Longview Strikers Plan to #Occupy EGT and Shut... →
bradicalmang:
combat—wombat:
As class conflict increases around the globe, here in Cascadia the striking Longveiw, Washington port workers and their supporters are planning an occupation of EGT’s grain terminal.
In addition to bussing and flying to Longview, all of the West Coast longshoremen will shut down the ports for the entire coast in solidarity. The #occupation is planned for when...
Watch Your Mouth: The Protest Food of Occupy Wall... →
“Pizza may not carry an obvious subversive symbolism, but its consumption reflects a wider pragmatism on display at Liberty Park. Jeff Sharlet, a journalist who’s been covering the event, suggests that pizza could be a part of the anarchic spirit that Occupy Wall Street embodies. “Why Liberty Park instead of Wall Street? Because it was close enough,” he told me. “Why no demands? Because they...
Five Chicago Women Arrested Inside Bank Of America →
hoitycoity:
Five Chicago women were arrested at a downtown Chicago Bank of America branch Tuesday after they dumped bags of trash from foreclosed properties into the bank and refused to exit the building.
Gloria Washington, 80, Donna Roberts, 56, Annie Harris, 76, Doris Strickland, 68 and Madeline Talbot, 61, all Chicago residents, walked into the Bank of America branch just before 12:30...
come on up to the house: debt peonage →
midwestmountainmama:
“debt peonage”—is what is most closely related to what is going on the US right now: being required to spend yourself into debt (debt that is usually owned by the corporation that hires you, although not always the case) in order to get/keep your job. Mexicans and…
The Occupation Movement: On Greed, Unity &... →
“The potential of this movement. What do we really want?
We don’t want shitty jobs. We don’t want to vote for politicians who promise to change things. We don’t want to waste our energies trying to change the constitution. We don’t want a few new rules for Wall Street. We don’t believe we can “affect the system” by just “being together.”
The 1% controls the wealth of the society. We...
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“In just a matter of months, Vallejo has been catapulted from anonymous student...”
– Damn, Camila Vallejo is badass. So are these Chilean girls who have occupied their school for 5 MONTHS. Last week talks between the government and the student leaders broke down and the government crackdown left 250 people arrested and 30 injured. A general strike, supported by unions, is planned...
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