January 2012
26 posts
“Announcement: Stolen shoe apology. A very formal handback ceremony due to the...”
– Jamms Shoe Title Collective, after Australian PM Julia Gillard lost her shoe in a scuffle with Aboriginal Tent Embassy protestors on Invasion/Survival/Sovereignty Day. more. (via ourcatastrophe)
Alex's Guide to Solving Problems: "What are you?"
whatwhiteswillneverknow:
Whenever a white person asks me a dumb question about my race like it’s any of their business, I’m going to give them a relevant answer that is so obviously not what they’re looking for.
White Person: “What are you?” Me: “I’m an English major!”
White Person: “Omg, you’re [ethnicity]? I LOVE [something related to your ethnicity.]” Me: “No kidding! And you’re white? I...
Feds list First Nations, green groups as oilsands...
OTTAWA — The federal government is distancing itself from its own lobbying and public relations campaign to polish the image of Alberta’s oilsands, following revelations that an internal strategy document labelled First Nations and environmentalists as “adversaries,” while describing the National Energy Board, an independent industry regulator, as an “ally.”
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United States of America: Good news, guys, we took down Megaupload. Now everyone can rest easy!
Health Care System:
Hand-gun Violence:
Unemployment:
Public Education:
Gay Marriage:
Marijuana Legislation:
Middle East Conflict:
World Hunger:
Cancer Research:
Ron Weasley: You really need to sort out your priorities.
Apple’s Record in China →
The Institute of Environmental and Public Health, a Beijing non-profit, has listed Apple as the lowest ranked of the 29 companies it surveyed for issues of responsiveness and transparency of health and environmental concerns in China.
Now it’s hard to say what kind of methodology was used by this group, particularly given what I assume is the hostility of the Chinese government to publicizing...
“Approximately 6 million Jews died at the hands of the Nazis. Approximately 12...”
– Following Judah’s Lion (via azspot)
“Economics and anthropology were created with almost entirely opposite purposes...”
– Graeber, David: Towards an anthropological theoriy of value. New York, 2001. S. 7. (via edwardnortonamstrand)
“A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and...”
– Dr. Patricia Hill Collins quoting Public Allies CEO Paul Schmitz in her talk Answering the Call to Community Service. (via sexartandpolitics)
A microcosm of one of the fundamental issues with the non-profit industrial complex.
(via myflagisblackandred)
Ah, activist tourism… Whether it’s in the...
“In 1990, the Washington-based Sentencing Project published a study of U.S....”
– Are Prisons Obsolete? Angela Davis (via of-praxis)
seriously i know that liberals are just as...
of-praxis:
and you shouldnt judge books by their covers but the entire republican party platform and campaigning is a circus show
there is not an ounce of legitimate political discourse coming out of the GOP. this isnt even about the naive idea that most americans disagree with anti-gay rhetoric thus rick perry is obvs an idiot. this is about the outrage people should have that rick perry can...
EXISTENTIAL ANGST GAME STRESSFUL:... →
verbalresistance:
The Palestinian children – alone and bewildered – in Israel’s Al Jalame jail
Special report: Israel’s military justice system is accused of mistreating Palestinian children arrested for throwing stones
The room is barely wider than the thin, dirty mattress that…
: OCA Wishes You A Happy New Year! →
noface-nameless:
fascinasians:
The Korean New Year, known as Solnal, is celebrated as a three day family-oriented holiday. Individuals travel to their hometowns to visit their family members and to conduct memorial services for their ancestors, charye, to celebrate family-ties. Many people drink gui balki sool, a special liquor that is thought to help you hear clearly all year long.
Chinese...
“Speaking of clichés, Heejun Han is a model of Asian impassiveness with an odd...”
– Lisa de Moraes from the Washington Post, on why Heejun Han has become American Idols’ anti-William Hung in a three minute audition clip. (via 8asians)
Anime and the Social Construction of Race
zeezeescorner:
A common misconception about anime cartoons amongst uninitiated audiences in majority-English-speaking countries is that anime characters are drawn to look ‘White’ rather than ‘Asian’. First of all, neither of terms are factual fixed categories - they are social constructions. That is, the meaning attached to race, whether ‘White’, ‘Black’, ‘Asian’ and so on, and the groups...
Biocultural Diversity →
thothofnorth:
Kayapo Woman, Brazil. For decades now, the Kayapo people, and others of the Amazonian Region have been struggling with the avalanche of invasion to their lands from illegal logging, mining, cattle ranching and now the construction of the Belo Monte Dam. Photo, Cristina Mittermeier
Terralingua’s explanation of biocultural diversity, a fascinating read; plenty...
RE: censorship and property
domesticterrorism:
Regarding SOPA and PIPA, it seems to me that everyone is focusing on the draconian, Orwellian, nature of censorship without exploring the reasons it is happening. To me the scariest - and most revealing - part of these bills is their intention. This isn’t arbitrary tyranny for the hell of it. This isn’t the thought police, or some such equally hyperbolic fantasy, trying to...
███ ██ █ ████ everything ███ █████ is █████ ████...
A Brief List and Analysis of White Savior Films
iamabutchsolo:
A White Savior Film (WSF) is a movie that features a white person coming into the lives of a person or people of color (POCs) who are often low-income, troubled, and/or severely oppressed. The troubled times that the people of color are in can be a product of oppression from other white folks, or their own doing. Either way, the White Savior comes in, quickly sympathizes with the...
December 2011
25 posts
“Globalization – the handmaiden of Cheap at All Costs – is celebrated as a...”
– The Walmartization of America Redux: How the Relentless Drive for Cheap Stuff Undermines Our Economy, Bankrupts Our Soul, and Pillages the Planet (via azspot)
Victoria’s Secret Revealed in Child Picking... →
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
– Leo Tolstoy (via kari-shma)
Updates from Wukan, the fishing village staging... →
For the first time on record, the Chinese Communist party has lost all control, with the population of 20,000 in this southern fishing village now in open revolt.” So begins Telegraph correspondent Malcolm Moore’s report of what he has personally witnessed in the fishing village of Wukan, Guangdong over the past few days. Enraged over government land grabs, villagers have now overrun local...
socialistexan:
Personal story about how, please excuse my language, fucking corrupt the U.S. military is
mohandasgandhi:
I have a number of stories that I could potentially share with you but I’m only comfortable with sharing one, which is, perhaps, the least outrageous of the bunch. I don’t like getting too personal on this blog for a number of rather obvious reasons but I find this to be...
“My wife and I are thinking of adopting and shockingly found in Texas, the cost...”
– The price of babies, by color | Chris Blattman (via abbyjean)
BUT OMG RACISM DOESN’T EXIST!
(via nessfraserloves)
That is seriously disturbing.
(via ladyatheist)
BUT GUISE. SUPPLY AND DEMAND. the market CHOSE those values. Let the invisible hand do its work!!!11!1!!
(via anticapitalist)
“Please understand and accept our confirmation that the inappropriate, and...”
– Chick-Fil-A’s response to this post about a racist cashier who named two Asian customers “Ching” and “Chong” (via fascinasians)
tldr: we just dont like gays but the asians are cool
(via weexist-weresist)
zing
dear cracker ass white people who hate immigrants
weexist-weresist:
THERE IS NOTHING
YOU HAVE DONE
TO DESERVE CITIZENSHIP
WALTZING OUT OF YOUR MAMA’S WOMB ONTO AMERICAN SOIL DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE DESERVING OF JACK SHIT
LOOK AT THE PERSON TO YOUR LEFT WHO IS A CITIZEN
THERE IS NO REASON WHY YOU BITCH ABOUT THIS PERSON DESERVING MORE ACCESS TO JOBS, OPPORTUNITIES, RESOURCES, AND RIGHTS THAN THE IMMIGRANT WHO HAS BUSTED THEIR ASS FOR DECADES...
hyungbythechimneywithcare:
Western legal tradition regarding rape has roots that are not all that different from those we condemn in places such as Afghanistan.
watanafghanistan:
A reader’s comment posted online in response to Friday’s New York Times article about Gulnaz’s pardon is typical. After expressing disbelief at the subjugation of women in “most of the Muslim world and large parts...
also tbqh if you want to talk about the oppression...
weexist-weresist:
like shit even if you do believe muslim women are universally oppressed then you should talk about bigger issues than something like they cant show their fucking faces
>the misogyny of traditional patriarchial muslim cultures expressed as nation-state policies (saudi arabia, women not being able to get divorced in some countries, etc)
>the misogyny of sharia (sorry i...
Racism in Brazil
thejoty:
Racism in Brazil has been a major issue ever since the colonial era and the slave era imposed by Portuguese settlers. A research published in 2011, indicates that 63.7% of the Brazilians consider that the race interferes in the quality of life of the citizens. For the majority of the 15 thousand interviewed, the difference between the white people’s life and the nonwhite’s one is...
Georgia Refuses To Reunite Children With Family... →
prolongedeyecontact:
A custody fight in Georgia is illustrating the biases of a foster care system that some say routinely subverts the parental rights of undocumented and non-English speaking mothers and fathers:
Ovidio and Domitina Mendez’s lost their five children to foster care when the Georgia Department of Family and Children Services arrived at their home claimed the kids were...
Human Zoos: The Invention of the Savage →
Paris’s most talked-about exhibition of the winter opened on Tuesday with shock and soul-searching over the history of colonial subjects used in human zoos, circuses and stage shows, which flourished until as late as 1958. Human Zoos: The Invention of the Savage, curated by former French international footballer turned anti-racism campaigner Lilian Thuram, traces the history of a practice which...
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“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger...”
– Anthony Bourdain, in a great non-food moment (via americathon)