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The Media Cultural Shift: Why should Latin@s care about SOPA?
Why should Latin@s care about SOPA?
By amalia deloney
Today websites across the country have purposely blacked out their pages so visitors will see only information about Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act. Among the organizations joining this fight…
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Radio Show take 1
“ It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. ”
Frederick Douglass (via thefreenomad)
(Source: thesearepeopleyouknow, via mayachapina)
“ What kinds of identities are we forced to adopt and police when we engage in state-centered politics? What acts of passing are required to gain state protection? What are the problems and pitfalls of passing (strategic or not) as a kind of politics? And, finally, what passes as politics in an era when incarceration and/or normalization are increasingly represented as the only solution to social problems? ”
Priya Kandaswamy, “Innocent Victims and Brave New Laws” from Nobody Passes (via youarenotyou)
(via mayachapina)
re-becca, again.: 10 Ways to Love Others
Some guidelines for loving:
1. Tell them about their brilliance. They likely can’t see it and they don’t know its immensity, but you can see it, and you can illuminate it for them.
2. Be authentic, and give others the gift of the real you and a real relationship. Ask your real…
“ The task of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much personal integrity as possible; it is to dismantle those systems. ”
Deep Green Resistance (via cultureofresistance)
(Source: solitaryforager, via kddiamond)
“ I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain. ”
James Baldwin (Notes of a Native Son)
(Source: stat-ickk, via mayachapina)
“ The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and unchanging and incapable. It’s patriarchy that says men have animalistic instincts and just can’t stop themselves from harassing and assaulting. It’s patriarchy that says men can only be attracted by certain qualities, can only have particular kinds of responses, can only experience the world in narrow ways. Feminism holds that men are capable of more – are more than that. ”
On claiming to be a stupid man who doesn’t know anything « Zero at the Bone
Exactly this. This is why I despise it when men refuse to have a conversation with me about these issues and instead play dumb.
(via lookoutsideyourself)
(via mayachapina)
“ In 1968, he accepted a teaching position at the University of Southern California. But he was recruited by Harvard Law School, where students were pressuring the administration to hire a black professor. Mr. Bell conceded that he did not have the usual qualifications for a Harvard professorship, such as a federal court clerkship or a degree from a top law school. In 1980, Mr. Bell became the dean of the University of Oregon School of Law, but he resigned in 1985 when an Asian woman was denied tenure. After returning to Harvard in 1986, he staged a five-day sit-in in his office to protest the school’s failure to grant tenure to two professors whose work involved critical race theory. In 1990, he vowed to take an unpaid leave of absence until the school, which had never had a black woman on its tenured faculty, hired one. Two years later, the school refused to extend his leave, effectively ending his employment. By then, Mr. Bell was teaching at New York University Law School, where he remained a visiting professor until his death. Harvard Law School hired Ms. Guinier in 1998. “Most people think of iconoclasts as lone rangers,” Ms. Guinier said. “But Derrick was both an iconoclast and a community builder. When he was opening up this path, it was not just for him. It was for all those who he knew would follow into the legal academy. ”
Derrick Bell, Law Professor and Racial Advocate, Dies at 80 - NYTimes.com (via harrietsdaughter)
(via mamitamala)
RevNaomi Tumblr: 5 Smooth Stones of Liberal Religion (for children)
I appreciate James Luther Adams’ complex and rewarding essay on the five smooth stones of liberal religion. I translated it into a simplified form for use in adult programming, but then that still didn’t pass the five-year-old-test.
I’d like us to be able to use the five smooth stones in our…
[#024] TacocaT / Forever / Romantic Animal / Mitten
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