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Africa Cup of Nations 2012: Mali's heroes weep for a nation at war -
There were a lot of tears in Libreville on Sunday. There were the tears of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, overwhelmed by having missed the decisive penalty in Gabon’s shootout defeat to Mali and there were the tears of Seydou Keita as he used his side’s progress to the semi-final for the first time in 10 years to highlight the crisis overwhelming his country.
Keita began the tournament fronting an Oxfam campaign to raise awareness of the food crisis sweeping the Sahel after a year of poor rains. His words on Sunday were even more emotive, and came with a ringing immediacy. His face as he stepped up to take the final penalty looked drained, but his nerve remained sure and he converted with a precise, low shot.
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Texas police now have an armed patrol boat...militarization of police
NLG-SF Statement on Police Violence Against Occupy Oakland
The Courtroom and the Street - Upping the Anti
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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…
Cecilia Muñoz Gets Promoted, Another 1000 People Get Deported
“It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” — Frederick Douglass (via thefreenomad)
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“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)
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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)
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“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)
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