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pamalamela:

ccsaad:

No, I’m not going to the world cup.

Please, please share it guys! This is the truth. We Brazilians are really tired of this shit.

this video is spreading like wildfire on my facebook newsfeed, with good reason. watch this.

“so yeah, maybe the guy selling ice cream on the beach is going to do better… that week… but will the event really change his life?”

Please spread this. This is so important.

thesmithian:

…up to 200,000 people angry with high costs and poor public services took to the streets. Protesters in Rio de Janeiro burned cars and looted buildings as police attempted to disperse them with teargas and rubber bullets. Aerial images showed thousands of people attempting to storm the congress building in Brasilia. The rallies…are some of the biggest ever seen in the country…

more.

animal-e:

PLEASE HELP US!!!!!! REBLOG THIS!!!!

brujacore:

sluteverbabe:

activist-hat:

topsidepress:

DONATE HERE

Cathy Brennan, radical “feminist,” has set her sights on a young black activist in Baltimore County, MD. Phylicia Sampson is being taken to court by Brennan, a notorious harasser of trans women and their supporters. Sampson is a recent college grad with few resources, no car and no way to fight back without your help.

As a community, we’ve suffered Brennan’s assaults for a long time—her blog is the best known for outing trans women’s personal information. She believes trans women are men who are infiltrating the feminist community and expends her resources fighting them. The idea that she is now taking her harassment to a legal venue is horrifying. That she has selected a young black woman with few resources to fight back is repugnant.

We can’t let Cathy Brennan get away with this! Share Phylicia’s campaign on Facebook, twitter, tumblr and instagram. Here are some things you can do TODAY to help:

Tell your friends why it is important that they donate to this campaign.

Donate what you can.

Write to your favorite feminist blog and ask them to cover this campaign

DONATE HERE

It’s pretty awesome to have allies and supporters.

Help my girl out, DONATE if you can and Signal Boost! If you’re tired of Cathy Brennan attacking people for calling her out on her bullshit, support Phylicia in her defense!

omigod I am so sick of this monster of a woman PLEASE help a girl out

fotosoaxaca:

Mujeres Istmeñas durante una representación del día siguiente de la boda. Foto: Juan Carlos Reyes/Layú

Como una ala negra tendí mis cabellos
sobre tus rodillas.
Cerrando los ojos su olor aspiraste,
dicendome luego:
-¿Duermes sobre piedras cubiertas de musgos?
¿Con ramas de sauces te atas las trenzas?
¿ Tu almohada es de trébol? ¿Las tienes tan negras
porque acaso en ella exprimiste un zumo
retinto y espeso de moras silvestres?
¡Qué fresca y extraña fragancia te envuelve!
Hueles a arroyuelos, a tierra y a selvas.
¿Que perfume usas? Y riendo te dije:
-¡Nintuno, ninguno!
Te amo y soy joven, huelo a primavera.
Este olor que sientes es de carne firme,
de mejillas claras y de sangre nueva.
¡Te quiero y soy joven, por eso es que tengo
las mismas fragancias de la primavera!

Como la primavera por la poetisa y feminista uruguaya Juana Ibarbourou.

(via reclaimingthelatinatag

(via political-linguaphile)

teehee

If you're going to write about us, your writing should be free.

spunkmate:

NDN academic articles, books and book chapters. For real this time (the link didn’t work last time).

Updating it daily.

in the meantime, here is 2/3 of our band, LagrimasBlancas makin’ musics.

(im the tired but happy skirt wearing one, boo is the other, QueenDiva not pictured)

<3

that bug is going to come back to haunt me….

Mexican Indigenous activists and Palestine activists unite in campaign to educate the public about ethnic cleansing and land thievery

nezua:

badass-bharat-deafmuslimpunkstar:

There are so many similiar parallels between the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans/Indigenous Native peoples of the Americas, and with the 1948 Nakba cleansing of Palestinians and the gradual removal (and then later, forced expulsion) of Palestinians from Israel, starting in the late 1910s. Jewish settlers and Zionist “immigrants” from Europe have a lot in common with American pilgrims and colonialist settlers. Oh… and Palestinians were recently described as “savages” in those pro-Israel New York City subway ads a few weeks ago. Remember when Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of the Americas were called savages by Christian missionaries, white settlers, and European colonialists?

It is chilling that this shit still happens to this day.

Via Electronic Intifada:

A Mexican-led student action at the largest US public university this week, partly invoking Palestinian solidarity, demonstrated the need to extend history beyond borders to create a better future.

Equipped with face paint and using their bodies as props, members of the local chapter of M.E.Ch.A. (Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlán) creatively subverted Monday’s Columbus Day anniversary to mark it from the standpoint of Christopher Columbus’s victims.

In the torrid 90-degree midday heat, a group of about ten M.E.Ch.A. students lay down in the middle of the 70,000-student Arizona State University. Wearing red shirts and skulls painted on their faces, students used the tradition of macabre and theater of the oppressed to dramatize the memory of millions of Native Americans murdered by European settlers and slave-traders who invaded the “New World,” beginning with Columbus in 1492.

At the same time the MEChistas acted out the moribund scene, an equal number of Students for Justice in Palestine members passed out fact-sheets about Columbus’ murderous exploits and collected dozens of student signatures for a petition to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day on the university’s calendars.

The action aimed to demonstrate that Columbus Day is, in effect, a celebration of brutal invasion, occupation, and enslavement of native peoples.

Columbus inspires Israel

Repudiating our nation’s history of colonialism will take more than just replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day, however. Domestically, the United States government and dominant society carries on the practice of casting aside native peoples, rendering their lives invisible.

As a matter of foreign policy, the US provides crucial diplomatic and ideological support, as well as enormous amounts of military assistance — $8.2 million a day or $3 billion yearly — enabling the continuation of Israel’s impunity and human rights abuses against indigenous Palestinians. Since its creation in 1948, Israel has steadily stolen more and more Palestinian land, in a pattern resembling the European settlers’ expansion across North America.

Invoking the Columbus model of exterminating indigenous populations has been a leading element of the Zionist movement, from the pre-state period through the present day.

One of Israel’s leading historians, Benny Morris, has defended ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by using the standard of genocide set by American history as a settler state.

“There are circumstances in history that justify ethnic cleansing,” Morris said. “Even the great American democracy could not have been created without the annihilation of the Indians. There are cases in which the overall, final good justifies harsh and cruel acts that are committed in the course of history” (“Survival of the fittest,” Ha’aretz, 8 January 2004).

In his 1923 essay entitled “The Iron Wall,” one of the “founding fathers” of Israel, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, outlined a basic observation of human history: “There has never been an indigenous inhabitant anywhere or at any time who has ever accepted the settlement of others in his country.”

An honest cynic, Jabotinsky recognized that the Palestinian indigenous population at the time “look upon Palestine with the same instinctive love and true fervor that any Aztec looked upon his Mexico or any Sioux looked upon his prairie. To think that the Arabs will voluntarily consent to the realization of Zionism in return for the cultural and economic benefits we can bestow on them is infantile.”

After all, Jabotinsky knew, as Israeli leaders know today, that the indigenous peoples must be driven out by force if policies of foreign settlement are to be maintained: “Zionist colonization must … proceed regardless of the native population” and it should continue “behind an iron wall, which the native population cannot breach,” he wrote.

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It is one of the great modern horrors how long all the world has casually watched the USA/Israel entity isolate, starve out, and bomb the indigenous Palestinians.

We never heard the story as children, of Goliath beating David to a pulp as the town watched with ennui. We were told grander tales. But we’re grown now. Working nine to five in the big, terrible lie.

Inspiring to see more meXican@-Palestinian solidarity! There is good reason for it.