February 2012
21 posts
- Don DeLillo, White Noise →
“How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn’t they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this...
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Borders dissolve all over the globe, and nobody...
A group of German delegates attending a multinational conference on immigration in San Diego was taken to the new stretch of fence along the border. They peered through the fence at the Mexicans peering back at them. The hosts, various well meaning Saviors of the American Way, thought the practical Germans would be impressed with the brilliant engineering of the fence. Imagine their alarm when...
Recordings by NASA, they are the sounds made by...
http://noam-chomsky.tumblr.com/post/17371754926/wor... →
wordsfromtheleft:
“If you quietly accept and go along no matter what your feelings are, ultimately you internalize what you’re saying, because it’s too hard to believe one thing and say another. I can see it very strikingly in my own background. Go to any elite university and you are usually speaking to very disciplined people, people who have been selected for obedience. And that makes sense. If...
the bad dominicana: Breaking: NYPD fatally shoots... →
occupyallstreets:
occupyallstreets:
Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne said the shooting happened following a struggle with the suspect. He said an officer from the Special Narcotics Unit fired one time, striking 18-year-old Rahmarley Graham in the chest.
The shooting happened around 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon in the bathroom of the apartment house where Graham lived with his mother and...
“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your...”
– Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”
In Memory Of My Feelings - Frank O'Hara
sonofapritch:
to Grace Hartigan 1 My quietness has a man in it, he is transparent and he carries me quietly, like a gondola, through the streets. He has several likenesses, like stars and years, like numerals. My quietness has a number of naked selves, so many pistols I have borrowed to protect myselves from creatures who too readily recognize my weapons and have murder in their heart! ...
January 2012
25 posts
My Life as a Feminista: And When You Leave, Take... →
Our white sisters radical friends love to own pictures of us sitting at a factory machine wielding a machete in our bright bandanas holding brown yellow black red children reading books from literacy campaigns holding machine guns bayonets bombs knives Our white sisters radical friends should think again.
Our white sisters radical friends love to own pictures of us walking to the fields in the...
Anonymous asked: did you save the world yet? diligently educating, disguised in forma pauperis? thats a poem i made right now
“They made me feel a mixture of shame and awe. There’s a quality of legend about...”
– Diane Arbus
“But I suspect the real purpose of this bill is to thwart internal, domestic...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
WatchMy friend Christopher Good made this movie (Holy Moly). Right now he is making a new full length titled MUDJACKIN’. It’s good! Watch it!
This Is The Right One: 10 reasons the U.S. is 'no... →
anticapitalist:
>Implying that the US has ever been free
But even so this is a good summative article.
Assassination of U.S. citizens
President Obama has claimed, as President George W. Bush did before him, the right to order the killing of any citizen considered a terrorist or an abettor of terrorism. Last year, he approved the killing of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaqi and another citizen...
“When Dostoevsky met Dickens in 1862 — a meeting that is hard to imagine —...”
– (via fwriction)
“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to...”
– Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (via cultureofresistance)
December 2011
33 posts
