anti-oppression

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Click here to Receive Reparations or Pay Reparations for Oppression, Stolen Land, or 246 Years of Enslavement

 

Hi,

My name is Glenn Robinson and I have been inspired by Damali Ayo’s National Day of Panhandling for Reparations .

I run a blog called Community Village and another called Oppression Monitor. I thought these would be perfect places to ‘panhandle’ for donations that can be paid right back out.

I will use these funds to pay out reparations and use 33 cents from each transaction to maintain the payment system.

You can test our beta versions here:

Reparations through Oppression Monitor

Reparations through Community Village

You can also check the accounting

Thank you!

 

Source: www.gofundme.com

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My life as a colony: a self-portrait in four parts -by Claire Marie O’Brien

 

“It’s funny how much people hate

to see me standing at the Gates,

presuming  I can give expression

to real,  system-wide oppression.

To them I say,” Well you tell me

why nothing here applies to me.

Why every  fundamental right

applies to everyone  in sight

except for those you single out

as people who just do not count.”

 

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Source: electricinthedesert.wordpress.com

 

Check the whole post to get the full impact.

 

It’s haunting and powerful.

 

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Subject of iconic photo speaks of anger, excitement

 

This is Edward Crawford.

He’s 25, went to University City High School and works at a bistro on the Delmar Loop. He’s a waiter, a roller skater and a father of three.

And, just after midnight on Aug. 13, he grabbed a sparking, smoking tear gas cylinder, fired by police at Ferguson protesters, and threw it back.

The photo, taken by Post-Dispatch photographer Robert Cohen, has become an iconic image of the now two-week protest along West Florissant Avenue.

For many, the act bottles up all the anger directed at police after the shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown. It represents defiance against police aggression. And the shirt Crawford is wearing, with the American flag down the middle, identifies the irony of the moment.

But Crawford says he wasn’t angry when he threw it. He was angry beforehand. Afterward — as he was being dragged out of a car, cuffed and jailed — he was mostly just scared.

And throwing it wasn’t an act of rebellion, he said. It was instinct.

 

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Source: www.stltoday.com

 

One of my all time favorite photos.

#AntiOppression

 

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Black Angst: Outside The Quite Visible Black Backpack

 

A professor at Seattle Pacific University recently told me that she requires her students to read http://thelittersitter.com/faq/what-if-i-require-last-minute-services/ Peggy McIntosh’s essay, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.

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educating students cannot simply stop with an acknowledgment about the unearned advantages that Whites have, but educators must also provide a narrative from  the opposite viewpoint and a history about Nizhneudinsk what had to happen in order to allow for hierarchies and such privileges. -Angela Tucker

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“My schooling gave me no training in seeing myself as an oppressor, as an unfairly advantaged person, or as a participant in a damaged culture.I was taught to see myself as an individual whose moral state depended on her individual moral will.” -Ms. McIntosh
 
Ordinary privileges cannot be had for Blacks, without a fight as this country is founded upon a widespread enslavement and systemic genocidal dispossession of my entire race. -Angela Tucker

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Source: theadoptedlife.com

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Constant State of Rage Part II: No I Don’t Need to Be Nice to my Oppressors

 

“Being nice to your oppressor and tending to their emotions and standards has never freed any oppressed group.  Audacity and bravery are required.” –SHENITA ANN MCLEAN

Source: decolonizeallthethings.wordpress.com

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Undoing Border Imperialism: Harsha Walia

 

“Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North America’s most innovative, diverse, and effective new movements. That this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her wisdom in this book is a tremendous gift to us all.”—Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine

Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices into an exciting new book. By reformulating immigrant rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism, labor exploitation, settler colonialism, state building, and racialized empire, it provides the alternative conceptual frameworks of border imperialism and decolonization. Drawing on the author’s experiences in No One Is Illegal, this work offers relevant insights for all social movement organizers on effective strategies to overcome the barriers and borders within movements in order to cultivate fierce, loving, and sustainable communities of resistance striving toward liberation. The author grounds the book in collective vision, with short contributions from over twenty organizers and writers from across North America.

Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist, writer, and popular educator rooted in emancipatory movements and communities for over a decade.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

I’ve started reading this book and I highly recommend it.

 

@getgln

See on www.amazon.com

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Video interview: Harsha Walia on Anti-Oppression, Decolonization and Responsible Allyship

See on Scoop.it – Community Village Daily

 

“Given the devastating cultural, spiritual, economic, linguistic and political impacts of colonialism on Indigenous people in Canada, any serious attempt by non-natives at allying with Indigenous struggles must entail solidarity in the fight against colonization.

Non-natives must be able to position ourselves as active and integral participants in a decolonization movement for political liberation, social transformation, renewed cultural kinships and the development of an economic system that serves rather than threatens our collective life on this planet.
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A growing number of social movements are recognizing that Indigenous self-determination must become the foundation for all our broader social justice mobilizing.”

– Harsha Walia, from the article Decolonizing Together

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Harsha Walia is the author of Undoing Border Imperialism

 

See on ipsmo.wordpress.com

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Decolonize All The Things: How Africana Sociology & Decolonized Anthropology Undo Domination

 

“The first step towards critical analysis and political liberation is decolonization.  Decolonization is anti-racist, anti-patriarchal, and anti-capitalist. ”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

I’m finding that the study of Decolonization is where I need to focus more attention.

 

@getgln

See on redsociology.com