Miami Gardens, Florida is a place where racial profiling is carried out so often and so maliciously by police that even local business owners have had enough of it.
See on ushypocrisy.com
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Why I’m Thankful for 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance & Why You Should Be To
“There is resistance: in Canada it’s coming from First Nations. But it’s worth remembering that that’s a world-wide phenomenon. Throughout the world, the indigenous populations are in the lead. They are actually taking the lead in trying to protect the earth….It’s pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.” ~ Noam Chomsky
“The goals of settler colonial state have always been the same, remove Indigenous populations whether through extermination, relocation or assimilation, appropriate lands and resources and expand the reaches of the settler state.” ~ Matt Remle, Last Real Indians
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Mumia Abu-Jamal “Some Who Feel No Reason For Thanksgiving”
“Some Who Feel No Reason For Thanksgiving” To this day, I can hardly bear to think of that quintessentially American holiday—Thanksgiving. When I do, however, I do not dwell on Pilgrims with wide b…
Undoing Border Imperialism
“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. ”
When no one said anything: How racism goes unquestioned
Some say we should just “get over” racism, but it’s not possible when so many condone it with their silence
See on www.salon.com
7 ways to narrow the rich-poor gap
Income inequality isn’t inevitable. As economists have argued, it is the result of bad policies that favor the rich and leave everyone else struggling.
See on www.cnn.com
Gradient Lair – Kick Ass Blog
“ Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s Street Art Confronts Sexual Harassment”
STOP STREET HARASSMENT. Love this campaign.
Community Village‘s insight:
Gradient Lair is one of the most well organized and laser focused blogs I’ve ever seen from an individual (one owner) blog.
Here’s a paragraph from her Bio page:
“I am college-educated. I have a Master’s degree in Criminal Justice and I completed 2 years of additional graduate work in Psychology and Mental Health Counseling. I studied race, gender and adolescent mental health/education and I have a lot of interest in how media/culture impact this. I studied Behavioral and Social Sciences at the baccalaureate level.” –Trudy
See on www.gradientlair.com
The Power of Thinking Small
“The power of these small groups lie in the fact that they represent the largest, most well-organized, unified and reliable minority of voters. This reactionary minority may not be big enough to win national elections anymore, but they are just large enough to swing local ones and that’s enough to wield powerful influence.
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Those of us who believe in pluralism and democracy must understand the power of thinking small and take action.
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we must act with the confidence that we can change the world, because the actions of small groups of committed people is the only thing that ever has.”
See on www.racefiles.com
Elsipogtog and Foundational Colonial Violence
“Change demands moments of crisis and conflict. In these moments of crisis, there are two options: to embrace the change and recognize the necessity of it, or to fight against it…”
See on decolonization.wordpress.com
Why Human Rights Needs More Than Laws to Work
“1865-A mere 148 years ago, slavery was abolished in the United States
1920-A mere 93 years ago, women gained the right to vote
1924-A mere 89 years ago ,Native Americans, who were already on this continent, were granted US citizenship
1967-A mere 46 years ago, with Loving vs. Virginia, laws banning interracial marriage were deemed unconstitutional.”
See on thiscollegedropout.wordpress.com