spannish lessions w/ milo

ka-ka-ka-kanaya:

"i want a blowjob"

quiero una biblia

"call a prostitute"

llama a la monja

"where is the strip club"

donde esta la iglesia

"i want to get laid"

quiero leer la palabra de dios

armoryoficons:

In the details.  (23 July 2014.)

We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a while. For you must not forget that we can also build. It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing in this minute.

Buenaventura Durruti (via anarchosyndicalism)

Forget the suffering
You caused others.
Forget the suffering
Others caused you.
The waters run and run,
Springs sparkle and are done,
You walk the earth you are forgetting.

Sometimes you hear a distant refrain.
What does it mean, you ask, who is singing?
A childlike sun grows warm.
A grandson and a great-grandson are born.
You are led by the hand once again.

The names of the rivers remain with you.
How endless those rivers seem!
Your fields lie fallow,
The city towers are not as they were.
You stand at the threshold mute.

Czeslaw Milosz, “Forget” (via heteroglossia)

faromush:

mformeerwa:

Tajik girl from Tashkurgan, Xinjiang China.

This is how Chinese people used to look like!

???????? what

monosexuals:

What he says: how do u know when lesbian sex is over???

What he means: I’ve never given a woman an orgasm ever in my life

blackdenimjeans:

Me: *at a white persons house*
Friend: my moms making dinner.. Spaghetti with ketchup
Me: my mom said I gotta come home right now immediately

magnificentruin:

The most ridiculous painting
ever painted, fixed

Jean-Honoré Fragonard
The Swing
1767 

paulgillisstudio:

Will Barnet, The Mirror, 1981, oil on vellum.

The Merciful is merciful to the merciful. 

Since capital is always doing well somewhere, the illusion arises that all will be well everywhere if we only readjust the form of capital to that predominant in Japan and West Germany (the 1980s), the United States (the 1990s) or China (after 2000). Capital never has to address its systemic failings because it moves them around geographically.

David Harvey, Seventeen contradictions and the End of Capitalism: Uneven Geographical Developments and the Production of Space. p154

Emphasis mine.

(via rosaluxmemeburg)

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and remember to like, comment and subscribe if you’d like to see more works like these!

Maybe everything is already too late.

Autumn Sonata (1978) dir. by Ingmar Bergman (via vul-va)

rubyetc:

sketches for a thing

The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!”

When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.

Bertolt Brecht (via ode-to-psyche)

i had a dream i was going home last night.

Is Hamas a by-product of the Israeli occupation? Yes. Just as Hezbollah is a by-product of the Israeli occupation of Lebanon, al-Shabab a by-product of Ethiopia’s occupation of Somalia, al-Qaeda of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and the Islamic State, of the US ’ occupation of Iraq. Historical records make that clear.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/07/journalistic-responsibility-medi-20147863017439709.html (via theoccupiedpopulation)

Al-Qaeda is not a by-product of Soviet occupation. Al-Qaeda militants were recruited by the U.S. to fight communism in Afghanistan. Therefore, Al-Qaeda is not a by-product of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan; it is a product of U.S. interests in the country. 

What happened in Afghanistan has not been discussed in the West. When the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan, the US saw in it an opportunity that was two-fold. One, to tie the Soviet Union in a Vietnam-like war in Afghanistan. Two, they saw in it an opportunity to mobilise the entire Muslim world in a violent way against the Soviet Union, against communism.

American operatives went around the Muslim world recruiting for the jihad in Afghanistan. This whole phenomenon of jihad as an international armed struggle has not existed in the Muslim world since the 10th century. It was brought back into being, enlivened, and pan-Islamised by the American effort. I saw planeloads of them arriving—from Algeria, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and Palestine. These people were brought in, given an ideology, told that the armed struggle is a virtuous thing to do, and the whole notion of jihad as an international pan-Islamic terrorist movement was born. The US spent 8 billion dollars in producing the bin Ladens of our time. That camp they hit in Afghanistan, I visited it in 1986. It was a CIA-sponsored camp.

Eqbal Ahmad

(via warkadang)

…what distinguishes [the Marxist notion of class] from the sociological notion of class is that, for the former, class is precisely a differential concept, that each class is at once a way of relating to and of refusing the others. Whatever its philosophical presuppositions, the sociological view is formally wrong to the degree that it allows us to think of the individual classes in a kind of isolation from each other, with the almost physical separation of social groups in city or countryside, or as “cultures” somehow self-developing and independent from each other: for the notion of the isolated class or social group is just as surely a hypostasis as the notion of the solitary individual in eighteenth-century philosophy. In history also there are no substances tranquilly persevering in their own essence, but rather a relationality and struggle of every instant, in which class is no more free than the individual not be engaged. So it is that each class implies the existence of all the others in its very being, for it defines itself against them and survives and perpetuates itself only insofar as it succeeds in humiliating its adversaries. Thus, to use the convenient but of course very abstract tripartite formula, the bourgeois defines himself as a nonnoble and a nonworker at the same time, or better still, as an antinoble and an antiworker all in one. And with such a relational concept of class, the criterion of genuinely Marxist analysis is given also: it will necessarily imply the shock of demystification in its very structure, it always in one way or another presuppose a movement from an apparently systematic and intellectually coherent, self-contained surface to that historical situation behind it, in terms of which the ideological product under examination suddenly proves to have had a function and strategic value as a weapon of a determinate kind in a concrete and local struggle.

Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form: Twentieth-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature, pg.380-1

(via bemusedbibliophile)

leprincelointain:

Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) - 1920’s.

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fuldagap:

Red Army – PFLP: Declaration of World War. Producer:Kōji Wakamatsu (1971)

goldnosering:

I can tell which Desi boys use the n word just by looking at them

God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.

Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand.

Rainer Maria Rilke, “Go to the Limits of Your Longing”, from Book of Hours, I 59. translated by Joanna Macy + Anita Barrows. (via antistrophe-4)

astrolocherry:

geminis are very social people but extremely reticent about who they let into their lives. they are possibly one of the most intimately reserved signs of the zodiac. when they get talking about a topic of fascination, and the light bulb illuminates their mercury eyes, then this is gemini love, and if you are the topic of that conversation, then it’s you they love

…we know nothing about Sappho. Or worse: everything we know is wrong. Even the most basic “facts” are simply not so, or in need of a stringent critical reexamination. A single example. We are told over and over again that Sappho “was married to Kerkylas of Andros, who is never mentioned in any of the extant fragments of her poetry” (Snyder 1989:3). Not surprising, since it’s a joke name: he’s Dick Allcock from the Isle of MAN. It’s been over 139 years since William Mure pointed this out… yet one finds this piece of information repeated without question from book to book, usually omitting the dubious source, usually omitting any reference at all.

Holt Parker, ‘Sappho Schoolmistress’, Transactions of the American Philological Association 123 (1993)

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all actors they’re pretending, and singers they sometimes lie
oh, kids are always honest 'cause they don't think they're ever gonna die
you’re the prettiest, smartest captain of the team
i love you more than being seventeen

militant-tendency:

… There is a consensus between the neoconservatives and “the realist/liberal camp” when it comes to “the right of the United States to assert its power around the world,” and on American exceptionalism — the idea that America is unique among nations because of its liberal values.

Kumar charts these two trajectories through time and notes that while “[a]fter Vietnam, Cold War liberals backed away from open confrontation and intervention,” preferring, for instance in the Clinton era, coalition building and politically expedient, selective “humanitarian” interventionism, (if possible) with the endorsement of the United Nations, the neoconservatives remained committed to militarism. The difference, thus, is a matter of frankness about the use of violent means to the same imperial ends.

The collapse of the Soviet Union, however, left America with no global foe against which the neo-con militarist fantasies could be enacted. To address this void, even before 9/11, neo-cons like Daniel Pipes identified Islam as the new threat to the West just as communism had been during the Cold War. But the installation of the Islamic enemy as the supreme villain to the West had to wait till 9/11. Kumar notes that “capitalising on this opportunity […] also meant orchestrating an elaborate public relations campaign designed to elicit public support and stifle criticism. Enter the War on Terror and the language of Islamophobia.

Review of Deepa Kumar’s Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire

A number of leading Iranian filmmakers, including Ms. Leila Hatami, have just issued a letter to Palestinian children in Gaza and in solidarity with them are going to donate blood to be sent to Gaza […]

Here is an English translation of the Persian text of the letter Iranian filmmakers have written to the children of Gaza—English translation is by Professor Mahmoud Sadri—

In the name of the God of “Olives” 

An epistle to the children of Gaza:

Greeting, people of Gaza,
Children, 
Infants, 
Mothers in late pregnancy, 
Grandfathers, 
Grandmothers.

Are the olive trees you planted leafy yet?
Can one enjoy them on the “Iftar” spread? 
We have heard it has been rainy over there, these last few days.
We do not understand why this rain does not become a deluge,
To wash you into the Nile – that lady of blue tresses?
We do not know why this rain obliterates your houses?
Rain does not shred children into pieces, does it? 
Rain does not open gashes in people’s chests, does it?
Rain does not smash skulls, does it?

Rainstorms create flash floods,
Why is the flash flood of Gaza bloody?
Rain brings thunder and lightening, 
Clouds rub against clouds, the sound grows fearsome, 
But it does not annihilate, does it? 
Rain rejuvenates the roots of olive trees; it turns earth green,
Why is the rain over Gaza burning olive trees?
Rain comes with the weatherman’s warning.
Why is your rain so abrupt and brusque?
Why is this rain savagely razing the earth?

Rain lets children shelter their dolls under their umbrellas.
What rain is this that makes the dolls into umbrellas for children, entangled with them, in their graves?
I saw a cat, roving in the rubble of Gaza, lost, lamenting,
Avoiding the shreds of flesh, detritus of the lives of the Children of Gaza.
She recognizes the children who shared their meager meals with her, in rainy days past.

The lady of Gaza/Palestine: 

If the rain over Gaza gives you leave to carry your baby on your back out of the wreckage, do not forget to take along pen and paper.
Write my lady; say: 

“Rain gave me leave to leave.
We were not home, when the walls collapsed.”

Write my lady, so your man does not go mad with grief, at the sight of the rubble of his house, to imagine his beloved, the flesh of his flesh, are buried alive under the ruins. 

You may ask, by the way: “where would I leave the note, so my man can find it? There are no walls standing”. 
Write my lady; you can trust your letter to the wind. You can entrust it, like in old legends, to the beak of a bird.

Lady Gaza/Palestine:

We have heard that your neighbor yonder – the same one who came over in 1948; the same one with whom you shared your bread and water, 
The same neighbor of 1948 who bemoaned the horrors of Hitler’s crematoria,
The same neighbor who had told you your home is the cradle of the prophets, 
The same neighbor who had told you: Palestine is the land revelation,
The same neighbor who had told you: are Muslims not famed for their hospitality? Don’t they host any lost wayfarer for three days, without question? 

Lady of Gaza/Palestine: 

You had replied: Yes, we are kind, hospitable, cannot be otherwise.
Lady, we have heard that your neighbor yonder now watches your slaughter from hilltops in jubilation, as if from the galleries on an amphitheater. 

Lady Gaza/ Palestine: 

You were hospitable to the unannounced guests of 1948. They have now left you in the rubble of a prison in exile. They witness your torment and desolation. They have been watching you; up to now, up to this moment. 

Lady Gaza/ Palestine: 

Your poets have composed lines that have sunk, like so many bullets, into your faithless neighbor’s heart. Your children have abandoned school and have taken up arms. They realize that in a land they do not have the schooling they have will come to naught. 

Lady Gaza/ Palestine:

Your once abandoned neighbors have now found many keepers: 
The same people who pushed them out their own lands now have turned into their defenders, raining bullets on you; you who gave your neighbors shelter. Your neighbor’s erstwhile enemies now build iron domes above their heads and abet them in their slaughter of your children. 

Lady Gaza/ Palestine: 

We are left on this shore, pen and camera in hand.
We are left astonished: what is to be done? 
How do we come to pay homage to your prone body? 
Your shameless neighbor has blocked all of the paths to us — your guests. 

Lady Gaza / Palestine: 

We were thinking: now that bullets rain on you, 
Now that the deluge of blood has carried away your children, 
May be we can infuse life into your children’s innocent bodies, from our own veins.

(x)

mama-panther:

Man, if I got a dime for every single time someone placed an American solder’s mental health above the invaded country’s civilian’s destroyed life under US occupation, I’d be rich as fuck. This American soldier killed at least 16 civilians for no reason and he should be puni - “You know how it is back there. It’s not easy, you gotta understand.” Yeah, well, if an American family was murdered in cold blood by a foreigner of a Muslim majority country for no reason, we know where he’d be within days. “Yeah, well, that’s different, you know?”

der-gorgonaut:

decay // middle of 2014 // panasonic dmc-zs15 (by Georg Nickolaus)

Selene, Albert Aublet 

umrooo:

Pakistani singer Arooj Aftab | View Post

So we expect love to be a solution for infinite suffering? And what choice do we have? Within us anguish is infinite, and we fall in love.

Georges Bataille, On Nietzsche (via crematedadolescent)

awritersruminations:

Love is flesh, it is a
     flower flooded with blood.

—Marina Tsvetaeva, from “Poem of the End” (translated by Elaine Feinstein)

tos—ka:

There are two ways to live life: Don’t respect anyone until they show you they deserve your respect (while remaining courteous of course), or respect everyone until they do something to lose your respect.

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vul-va:

tos—ka:

Andrei Rublev (1966)

[T]he destruction of human life on a large scale has been a structural component of capitalism from its inception, as the necessary counterpart of the accumulation of labor power, which is inevitably a violent process.

Silvia Federici, The Reproduction of Labor Power in the Global Economy and the Unfinished Feminist Revolution  (via vul-va)

tharlk:

god’s eye is always watching

brainstatic:

Is something not about your dick? Make it about your dick! Don’t let her do anything without reminding her that you have a dick.

When you’re raised by emotional abuse, there’s a kind of void inside, and we’re taught that to fill it we need to act like Good Children, Good Citizens, Good Workers, Good… Whatevers. But no act of a good child will ever fill that void. No achievement, no award, nothing we do can fill it. Because that void, that voice, is what drives us as children to behave the way our parents want us to behave, and if they let us know that we are good people — regardless of whether or not we get straight As or win the gymnastic championship or whatever — that void might vanish. We might see ourselves as worthy. And their dynamic depends on us seeing ourselves as unworthy. It depends on the void.

Learning to get rid of that void is hard.

Apparently, installing it is easy.

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To argue that Israel is employing legitimate “self-defense” when it militarily attacks Gaza affords the occupying power the right to use both police and military force in occupied territory. An occupying power cannot justify military force as self-defense in territory for which it is responsible as the occupant. The problem is that Israel has never regulated its own behavior in the West Bank and Gaza as in accordance with Occupation Law. […] Israel’s refusal to recognize the occupied status of the territory, bolstered by the US’ resilient and intransigent opposition to international accountability within the UN Security Council, has resulted in the condition that exists today: prolonged military occupation. Whereas the remedy to occupation is its cessation, such recourse will not suffice to remedy prolonged military occupation. By virtue of its decades of military rule, Israel has characterized all Palestinians as a security threat and Jewish nationals as their potential victims, thereby justifying the differential, and violent, treatment of Palestinians. In its 2012 session, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination described current conditions following decades of occupation and attendant repression as tantamount to Apartheid.

Noura Erakat, No, Israel Does Not Have the Right to Self-Defense In International Law Against Occupied Palestinian Territory (via mehreenkasana)

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mangoestho:

Sexual Violence and Neoliberalism - Historical Materialism 

speakers

• Tithi Bhattacharya


• Jennifer Roesch - Jump to Jennifer (27:28)


• Silvia Federici - Jump to Silvia (52:40)

thanks mehreen for the recommendation <3 <3 <3

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vul-va:

5 Broken Cameras.

redphilistine:

After yesterday, the 15th day of the massacre of Gaza, the death count stood at 695, an average of 46 Palestinians murdered per day. Today 102 people were killed, including those who had taken refuge in a UN shelter. The figures have now jumped to 797 and 49 per day. 

I know statisticking Palestinian deaths is macabre and inappropriate, but it’s really the only way I have been able to make sense of what’s happening to my people. For the last 16 days, Israel has killed an average of 49 Palestinians everyday, all of them civilians and the vast majority of them unarmed. UNRWA also reported today that for the past two days Israel has killed one Palestinian child every hour. This is the horror that they live. This is why the people of Gaza fight back.

In 2009 and 2012, when the last two massacres of Gaza took place, Palestinians in the West Bank — and beyond the West Bank, to be fair — did not protest as loudly as they should have, mainly because the Palestinian Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas made sure to clamp down on any sign of unrest. This is the function of the PA as the subsidiary of the Israeli occupation machine. This time, however, after 5 years of no progress despite countless hours of negotiation with the Israeli occupiers and in the face of yet another Gaza massacre, the PA seems to have lost control.

The 48K march (Maan fwiw is reporting more 10,000 protesters — the number 48 represents 1948, the year of the Nakba) is the largest protest that the West Bank has seen in years. And the Israeli response was predictable. As pax-arabica who took part in it reported, no one was armed, but the occupation soldiers killed three Palestinians and injured scores more anyway. The reality is that should this protest develop into a wider uprising against Israeli oppression, there are more deaths to come. 

Despite this barbaric onslaught of zionist aggression, in which entire families are exterminated in one second and people exercising their political rights are cut down, the Palestinian people are remaining steadfast صامدين. Even as our hearts break for their pain, I and so many other Palestinians in the exiled diaspora are so proud and in awe of their strength.

lehaaz:

Hasbara is a form of propaganda aimed at an international audience, primarily, but not exclusively, in western countries. It is meant to influence the conversation in a way that positively portrays Israeli political moves and policies, including actions undertaken by Israel in the past. Often, Hasbara efforts includes a negative portrayal of the Arabs and especially of Palestinians. X

Also from the same article:

The Ministry of Hasbara is hiring! “Advantage to minorities and representatives of the gay community.”

Please tell me more about how discourse around sexuality/the precious “LGBTQ community” isn’t used as a tool to pinkwash Israeli war crimes and massacre of the Palestinian people. The propaganda machine is exclusively looking for people from the “gay community” and “minorities” to spread Zionist propaganda , as their identities can be instrumentalized. Also since “minorities” and the “gay community” appeals to a larger global liberalist world, this is a perfect tactic to deter attention away from Israeli’s war crimes. Absolutely disgusting. 

The killing of women and children is horrific—but in the reiteration of these disturbing facts there is something missing: the public mourning of Palestinian men killed by Israel’s war machine. In 1990 Cynthia Enloe coined the term “womenandchildren” in order to think about the operationalization of gendered discourses to justify the first Gulf War. Today, we should be aware of how the trope of “womenandchildren” is circulating in relation to Gaza and to Palestine more broadly. This trope accomplishes many discursive feats, two of which are most prominent: The massifying of women and children into an undistinguishable group brought together by the “sameness” of gender and sex, and the reproduction of the male Palestinian body (and the male Arab body more generally) as always already dangerous. Thus the status of male Palestinians (a designation that includes boys aged fifteen and up, and sometimes boys as young as thirteen) as “civilians” is always circumspect.

This gendering of Israel’s war on Gaza is conversant with discourses of the War on Terror and, as Laleh Khalili has argued persuasively, counter-insurgency strategy and war-making more broadly. In this framework, the killing of women and girls and pre-teen and under boys is to be marked, but boys and men are presumed guilty of what they might do if allowed to live their lives. Furthermore, these boys and men are potentially dangerous not only to the militaries that occupy them, but to those womenandchildren who actually are civilians. The young boys, after all, may grow up to be violent extremists. Thus, kill the flesh—extinguish the potential.

[…]

The Israeli war machine, much like the US war machine in Afghanistan or Iraq, does not protect Palestinian queers and women and children. It kills them, maims them, and dispossesses them alongside their loved ones—for the simple reason that they are Palestinian, and thus able to be killed with impunity while the world watches. Today, the difference between Palestinian womenandchildren and Palestinian men is not in the production of corpses, but rather in the circulation of those corpses within dominant and mainstream discursive frames that determine who can be publicly mourned as true “victims” of Israel’s war machine. Thus the sheer number of womenandchildren dead are enough to mobilize the US president and the UN to make statements “condemning” the violence—but the killing, imprisonment, and maiming of Palestinian men and boys in times of war and ceasefire goes uncited. In Israel men, settlers, and even soldiers are framed as victims of Palestinian terrorism and aggression. All are publicly mourned. In an almost direct reversal, while Palestinian boys and men have been the primary target of Israel, as evidenced by the population of political prisoners and targeted assassinations, are not seen by western based mainstream media as victims of Israeli terrorism and aggression. Palestinians are put in the self-defeating position of having to fight to be recognized as human, to be recognized in death and in life as victims of Israeli policies and actions.

Maya Mikdashi, Can Palestinian Men be Victims? Gendering Israel’s War on Gaza (via globalwarmist)

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invisiblelad:

heartsoulandmrbrightside:

 inspiration.

Philip Hallie’s “From Cruelty to Goodness” does a great job talking about this. It never ceases to amaze me how true this inclination tends to be:

Halle defines “institutional cruelty” as a persistent pattern of humiliation that endures for years in a community, but the victimizer and the victim find ways to downplay the harm that is being done. Both the victim and the victimizer justify cruel actions based on what they have been led to believe is “actual” inferiority. Halle argues that cruelty is created by an imbalance of power, or hierarchy. According to his view, the opposite of institutionalized cruelty is freedom from the cruel relationship, not just kindness.

pepper-soup:

and that is why feminism needs to focus less on media representation and more on social/economic policies that damages women and children because you end up feminists who are more outraged about a woman whose cellulite is being mocked but not outraged about that same woman supporting a destructive regime that is literally kills women and children 

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concretesorrow:

Carlos (2010)

In the News, Brown children matter when it is time to illustrate grief and suffering. The Brown bodies slaughtered and strewn on the streets of Chicago pepper our screens whenever CNN or the Nightly News decides to feature a segment on them. Yes, we want attention brought to these issues. But, can we do it in a way that respects the deceased? We do see White children on the screen when they go missing, or post-grief, when they have survived a trauma. And it’s usually a static photo from a happier time. In that context, images of White children are displayed with a consistency. To pull us in. To create empathy in our hearts. To keep us alert and on the lookout. White equals sympathy. What is the meaning of a deceased Brown child?

Tanya Steele, Deceased Brown Bodies Unceremoniously Displayed on Our Screens (via mehreenkasana)

moshita:

The Amperxandt

Hedi Xandt

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mensrightshotline:

leaps into the trash

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert, Dune (via wordsnquotes)

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Sol, Conrad Jon Godly 

folkmessiah:

getting spoken to as if i’m straight by straight people who assume everyone is straight, subsequently feeling like the world’s most useless and irritated secret agent

nadeemarouh:

'Don't beg for sympathy from a cruel world, rise and resist'

Soa’afat, Jerusalem. شعفاط، القدس

Okay sure Obama orders for brown and black people to be killed in foreign countries BUT DID YOU SEE HIS HILARIOUS TWEET LAST NIGHT LMAO HE PUT AN EMOJI IN THERE TOO!

Literally every bitch on this website. (via vul-va)

When we lost the war, those who fought on became the Resistance. But to the world, the Resistance had become criminals, for Franco made the laws, even if, when dealing with political opponents, he chose to break the laws established by the constitution; and the world still regards us as criminals. When we are imprisoned, liberals are not interested, for we are ‘terrorists’.

Miguel Garcia, Franco’s Prisoner (1972)

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nitanahkohe:

lady-chevy85:

nitanahkohe:

A mini documentary on sex trafficking of Native women, with particular focus on Minnesota (Native women & girls are frequently sold on the shipping boats that travel around the Lakes, and have been for decades).

"People don’t see Native American women as humans. They see them as punching bags. Or something novel, like a new toy—it’s fun at first, but afterwards you throw it away." —Sarah El Fakahany, Sexual Assault Advocate at Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center

This is very sad, I didn’t know that the Native American women and girls were part of sex trade and prostitution.

it is a very big problem, much bigger than many people realize or want to admit, even among Native communities. if you go to a truck stop anywhere near tribal communities late at night, you will see young Native girls who have been trafficked. Minnesota, Arizona, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Oregon, & Washington are particularly bad. here’s some more resources on sex trafficking of Native women:

• Shattered Hearts: the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of American Indian Women and Girls


• Young Native Girls are Being Sacrificed to the Canadian Sex Trade


• stats from the Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition


• 'Start Waking Up:' Report warns of Inuit child selling, cites anecdotal evidence of abuse, trafficking


• Native Schoolgirls Should Not Be for Sale on the Street


• Native Women Easy Prey for Traffickers


• Data Shows Link Between Oil Workers and Violence Against Native Women


• Go Home, Baby Girl

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

zuriya:

what’s the point in criticizing settler colonial states if you don’t think the entire apparatus needs to be demolished? Israel isn’t a problematic entity that needs to be tweaked. it, along with illegitimate territories like the US, Australia and Canada are rotten to the core. their formation is rotten, their politics are rotten and their influence/perpetuation/enablement of international terror is rotten. israel is the top manufacturer of drones. israel has helped develop colonialistic projects, bankroll violent coups, genocides and dictatorships (yes, your only democracy in the middle east funds dictators, wow shocker!!) and dissuade revolutions all over latin america and africa.

does it come at any astonishment that settler colonial states all form intimate bonds with one another, cover for each other politically and go from initiating violence towards the indigenous to instigating violence abroad? who would that serve as a surprise to? only to people who don’t recognize their violent conceptions and how that reflects on their structure and relationship with other regions.

stayuglystayangry:

i think its really painful how the rhetoric of hatred and idle threats towards your oppressors on this site has been misapplied to like… people you perceive to be slightly more favored by hetero-patriarchy (or w/e power system) than you are. i understand the need for violent rhetoric towards actual oppressors, people who actively benefit from your marginalization, people with power. i also understand the vital need for intracommunity criticism, to try to eradicate the reproduction of power structures within marginalized communities. but i just don’t see how sending death threats and suicide commands and posting pics of yourself with knives and captioning it as a threat to someone who disagreed with you on an intracommunity issue as anything but bullying… and i think that there are disagreements in the world that are not oppressor vs. oppressed every single time.

mrkiki:

Yuko Murata

Staircase to the moon, 2008
Oil on board
9.5 x 13” / 24.1 x 33cm

VIA

The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious.

Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History (via nevermindthebolsheviks)

lesextravagants:

Duane Michals “cut flowers” 1984

chanclazo:

*latinx parent loses an argument* SOY TO M/PADRE Y ME TIENES QUE RESPETAR

thesubversivesound:

Published in September 2009, an analysis of nationalism, where it comes from, and why anarchists fundamentally oppose it.

Against Nationalism - AFed.pdf

hatethefuture:

PRO: The house is newly constructed, solar-powered/carbon-neutral, fully furnished with Mies van der Rohe pieces, surrounded by an extinct species of bluegrass, overflowing with guest rooms, staffed by witty British servants and guaranteed to increase in value.  

CON: You’re trespassing.

shrimp-crackers:

LBR HERE THE FACT THAT ANDERS IS A MEDIEVAL WHITE LIB FEMINIST IS THE REASON WHY I DON’T UNDERSTAND PEOPLE WHO KILL HIM

LIKE??? KILLING HIIM WOULD ALMOST BE REWARDING ANDERS???? LIKE HAHA WHAT IS RESPONSIBILITY  

i have very strong feelings about martyr characters because those are the sorts of people who think that their punishment will actually REDEEM their sins. as if their ruined life is genuinely worth the ruined life of so many others. death is not justification for ANYTHING that a person has done in their life, and characters who believe otherwise are just so fascinating to me. like holy fucking shit your EGO IS HUGE AS BALLS let me poke it with a stick to see what happens

I don’t think Anders believes that his death at the end of DA2 justifies his actions, though. I don’t think he even wants to die at all, unless your Hawke sides with the Templars, which canonically makes him suicidal. 

I don’t think he views himself as a martyr and I’m not even entirely convinced he views what he did at the Chantry as a “sin” that needs to be redeemed or justified as much as a necessary course of action he was forced into after seven years of alternative efforts did nothing. Anders will take responsibility for blowing the Chantry up but doesn’t apologize for what he did.

If anything, Ander is almost egoless, one of his biggest problems, and wholly committed to the cause. He doesn’t want to die, especially if he’s romanced Hawke imo. But if he dies and his death is something for mages to latch onto, if they make him a martyr—if his death helps the movement, I think he’d be at peace with that. But being a martyr for martyrdom’s sake or for some notion of atonement doesn’t appeal to him. 

Honestly I view him as more radical than anything else. The liberals of Dragon Age are the Circle mages who want to reform it from the inside, the ones who are like “the system isn’t flawed, just the people running it”, the ones who can insist Circles can work and not all templars are bad, etc etc. As I get more radical myself I grow more fond of Anders, actually, even though I used to be number one Anders hater. 

I dunno, I was just walking home from work and remembered this post and couldn’t get it out of my head.

standwithpalestine:

Israel is about to unleash hell on the civilians of Gaza again, as if the last few weeks weren’t enough, or since the creation of the state of Israel. They killed 1,400 Palestinians in their last ground invasion of the besieged coastal enclave - between December 2008 to January 2009 - 300 of whom were children.

They bombed schools, used white phosphorus which is banned and shot at people waving white flags.

Make no mistake, Israel’s aim is to cleanse neighbourhoods - those are the words of an ex-Israeli soldier who took part in the assault. They went in and shot anything and everything that moved and they’re going to do it again.

vul-va:

I had been looking for the file for a few days now and became restless not seeing it anywhere but I finally found it. Here is an accessible PDF of the selected essays by Marxist theorist Henri Lefebvre’s in State, Space, World. [x]

naazaneen:

If there’s any fucker left who still supports Israel, they must be sociopaths.

vul-va:

allwarandpeace:

Will liberal, pro sex work feminists ever care about Eastern European women being sold into prostituion in Germany?

Or the South Asian and Southeast Asian women being trafficked into prostitution in the Emirates. 

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redplebeian:

the-wistful-collectivist:

descentintotyranny:

Israel begins its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip

israel does not give a fuck. they will kill everyone incl journalists and not bat an eye bc they control this country

Israelis are murderers and American Zionists are accomplices to this barbaric butchery

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That’s a fake laugh!

itsmemacleod:

i once said no to drugs but they didnt listen

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fotojournalismus:

Scars show as Gaza’s children endure third war (via AP)

The children of the Attar clan have lived through three wars in just over five years, each time fleeing their homes as Israel bombarded their neighbourhood in the Palestinian Gaza Strip.

They live in Atatra, a neighbourhood in northeastern Gaza, just a few hundred meters from Israel. Residents of Atatra fled their homes in Israel’s three-week military offensive in the winter of 2008-2009, during a week of cross-border fighting in November 2012 and again over the weekend.

After Israeli aircraft dropped leaflets over Atatra on Saturday warning residents to leave, sisters Mariam and Sada Attar bundled a few belongings into plastic bags and rushed out of their homes. They had 10 children in tow, as well as Mariam’s husband Omar, who she said suffers from stress-induced psychological disorders and can no longer function normally.

Their psychological scars show. Some act out, others cling to their mothers or withdraw, like 12-year-old Ahmed who sat by himself on a bench in the courtyard of a U.N. school where his family once again sought shelter.

"They bombed very close to my house," said the boy, looking down and avoiding eye contact. "I’m scared."

Experts said it will be increasingly difficult to heal such victims of repeated trauma.

"For the majority of the children (in Gaza), it is the third time around," said Bruce Grant, the chief of child protection for the Palestinian territories in the United Nation’s children’s agency, UNICEF. "It reduces their ability to be resilient and to bounce back. Some will not find their way back to a sense of normalcy. Fear will become their new norm."

The families sought shelter in the same U.N. school where they stayed during the previous two rounds of fighting. In all, 20 U.N. schools took in more than 17,000 displaced Gazans, many of them children, after Saturday’s warnings by Israel that civilians must clear out of northern Gaza.

Members of the Attar clan took over part of the second floor, with more than 40 people sleeping in each classroom. Mariam, Sada, Omar and the children were squeezed into one half of a room, their space demarcated by benches. Another family from the clan stayed in the other half of the room. A blanket draped across an open doorway offered the only measure of privacy.

In the classroom, the scene was chaotic, with children pushing and shoving each other and mothers yelling at them to behave. There was nothing to do for children or grown-ups, except to wait.

Mariam Attar, 35, said they spent the night on the hard floor for lack of mattresses.

She sat on the floor, her back leaning against a wall, and held her youngest, 16-month-old Mahmoud. She said her older children have become clingy, some asking that she accompany them to the communal toilet.

Recalling the latest bombings, she said: “We felt the house was going to fall on top of us and so the children started to scream. I was screaming and my husband was screaming.”

Her 14-year-old son Mohammed said the family cowered on the ground in the living room during the bombing to avoid being hit by shrapnel. He said the time passed slowly because they had no electricity or TV.

Mohammed and Ahmed, who is from another branch of the clan, said they and other children often play “Arabs and Jews,” fighting each other with toy guns or wooden sticks as make-believe weapons. Arabs always win, the boys said.

Rasem Shamiya, a counselor who works for the U.N. school system, said many of the children show signs of trauma, including trouble paying attention, aggressive behavior or avoiding contact with others. “They are very stressed,” he said. “Since these children were born, they have never known peace.”

According to figures released by the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 80 percent of the fatalities caused by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip have been civilians. More than 20 percent were children. The organization also estimates 25,300 children are in need of psychosocial support.

The children’s fears are very real and parents in Gaza are increasingly unable to reassure them, said Pierre Krahenbuhl, who heads the U.N. agency that provides aid to Palestinian refugees.

"Today, we met with families who shared with us that they have simply no more answers to give when the children ask them why are the homes shaking, why is there so much destruction," he said.

Sada Attar, 43, said she worries her children and others in that generation will come to see violence as normal.

"These disturbed children are not going to be good for Israel’s long term interests," she said. "The child will naturally rise up and confront the Zionist enemy with the stone, with fire, with everything in their power."

Photos taken by Associated Press photographer Khalil Hamra on July 14, 2014 at the New Gaza Boys United Nations school, where dozens of families have sought refuge after fleeing their home in fear of Israeli airstrikes.

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cunt-lyfe:

tallwhiteman:

Krillin’s signature move

the disrespect

Without institutionalized competition and exploitation, a person’s self­ interest overlaps with the interests of her community and her environment.

Peter Gelderloos, Anarchy Works (via mr-sir)

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Peter Joseph on structural violence, from this video.