Posts tagged Black and Brown activism
[I found this image online, but not at a specific URL and I searched for it on a URL but couldn't find it.]
I'm kind of expecting crayon makers to come out with a "Whiter Shades of Pale" series any day now.
What follows are several reports and sources for information about the current conditions in Haiti, and efforts at building a better society with less intervention by and need for the U.S. and other Western WHM supremacist colonial powers.
First up is this, from *here* @ Democracy Now.
Whenever there is a catastrophe, there are vultures. On the grand scale like that, there are grandscale
What follows are several reports and sources for information about the current conditions in Haiti, and efforts at building a better society with less intervention by and need for the U.S. and other Western WHM supremacist colonial and corporate powers.
First up is this, from *here* @ Democracy Now.
Whenever there is a catastrophe, there are vultures. On the grand scale like that, there are
[image of photos of women raped and murdered by Lonnie David Franklin, Jr., over decades, is from here]
Pictured above:Debra Jackson, 29 Henrietta Wright, 35 Barbara Ware, 23 Bernita Sparks, age unknown Mary Lowe, 26 Lachrica Jefferson, 22 Alicia Alexander, 18 Princess Berthomieux, 15 Valerie McCorvey, 35 and Janecia Peters, 25 (Also pictured, Thomas Steele, from 1987.)
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[image of photos of women raped and murdered by Lonnie David Franklin, Jr., over decades, is from here]
Pictured above:Debra Jackson, 29 Henrietta Wright, 35 Barbara Ware, 23 Bernita Sparks, age unknown Mary Lowe, 26 Lachrica Jefferson, 22 Alicia Alexander, 18 Princess Berthomieux, 15 Valerie McCorvey, 35 and Janecia Peters, 25 (Also pictured, Thomas Steele, from 1987.)
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The following video is posted on YouTube and is titled Reconsider Columbus Day.
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Talk about gross injustice! Two women in their 30's are behind bars for years already, since young, wrongfully, due to being accused of stealing eleven dollars. And the bank robbers called financial institution executives get million dollar bonuses for running their companies into the ground, negatively impacting the lives of millions.
The destruction of women's lives is
A new contact, with sort of my name, "Juliano", contacted me about posting the above video.
My "real" name comes from my grandfather. Giuliano Reali. Yes, there are/were Italian Jews: if you haven't read his work, please read the writings of Primo Levi. Anglophilic family members, or possibly Ellis Island, altered the course of the name, as happened so much back in the day when not-yet-white
[photograph of Emem Okon is from here]I came to tell Chevron that they have oppressed in the Niger Delta region with impunity for the past fifty years, poisoning our waters, devastating our environment, killing the fish we eat, burning poison gas through gas flares in the Niger Delta that has caused cancer, asthma, corroding our roofs. And they have not done anything to alleviate the
[photograph of Chandra Talpade Mohanty is from here]
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This book is almost twenty years old. And nothing has gotten better, collectively, for women of color around the world. And so much has gotten worse.
Daily, it seems, I encounter white resistance to decentering white experience when it comes to being responsible and responsive to radical feminists of color who
