Racialicious is live tweeting the Q&A with Russell Means about the Lakotah Nation, Thanksgiving and decolonization. The Q&A is also live at Al Jazeera’s stream.
From one of the very recent tweets:
Lakotah men have a life expectancy of less than 44 years, lowest of any country in the World (excluding AIDS) including Haiti.
All of you on Twitter
“If someone discloses that they’re trans, honor and use their preferred names, pronouns, identities–but also ask which words to use in which contexts, so you don’t accidentally out them or put them in difficult situations. If you’re dating someone new, respect their boundaries and identities and find out what’s okay with them. If someone uses transphobic language–even a queer person–call them out on it.”
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Autostraddle commenter, Bookbound.
There’s no such thing as too many allies. Today is Trans* Remembrance Day. We are all responsible for ending transphobia.
reagan-was-a-horrible-president:
This is important. Pepper spray should only ever be used to pacify a dangerous suspect. In this case it is being administered as a punishment, in clear violation of the 8th amendment and Article Five of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Activist were peacefully protesting on their campus at University of California, Davis Quad.
Friday afternoon police showed up in riot gear to disperse the protesters by using pepper spray at point-blank range.
The officer who pepper-sprayed UC Davis students is Lt. John Pike. Give his PD a call. 530-752-1727
What is this country even coming to, I swear to gods.
I hope a) someone put in a formal complaint and b) someone called the ACLU.
(via feelinghellastabby)
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A well-known Washington lobbying firm with links to the financial industry has proposed an $850,000 plan to take on Occupy Wall Street and politicians who might express sympathy for the protests, according to a memo obtained by the MSNBC program “Up w/ Chris Hayes.”
The proposal was written on the letterhead of the lobbying firm Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford and addressed to one of CLGC’s clients, the American Bankers Association.
CLGC’s memo proposes that the ABA pay CLGC $850,000 to conduct “opposition research” on Occupy Wall Street in order to construct “negative narratives” about the protests and allied politicians.
”— Lobbying Firm’s Memo Spells Out Plan to Undermine Occupy Wall Street (via rachelfershleiser)
(via rachelfershleiser)
“I feel so energized. It’s amazing what a little pepper spray will do for you”
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Dorli Rainer, the 84-year-old woman pepper sprayed at Occupy Seattle
Eighty-four-year-old activist Dorli Rainey tells Keith about her experience getting pepper-sprayed by the police during an Occupy Seattle demonstration and the need to take action and spread the word of the Occupy movement. She cites the advice of the late Catholic nun and activist Jackie Hudson to “take one more step out of your comfort zone” as an inspiration, saying, “It would be so easy to say, ‘Well I’m going to retire, I’m going to sit around, watch television or eat bonbons,’ but somebody’s got to keep ’em awake and let ’em know what is really going on in this world.”
(via theatlantic)
If SOPA passes, the following sites could be blocked for US users:
- Tumblr
- Livejournal
- The Pirate Bay
- Megaupload
- Megavideo
- Mediafire
- Wordpress
- Almost any forum site
- Tumblr
- TUMBLR
- TUMBLR
Even if you aren’t from the United States, it would be amazing if you would reblog this to let the followers you have that are from here what’s going on.
(Source: formerstarkwords, via queerlyfemmetastic)
I urge you to sign this petition as opposed to others, as this is the official whitehouse website's petition about SOPA/the bill to restrict internet rights.
(via feelinghellastabby)
84-Year-Old Woman Becomes the Pepper-Sprayed Face of Occupy Seattle
Seattle photographer Joshua Trujillo captured what may become the defining image of this week of Occupy unrest — an elderly woman being led away from the mayhem, her face covered with pepper spray. Read more.
“Privileged people will demand facts. Statistics. Your stories about oppression? Your experiences? They are not enough to convince privileged people that what you have experienced is real. After all, you are not a white man. Your experiences don’t automatically gain the “normal and natural” status. Your experiences may not be credible at all. They have no reason to believe your stories, because again, as white men, they don’t and can’t share them. Nevermind that all they have is anecdotal evidence, their personal experience to back up their beliefs. They are white. And male. And many other normal, natural things that make their opinions and experiences normal and natural…and yours kind of aberrant and not trust-worthy.”
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Robot Heart: Sex, Religion, and Politics (via amberlrhea)
This makes me think about Velocicrafter’s recent anon telling him he didn’t know what he was talking about because he didn’t have a college degree. If i he had one, i’m sure there’d be another reason he didn’t know what he was talking about.
(via homotronic)
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