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Or what it has ever been like for young people of color.
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James Joyce or Kool Keith
One is the most innovative writer of the 20th century, the other is James Joyce. Can you distinguish between sentences written by the Irish novelist and the lyrics of surrealist rapper Kool Keith?
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Today In Latin American History
Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata was shot to death in the state of Morelos on April 10, 1919 at age 39.
(via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
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BODYBUILDING AND NATION-BUILDING
A very fascinating read that critically looks at Orientalism, Physical Fitness and the questionable history of Yoga. All tied together.
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Posted on January 16, 2012 via BadASS Motherfucker with 71,807 notes
Source: samljackson
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Film footage from Palestine back in 1896
By Jalal Abukhater
It is becoming a trend among influential GOP candidates to call out the Palestinian people as “invented” or even “non-existent”. First we had Republican candidate Newt Gingrich calling the Palestinians an “invented people”. Another rising star, Republican candidate Rick Santorum, has also said “There is no Palestine”. But I won’t really bother to give any of these dimwits any more attention than they deserve. Their case is a hopeless miserable case after all.
On this occasion I’d like to share with you this, video footage taken in Palestine back in the year 1896. We see Palestinians; we see Jews, Christians, and Muslims living in peace. We see a Jewish man praying at the Western Wall without having to show IDs to any authority, unlike what we see in Jerusalem today. We see neighbors, friends, families, and a society just like that in Cairo or Damascus, as the commentator says. If we look today, we don’t see much of the same thing. Not so much freedom of religion, not so much freedom of life.
The film was recovered by Lobster Films, a film preservation company based in Paris, in February 2007. In a letter to an Italian film festival organizer, Lobster Films co-founder Serge Bromberg said:
…this year, we have something very special to show. In an antique shop, we have discovered 93 wonderful little camera negatives from c. 1897, all shot in the Middle East (Jerusalem, Palestine, Egypt, etc.), that would form an ideal 80 [minute] program of what could be among the earliest films shot in the region still in existence. … They are in wonderful condition … Not a scratch, no decomposition, and those little sprocket holes typical of the films of that year.
It always feels great to see bits from the pleasant past, to forget the reality for a minute and just feel how life was at that time.
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Basque solidarity with U.S. political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
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I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing there, some African-American woman goes up to a police officer and says, ‘I need to get in. My daughter’s there. I want to know if she’s OK.’ And he said, ‘Move on, lady.’ And they kept pushing with their sticks, pushing back. And she was crying. And all of a sudden, out of nowhere, he throws her to the ground and starts hitting her in the head,” says Smith. “I walk over, and I say, ‘Look, cuff her if she’s done something, but you don’t need to do that.’ And he said, ‘Lady, do you want to get arrested?’ And I said, ‘Do you see my hat? I’m here as a legal observer.’ He said, ‘You want to get arrested?’ And he pushed me up against the wall.
Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica)(via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
Posted on November 18, 2011 via Seriously, USA? with 6,395 notes
Source: seriouslyamerica
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When there are feelings of physical pain or mental distress, the mind will struggle because it doesn’t like pain. But when pain turns to pleasure the mind likes it and is content with it. So it keeps on playing with feeling even though, as we’ve already said, feeling is inconstant, stressful, and not really ours. But the mind doesn’t see this. All it sees are feelings of pleasure, and it wants them. Try looking into how feeling gives rise to craving. It’s because we want pleasant feelings that craving whispers-whispers right there to the feeling. If you observe carefully, you will see that this is very important. This is where the paths and fruitions leading to nibbana are attained. If we extinguish the craving in feeling, that’s nibbana.
How Feeling Leads to Craving Upasika Kee Nanayon, “A Glob of Tar”
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