March 2011
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Frantz Fanon-Black Skin, White Masks
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Drexciya Mythology & Detroit Sewer System →
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Dakar Appeal Against Land Grabs
We, farmers’ organizations, non-governmental organizations, religious organizations, unions and other social movements, gathered in Dakar for the World Social Forum 2011:
Considering that small and family farming, which represent most of the world’s farmers, are best placed to:
− meet their dietary needs and those of populations, ensuring food security and sovereignty of
countries,
−...
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Watch Claire Denis: Reverse Shot Talkies #24
Host Eric Hynes talks to French filmmaker Claire Denis (WHITE MATERIAL, BEAU TRAVAIL) about why she prefers working with familiar collaborators, the erotics of the actor-director relationship, and how she often feels mastered by her own creations.
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Ghanaian Movie Posters for US Films
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-20) →
Fleetwood Mac (26)
Toro y Moi (22)
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx (14)
The Specials (13)
jj (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Fran Ross - Oreo
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“While it requires more than one reading, the dean’s memo is also artful in its...”
– Ben Kafka - Pushing Paper
An Inquiry Into the Psychopathology of Paperwork
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Watch
Sun Ra - Live in East Berlin 1986
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Octavia Butler - Wildseed
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“The struggle of our new millennium will be one between the ongoing imperative of...”
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Chimurenga Library
Curated by the editors and contributors of Chimurenga Magazine, the Chimurenga Library is an online archiving project that profiles independent pan African paper periodicals from around the world. It focuses on cultural and literary magazines, both living and extinct, which have been influential platforms for dissent and which have broadened the scope for print publishing on art, new...
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“To Alsana’s mind the real difference between people was not colour. Nor...”
– Zadie Smith-White Teeth
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“We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or...”
– James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time p. 90
(via allthingsjamesbaldwin)
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Hebru Brantley - Afro-Futurism: Impossible View
Chicago Exhibit:
Afro-Futurism: Impossible View
Fri 3/18, 6-10 PM. Through 5/15
Mon-Fri 10 AM-5 PM, Sat noon-5 PM
Zhou B Art Center, 1029 W. 35th, 773-523-0200
zbcenter.org
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Octavia Butler-Xenogenesis
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Audre Lorde, A Litany For Survival (1978)
A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL
For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice who love in doorways coming and going in the hours between dawns looking inward and outward at once before and after seeking a now that can breed futures like bread in our children’s mouths so their...
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“There are a number of basic features that are associated with this magnificent...”
– Mohammed Bamyeh—Egyptian Transformations
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“Human beings cannot be defined in purely biogenetic terms-that is, from a purely...”
– Sylvia Wynter, On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Re-Imprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being, of Desetre: Black Studies Toward the Human Project
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“The tenses of colonization are never conjugated with the verbs of an idyll”
– Aimé Cesaire, Culture and Colonization
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The Saudi Women Revolution Statement
After the recent importance of Social Media in creating change in our societies, a lot of Saudi women have been active on Twitter through the hash tag #SaudiWomenRevoltion to write their demands of applying social equality in Saudi society, giving examples and telling stories on the injustice they are facing in their society.
Media has talked about this hash tag but did not care to push this...
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“Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recent, unprecedented power to waive...”
– Movement Demands Autonomy: An O’odham Perspective on Border Controls and Immigration
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INCITE! Statement: Gender Violence and the Prison...
We call social justice movements to develop strategies and analysis that address both state AND interpersonal violence, particularly violence against women. Currently, activists/movements that address state violence (such as anti-prison, anti-police brutality groups) often work in isolation from activists/movements that address domestic and sexual violence. The result is that women of color,...
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People of Color Principles of Environmental...
Principles of Environmental Justice
(Printable PDF version)
Delegates to the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit held on October 24-27, 1991, in Washington DC, drafted and adopted 17 principles of Environmental Justice. Since then, The Principles have served as a defining document for the growing grassroots movement for environmental justice.
PREAMBLE
WE, THE PEOPLE OF...
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Oswald de Andrade -- Cannibal Manifesto (1928)
Cannibal Manifesto (also known as the Brazilwood Manifesto) was written in 1928 by Oswald de Andrade, a member of the Brazilian art movement known as Modernist, which began in 1923.
Only Cannibalism unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically.
The unique law of the world. The disguised expression of all individualisms, all collectivisms. Of all religions. Of all peace treaties.
Tupi or...
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“Scripted by Jan Carew and Sylvia Wynter, The Big Pride is a powerful drama about...”
– The Big Pride (1961)
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El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan (1969)
El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan
Adopted at the first National Chicano Youth Liberation Conference Denver, Colorado, March 1969.
In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the brutal “gringo” invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlán from whence came our forefathers,...
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“Racism and capitalism have trampled the potential of black people in this...”
– Third World Women’s Alliance. Black Woman’s Manifesto
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“„Die communis opinio substituiert die Wahrheit, faktisch, schließlich indirekt...”
– Theodor W. Adorno: Meinung, Wahn, Gesellschaft (1963)
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