“By overlooking the Feminist struggles being led by Black and Indigenous women in Latin American countries with the highest femicide rates, not only in the region, but the world, we are creating a narrative that leaves out the range of lived experience amongst women while upholding the white supremacist narrative that Black Indigenous Queer women do not exist in Latin America.”
Women in the Zimbabwean Revolution
Sleeping Beauty
i want to speak of black beauty to you i want to speak of black beauty to you
The Universe Is Our Holy Book (Jack D. Forbes)
The Universe is our Holy Book
The Earth our Genesis
The Sky our sacred scroll
The Animals our teachers
The Mountains our prophets
The Winds our equations
The Birds our prayers
The Flowers our miracle
The Sun our source
The Moon our messenger
The Waters our testaments
The World our study
The Great Mystery our Grandfather and
Grandmother, indeed
Our Beginning and our End.
And it is said that
our Garden of Eden is
Elami hakimik
which is the entire world
and we have never
been expelled from it
for,
in the magic garden
of the Creator
we are living still
with all of our relatives
as the Old Ones say,
the four-leggeds
the winged ones of the air
and the creatures of the waters.
The philosopher-teachers of this Native
America,
The American philosophers,
tell us,
above all, they say,
we must be relative-like
with the Universe
and with all…
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Quintana: Latin America to Experience Phase II of the Cold War
‘Quintana says that “gringo policy” towards Latin America will put in motion a “witch hunt in the region” in which Washington will say, ‘Either they’re with the West, NATO and the US, or they’re against us.’ Within this context, governments that opt for neutrality in the conflict will be put in the category of pro-Russia and subject to US blackmail, intimidation and pressure.’
The Rate of Exploitation: The Case of the iPhone
Quote of the Day – March 26
“For according to my eyesight, and Ise one sure-seeing nigger, the wul’ safe foh democracy is a wul’ safe for crackerism.” – Banjo, from Banjo by Claude McKay
goodbye
you deserve what you want and so do i i'm sorry sister goodbye, goodbye
the weight of all these things i cannot change
you saw that i was afraid
and called me a coward
you saw that i was hungry
and called me a beggar
you saw that i was tired
and called me lazy
you saw that i was angry
and called me danger
what is the weight of all
these things i cannot change?
Quote of the Day – March 25
“Because it not just in one place or in one way that capitalism oppresses. It oppresses you if you’re a woman. It oppresses you if you’re a white-collar worker. It oppresses if you’re a blue-collar worker. It oppresses if you’re a campesino. It oppresses if you if you’re a young person. It oppresses you if you are a child. It oppresses you if you’re a teacher. It oppresses you if you’re a student. It oppresses you if you’re an artist. It oppresses you if you think. It oppresses you if you are human, or plant, or water, or earth or air or animal.”
Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés
“From the mountains of the Mexican southeast.”
“In the name of the EZLN, the men, women, children and elders of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation.”
Mexico, April-May of 2015.