February 2012
15 posts
“The key thing was the kind of engagement that helped us better understand why...”
– ‘A level of racist violence I have never seen’: UCLA professor Robin Kelley on Palestine and the BDS movement (via curate)
etiquette-etc:
Ontario crash tragedy sheds light on plight of migrant workers
Monday’s horrific crash in southwestern Ontario, in which 10 migrant workers were killed when the van transporting them smashed into a truck and careened into a building by the side of the road, exposes a growing sector of Canada’s labour market that, despite its size, tends to go unnoticed.
In the span of a...
curate:
February 4 marks the start of the Philippine-American war 113 years ago, instigated by supposedly friendly US troops who fired at Filipino soldiers of the nascent First Philippine Republic. Through superior armaments, brutal means and devious tactics, the US prevailed and thereafter established direct colonial rule.
It’s important to recall that historical episode when we examine the...
January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
2 posts
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
CPP: Philippines is a military pawn, not an ally of imperialist U.S.
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today blasted the military alliance between the United States government and the Philippine state as nothing but “a big myth.” “The reality is that for the past 60 years of semicolonial rule, US imperialism have only used the Philippines as a pawn in its...
October 2011
8 posts
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etiquette-etc:
People of Color Organize: Women of Color Respond to SlutWalk: “The Women’s Movement Is Not Monochromatic”
peopleofcolor:
From the moment the first call for a SlutWalk in the US went out, the AF3IRM membership – transnational women who are im/migrants or whose families are im/migrants from Latin America, Asia, and Africa – has been analyzing and discussing this...
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no-longer-solo:
CALL OUT TO PEOPLE OF COLOR from the #OWS POC Working Group
pococcupywallstreet:
To those who want to support the Occupation of Wall Street, who want to struggle for a more just and equitable society, but who feel excluded from the campaign, this is a message for you.
To those who do not feel as though their voices are being heard, who have felt unable or uncomfortable...
September 2011
7 posts
4 tags
“The export of OFWs provides an enormous political-economic safety valve for the...”
– http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/-depth/08/30/11/wikileaks-us-sees-filipino-migrant-workers-social-safety-valve (via kamalayankonsciousness)
Reminds me of an interview with a founder of the Philippine’s largest microcredit foundations. When asked if his foundation’s goals of reducing poverty...
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Georgia profs offer course to [undocumented]... →
curate:
“The five University of Georgia professors have started a program they’re calling Freedom University. They’re offering to teach a rigorous seminar course once a week meant to mirror courses taught at the most competitive schools and aimed at students who have graduated from high school but can’t go to one of those top schools because of the new policy or because of cuts to state...
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August 2011
5 posts
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“While acknowledging the existence of difference types of capitalisms in today’s...”
– This is necrocapitalism! — IG Kultur
As a concept, I like how necrocapitalism evokes the violence embedded in capitalism, especially as it is practiced in a postcolony like the Philippines. But I’m also wondering if the term is redundant, especially when applied to global capitalism. Am...
“Many developing nations are in debt and poverty partly due to the policies of...”
– Structural Adjustment—a Major Cause of Poverty
(via janedoe225)
In my opinion this description of “structural adjustment programs” is far too benign. In fact, they are explicitly used as tools of neocolonialism. The “debts” which are incurred by Third World countries are largely the result of...
July 2011
27 posts
radicallyhottoff:
this years tour was lackluster, I must say. I hate hate hate hate alberto contador-but I must admit to missing his aggressive style—this whole “sit on the wheel of a leader” type of strategy is for the damn birds (and, btw, cost the schleck brothers another tour).
here’s to the most boring tour de france winner in history: cadel evans.
Yeah, am not Contador’s biggest...
blackamazon:
Liberalism and all it’s subsets ( mainstream feminism, reform, multiculturalism ) that focus on parity versus equity all depend on a subclass.
It’s to deflect their membership in a ruling class. And to supplement their cultural capital
They don’t want shit better
Negotiate from that place
“The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has approved $20 million in new monies...”
– foodconsumer.org - Genetically Engineered Rice is a Trojan Horse: Misled by Bill Gates and Monsanto
we will do *anything*—ANYTHING—to fix inequality—except fix the system that creates inequality.
one rice kernal to feed the world for five months, magic corn that can reproduce twenty seven times in...