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Daran, ICE has quotas to meet. They are kidnapping those who are easiest to get. They have deported, detained, or…
' Who cares if more of them are male or female? ' I will always call out when the patriarchy…
How disproportionate is it? https://www.statista.com/statistics/257783/estimated-number-of-illegal-immigrants-in-the-us-by-age-and-sex/ There are estimated to be slightly more men than women, but not ten times as…
Can we forget about gender for a moment and concentrate on stopping the ongoing genocide? I doubt anyone here has…
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Author Archives: Jack Stephens
Happy Birthday Oscar Grant
xMabaitx blogs about race, racial identity, skin color, and Oscar Grant: I have determined that my former desire to ”fit into” a certain racial or ethnic distinction has very little bearing on my own sense of personal self-worth. The greater issue rather is how the white man’s ideas of race and ethnicity consequently force unwanted […] Continue reading
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Rights of Nasty People
Ettina blogs: Minna Mettinen-Kekalainen, a woman with Asperger Syndrome and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, has finally been given the care she needs, after much protest. She is severely disabled and was cut off from home assistance, only managing to stay alive because her friends were willing to feed her (she needs tube-feeding). In protest, she started […] Continue reading
Posted in Syndicated feeds
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Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
This fantastic documentary (which I can’t speak of highly enough!) is now offered, in full, on YouTube. If your are in a rush just watch the first 2 minutes and 14 seconds to get a feel for it. Through a … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Colonialism
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Lani Silver, Oral Historian, Passes Away
Cross-posted from The Mustard Seed. Lani Silver, a native of San Francisco and an anti-racist teacher and activist, who founded the Bay Area Holocuast Oral History Project, passed away, just found out through San Francisco supervisor Eric Mar on his … Continue reading
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Wow…
A great little didy about the history of the internet in neat little animated form.
Recent Article: U.S. Media Bias Toward Israel
For anyone who is interested I wrote an article recently in where I interviewed Dr. As’ad AbuKhalil and FAIR representative Peter Hart. The article was about U.S. media bias on the coverage of Israel. This is my original article which … Continue reading
Posted in Palestine & Israel
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Cultural Resistance and Revolution in Palestine
In a recent Crossing the Line podcast, Seth Porcello interviewed Juliano Mer–Khamis, a director of the Freedom Theater in the Jenin refugee camp, a theater for children. Mer–Khamis gives us these solemn words of wisdom: The Palestinian people are going … Continue reading
Posted in Palestine & Israel
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Was left to bleed to death
Please take 10 minutes out of your time to watch this short interview clip of Amer Shurrab, who lost two of his brothers in the same day during the recent war on Gaza. I’m not sure why the person who … Continue reading
Posted in Palestine & Israel
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What Does Tyler Perry Really Want?
I enjoy his plays and movies but I’ve always felt the same as Nichole here about his portrayal of women, which is not all that great: There is little to dispute that [Tyler Perry’s] target audience is Black women, so let’s look at the message we’ve received so far from the play. A beautiful, ambitious […] Continue reading
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Exactly Dianne. The ICE genocide is another patriarchal measure to strip women of their rights, their freedom and very often,…