{"id":11751,"date":"2010-11-26T22:16:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T05:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2010-11-26T22:16:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T05:16:43","slug":"linkspam-fighting-the-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11751","title":{"rendered":"Linkspam: Fighting the Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SIGNAL BOOSTING<\/p>\n

Labyrs Kyrgyzstan<\/a> Is an LGBT organization in Kyrgyzstan<\/a> that serves the needs of the LGBTQI community in that country . They need US $7000 to set up a permanent headquarters that they cannot be harassed and evicted out of.<\/p>\n

Since its establishment in 2004 Labrys had to change offices 5 times most often because the apartment owners were unhappy about our lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights work. In 2005 we had to move the office urgently because of threats by father of one of the Labrys staff to rape us all. Whenever we would move to a new place, the neighbors would start complaining and we would be asked to leave again. In each of the offices police would pay a visit to find out what we were doing and destroying the feeling of safety that Labrys meant for LGBT communities in Kyrgyzstan. MORE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They needed a $30,000 US to match a grant from a Netherlands-based NGO, and they have managed to secure much of it. They just need $7000 US dollars more by Dec 15, 2010<\/a> If you can manage it, can you contribute something?<\/p>\n

SIGNAL BOOSTING TSA INCIDENT REPORT FOR TRANSGENDER TRAVELERS<\/a> via my fl.<\/p>\n

Public Enemy \u2013 Fight the Power<\/p>\n

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Fighting the Black Anti-Abortion Campaign: Trusting Black Women by Loretta J Ross from SisterSong<\/a><\/p>\n

Sixty-five billboards were quickly erected in predominantly African American neighborhoods in Atlanta on February 5, 2010. Each showed a sorrowful picture of a black male child proclaiming, \u201cBlack Children are an Endangered Species.\u201d<\/p>\n

Georgia Right to Life and the newly-formed Radiance Foundation spent $20,000 to sponsor the billboards that included the address of a previously unknown anti-abortion website.<\/p>\n

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At Sister Song Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective<\/a>, where one of the billboards was only a few blocks away, we knew that this race- and gender-baiting campaign would have national implications, driving a racial wedge in the pro-choice movement and a gender wedge in communities of color. The legislation would also trigger a challenge to Roe v. Wade.<\/em><\/p>\n

Although SisterSong had not expected this fight,<\/a> we could not afford to be silent. We surged into action to challenge the marketing of the billboards and the legislation. We formed a coalition for the fight with SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW!<\/a>, Feminist Women\u2019s Health Center<\/a>, SisterLove<\/a>, Planned Parenthood of the Southeast Region<\/a>, and Raksha.<\/a> We strategized together to use a reproductive justice approach that intersected race and<\/em> gender as the smartest way to counter this intersectional attack on abortion rights.Here\u2019s how we did it<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A Simple Human Right: The History of Black Women and Abortion<\/a><\/p>\n

Dorothy Brown, MD, the first black female surgeon in the U.S., was also the first American state legislator to attempt to legalize abortion. As a member of the Tennessee state legislature in 1967, she proposed a bill to that effect and her commitment to reproductive rights remained strong in the decades that followed. In a 1983 interview she cut to the heart of the conflict about abortion in the black community when she said black women \u201cshould dispense quickly the notion that abortion is genocide; genocide in this country dates back to 1619,\u201d the year African slaves were first brought to America.<\/p>\n

The tension between the resistance to externally imposed population control and the right of individual women to avoid involuntary motherhood marks the history of black women and reproductive rights in the U.S. It\u2019s a fascinating story in its own right, but is also quite relevant to our current struggles.MORE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Activist Modus Operandi] Methods of Communication03Oct09<\/a> via in this comment<\/a> on<\/p>\n

Activism is a fairly simple concept. You do stuff to make things better. Activism when it comes to marginalized populations is also relatively simple in concept. You do stuff to make things better, only you specifically have to stop marginalization, see past and slowly remove privilege and improve the lives of marginalized folk in order to make things better.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where it stops being simple. Abruptly.MORE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Questions of Loyalty in Movement Building<\/a><\/p>\n

How can loyalty become a threat to social movements and how can it be a source of strength? How should movements respond to threats and how do we nurture and build on loyalty from within? What does it mean for the poor? S\u2019bu Zikode, the President of Abahlali baseMojondo<\/a>, addresses these questions at the University of Chicago which is part of a speaking and solidarity building tour in the US.Questions of Loyalty in Movement Building<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Forthwritten pust together a great linkspam on the Student Tuition Protests in Britain<\/a><\/p>\n

Academics pledge to \u2018fight alongside\u2019 students over tuition fees and cuts<\/a>: [link to letter]<\/a><\/p>\n

Nearly 300 academics from 76 universities have written to the Guardian to say they understand the \u201canger of students\u201d over education cuts and to express their support for this week\u2019s planned protests.<\/p>\n

Praising the \u201cmagnificent demonstration\u201d by students and staff earlier this month, the letter\u2019s signatories claim that plans to raise tuition fees and scrap the education maintenance allowance will lead to the \u201cdestruction of broad-based, critical education\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The signatories to today\u2019s letter \u2013 who are drawn from 68 UK universities and eight non-UK education institutions \u2013 say they consider themselves to be \u201cinvolved in a defence, not just of our jobs, but of the values which brought us into higher education, reflecting the wider significance of education to society\u201d.<\/p>\n

They go on to say that the planned increase in fees means the \u201ceffective removal of higher education\u201d for working people.<\/p>\n

The letter points to research from the Institute of Fiscal Studies which says that the cuts will lead to \u201cinsignificant savings to the taxpayer\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ending of the education maintenance allowance and adult learning grants gives the lie to the coalition\u2019s attempts to argue that those on lower incomes will retain access \u2013 these students will not be able to afford to stay in post-16 education to secure the qualifications they need to apply for further or higher education.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe coalition has no mandate for its ideologically driven class rule \u2013 the anger of students is no surprise to us. Our intention is to fight alongside them in our institutions to defend social science, humanities and the arts and to protect higher and further education for all.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Meantime An Open Letter by a Feminist<\/a> breaks down why the protests are necessary:\u2018Mon the Students!! In Solidarity<\/a><\/p>\n

Today, in London and other parts of the UK, students are holding protestant against the proposed tripling of tuition fees in our universities; the cuts to government funding of universities that effectively mean that university teaching will only be paid for by student fees, and the cuts to bursaries to school children to encourage them to stay in education past the age of 16. First, as an academic, as somebody who spent more time than most as a student, and a member of staff at a UK university, I applaud and celebrate the willingness and enthusiasm of students to stand up for their rights, for the rights of a future generation of students, and for the principle of education for all. MORE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Who knew that one government could cause such blog fodder? (This is a rhetorical question). <\/a><\/p>\n

If your parents are poor, then you will not have a fancy private education- taught in a class of 6 or 8, with the opportunity of tutors to support you, practically guaranteeing the grades you need for university; you may have had a poor diet and a lack of access to books, resources, the internet, that prepare wealthier children to succeed in later life. You might have went to schools where resources were over-stretched, teachers were tired and over-worked, and there was no expectation- let alone training or socialisation in- the idea of pursuing a career in further or higher education that would allow you to get one of those fancy middle-class jobs. You probably don\u2019t have parents that understand the university system and realise that universities are in fact ranked- and it does make a difference where you go (and I\u2019ll be up front in admitting it was pure serendipity that I picked a top uni, cause nobody sure as hell told me there was a difference, perhaps beyond \u2018avoid the ex-polytech\u2019). When you go to univeristy, you don\u2019t have the allowance from the generous parents that stops you from having to work every hour God sends just to get by- and all that means for time available to spend studying. Then when you are an adult, you don\u2019t have parents who know or understand those fancy middle-class jobs and can give you career advice, or introduce you to their contacts- making it much harder to know when to take risks, when you are being exploited, what you should be paid.MORE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Black Filmmaker Charles Burnett talks about his classic Film \u201cKiller of Sheep<\/a> (Interview originally in 2007)<\/p>\n

What were your expectations for Killer of Sheep if you made it just as a thesis for UCLA? <\/strong>It was a time in the \u201970s when there wasn\u2019t distribution like there is now. This was made as a demonstration to show the working class who they were. There were a lot of student films about the working class and the poor that had no connection. A lot of people were making films where they said if you do ABC, then D will happen; there will be some sort of resolution. But life just isn\u2019t like that. [Killer of Sheep] was an attempt to make a film about the people I grew up with and their concerns. I hoped it would be shown in a context where there would be a conversation about the working class, where it could be used as a visual aid. There\u2019s obviously no simple solutions to the problems, and that\u2019s what I was addressing and reacting to.<\/p>\n

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But how do you think the film relates to the world in 2007 versus the world in 1977? <\/strong>I think you can see the seeds of some of the future in the film. The Watts riots were in \u201965, and we filmed in the early \u201970s, and you can see that little was done to help the community. In a way, you look back and it\u2019s even worse now in many ways. Then, to some degree, you could get a job doing manual labor, but now everything is so technical. Then you could at least pick up a trade from your family, who were carpenters, or plumbers, and now you have to go to school for it. In the film there\u2019s an anti-Southern thing, like the son calling his mother \u201cmy dear,\u201d which is like a country code-word, and she tells him not to say that. There was a rejection of certain values, but you sort of need those foundations.MORE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Killer of Sheep Trailer<\/p>\n

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John Scalzi \u2013 Saying Thanksgiving Grace, the Science-fictional Way<\/a><\/p>\n

Dear Great and Gracious Lord,<\/p>\n

This Thanksgiving, we pause to reflect on all the bounty and good fortune with which you have graced us this year. Thank you, Lord, for this feast we have in front of us and for the family and friends who are with us today to enjoy this bounty and this day with us, even our Cousin Chet. Thank you for our health and for our happiness.<\/p>\n

We also thank you for the world and that in your wisdom you have not stopped the Earth\u2019s core from rotating, collapsing our planet\u2019s magnetic field and causing microwaves from the sun to fry whole cities, requiring a plucky band of scientists to drill down through the mantle and start the core\u2019s rotation with nuclear bombs. That seems like a lot of work, so we are pleased you\u2019ve kept the Earth\u2019s core as it is.MORE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Future States TV<\/a><\/p>\n

What will become of America in five, 25, or even 50 years from today? FUTURESTATES is a series of 11 fictional mini-features exploring possible future scenarios through the lens of today\u2019s global realities. Immerse yourself in the visions of these independent prognosticators as they project a future of their own imagining.MORE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is absolutely awesome. Not only are there many POC as directors\/producers AND as actors, the shorts dealwith things like reproductive justice, immigration, the future of food, what it measn to be a human and other hot-button issues today. My faves are Seed<\/a>, PIA<\/a>, Silver Sling<\/a> and Plastic Bag<\/a>. What are yours?<\/p>\n

Are you a black filmmaker? Consider entering this competition Submission Deadline For $3,000 Shadow And Act Black Filmmaker Challenge 3 Weeks Away!<\/a><\/p>\n

via: Racialicious No need to go undercover to get to know Muslims<\/a><\/p>\n

Going \u201cunder cover\u201d as a Muslim to get to know Muslims implies that we are a closed, isolated group of individuals whose experiences cannot be known and understood unless an outsider comes in to examine us, like an American safari team traveling to Africa to study the behaviors exhibited by the Chacma Baboon.MORE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Breakdown of UN vote to excluse LGBQTI from condemantion and execution<\/a><\/p>\n

African Commission blocks LGBT human rights<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe earth will don an electronic skin\u201d: Digital Diaspora, Indigenous Feminisms, and the Anti-Racist Blogosphere<\/a><\/p>\n

Stirrings of a new LGBT movement in Trinidad and Tobago<\/a><\/p>\n

Rula\u2019s View<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cBitch is the New Black\u201d will put Helena Andrews and her lesbian mom on screen<\/a><\/p>\n

This summer, Harper Collins published journalist Helena Andrews\u2019 memoir Bitch is the New Black. The book details Helena\u2019s life with her lesbian mother, working her way up in the world of journalism and trying to find a good black man. Before the book was released, Shonda Rhimes\u2019 production company, Shondaland, optioned it for a film, which means Helena\u2019s life will soon be coming to the big screen \u2014 gay mom included.MORE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Eroticism between women in Caribbean Lit Thiefing Sugar<\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher\u2019s description: In Thiefing Sugar, Omise\u2019eke Natasha Tinsley explores the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers, revealing in their imagery a rich tradition of erotic relations between women. She takes the book\u2019s title from Dionne Brand\u2019s novel In Another Place, Not Here, where eroticism between women is likened to the sweet and subversive act of cane cutters stealing sugar. The natural world is repeatedly reclaimed and reinterpreted to express love between women in the poetry and prose that Tinsley analyzes. She not only recuperates stories of Caribbean women loving women, stories that have been ignored or passed over by postcolonial and queer scholarship until now, she also shows how those erotic relations and their literary evocations form a poetics and politics of decolonization. MORE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am very curious about this.<\/p>\n

Native American Netroots<\/a> is a very good blog. Today was apparently Native American Heritage Day. American Indian Heritage Day: 11\/26 Let\u2019s Eat! <\/a>Really mouthwatering recipes with pics!<\/p>\n

and they also have The Massacre for which Thanksgiving is named Part 2<\/a> and A new article of faith: Dont make the poor balance the budget<\/a>, Growing Up Indian<\/a>, Ancient America: The Olmec<\/a> and so much more informative and interesting topics.<\/p>\n

tristero writes for The Hullabaloo. He is also a composer<\/a> and in 2008 he did an opera called The Origin celebrating the life and work of Charles Darwin.<\/a> The excerpts sounds kind awesome.<\/p>\n

On Steampunk: Blog Silver Goggles<\/a> Tagline: Worn by the steampunk postcolonialist when engaging with issues of race, representation, diversity, and other such exciting adventures as one might find in a Scientific Romance<\/em><\/p>\n

AWESOME POST 1 The Working process of Between islands<\/a><\/p>\n

AWESOME POST 2: MRP Adventures: Usable Primary Works<\/a> AKA how she would define steampunk lit that focuses on race and representation. Go thou and read voraciously and then drop by Steampunk Scholar<\/a> for the SHINY! PRETTEH! and then hit this crunchy post over on Beyond Victoriana #50 Overcoming the Noble Savage & the Sexy Squaw: Native Steampunk\u2013Guest Blog by Monique Poirier<\/a> and #48 Les Sapeurs: Gentlemen of the Congo\u2013Guest Blog by Eccentric Yoruba<\/a> and if you\u2019ve managed to miss any of her most read blogs\u2026why, she\u2019s put together a linkspam to celeberate the blog\u2019s first birthday!<\/a><\/p>\n

via Seeking Avalon<\/a><\/p>\n

On the kind of women heroes we are taught to expect:<\/p>\n

Sookie is a darling, but she\u2019s no Buffy Summers<\/a><\/p>\n

In the conventional story about women \u2013 to use fairy tales, again, as a handy example \u2013 the only important choice a woman gets to make is at the threshhold of adulthood (since \u201cmarriage\u201d is, in these stories, the rite that initiates women into the adult world), in her choice of marriage partner, because that will define her entire future life, social status, and happiness. <\/strong>And we also tell many romances \u2013 they became conventional in the first place \u2013 partly because courtship is the only place where a woman\u2019s choice will acceptably have a major effect on a man\u2019s life, and men\u2019s lives are, in Western convention, the only ones we really think deserve to have stories told about them.<\/p>\n

We are trained readers of this sort of story; it is overwhelmingly the only story we see about women, and we expect it. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026We\u2019re missing the point that Buffy DOES have power in a thousand other areas that the heroines of conventional romances do not, and that her story is quite literally empowering, in that it, duh, gives her powers, and stories, that women don\u2019t traditionally get.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But the conventional story pattern has taught us to see only one power as appropriate for women, and if the heroine fails to exercise that, then she has been disempowered; she is a failure.<\/p>\n

Sookie\u2019s story, by contrast, is following on exactly the lines of conventional romance. Her story is about mating; her power (despite her unusual Gift(s)) consists in her ability to choose a partner<\/strong>. MORE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why did NBC cancel Undercovers?<\/a><\/p>\n

Six Fixes That Could Have Made Undercovers a Hit<\/a><\/p>\n

I like everything except the gay fatal attraction thing. No and HELL NO.<\/p>\n

And to top this off: Scifi in India music vid!<\/p>\n

via plazmah<\/p>\n

You say party \u2013 Lonely\u2019s Lunch.<\/p>\n

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Count me in a a great great fan of this story and this entire vid idea<\/p>\n

<\/a>Linkspam: Fighting the Power<\/a> — Originally posted at The Angry Black Woman<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nLabyrs Kyrgyzstan Is an LGBT organization in Kyrgyzstan that serves the needs of the LGBTQI community in that country . They need US $7000 to set up a permanent headquarters that they cannot be harassed and evicted out of.
\nSince its establishment in 2004 Labrys had to change offices 5 times most often because the […]<\/p>\n

Linkspam: Fighting the Power<\/a> — Originally posted at The Angry Black Woman<\/a><\/p>\n

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