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Bryan Stevenson is a public-interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned. He's the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, an Alabama-based group that has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent

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The author of the book (L) and the director of the film (R), The Help, both of which I consider to be a very bad piece of science fiction and/or a very bad performance art project. Those are the only ways in which I can appreciate, The Help ...and it is by one of my new favorite bloggers, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers In 1923, the Virginia chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy

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This essay is by Eric Gross and was originally posted at Liberation from the Lie The right of free speech is the one right most cen­tral to liv­ing in a free and open soci­ety. So, at face, when Rush Lim­baugh called a George­town Law Stu­dent tes­ti­fy­ing before Congress,who hap­pened to be  female sup­port­ing the right to con­tra­cep­tion, a “slut”, he clearly has that right. We also have

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Have you had any negative encounters in the porn industry? Not really. I mean, you have the whole vibe here with people’s misconceptions about Asian guys and sex. “An Asian porn star! Is he a mutant?” There are so many closed-minded people in America. Maybe that’s a massive generalization, but it’s largely true. And even the people who don’t have issues, they listen to what everyone

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From One White Gay Male to Another: Calling out the Implicit Racism in Dan Savage’s ‘Liberal’ Politics & the ‘It gets better’ Campaign” By Kirk Grisham The recent launch of Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” campaign on MTV networks is failing to gain momentum among progressives because the campaign itself is myopic. While I applaud Savage for responding to the increasing number of gay

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Essay By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @ Phillis Remastered Tomorrow night, the Oscars take place, and the film adaptation of The Help is expected to sweep the Oscars. I’ve already written about what I think about The Help, a movie I had hoped would go quietly into that good night. Instead, it’s ignited many debates about the lack of roles for Black actresses, Black art, and once again, class

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Click the following link for the photo essay: Margaret Bourke-White Photo Essay: Segregation in South Carolina, 1956

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And I am proud to say that church is in the city and state in which I was born; Central Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky. Central Baptist pastor, Mark Johnson, had written a blog post that featured a poster based marketing campaign by an Indianapolis church affiliated to the MCC,  that asked the pertinent question “Who Stole Jesus?“. This resulted in a complaint from the pastor of a

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H/T Monica Roberts @TransGriot

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Here's the transcript of the information in the above video Hello everyone, I'm Triple J and you may remember me from such successful web series like Brainfood, as well as Capes, Cowels and Cartoons, not to mention hit tv shows like Heartland on CBC where I played a dramatic role of that one guy who cheered a whole lot in the middle of a crowd. Today however, I'm here to talk about how to be a

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National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day was founded by five national organizations funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1999 to provide capacity building assistance to Black communities and organizations. The initiative begin in 2000 with these five key organizations:Concerned Black Men, Inc. of Philadelphia; Health Watch Information and Promotion Services, Inc.;

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Reprinted with permission. The Occupy Movement, “the 99 percent,” has, ironically, been hijacked by a small minority within its ranks. I speak of a small percentage of Occupiers who are okay with property destruction. As we saw in Oakland over the weekend: They’re okay with breaking windows, trashing city buildings and throwing bottles at the police. In short: They are not nonviolent. They are

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I hope the backlash against The Susan G. Komen Foundation continues and even grows. People's lives, and in this case specifically, the lives of women, are not to be used as bargaining chips in political maneuvering. Period. This madness must end. We have politicized the very lives of all women-- White women, African American women, Latina woman, American Indian women, Muslim women, Women of color

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This is going to be an unusually lengthy post. That is because it includes two separate articles. I made the decision to include both articles in one post because they are inexorably connected in my view. And a compare and contrast approach to these two articles seems like the best one from my perspective.  These two posts are written from two very different perspectives and were published

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By James McBride January 25, 2012 Last night, President Obama, our first African American President,  delivered his third State of the Union address. On that same day, the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated two gifted African American actresses, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, for Oscars for playing maids in The Help.  This is 73 years after the first African

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Stories of Your Life and Others By Ted Chiang The predominant feeling I came away with after reading Stories of Your Life and Others is that Ted Chiang, the author, is infinitely smarter than me. This was a good feeling; it was like being in a deep conversation with someone whose intellect and new, creative ideas astounded me. This collection of short stories has been classified as

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In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according to newspapers at the time, he

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A Teachable Racial Moment: On Fingers Pointed in Black Faces By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers  @ Phillis Remastered (NOTE: I had wanted to write a piece about this incident from the moment I learned of it. I however, also had the presence of mind to realize that my blood came near the boiling point as I read those few few accounts of it and probably reached the boiling point when

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This essay was originally written by Tami @ What Tami Said. [In the following post about allies, I am confining my discussion to anti-racism and feminism because those are the movements with which I am most familiar. I hope, though, that these ideas have broader application.] Allies are important to any equality movement. It does not help people of color if weare the only ones who

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This essay was written by Tami @ What Tami Said. [In the following post about allies, I am confining my discussion to anti-racism and feminism because those are the movements with which I am most familiar. I hope, though, that these ideas have broader application.] Last week, in a post titled When Allies Fail - Part 1, we began a discussion about maintaining alliances in the face of

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This is the transcript from a real, live back and forth conversation that occurred between myself and a facebook friend (whom I have never met and only know through facebook), over the course of 1.5 days (January 25 and the morning of January 26, 2011). This person initially sent me a friends request some time ago based presumably on the fact that we were/are both interested in "spiritual"

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So I am going to reprise some thoughts I have expressed previously in different essays on this blog on Dan Savage himself, why I believe these glitter-bombings of him are continuing, some other related background and historical information, etc.  But first I am going to address glitter-bombing itself and what I think about it as a social justice/consciousness raising tactic. And for this I

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click the comic strip to enlarge copyright, Radio Free Babylon

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This post is authored by Jaime Omar Yassin It first appeared in Hyphenated Republic on January 21, 2012 On December 28, in the midst of Occupy Oakland’s continuing battle against the city and OPD at Oscar Grant Plaza, another kind of Occupation battle was taking place in Sacramento, largely out of sight of both activists and media. Homeless campers were experiencing another raid, as

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www.slaveryfootprint.org

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The Wisconsin Democratic Party announced yesterday that one million signatures were submitted in the effort to force a recall election of Governor Scott Walker. That total exceeds the number of required signatures by 460,000. Wisconsin Democrats also turned in more than the required signatures to force recall elections for the state's lieutenant governor and three state senators. 2012 is

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MLK Day of Service Legislation Floor Speech H.R. 1933 - 103d Congress - 8/23/1994 Became Public Law No: 103-304 KING HOLIDAY AND SERVICE ACT OF 1994 (House of Representatives - August 10, 1994) Congressional Record Page: H7371] Mr. LEWIS of Georgia.Mr. Speaker, I wish to thank my good friend and colleague, the gentleman from New York, for yielding. I also thank the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. 

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Bayard Rustin James Baldwin Bill T. Jones Sylvester Essex Hemphill Marlon Riggs Juba Kalamka & Tim'm West (two of the founding members of Deep Dickollective, with Phillip Atiba Goff) Maurice Jamal John Amaechi Lee Daniels

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If you like this message, here is where you can purchase one of these shirts and read about the organization that benefits from the sell. FULL DISCLOSURE: I have absolutely no connection to the organization that sells or produces these shirts nor to the website on which they are featured: http://www.aimkyonline.org/TShirtDesc.aspx

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Timothy Taylor (AKA: Wise Intelligent) of the rap group, Poor Righteous Teachers speaks during the closing panel discussion in Pittsburgh, PA during the Taking Control of Our Image panel discussion held on December 15, 2011.He is speaking on the topic of "Black Love."

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We drove a 2002 American made vehicle with over 125,000 miles on it that we purchased in May of 2010 from a couple who strongly advised us that it was a vehicle that would only be reliable as a "drive around town" vehicle. They were vehement about this. We drove it almost 1000 miles to California without a hitch. Thanks Universe! I noticed the first vehicle with highly visible "Raider

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Some of the best, most fierce teachings and role modeling I receive about how to live in this world from a place of strength, power and cup runneth over, take no prisoners type of self confidence comes from women of color womanists. And within that glorious and esteemed demographic, Renee, the proprietrix over at Womanist Musings Blog has managed to carve out a place of distinction. Reaching

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There is a phrase within certain communities in America. It is a phrase that is in reference to one person or an group of people calling one's cell phone many times, often in rapid succession and usually over a short span of time. The phrase speaks of these people "blowing up your phone." This can occur when its your anniversary and you're suppose to be meeting your honey for dinner and

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This is a year in review post. For many years, long before the advent of the internet, if I were to be in a position to compose a year in review post, it would have more or less been one in which I presented a very positive spin on whatever may have occurred in that year. Such is the mission of someone wearing shiny, bright rose colored glasses and/or someone whose sophomoric and pathetic

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Oscar Grant

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Today we remember the Wounded Knee Massacre of December 29, 1890 near Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. A phenomena swept the American west in 1888 by Paiute holy man Wovoka from Nevada. Wovoka, son of the mystic Tavibo, drew on his father's teachings and his own vision during an eclipse of the sun. He began spreading the "gospel" that came to be known

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Those of you who have been following this blog for some time realize it has gone through quite of few changes especially in 2011. These changes were all reflective of internal changes that have been occurring within myself. This year has been a big one for such things. When I changed the name of the blog to Moyo Aflame I shutdown the facebook page connected to the previous name of the blog

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This biography was taken from the webpage for The New Future Foundation, a New York City based non-profit founded by Queen Mother Dr. Delois Blakely in 1969 A noble woman of compassion and caring, Queen Mother Dr. Delois Blakely champions the aspirations of women, children and youth. She criticizes mankind for the economic injustice that has degraded billions of lives worldwide and

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Inspired by Occupy Wall St, Malik Rhasaan and Ife Johari formed Occupy the Hood to make sure issues specific to the Black community were not overlooked. In the subsequent media firestorm Occupy the  Hood was featured on sites as diverse as CNN and WorldstarHipHop and was highlighted in Time Magazine’s 2011 Person of the Year, “The Protester“. But, with attention comes haters, some upset that

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FREE KHALI !!!Occupy Oakland is facing increasingly brutal targeting by Oakland Police Department and City Hall. This has ranged from issuing citations for having “structures” like umbrellas in Oscar Grant Plaza or parking tickets to community members dropping off food and supplies, to daily forms of police harassment and raids on Occupy Oakland.Last Friday December 16, OPD conducted a raid

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H/T to The Anti-Intellect Blog

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The History of Kwanzaa December 26th - January 1st By The Szaflik Family Kwanzaa, an African-American holiday which celebrates family, community, and culture, is the fastest growing holiday in the U.S. An estimated 18 million Africans celebrate Kwanzaa each year around the world, including celebrants in the U.S., Africa, the Caribbean, South America, especially Brazil, Canada, India,

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This piece originally appeared in Moyo Aflame on October 6, 2011 ...and vice versa. And The people in my life are there for me to help and vice versa. We are our brothers and sisters keepers. Do not believe those who tell you otherwise. They are lying to you. They are trying to deceive you. I believe this with every fiber of my being. I believe that once we reach a certain level of personal

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From Boots Riley, one of the people highly involved in the recent West Coast Port Shutdown, on the Okaland, CA end of it. Every progressive movement in U.S. history was portrayed negatively by mainstream media at the time it was happening. It is no surprise that they portray the Occupy Wall Street movement in the same light.During the Montgomery Bus Boycott, mainstream media interviewed

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Image: Sonia Sanchez, poet, educator, activistPhiladelphia, 2011(c) Laylah Amatullah Barrayn Skylight Gallery of the Center for Arts & Cultureof the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration CorporationpresentsHer Word As Witness:Portraits of Women Writers of the African DiasporaCurated and photographed by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn Opening Reception: Thursday, December 1, 2011 (6 to 8pm)On View:

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One Hood Media, founded by Jasiri X and Paradise "The Arkitech" Gray, in conjunction with August Wilson Center for African American Culture and a generous donation provided by the Heinz Endowments, will host theNew Media Academy Closing Ceremony, Celebration, and Concert at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, beginning at 7:00pm. Jasiri X will moderate a panel

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From The Occupy Wall Street News Oakland 6:46pm PST: From @OccupyOakland: At least 8000 people at the Port of Oakland right now, Please come down and party with us! We will be having a GA soon at Hanjin Terminal (zone 4) to discuss extending the blockade in light of police violence and the 3AM shift. 6:22pm PST: Over 5,000 people attended a General Assembly and gathered to shut down the port.

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B. DOLAN's "FILM THE POLICE" pays tribute to N.W.A.'s infamous "F*ck the Police," serving as a call to action for the digitized media movement while responding to the recent explosion of police brutality all across the world.This free MP3, courtesy of STRANGE FAMOUS RECORDS, features a reconstruction of Dr. Dre's original beat, brilliantly reanimated by UK producer BUDDY PEACE. Label CEO, SAGE

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Cross posted at Radical Spirit 1) SHOW UP - Go to websites of socially involved groups that you respect and show up at events that are hosted by them. Some groups I recommend are Amnesty International, Move On.org, Courage Campaign, Get Equal, ANSWER, GreenPeace, Soulforce and Occupy Wall Street.  2) SPEAK OUT - Talk to people you know about human rights and how one person or

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The video at the end of this post features the following speakers, speaking in Oakland, CA on December 9, 2011 at a local press conference relating to the coordinated West Coast Port Shutdown: Boots Riley Musician, vocalist, writer, community organizer and member of Occupy/Decolonize Oakland Betty Olsen - Jones President, Oakland Education Association Clarence Thomas National Co-Chair,

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This piece originally appeared on Moyo Aflame on February 21, 2011. Me and my partner John are still a couple (it will be clear soon why I added that little caveat). Several weeks ago I caught part of a television program my partner was watching. I rarely watch TV. I didn't have a TV for the 12 years before we met. John, on the other hand, is an avid lover of television. On this program,

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Rick Genest This piece originally appeared on Moyo Aflame on September 29, 2011 I am not afraid to die. I am not even afraid to die a slow, painful and agonizing death though that would obviously not be my preference. I have been a serious meditator for over 20 years now. My root teacher is Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Many of us who have been significantly impacted by this beautiful man

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This piece first appeared on Moyo Aflame on October 9, 2011 I now have enough evidence to firmly support my belief that something very shady is going on over at ABC/ABC News when it comes to how the network and in particular its various news programs, report on LGBT themed stories. Last month I reported on Primetime Nightline's biased program devoted to transgender teens. And now the network has

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This piece first appeared on Moyo Aflame on September 24, 2011 1.   Racism/White Privilege: The entire criminal justice system in its core construction in America is racist even though specific individuals and perhaps some specific offices or elements may not be. Still, they are all operating under the umbrella of a very clearly racist system. Racism and White Privilege/White Supremacy are 

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This piece first appeared on Moyo Aflame on February 9, 2011 I grew up in Lexington, Kentucky. I lived in the same house from just after my birth until I left home at age 18 to enter the seminary to study for the Roman Catholic priesthood. The house was in a predominantly black, middle class neighborhood. I believe it was one of the first predominantly black middle class neighborhoods in the

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This piece first appeared on Moyo Aflame on June 8, 2011 Dear Jeff, may I call you Jeff? I do not know why I have been so impacted by the death of you and your wife Lori's son Andrew, so much. I suppose some of it is due to the fact that I was introduced to your son through a powerful, passionate and fitting tribute to him given by Representative John Kriesel (R) on the floor of the

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This piece originally appeared on Moyo Aflame on January 29, 2011 A Victim Treats His Mugger Right  Julio Diaz has a daily routine. Every night, the 31-year-old social worker ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner. But one night last month, as Diaz stepped off the No. 6 train and onto a nearly empty platform, his evening took

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This piece originally appeared on Moyo Aflame on October 25, 2011 People get tired of racism. People get tired of talking about racism. People get tired of listening to other people talk about racism. It is not only people who are somewhat or largely racist who tire of these discourses. Many people get tired of this topic. I am strongly pushing the bounds of tolerance simply by composing a

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As me and my partner John make plans to return to Oakland, California, as I prepare to join The Occupy Oakland Movement and The Occupy the Hood Movement full force immediately upon our return and everything that is likely to entail, as I continue to attempt to find the time to work on my forthcoming book, as I make plans to start the non-profit in Oakland and as I generally attempt to address all

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Let's just jump right in here, shall we? Here is what a reader recently asked Andrew Sullivan--- white, openly gay, HIV+ political commentator and blogger @ The Daily Dish: I know you have an iron in this particular fire, but I wonder what exactly you're so upset about. I'm going to grant you fully, for the sake of argument, that there are enduring and resilient racial differences in IQ. (

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Thanksgiving @ Occupy Wall Street Occupations across the U.S. have shown that the 99% Movement can do more than protest—we can also take care of one another. Across the world, people still reeling from homelessness, poverty, foreclosures, and economic inequality have a lot less to be thankful for. But today, we reminded ourselves -- and the world -- that we can still be thankful for our

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THE PRINCIPLES:  1. Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people. • It is active nonviolent resistance to evil. • It is assertive spiritually, mentally, and emotionally. • It is always persuading the opponent of the justice of your cause. 2. Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding. • The end result of nonviolence is redemption and reconciliation. • The purpose of

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 A Proposal for Occupy Wall Street                                                            Submitted by Michael Moore 1. Eradicate the Bush tax cuts for the rich and institute new taxes on the wealthiest Americans and on corporations, including a tax on all trading on Wall Street (where they currently pay 0%). 2. Assess a penalty tax on any corporation that moves American jobs to other

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I am undergoing what feels like a strong yet subtle and natural internal transformation as I prepare to relocate back to Oakland, California and jump headlong into the reality that is the simmering, yet perhaps equally delicious cauldron that is the Occupy Oakland Movement. I am in a constant and longstanding process of learning to be comfortable with challenging emotions such as  anger,

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Charles Eisenstein Occupy Wall Street: The Revolution is Love Is a Documentary Project of Ian MacKenzie The text and video below represents one segment of the documentary The words below are the words of Charles Eisenstein Charles Eisenstein is a teacher, speaker and writer focusing on the themes of civilization, consciousness, money and human cultural evolution "This movement isn't about

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NOTE: This month, over at his blog, Radical Spirit, Kelly is composing posts for the entire month that address the topic of generosity. Here is his latest contribution. Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal.  It's a way to live.  ~Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear Praise the bridge that carried you over.  ~George ColmanHe is a wise man who does not grieve for the

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Original Occupy Wall Street poster Lost My Job, Found An Occupation Solidarity from Antarctica (Occupy Wall Street Movement comes to all seven continents) Scott Olson wounded in first Oakland Police raid Sgt. Shamar Thomas confronts NYPD, Occupy Wall Street Oakland General Strike, Port of Oakland, Oakland, California Francisco "Pancho" Ramos- Stierle meditating

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Travel only with thy equals or with thy betters; if there are none, travel alone. The Dhammapada 

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We, the womyn of Occupy Boston, are here to tell you that two months is far too long to have occupied without a feminist perspective. Downwardly-mobile middle-class white men are finally realizing what womyn and people of color have known for too long. Capitalism is destructive. Capitalism oppresses and exploits. If you’re not talking about sexism and racism, you’re not talking about

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NOTE: This is Sass Rogando Sasot's speech to the 2011 Transgender Day of Remembrance event that happened in Amsterdam. From Monica Roberts at TransGriot By Sass Rogando Sasot. Speech during the 2011 Amsterdam Transgender Day of Remembrance (Transgender Gedenkdag 2011) on 19 November 2011, 16.00-19.00, Homomonument.As we recite the names of all those who we have lost to the violent hearts

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Elders from Across the Nation DeclareSolidarity with the Occupy MovementVeterans of America's 20th Century civil rights movement will enter the 21st Century Occupy Wall Street movement in New York, Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles on Sunday, November 20.Known as the "Council of Elders," they will step inside the nationwide encampments to symbolically share the torch of hope and justice and

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A large chunk of the American soul was lost with the atrocities, too numerous to list, against the American Indian Nations at the hand of the British, The French, The Spanish and most notably, The Americans. Another significant portion was lost with the legacy of enslavement of African Descended peoples brought to these lands and the ongoing and continuing genocide against us. More soul still was

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I spent alot of time debating over how I wanted to proceed with this essay. My first thought was that I would continue to present evidence that would lay the foundation for Dan Savage being all or some of the negative things he is often accused of being. My plan was to then move into and conclude with my own life experiences that directly led to the creation of my original post, An Open

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From Monica Roberts over at TransGriot On November 15 the recall effort to unseat unpopular Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker commenced with the opponents of the GOP governor needing to gather 540,000 signatures by January 17 in order to trigger a recall election that would be scheduled for March 27 with enough valid signatures.    If there were a primary in either party, that election would

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Today, New York City took to the streets to resist austerity, rebuild our economy, and reclaim our democracy. Our will was only emboldened by Mayor Bloomberg's heavy-handed attempt to eradicate the Occupy movement and the violent tactics used by the NYPD to evict our homes at Liberty Square. Together, we collectively raised our voices to say, "No to police violence! No to evictions!" We showed

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Text from Daily Kos 84 year old Doril Rainey was among a group of Seattle protesters scattered by police on Tuesday. A pregnant 19-year-old woman was also reportedly hit by pepper spray Tuesday, The Associated Press reported... A priest was also among those pepper sprayed during the protesters' march from their camp at Seattle Central Community College to Westlake Park, according to the

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Often, when something occurs in the world that I suspect will cause some kind of significant ripple effect or "stir" in the LGBT communities or that will potentially highlight some of the fissures and/or polarities within these communities, I will eventually go to white gay male dominated media outlets.  Sometimes I will go to other mainstream LGBT outlets that may not exactly be dominated by

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Greetings, In truth, this letter is not being addressed to all white gay men. I simply did not know how to address this letter to the subset I am really speaking to without coming up with a title that would be overly long. The best I can come up with is something like, An Open Letter to All You White Gay Men Who Consciously and/or Unconsciously Use Your Unacknowledged White Gay Male

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Source: ROAR Mass protests as Greece commemorates the 38th anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising that toppled the military dictatorship in 1973. Mass rally in New York as thousands of protesters will try to “shut down Wall Street” and fight back against the NYPD/Bloomberg/JP Morgan crackdown of last Tuesday. Global day of action #17N scheduled in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and in

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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NOTE: I have a strong commitment to not including posts on this blog that require the reader to link to an original source. Obviously, with that type of attempted policy, there are going to be exceptions. I am proud of the very limited exceptions to that goal I have had to make. This piece however is such an exception. It is very well worth its exception status! Occupy the Hood: Communities of

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From The Occupy Wall Street Website: A massive police force is presently evicting Liberty Square, home of Occupy Wall Street for the past two months and birthplace of the 99% movement that has spread across the country and around the world. The raid started just after 1:00am. Supporters and allies are mobilizing throughout the city, presently converging at Foley Square. Supporters are

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Nine members of the Occupy Oakland Interfaith tent were arrested in the city of Oakland's second eviction/raid of occupiers in the early morning hours of November 14, 2011 in an act of non-violent civil disobedience. This movement will not be shut down! Long live OCCUPY OAKLAND!

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At the General Assembly of Occupy Boston, Saturday, November 12, 2011, Occupy Boston passed a proposal to secure space at Encuentro Cinco for the Occupy Boston Media team and other working groups.  We have agreed to rent the space for the next four months, at a cost of $400 per month.  Encuentro Cinco is one of Boston’s prominent activist centers, and they have been lending us workstations in

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But First... Some history. A video that specifically relates to this post will follow after the history  A Brief History of the American Indian Movement by Laura Waterman Wittstock and Elaine J. Salinas In the 30+ years of its formal history, the American Indian Movement (AIM) has given witness to a great many changes. We say formal history, because the movement existed for 500 years without a

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Composed by Occupy Oakland Comrade Kazu Reprinted with permission Occupy Oakland is at a crossroads.  Anyone who has been a part of this community and a part this movement is beginning to see that.  In addition to facing eviction (again) from the city, witnessing a murder at the plaza and the weather turning on us, public support is also beginning to wane and internal conflicts are beginning to

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In the midst of the first general strike to hit the US since 1946, a group of comrades occupied a vacant building in downtown Oakland, CA. Before being brutally evicted and attacked by cops, they taped up in the window a large banner declaring, “Occupy Everything...” From Trianarchy: Last night, at about 8pm, a group of about 50 – 75 people occupied the 10,000 square foot Chrysler Building on

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Occupy Portland From the Occupy Newsline: As many as 7,000 anti-Wall Street protesters in Portland, Ore., headed for a showdown with police early Sunday after ignoring orders to abandon a city park encampment, and authorities elsewhere arrested nearly two dozen people as cities  stepped up pressure against the demonstrators. “We’re going to sit-in and force them to arrest us,” Jordan

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"It is unfortunate that some protesters chose to obstruct the police by linking arms and forming a human chain to prevent the police from gaining access to the tents. This is not non-violent civil disobedience." -Robert Birgeneau Chancellor of UC Berkeley. 

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