Economic Aspects of "Love"

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http://libcom.org/history/one-big-union-washington

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Travel Without Embarrassment
No more embarrassment - No more discrimination
Complete list of States which have Civil Rights Laws.
Sad advertisement in Ebony Magazine Travel Special, 1960

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“In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don’t love your eyes; they’d just as soon pick em out. No more do they love the skin on your back. Yonder they flay it. And O my people they do not love your hands. Those they only use, tie, bind, chop off and leave empty. Love your hands! Love them. Raise them up and kiss them. Touch others with them, pat them together, stroke them on your face ‘cause they don’t love that either. You got to love it, you! And no, they ain’t in love with your mouth. Yonder, out there, they will see it broken and break it again. What you say out of it they will not heed. What you scream from it they do not hear. What you put into it to nourish your body they will snatch away and give you leavins instead. No, they don’t love your mouth. You got to love it. This is flesh I’m talking about here. Flesh that needs to be loved. Feet that need to rest and to dance; backs that need support; shoulders that need arms, strong arms I’m telling you. And O my people, out yonder, hear me, they do not love your neck unnoosed and straight. So love your neck; put a hand on it, grace it, stroke it and hold it up. and all your inside parts that they’d just as soon slop for hogs, you got to love them. The dark, dark liver—love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air. More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize.”

---Toni Morrison, Beloved

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“…the progress of European Big Men is based on the subordination and exploitation of their own women, on the exploitation and killing of Nature, on the exploitation and subordination of other peoples and their lands. Hence, the law of this ‘progress’ is always a contradictory and not an evolutionary one: progress for some means retrogression for the other side; ‘evolution’ for some means ‘devolution’ for others; ‘humanization’ for some means ‘de-humanization’ for others; development of productive forces for some means underdevelopment and retrogression for others. The rise of some means the fall of others. Wealth for some means poverty for others. The reason why there cannot be unilinear progress is the fact that, as was said earlier, the predatory patriarchal mode of production constitutes a non-reciprocal, exploitative relationship. Within such a relationship no general progress for all, no ‘trickling down’, no development for all is possible.

…the privileges of the exploiters can never become the privileges of all. If the wealth of the metropoles is based on the exploitation of colonies, then the colonies cannot achieve wealth unless they also have colonies. If the emancipation of men is based on the subordination of women, then women cannot achieve ‘equal rights’ with men, which would necessarily include the right to exploit others.”

— Marie Mies, "Colonisation and Houswifization", Chapter Three, Patriarchy and Capital Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour, (1986), p.76

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Walking Home



Walking Home is an experimental film about women facing street harassment.
Shot in Brooklyn and Philadelphia, it mixes 16mm film, video, poetry and music
in an effort to honor and reclaim our voice, name and humanity in the public sphere.
This is for the walkers, talkers and those who say nothing.

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Trailer for Breaking the Taboo: documentary about the disastrous results of the war on drugs
Mark Frauenfelder



Tony Papa of the Drug Policy Alliance says, "Breaking the Taboo, a film narrated by Morgan Freeman about the global drug war, is premiering in December. This is my quote from the film which sums up the insanity of the war on drugs in one sentence: 'If you can’t control drug use in a maximum security prison how could you control drugs in a freee society?'"

Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this groundbreaking new documentary uncovers the UN sanctioned war on drugs, charting its origins and its devastating impact on countries like the USA, Colombia and Russia. Featuring prominent statesmen including Presidents Clinton and Carter, the film follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political taboo and expose the biggest failure of global policy in the last 50 years.

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http://kalisherni.tumblr.com/post/37247 ... may-8-2012



Resiliency by Khushboo Gulati
May 8, 2012

builds her strength~inner resistance to the smog. messages of self hate
She creates palaces of self love
self love is powerful
self love is radical
we will not be a part of your divide & conquer parade, your western beauty on a pedestal
your colonial agenda that shames us for wearing our garb
that tries to assimilate our very breath
colors shape coalesce perspectives layer after layer

to check out more of meri art, Khushboo di artverk

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Harriet Tubman (pictured far left) with slaves she helped rescue in 1885

Frederick Douglass said of her, “Excepting John Brown — of sacred memory — I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than Harriet Tubman.

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Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

― Frantz Fanon


From: The Wretched of the Earth

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I became a visitor in my own skin - Gloria E. Anzaldua



From “Theories of comp page 13 of 32” from the Gloria E. Anzaldua archives in Austin, TX.


http://que-viva-la-vida-xicana.tumblr.c ... e-anzaldua

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The liberal uses the radical’s language to achieve the conservative’s aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.

--Manning Marable

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http://www.justseeds.org/fernando_marti/26fall.html



Fernando Martí
This Too Shall Fall / También Caerá
$25

"The Berlin Wall made the news every day. From dawn to dusk we read about it, heard about it and saw it: the Wall of Shame, the Wall of Infamy, the Iron Curtain. Eventually, this wall, which deserved to fall, fell. But other walls have sprung up, and continue to spring up, and though they are far larger than the Berlin Wall, little or nothing is said about them. Little is said about the wall the United States is erecting along its border with Mexico, or the double razor wire fences around Ceuta and Melilla, the Spanish enclaves on the Mediterranean coast of Morocco. And next to nothing was said about the West Bank Wall, which perpetuates the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and will soon be 15 times longer than the Berlin Wall. And the Moroccan Wall, which for 20 years has perpetuated Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara, goes unmentioned altogether... Why is it that some walls are so vocal and others are so mute?"

~ Eduardo Galeano