February 2012
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not satisfied/fulfilled enough with my day to fall asleep… Maybe could be nice to ponder happy thoughts…
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Niggas in Paris vs Niggas in Poorest: Occupy the... →
“Released 47 years to the day after the assassination of Malcolm X, Yasiin Bey offers the video for his counternarrative to Jay-Z and Kanye’s luxury rap, club-banger. … the emcee formerly known as Mos Def goes line for line and concept for concept as he reps/raps for the conditions faced by the “Niggas in Poorest” who couldn’t make the trip to France with the two multimillionaires. ...
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(from a compelling article on the boycott of Israel’s largest coffee chain, Aroma Espresso; specifically, on how they actively contribute to the occupation. On another note, no surprise they don’t offer fair or direct trade coffee. Though, I don’t rule out them starting to at some point, since even Starbucks now offers fair trade coffee — even if it just meets the minimum...
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Exhausted Noam Chomsky Just Going To Try And Enjoy... →
“Today, I’m just going to kick back and enjoy some much-needed Noam Time. No fighting against institutional racism, no exposing the legacies of colonialist ideologies still persistent today, no standing up to the widespread dissemination of misinformation and state-sanctioned propaganda,” Chomsky added. … “Sitting down to a nice oatmeal breakfast, Chomsky picked up...
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Restless - Didn’t quite meet my grand hopes (I’ve been waiting to watch this since September when it was at TIFF!), and I was discouraged at the beginning, but it got much much better and had some super sweet moments. Someone on a forum dubbed it a ‘redo of A Walk To Remember,’ which seemed worryingly fitting — but after watching Restless, while there may be...
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Haunted dreams and a 14 hour work day. No time for attention to the details. I like paying attention to the details. It actually didn’t end so bad. Tomorrow might be a different story.
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"When Oakland is under attack, what do we do?" ...
Still a bit uncertain of how I feel about black bloc tactics (aka smashy smashy), hence the adjective “semi-pacificist.” Here’s a collection of (not super fine tuned or complete, as I would have liked) thought provoking parts from various articles written in response to the now infamous Chris Hedges article, “The Cancer In Occupy.”
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I want to be your food babies’ baby daddy. Will commit :)
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Sometimes it is really tricky to try to accomodate/work with peoples’ personal communication norms. Some people are cool with the facebook thing. Some people are far more reliable if you e-mail them. Some people are more reliable if you text them. From some people, you can expect a response almost immediately. And from others, it take them a bit longer. And others you can not count on...
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http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/a-jewish-american-... →
“…One afternoon, after a fresh round of killings [of Palestinians] was announced on our bus ride home, I asked two of my friends who actively supported Israel what they thought. “We need to defend our race,” they told me. “It’s our right.”
“We need to defend our race.”
Where had I heard that before? Wasn’t it the same excuse our own country had used to justify its abuses of...
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