February 2012
29 posts
Justice for Migrant Workers: A Night to Remember Migrant Farm Workers in Killed in Hampstead →
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A NIGHT TO REMEMBER MIGRANT FARM WORKERS KILLED IN CRASH
Thursday, March 1, 2012 at Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. W. Toronto.Members of the Canadian Latino community are hosting a “Night to Remember “. Come join to raise funds to benefit the families of the migrant workers…
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“I sit on a man’s back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.”
—Leo Tolstoy (via loveandzombies)
“America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.”
—Tom Morello (via iwanttheairwaves)
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“The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.”
—Bell Hooks (via feminishblog)
“Within a repressive society, even progressive movements threaten to turn into their opposite to the degree to which they accept the rules of the game. To take a most controversial case: the exercise of political rights (such as voting, letter-writing to the press, to Senators, etc., protest-demonstrations with a priori renunciation of counterviolence) in a society of total administration serves to strengthen this administration by testifying to the existence of democratic liberties which, in reality, have changed their content and lost their effectiveness.”
—Herbert Marcuse, Repressive Tolerance (1965)
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Great serving tonight. About 15-20 youth in total. Spaghetti with ground round sauce, salad, garlic bread and tomato soup. We set a new Almond Breeze record - we brought about 20 ish cartoons and there was 1 left when we were gone. Huge thank you to our volunteers; Crista, Jaimie, Dylan and Kim as well as our donors Jill and Jennifer.
“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that’s not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. The progress comes from healing the wound that the blow made. They haven’t even begun to pull the knife out. They won’t even admit the knife is there.”
—Malcolm X (via uglyuglyugly)
“An unspoken tenet of any terrorism definition is that it does not apply to the systemic violence of people in positions of power against the powerless. It only applies when the flow of violence is redirected upstream, against government. A bomb detonated by a guerrilla, killing dozens of civilians, is an act of terrorism. A bomb dropped by a military airplane, killing tens of thousands, is foreign policy.”
—Will Potter, Green is the New Red (via glasscoffin)
