February 2012
29 posts
Justice for Migrant Workers: A Night to Remember... →
j4mw:
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…
Animal Voices →
Animal Voices is a radio show and podcast that maps out the animal advocacy scene around the globe and provides a platform to showcase the work of animal advocates.
The show explores how various human social dynamics such as race, gender, and class, intersect with animals. Animal Voices broadcasts worldwide at www.ciut.fm/ every Tuesday at 11am EST. Click here to subscribe to the podcast.
“I sit on a man’s back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure...”
– Leo Tolstoy (via loveandzombies)
“America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that...”
– Tom Morello (via iwanttheairwaves)
Watchbecausewemustdotorg:
Breeze Harper gets to ask Angela Davis about extending social justice to not just ourselves, but animals as well.
“The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence...”
– Bell Hooks (via feminishblog)
“Within a repressive society, even progressive movements threaten to turn into...”
– Herbert Marcuse, Repressive Tolerance (1965)
Niagara Detention Centre Update →
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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...”
– Malcolm X (via uglyuglyugly)
“An unspoken tenet of any terrorism definition is that it does not apply to the...”
– Will Potter, Green is the New Red (via glasscoffin)
A Fair First Contract for Brock ESL Instructors →
Please sign and share!
The Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race and... →
harmreduction:
The Anna Julia Cooper Program in Gender, Race, and Politics in the South is endowed with the multifaceted mission:
to move beyond the black/white paradigm in the study of race while still paying attention to this historically important divide;
to focus specifically on the social and identity cleavages within racialized communities, specifically the intersections of gender,...
“…we must educate and organize Africans to self-fund the resistance or liberation...”
– Ajamu Nangwaya “Why Black History Month Should Be Called African Liberation Month” (Rabble.ca)
“Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You...”
– arundhati roy from the guardian (via counterworlds)
