December 2009
Democracy Now: Gaza Freedom March Protests... →
guerrillamamamedicine:
Gaza Freedom March Protests Continue in Cairo, Organizers Say Egypt Offer to Allow 100 into Gaza Not Sufficient Hundreds of activists with the Gaza Freedom March are staging continued demonstrations and sit-ins in Cairo to protest the Egyptian government’s refusal to allow them to cross the border into Gaza. Organizers say an offer by Egyptian authorities this morning...
How To: Make Lumpia - washingtonpost.com →
“The shift to a society now governed through crime, market-driven values and the...”
– t r u t h o u t | Schools and the Pedagogy of Punishment
“With all its fractures, ruptures, configurations of shame and pride, one has to...”
– Kritik: Chantal Nadeau responding to “Happily Ever After? Examining Narrative Form in the Queer Cuban Love Story” 12/7 Colloquium with Dara Goldman
“Edelman has a point when he suggests that “Political hope fails queers because,...”
– Kritik: Chantal Nadeau responding to “Happily Ever After? Examining Narrative Form in the Queer Cuban Love Story” 12/7 Colloquium with Dara Goldman
pathic
wordjournal:
noun • /’pæθɪk/ • the passive male partner in anal intercourse
From Latin pathicus, from Ancient Greek παθικός (pathikos), from the same source as πάθος (pathos), “suffering, feeling”, related to πάσχω (paskhō), “suffer” and πένθος (penthos) “grief”.
“Those buying back land include the Winnebago, who have put more than 700 acres...”
– Indian tribes buy back thousands of acres of land | World news | guardian.co.uk
Phyllis Shand Allfrey, Love for an Island
Love for an island is the sternest passion:
pulsing beyond the blood through roots and loam
it overflows the boundary of bedrooms
and courses past the fragile walls of home.
Those nourished on the sap and milk of beauty
(born in its landsight) tremble like a tree
at the first footfall of the dread usurper-
a carpet-bagging mediocrity.
Theirs is no mild attachment, but rapacious
...
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour...”
– Frederick Douglass, slavery abolitionist (via secrets0ciety) (via redguard) (via fyeahsocialism) (via fuckyeahtheorists)
“We suffer a lot in our society from loneliness. So much of our life is an...”
– Ajahn Sumedho (via nostalgicdreams)
Blueberry Rice
duendearts:
I have not done much cooking at home this past month. Quality Improvement applied to lifestyles is ongoing as it is in the corporate world. Unlike the Obama administration on the abusive interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects I must move on. Dukkha (in Buddhist practice, what we feel when we don’t have something we want or have something we don’t want) eggs us to make...
“Vanishing into formless and free. The mind is through with desire and dukkha...”
– DHAMMAPADA (via sircgillington)
“Gracias a la Vida” by Mercedes Sosa (en vivo...
“particularly in the US, to talk about race is to be seen as racist. You become...”
– Race, the final frontier - The Boston Globe
