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“Ironically, the ingenuity they exhibit despite their economic and social misfortune has become a key element in Diplo’s success, thus begging the question of whether or not his role is one of student turned educator or appropriator cum exploiter.”
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“Security authorities banned the release of a new documentary film regarding the Bahais in Egypt. It prevented attempts of spreading its viewing and advertising it. The forbidden film is entitled Identity Crisis Between My Religion or My Country: The Baha
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further thoughts on the AMC from Samhita
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“My secret guilt over marrying outside my religion has a secret but intimate relationship with my secret insecurity about whether my Korean in-laws will accept me. And my secret guilt harbors secret resentment against all the self-hating Jewish men I date
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Mhmm, why am I not suprised? Can’t wait to share this information with the little bros
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An interesting topic for research, but I am also skeptical of Boyd’s class theory and I don’t buy it. Does my degree change my employment status, or my eligibility for assistance? No. Also I don’t know that I agree with her main conclusion.
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Ongoing coverage of the Jena Six trial–if you don’t know, read this!
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“Street economies provide a space to avoid paying taxes that support wars and violence…we must begin to see water, streets, food, trees, people, as *ours*, we look at street economies as bad–but why are they bad? They make money for the community NOT
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“American media has never been anything other than a terrorist movement–our job as media makers is to build up people, communities with passion and love. A true revolutionary inspires love…We must build a society where people take precedence.”
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“independent media is not revolutionary unless it is intimately tied to movements and movement building. I don’t think that a lot of projects are aware of this, and even if they are, it’s hard to actually incorporate this into your work. Many of the p
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“From the Allied Media Conference in Detroit, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, speaks about her experience making No!, a documentary about Black women and rape.”
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“the average American still has a limited understanding of the relationship between Iran and the United States — these arrests, though unfortunate, may just be the tool with which Americans can finally bridge this gap.”
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DC area mosque and it’s members victims of slander attack and property defacement by white supremacist group. Tariq is right, this can happen to any of us, no matter how moderate, athiest or anti-violence one is, if you are Muslim it can happen.
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“In the early twentieth century, the KKK used to use the exact same tactics as the current anti-Muslim bigots do on the masses. In those days, since there was no internet, the main medium of passing off hate was the church where the Pastor was often the G
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johanna’s love for zine-ing renewed!
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johanna’s awesome coverage of the oral history session–read this!
Hey - also thanks for these round-ups, they’ve been making it a lot easier for me to stay in conversation with folks. Thanks!
welcome! i have been obsessively searching google blog search every day!