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'What streets you from son?' Planet earth!

Yasiin Bey a.k.a Mos Def

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Obviously, it was very frustrating to hear that coming from Trump, but it was not surprising, because U.S. complicity with the Israeli occupation is not new. It’s something that has spanned over generations. And for Palestinians, it’s something that is expected, because a nation like the United States, that has been built on colonization, it’s only natural for them to support another colonizer state in Israel.

Budour Hassan, 27-year-old Palestinian activist and writer, responds to Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. See more coverage of Palestinians responding to Trump’s announcement. (via democracynow)

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in response to trump’s recognition of jerusalem as israel’s capital, i see a lot of people opposing the move solely* out of their “fear” that this would incite violence, which to me sounds quite disingenuous because not only does it straight up ignore the fact that violence has indeed always been the reality in the city for decades now, but it also ignores other fundamental factors. most important of all is how this recognition gives legitimacy to israel’s actions; it legitimises israel’s occupation, land theft and illegal settlement expansion, israeli violence against palestinians from restriction of movement to house demolitions and displacement and other such examples of israel’s blatant violations of human rights & international law

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Woman’s apparent incapacity to do certain things, to understand certain things, originated in her history. […] To the extent that women were cut off from direct socialized production and isolated in the home, all possibilities of social life outside the neighborhood were denied them, and hence they were deprived of social knowledge and social education. When women are deprived of wide experience of organizing and planning collectively industrial and other mass struggles, they are denied a basic source of education, the experience of social revolt. And this experience is primarily the experience of learning your own capacities, that is, your power, and the capacities, the power, of your class. Thus the isolation from which women have suffered has confirmed to society and to themselves the myth of female incapacity.

Selma James & Mariarosa Dalla Costa, “The power of women and the subversion of the community” (via aishawarma)

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Why should I argue with my own conscience over the truth? That's like me telling myself "don't tell me what to do."

Canibus

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@lilium-bosniacum, this is what the man has said: "The mass slaughter in Srebrenica, for example, is certainly a horror story and major crime, but to call it “genocide” so cheapens the word as to constitute virtual Holocaust denial, in my opinion. It amazes me that intelligent people cannot see that." If you consider his choice, to use the word 'massacre' instead of 'genocide' to refer to the events at Srebrenica, amounts to to genocide-denial, then I am also a genocide-denier because I think the word 'massacre' is a more appropriate word.

I think some people really don’t understand the difference between genocide and war.

World War II and the Holocaust are not synonyms. If one were to throughly explain the Holocaust, they would have to cover German occupation in France, Italy, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans, but it is very unlikely that the Holocaust would make mention of the Pacific and North African theatre of operations in WWII. However, it is essential that the Holocaust be mentioned when throughly covering the events that lead to, and happened during WWII, specially when focusing in the European theatre of the war.

So, when pointing out that Noam Chomsky has denied the genocide of Bosniak Muslims, it is impossible to defend Chomsky by stating he’s made reference to the Bosnian War.

I’m sure everyone agrees there was an armed conflict in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina that most people refers to as the Bosnian War, but the Bosnian War is not the same as the Bosnian Genocide, the latter being the ethnic cleansing of Bosniak Muslims to create an ethnically pure Serbian state. While I’ve never seen anybody denying there was a war in Bosnia, I sure have seen a lot of people denying there was a genocide against Bosniaks.

Language matters people, and rest assured a lot of people with ill intentions are very well aware of this.

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@berqamot It's also impossible to use as evidence that he is a genocide-denier, the fact the he has used the term "Bosnian war."

I think some people really don’t understand the difference between genocide and war.

World War II and the Holocaust are not synonyms. If one were to throughly explain the Holocaust, they would have to cover German occupation in France, Italy, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans, but it is very unlikely that the Holocaust would make mention of the Pacific and North African theatre of operations in WWII. However, it is essential that the Holocaust be mentioned when throughly covering the events that lead to, and happened during WWII, specially when focusing in the European theatre of the war.

So, when pointing out that Noam Chomsky has denied the genocide of Bosniak Muslims, it is impossible to defend Chomsky by stating he’s made reference to the Bosnian War.

I’m sure everyone agrees there was an armed conflict in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina that most people refers to as the Bosnian War, but the Bosnian War is not the same as the Bosnian Genocide, the latter being the ethnic cleansing of Bosniak Muslims to create an ethnically pure Serbian state. While I’ve never seen anybody denying there was a war in Bosnia, I sure have seen a lot of people denying there was a genocide against Bosniaks.

Language matters people, and rest assured a lot of people with ill intentions are very well aware of this.

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The Perfect Circle ‘Savrseni Krug’ (1997)

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Governments like it that way. They want their people to see war as a drama of opposites, good and evil, 'them' and 'us', victory or defeat. But war is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

Robert Fisk

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September 30 2017 - Tens of thousands of people march in Bilbao, Basque Country for the right to vote, in solidarity with Catalonia. [video]/[video]

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Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on.

Paul Simon

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Her arms are long and she moves like a song Feet with corns, hands with callouses but her heart is warm Her hair is woolly and it attracts a lot of energy Even negative, she gotta dead that, the head wrap is her remedy Her back is strong and she's far from a vagabond This is the back the masters' whip used to crack upon Strong enough to take all the pain that's been inflicted Again and again and again and again and flip it To the love for her children. Nothing else matters What do they call her? They call her aunt Sara

Talib Kweli, Four Women

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It’s sad, but proud or not, most your standards go down a notch when loneliness drinks at the bar you set too high

Tonedeff

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“…candied plums, figs, oranges, and apricots with fine gold leaf, and more gold was being smoothed onto sweet biscuits of fried dough cut into witty shapes and drenched in spiced syrup and rosewater.”

Philip Kazan, “Appetite.”  (via lesgardenias)

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I’m not insane. I think I’m kinda rational when I be asking you ‘yo, where did all the passion go?’

Slug

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“Celebratin’ the win, celebrate what it meant Do remember and celebrate it again Right, newly winners we celebrate where it went And sewn different we celebratin’ the hem You sing along you celebratin’ the hymn Bet'em to prove me wrong you’ll be celebratin’ their end Tell'em it’s crew first, we celebratin’ with kin And fuck an ‘E’ for effort, don’t celebrate the attempt My attempt be everything the rent be Call it hand to hand but a hand can’t be empty So I was in the basement sparring with complacency And my weaving got me off when it would tempt me”

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The condition of the maintenance of life is its expansion.

Peter Kropotkin