#poor rico

[lilacthebooklover]

i put on "maya and the three" for the 10-year-old girl i babysit, and according to her, i am no longer a girl. i'm not a boy either. i am only a principito.

[wasteland-wrecker]

IMPORTANT!!! 🙏🙏🙏

(Pics in case you didn’t know him)

Please answer sincerely 😩

Thank you so much 💋

[ricopop]

don't you trust him? just look at that smile!

@cephalonheadquarters @superbellsubways

doodlss under cut. As Usual.

[vespertin-y]

considering an au where fiddleford grows a backbone for (1) terrible, terrible moment, ends up fully erasing stanford's memories, and then just. Sends him to new mexico with a bag and some notecards poorly explaining who he is.

[mrs-bluemarine]

Just realized @deathdetermineslife 's f/o template was perfect for my oc boys ^^ you're doing gods work man 🤝

He hasn't had an official introduction but this is Rico!! He was a mob member back in 40's-60's America, later murdered and forced into an unmarked grave, which got him sent to purgatory. As it turned out, his lover and the rival gang leader's daughter died next, so he decided to stay in purgatory with her instead of avenging his early death and coming back to life. How romantic, right

[ausetkmt]

The Real Reason America Keeps Puerto Rico Poor

America knows exactly what the Jones act has done and its time for it to end. Either give Puerto Rico Statehood or Economic Freedom. enough of this dis-infranchisement for millions. Taxation should Include Representation

[artificial-espionage]

"...I'm not trying to trick anyone right now. We're not fighting right now." In Milo's mind it wasn't the time to be deceptive right now, and had no reason to be deceptive. He looked curiously at the burning cigarette. He did like how Rico wasn't littering.

"No thank you. You know...Smoking can cause all sorts of adverse health effects such as, but not limited to; differences in tasting and smelling abilities, lower lung capacity, cancers of various kinds including mouth, throat, and lung cancers, stroke, heart disease, constricts arteries, high blood pressure, COPD which is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema, bronchitis, possible vision problems..." He's just going to rattle on and on about it like fucking Siri.

...is there anything that’s worth more?

The grass was soft, lush green like a carpet. The young leaves in the towering treetops provided a natural canopy, though not as much shade as they would in a month or so, sunlight beaming through like stained glass. Birdsong carried on a light breeze, the babbling of the creek in the near distance creating a soft white noise, just audible. Rico lay in the middle of it all, hands tucked behind his head, eyes closed. His expression, for once, was one of gentle peace. He was at a high point in his life- he had more people who cared for him than he ever had before. Friends. Found family. The new spring grass he was laying on was cool, but as soft as the vision of safe feathers he’d had. Spring, huh. A time where cold, static death was defeated by the rising of warm, new life. Sure, that usually meant leaves and flowers and grass and baby animals. But Rico could feel it within himself as well. That desire he’d grown so intimately familiar with, that constant pleading to some degree for blessed, eternal oblivion… it wasn’t there. He really, truly wanted to be alive.

[meowzerswowzers]

31 minutos help me. save me 31 minutos..

[longlistshort]

Poor People’s Art: A (Short) Visual History of Poverty in the United States at USF Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa uses installations and artworks to tell the story of, and expand perspectives on, The Poor People’s Campaign- from its origins in the late 1960s to the present day form, as well as comment on poverty and other social issues. Both educational and engaging, it shows that despite long struggles and some progress, we are still very far from much needed social change, especially in regards to poverty.

The museum also produced a free full color, 48 page workbook that you can pick up there or download as a PDF that can be downloaded from their website.

From the gallery’s website-

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is well known for his “I Have a Dream” speech, yet much less emphasis is placed on his campaign to seek justice for America’s poor, “The Poor People’s Campaign.” This was a multi-cultural, multi-faith, multi-racial movement aimed at uniting poor people and their allies to demand an end to poverty and inequality. Fifty-three years after Dr. King’s death, the Reverend William Barber II launched a contemporary push to fulfill MLK’s ambitious brief — one that calls for a “revolution of values” that unites poor and impacted communities across the country. The exhibition Poor People’s Art: A (Short) Visual History of Poverty in the United States represents a visual response to Dr. King’s “last great dream” as well as Reverend Barber’s recent “National Call for Moral Revival.”

With artworks spanning more than 50 years, the exhibition is divided into two parts: Resurrection (1968-1994) and Revival (1995-2022). Resurrection includes photographs, paintings, prints, videos, sculptures, books, and ephemera made by a radically inclusive company of American artists, from Jill Freedman’s photographs of Resurrection City, the tent enclave that King’s followers erected on the National Mall in 1968, to John Ahearns’ plaster cast sculpture Luis Fuentes, South Bronx (1979). Revival offers contemporary engagement across a range of approaches, materials, and points of view. Conceived in a declared opposition to poverty, racism, militarism, environmental destruction, health inequities, and other interlocking injustices, this exhibition shows how artists in the US have visualized poverty and its myriad knock-on effects since 1968. Participating artists include John Ahearn, Nina Berman, Martha De la Cruz, Jill Freedman, Rico Gatson, Mark Thomas Gibson, Corita Kent, Jason Lazarus, Miguel Luciano, Hiram Maristany, Narsiso Martinez, Adrian Piper, Robert Rauschenberg, Rodrigo Valenzuela, William Villalongo & Shraddha Ramani, and Marie Watt.

From the museum’s wall plaque about the images from the artists above-

A multimedia visual artist whose work explores themes of history, popular culture, and social justice, Miguel Luciano revisits the history of the Young Lords, a revolutionary group of young Puerto Rican activists who organized for social justice in their communities beginning in the late 1960s. Luciano’s first contribution to Poor People’s Art is a vinyl banner from the public art project Mapping Resistance: The Young Lords in El Barrio (2019), a collaboration with artist Hiram Maristany. It features the photograph “Young Lords Member with Pa’lante Newspaper (1970)” by Maristany, who was the official photographer of the Young Lords and a founding member of the New York chapter. This banner, along with nine other enlarged Maristany photographs, were installed throughout East Harlem at the same locations where their history occurred 50 years prior.

Luciano’s second contribution to Poor People’s Art is the sculpture The People’s Pulpit (2022), a repurposed vintage pulpit from the First Spanish Methodist Church in East Harlem. The Young Lords famously took over the church in 1969 and renamed it “The People’s Church”; they hosted free breakfast programs, clothing drives, health screenings, and other community services there. In this exhibition, The People’s Pulpit features an historic recording of Nuyorican poet Pedro Pietri reciting the celebrated poem Puerto Rican Obituary during the Young Lord’s takeover of The People’s Church.

The central sculpture in the second photo-

Afro-Taino artist Martha De la Cruz fashioned her sculptural installation Techo de sin (Roof of Without), 2021, from stolen, scavenged and donated materials found in Southwest Florida. According to the artist, “Florida is home to a large population of Latin American migrants who have ended up in the US largely due to economic pressures, exploitation and veins of power etched by Europe and the US.” Her powerful work deals with the results of this disjunction and the “symptoms thereabouts (e.g. houselessness, fugitiv-ity, government corruption, and income disparity, etc.).” According to De la Cruz, the word “sin” is a common Dominican mispronunciation for the word “zinc.” The sculpture is animated by a single light bulb that turns on for just ten minutes a day.

From the wall plaque about the Lazarus installation (structure in the 3th, 5th and 6th photos)-

Jason Lazarus’s sculptural installation Resurrection City/Poor People’s Campaign: A National call for Moral Revival/A Third Reconstruction (2023) is anchored in the artist’s historical research and several key photographs of Resurrection City. A tent-like shelter inspired by the temporary residences that populated the 1968 mass protest, the interactive sculpture contains simple sleeping quarters and a curated library filled with physical literature and ephemera centered on both the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign and the 2018 Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, co-led by Rev. Dr.William Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis.

The library allows for audiences to trace, listen, and talk about the history of advocating for the poor, from 1865 to the present. Additionally, the artist provides a custom transcription (and a QR hyperlink) to Barber’s 49-minute address on the syndicated radio show “The Breakfast Club” in which he carefully outlines his powerful vision for how we might address poverty going forward.

About Jill Freedman’s photograph above-

In the spring of 1968, the talented young street photographer Jill Freedman quit her day job as a copywriter in New York City to join the Poor People’s March on Washington. Freedman lived in Resurrection City for the entire six weeks of the encampment’s existence, photographing its residents as they rallied, made speeches, protested in front of government buildings, confronted police, built makeshift kitchens, organized clothing swaps, and dealt with flooding, petty crime, and illness. One of the most important postwar documentarians, and one of the few women photographers of the era, Freedman captured it all. Freedman’s 2017 book, Resurrection City, 1968-from which this exhibition draws a dozen powerful images-showcases the photographs that she made as a participant in the original Poor People’s Campaign. In multiple ways, Freedman’s images are the sympathetic perch upon much of which much of the present exhibition loosely hangs.

This exhibition closes 3/4/23.

[paleode-ology]

the dragon fucking BIT me today. sassy little freak I was literally just trying to give him a bath

[cegodaltonico]

"A ideologia do controle populacional é simplesmente uma combinação de dois fatos: (i) as pessoas produzem a riqueza econômica e o poder militar; (ii) os abastados têm famílias menores. Como bons darwinistas eles [os ricos] perceberam que a população com a maior taxa de fertilidade iria finalmente substituir a população com a menor taxa. A partir dessa percepção atemorizante nasceu a ideia do controle populacional."

E. Michael Jones

[kreture-komforts]

Yes, exactly!!!

Israel is a literal nuclear power, armed by the western world to do what colonizers have done for centuries: commit genocide.

Semantics about how indigenous peoples organize and resist During A Genocide does nothing to help liberate them, and actually only empowers the occupiers to keep us divided on who the real villains are.

Biden did not call for a permanent ceasefire. He called for Israel to “put more effort into protecting civilians and aid workers.” He did not give any specific steps as to how, nor did he specify what the repercussions would be if Israel failed to meet those standards. We have been here before.

[batboyblog]

Things the Biden-Harris Administration Did This Week #37

Oct 4-11 2024

President Biden announced a new EPA rule that will require all lead pipes in America's drinking water systems to be replace with-in 10 years. This builds on the $15 billion the Biden-Harris Administration has already invested in replacing lead pipes nation wide. The administration's focus on this issue has allowed local governments to greatly execrate their lead pipe replacement plans, before Biden took office the city of Milwaukee's timeline for replacing its lead pipes was 60 years, they're now on track to do it in 10. The EPA says there's no safe level of lead in the human body.

Vice President Harris announced she plans to expand Medicare to cover home health care. Currently those who need long term care, are covered by Medicaid, the health program for the poor so have to spend all their savings before they can qualify. This change would allow more seniors to stay in their homes and offer support to caregiving family members. Medicare also covers the disabled thus proving a game changer for the disabled Americans and their families. The Vice President also endorsed expanding Medicare to cover the costs of hearing and vision care.

Medicare released a preliminary list of 101 generic drugs which it would cover that would cost no more than $2 for a month for enrollees. People have long lobbied to allow Medicare to pay for generic drugs which has been resisted by drug companies. Thanks to President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, and in line with a Biden Executive Order Medicare is now working on bring low cost generic drugs to seniors. The list targets some of the most common prescriptions thus will bring savings to the most people.

Domestic Policy Advisor Neera Tanden announced that the Biden-Harris Administration had blown past its goal of hiring 250,000 student support staff for 2024. The joint effort by the Department of Education, AmeriCorps and Everyone Graduates Center managed to hire 320,000 tutors, mentors, student success coaches, postsecondary transition coaches, and student support coordinators nationwide, its goal for the end of 2025.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced $420 million to help get rid of lead paint and other lead hazards from homes. HUD estimates that over 3 million households that have children under the age of 6 live with lead hazards. HUDs grants will go to all 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico with particular focus on low income housing.

[black-fist-order]

THIS WAS ON A FRIEND’S PAGE: An anguished question from a Trump supporter: ‘Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?’

THE SERIOUS ANSWER: Here’s what the majority of anti-Trump voters honestly feel about Trump supporters en masse:

That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought "Fine."

That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, "Okay."

That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, "No problem."

That when he made up stories about seeing Muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, "Not an issue."

That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn't care, you exclaimed, "He sure knows me."

That when you heard him relating a story of an elderly guest of his country club, an 80-year old man, who fell off a stage and hit his head, to Trump replied: “‘Oh my God, that’s disgusting,’ and I turned away. I couldn’t—you know, he was right in front of me, and I turned away. I didn’t want to touch him. He was bleeding all over the place. And I felt terrible, because it was a beautiful white marble floor, and now it had changed color. Became very red.” You said, "That's cool!"

That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw.

That when you heard him brag that he doesn't read books, you said, "Well, who has time?"

That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn't commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, "That makes sense."

That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, "Yes!"

That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man's coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, "What a great guy!"

That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, "Thumbs up!"

That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, "That's the way I want my President to be."

That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they're supposed to be regulating and you have said, "What a genius!"

That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, "That's smart!"

That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was in the middle of water and you have said, "That makes sense."

That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, "falling in love" with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, "That's statesmanship!"

That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids, has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas - he explains that they’re just “animals” - and you say, “Well, OK then.”

That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise.

What you don't get, Trump supporters, is that our succumbing to frustration and shaking our heads, thinking of you as stupid, may very well be wrong and unhelpful, but it's also...hear me...charitable.

Because if you're NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are less flattering.

- Adam-Troy Castro

(To all who agree with its content, I ask that you PLEASE SHARE IT on your own post, and ENCOURAGE OTHERS to do the same.)

[tfgalore]

It was so easy to grab his body off the crowded street. Rico here put up the biggest fight, but nobody even tried to help as he was dragged into the van full of inmates. See, all of us were on a highly-wanted list right after breaking out of prison, and we had to lay low. One of the other inmates suggested another living human. I mean, what better way to lay low than to walk about in someone else’s skin!

Once we had Rico tied down, it was easy enough for us to plant the device on his head. Taking turns transferring each of our memories and consciousness through, soon, there were ten inmates in Rico’s head, with the poor hunk himself relegated to the trunk of his mind with the smartest and most cunning of us in the driver seat. That just happened to be me.

With our previous, doomed bodies lifeless, I stepped out of the van, a huge grin on my face. Even the air felt different through Rico’s nose. More crisp. I felt more energy than I had in a long time, and walking no longer made my legs or back ache. That was probably thanks to just how built Rico was. The first thing I did when I got back was to snap a shirtless picture of myself to commemorate this perfect moment, before I sat down and started to scroll on Rico’s Instagram and social medias. Why, you might ask? To find the perfect hosts for all 9 of my friends of course~

[schrodingers-most-anoyingsubject]

he always say good the stuff i can't say, thanks for talking for us

It's getting really fucking hard to have sympathy for Americans.

I do have a few American friends who are deeply upset with what's happening in their own country, and I'm really trying to keep supporting them and bring them comfort.

But it's hard to have any sort of kindness to spare for a country that doomed itself and made sure to bring down the entire world along with it.

The majority of America voted for a man that is very obviously a rotten prick, to the point where he was considered more of a fucking clown than a politician. And he wasn't even trying to hide it!! They just all chose to stay blind and ignore the very fucking big problem displayed right in front of their eyes!!

Because America is cultivating the most disgusting kind of mock of a culture, based on ignorance, denial and stupidity, the whole thing sealed with a good lethal dose of decomplexed colonialism.

If only the impact of their own dumb decisions stopped at their frontier, the rest of the world wouldn't be holding its breath waiting to be fucked over and bent backwards, but of course, America had to make itself the most influent and dominating power by spending years manipulating, repressing, taxing, claiming ressources, and spreading lies in every single other country, while proving itself to be incapable of being trusted with impactful decisions.

And when said countries tried to warn your stupid American asses that it was going to end up badly, for all of us? No one even fucking listened!! You all kept looking at your own feet while running straight into a fucking wall that everyone warned you was there.

All of motherfucking Europe currently has to watch your dumbass country repeat our history that you were supposed to learn about and not repeat, and we all know, you included, that you're going to fall to your own doom. But somehow you also had to make it our problem by being an absolute asshole of a capitalistic machine.

And we're supposed to stay open-minded! To think about the oppressed people in your country and how to set them free without making them abandon their country, like it's our business, like we're not all convinced that your country is an absolute disgrace to mankind and that anyone with common sense would rather throw up than set a foot in there!

So yeah, I'm angry, and this is unfair, but what about the countless nazi parties, terrorists and general troublemakers that your country has financed all over the world to disrupt peace in hope of claiming more territories and control and power? Yeah, this is not fair either. So I think I deserve to throw a tantrum, for once, instead of crying for your helpless scatterbrained idiotic asses in silence.

Everything about the USA is wrong on so many levels that I'll give myself a headache before I can name every single thing I hate about this country.

All I will say is that I'm trying - we're all trying - to be nice, and empathetic, and patient, and understanding. But it isn't easy. It keeps getting harder, in fact, because no matter how indulgent and gentle we are with your mistakes and fuck ups, you somehow seem to always find a way to do worse the next time, and we're starting to lose hope on the fact that you'll one day wake up and stop this madness.