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On Thursday August 14th, 2014, Feminsta Jones called for a National Moment of Silence (NMOS) to pay ‘respect to fatal victims of police shootings and brutality’. New Orleans, a (for now…) majority black city with a long history of police violence...

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its like im in my own fucking world i speak how i feel sometimes i feel like im just too fucking real

foxy brown

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i'm alive. my survival is my ancestors' greatest accomplishment.

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caring ways

today

my soul made space

for more love

and warmth

and tenderness

because today

loved ones old and new

remembered

and (re)imagined

and (re)created

ways to care

for each other

caring ways

which were stolen

and plundered

and appropriated

ways they’d rather us forget

but today

we helped each other

claim the power

that is rightfully ours

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The concentration of money in the hands of a very small group is the most dangerous thing that has ever happened to civilization.

harry belafonte

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https://www.facebook.com/SuicideBySunlightsuicide by sunlight

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its almost my birfday bitches

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Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

Assata Shakur (via existenti-al)

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The purpose of a writer is to make revolution irresistible.

Toni Cade Bambara (via colourthysoul)

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the specials - racist friend

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Any Black person in amerika [sic], if they are being honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they don’t know what it feels like to be free. We aren’t free politically, economically, or socially. We have very little power over what happens in our lives. In fact, a Black person isn’t free to walk down the street. Walk down the wrong street, in the wrong neighborhood at night, and you know what happens.

Assata Shakur (via unincarcerated)

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especially in queer community.

especially in queer people of color community.

call outs exist in the same fucked up world that we all struggle to survive in. they exist right alongside our anxiety, our fear, our pain, our sense of isolation, our depression, the knowledge that we were never meant...

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This is a statement against the LGBT Pride event, attended by local LGBT activists and organisations, that took place this morning at the United States Embassy in Nairobi. The statement was drafted by a group of we who wanted to create a dissenting opinion to linkages between US Imperialism and LGBTIQ/MSM initiatives in Kenya. A subsequent take down of the event and its implications here.

We, a collective of LGBTIQ Africans, recognising that we do not represent a singular voice of African  LGBTIQ people, but rather speak from the strength of our plurality, take a stand against imperialism and oppose the celebration of the proposed gay pride event, organised by the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.

While LGBTIQ and proud, we recognise that we continue to live under the oppression of imperialism imposed by the policies of the United States government.

We stand in solidarity with communities in Kenya and around Africa, who suffer directly from oppressive US policies including, but not limited to:

The Muslim communities of Coastal and North Eastern Kenya who are summarily persecuted on supposed Anti-Terrorism actions.

The sex worker communities who have been victims of US funding policy discrimination and remain affected by preventable and controllable diseases.

The economically marginalised communities that suffer from unfair trade agreements, ODS debt, and structural adjustment programmes that have crippled basic services.

The people of Libya and Somalia who are victims of USA militarism.

African farmers who are oppressed by market agricultural policies imposed to feed a greedy empire.

Mother Earth whose wealth and nourishment is depleted to sustain the insatiable hunger of super-capitalism.

We also stand in solidarity with those resisting US imperialism in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and everywhere around the world including the USA.

Towards an Africa free from all forms of oppression!

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