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Woman Missing From Oakland: Please Share, Reblog and RT

Erica Maskalerias

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My 9 year-old student wrote this journal entry earlier in the school year. His father has been in prison since before he can remember.

We could seriously use his Hulk right now.

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preview for the austerity journal

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We are not here to shut anything or anyone down.

The question of shame has come up in response to information about our panel on Saturday, specifically regarding the anti-pharmaceutical position, and the very real experiences many people have had being shamed for taking meds to deal with mental...

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RADICALIZING MENTAL HEALTH: Addressing Mental Health Issues in Radical Communities March 2nd, 2013 2-5pm @ The Holdout 2313 San Pablo Ave, Oakland CA This event is FREE  Childcare will be provided!  Come join us for our first ever event & seminar! We are hoping this will be the first event in a series addressing various issues in mental health, focusing on mental health within radical communities. We will be discussing systematic oppression and trauma, depathologizing and demedicalizing mental illness, what you need to know about your rights when you talk to a therapist, etc. We also hope to provide a full resource list for mental health help in the Bay Area.  Future events will be covering: anxiety, depression, trauma & PTSD, the patriarchy, queers, trans, and poc & mental health (respectively), spirtuality and healing in radical communities, etc etc. We are super open to suggestions. For questions or concerns email: breadandrosesEAD@gmail.com —— Bread and Roses Mental Health Working Group is an anti-capitalist collective interested in broadening political analysis by removing mental health from the medical and personal contexts and addressing it as a community and social issue that intersects with struggles against white supremacy, patriarchy, colonialism, and other forms of oppression. We want to open a regular space for conversations about mental health that deepen our understanding of these intersections, address the ways our community might replicate oppressive structures, and develop skills to be with one another in our daily lives and in the streets as a strategy to attack the state and resist oppression. Strong communities build strong resistance.

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(via zunguzungu)

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'what happens between bodies during an occupation is more interesting than the occupation itself.' (tiqqun, introduction to civil war)

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We Are Wall Street...We are Smarter and More Vicious than [Dinosaurs]

(the following is an email being passed around the inboxes of people working for financial firms, etc.)

We are wall Street...we are smarter and more vicious than [dinosaurs] Posted by Stacy-Marie Ishmael <http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/author/ishmaels/> on Apr 30 19:19. If anyone knows who wrote the following email, which has been pinging around Wall Street and across prop desks, tell 'em get in touch with FT Alphaville. We like the writing style. "We are Wall Street. It's our job to make money. Whether it's a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesn't matter. We would trade baseball cards if it were profitable. I didn't hear America complaining when the market was roaring to 14,000 and everyone's 401k doubled every 3 years. Just like gambling, its not a problem until you lose. I've never heard of anyone going to Gamblers Anonymous because they won too much in Vegas. Well now the market crapped out, & even though it has come back somewhat, the government and the average Joes are still looking for a scapegoat. God knows there has to be one for everything. Well, here we are. Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you're only going to hurt yourselves. What's going to happen when we can't find jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: We're going to take yours. We get up at 5am & work till 10pm or later. We're used to not getting up to pee when we have a position. We don't take an hour or more for a lunch break. We don't demand a union. We don't retire at 50 with a pension. We eat what we kill, and when the only thing left to eat is on your dinner plates, we'll eat that. For years teachers and other unionized labor have had us fooled. We were too busy working to notice. Do you really think that we are incapable of teaching 3rd graders and doing landscaping? We're going to take your cushy jobs with tenure and 4 months off a year and whine just like you that we are so-o-o-o underpaid for building the youth of America. Say goodbye to your overtime and double time and a half. I'll be hitting grounders to the high school baseball team for $5k extra a summer, thank you very much. So now that we're going to be making $85k a year without upside, Joe Mainstreet is going to have his revenge, right? Wrong! Guess what: we're going to stop buying the new 80k car, we aren't going to leave the 35 percent tip at our business dinners anymore. No more free rides on our backs. We're going to landscape our own back yards, wash our cars with a garden hose in our driveways. Our money was your money. You spent it. When our money dries up, so does yours. The difference is, you lived off of it, we rejoiced in it. The Obama administration and the Democratic National Committee might get their way and knock us off the top of the pyramid, but it's really going to hurt like hell for them when our fat a**es land directly on the middle class of America and knock them to the bottom. We aren't dinosaurs. We are smarter and more vicious than that, and we are going to survive. The question is, now that Obama & his administration are making Joe Mainstreet our food supply...will he? and will they?"

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tentacular:

Faced with institutional pressure to sign off on violent reaction, to side with power against justice, the great majority of self-styled radicals ‘working within the system’ quan. A very few, though, have the guts to fraser. 

Proposal for two new verbs