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While police around the country are raiding campuses and brutalizing student protesters, the authorities are once again trotting out narratives about "outside agitators."

They do this whenever a movement gets out of their control. It is one of the most basic tactics in their playbook, and they employ it indiscriminately.

As we wrote in 2014, during the demonstrations in Ferguson in response to the murder of Michael Brown,

"Rhetoric about 'outside agitators' is a military operation intended to isolate and target an enemy: divide and conquer. The enemy that the authorities are aiming at is predominantly black and brown, but it is not just a specific social body; it is also an aspect of our humanity, a part of all of us. The ultimate goal of the police is not so much to brutalize and pacify specific individuals as it is to extract rebelliousness itself from the social fabric. They seek to externalize agitation, so anyone who stands up for herself will be seen as an outsider."

http://crimethinc.com/texts/agitators

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Water Tower,  Alcatraz Series, Mark Sension Photographer

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Shailene Woodley went on The Late Show to talk about how we can keep up the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline

“The front lines don’t necessarily have to be in North Dakota,” she explained. “The front lines can be wherever you are. You can create a protest in New York City, because protests are about awareness and about people coming together.” She also had some comments about the one thing she wished she’d known when she was taking her now-famous mug shot.

Gifs: The Late Show

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“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.”

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Samuel P. Huntington, cited on the ‘Where is Raed?’ website, a day-to-day journal of everyday life in Baghdad under bombardment.

Extract in Robert J. C. Young, Postcolonialism, A Very Short Introduction (UK: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 32.

(via literature-and-cats)

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Some colours in Anishinaabemowin

ᒪᑲᑌᐙ- makadewaa (black)

ᒥᔅᒀ- miskwaa (red)

ᐅᔖᐗᔥᑳ- ozhaawashkaa (blue or green)

ᐙᐱᔥᑳ- waabishkaa (white)

ᐙᐱᒌᔮ- waabijiiyaa (grey)

ᑳᐅᓵᐎᒥᓇᑭᓯᑦ- gaa-ozaawiminagizid (colour orange or an orange (the fruit))

ᐅᔖᐙ- ozhaawaa (yellow or brown)

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Communing with the Buffalo Spirit:  an illustration from a 1907 issue of The Windsor magazine.       

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"No human being is illegal"

Graphic by Calderwood Illustrations

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Kananginak Pootoogook

Games of Strength, 1977

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From Waddington’s

Part of the Cape Dorset Series,a collection of uncatalogued prints that do not appear in the annual graphics catalogue, except when taken from the archives. Sometimes called ‘Northern Editions,' these prints were, at outset, only sold in Cape Dorset. In this image pairs engage in different games to test strength. Such as ear tugging, which uses a piece of soft leather around the contestant’s ears; arm wrestling; and the tugging game, the objective of which is to pull your opponent off the ground.

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Lmao how is this real, "the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir"

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Concordia and McGill University students in Montreal, Canada have began an indefinite encampment to demand an end to the genocide in Palestine and divestment.

Students in over 56 universities in US, Britain, Australia, France, and now Canada have begun indefinite encampments.

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Hi! I'm Decol!

TLDR: I can't work cuz I'm disabled meaning my trans gf is our family of 3's only income.

To try and help with bills, rent, and other needs I set a goal to try raising through Tumblr. It isn't much, but it's the help I can offer her so that's what I do.

Rn we're falling behind on rent and we get a late fee on the 5th, so if you can help out by sending anything to help us reach the goal before then we'd appreciate it!

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A Tribe Called Red - Sisters ft Northern Voice

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Eva Talooki Aliktikuk

Mother and Child, c.1980s ~

“Talooki’s beadwork ranges from a few simple strands in some cases to highly elaborate clothing and adornments that have the look almost of royal regalia or liturgical vestments. In an example like this the beadwork is not mere trimming.”