American Wanderlust

I'm a global citizen, educator, and former union leader; with an academic background in the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa. Cities around the world feel like my home. I'm a professional Educator. I believe in Solidarity, wherever I am. Notes from my travels, research, and encounters tend to end up here.

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Copenhagen,Denmark

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i knew this australian girl last year and when talking about aboriginals she was all “they need to get over it australia was colonised and civilised by white people and aboriginals are lucky to live here” but she would straight up cry about sharks like “i just can’t bELIEVE we cull sharks even though the ocean is THEIR home and has been since before we started wading about in it!! we don’t own the ocean! we go into their space and then KILL them just for existing….in their OWN habitat!!! it makes me sick” 

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it’s really true that white ppl are more readily able to empathise w animals than w POC …..mess

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It’s this kind of broad generalization that antagonizes your allies.

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If your status as an ally to POC is conditional upon us tiptoeing around you and always picking our words in case you take it personally and get offended by it then guess what….you’re not an ally. Your feelings are not our priority and it is the epitome of white privilege for you to expect them to be.

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Rome,Italy

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New York City: Hands Off Syria – Stop U.S. Wars at Home & Abroad! April 15, 2018

Photos by redguard

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My City

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Natalie Portman pulls out of Israel award due to 'distressing recent events' there

Jerusalem-born actor was due to receive 2018 Genesis prize but cancels saying she ‘cannot in good conscience move forward with the ceremony’

This took too long, but is good regardless.

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Teen replants hundreds of mangroves that were destroyed by Hurricane Irma

Florida 18-year-old Theo Quenee grew and planted mangroves after the devastation of Hurricane Irma.

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I kept all my plastic for a year – the 4,490 items forced me to rethink

Daniel Webb accrued a mountain of plastic – including many packets of Hula Hoops – and made it into a mural, now on display at Dreamland in Margate. We are overproducing and overconsuming, he says, and recycling is not the answer

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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

Arundathi Roy (via knotthatimnot)

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Cercis by Dragan* on Flickr.

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Only Assad’s victory will end Syria’s civil war. The west can do nothing | Simon Jenkins

The chemical attack in Douma was horrific. But western military intervention would only prolong Syria’s suffering, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The 1997 world chemical weapons convention was an advance in defining “acceptable” forms of killing in war. Its defect was that small, poor countries had larger stockpiles. Nor could they see much distinction between their chlorine and sarin and Nato’s horrific cluster bombs and white phosphorous. Photographs of choking children make graphic television, but at least they might survive. We never see the body parts of those blasted to pieces by high-explosive missiles. Inhumanity lies in the killing of any civilians in war. There is something peculiarly abhorrent in the targeting of civilian areas of suburban Damascus. But for all its denials the west does it too. Last summer, the monitor Airwars estimated that more than 8,000 civilians died in the fall of Mosul, mostly from inevitably indiscriminate Iraqi, American and British missiles. Even the Pentagon accepts that it has killed hundreds of civilians in Iraq and Syria. As the British commander Maj Gen Rupert Jones says, civilian deaths are “the price you pay” for fighting in cities. Assad would agree.The laws of war are enveloped in hypocrisy, largely because they are written by the winners. The US has still not signed the convention against delayed-action cluster bombs, one of the most immoral weapons ever devised. They went out of production only last year. Such weapons are still being used by the west’s Saudi allies in Yemen. This whole argument is not over morality, merely degrees of obscenity.

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Hey Kempe, you never told me you had a tumblr 👀 how's life?

I barely use it but I'm getting back on I guess. Life's good man. You're 20. That's crazy. Whats going on in your world?

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French rail staff stage 'Black Tuesday' protests against overhaul

National and international services hit on first day of rolling walkouts over Macron reforms

“I’m neither for or against this strike. I’ll put up with it because rail workers are fighting for exactly what I’m fighting for every day: a pay cheque to be able to put food on the table,” said one 50-year-old school support worker who had woken at 4am to commute from Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. She said she saw Macron as the “president of the rich” whose manifesto benefited the higher echelons of society, while the rail workers defended the interest of everyday people. - Angelique Chrisafis for The Guardian

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This is what occupation looks like

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Tonight in NYC!