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Les statues meurent aussi (Ghislain Cloquet, Chris Marker & Alain Resnais, 1953).

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Statues also Die is a good film for those interested in art and museums. Commissioned and partially paid by Présence Africaine it was released in 1953. The film shows how the treatement of African art (called Art Nègre at the time and considered simpler) and Colonialism erased African cultures and denied African and Black people the dignity of their past. It was forbidden as in the ‘50 French still had colonies in Africa, it was allowed on 1963. 

You can watch it here in (French with English subtitles) [many scenes of colonial France and an animals suffering dying]

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“Mining companies buy land in Greenland with the knowledge that melting ice will reveal new mineral and oil reserves. Private security firms prepare to defend wealthy clients from civil unrest caused by droughts, floods, and famines. Dutch engineering companies sell flood-management expertise and plans for floating cities. Wealthy investors buy vast swathes of farmland in the Global South in hope of cashing in when droughts make arable land scarce. Many millions will die from the effects of global warming and capitalists are counting on it.”

— Kai Heron and Jodi Dean, Revolution or Ruin

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“Light is what enfolds all the universe as well. For example, if you’re looking at this room, the whole room is enfolded into the light which enters the pupil of your eye and unfolds into the image and into your brain. Light in its generalized sense (not just ordinary light) is the means by which the entire universe unfolds into itself.”

— David Bohm

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David Wojnarowicz from Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City

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Sometimes I come to hate people because they can’t see where I am. I’ve gone empty, completely empty and all they see is the visual form: my arms and legs, my face, my height and posture, the sounds that come from my throat. But I’m fucking empty. The person I was just one year ago no longer exists, drifts spinning slowly into the ether somewhere way back there.

David Wojnarowicz (via wordsthat-speak)

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There’s an urgent need for donations to Yemen

Please donate what you can through the IRC using the link below. They seem to have a good reputation for transparency.

Yemen

Yemen is facing the largest humanitarian crisis of our time: two-thirds of the population is at risk of starvation. The International Rescue

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Please keep spreading. The people of Yemen need us. Donate what you can. Every little bit helps.