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no soy de aquí ni soy de allá

[penyezperev]

Salvadoran women not giving an ounce of a fuck about pissing off the Reagan administration.

[bellezonero]

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who have to constantly explain that black people do exist in Latin America. 

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who have to deal with racism from white/mestizo Latinxs 

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who only speak English, it just a language, it doesn’t make you any less or more Latinxs 

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who speak Spanish, but have to explain why they speak Spanish so perfectly

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who get asked if they are Dominican

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who are now identifying as an Afro-Latinx and accepting their blackness

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who struggle calling themselves black because your nationality was your race

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who don’t identify as black, but are fully aware and embrace their African blood

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who struggle with African Americans who calls you black, but don’t accept you. 

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who are Dominicans but are not anti-black nor anti-Haitian

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who struggle to find a place where they belong. 

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who have their experiences dismissed by both African Americans and non Afro-Latinxs

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who are dark-skin 

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who are light-skin

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who are pure black/African descent 

shoutout to Afro-Latinxs who are mixed/bi-racial/tri-racial 

shoutout to every single Afro-Latinx in this world cause I am a proud Afro-Latino and I love mi gente. I pray to God everyday and every night that y’all are very proud to be Afro-Latinxs and wear it pride because being an Afro-Latinx is a gift, not given. 

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Heavily needed this.

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[palabrasderesistencia]

“As ICE raids targeting people who entered the U.S in 2014 and who have order of removals begin here is what to do if ICE knocks on your door, you have rights!!!!/ Con la redadas de inmigracion en busqueda de la gente con ordenes de deportation esto es lo que debes de hacer si la migra toca tu puerta, si tienes derechos!!!!!”

From the Families for Freedom facebook page

PLEASE BOOST!

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[mala-luna]

when your makeups on fleek and your ready to do some perra shit but have no friends cuz you just moved to the bay. WHERE MY PERRAS @ IN THE BAY? WHERE THE PISSED OFF BABES IN THE BAY?

[mala-luna]

i watched both seasons of oitnb, and i always had this discomforting/conflicting feeling. YES the cast has amazing poc actors, and i think thats what i most enjoyed.. BUT its fucked up to romanticize prison not matter what. Prison isn't a joke REAL shit happens on the dailyy. its isn't some fucking temporary slumber party. AND its fucking crazy that they created some romance story between a guard and an inmate aka rape.. plus fuck piper.

[onresistanceradio]

**Above pictures are, “a childrens view from Gaza” art work created by children from Gaza depicting the 2012 war

A children’s view from Gaza, is an exhibition of children’s art that reflects the horrors adults and children living in the Gaza Strip. The exhibition travels the world since 2012 and has been LONG LIVE PALESTINE! [Show & Info Drop] Check out our newest show with independent journalist Noor Harazeen from Gaza on the current attacks by Israeli occupying forces, plus other Palestinian solidarity related news. 

This show along with all past shows can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/on-resistance/long-live-palestine If you’re in the LA area you can listen to the show live on 90.7 KPFK @1:30pm on Sunday, July 20 Update:  A day after our interview,”Here is our office ! The Israeli warplanes targeted an apartment in Al-Jawhara building and our media agency is located just next to it .. I thought we journalists were protected ! NOT if you are a Palestinian journalist” https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=654703484603740&set=a.108263095914451.14202.100001922831961&type=1&theater «References/Resources/Information»

https://www.facebook.com/updatefromgaza https://twitter.com/Noor_Harazeen

"When I last spoke to Noor the number of Palestinians that were murdered was 220, now with ground troops and tanks the numbers have increased to to over 350 human beings murdered electricity was only available for 8 hours now they have no electricity the We talked about the idea of numbers, there becomes a time when you become desensitize to it all, shoot I’ve even heard people say when Israel first started bombing Gaza, well isn’t Israel always bombing gaza what else is new. Sure, from our cozy beds on our computers it seems like nothing new, we scroll through pictures of dead bodies and broken limbs on our newsfeed and wonder if those who posted it are in poor taste or not, type our anger statuses or rants like the one I’m typing now but still, we sit here under our fascist regime and we do nothing. Even with all our anger and sadness and fury we sit here and do nothing. The goal of Israel has been made clear, in the words of Israels MP, “they want all the Palestinian mother’s to be killed so there can be no more”.  So the question will we allow for this to continue to happen? Our government (whether you pledge allegiance to them or not, everytime you buy something you pay a sales tax) gives this fascist regime 3.6 billion dollars a year so that Israel can test out all of their experimental weapons. France banned Pro-Palestine protest, and the people responded by rioting in the streets. The US government senators voting UNAMNIOUSLY in favor of Israel, what are we going to do to show solidarity? Are we going to be scared to take a street? Break a window? Shut down intersections? There is no pleading with power, we can only to demand it. 

Solidarity is a verb, and I apologize for our inaction, which has allowed for us to be complicit in your murder.” - Bobby London

"This rhetoric of “both sides” implies that pain and fault belong equally to Palestinians and Israelis. It erases manifold, unmistakable, qualitative and quantitative differences at play in Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip and the political-historical context in which this is taking place — most centrally, that what is occurring is part of a settler-colonial invasion.

“Both sides” rhetoric refuses to make even the easiest, most obvious judgment, to which any honest evaluation of the information points: that Israel is massacring Palestinian adults and children, 77% of whom are civilians, and subjecting them to collective punishment; that Israel evidently claims for itself a right to extra-judicially execute anyone who it says is a Hamas member, a practice too few among even Palestine’s allies have denounced; that Israel is bombarding what is essentially a giant refugee camp home to an imprisoned population of a people Israel has ethnically cleansed, occupied, subjected to apartheid, and repeatedly slaughtered; that international law does not grant Israel a “right to defend itself” against the Gaza Strip. And that international law does grant Palestinians a right to resist using armed struggle.”

A Plague on One House

http://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/07/a-plague-on-one-house/

Obama Humiliates Muslim Guests at White House Ramadan Event, Endorses Israel’s Gaza

Assault and NSA Surveillance

http://www.alternet.org/world/obama­humiliates­muslim­white­house­guests­endorsing-israels­gaza­assault­defending­nsa?akid=12027.15725.Xr1laf&rd=1&src=newsletter1011772&t=8&paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark

CNN removes reporter Diana Magnay from Israel­Gaza after calling Israelis celebrating the death of Palestinian civilians ‘scum’

http://thepeoplesrec.com/post/92161480579/cnn­removes­reporter­diana­magnay­from­israel­gaza

A children’s view from gaza

http://is-vero.tumblr.com/post/92167237683/a-childrens-view-from-gaza-is-an-exhibition-of

Health crisis looms in Gaza after Israel bombs water infrastructure

http://english.al­akhbar.com/content/health­crisis­looms­gaza­after­israel­bombs­water­infrastructure

Mark Gonzales ­- Gaza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RLkcqnbDw4&feature=youtu.be

"War is cruel, it distorts the human characteristics within us, no matter our ability to withstand. Before anyone thinks about the restoration and reconstruction of Gaza after the war, they must think seriously about the way to restore the lives of the people of Gaza, and sew up the holes within them,because what Israel ultimately aims to do is kill us, or at least demolish our spirit and ability to live."

Todos somos gaza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVeESyw96zU&feature=youtu.be

The Palestinian Authority stands in the way of the Palestinian struggle

"The PA has long been criticized for being counterproductive to the Palestinian struggle. Concerns range from financial corruption to security collaboration with Israel. The PA has been rightly accused of being a proxy for the Israeli occupation in so­called Areas A and B of the occupied West Bank.These are the areas designated under the 1993 Oslo accords, comprising about a third of the West Bank, where PA forces keep order and calm on behalf of the occupation."

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/jalal­abukhater/palestinian­authority­stands­way­palestinian-struggle

" We need to acknowledge this privilege that allows us to measure and manage our risk, to avoid action, response and consequence. To allow only impacted people targeted by state terror to experience it- as most separate ourselves for more ‘reasonable’ and ‘appealing’ courses of action/inaction. Ultimatelt avoiding managing distorting or erasing conflict rather than facing it. This isnt true of all of our people, because there is genocide and degrees of imprisonment on amerikan streets. But most people know that the closer you get to effectively challenging the narrative/supporting the resistance…the oppression and the eyes of the state apparatus (which has networks beyond borders for they are the only institution worthy to market such relationships) will train on YOU. Everyone knows this, and it is accepted and tolerated. #repression and #collectivepunishment from #gaza to #egypt and the world over, by all illegitimate governmental institutions against the people who attempt to self determine their own conditions. Colonialism has to be maintained through force, and even if we say otherwise, we accept this. Because the colonizers actions (and the state) carry legitimacy, and we are mostly people who have resigned our power. Though we may agitate desperately to remind ourselves that this doesnt have to be the case and it isnt inevitable or absolute. The Palestinians and all affected by this military regime and all the regimes set up to serve this countries interests such as Israel, will continue to suffer because of our own and amerikas self preservation."

Free Palestine

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9D031FBBA0D515D6

Counter Insurgency:

http://mondoweiss.net/…/pro­israel­handbook­explains…

Counter Insurgency in the US:

https://publicintelligence.net/hamas­sympathizers­in­new…/

Today in Gaza – no electricity, no water, no respite

http://revolution­news.com/today­gaza­electricity­water­respite/

Gaza: Israel’s $4 billion gas grab

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2482929/gaza_israels_4_billion_gas_grab.html

War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields

http://www.globalresearch.ca/war­and­natural­gas­the­israeli­invasion­and­gaza­s­offshore­gas-fields/11680

AF3IRM SPEAKS OUT AGAINST BORDER BRUTALITIES: WOMEN SEEK TO TEAR DOWN WALLS, FROM PALESTINE TO THE US AND MEXICO!

http://www.af3irm.org/af3irm/2014/07/af3irm­speaks­out­against­border­brutalities­women- seek­to­tear­down­walls­from­palestine­to­the­us­and­mexico/

“We oppose the Zionist­Eurocentric foundation of the State of Israel that claims a racist, exclusionary, and privileged Jewish identity and discriminates citizenship and land title rights on the basis of race. Instead, we support the creation of a free, independent, anti­oppressive, and democratic society within historic Palestine. This includes the right to return of Palestinian refugees and global freedom of movement into Palestine for those who desire it. We believe that the right to mobility, which is primarily the reality for millions of poor and racialized migrants who are indigenous to the global South, is distinct from capitalist settler­colonialism that destroys or assimilates existing societies and justifies theft of land and resources for the benefit of a privileged group.

Given the Israeli government and its imperialist allies’ monopoly over state violence, we believe it is necessary to support the right to Palestinian armed resistance, which has even been affirmed by the imperialist international legal regime. We reject the false dichotomy of violent and non­violent resistance, a Eurocentric construct that serves to divide, simplify, and decontextualize diverse movements.”

NOII­Van Basis of Unity on Palestine

https://noii­van.resist.ca/?p=640

A poem by a Palestinian girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqLFKDUXoEI

Detroit rallies largest turnout for Palestine in years

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/jimmy­johnson/detroit­rallies­largest­turnout­palestine­years

The Palestinian struggle is a black struggle

http://electronicintifada.net/content/palestinian­struggle­black­struggle/12530

The long history of Black ­Palestinian solidarity

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/03/04/18751929.php

LAPD relationship with Israel

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania­khalek/lapd­goes­israel­falls­love­drones­and­mass-surveillance

DHS open fire on Palestine solidarity activist

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania­khalek/police­open­fire­palestine­solidarity­activists­los-angeles­rally­israel

D.I.M.E.

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania­khalek/israel­firing­experimental­weapons­gazas­civilians-say­doctors

Egypt blocks aid convoy from entering Gaza

http://english.al­akhbar.com/content/egypt­blocks­aid­convoy­entering­gaza utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AlAkhbarEnglish+(Al+Akhbar+English)

if you’re going to protest an embassy…Turkish protestors raise Palestinian flag on israel consulate 

http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/07/turkish-protestors-just-took-the-israeli-embassy-raised-palestinian-÷÷flag/

[thesociologicalcinema]

Mayan Women reversing that white settler-colonial gaze.

[mala-luna]

can i go back to my home planet now?

im done with los angeles..

[jedavu]

THE DARK SIDE OF DREAMS 

In the late 1960’s, photographer Arthur Tress began a series of photographs that were inspired by the dreams of children. Tress had each child he approached tell him about a prominent dream of theirs which Tress would then artistically re-create and photograph with the child as the main subject. 

[fyqueerlatinxs]

"Loving the Bony Lady"

Arely Gonzalez’s bedroom is dominated by a giant altar; at its center a skeleton draped in jewelry and dressed in a sparkling jade gown. She is La Santa Muerte—The Holy Death—the object of Gonzalez’s affection, a powerful ally in a precarious life and a source of comfort—even miracles, some say—when nothing else helps.

Also known as La Flaca—the Skinny Lady—Santa Muerte has been worshipped in Mexico since the early twentieth century. Her origins are murky, perhaps a merging of Aztec or Mayan death deities with Catholic traditions. The Catholic Church of Mexico condemns her as blasphemy or devil worship, yet her popularity has exploded in the past decade, beginning in 2001 when a poor grandmother and resident of the Tepito neighborhood of Mexico City erected an outdoor altar to the bony saint. Today, millions of Mexicans are devotees of Santa Muerte, and her cult has crossed the border into the U.S. Popularly known as the “sinner’s saint,” Santa Muerte has a large following among drug-runners, prostitutes and Mexican prisoners. For anyone living outside of official society, she offers a kind of salvation.

Gonzalez, an trans immigrant, suffered discrimination and was kicked out of churches in Mexico. But in New York, she has become a leader in the community of Santa Muerte devotees. In addition to her bedroom shrine, which is the largest private Santa Muerte shrine in the city, Gonzales organizes a yearly celebration for her saint. It’s a party, but one of veneration–a kind of thanksgiving for the year of miracles brought by Santa Muerte.

Great video, check it out!

[dopeassnativeamerican]

[cultureunseen]

Salute to Sister Soldier Yuri Kochiyama! Born May 19, 1921 (93 years young and strong) An extraordinary Japanese American woman who spoke out and fought shoulder-to-shoulder with African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and Whites for social justice, civil rights, and prisoners and women’s rights in the U.S. and internationally for over half a century. A prolific writer and speaker on human rights, Kochiyama has spoken at over 100 colleges and universities and high schools in the U.S. and Canada. http://www.amazon.com/Heartbeat-Struggle-Revolutionary-Kochiyama-Critical/dp/0816645930

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