Me: I am literally sitting at home doing nothing. My only obligation this evening is to take out the trash. Work went well today. What exactly is the problem????
A proposed oil pipeline is set to begin construction on tribal lands in North Dakota. Members of various Native American reservations gathered Monday to try to stop it.
Riders from the Standing Rock, Rosebud, and Lower Brule Lakota reservations came together on horseback to push back a police line that had formed between a group of protesters and the entrance to the Dakota Access Pipeline construction site.
Last week, the federal government gave final approval to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which will run for 1,172 miles to transport crude oil from North Dakotaâs Bakken oilfields to Patoka, Illinois.
Hundreds of protesters, primarily Lakota and Dakota from Native American reservations within a several-hundred-mile radius, convened over the weekend at the edge of the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota to voice their anger.
The pipeline would travel through lands sacred to the Lakota people, and cross under the Missouri, Mississippi, and Big Sioux rivers.
A possible spill, which can occur with pipelines, would mean contaminating farmland and drinking water for millions.
After a series of tense interactions with North Dakota state police on Monday, the protesters succeeded in temporarily halting the beginning stages of construction.
Protesters stand at the front barricades of the protest zone, holding signs that read âWater is sacredâ and âMni Wiconiâ (âWater is lifeâ in Lakota).
Horses and riders from the Rosebud reservation arrive to support the Standing Rock community. The horses are in traditional Lakota regalia.
Protesters congregate next to a construction site for the Dakota Access Pipeline on Monday morning, as a crew arrives with machinery and materials to begin cutting a work road into the hillside. The flag in the foreground belongs to the American Indian Movement.
North Dakota state police form a line between the protesters and the entrance to the construction site as a tank truck turns into the property.
A protester is arrested for standing on the outer layer of barricades that separate the protest site from the police line and construction zone on Monday morning.
A protester is arrested for standing on the outer layer of barricades that separate the protest site from the police line and construction zone on Monday morning.
Two young Lakota boys watch as construction machinery drives onto the Dakota Access Pipeline construction site, just over a mile from the banks of the Missouri River
After the protesters disrupted the construction site and shut down work for the day, a group marched up to the main gates.
Children play in the Missouri River, a mile from the proposed construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
I know this one! Gender is when rich people move into poor neighborhoods and make it too expensive for the poor people to live there, so they have to move
No, youâre thinking of general.
Gender is the final evolution of a line of ghost-type pokemon released in the color cartridge pokemon games and which has long been rumored to be the spirit or the shadow of a dead clefable.
No, youâre thinking of a gander. Â Gender is a root is used as a spice, both fresh and dried; itâs also very tasty candied, pickled, or rendered into a flavoring syrup.
the argument that the arab world is falling apart because of its poorly drawn borders falls apart if you look at borders literally anywhere else on the planet. africa? completely arbitrary. south and southeast asia? drawn at the whims of the colonisers. fucking the united states of america? have you seen what weâve got going on?
if anything the âbad borders cause conflictâ argument is just an argument for the legitimacy of ethnic cleansing. nowhere in the world, prior to the introduction of the nation-state, have people of different languages and cultures coexisted such that it would be possible to draw a clean line between them and post some guards on it. europeâs borders are exactly as arbitrary as the borders of the colonial world, in some cases more so; the primary difference is that europeans enthusiastically permitted themselves to carry out mass deportations (western poland) or state repression of minorities (alsace-lorraine) without a great deal of moral compunctions or conquerorâs guilt. the creation of americaâs arbitrary borders was concomitant with a long-term project of genocide, erasing from history the people whose very existence could render those borders moot. and even today europeans find themselves putting up barbed-wire fences and running sea patrols to maintain the fictive purity of the nation-state
borders are violence, they necessitate large-scale communal violence, but it has nothing to do with the notion of them being âarbitraryâ or âpoorly drawnâ. attributing this problem to the third world and not the first is a self-serving myopia
you know⊠with this rise in interest in east asian culture and âaestheticsâ over the past couple of years also comes with a rise in asian cultural appropriation⊠so for every nonasian out there who would consider themselves a fan of cutesy asian things or stuff like kpop or anime, you guys have an obligation to people of the culture youâre enjoying to be informed and educated about their struggles. itâs not right to love and consume cultures thatâs not your own while ignoring the people who are part of them. read up on appropriation, the fetishisation and infantilisation of east asian women and desexualisation of asian men, whitewashing in media, xenophobia, the erasure of our achievements and the model minority myth. you owe it to us east asians to be educated on topics that concern us if youâre going to continue to consume media and content we make.
EDIT: if youâre nonasian please reblog this so that other nonasians can see it!!
That feeling when you realize youâve lived through worse,
That youâre not alone in this world because you have a spiderweb of support:
Itâs just that itâs hard to see in the dark,
And in the light of day it glistens like a string of iridescent sequins.
That feeling when you realize
Not allowing yourself to feel rage, anger and utter sadness
Is the same mechanism that shuts down
Your ability to feel love, happiness, and utter joy.
That feeling when your rage
Is burning hot, when your ancestorsâ pain is a pile of glowing embers in your heart.
That feeling when your anger has gone from a small flame to a roaring fire stoked by flippant
comments, willful ignorance and microaggressions
That feeling when youâre exhausted,
And tired of being angry. You remember that if you donât do something about your rage
Itâll eat you slowly from the inside, burn down the secure sense of self youâve painstakingly built
for yourself over years of âlearning experiencesâ
And eventually destroy you,
So you write a fucking poem about it.
...You know that feeling?
If you look backwards in time at everyone who has nurtured the values we hold now, overcome so many violences so that we could develop more complex critiques of power, and passed on to us the means and resolution to live freer and in a freer world ... you will see a cast of revolutionaries and radicals who survived despite who was in power at the time.
And when you study the revolutionary thinkers (and fighters) of the past, you can read in their deepest imaginations and sentiments, a description of us. They fought against oppression and corruption and colonialism and servitude, endured all manner of atrocities, all so that future generations could continue the work of unburdening human life from the grip of hopelessness in the face of brutality. [...]
Seen from this perspective, how we spend our lives and imagine our collective future is far more important than a ballot, no matter how or whether it is cast. What we do with the time we have, whom we defend, what we attack, and on which conditions and values we stand will provide lessons for the next generation. And as the cycles of change accelerate with technology, our ability to retrace our steps to try new things will be challenged like no generation before.
Tyler Reinhard, âTake Us To Your Leaderâ (Letters) Mask Magazine, 2 August 2016 http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-control-issue/struggle/take-us-to-your-leaderÂ
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