My Name Is Samheh Dreamer, Thinker and Traveller

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A communist in the U.S. remembers Fidel

By Monica Moorehead

In the third week of June 2000, I traveled to Havana, Cuba, as part of a U.S. delegation to participate in a roundtable discussion on the prison-industrial complex in the U.S.

Many Cubans were interested in the struggle to free political prisoners, especially the cases of Mumia Abu-Jamal and Shaka Sankofa, who was eventually executed in Texas just weeks after our visit. One of those interested Cubans was Comandante President Fidel Castro. We had the honor of meeting Fidel on June 19 after we filmed the roundtable discussion seen by millions of Cubans on the island. 

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Mengetahui sejarah gerakan perempuan adalah penting untuk dijadikan tonggak atau dasar pergerakan kita sebagai perempuan pergerakan. So you must read this!

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"I always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because he will find an easy way to do it.” Bill Gates

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French Grammar Masterpost

For easier browsing on this blog, here’s a post of all the grammar points posted or reblogged by this Tumblr, for easier access. These usually deal with intermediate/advanced grammar points, pulled from various sources :

C’est Or Il/Elle Est? - Here

Avoir + Agreement of Past Participle - Here

Using ‘Parce que’, ‘Car’, ‘Puisque’ and ‘Comme’ - Here

The Conjunctive Pronoun ‘En’ - Here

Use of Tenses with Depuis, Il y a and Pendant - Here

The Relative Pronouns of Qui and Que - Here

Le Versus Lui in French - Here

Use of ‘De’ Versus ‘Des’ in French - Here

Omission of Plural Indefinite ‘Des’ After ‘De’ - Here

The Different Words for ‘Number’ and How To Use Them - Here

Using ‘Quand-Meme’ in French - Here

French Subjunctive/Indicative - 1, 2

The Construction of Questions in French - Here

‘Then’ in French - Ainsi, Alors, Donc; Apres, Ensuite, Puis -  Here

Use of the Definite Article and the Body - Here

Le Passe Compose Avec Y Et En - Here

Imparfait Versus Passe Compose - Here

Using ‘Enfin’ in French - Here

Using Mieux vs Meilleur - Here

Temporal Prepositions - Here

When Verb + De + Infinitive - Here

When Verb + A + Infinitive -  Here

Time Based Nouns - Here

Demonstrative Determiners - Here

Proper Nouns in French - Here

Aspirated Hs / Le H Aspire - Here

Abstract Vs. Concrete Nouns - Here

‘Personnes’ Vs. ‘Gens’ in French - Here

Common French Mistakes:

Examples of French Mistakes - 1

French Vocabulary Lists: 

50 Advanced French Phrases - 1, 2, 3

French Nationalities & Countries - Here

Marriage & Relationship Vocabulary - Here

Film & Television Vocabulary - Here

French & Italian Comparative: Family Vocab - Here

French & Italian Comparative: Places Vocab - Here

Personal Vocab Lists (Note to Self): 

20 French Expressions - 1, 2, 3

Using French Slang:

Using ‘Foutre’ in French - Here

Using ‘Putain’ and ‘Merde’ Adjectively - Here

For all other miscellaneous French posts, the tag can be found: - Here

[samheh]

Do you know guys? Look, everyone has their own evolution trouble staying motivated sometimes. But when that happens you should probably just take a walk or something.

Today i’ve learned a few things about choosing the right path for my life. That is how we meet each other and learn from each other.

Don’t panic because you see your best friend making its own way in life. Don’t stress out if you have not found your own path yet.

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Laki-laki Mengalami Penindasan? ~ Samheh Licious

Hello Samheh Licious!

Bukan hanya perempuan yang pengalami penindasan secara struktural, laki-laki yang juga makhluk Tuhan mengalami hal yang sama. Namun, sejatinya yang menjadi penyebab utamanya adalah konstruk sistem kapitalis saat ini yang kian lama kian mengakar. What do you think licious?

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12 Books to Keep Your Feminism Intersectional

by Crystal Paul of Bustle

1. Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis

This is definitely one of the must-reads for any intersectional feminist. A bit dated at this point, but still important, it takes a look at the very issues of exclusion that have hindered the feminist movement since abolition days.

2. Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Honestly, this will just be one of the best books you’ll ever read. It’s not only an important queer, feminist book, it’s also just a beautifully told story of struggle and love.

3. Woman, Native, Other by Trinh T. Minh-ha

Minh-ha delivers a full-frontal attack against the notion of erasure as a means of unified feminism. She argues for a feminism that fights against oppression of all kinds, because women all over the world face oppression at the hands of different forces and factors. And she attacks everything that “others” everything non-white or non-Western. It’s bold and awesome and a classic of postcolonial feminist theory.

4. Assata by Assata Shakur

Assata is part memoir of the radical awakening of a young black woman in the ‘60s and ‘70s, part personal testimony of a broken, racist justice system. In all its parts it’s a lyrical, addictive read that immerses you in one of the most important eras in the Black liberation struggle. By the end you’ll be outraged, angry, and itching for revolution.

5. Random Family by Adrian LeBlanc

Adrian LeBlanc took a lot of care with this book. Working over 10 years and forming close relationships with the families she writes about, LeBlanc offers up an intimate portrait of the lives of two women in a social class that often goes overlooked or misrepresented in popular U.S. culture and scholarly study. It’s importance is in the deeply personal rather treatment, rather than the almost zoological portrayals that often befall lower economic classes.

6. Sex Workers Unite! A History of the Movement from Stonewall to Slutwalk by Melinda Chateauvert

Sex workers are often cast as unwilling victims. Melinda Chateauvert challenges this portrayal by showing that many sex workers are in fact empowered, legitimate workers and have been powerful agents of social change throughout history. This book will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about sex work.

7. The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions by Paula Gunn Allen

An oldie but a goodie, The Sacred Hoop is a corrective on the crucial role of indigenous women in history and tribal tradition. It’s not a perfect book, but it’s an important one that asserts the presence of Native American women.

8. This Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa

This anthology is incredible! It’s got essays, interviews, poetry, and even visual art from women of so many different backgrounds. It’s kind of what intersectional feminism should look like in book form. Or, at least, darn close to it.

9. Women and Gender in Islam by Leila Ahmed

Need to check your assumptions about Islam and the treatment of women in the Middle East? Leila Ahmed’s book is an invitation to do just that. So many stereotypes and assumptions about Muslim women and their treatment under Islam abound, but one can hardly make snap judgements about Islam any more than you can about any other religion. Ahmed dives into the text itself and the history of the Western gaze that has led to misunderstanding about Islam and gender.

10. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

With Gender Trouble, Judith Butler went straight for bold by questioning the very notion of gender as a part of feminism. If you took a Gender Studies course in college, it was probably on the syllabus. But it’s always worth another look, considering the book was originally written in the ‘90s, when Butler’s straight talk about the complexity of gender and sexuality was pretty ground-breaking. Since then, Butler’s reconsidered some of her ideas in newer books that are also worth picking up.

11. Brick Lane by Monica Ali

Not every book you read has to be a heavy non-fiction read. Actually getting a little fiction into your intersectional diet is a healthy way to dig into perspectives outside of your own on a more personal level. Brick Lane is a look at a young Bangladeshi woman coming of age in the middle of an arranged marriage and thrust into a new culture miles away from home. Whatever perspectives you’re looking to explore, there are so many stories out there that want to be read!

12. On Intersectionality by Kimberlé Crenshaw

Since an intersectional feminist’s work is never done, naturally, you can look forward to a new book on intersectionality straight from the woman herself. Kimberlé Crenshaw’s latest comes out in October this year.

see full article here

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ART PRINTS BY GTRICHARDSON

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HERMIONE - QUOTE SILHOUETTE

FRED & GEORGE - QUOTE SILHOUETTE

DUMBLEDORE - QUOTE SILHOUETTE

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When tyranny is law, revolution is order.

Pedro Albizu Campos (via matialonsorphoto)

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James Bond: A visual guide

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Selena Selena Gomez "Heart Wants What It Wants"

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J.K. Rowling owes Palestinians an apology, not an explanation

By Ramzy Baroud

“We will be seeking to inform and encourage dialogue about Israel and the Palestinians in the wider cultural and creative community,” J.K. Rowling’s letter reads. Can those ‘creative’ elites possibly be any more disconnected from reality to the extent that they perceive a nation that stands accused of violating human rights with such impunity for nearly seven decades as one that simply needs a nudge to dialogue?

[samheh]

Ku Kira Kau Harus Tau

Lelah sebenarnya tidak juga tapi rasa itu nyata adanya tapi katamu itu resiko. Selama dan sejauh ini aku lalui menjadi yang terbaik itu ambisi yang aku tanamkan agar bermanfaat untukmu, untuk keluarga dan masyarakat. Aku tidak mau terlalu naif untukmu terbuka adalah pilihanku untuk mempertahankan dan mengokohkan apa yang sudah kita bangun sejauh ini. Memang aku bukan seorang yang sempurna seperti anganmu yang sangat kau dambakan, aku tak punya tahta ataupun harta yang mampu membahagiakanmu. Tetapi asal kau tahu meskipun aku tak bisa memberimu semua kebahagiaan itu, saat ini aku berusaha untuk tidak membuatmu sakit hati seperti aku sakit hati atas dirimu. Mungkin kau tak akan pernah tahu bagaimana aktifitasku pun aku tak tahu bagaimana aktifitasmu setiap harinya bukan hal penting, yang harus kau tahu adalah bagaimana kau menjaga hatimu untukku dan sebaliknya. Kata-katamu manis namun hatimu belum aku sebutkan saja demikian karena memang seperti itu perasaanku ketika kau mulai meragukanku dengan dalih ketakutanmu yang memuncak. Gundah, padahal sebelum kita sejauh matahari kita pernah sedekat nadi kalau hanya karena jarak membuatmu ragu dan melunturkan kepercayaanmu menurutmu apa yang harus aku lakukan? Ku tanya apa jaminananya ketika kita dekat akan  baik-baik saja? 

Ketika aku mulai dekat denganmu aku berusaha untuk memahamimu dan segala aktifitasmu begitu banyak perbedaan antara kita.  Bahkan sampai saat ini pun aku tak menyangka bahwa aku bisa sedekat ini denganmu. Kadang aku berkata apakah pengorbananku selama ini akan sia-sia? Aku sadar aku bukan perempuan lembut seperti halnya konstruk masyarakat pada umumnya, aku kasar, jahat, kejam, acuh, angkuh yang sangat jauh dari kesempurnaan. Kembali aku instropeksi aku memang tak pantas mendapatkan perhatian, kasih sayang apalagi cinta darimu karena sama dengan aku membunuhmu perlahan. Aku selalu menuntutmu agar selalu memahami sifat dan watakku, padahal itu bukan hakku. Aku akan menjadi sangat otoriter jika aku selalu menuntut dan menekanmu tanpa memikirkan keadaanmu.

  Kau tau? Aku mengasing agar aku tetap dan hanya mengingatmu, aku enyah agar aku tetap dapat menyakan bagaimana kabarmu, aku menjauh agar aku selalu merindumu. Tetapi ketika kau mulai meragukan ku? Apakah menurutmu aku akan tetap bertahan? Kau ingat aku mengenalmu dari sebuah kebencian tapi apakah benci yang diawal itu juga akan diakhiri dengan benci?  Apa kau lupa bahwa aku akan jadikan kau pertama dan terakhir? Apa kau lupa bahwa aku akan mempertahan dan memperjuangkanmu? Apa itu semua hilang entah kemana hanya karena jarak? Aku tak bisa berkata untuk kesekian kalinya semoga bahasa tulisan sederhana yang sengaja aku goreskan dapat mengingatkan kau sehingga kau dapat membacanya setiap saat. Daripada berkata dengan lisan, memang kau mendengarkan tapi kemungkinan kecil kau mengingat setiap katanya. 

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750 Years in Paris Vincent Mahé

If you could stand still for 750 years, what could you learn about the world? It’s time to find out. A literary graphic novel unlike anything else on the racks, 750 Years tells the story of our time, focusing on one single building in France as it sees its way through the upheavals of history. Beginning in the 13th Century and making its way towards today.

Images via +  Vincent Mahé

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The warlike statement of Syriza's Political Secretariat

Statement by the Political Secretariat of Syriza [14 May 2015] From the first moment that this government was established, it became clear – both domestically, and abroad – that the mandate given b...

Statement by the Political Secretariat of Syriza [14 May 2015]

From the first moment that this government was established, it became clear – both domestically, and abroad – that the mandate given by the Greek people is binding and comprises of a compass in the negotiations.

The red lines of the government are red lines of the Greek people, expressing the interests of the workers, self-employed, pensioners, farmers, and the youth. They expressed the need for the country to enter a new path of growth, with social justice and redistribution of wealth at its core.

The insistence of the lenders in implementing the MoU program of the Samaras’s government, creating an asphyxiating stranglehold of political pressures and financial asphyxiation in the country, comes in direct contrast to the notion of democracy and popular sovereignty in Europe. It expresses the obsessive fixation to austerity that deconstructs the welfare state, the oligarchic direction of European affairs in closed rooms that are unaffected by the will of the people, [and] which pave the way to the rise of the extreme right in Europe.

These requirements cannot be accepted. They cannot be accepted by the Greek people who fought all these past years in order to put an end to the criminal policies of the Memoranda. They cannot be accepted by the people of Europe and by the progressive societies and political powers, who fight for a Europe of solidarity and Democracy.

The citizens of Greece and Europe are not passive consumers of 8 o’clock news, on the contrary, we believe that they can be co-stars in a negotiation that concerns the common fate of all of us, in the scale of Europe and the world.

SYRIZA will take any possible initiative to inform the Greek people, but also the European people. In every city, in every neighborhood and workplace, but also in all countries of Europe, the MPs, MEPs, and members of SYRIZA will come together with [other] members of SYRIZA and forces of solidarity [towards the party] in a wide mobilization call for the win of democracy and of dignity.

Now is the time for the people themselves to enter the battle.

We will win.

Original text (in Greek) can be found here.

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China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was launched on May 16, 1966 (next year will be the 50th anniversary!) 

Workers World Party founder Sam Marcy wrote groundbreaking Marxist anlaysis of the GPCR as it was unfolding, drawing on the experience of the French and Soviet Revolutions. Here is one of his most important pieces:

“Mao didn’t wait for Thermidor” from the book China: The Struggle Within

[femininefreak]

On the left is my mother about 2 and half years ago, age 48. Having just decided to eat healthy and exercise, deciding the she didn’t care to keep dying her hair just because she was supposed to. On the right is her today, a few days over 50 years old having just finished her first marathon with a group of new friends and placing 2nd in her division. 

Don’t give up. You can change your life. Do what makes you feel good. Chase your goals. You can do it.

I am so proud.