#disposession

[thephenotype]

[pnwpol]

United Nations and B.C. Indigenous leaders have harsh words for Vancouver's treatment of Oppenheimer campers

B.C. Indigenous leaders have issued a joint statement with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing that condemns the City of Vanco

Fri Aug 23, 2019 | B.C. Indigenous leaders have issued a joint statement with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing that condemns the City of Vancouver and the parks board for this week’s evictions of homeless campers who have spent the last year sleeping in Oppenheimer Park.

“The City and Park Board’s actions are not only ineffective in addressing and reducing homelessness, but also replicate settler colonial practices that effect Indigenous people who face eviction from lands that are unceded,” an August 23 statement reads.

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[feelingpolitical]

In its manipulation of categories such as the spirit and the flesh, the law perpetuates its claims to mastery and comprehension, all the while investing the juridical order with the power to redefine persons. Legal culture has carved up human differences into hierarchies capacious enough to accommodate subordination. The law's artificial entities—whether disabled as slaves or degraded as felons-are made "vulnerable," in the scholar and activist Ruthie Gilmore's words, to "premature death."l … In varying sites of struggle, sacrifice, and stigma, legal rituals give flesh to past narratives and new life to the residues of old codes and penal sanctions. My intention in this chapter is to contemplate how law materializes dispossession, and in far more corporeal ways than its abstract precepts might at first suggest. In past centuries, a purely juridical application of legal disabilities aimed at humiliating and excluding the criminal or any individual considered "infamous," a term with a long and complicated history. This legal machinery supported public, highly visible punishments that soon gave way to the reconstruction of persons recognized only in so far as they were degraded.

Colin Dayan, The Law is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons, p. 40

[foreverfreo]

Members of the team that played at the MCG on Boxing Day in 1866 and later went on tour.

The greatest team photo in Australian sporting history 

[squidlet-rock]

Northlane / Disposession

[saltybizkit]

Northlane - Dispossession <3

[thepoetrycode]

Disposession of My Heart

Slipping through my fingers,

much resembling smoke,

you dance around my heart,

taking control.

I can only think of you,

for you have pushed yourself in,

becoming a piece of me.

Now, whenever you leave I am no longer whole.

The time spent agonizing is not nearly worth the

fleeting moments of touch and interaction you give.

I have no control.

My life is steamrolling on with you at the wheel,

and I don't know how I feel about that;

Denying you back into my life would mean forever losing

the piece of me that you hold,

but I may never get a chance to replace it if I don't.

Maybe my priorities need rethinking,

or maybe I just need someone good for

me.

[un-rest]

I used one of my previous edits to create this.  I am sad to see him go, however, I trust in the decision. 

"infinite bliss, infinite love"