Sex, Gender, Politics, and everything in between
“Being a leftist is a calling, not a career; it’s a vocation, not a profession. It means you are concerned about structural violence, you are concerned about exploitation at the work place, you are concerned about institutionalized contempt against gay brothers and lesbian sisters, hatred against peoples of color, and the subordination of women. It means that you are willing to fight against, and to try to understand the sources of social misery at the structural and institutional levels, as well as at the existential and personal levels. That’s what it means to be a leftist; that’s why we choose to be certain kinds of human beings.”
- Cornel West
This doesn’t apply to all workers in the world, not by a long shot, as most do not have a choice at all, and most have much much worse working conditions as these. But to all those middle-to-working class people in the West, yes let’s all wake up to the absurdity of this system.
Anyone with eyes open knows that the gangsterism of Wall Street — financial institutions generally — has caused severe damage to the people of the United States (and the world). And should also know that it has been doing so increasingly for over 30 years, as their power in the economy has radically increased, and with it their political power. That has set in motion a vicious cycle that has concentrated immense wealth, and with it political power, in a tiny sector of the population, a fraction of 1%, while the rest increasingly become what is sometimes called “a precariat” — seeking to survive in a precarious existence. They also carry out these ugly activities with almost complete impunity — not only too big to fail, but also “too big to jail.”
The courageous and honorable protests underway in Wall Street should serve to bring this calamity to public attention, and to lead to dedicated efforts to overcome it and set the society on a more healthy course.
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[If you have come to help me you are wasting your time.But if you have come because you liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together- Aboriginal Activists Group]
azaadiart:
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This was made in the context of aboriginal activism, but really it can apply to any ally for any cause. I’m not an anarchafeminist because I have pity or compassion for women, trans* people, LGBTs, POCs or poor people, but because I understand that my liberation is bound to theirs.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_liwnkmMcMc1qfzr41o1_400.jpg)
[If you have come to help me you are wasting your time.But if you have come because you liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together- Aboriginal Activists Group]
<3
This was made in the context of aboriginal activism, but really it can apply to any ally for any cause. I’m not an anarchafeminist because I have pity or compassion for women, trans* people, LGBTs, POCs or poor people, but because I understand that my liberation is bound to theirs.
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I don’t go to StarBucks anyway, but all the more reason!](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lowb4kMy7C1qklygoo1_400.jpg)
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I don’t go to StarBucks anyway, but all the more reason!
Study: Lots of Money Doesn’t Motivate Smart People
This is definitely worth watching.
this is me, I study anthropology, I consider myself an anarcha-feminist (if your wondering what that means, follow this blog!) ...oh and I love sex, photography (still & film) and asking way to many awkward and defying questions. that should suffice for now...
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