November 2011
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“In every era the attempt must be made anew to wrest tradition away from a...”
– Walter Benjamin
“Thousands of other inmates in the Texas prison system have been eating fewer...”
– Read more here: In Bid to Cut Costs at Some Texas Prisons, Lunch Will Not Be Served on Weekends
(via harmreduction:This is totally nuts…not to mention, unacceptable! If Texas doesn’t want to pay to feed the thousands of people it incarcerates, how bout they STOP incarcerating people. Community...
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“But the really interesting question is why were we drawn in the first place to...”
– Chinua Achebe | The Trouble With Nigeria (1984)
Lol’ed my way through this monograph on the plane from Lagos to London (Achebe has a deft and caustic turn of phrase when he’s angry, and he takes no prisoners). My thesis chapter is lapping this quote up like Augustus Gloop did that...
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“In creating a unified space of opposition to the 1% who hold a concentration of...”
– Harsha Walia, “A Letter To The Occupy Together Movement,” Racialicious, October 15 2011 (via hardlycommon)
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“I still think it’s important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of...”
– bell hooks, On Marriage
that’s it exactly, that’s exactly it
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