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{ Undercover police cleared ‘to have sex with activists’ }

(seen on nezua’s feed first, when I was too tired to process its implications)

genderbitch:

tranzient:

feministindianmanifesto:

huskerdewgongxvx:

Undercover police cleared ‘to have sex with activists’

deepwithfuture:

grundmc:

artistontheinside:

vruz:

vruz: it’s not a war.  in the daily show.

Undercover police officers routinely adopted a tactic of “promiscuity” with the blessing of senior commanders, according to a former agent who worked in a secretive unit of the Metropolitan police for four years.

The former undercover policeman claims that sexual relationships with activists were sanctioned for both men and women officers infiltrating anarchist, leftwing and environmental groups.

this whole story has me so pissed. and slightly paranoid.

Be Aware.

This is honestly disgusting. I can’t imagine how it would feel to be those women. And to say that to be an environmentalist is to be promiscuous….or to insinuate that those women are less because of who they choose to sleep with.

I feel like the state raped those women in a way…and I’m not saying that metaphorically or as a figure of speech. Although it was consensual sex, it wasn’t. Fuck that. I grow more sick every day.

Wow…. 

sickening.

 no, that really can’t be consensual…

I kinda wanna throw up now.

{ How did ‘Too Asian’ affect you? }

sheresists:

asiansnotstudying:

So this blog is going to make the step from being a virtual forum to direct action. Finally, after exams (irony) and life has slowed down, a group of us at McGill are having a mobilization meeting and discussion group in response to the ‘Too Asian’ article. This event will take place on February 7, 2011 at 5 PM (location TBA) and will launch an awareness campaign for the next couple of months. This will be following action that has already taken place at U of T and UBC. We will be using this blog as a source of information.

It is important for students at McGill to discuss racialised representations of Asians in the media, especially after being described as a school where ‘all the white kids’ go. 

Part of this is asking you: how did the article make you feel?

Please feel free to answer as honestly as you feel and to identity in anyway you would like (racialised, Asian, Chinese, Canadian, student, etc.) Also, if you are more comfortable, email us at asiansnotstudying@gmail.com and we will make sure your response is kept anonymous.

The responses will be gathered and used throughout our mobilization during the next few months.

PLEASE LET YOUR FRIENDS KNOW.

Signal boost! Also, I was wondering if this was limited to McGill students?

Joining in the signal boost.

(FYI sheresists’ question was answered and no it’s not limited to McGill students)

(via woc-resist)

readnfight:

firesandwords:

here is a video of an action unidad latina en accion/new haven workers association, groups i organize with, put on. it was picked up by the associated press, wtnh, new haven register and the struggle- a local cable news show. it’s since made it to the la times and other national news outlets.

My crew! I was out of town! This is a fancy restaurant here that owes several workers tens of thousands of dollars in back pay. The last time there was a picket a couple weeks ago, the owner had the cops there within minutes; the police department sent 4 cop cars and a van, and once the picket was over the cops went inside the restaurant to have lunch because apparently the owner is connected to the police department.

(via woc-resist)

intifada: …At the same time, East LA was at the heart of the Chicano rights movement in the 1960s. El Movimiento began in the 1940s, when “chicano” was still considered derogatory. By the 1960s, chicanismo was embraced as a symbol of ethnic pride and chicano rock, literature, theatre and art flourished in East LA and other Mexican communities. In 1966, a group of East LA high school students formed the Young Citizens for Community Action. In 1967, they founded East LA’s Piranya Coffee House and changed their name to the Brown Berets. In 1969, they began distributing their own newspaper, La Causa. That same year, Wayne Alaniz Healy, David Rivas Botello, Jose Luis Gonzalez and Juan Gonzalez started the first Chicano art studio, the still extant Goez Art Studio. History lesson via nezua

intifada:

…At the same time, East LA was at the heart of the Chicano rights movement in the 1960s. El Movimiento began in the 1940s, when “chicano” was still considered derogatory. By the 1960s, chicanismo was embraced as a symbol of ethnic pride and chicano rock, literature, theatre and art flourished in East LA and other Mexican communities. In 1966, a group of East LA high school students formed the Young Citizens for Community Action. In 1967, they founded East LA’s Piranya Coffee House and changed their name to the Brown Berets. In 1969, they began distributing their own newspaper, La Causa. That same year, Wayne Alaniz Healy, David Rivas Botello, Jose Luis Gonzalez and Juan Gonzalez started the first Chicano art studio, the still extant Goez Art Studio.

History lesson via nezua

{ LINK: URGENT ACTION: STOP THE DEPORTATION OF THE CHAUDRY FAMILY }

sheresists:

Call Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews today to demand that the family not be removed

The Chaudhry family recently received news that they will be removed from Canada in the coming weeks. This has been devastating news for the family of five, who are terrified of being returned to Pakistan, where they will face violence and possibly death because their marriage was not approved by their family.

CALL MINISTER VIC TOEWS TODAY TO SUPPORT THE FAMILY
Halifax supports refugee claimants and will not tolerate senseless deportations!

Parliament Hill Office: 613-992-3128
Manitoba Offices: 204-326-9889; 204-345-9762

The deportation will be extremely difficult for the family’s three young children (aged 9, 3, and 6 months), two of whom are Canadian citizens and one of whom is an American citizen, and who all consider Canada their home. Forcing the family to go through a stressful, expensive and potentially dangerous deportation in order to apply for a way to return is a clear example of how Canada’s immigration and refugee system needlessly hurts migrants.

The family has received outpourings of community support, including the support of two local Members of Parliament, business partners, students, the Muslim community, service providers and many others. They have a business plan to open a Halal food restaurant, and are likely to be able to return to Canada under the Nova Scotia Nominee Program after being out of the country. The Provincial Immigration office is so confident in the family that they have agreed to expedite their application return to Canada. The family has also applied to stay in Canada on Humanitarian & Compassionate grounds, given their integration in the community, but this application has not yet been processed and will not on its own stop a deportation.

Points to emphasize in your call:

-they currently have an application to stay on Humanitarian and Compassionate grounds. Deporting the family before this is processed may needlessly put the family through stress, danger and a financial burden. They should be allowed to stay at least until this application has been processed.
-they face violence or an honour killing if returned to Pakistan
-they have lived in Halifax since 2003 and have made a home for themselves here.
-they have a viable business plan to open a Pakistani food restaurant, with business partners
-they have taken courses to upgrade their skills, including computer and food safety courses
-they are active members of their community and volunteer with their local mosque
-their two youngest children were born in Canada. Their eldest child was born in the U.S.
-there has been a large amount of grassroots public support for the family.

CALL MINISTER VIC TOEWS TODAY TO SUPPORT THE FAMILY
Parliament Hill Office: 613-992-3128
Manitoba Offices: 204-326-9889; 204-345-9762

Please pass this along to your friends, families and net

For all you Halifax folks, there is a facebook event to support the Chaudry family on their federal court date.

Facebook event

Please show your support 

(Source: woc-resist)

radicallyhottoff:

من مظاهرات يوم الغضب - شاب مصري مقابل مدرعة (via freeegypt)

as many of you may have heard, there are protests going on in Egypt that are connected to the protests going on in Tunisia. 

This is video of one of those protests—where a group of protestors stand up to an armored police vehicle…

(via bigbadcolored-deactivated201104)

{ LINK: Pink bikers fight Mexican drug war by helping poor }

genderbitch:

postmodsexgeek:

sexartandpolitics:

A group of middle-class Mexican women on pink motorcycles is handing out food and medicine to the poor in one of the world’s deadliest cities to both protest and allay the widespread deprivation it says is fueling the violence. Braving drug gang turf wars in Ciudad Juarez that have killed some 6,700 people since 2008, including hundreds of women, the club that calls itself “Las Guerreras” (The Female Warriors) rides out on custom-made choppers every Sunday to dangerous neighborhoods that ring the factory city bordering El Paso, Texas. In cramped, metal-roofed homes on unpaved streets, the 10-member group comprising teachers, off-duty police officers and businesswomen volunteer their time to help single mothers, addicts, the elderly and the jobless, many of whom have no access to welfare and feel completely abandoned.

They hand out cash, medicines, food, clothing and even birthday cakes, paid for out of their own pockets. Sometimes they just provide a sympathetic ear. “There are people who have nothing, or almost nothing,” said Lorenia Granados, a co-founder of the group set up two years ago, just after gunmen killed seven young men on a soccer field not far from the place she was volunteering on Sunday.

relevant.

Fuck yeah, Mexicanas!

So much win.

(Source: abbyjean)

akio:

brycedotvc:

The video above is less than a minute long. Please take a moment to watch it.

I’ll wait.

Did you see it? Sure there is much to the revolution unfolding in Egypt, but that’s not the revolution I’m highlighting here. 

In the video you’ll notice the events of the day are not getting captured by film crews and news reporters. They’re being documented by people with their mobile phones. Take another look at the video and count the number of illuminated mobile phone screens you see being raised overhead to capture pictures and video as the scenes in the streets unfolds.

I’m as guilty as anyone else for being overly enthused with investment opportunities as the world goes increasingly more mobile. But, in the case above, we’re not talking about some Stanford dropouts who’ve developed a hot new iPhone app. We’re seeing something much more fundamental. Not just a shift from the PC to handsets, but a shift from disconnected and isolated members of developing nations to connected global citizens. Many of whom skipped the PC altogether.

I had a conversation last week, that’s still rattling around in my head, which was both troubling and inspiring. In it my friend pointed out that people in the developing world have mobile phones before they have clean water or toilets. Indeed, India has over 500 million mobile subscribers while less than 400 million Indians have access to toilets.

By their nature, these phones were born social. They were built from the ground up to connect us. First with voice, then with text. Now, they’re packed capabilities like photos, videos and a wave of native and web applications. We’re just beginning to catch a glimpse of what a powerful and disruptive force they can be. Not just to incubent handset manufactures and telcos but to social movements and government regimes. 

I’ve made clear my belief that we’re in the midst of a massive global reinvention. Not just a shift from analog to digital, but a shift from centralized control to distributed systems. From isolated single user experiences to a global social fabric. These mobile devices are the of Gutenberg presses of our generation. This is not a bubble, this is a revolution. 

How to design and test, and pick best mid-level platforms - for ‘several’ ppl - either researcher/engineers or problem-solvers of any kind - or family/classroom - 

between (both extreme of) 1 person and mob/mass/6 billions

is the challenge. (Computers didn’t start as PC.) 

We’ve been skipping that challenge for a long time. 

(via guerrillamamamedicine)

nezua: Quintana is my family name. One of them. It was Lucha Quintana (my grandmother), after all, who brought us over the border. Two generations ago. And Paloma Lucha, my daughter, has never seen her. But she will hear stories of her. And I will signal boost any tales of Quintanas from Latin America.

nezua:

Quintana is my family name. One of them. It was Lucha Quintana (my grandmother), after all, who brought us over the border. Two generations ago. And Paloma Lucha, my daughter, has never seen her. But she will hear stories of her. And I will signal boost any tales of Quintanas from Latin America.

{ LINK: URGENT (from All Out via GetEqual): Brenda Namigadde may be deported }

Brenda Namigadde, a Ugandan lesbian in the UK, faces deportation THIS WEEK back to the life-threatening persecution she fled eight years ago.

With David Bahati, the Ugandan politician and author of the notorious “Kill the Gays” legislation, taking an interest in her case, Brenda faces clear and present danger if she’s forced to return.

Will you join more than 10,000 people in 85 countries in signing this urgent letter pressuring U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to stop Brenda’s deportation?

(anyone has any problems with All Out or GetEqual, feel free to tell me)