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...the best way to maximize the city's income was to lower the number of poor people, and the best way to do that was to tear down their housing.

William Tabb, The Long Default

#nyc #housing #housing justice #new york city #fiscal crisis #gentrification #capitalism #post-industrial society #capitalist crises #crises of capital

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escribe

few weeks back i wrote two poems in a row while waiting for a client to get called down from her cell in a federal prison. something about the coldness and banality of that place just forced it out of me. the warmth in the person i met reminded me why it’s so important to never stop fighting and writing.

#poesia #poetry #prose #prisons #mass incarceration #writing #literature #people of color #latinxs #latinas

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Happy birthday, Marsha P. Johnson! The revolutionary trans activist & Stonewall riots veteran would have been 71.

#marsha p johnson #stonewall riots #trans #transgender #transfeminine #revolutionary #notinourname

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#white supremacy #united states of racism #white privilege #people of color #supreme court #xenophon #racism #manifest destiny

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if someone does not want me it is not the end of the world but if i do not want me the world is nothing but endings.

nayyirah waheed (via qwertycarly)

#nayyirah waheed #poetry #prose #literature #creative writing #poc #people of color #love #self-care #self-love #improvement #focus

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“I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.” ― Frida Kahlo

#amor #frida #frida kahlo #diego rivera #love #technicolor #video #recordings #art #mexico #mexican #mexicana

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el hielo en el verano

Por media noche Los tragos todavia controlandome Y ahi estabas con tus amigos Y viste CHINGA LA MIGRA sobre mi botella Y algo te toco No se si fue las memorias de las lagrimas de la gente que deportaron a otros paises Sin saber que le hiba pasar O tal vez te sientes mal por el trabajo que hicistes Al fin, no se, pero te portaste raro Y yo al fin me senti raro tambien A ver un joven Como yo, hombre latino Sin oportunidad que llego hacer el trabajo sucio de un gobierno que ni le importa cuatro pepinos de ti, ni tu familia y a ningunos de los latinxs Espero que un dia puedes ayudar alguien Alguien que lo necesita Como lo tantos que mandaste a sufrir ////////////////////

ICE in the Summer

It was midnight the liquor still controlling me and there you were with your friends and you read FUCK LA MIGRA on my bottle And something touched you was it the memories of the tears from the people that you deported to other countries without knowing what would happen to them

Or maybe you felt bad because of the work you did ultimately, I don’t know, but you behaved strangely and I felt strange too to see a young man like myself, a young latino without opportunity who ended up doing the dirty work for a government who could care less about you, your family, or any of us latinxs

I hope one day you can be useful to someone someone who needs it much like the many you sent away to suffer.

#ICE #immigration and customs enforcement #la migra #el hielo #spoken word #espanol #la letra #new york city #intersectionality #racism #deportation #immigration #notonemore

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Accurate

#alton sterling #blm #blacklivesmatter #mass incarceration #police brutality #white supremacy #mynypd

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Obsolete Units Surrounded By Hail

An A to Z of Brexit. Cathartic fragments, pessimistic conjectures. I had to write something, and so I wrote this.

Keep reading

#brexit #uk #european union #united kingdom #leave #remain #dissolution #neoliberal #neoliberalism #economic elite #financial elite #media elite #power #dominance #populism

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She cites W.E.B. DuBois, Michelle Alexander, and Ta-Nehisi Coates all in the same paragraph.

Sonia Sotomayor perfectly sums up why unreasonable police searches and seizures–which disproportionately target minorities–are the opposite of what America is all about.

#sonia sotomayor #utah v strieff #strieff #scotus #carceral state #police state #us supreme court #supreme court #justice sotomayor #latina #law #mass incarceration

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Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it.

Sandra Cisneros, Darius and the Clouds

#sandra cisneros #the house on mango street #darius and the clouds #literature #chicanas #chicago #pilsen #chicanos #sadness #sky #butterflies #flowers #take what you can get

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We do this because the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

Sandra Cisneros

#sandra cisneros #writing #writers #authors #activism #Chicago #the house on mango street #latina #literature #struggle #lucha

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The robbery of time is not measured in lifespans but in moments. It is the last bottle of wine that you have just uncorked but do not have time to drink. It is the kiss that you do not have time to share, before she walks out of your life. It is the raft of second chances for them, and twenty-three-hour days for us.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

#ta nehisi coates #between the world and me #literature #blackness #black reality #black power #african americans #white supremacy #white power #inequality #time #power

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Those in positions of real power - the bankers, the CEOs - are not vulnerable to the vote (and in any case, they fund both sides).

Arundhati Roy, Public Power in the Age of Empire

#essays #arundhati roy #empire #politics #corporate power

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“Learn to understand, because to understand is to be free.” - Baruch Spinoza, San Jose, Costa Rica July 2015.

#graffiti #baruch spinoza #costa rica #san jose #centroamerica #central america #latin america #latinoamerica #art #understanding #freedom #travel #viajes

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Mi pais es una de belleza y complejidad. Aqui volcan Maderas en la Isla Ometepe. // My country is one of beauty and complexity. Here is the volcano, Maderas, on the island of Ometepe. June 2015.

#ometepe #nicaragua #volcan maderas #maderas #volcan concepcion #concepcion #travel #viajes #centroamerica #central america #homelands

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THE NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, nine-to-five job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.

Arundhati Roy, An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire

#ngos #resistance #organizing #politics #arundhati roy #nonprofit #revolution #an ordinary person's guide to empire