#sit-in

[porterdavis]

February 13, 1960

An African-American student sits at a lunch counter reserved for white customers during a sit-in to protest segregation. Packages of napkins have been placed on nearby stools to discourage other protesters from joining the sit-in.

 

BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES

 The U.S. civil-rights movement – a desire for equality and freedom for Blacks – can trace its roots to the mid-1950s, but it was a slow process. In Nashville, downtown department stores gladly took the money of Black customers, but banned them from using washrooms or restaurants. By late 1959, student leaders and Christian groups in the city had an idea – disciplined, non-violent demonstrations. Months of planning took place during which the students were advised, “Do not strike back or curse if abused. … Do show yourself courteous and friendly at all times. … Remember the teachings of Jesus, Gandhi, Martin Luther King. Love and nonviolence is the way.” On this day in 1960, at about 12:40 p.m., 124 college students walked into Kress, Woolworth’s and McClellan stores, made some purchases, then sat at the lunch counters. They were refused service. So the demonstrators sat there quietly and left after a couple of hours. The scene would be repeated several times over the next few months, sometimes met by violence from angry white customers. The discrimination caused national and local outrage. By June, justice prevailed, the lunch counters were desegregated and the Nashville sit-ins became a model for peaceful civil-rights demonstrations.  - Philip King, Globe&Mail

#nashville #sit-in #civil rights

[eretzyisrael]

Truthfully, he lost me at his worries over "Islamophobia", but he's moving in the right direction considering he teaches at Berkeley.

#ron hassner #professor ron hassner #sit-in #protest #uc berkeley #Youtube

[yegactivist]

Emergency Protest and Sit-In for Gaza by Paula Kirman

#edmonton #protest #palestine #gaza #sit-in #photojournalism #yegphotographer #Middle East #flickr

[johncory9mm]

#Israel #Gaza #Google #Palestine #Protest #sit-in #genocide

[intomore]

Danny Lyon, “SNCC Staff Sit-In, Atlanta,” 1963 / 1964,

John Lewis behind Mendy Samstein (+ the pastries), Stokely Carmichael standing at right,

Gelatin silver print,

Image: 9⅝ h × 13⅝ w in (24 × 35 cm),

Sheet: 10⅞ h × 13⅞ w in (28 × 35 cm)

#art #photography #vintage photography #still life photography #danny lyon #atlanta #john lewis #mendy samstein #stokely carmichael #iconic #SNCC #sit-in #Black and White #1963 #1964

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Check out the new issue of Struggle-La Lucha:

Women sit in at White House for abortion rights; Join National Week of Civil Disobedience; Minimum wage and inflation; Justice for Jayland Walker; Cuba's solidarity with Africa and USSR; and more.

Download PDF at http://struggle-la-lucha.org

#Struggle La Lucha #womensliberation #LGBTQ #abortion rights #SCOTUS #protest #sit-in #Joe Biden #capitalism #imperialism #JusticeForJaylandWalker #BlackLivesMatter #Cuba #socialism #USSR #Angola #solidarity #communist #Marxism #climate crisis #StopNATO

[imperatoralicia]

I get a lot of entertainment thinking about how containers are used in video games sometimes.

#video games #elder scrolls #morrowind #baldur's gate 3 #skyrim #i think having to visually see how meager those 5 coins are #sitting loosely in that big old wooden chest #makes me rethink whether i really need to steal them haha #update: i fixed the egg

[icaruspendragon]

babygirl i sit hunched in ways you’d never fuckin believe

#my husband took a photo of me googling definitions sitting in the corner like a rat #and i look like an honest to god shrimp #shrimp posture #how humbling

[mamaangiwine]

"Somebody needs to do something about Sephora 10-year-olds...these i-pad babies are so rude and don't do what they're told....oh my God, these kids can't read and have no social skills...Ugh, look at these little consumers and their Stanley Cups."

I am, in fact, actively worried for these children and I refuse to hate them for the ways that society, as a whole, has failed them.

#people out here encouraging the worst in people #and many are uncritically taking the bait #im done #its legitimately weird to sit around and hate on a bunch of kids

[marypsue]

Keep seeing that post where OP starts like 'Thinking about...grieving the undead' and then adds on about like. Real life situations where people have not died but have left your life and you would have reason to grieve them.

All respect, that's an important concept, but that is not what I am thinking about when I read 'grieving the undead'.

#your brother is a vampire. he's sitting across the table from you chatting with your mother about her day #and he's dead and he's gone and he's never coming back. #he laughs the same and he talks the same but his arm is cold when he grabs you in a headlock and your dog won't be in the same room with hi #he'll still hang around watching TV with you and give you wedgies and make stupid jokes #but you can't tell him about the bullies at school anymore because this thing with your brother's face will just find them and kill them. #and not even stupid fucking Jason deserves what the monster in your dead brother's skin would do to him. #your brother is dead and lost and right there in arm's reach and gone forever with no hope of ever getting him back. #i'm sure there are corollaries to be written about like ghosts and zombies but this is the one i'm personally hung up on recently

[ato-dato]

Piss off!!! Thanks!!!!!!!!!! :)))))

#bookstore-sitting is a very hard job #you wouldn’t understand #anyway #we interrupt your usual funny programme for a little bit of angst #but we’ll be back shortly #aziraphale #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #aziraphale x crowley #crowley #muriel #good omens muriel #good omens season two #good omens #good omens spoilers #good omens fanart #good omens s2 #art #artwork #my art #fanart #digital art #drawing #comic #fan comic

[linipikk]

Aziraphale shielding Crowley from water

and Crowley shielding Aziraphale from fire

#good omens #ineffable husbands #lini writes #sitting here waiting for another version of this since I like things in threes #it is past midnight and i seeing things #third eye wide open

[badolmen]

WARNING 18+

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#ra speaks #it’s a silly joke/pun dw #we stay silly :3 #edit: #woahg. that’s a lot of notes. hi everybody o/ #10k. stop clenching your jaw and drink some water. #15k. eat some fresh fruit this week! I’m having kiwis tonight :] #20k. quit sitting like a shrimp it’s bad for your neck! sit up straight and do a little stretch every now and then #25k. I’m up at 2 AM but I’ll get to see the sunrise today :] if you can’t see that I hope you admire the sunset later today #30k. do something fun you haven’t done in a while. I haven’t drawn in months - I think I’ll paint a cat tomorrow :3

[enbycrip]

#academia #fandom #jungian #what is a shadow but a waluigi of the self #super mario #wario and waluigi #as usual academias fandom roots are just sitting there

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Hate hate hate how when I get angry there is a physical reaction but it's not glowing eyes or growing claws or something it's crying. This feels unfair.

#despise how when I get angry I can't beat people up and then grow wings or something #I have to just sit there and NOT DO ANYTHING