Racism
Twelve Years a Slave – Enhanced Edition by Dr. Sue Eakin Based on a Lifetime Project. New Info, Images, Maps
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The aggry beads later came to be known as slave beads for the role they played in fueling the slave trade of Africans to Europeans and North Americans.
from The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking by Saifedean Ammous
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Commitment Card
The pledge outlines ten commitments for nonviolent action in the civil rights movement, including daily meditation, love, service, and following movement instructions for freedom and justice.
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- I think it’s also important to admit, to attest to, and to [bear] witness to the violence of the archive of slavery, which is about erasure. There are tick marks instead of names; it’s all about the slave’s relationship to the accumulation of wealth for another. The archive doesn ’t tell us the story of someone’s life.
from On by Bettina Judd
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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
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Lael Johnson added 11d ago
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series Book 3)
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Lael Johnson added 11d ago
Lael Johnson added 11d ago
I think that “doing nothing”—in the sense of refusing productivity and stopping to listen—entails an active process of listening that seeks out the effects of racial, environmental, and economic injustice and brings about real change.
from How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Lael Johnson added 12d ago
- When we can begin to tap into the deep vessel of who we truly are, so many things would end about oppression. I believe the powers that be don’t want us rested because they know that if we rest enough, we are going to figure out what is really happening and overturn the entire system. Exhaustion keeps us numb, keeps us zombie-like, and keeps us on ... See more
from The Founder of the Nap Ministry on the Ways Rest Can Be a Form of Resistance
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