che cute. (: /ˈke/ /kju:t/)

UK Publishes Slave Owner Database

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:34:52 -0400

LONDON — A new database launched Wednesday lets Britons curious about their family history uncover some potentially uncomfortable information – whether their ancestors owned slaves. Researchers at University College London spent three years compiling a searchable listing of thousands of people who received compensation for loss of their “possessions” when slave ownership was outlawed by Britain in 1833.

The research could give momentum to those who argue that reparations should be paid for slavery. Barbados and Jamaica have both set up commissions to study the possibility of suing Britain over the legacy of the slave trade.

"The tour guide warned of the dangers of going to a park in the Bronx, and also gave inaccurate..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:07:39 -0400

“The tour guide warned of the dangers of going to a park in the Bronx, and also gave inaccurate information about the origin of the word “pig” to describe a police officer. While Battaglia claimed the word came from the Bronx, in reality it originated in London. The Bronx Borough President harshly criticized the guide and the tour. The guide is “the biggest fool on the planet,” said Ruben Diaz, the borough president. “To have foreigners come and gawk at a long line of people who are less fortunate than they are and to make money off of that and to view them as they are some sort of entertainment is pretty disgusting.””

- Tourists Encouraged to Gawk At, Mock Poor in Horrifying “GHETTO” Bus Tour in Bronx | Alternet (via aboriginalpressnews)

benedryl-pumpkinpatch: Butawhiteboy Cantbekhan

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:41:46 -0400

benedryl-pumpkinpatch:

Butawhiteboy Cantbekhan

laboratoryequipment: Boycott of Vaccine Causes Measles Surge a...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:36:23 -0400

laboratoryequipment:

Boycott of Vaccine Causes Measles Surge a Decade Later

More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of a vaccine scare that raised the specter of autism. Now, health officials are scrambling to catch up and stop a growing epidemic of the contagious disease.

This year, the U.K. has had more than 1,200 cases of measles, after a record number of nearly 2,000 cases last year. The country once recorded only several dozen cases every year. It now ranks second in Europe, behind only Romania.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/05/boycott-vaccine-causes-measles-surge-decade-later

I never realized how much of a badass ho chi minh was.

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:39 -0400

I never realized how much of a badass ho chi minh was.

"I don’t believe in any kind of nonviolence. I believe that it’s right to be nonviolent with people..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:26 -0400

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I don’t believe in any kind of nonviolence. I believe that it’s right to be nonviolent with people who are nonviolent. But when you’re dealing with an enemy who doesn’t know what nonviolence is, as far as I’m concerned you’re wasting your time.

And I think that the people in this part of the world would do well to listen to Dr. Maritn Luther King and give him what he’s asking for and give it to him fast before some other factions come along and try to do it another way. What he’s asking for is right, that’s the ballot, and if he can’t get it the way he’s trying to get it, then it’s going to be gotten one way or the other.

”

- Malcolm X

Even though Malcolm disagreed with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent approach, he still supported him. Don’t buy into the fake story that they were enemies. Taken from footage in Selma, Alabama, Feb. 4, 1965.

(via disciplesofmalcolm)

Been stuck in traffic in weehawken for like a half hr now. Marrrrrò

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:52:17 -0400

Been stuck in traffic in weehawken for like a half hr now. Marrrrrò

3 a’s and a b+ this semester!!!! Not bad :3

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:54:48 -0400

3 a’s and a b+ this semester!!!! Not bad :3

Three mass graves with 1,000 corpses found in Iraq

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:25:52 -0400

Three mass graves with 1,000 corpses found in Iraq:

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Iraqi officials have found three mass graves containing the bodies of about 1,000 people thought to have been executed by US soldiers during their occupation of the country.

The graves were uncovered in Iraq’s western province of al-Anbar. The remains are believed to be from victims killed by US forces during 2004 and 2005 in the city of Fallujah, located roughly 69 kilometers (43 miles) west of Baghdad.

theyellowbrickroad: My dad saw some scene kids sitting outside of this gas station and said “maybe...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:16:56 -0400

theyellowbrickroad:

My dad saw some scene kids sitting outside of this gas station and said “maybe they’re ghosts from 2008” omfg

derriuspierre: Angelo Page

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:16:12 -0400

derriuspierre:

Angelo Page

"While there are Indigenous people working to create changes in their home communities, the move to..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:13:02 -0400

““While there are Indigenous people working to create changes in their home communities, the move to reclaim Indigenous homelands by standing up and staking our presence on the homelands of our ancestors, reveals a strength and resilience that white settlers must recognize. The time has come to stand together and rise as nations and the resurgence begins with events such as PKOLS.””

- PKOLS and the Indigenous Nationhood Movement, By Renee Holt - Last Real Indians (via idlenomore)

wolfeinstitute: The Wolfe Institute and the Center for Italian...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:15:13 -0400

wolfeinstitute:

The Wolfe Institute and the Center for Italian American Studies present L is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir by Annie Rachele Lanzillotto.

Lanzillotto was born and raised in the Westchester Square neighborhood of the Bronx, and in Yonkers, New York, of Barese heritage. She received a B.A. with honors in medical anthropology from Brown University and an MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poem “Triple Bypass” won the Italian American Writers Association Paolucci Award in Poetry, and was published in the 2002 anthology, The Milk of Almonds: Italian-American Women Writers on Food and Culture, edited by Edvige Giunta and Louise DeSalvo. Her poems “Manhattan Schist” and “My Grandmother’s Hands” both won Rose and John Petracca Awards second place from Philadelphia Poets. She has received fellowships and performance commissions from New York Foundation For The Arts, Dancing In The Streets, Dixon Place, Franklin Furnace, and The Rockefeller Foundation.

Monday, May 6, 2013 from 6:30-8pm in the Maroon Lounge (6th floor) of the Student Center, Campus Road and East 27th Street.

oh this event passed but i wanna read this book. ‘milk of almonds’ is a really cool anthology btw.

Some Cases of Documented Anti-Italian Rhetoric in the United States

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:11:47 -0400

sicilianu:

New York Times Editorial

“The Italians are not a category of immigrants we can welcome without running risks. Because of their clannishness, attachment to their language, their living habits and customs, Italian and Chinese immigrants are much alike, except that the controversial pigtail-wearers are much more clever at home and with themselves. But the Chinese rarely give problems to the police and the courts, while it is well known that, among the foreigners with whom we have had to deal, there are no people who can surpass the Italians in resorting to fatal stabbings at the slightest provocation.”

Letter from Cardinal Prefect of Propaganda Fide (U.S.) to Vatican

“It is humiliating to have to acknowledge that after the disappearance of the Indian and the emancipation of the blacks, the Italians are the one who are pariahs of the great American republic… Many reduced to extreme misery by misfortune and vice, give themselves over to begging. The enormous majority does not know any language but its native dialect.”

(Socialist Paper)

“They come to America with the sole intention of making money. So they live like sheep.. Their one concern, their dream, painstaking to accumulate, is a bundle of money which, after twenty years of unheard privations, will give them the chance to enjoy moderate comfort in their hometown.”

Anonymous WASP

“We may doubtless learn courtesy from many an Italian… But we should remember that in forming a race of unknown value, there is being sacrificed a race of acknowledge superiority in originality and enterprise. This is without taking into account, as regards the physical side, that the average stature will be reduced and the skull will become broader and shorter.”

Consul Carroll (to Palermo) in a letter to the Department of State

“They are ignorant in the widest sense of the term in that they are unable to read or write. But normally they are able-bodies and hard-working. They are dirty and often filthy but would be otherwise out of their element. Generally, they have no intention of becoming American citizens nor would they be desirable as such. Their sole ambition is to make a little money and return to their own country and exist thereon by one venture to another for the balance of their days.”

Miscellaneous

“They have not adapted to the American way of living and do not seem to care to imitate it. They had no idea of bringing up their families after the American custom. They do not appreciate the institutions of a free land; they care nothing for the public schools and very little whether their children receive any education at all. They appear to have no desire for the comfort they might easily have, but are content to live in a way no native American would endure complacently. They have no desire to own a home, to become part of the community. The object of many of them is merely to save enough money to enable them to return to their old homes where they can live in idleness for the remainder of their lives. To attain this end, each member of the family must contribute his labor, the earnings usually going to some common fund; and in the meantime, they live more like cattle than like human beings, with little or no regard for sanitation or the common decencies of life.”

A slightly more positive comment—Yankee Apostle Bernardy

“While the American is essentially a mechanical and systematized being, the Latin mentality is characterized by the greatest variety and versatility, even when rudimentary. Side by side with childish ingenuity, it has profound psychological depths. Even when he is a hundred times more illiterate than his American counterpart, the Italian is a thousand times more intuitive. Besides, depth of soul, the delicacy of Latin intuitions and other Latin qualities are a closed book to the American spirit.”

yup, and unfortunately now the descendants of (southern) italian immigrants’espouse the same racist, xenophobic, and orientalist bullshit, and have become deeply embedded to the oppressive institutions (especially the ‘justice’ system) that once oppressed our bisnonni.

digitallyimpaired: this took like 20 years full zise

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:07:20 -0400

digitallyimpaired:

this took like 20 years

full zise

everythingsicily: Egg sellers in Sicily yo ashley check this...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:06:54 -0400

everythingsicily:

Egg sellers in Sicily

yo ashley check this out.

pasito-tuntun: I don’t know what to call this one yet. cut it...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:06:13 -0400

pasito-tuntun:

I don’t know what to call this one yet.

cut it and spray paint it on walls.

thegoddamazon: dykebrigade: lesleypowers: I’ve seen a lot of...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:05:42 -0400

thegoddamazon:

dykebrigade:

lesleypowers:

I’ve seen a lot of this on Tumblr lately, so this is for all of you (including me) who want to run around in jean shorts all summer but feel like you can’t because of some intangible socially conscribed idea of what bare legs are ‘supposed’ to look like.

(Of course, some people have their own perfectly good reasons for wanting to cover up, and that’s just as fine).

Rocking shorts and skirts this summer.

Showing off my tattoos and stubble and scars.

Fuck em.

Yeah I only have two pairs of shorts, now. I gave away my short shorts because I thought…well…yeah. ._.

so sleepy. 2 sleepy to type in info 4 megabus tickets :0

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:30 -0400

so sleepy. 2 sleepy to type in info 4 megabus tickets :0

bhoooot: look kawaii while destroying the...

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:57:12 -0400

bhoooot:

look kawaii while destroying the bourgeoise!

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