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Just need to update the tag and it’s road ready! #cb550 #honda...

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:49:38 -0500

Just need to update the tag and it’s road ready! #cb550 #honda #builtnotbought #garagebuilt

More work done and more still to do #cb550 #diy #bratstyle

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:37:25 -0500

More work done and more still to do #cb550 #diy #bratstyle

Spring is here #honda #cb550 #kz400 #cb750

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:47:39 -0500

Spring is here #honda #cb550 #kz400 #cb750

firstbook: If you work with kids from low-income neighborhoods,...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:32:39 -0600

firstbook:

If you work with kids from low-income neighborhoods, First Book can help you get brand-new, high-quality books.

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Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:26:07 -0600

witchlingfumbles: syristones: blackspider: yugendreams: This...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:00:08 -0600

witchlingfumbles:

syristones:

blackspider:

yugendreams:

This is happening now. This image has to reach the rest of the world. The Kayapo being expelled from their homes for the construction of the Belo Monte Dam, which will flood 400.000 acres of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil.

This is one of the most horrifying things I’ve seen recently. Fuck I hate humanity.

This hurts my heart to see.

Spread this shit like wildfire.

The Beautiful Resistance An informative and inspiring video on...

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:06:00 -0600

The Beautiful Resistance

An informative and inspiring video on the reenergized Chican@ political art movement.

Big respect for my friend Jesus Barraza and his partner Melanie Cervantes of Dignidad Rebelde for sharing their story and adding to the imagery of la lucha!

thinkmexican: The Maya Are Alive – and Have Made Some Wise...

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 11:28:14 -0600

thinkmexican:

The Maya Are Alive – and Have Made Some Wise Recent Predictions

The Zapatistas foresaw the long-term dangers of globalization. So much for the idea that the Maya are a ‘thing of the past’

When the Maya indigenous peoples of southeast Mexico launched a revolution in 1994, they most certainly did not have in mind the “end of the world.” If there was, in the Zapatista imagination, a date evoking a doomsday, it would have to be January 1, 1994, the date of the inauguration of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

To the Zapatistas, the enactment of economic globalization was nothing short of a “death sentence,” because they understood it could have lethal implications for the land and ancient traditions of the Mayas. On that cool winter’s day, armed with sticks, stones and very little ammunition, the Maya rebels of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) heralded a new era. But new did not mean better: the uprising did not result in the Mexican constitution fully recognizing the indigenous peoples as subjects with juridical status.

Indeed, the long-term repercussions of both economic globalization and the Maya uprising itself, were clearly foreseen by the Zapatistas, who predicted, not an end of the world, but the collapse of the western capitalist economy. Furthermore, Zapatista predictions had a certain sense of “prophecy” – with all the connotations that word has: in the sense of teaching and the sense of foretelling or anticipating. When the EZLN had stated in the first Lacandona declaration that the era of party politics was over, it was not only prophesying alternative ways of making politics – invoking direct democracy (based, incidentally, on ancient Maya traditions, and different from representative democracy), but it was, in fact, anticipating the collapse of some political institutions of western modernity.

In 1999 and 2007 the Mayan rebels’ spokesperson, Subcomandante Marcos, anticipated the collapse of the financial and banking systems. Indeed, the EZLN was predicting nothing less than the demise of Lehman Brothers: “companies and states will crumble in a matter of minutes, not by the storms of proletariat revolutions, but by the onslaught of financial hurricanes.” Were these words not glaringly prophetic?

If anything, the Zapatista Mayan prophecy would have been the announcement of the end of a myth: a realization echoed by the Occupy movement years later. And if myths were crumbling, Nafta marked the beginning of a new series of crises; the Zapatistas were the first truly to understand this, along with the shattering of the promises of modernity.

To the Mexican government, NAFTA had represented legitimate access to the future, a right of entry to the elite club of the emerging powerful corporate world; but, to the Zapatistas, NAFTA came to signify the beginning of a yet another long-fought historical war against colonial and neocolonial voracity. To some, the Maya represent a source of apocalyptic delusion and “a thing of the past” for tourist consumption only. But, asserting that Maya today are extinct, as many do, not only denotes grotesque ignorance and bigotry, but it is a rhetorical manoeuvre to validate their exploitation, conveniently transforming them into cheap labour to cater for their billionaire tourist industry.

Read More at The Guardian

Image Credit: Radio Pozol

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Sun, 21 Oct 2012 17:43:17 -0500

What they did not want you to ever find out is that your...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:27:33 -0500

What they did not want you to ever find out is that your generation, the generation born between 1980-1995, actually outnumbers the Baby Boomers. They knew that if you ever turned your eye towards political reform, you could change the world. They tried to keep you sated on vapid television shows and vapid music. They cut off your education and fed you brain candy. They took away your music and gave you Top Ten pop stations. They cut off your art and replaced it with endless reality shows for you to plug into, hoping you would sit quietly by as they ran the world. We as a society are only as strong as our weakest link. Give ‘em hell, kids.

Think Mexican: We Have Still Had It Up to Here: The Year a Movement Was Born

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:06:04 -0500

Think Mexican: We Have Still Had It Up to Here: The Year a Movement Was Born:

thinkmexican:

Mexico’s Struggle to End the Drug War Is Unlike Any in the World

Before the night of March 27, 2011, when a group of young men from Cuernavaca were assassinated, there was no national movement in Mexico to prevent these acts of violence from occurring. Javier Sicilia was a poet, journalist,…

teachersworldwide: “Teachers in Uganda are striking for a salary increase which will provide them...

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:14:51 -0500

teachersworldwide:

“Teachers in Uganda are striking for a salary increase which will provide them with a living wage. Teachers in Uganda earn as little as $96 a month under conditions where inflation is running at 20 %. The teachers – who are members of the union Ugandan National Teachers Association (UNATU) are demanding a 100% rise. Teachers are among the worst paid government employees in the country – yet Yoweri Museveni – President of Uganda since 1986 – says that an increase for teachers is not a priority. Instead the government is prioritising infrastructure which will allow it to become one of the world’s top 50 oil producers.”

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Ugandan Teachers fight for Living Wage | Teacher Solidarity

That last sentence really makes a red flag go off in my mind. In the wake of all this Kony 2012 nonsense, I’ve been doing what i feel most should do when a topic of such emotional appeal and rapid metastasis becomes a magnet of attention: research. I’ve read a few different takes on the criticism of this campaign which extend from claiming that Invisible Children is being funded by the anti-gay, creationist, christian right, to this being part of a larger ploy to focus attention and “aid” on Uganda for the purpose of benefiting from the above-mentioned oil production, all the while supporting what has become a dictatorship littered in violations against humanity, headed by one Yoweri Museveni, as is posited in this article. All perspectives elicit some degree of paranoia, including (and probably especially) the IC video. For me at least, all the attention and money headed Uganda’s way via the U.S., Britain, China, and India at this point in history begs the question “why?” when so many years of atrocities have failed to obtain such a response.

itsmoh: You can have whatever you are willing to struggle for.

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:19:30 -0600

itsmoh:

You can have whatever you are willing to struggle for.

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Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:27:17 -0600

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“May you find serenity and tranquility in a world you may not always understand. May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism. Always know that there are those whose love and understanding will always be there, even when you feel most alone. May you discover enough goodness in others to believe in a world of peace. May a kind word, a reassuring touch, and a warm smile be yours every day of your life, and may you give these gifts as well as receive them. Remember the sunshine when the storm seems unending. Teach love to those who hate, and let that love embrace you as you go out into the world. May the teachings of those you admire become part of you, so that you may call upon them. Remember, those whose lives you have touched and whose have touched yours are always a part of you, even if the encounters were less than you would have wished. It is the content of the encounter that is more important than the form. May you not become too concerned with material matters, but instead place immeasurable value on the goodness in your heart. Find time each day to see beauty and love in the world around you. Realize that each person has limitless abilities, but each of us is different in our own way. What you feel you lack in the present may become one of your strengths in the future. May you see your future as one filled with promise and possibility. Learn to view everything as a worthwhile experience. May you find enough inner strength to determine your own worth by yourself, and not be dependent on another’s judgment of your accomplishments. May you always feel loved.”

—Unknown (via corona-borealis)

Martin Park Nature Center, Oklahoma City Fall, 2011

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 01:23:13 -0600

Martin Park Nature Center, Oklahoma City Fall, 2011

"Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be..."

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:35:57 -0600

“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.”

- Noam Chomsky (via whimsicalele)

thinkmexican: Popocatepetl - November 20, 2011 What does an...

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:19:16 -0600

thinkmexican:

Popocatepetl - November 20, 2011

What does an erupting volcano sound like? Watch this video to find out!

Follow Don Goyo’s volcanic activity at CENAPRED

Se eruptio el Popo!

One year gone, old man Nothing’s the same but it...

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 10:15:34 -0500

One year gone, old man

Nothing’s the same but it all

Reminds me of you

Think Mexican: Cause and Effect: American Drug War, Mexican Death

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:13:14 -0500

Think Mexican: Cause and Effect: American Drug War, Mexican Death:

thinkmexican:

U.S. Intervention in Mexico Will Make Things Worse

The increasing involvement of the United States in Mexico’s drug war is only going to make a bad situation worse.

It will likely lead to more deaths. It will be a drain on our treasury. And it’s unlikely to stem the flow of drugs. This…

The Very Best- Super Mom Also worth checking out, and to big a...

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:11:45 -0500

The Very Best- Super Mom

Also worth checking out, and to big a file to post on tumblr, their mix with Cee-Lo Green (second song on the mixtape)

Download it here