Showing posts tagged protest
Oil painting by Michael D’Antuono: A Tale of Two Hoodies

Oil painting by Michael D’Antuono: A Tale of Two Hoodies

(Source: wonderrluust)

(Reblogged from stupiduglyfatcunt)
“

Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it’s personal. And the world won’t end.


And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don’t miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” And at last you’ll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.

Audre Lorde (via thechocolatebrigade) the only theorist who can make me cry (via fromonesurvivortoanother)
(Reblogged from maggiemunkee)
suzy-x: youngloudandscotty: “I, like Solzhenitsyn, believe that words will crush concrete,” said Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, standing in front of a slit in the glass and metal cage where the band’s three members have been held throughout their trial. “We sit in a cage, but we didn’t lose. And the dissidents didn’t lose. Disappearing in psychiatric wards and jails, they convicted the regime.” http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pussy-riot-make-final-pleas-in-moscow-court-20120808 Bad grrrlz do it well

suzy-x:

youngloudandscotty:

“I, like Solzhenitsyn, believe that words will crush concrete,” said Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, standing in front of a slit in the glass and metal cage where the band’s three members have been held throughout their trial. “We sit in a cage, but we didn’t lose. And the dissidents didn’t lose. Disappearing in psychiatric wards and jails, they convicted the regime.”

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pussy-riot-make-final-pleas-in-moscow-court-20120808

Bad grrrlz do it well

(Reblogged from warminvention)
americawakiewakie: talldarkbishoujo: wretchedoftheearth: I’ve never seen a GIF of this. I was just reading about this during a wiki binge on Olympics incidents and did a little research on it. I never knew how deep the message was that Smith and Carlos were trying to send. Just about everything they wore and how they wore it had symbolism attached to it. (unzipped tracksuits for solidarity with blue collar workers, necklace of beads for lynching victims, etc) Calling it a “black power salute” is really reductive and it’s a shame (and predictable) that if it’s taught at all, that’s what it’s boiled down to. Another thing I didn’t know: the Australian guy who came in second wore a patch for solidarity with them, he was protesting racist Australian immigration policies. When he passed away, Smith and Carlos were pallbearers at his funeral. Beautiful information here. 

americawakiewakie:

talldarkbishoujo:

wretchedoftheearth:

I’ve never seen a GIF of this.

I was just reading about this during a wiki binge on Olympics incidents and did a little research on it. I never knew how deep the message was that Smith and Carlos were trying to send. Just about everything they wore and how they wore it had symbolism attached to it. (unzipped tracksuits for solidarity with blue collar workers, necklace of beads for lynching victims, etc) Calling it a “black power salute” is really reductive and it’s a shame (and predictable) that if it’s taught at all, that’s what it’s boiled down to.

Another thing I didn’t know: the Australian guy who came in second wore a patch for solidarity with them, he was protesting racist Australian immigration policies. When he passed away, Smith and Carlos were pallbearers at his funeral.

Beautiful information here. 

(Source: bloggingisnotwriting)

(Reblogged from oppressionisyucky-deactivated20)

Obesity Timebomb: This is what the Fattylympics was like

Grass roots activism at it’s finest.

via The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Modern Female Protest at Home | Bad Reputation “Women’s Lib, to coin an old phrase, has been linked to the rise of labour saving household appliances, yet it’s a fact that women do most of the shopping and cooking, probably because whilst we’ve made great leaps forward in terms of being able to vote and not being treated as the property of husbands, there’s still a massive social expectation around looking after the home. Separate Spheres for the 21st century. Now, on a practical front, this means that it’s women who are often in control of what a family eats, what a family thinks about food. This can be both a good and bad thing. This setup means that many families understand a “woman’s role” as one which involves spending time feeding and looking after them, and whilst it’s great to be the nurturing one, the one who can make the AMAZING pie, the one who keeps the place feeling like a home. It’s less great to be that person because you are female. And that’s the problem.”

via The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Modern Female Protest at Home | Bad Reputation

“Women’s Lib, to coin an old phrase, has been linked to the rise of labour saving household appliances, yet it’s a fact that women do most of the shopping and cooking, probably because whilst we’ve made great leaps forward in terms of being able to vote and not being treated as the property of husbands, there’s still a massive social expectation around looking after the home. Separate Spheres for the 21st century.

Now, on a practical front, this means that it’s women who are often in control of what a family eats, what a family thinks about food. This can be both a good and bad thing. This setup means that many families understand a “woman’s role” as one which involves spending time feeding and looking after them, and whilst it’s great to be the nurturing one, the one who can make the AMAZING pie, the one who keeps the place feeling like a home. It’s less great to be that person because you are female. And that’s the problem.”

Fat Bitch by Aimee Fleck View high resolution

Fat Bitch

by Aimee Fleck

(Source: fatpeopleart)

(Reblogged from haleyhals-deactivated20111212)
(via Posters from the #Occupy movement – occuprint)

(via Posters from the #Occupy movement – occuprint)

(Source: awpresents-mindcontrol)

(Reblogged from manicrecession-deactivated20130)
 Ai Weiwei investigated over nude art | Art and design | The Guardian “Ai Weiwei is under investigation for spreading pornography, the Chinese artist has said, as the authorities turned their attention from political subversion and tax evasion to online images of nudity. He said police had questioned his cameraman Zhao Zhao on Thursday over pictures Zhao had taken of the artist. “They clearly told him this is an investigation, now, they are doing on me, on pornography,” Ai told the AFP news agency.”

 Ai Weiwei investigated over nude art | Art and design | The Guardian

“Ai Weiwei is under investigation for spreading pornography, the Chinese artist has said, as the authorities turned their attention from political subversion and tax evasion to online images of nudity.

He said police had questioned his cameraman Zhao Zhao on Thursday over pictures Zhao had taken of the artist. “They clearly told him this is an investigation, now, they are doing on me, on pornography,” Ai told the AFP news agency.”

(Source: snikthwip)

(Reblogged from 24hoursremain-deactivated201204)
(via Ai Weiwei’s Snake Makes Huge Statement - My Modern Metropolis) View high resolution

(via Ai Weiwei’s Snake Makes Huge Statement - My Modern Metropolis)

Dear Protesters…

Don’t get me wrong, as someone who is interested in politics and political reform, I welcome protest and dissent.  Protest and dissent are vital to  civic life  and listening to criticism is vital for political growth. However, if you are going to protest and want to engage with the people you disagree with, the following might be useful -

  • Appropriating other people’s struggles, their appalling treatment and life and death desperation for your own ends is insulting, demeaning to those people and shows you have no understanding of  privilege. For example the guy who yelled at me and others queuing to get into Sheffield City Hall, declaring that Sheffield had been turned into the ‘Left Bank ‘  would had a better reception if machine gun emplacements, bulldozed homes and the bodies of murdered children had been more in evidence.   As it was, we stopped listening to you pretty much instantly for saying something so idiotic.
  • If you come up to me and say you would a like a constructive conversation about why you are protesting, but then don’t have any real idea of what to say except that anyone who disagrees with you is ‘tory scum’ then  I’m going to walk away.  
  • A catchy placard slogan is not going to make up for not knowing what you are talking about. If you are going to disagree with a policy, read that policy first and then tell me what you would do differently. Making threats and personal insults is not protest, it’s plain old fashioned thuggery.

To all the other people whom did take the time to be polite, well informed and to actually listen , a big thank you! We may not have agreed but it was good to talk to you.