MessiahWhite |
Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely |
-
Photos
An anamorphic portrait of actor Sotigui Kouyate consisting of a roomful of various objects, only viewable from one vantage point. By Bernard Pras; there is a video of the installation being constructed.
(via dynamicafrica)
-
Quote
"There is no such thing as luck, only the astute mastery of probability"
-
Photo
-
Photo
(Source: whathappened2rich, via maxwellmixtapes)
-
Video
one of my FAVORITE videos recently. This guy, Dr Stamets, is the most famous mycologist (fungus scientist) alive today. He discusses several reasons that humans need to “unite” with this amazing species, including fuel generation (econol,) and detoxification.
He also discusses what he calls the “neural network” of fungal tendrils that extend across the planet underneath the soil. Much like a brain, they transfer information and nutrients!!
-
Audio
1,015 plays
Whoarei - For Byrd (& Jay Dee)
RIP Donald Byrd, RIP J Dilla
-
Link
the ultimate wackness: yet another way to keep the black man imprisoned...
Are You Comfortable with 3-Year Prison Terms for Saggy Pants?
- Video
-
Photos
As if these statistics weren’t startling enough, the US has just blocked proposals to expand prisoner rights at the U.N. meeting in Buenos Aires.
It opposed a proposal that would have allowed a prisoner facing disciplinary charges to be represented by a lawyer, even at his or her own expense. It pushed, unsuccessfully, for removal of a reference to health care being provided to prisoners free of charge – presumably because many U.S. prisons and jails charge prisoners for medical care. (The Brazilian delegation objected to the deletion, and the language remained in the Draft Report.)
The U.S. delegation was particularly hostile to any meaningful limits on solitary confinement, such as a maximum duration or the exclusion of vulnerable populations like children and persons with mental illness.
These delegations really show why the U.N. is so problematic & how it lacks any promise of progress, especially at the hands of the US on the Security Council. Of course, mass incarceration disproportionately affects people of color & the poor, so racial justice must be intertwined with the struggle for prisoner’s rights. Thanks to climateadaptation for the heads up about this story.
- Video
-
Quote
"It’s all in your head” has the same appeal as “It’s all in the genes”: an explanation for the way things are that does not threaten the way things are. Why should someone feel unhappy or engage in antisocial behavior when that person is living in the freest and most prosperous nation on earth? It can’t be the system! There must be a flaw in the wiring somewhere."
Louis Menand, Acid Redux. The New Yorker. 6/26/06
-
Photos
The voices of many scholars, activists, journalists, political prisoners and academics on the Prison Industrial Complex.
You can find these photos and others by clicking on our photos on Facebook (go like and share them).
Find The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander here for more information about the prison-industrial-complex and today’s greatest fight against racism in America.
And watch a talk about the fight against the New Jim Crow here.
} thepeoplesrecord :.
(via disciplesofmalcolm)
-
Quote
"
“When prisons disappear human beings in order to convey the illusion of solving social problems, penal infrastructures must be created to accommodate a rapidly swelling population of caged people. Goods and services must be provided to keep imprisoned populations alive. Sometimes these populations must be kept busy and at other times — particularly in repressive super-maximum prisons and in INS detention centers — they must be deprived of virtually all meaningful activity. Vast numbers of handcuffed and shackled people are moved across state borders as they are transferred from one state or federal prison to another.
All this work, which used to be the primary province of government, is now also performed by private corporations, whose links to government in the field of what is euphemistically called “corrections” resonate dangerously with the military industrial complex.”
"
“Masked Racism”. Angela Davis. 9/10/1998 -
Quote
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death"
MLK Jr.
-
Photo
