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Listening to this very interesting talk with Alana Lentin on her latest book The New Racial Regime: Calibrations of White Supremacy. Great hard facts about colonialisation, the Zionist entity's role for the West, and much more.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hdNN5HWMoJY

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Listening to this very interesting talk with Alana Lentin on her latest book The New Racial Regime: Calibrations of White Supremacy. Great hard facts about colonialisation, the Zionist entity's role for the West, and much more.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hdNN5HWMoJY

@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com @bookstodon

The calls for a nationwide shut down are growing louder, spoken by more and more people. January 30 NO WORK NO SCHOOL NO SHOPPING https://www.instagram.com/p/DT9ULZQjFUU/

reviewed Love and Rage by Lama Rod Owens

Lama Rod Owens: Love and Rage (AudiobookFormat, 2021, North Atlantic Books)

In the face of systemic racism and state-sanctioned violence, how can we metabolize our anger …

Creative, Radical, Challenging

It's hard to know what to write about this one.

On the one hand, I experience much of Lama Rod's teaching in this book as brilliantly creative. The meditation instructions are well-systematized and I found the guidance helpful, especially for the #7homecomings, #tonglen, and #EarthTouching / #bhūmisparśa practices. I also deeply appreciated his acknowledgement of the issues present in the #Tibetan #Buddhist tradition and his way of relating to flawed teachers in a system vulnerable to abuse of power was valuable for me. The way he addresses #racism, #whitesupremacy, #queerphobia, #patriarchy and other forms of #discrimination or #opression reminded me favorably of Sebene Selassie's You Belong.

On the other, having now listened to it in its entirety, it seems like the book might have put together in a piecemeal sort of way. I get the impression that this might have …

1-yr-old pepper-sprayed by federal agent in

Video shows federal agents spraying chemical irritants from a moving vehicle at a line of cars waiting to leave a Cicero Sam’s Club Saturday morning. The action obviously violates a judge’s restriction on use of force.


https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/09/1-year-old-pepper-sprayed-by-federal-agent-in-cicero

AOC responded on X. “I represent LaGuardia Airport as well as workers for JFK. Trump gutted the Aviation Safety committee last week,” she wrote. “Air traffic controllers—already understaffed—got Trump’s ‘buyout’ this week with a 1 week ultimatum to decide. It’s not DEI—it’s him. And Elon too.” https://newrepublic.com/post/190969/aoc-trump-lies-dc-plane-crash

I think a lot of people are going to be able to find good uses for this in the next few days. I'm sorry, I'm not sure where it's from, but here... enjoy!

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Clippy, from Microsoft Office, with a word balloon saying: "Hi! It looks like you've quoted Martin Luther King, Jr. out of context instead of engaging with the complex reality of white supremacy in America. Would you like some help with that?" And then a pair of yes/no buttons.

Thus, Luigi Mangione is considered a terrorist, but white supremacists murdering activists, and cops killing civilians, are not. And, of course, people dying from dangerous products, unsafe workplaces, denied insurance claims, that's just a cost of business.

Noam Chomsky once said the word "terrorism" just means "violence not approved by the state." Things start to make a lot more sense once it's re-framed like that. The State has no problem with violence and death on massive scales. They just want a monopoly over it.

Today I learned that pineapples are not native to Hawaii. Why? Colonialism.

“James Dole identified Hawaii as the ideal location for farming and trade of this cash crop fruit. The Dole Corporation ultimately displaced Hawaiian sovereignty, ruling for a time as a republic, before ultimately influencing Congress to adopt the islands as a state.”

https://academic.oup.com/whq/article-abstract/41/4/512/1880603