JASON MAGABO PEREZ

O, October 6.  

by Diane C. Fujino (via SF Gate)  

Seth Rosenfeld’s dramatic announcement that Richard Aoki was an FBI informant provoked an enormous response from Chronicle readers. Could it be true? Or was this a “snitch-jacketing,” a classic FBI tactic used to cast suspicion on a legitimate activist by spreading rumors and manufacturing evidence?

As a scholar, I insist on seeing evidence before concluding any “truth.” But as I read Rosenfeld’s work and cross-checked sources from my biography on Aoki, I realized Rosenfeld had not met the burden of proof. He made definitive conclusions based on inconclusive evidence.

If Aoki was an informant, when was he informing? How did he help the FBI disrupt political movements? What were his motivations?

I also questioned Rosenfeld’s motives. Rosenfeld’s piece, published the day before the release of his own book, gained him widespread media and public attention that surely will augment sales.

READ MORE: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Where-s-the-evidence-Aoki-was-FBI-informant-3808396.php

This is why we need to perform and fund our own research. This is the kind of ‘investigative journalism’ that re-traumatizes our communities. Mystery > Weak claims > Capitalist book-selling. We really need more and more creative, autonomous, knowledge-producing anti-institutions. And still, FUCK the FBI. 

twistedfork:

Reading Club 2000

This made my day. :) A lovely little gem in Makati. I love reading books and this initiative by Nanie Guanlao is truly inspiring.

Here’s the full article over at the PDI.
via Emerald Ridao 

so-treu:

femalerappers:

It was reported yesterday that Ms. Lauryn Hill has been charged with three counts of misdemeanor failure to file taxes. These charges were incurred for the years of 2005-2007, during a time in which Ms. Hill had removed herself and her family from society, in…

TOWARD A GENEALOGY OF ANGER…

1. Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

 — Malcolm X (1965)

2. My response to racism is anger. I have lived with that anger, on that anger, beneath that anger, on top of that anger, ignoring that anger, feeding upon that anger, learning to use that anger before it laid my visions to waste, for most of my life.

 — Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism” (1981)

3. excuse me, if I get angry

 watching my parents wither in work day cycles 

 while you steam roll over their dreams

 THEY drown in blood and sweat

 for 15 minute breaks and overtime meals

 the factory whistle blows an awful stink

 that stains my father’s blue collared shirt

 steel toe shoes cover callous feet

 that stand proud to be the backbones of this America

 for jobs ‘real Americans’ never wanted

 my father’s skin sweats stories

 my mother’s hands hold up hope

 I AM ANGRY FOR THEIR SACRIFICE.

 I AM ANGRY FOR THEIR PAIN

 I AM ANGRY for the lost stories and forgotten faces

 drowning in this land of immigrant pool

 I AM ANGRY for the violence that bleeds onto your streets. 

— Anida Yoeu Ali, “excuse me, ameriKa” (2002)

4. I am not angry; I am anger.       

    I am not dangerous; I am danger.

— Amir Sulaiman, “Danger” (2005) 

1. “Four Women” by Nina Simone

This was played in the final class session for one of my graduate seminars. We were discussing cultural studies and what it means to produce knowledge. 

2. “The Race for Theory” by Barbara Christian 

“For people of color have always theorized—but in forms quite different from the Western form of abstract logic…our theorizing…is often in narrative forms, in the stories we create, in riddles and proverbs, in the play with language, since dynamic more than fixed ideas seem more to our liking. How else have we managed to survive with such spiritedness the assault on our bodies, social institutions, countries, our very humanity?”

3. I’m trying to decolonize my languages. 

carmeya:

only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat

- audre lorde

ucsdcrossculturalcenter:

Guest Post by Yolo Akili

Oppression is trauma. Every form of inequity has a traumatic impact on the psychology, emotionality and spirituality of the oppressed. The impact of oppressive trauma creates cultural and individual wounding. This wounding produces what many have called a “pain…

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