Grassroots Post-Modernism. The grassroots initiatives that we are alluding to and drawing upon are autonomously organized by “the people” themselves for their own survival, flourishing and enduring; both independent from and antagonistic to the state and its formal and corporative structures….
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Grassroots Post Modernism by Gustavo Esteva & Madhu Suri Prakash
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iamabutchsolo:
A White Savior Film (WSF) is a movie that features a white person coming into the lives of a person or people of color (POCs) who are often low-income, troubled, and/or severely oppressed. The troubled times that the people of color are in can be a product of oppression from…
My days are numbered so I just want to have as much fun as possible. I’m 40 and that’s young in everyone else years but in Black years—high blood pressure, diabetes…. If you do the black to white life ratio, I’m a hundred and seventy seven years old. I’m old as a MF.
This was maybe America’s last chance to fight back against the greed of the Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats, to generate some serious discussion about public interest and common good that sustains any democratic experiment. We are squeezing out all of the democratic juices we have. The escalation of the class war against the poor and the working class is intense. More and more working people are beaten down. They are world-weary. They are scapegoating the most vulnerable rather than confronting the most powerful… I thought Barack Obama could have provided some way out.
Our mission is to bring the people’s voice into this process that doesn’t have any transparency, democracy, or accountability because those who are paying the costs are entities that the people never voted in to redesign and reframe the city.
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Charity Hicks, Detroit Peoples Movement Assembly
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Why is it when working people need money, none is there but we can find money for a third war?
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Maureen Taylor at the Detroit Peoples Movement Assembly
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In an underdeveloped country, the imperative duty of an authentic national bourgeoisie is to betray the vocation to which it is destined, to learn from the people, and make available to them the intellectual and technical capital it culled from its time in the colonial universities.
Sometimes I catch myself judging others for being weird, but then I realize that I’m probably one of the weirdest people to exist…
