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Yvonne lives in Berkeley, California with her partner and their four-legged family. During the day, she works at a racial justice think tank, crunching numbers to eradicate white supremacy. At night and sometimes weekends, she sits at her computer, trying to make sense of the world.
These are the fruits of her attempts. Apologies in advance if they are sometimes sour, not always sweet, unripe or not fully ready to launch. Yvonne is working on her craft of writing and playing with using all five senses.
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Communities of Possibilities
This was first published on RaceWire.
The concept of community is an ever-shifting one.
It first becomes applied to movements for social change after World War II, when a dissatisfied social worker Saul Alinksy shifted his efforts into organizing urban communities, based on geographic proximity. He was the first recognizable community organizer that developed a model beyond [...]
Posted in gender, labor, multitudes, race Also tagged capital crisis, geography, geopolitics, national question, neoliberal, obama, race, space and place, strategic essentialism Leave a comment
A Tale of Race and Recovery
via RaceWire
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…we had everything before us, we had nothing before us.*
The Obama administration enacted the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) back in February, the largest boon to public spending and [...]
Posted in capital, gender, labor, race, realpolitik, the state Also tagged apartheid, capital crisis, neoliberal, new deal, obama, race, safety net, strategic essentialism, subprime Leave a comment
Billionaires for Wealthcare
Billionaires for Wealthcare toasted the rightwing demonstrators that gathered in DC this past weekend to protest healthcare reform, legislation to stave off climate change, and all attempts to provide a safety net for working families and folks of color.
They describe themselves as “a grassroots network of health insurance CEOs, industry lobbyists, talk-show hosts, and others [...]
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The Cruxifiction of Van Jones
Philly artist Jasiri X made a music video linking the attack on Van Jones to how black and brown men are systemically discredited, especially when they are speaking truth to power and shaking up the status quo.
via Davey D’s Hip Hop Corner
Sesquipedalian Obscurantism
The NY Times today pays way too much respect for a man that does the world a whole lot of good dead than alive.
William F. Buckley Jr., who marshaled polysyllabic exuberance and a refined, perspicacious mind to elevate
conservatism to the center of American political discourse, died at 82.
Breathes the first sentence of Buckley’s obituary. [...]
Coal Mining Curbed on the Black Mesa, Paving Way for Navajo Green Economy