Source: The Anishinabek have launched a campaign to get rid of the term “Aboriginal.”
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Get lost in : Morning Glory
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A Transgender Note – Nina
I don’t feel as though being transgender as a burden, to me it’s a blessing. Many gods, goddesses and spiritual guides were intersex or changed gender over time. Some aboriginal tribes in north America had a name for it centuries ago ” 2 spirit ”
Although unacceptable in Muslim and Christian faiths I am neither. In Buddhism they regard it as your spiritual qualities from your past life arising in your present. I do not need validation from anyone or anything to be myself.
Countries around the world need to show basic human rights, laws protecting trans people across the world. I see suffering in the trans community from an ignorant world without conscious mind on human spirituality and science.
I am a proud transgender woman urging you to be whatever you want to be. Manifest yourself a brighter future in regards to your identity. You need not a label nor a piece of paper. You need not to be understood by all.
But you need to be yourself,
Love Nina
We are illegal. – Nina
We / The people: are illegal.
Conflicted because our species imperfect.
Maximum security planet earth
And can’t search the leaky facility.
Nothing will ever be enough for what is strived enough for.
Longing we have for freedom.
Even if you jump the fence you suffer the fall.
Law upon law upon law upon law upon law.
Get your passport it’s time to go.
But who’s in control of the borders flow.
It’s not the masses.
Bob Marley once said “Every law is illegal”
He’s probably right
Governments controlling the people.
So stay out of sight of the eagles.
Nina
Tribunal Rules Canada Discriminated Against First Nations Children
Oh Canada………..
Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations and Family Caring Society.
By Red Power Media, Staff
On-reserve child welfare system receives less funding than elsewhere
Canada’s federal government has discriminated against First Nations by providing less money for children’s social services on reserves, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled.
CTV News reports, the decision comes nearly nine years after a complaint was filed by the Assembly of First Nations and The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada.
In its ruling Tuesday, the tribunal found that funding formula used by the federal First Nations Child and Family Services Program (FNCFS) and related agreements with the provinces and territories have resulted in the denial of child welfare services on reserves.
The tribunal also found cases in which there was a financial incentive for the government to remove children living on reserves from their parents’ care and place them…
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Why Do We Need Activism?
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Philadelphia Street Art. The beautiful aftermath of hurricane Katrina.
” Bordered by a failed public housing project, the exhibit, a colorful oasis in a desert of urban blight, has attracted public acclaim but private city condemnation, and new plans to build over the site’s dramatic history remain in limbo.”
“We wanted to make people talk about what happened here and what could happen here,”
Odums (a.k.a. bmike) says of ExhibitBE, which is part of theProspect.3 art biennial. “We hope that, with this, we get people to see blight differently. To see that it’s connected to something larger than just that physical space,” he says. “Each piece of blight is connected to someone’s story and that story deserves respect and deserves honor and deserves some consideration.”
Full Article at:How This Building Covered In Eye-Popping Street Art Explains New Orleans
On Codes and Translation: Understanding Alaa Awad
The following is a shorter version of a chapter I contributed to Translating Dissent: Voices from and within the Egyptian Revolution, ed. Mona Baker, out now via Routledge and available for purchase. This content has been edited for brevity.
In 2013, I gave a talk at the Petrie Museum in London to an audience of Egyptology students and academics. I presented the work of Alaa Awad, a 33-year-old Egyptian street artist who had painted murals of ancient Egyptian art around ahrir Square during the political protests of 2011 and 2012.
As I showed them a series of murals depicting women in fierce, coloured robes walking to battle, or a row of bearded men kneeling before the throne of a mouse being fanned by a cat, I could sense the room temperature changing as they began to realise that the paintings were almost perfect replicas of the ancient Egyptian murals they had studied.
Why…
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eL Seed bringing people together through calligraffiti
Ted Talk in Vancouver “Calligraphiti” French Artist writing in Arabic Worldwide.
eL Seed, a French-Tunisian calligraffiti artist, spreads messages of peace and appreciation for the Arabic script through his colourful and poetic street art. But did you get a chance to watch his TED talk?
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Great Love / Panther Love – Huey P. Newton
“I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people”. Huey P. Newton (Black Panthers)
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