February 2012
121 posts
“Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans...”
– Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and filmmaker. His book “The Lone Ranger and Tonto’s Fist Fight in Heaven,” was on the banned curriculum of the Mexican American Studies Program.
http://progressive.org/sherman-alexie
(via chicanainchoos)
Sherman Alexie is one of my...
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“It was important for me to relate to that time when I arrived in New York,”...”
– Demián Bichir: Oscar Nominee For ‘A Better Life’ Interview On Leaving Mexico And His Move To The U.S. [HuffPost]
Oscar (by the way, Oscar is another Mexican) or not, he’s a winner tonight. Orgullo!
(via thenoobyorker)
“At this time, many young Iranians all over this world are watching us, and I...”
– Iranian film director ASGHAR FARHADI, on accepting his Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, A Separation (via humanformat)
The psychological poverty trap →
Shafir has proved that anyone faced with adverse conditions will consistently make bad economic decisions. An experiment he conducted with Mullainathan and Zhao placed financially-savvy Princeton students from prominent families under the stressful and rushed conditions that poor people face every day. They were given questions to answer in a series of timed rounds, but were permitted to...
Please go here and sign to save the lives of... →
jesssicakay:
This case is important because it is the first arrest of North Korean refugees in China after Kim Jung-il’s death. Kim Jung-un, the son of Kim Jung-il and NK’s current leader, declared that refugees who flee North Korea during the 100-day mourning period of his father’s death would be annihilated along with their families.
30 have been caught, but many more lives are at risk. (via...
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“[D]ebts don’t really need to be repaid, because AIG, who owes money, can wave a...”
– Dr. David Graeber, Anthropologist/ anarchist/ scholar-activist (via rethinkcapitalism)
musingmadman asked: Why are we awake?!
“Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for...”
– Cesar Chavez (via jaimerafaellopez)
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