North Star Fund honors Picture the Homeless for "providing leadership among members of the homeless community, Picture the Homeless empowers people to impact policies and systems that affect their lives, while also creating space for homeless people, and their agenda, within the broader social justice movement." via A Special Bulletin From the Homeless Revolution!.
Occupy SF marchers take over vacant building
Occupy SF activists put the mostly moribund movement back in the spotlight Sunday, taking over an unoccupied building owned by the Archdiocese of San Francisco with plans to establish a "permanent occupation" that would serve as shelter and a center for services for homeless people. The activists entered the building at 888 Turk St. about [...]
Tania Brugguera on Political Timing
“An artwork with political aspirations that is conceived and/or arrives at the wrong political time makes the existence of what constitutes the political within almost non-existent. Arriving at the wrong time generates an expiration date of what works as the political within from the moment it is conceived, whether coming from an emotional or a [...]
Notes from teddy cruz at columbia
TEDDY CRUZ @ COLUMBIA MARCH 30 2012 GSAPP #wood033012 What got us out of great depression Wpa, 2nd bill of rights, public housing works and education Vs now is wall st bailout, foreclosures, and public spending cuts (chris) -Nationalize banks -refuse foreclosure -wall st for direct investment only -public everything (/chris) Petraeus on the contemporary [...]
Interview in Colorlines magazine
A topical and controversial look at Ghana ThinkTank: It’s been a weird period for would-be white saviors. Mike Daisey, an outspoken critic of Apple’s labor practices, has admitted to fabricating parts of his investigation of Foxconn factory conditions. And Jason Russell, co-founder of the group behind the massive KONY 2012 campaign, was picked up by [...]
NYC’s most racist newspaper
Quoted from Picture the Homeless: “Tired of Racist & Reactionary News Coverage? This Sunday, the New York Post ran an inaccurate, misleading, and inflammatory article about the work of Picture the Homeless, implying that homeless people (more than 90% of whom are Black and Latino) are all pimps, vagrants, thieves, and addicts. And because PTH [...]
Sarah Dougherty’s Interiors and Landscapes
This stuff makes my stomach turn. And I mean it in a good way: Sarah Dougherty’s Interiors and Landscapes, Radical Pedagogy, produce and ghettos, all that stuff. via Devin Kenny
the people dont know their true power
via Mike Mitchell’s Tumblr of Amazing Things..
Protected: That hot activist chick
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