Racism

Last night I had an interesting conversation about the so-called Green Scare and the impact of The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. Like so much recent legislation, AETA does an incredible job criminalizing those who work to defend the earth and its creatures. By criminalizing the defense of the earth, our land-base and its creatures, the Federal Government and AETA in particular aid in defending the death of millions of people and thousands of species. Furthermore, acts criminalizing the defense of the earth are complicit in structural white supremacy preventing people from dismantling the ecological weapons used to inflict environmental racism on communities of color.

White narcissism is back with gusto. A week or so ago my friend Kelly and I were eating dinner and ranting about white people (of course both of us are white...this is what we do...). He introduced me to an incredible website, Stuff White People Like. If you haven't had a chance to check it, you've got to. Whether you're white or not, this site is all the rage amongst people stuck around various aspects of white culture.

Podslam.org celebrates Black History at the Denver Art Museum with 16 slam poets battling on politics and our state of existence in the world. Hosted by muMs & Sunni Patterson, feat. Les Nubians w/ Queen Godis | Beats: DJ Moni | Live Painting: Jay Paul Apodaca | All-Ages | $15 | www.podslam.org

In the wake of a stinging CIA report showing that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction comes a new film prompted by the foreign policy failures of the Bush administration. AXIS OF EVIL deconstructs the rhetoric of the President’s catch phrase and illuminates the ways in which our government manipulates truth, language, and the media to hijack popular culture and opinion.

By Greg Palast; Posted on ZNet

What color is your disaster? It makes a difference. A life and death difference.

Dig:

Population of San Diego fire evacuation zone: 500,000
Population of the New Orleans flood evacuation zone: 500,000

White folk as a % of evacuees, San Diego: 66%
Black folk as % of evacuees, New Orleans: 67%

In a conversation with a friend about the Israeli Occupation of Palestine, she said something that shocked me: "It's too bad Hitler didn't do a better job."