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January 16 2018 -  For more than one year, residents of Mexicali have been organizing against the construction of a brewery and aqueduct by the U.S. company Constellation Brands. If completed, the facility would produce beer for export to the U.S. and consume seven to thirty million cubic meters of water annually. (A city of one million uses around 20 million cubic meters.) Earlier this month, members of Mexicali Resiste began blockading aqueduct construction. On January 16, state and local police forces attacked the blockade and an hours-long confrontation ensued. While the blockade was successfully defended, at least five were arrested and ten injured. [video]

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I love the idea of taking up space, ESPECIALLY if you’re a woman, a femme, fat, disabled, queer, Black, Indigenous, or at some other intersection of identity that the world tries to control and make small (or render completely invisible). Taking up space, for me, is complicated. It’s obvious to me that people are uncomfortable sitting beside me on planes or public transportation. It’s obvious to me that theatre seats and clothing and outdoor gear never EVER had my body in mind. I used to feel like that meant I was the wrong one or the broken one. Now I’m starting to feel into a space where perhaps it’s not my body that is wrong, but instead the fact that people who create things and make things refuse to acknowledge the benign and very natural thing that is body diversity - we come in so many shapes and sizes and everyone KNOWS that. So to design something without making different options available is to make a choice that some people don’t matter, that some people don’t belong in this space. Take up that space. Spread out. It might be scary. It might be terrifying - especially if you have to ask for a different seat or an extender. But the problem is not you. It is not you or your body. When we expand instead of contract, we start opening to the possibilities that are our bodies and our minds and our talents. Expand. Open. Let us see you. The world needs that. It needs you. Join more of this conversation at exploremoresummit.com. There are 14 amazing speakers talking about this very thing - for free and entirely online - starting Monday, December 4th. You deserve to be seen.

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Remember that this is what privatized natural resources looks like. Remember that these people are being punished for having the audacity to dare to be poor in an economy that won’t let them be anything but.

Then its business as usual again.

Any white person who voted for Trump who tries to use MLK or his words as a rhtetorical tactic to justify their bigotry and complain about people protesting can personally come to my apartment in the next 24 hours for an ass-kicking.

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