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@ponderaway
Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable.
Aurora Levins Morales
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Unconditional Love and Homosexuality
I watched the documentary "For the Bible Tells Me So," which includes interviews with such powerful messages of love. My sexuality as a straight person isn't a choice or a lifestyle; why would it be any different for someone who loves those of the same gender? Religious texts are not meant to be used in the name of hate, discrimination, and exclusion. Parents should not oppress the nature of their children, but rather embrace and love them, unconditionally. "What I've learned is that instead of taking the Bible literally, I have to take it in the context and culture of the day in which it was written." - Mary Lou Wallner, Teach Ministries
"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. Do what you can." - Sydney Smith
"Flight," June 25th, 2014
"Stormy," June 13th, 2014
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Neoliberalism posits that forcefully liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms maximises the well-being of all. The role of the state becomes the promotion of individual liberty and personal freedom through an institutional structure made up of strong private property rights, free markets, and free trade. The state has little role in second guessing market signals (i.e. prices), and where there is an ‘externality’ (e.g. pollution, social exploitations), the state can create new property rights that enable private profit seeking to spur innovative solutions. The regimen is maintained through the political, economic, and military powers/violence available to the state and the ruling class.
Christopher Bacon in "Who decides what is fair in fair trade? The agri-environmental governance of standards, access, and price" (2010)
Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.
Warsan Shire (via fuckyeahbestquotes)
As privatized, voluntary commitments, codes of conduct represent promises by major corporations that they will avoid egregious violations while they shift production to parts of the world where governments are too weak or too dependent to enforce labor codes or environmental standards.
Gay W. Seidman in Coalitions across Borders: Transnational Protest and the Neoliberal Order (2004)
Sometimes we are concerned not only, or even primarily, with what is done to others, but also with what such behavior shows about us. Ethics is not only about our relationships with other morally important entities, it is also about who we are.
Stephen M. Gardiner
Charter Schools: Structural Exclusion and Discrimination?
The promise and successes of public charter schools have been increasingly lauded. One of the main measures of success are high test scores (they’re actually very comparable to traditional public schools, natch). But have you considered how the charter school model can unjustly doctor enrollment to control their student population (and exclude certain students that would negatively impact test scores)? They, wittingly or unwittingly, do so through structural decisions that include: chosen niche (who they dedicate to serve), location, marketing (i.e. race portrayed in promotional materials and the language the material is offered in), illegal document requirements, specific admissions preferences, not providing services or resources for English learners or students with disabilities, conditions for application, and harsh discipline policies. Students with disabilities, English learners, students of color, and students in poverty face a number of barriers when seeking to enroll in charter schools. Kevin Welner breaks it down in "The Dirty Dozen: How Charter Schools Influence Student Enrollment" (read here).
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"Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence."
Alan Watts (via belovedlotus)
...market choices that can be a matter of life and death for fair-trade producers are merely ethical shopping options for Northern consumers who base their decisions on a variety of factors, including cost, convenience, image, and level of disposable income. In this sense, fair-trade appears to be less about challenging the fetishism of commodities than about reinforcing the commodification of our daily lives, as it now becomes possible to purchase ethics at the local supermarket.
Gavin Fridell, "Fair Trade and Neoliberalism: Assessing Emerging Perspectives" (2006)
Motivational Quotes
“Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.”
― Mikhail Naimy (via psych-quotes)
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Reality
When governments prioritize the economy and financial interests of transnational corporations over the well-being of their people and the health of their environments; when community stakeholders’ voices are repressed and dismissed; when social protestors are criminalized and violently attacked; when this is the reality of neoliberal economic globalization for millions of people in resource-rich countries…we must recognize that the need for corporate social responsibility, alternative business models, and accountability for human rights has nothing to do with marketing, profit, or creating value for shareholders. This may not be your reality, but you are a citizen and consumer whose companies and government contribute to this reality. This is a global struggle for compassion, sustainability, and innovation to transition to more equitable and just systems, and we are not removed from it.
"I'm comin' out," December 6th, 2013
