Sisters of the Yam

There’s a revolution currently happening in Haiti. 

Who’s paying attention?

“For people who want to go get a Filipino domestic worker, what are these ridiculous work contracts you’ve got to sign? The woman I met with was reading out the rules to me and I was just shocked. Put aside that they need to be given a break every five hours, that’s normal. But, how can you have a ‘servant’ in your house who gets to keep their passport with them? Where are we living? If they ran away and went back to their country, who’ll refund me?,” she said.

Al Qattan didn’t stop at that but also went on to object to a rule that grants a worker a day off per week.

“Even worse, is that they get a day off every single week! What’s left? Honestly, with this new contract, I just wouldn’t ‘get’ a Filipino ‘maid.’ She’d only work six days a week and get four days off a month,” she added.

‘This is propaganda!! We treat migrant workers with respect!! Their conditions aren’t as bad as they say!! They’re just greedy!! You just hate Arabs so you’re making lies about us!!’

25-year-old Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed Eric Garner’s death is going to jail to serve a 4-year sentence. 

Orta says that after filming Garner’s death he was repeatedly harassed and targeted by police and arrested 8 times in a span of 2 years.

The man who killed Eric Garner, Daniel Pantaleo, on the other hand got a 15% pay rise since the shooting of Eric.

That’s American criminal justice system for ya..

blackness-by-your-side:

I’m just scared people are going to forget about Flint and forget about these children.

Remember that when the first E. coli outbreak from the water popped up, the city hall was given water coolers by the state, free of charge, all while denying that the water could be unsafe to drink.

Remember that, despite having a huge budget surplus and a “rainy day fund,” set aside that could easily cover the cost of relocating the residents by buying their houses/paying their debt, or could cover a large chunk of the cost of replacing the pipes, the state has decided to continue to only put in the minimal amount of effort.

Remember that flint is majority POC, majority impoverished, and is still being faced with crippling water bills from the Detroit water supply company, where they are often charged $50 a month just to use the service, on top of the cost of their water bill.

Remember that there will now be an entire generation of children who will now be damaged by lead poisoning and damage from the multitude of neurotoxins.

The State and City are most upset that people know its happening and are resisting nation-wide.

But if we lose focus they lose even the small amount of aid they’ve managed to get.

This is how they do it. It’s a siege on the public empathy. Eventually we become numb to the problem and despair. Or something bigger happens.

Hey y’all.

I just thought I’d let you all know that my tumblr page is on the verge of being terminated for good. Why, you ask? Over the past months, I’ve been receiving violation notices for posting “sexually explicit” content on here, as well as copyright infringement notices for specific content, from tumblr staff. Y’all know damn well I don’t post nor reblog anything on here that’s sexually explicit lol. As for the copyright infringement claims, my posts that have been removed are eyebrow-raising. 

For example: My latest post that was removed for copyright infringement off of this site, which happened Monday morning, was a 20 second video clip that was captured from the tv to a phone. It showed a Black female presenter congratulating and embracing Brianna Rollins on her gold medal at the Rio Olympics before uttering “Black Girls Rock.” …Yeah, that was removed. 

Now I don’t want y’all to get the idea that the tumblr staff has it out for me or some shit. Y’all know how these anons love me on here. (Sarcasm). I’m pretty sure it’s one of them that’s doing all of this, has an obsession with my page, and has a lot of time on their hands going through my archive because some of these videos are dating years back. 

What I think is happening is that anyone can submit a url and claim to be the copyright holder because the videos that’ve been targeted as infringement are questionable. I don’t think tumblr staff actually review any of the content that’s submitted for violation, but rather take the proposed “copyright holder’s” word for it. I’ve questioned them about this but I have yet to receive an answer. I know this is the case because one of my videos was taken down and after I made an appeal for tumblr staff to actually look at the video, they sent me this:

(It’s real in these internet streets. Three days ago I had a twitter account terminated because whoever owned it created a variant of my username, used my image posing as me.)

Remember that time somebody created a tumblr account on here using a variant of my username, created the exact theme and blog layout, AND decided to follow me. That’s a whole ‘nother story. People are crazy. 

Anywho, the things I post on here are meant to inspire and/or create discussions. I have an opinion on everything as many of you know (lol). Maybe it’s about that time that I really look into creating my own video content on youtube, which some of you have been telling me to do. The only thing that’s holding me back is my timid, introvert tendencies that creep up (I’m an ambivert btw) and the fact that I freeze up in front of a camera. I’ma make it work. 

According to Tumblr, posting a “Beyoncé Always On Beat” vine of her and her dancers from her “7/11” video dancing to another track counts as sexually explicit content to tumblr staff. 🤔

Here’s that new violation notice I was talking about:

Where Sway??

Turkish president Recep Erdogan has ordered that at least 131 media outlets suspected of inciting or sympathising with this month’s failed military coup be permanently shut down. [x] [x]

That includes three news agencies, 16 TV channels, 23 radio stations, 45 daily newspapers, 15 magazines, and 29 publishing houses.

Erdogan’s post-coup purges have targeted at least 55,000 people, including soldiers, police, civil servants, and academics, suspected of inciting or sympathising with the military uprising. At least 16,000 have been detained so far.

Journalists (a long time favourite target of Erdogan’s) have also been hastily targeted in the post-coup crackdown. As of Thursday, 42 journalists have been detained, according to Turkish analyst and journalist Mahir Zeynalov (89 warrants have presently been issued).

The reason was so that the Pharmaceutical companies could charge $17,000 dollars per person per year for them instead. In addition, the Clinton threatened South Africa with trade sanctions for not complying. The Bush administration later also sued India for making their own version of the triple cocktail.

source: Dr. Croix Saffin, Queer Studies professor at Bellevue College

For years, companies have been making millions off the Maasai name. Now the tribe wants its cut