militantbyexistence:

wordsacramento:

A few photos from today’s outreach session at the Southside Park Farmer’s Market.

Today, Yeimi, Mallory, Autumn, Michelle, Celia, Sarah, and Emily [+her husband and younger sister] gave out free vegetables, herbs and fruit grown from Autumn’s garden to the community.

While initially setting up the group was approached and told they had to wait until the farmer’s market was closed to hand out vegetables [despite all of the women being patrons of the market] because they “were competing with the farmers”.  The group still managed to give away all the vegetables, fruit and herbs they had grown and packaged despite the earlier negativity and the community was absolutely ecstatic about our presence.

One woman even told us that she had found out about  W.O.R.D. Sacramento through …wait for it…TUMBLR.

Needless to say, we’ll be back next week. Which will be our 3rd week of the “Summer Free Veggie & Herb Program”.

Keep an eye out for us elsewhere.

<3 W.O.R.D. Sacramento Organizers & Members

All the veggies and fruit given away are grown in a pesticide free environment, using non-gmo [non genetical modified] organic/heirloom seeds. 

theafrolatina:

Black in Latin America| Mexico and Peru: A hidden Race

blackmexico:

Memín Penguin, Changing Racial Debates, and Transnational Blackness (1)

Bobby Vaughn, Notre Dame de Namur University Ben Vinson III, Johns Hopkins University

In July of 2005, Memín Penguin, a black Mexican comic book character who resembles Curious George, or even a little black Sambo, was celebrated with a postage stamp in his honor. The stamp was well received by many sectors of the Mexican public, representing a fond image of childhood. But the stamp’s image offended African Americans in the United States and a wide segment of the international community, since it smacked of discrimination. The stamp’s release came only months after Mexican President Vicente Fox made disturbing public remarks that Mexican immigrants to the United States take jobs “that not even blacks want to do.”2 The public attention that both episodes garnered on each side of the border reveals interesting new dimensions of the ongoing, shifting saga of race relations. For the first time, within the context of high-level forums, Mexican images of blackness were pitted against those of African Americans. Notably, the ways that Mexicans of African descent might have responded to these episodes did not appear to be part of the public relations considerations. Our extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Afro-Mexican communities over the past decade affords us an additional vantage from which to analyze the unfolding of these racially charged events.3 

racialicious:

TRIGGER WARNING

noirotica:

1. SAKIA GUNN -Lesbian - murder victim
2. NIREAH [irrelevant name removed] JOHNSON - Trans woman - murder victim
3. ANGIE ZAPATA - Trans woman - murder victim
4. REBECCA WIGHT - Lesbian - murder victim

Sure everyone knows Brandon Teena, Matthew…

you totally missed the point of including the name trans*phobic and heteronormative cis gender society knew Nireah by.  If you google Nireah Johnson VERY FEW posts pop up….which proves the point of the post….

Out of 360 something reblogs only you felt the need to change the tone and POINT of the post.

Celebrity chef Mario Batali • Discussing the diet he’s currently on — he’s eating like he’s on food stamps (an average of $1.48 per meal, or $31 per week) in protest of potential cuts to the federal food stamps program. His family was nice enough to join him in what he calls a conversation starter about being hungry in the U.S. Unlike most people on food stamps, he knows ways to make the best of a bad situation, smartly sticking to foods like lentils, apples, rice, beans, peanut butter and jelly. But the problem is, eating good on a diet like this is tough, so many do not. Think his family’s experiment will be effective? (via shortformblog)

I think this is the key argument for those who think that poor people could eat better if they just tried harder. This guy prepares food for a living and he still cannot manage to do this without feeling like he’s going hungry. This is a problem.

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Why aren’t we talking about this more?

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and i mean, it takes some rich fuck to say it aint enough… for someone to care. not like po’ folk aint been tellin you err’day for decades. :|

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^ this

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jeighhall:

Underwater sculpture, in Grenada, in honor of our African Ancestors who were thrown overboard the slave ships during the Middle Passage of the African Holocaust.