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"Then said Almitra, “Speak to us of Love.” And he raised his head and looked upon..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:49:35 -0400

“Then said Almitra, “Speak to us of Love.”
And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them. And with a great voice he said:
When love beckons to you follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth. Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God’s sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life’s heart.
But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, I am in the heart of God.”
And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.”

- -The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:48:28 -0400

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:39:52 -0400

"White people in America are a trip… they exterminate the Native American and then try to dress just..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:39:16 -0400

“White people in America are a trip… they exterminate the Native American and then try to dress just like them. What kind of necrophilia is that?”

- A Huey P. Newton Story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j19WrVx-kS8

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No but seriously…it’s weird….

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quickhits: Boy finds loaded assault weapon in movie theater...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:33:25 -0400

quickhits:

Boy finds loaded assault weapon in movie theater bathroom.

9news.com: A 9-year-old boy found a loaded handgun inside an Ybor City movie theater bathroom on Father’s Day.

The gun was a Glock 26 9mm.

“My son opened the door and immediately said dad there’s a gun in the bathroom,” recounted Wesley Noland, the boy’s father.

Noland was at the Muvico theater in Centro Ybor with his two sons to see the new Superman movie.

He said the weapon was sitting on top of the toilet paper dispenser.

“When I was in the bathroom there were two other fathers and three kids and the theater was very busy and the place was full of kids and families.”

Noland, an ex-Marine who has a Concealed Weapons Permit, said he immediately secured the handgun and called police.

“That the gun could have been picked up by a child, or it could have been picked up by a convicted felon or a rowdy group of teenagers or something like that,” Noland said. “But in any case, it could have been used in a crime or accidentally discharged and it could have killed somebody in the theater — worst of all a kid.”

The Glock 26 semi-automatic pistol was covered under the now-expired Assault Weapons Ban — which means that America is now so saturated with firearms that you can just find assault weapons just laying around.

[photo via Wikimedia Commons]

Brazil sees largest protests in decades as unrest hits second week — RT News

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:02:55 -0400

Brazil sees largest protests in decades as unrest hits second week — RT News

The Palestinian struggle is a black struggle

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:01:21 -0400

The Palestinian struggle is a black struggle:

Reciprocal solidarity means we should seek our natural allies among the “wretched of the earth,” says Palestinian author Susan Abulhawa.

Bring the movements together, everyone.

zeaparty: Bring The Noize - M.I.A.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:38:28 -0400

zeaparty:

Bring The Noize - M.I.A.

"Good to talk. It’s the music."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:36:06 -0400

““Good to talk. It’s the music.””

- MIA

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YO PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE UK:

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:09:16 -0400

You can download the TuneIn app on your phone and listen to the Zane Lowe BBC 1 show now for the release of MIA’s new single.

doit.

Sitting Bull

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:05:24 -0400

Tatanka Oyotake

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Tumblr on We Heart It - http://weheartit.com/entry/64790208/via/marce_rodriguez_olivera

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Hair is growing.

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:18:00 -0400

Hair is growing.

Revolutionary Anthem

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:42:07 -0400

Revolutionary Anthem:

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MIA is finally releasing Matangi on Mondayhttp://www.miauk.com/ dead

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:38:55 -0400

MIA is finally releasing Matangi on Monday

http://www.miauk.com/

*dead*

http://cinemagr.am/show/154309096

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:00:36 -0400

http://cinemagr.am/show/154309096:

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War Comes to the Cheyennes

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:01:17 -0400

Little Raven: It will be a very hard thing to leave the country that God gave us. Our friends are buried there, and we hate to leave these grounds...There is something strong for us-that fool band of soldiers that cleared out our lodges and killed our women and children. This is hard on us. There at Sand Creek-White Antelope and many other great chiefs lie there; our women and children lie there. Our lodges were destroyed there, and our horses were taken from us there, and I do not feel disposed to go right off to a new country and leave them."

James Steele: We all fully realize that it is hard for any people to leave their homes and graves of their ancestors, but, unfortunately for you, gold has been discovered in your country, and a crowd of white people have gone there to live, and a great many of these people are the worst enemies of the Indians-men who do not care for their interests, and who would not stop at any crime to enrich themselves. These men are now in your country-in all parts of it-and there is no portion where you can live and maintain yourselves but what you will come in contact with them. The consequences of this state of things are that you are in
constant danger of being imposed upon, and you have to resort to arms in self-defense. Under the circumstances, there is, in the opinion of the commission, no part of the former country large enough where you can live in peace.

[...]

Thus did the Cheyennes and Arapahos abandon all claims to the territory of Colorado. And that of course was the real meaning of the massacre at Sand Creek.
-p.101 & 102, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

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"Then said Almitra, “Speak to us of Love.” And he raised his head and looked upon..."

Audio

"White people in America are a trip… they exterminate the Native American and then try to dress just..."

quickhits: Boy finds loaded assault weapon in movie theater...

Brazil sees largest protests in decades as unrest hits second week — RT News

The Palestinian struggle is a black struggle

zeaparty: Bring The Noize - M.I.A.

"Good to talk. It’s the music."

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YO PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE UK:

Sitting Bull

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Video

adayinwonderland14: Tumblr on We Heart It -...

Hair is growing.

Revolutionary Anthem

MIA is finally releasing Matangi on Mondayhttp://www.miauk.com/ *dead*

http://cinemagr.am/show/154309096

War Comes to the Cheyennes

MIA is finally releasing Matangi on Mondayhttp://www.miauk.com/ dead