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"I remember in 1982 there was a demonstration of one million people in Central Park against nuclear weapons. And I have a memory, which may be fabricated, of Alice Walker making a statement that if preserving the world from nuclear annihilation meant keeping the world safe for the domination of white, straight men, maybe the world should end."
Sarah Schulman, from Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America (via kidbijou)
(Source: communalperversion)
"Decolonization offers a different perspective to human and civil rights based approaches to justice, an unsettling one, rather than a complementary one. Decolonization is not an “and”. It is an elsewhere."
Decolonization is not a Metaphor by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang (via sister-bell)
(via str-crssd)
A SHADE ON BOTH YOUR HOUSES!—
Barbara Walters Rejects George Zimmerman’s On-Air Interview DemandJEZEBEL—Yesterday onThe View, an obviously perturbed Walters relayed “an odd and disappointing” experience she had with Zimmerman this week in which she rejected his last-minute demands that ABC News put him and his wife up for a month in a hotel room in exchange for an interview. He must’ve been watching, because he promptly phoned into the live show—a call that she pointedly would not take, as she threw some major shade down on him.
As Walters explained it, the Trayvon Martin shooter had “promised” her an interview, for which she, her producers, and a camera crew all flew down to Florida to conduct on Wednesday. However, when Zimmerman arrived, he refused to film unless she met certain demands that Walters would not divulge, saying only that it was something she could not grant “being a member of ABC News.” (The network has a policy against paying for interviews.) The New York Post, however, says that Zimmerman had demanded that ABC News pick up a month-long hotel tab for him and his wife. Walters was reportedly “appalled,” particularly after she had already agreed to his prior demand that she play second fiddle to Sean Hannity and air her interview with him after his Hannity interview aired.
Walters went on to reveal that Zimmerman—who is presumably unemployed as he remains in hiding—has blown through the $209,000 intended for his defense fund, which he’d raised through strangers’ donations on his website. (His wife Shellie is currently facing perjury charges regarding the cash.) She described him as “polite, soft-spoken, and stubborn” as well as “desperate for money.”
In a later segment, Zimmerman called in to the show, and was patched through to Walters’ earpiece, but she refused to speak to him, saying only, “Mr. Zimmerman, if you could not do the interview yesterday, I don’t think we should do a quick one today,” adding, “We will now continue with our program with the people who agree to interviews and then come here.”
[JEZEBEL]: Barbara Walters Refuses to Take George Zimmerman’s Phone Call Live on The View
[HUFF PO]: Barbara Walters Rejects George Zimmerman’s Interview Demands
Trayvon Martin’s family watches the announcement of a second degree murder charge against George Zimmerman. (From @trymainelee)
The lawsuit makes public for the first time the names of all seven people who had piled into the two vehicles that night, charging that while some were directly responsible for assaulting and killing Mr. Anderson, others were negligent because they acted as lookouts and did not try to help Mr. Anderson.
One of the people yelled “white power” during the attack, and others used a racial slur and bragged about the killing, according to the investigators.
The district attorney for Hinds County, Robert Shuler Smith, has said he will try to implicate other teenagers when he takes the case to a grand jury, expected to happen this month.
The F.B.I. has also gotten involved, with civil rights investigators helping Mr. Smith piece together the case, which was hampered early on by missing evidence and holes in some initial police work.
Mr. Smith has said he intends to prosecute the case as a hate crime, which comes into play during the sentencing phase. If Mr. Dedmon is convicted of capital murder and the prosecutors can prove that the crime was committed because of the victim’s race, the sentence may be doubled. The prosecutors have not decided whether to seek the death penalty for Mr. Dedmon.
The victim’s family has created the James Craig Anderson Foundation for Racial Tolerance, but has not spoken much publicly about Mr. Anderson’s death. In an interview with The New York Times last month, family members described Mr. Anderson as a good country cook, a gifted gardener and always genial. They said he liked his job on the assembly line at the Nissan plant, which he had held for about seven years.
“If you met him, the first thing you were going to see was that grand-piano smile,” said his eldest sister, Barbara Anderson Young, who is one of the plaintiffs.
James Bradfield, Mr. Anderson’s partner of 17 years, is not a plaintiff. Under Mississippi law, same-sex partners have no claim in civil actions like this, Mr. Dees said.
There was no indication that Mr. Anderson’s sexual orientation was a factor in the crime.
The lawsuit makes public for the first time the names of all seven people who had piled into the two vehicles that night, charging that while some were directly responsible for assaulting and killing Mr. Anderson, others were negligent because they acted as lookouts and did not try to help Mr. Anderson.
One of the people yelled “white power” during the attack, and others used a racial slur and bragged about the killing, according to the investigators.
The district attorney for Hinds County, Robert Shuler Smith, has said he will try to implicate other teenagers when he takes the case to a grand jury, expected to happen this month.
The F.B.I. has also gotten involved, with civil rights investigators helping Mr. Smith piece together the case, which was hampered early on by missing evidence and holes in some initial police work.
Mr. Smith has said he intends to prosecute the case as a hate crime, which comes into play during the sentencing phase. If Mr. Dedmon is convicted of capital murder and the prosecutors can prove that the crime was committed because of the victim’s race, the sentence may be doubled. The prosecutors have not decided whether to seek the death penalty for Mr. Dedmon.
The victim’s family has created the James Craig Anderson Foundation for Racial Tolerance, but has not spoken much publicly about Mr. Anderson’s death. In an interview with The New York Times last month, family members described Mr. Anderson as a good country cook, a gifted gardener and always genial. They said he liked his job on the assembly line at the Nissan plant, which he had held for about seven years.
“If you met him, the first thing you were going to see was that grand-piano smile,” said his eldest sister, Barbara Anderson Young, who is one of the plaintiffs.
James Bradfield, Mr. Anderson’s partner of 17 years, is not a plaintiff. Under Mississippi law, same-sex partners have no claim in civil actions like this, Mr. Dees said.
There was no indication that Mr. Anderson’s sexual orientation was a factor in the crime.
(via strugglingtobeheard)
