"Silence, Silence makes me sick
Silence can be violence
Sort of.like a.slit wrist..." --- RATM
“One has a moral responsibility for one’s actions, and that includes one’s words and silences, yes, one’s silences, because silences rise to heaven too, and God hears them…. So, one must be very careful with one’s silences.”
#RobertoBolaño #ByNightInChile
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> “Indigenous people have been leading this fight for centuries,” she said. “We need to listen to them because they have knowledge that is valuable right now.”
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-10-09/greta-and-tokata-at-the-front-lines/
> One more time. If you haven't seen it, do yourself the favor. 86 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkopVQWA9H0
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#GretaThunbergLakota
On a world tour for climate justice, Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg visited Native America Oct. 6-8, attracting a gymnasium full of enthusiasts at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, leading a march on Rapid City Hall alongside youth climate leader Tokata Iron Eyes, and speeding off to the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation.
> I remember hearing the late, great attorney Leonard Weinglass say after **Clinton’s** anti-terrorism bill,
> “If I had to live in a country without elections or without habeas corpus, I’d forgo elections.”
> Never forget also who paved the road for Trumpism over the last generation...
#DavidZirin in an FB comment to a post by #JeffreyStClair about #KilmarAbregoGarcia
#LeonardWeinglass on #HabeasCorpus #WeingassOnElections #WeingalssOnHabeasCorpus
> Women’s soccer in Spain is exploding in popularity—despite the decades of patriarchal abuse and mismanagement. As the players glow in their triumph, they also need to seize the opportunity to change the soccer culture, to make Spanish soccer hostile to the sexists and ensure women’s soccer gets the resources—and the coaching—they deserve.
#DavidZirin on #WomensSoccer #JenniferHermoso #Rubiales
#WomensSoccerInSpain
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/spain-world-cup-hermoso/
Even in Japan, I sometimes end up in a conversation about Gringo football. David Zirin helps me find worthwhile parts so the talk isn't as big a waste of my time.
This article is from ten years ago, but recent news about responses to a near-death on the field suggest not much has changed. I'm looking for an article that mentioned player union demands for safer grass on the fields.
A labor dispute between the National Football League and the union representing its referees reached a fever pitch Monday night during a game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers when substitute referees failed to call pass interference before a last-second touchdown. The play ended the game in favor of the Seahawks, when many argue it should have gone the other way. The play focused attention on the NFL’s decision to use substitute referees after it locked out the regular professionals over a dispute about pension plans and compensation. We’re joined by sportswriter Dave Zirin. [includes rush transcript]
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