Migration illustrates...malice by proxy

Petrol. Meat. Industrial farming. Where have the tributaries gone? I forget. Optics too.

on the roads
they drag crosses

Garissa

Re: this recent welcome news from Paris

French authorities on Tuesday honored a Mali-born employee who saved lives at the kosher supermarket attacked by terrorists as a hero and granted him French citizenship.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve praised Muslim Lassana Bathily, 24, for his "courage" and "heroism" during a ceremony in the presence of Prime Minister Manuel Valls.

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@sanaa_cue so gross - serve the state and its "values" and be rewarded with non-deportation and slightly less precarious labour

— Peter Ely (@asickrose) January 15, 2015

News that the 2014 summer war in Gaza resulted in the deaths of 539 Palestinian children, approaching 3,000 injured Palestinian children and now about 35 or 40% of Gaza's million or so kids are reported shell-shocked.

(via Priyanka Boghani [PBS staff page].)

In B.C. "Colonization, long-standing inequality, and discrimination as root causes" of violence against Indigenous women and girls.

'Yes, the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls are a ‘sociological phenomenon’.'

This .pdf contains rolling up to date information listing current humanitarian aid projects for Nigeria, with funding status of each project.

(edited to reflect date accuracy.)

In west London, the last words of Jimmy Mubenga (killed by outsourced security personnel, carrying out British state routines) were reportedly "I can't breathe".

Meanwhile in Ohio the Cleveland police union are justifying their homicide of a child whilst expressing outrage that a gridiron player wore a t-shirt.

Reihan Salam unpacks what white privilege means (via Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brad DeLong).

'Race, class, and gender: Intersectionality between social reality and political limits' by Houria Bouteldja (via Justin LS of TMP).

Wow.

[side-note: Bouteldja's navigating through and under etc. different patriarchies reminded a little bit of Deniz Kandiyoti's patriarchal bargains*, in that case just wrt treatments of different patriarchies as a starting point, something since revised by Kandiyoti herself granted

* this may well be a whitesplaining/mansplaining** addition I realise, but just really wanted to rep Kandiyoti, pretty much apropos of nowt, to be honest

**without wanting to dilute a genuinely valuable term]

Lying is easy.

St. Louis police chief says "only criminals" were teargassed in #Ferguson, using the new definition which includes moms, kids, journalists

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) November 17, 2014

Indigenous over-representation in custody (%)

	Indigenous persons as a percentage of total population	Indigenous persons as a percentage of total juvenile detention population	Indigenous persons as a percentage of total adult prison population
New South Wales	2.3	48.6	22.1
Victoria	0.7	10.8	6.3
Queensland	3.6	52.9	30.0
Western Australia	3.3	68.0	38.5
South Australia	1.9	41.0	23.9
Tasmania	4.0	20.0	12.4
Northern Territory	30.3	96.9	82.3
Australian Capital Territory	1.3	47.6	16.2
Australia	2.5	46.2	26.1

(source: Australian Institute of Criminology, May 2013)

When they were asked why the wall of tower blocks were to be built by Burgess Park but not by Dulwich Park, they answered "Dulwich is completely different". Yes,  Dulwich is completely different because it is full of very rich powerful people who would never allow their community to be bulldozed or their park to be destroyed like this

- Donnachadh McCarthy, Southwark News, Thursday 11 September 2014

Jessica Valenti on the actress Jennifer Lawrence, who reacted with 'absolutely justified anger' to the recent leaking of private images. There's also a eye-opening aside about the Disney Corporation and their terrible response to a similar situation that occurred several years ago, involving the actress Vanessa Hudgens.

'What one book do you wish that you had written?'

Beloved by Toni Morrison.

- Southwark council interview with Andrea Stuart, autumn 2014.


from the same piece: "Plantation life was a kind of intimate terrorism" (on the sugar slave trade in the Caribbean).

Grateful to Annabel (The Call Out podcast, with Henna) for giving me pause on my crass and wrong Talk like a pirate offerings below.