a technicolour yawn

Wuji ~ Taiji ~ Bagua My tumbling has made a transition to...

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:41:00 -0700

Wuji ~ Taiji ~ Bagua

My tumbling has made a transition to blackspaceandstars

ipsloum: Hanging Rock, Baltzer Lookout, Blackheath NSW (by...

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:04:00 -0700

ipsloum:

Hanging Rock, Baltzer Lookout, Blackheath NSW (by JIGGS IMAGES)

ontstoffelijkt: De prinses op de erwt, geschilderd door Edmund...

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:16:52 -0700

ontstoffelijkt:

De prinses op de erwt, geschilderd door Edmund Dulac in 1911

Blue Scholars - Yuri Kochiyama Shamelessly lifted from...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:10:14 -0700

Blue Scholars - Yuri Kochiyama

Shamelessly lifted from wiki:

Early Life

Born Mary Nakahara, Yuri was raised in a San Pedro, California. Mostly sheltered during her childhood, she grew up in a predominately white neighborhood with a lifestyle that included sports and Sunday school.

Her life changed on Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese Empire bombed Pearl Harbor. Soon after the bombings, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested her father, whom they considered a “suspect” who could threaten national security. While her father was in federal prison he was denied medical care and by the time he was released in January, he became too sick to speak. Her father died the day after his release.

Right after the death of her father, the U.S. government ordered Yuri, her mother and brother to leave their home in San Pedro. They were moved into a horse stable in Southern California for a couple months and then moved again to Jerome, Arkansas, a Japanese internment camp where they lived for the next three years. While interned, she met her future husband, Bill Kochiyama, a Nisei Soldier fighting for the United States. The couple got married right after the war.

[edit]Human Activist Work

In 1960, Kochiyama and her husband Bill moved to Harlem in New York City and joined the Harlem Parents Committee. She became acquainted with Malcolm X and was a member of his Organization of Afro-American Unity, following his departure from the Nation of Islam. She was present at his assassination on February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, and held him in her arms as he lay dying.

In 1977, Kochiyama joined the group of Puerto Ricans that took over the Statue of Liberty to draw attention to the struggle for Puerto Rican independence.Kochiyama and other activists demanded the release of five Puerto Rican nationalists that were jailed in the United States for more than 20 years. Despite a strong movement, they all “had planned to give up peacefully when the police came, but we seized the statue for nine hours,” according to her. The five Puerto Ricans were eventually released.

Kochiyama also became a mentor during the Asian American movement that grew during and after the Vietnam War protests. Many young activists came to her for help for several of the Asian American protests. Due to her experience and her skill in connecting Black and Asian issues, Yuri and her husband were able to get reparations and government apologies for some injustices against Asian American , like the Japanese internments. President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act in 1988 which, among other things, awarded $20,000 to each internee still alive. The process of issuing checks still continues to this day.

Over the years, Kochiyama has dedicated herself to various causes, such as the rights of political prisoners, freeing Mumia Abu-Jamal, nuclear disarmament, and reparations to Japanese Americans who were interned during the war.

In 2005, Kochiyama was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize through the “1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005” project.

Dzogchen-The Natural Great Perfection Longchenpa Lama Suyra Das

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:59:00 -0700

Dzogchen-The Natural Great Perfection

Longchenpa

Lama Suyra Das

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:57:37 -0700

dangel799: Photographer Octavianue Darmawan :) (not) Human

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:48:40 -0700

dangel799:

Photographer Octavianue Darmawan :)

(not) Human

lastonmylist: Das Racist - Rapping 2 U

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:44:26 -0700

lastonmylist:

Das Racist - Rapping 2 U

wild-at-heaart: Okay who has Pop Tarts

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:44:30 -0700

wild-at-heaart:

Okay who has Pop Tarts

"I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we draw together."

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:39:00 -0700

“I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we draw together.”

- Robert Mapplethorpe (via mushroomvision)

what is it to experience god?

Photo

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:08:06 -0700

everything feels like home

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:54:18 -0700

everything feels like home

My boy

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:03:58 -0700

wants a bunch of dubstep on his mp3 player… but I’m getting way too old and have always been far from cool, so can anybody help?

What are you favourite tracks?

blackspaceandstars: Mightier than the Sword - Saye Sky The...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:31:48 -0700

blackspaceandstars:

Mightier than the Sword - Saye Sky

The State We’re In, 9 June 2012.

An Iranian rapper, who came out as a lesbian and then had to make a dramatic exit from the country. A Filipino filmmaker tells the story of a man whose life was destroyed, and later saved, by the media. And we meet a former Afghan governor who uses the power of poetry to bring peace to warring factions.

This is an AMAZING interview!

Saye Sky talks about learning all her communication had been tapped by the government, of fear for her life, being on the run from the government, sleeping under cars so nobody would know where she was, not sleeping for weeks because of fear and eventually escaping the country where being a lesbian is a sentence to torture and death.

bluecuracao: John Crawford.

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:57:27 -0700

bluecuracao:

John Crawford.

how I feel all the time now

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:25:34 -0700

how I feel all the time now

Padmasambhava

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:12:10 -0700

Padmasambhava

ihateallyourgods: Atheists love you

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 15:19:10 -0700

ihateallyourgods:

Atheists love you

Photo

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 17:22:07 -0700

How different would my life be

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 17:16:32 -0700

If I’d said everything I thought