January 28th, 2017 by LB
Border following the Rio Grande. Image from CNN video
The Society of Indian Psychologists (SIP) Statement on the Proposal to Build a Wall between what is Known as the US and what is Known as México:
Approved by the SIP EC January 27, 2017
The Society of Indian Psychologists strongly opposes President Trump’s proposal to build a wall between what is known as the United States of America and what is known as México.
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Tags: fear, fear-mongering, indigenous, racism, scapegoating, Society of Indian Psychologists, Trump, wall
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January 26th, 2017 by LB
Photo: Ken Cedeno/Greenpeace, via Guardian
We are going to have to organize ourselves in our communities, in the U.S. and beyond. In the face of the rapid rise of right-wing xenophobic populism, orchestrated by Big Money which intends to mop up, we need to respond immediately with defiant solidarity across differences.
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Tags: banner, Greenpeace, meetings, organizing, resist, Trump, White house
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January 13th, 2017 by LB
@JaneSeymourFonda in the Alberta tar sands: with @barbarawilliam_, @UBCIC Grand Chief Stewart Phillip and ACFN (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation) Chief Allan Adam on January 11, 2017 (UBCIC Instagram)
This post is about a logical fallacy that for a decade has been popping up all over social media and comment streams on news stories.
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Tags: Alberta, Athabasca tar sands, fossil fuels, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, green energy, hypocrisy, Jane Fonda, oil, tar sands, tu quoque
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November 11th, 2016 by LB
(Poem #339) The Music Crept By Us
I would like to remind
the management
that the drinks are watered
and the hat-check girl
has syphilis
and the band is composed
of former SS monsters
However since it is
New Year’s Eve
and I have lip cancer
I will place my
paper hat on my
concussion and dance.
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Tags: 99 percent, fascism, Leonard Cohen, poem, SS
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November 11th, 2016 by LB
How to Speak Poetry
by Leonard Cohen
Take the word butterfly. To use this word it is not necessary to make the voice weigh less than an ounce or equip it with small dusty wings. It is not necessary to invent a sunny day or a field of daffodils.
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Tags: death, Leonard Cohen, poetry, RIP
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November 1st, 2016 by LB
Oh really
I can’t remember if I’ve already talked about this Dubai-style luxury twisted tower that Vancouver is getting; apologies if I have. The tower, designed by architect Bjarke Ingels, is now rising in Vancouver but the reason I’m writing about it now is that I just read a critique in Artforum of this year’s Venice Biennale for Architecture which contained a chilling portrait of Ingels.
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Tags: architecture, Bjarke Ingels, douche, pirate, Vancouver house
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