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UPWARDS AND ONWARDS!

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:11:56 -0400

UPWARDS AND ONWARDS!

Studio32: ARTISTS WANTED FOR STREET PARTY

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:56:23 -0400

Studio32: ARTISTS WANTED FOR STREET PARTY :

HEY!! a huge crew is throwing a renegade street party downtown on Friday June 7th. DJs, Poets, Bboys, bands, impromptu fashion show ruckus, all on the street flashmob style. I’m looking for Artists, Graff writers, Photographers, Videographers and creative people to show up and do what they do, if…

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Tue, 07 May 2013 03:16:18 -0400

GIRL TALKS x LADIES LUGGIN GEAR

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:05:07 -0400

GIRL TALKS x LADIES LUGGIN GEAR

COYOTE BOXCAR FOX CHOIR

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:32:40 -0400

COYOTE BOXCAR FOX CHOIR:

happytrainwreck:

wrecktrainhappy:

COYOTE BOXCAR FOX CHOIR

THURSDAY MARCH 14th @ CREATURES [ TBD ]

CHOIR IS BACK FROM 2 WEEKS HAITUS TO ROCK YOUR WORLD

We will attempt to do as much of this suite as possible :::

http://bloodandblonde.bandcamp.com/track/the-dreammemes-suite-bedroom

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im really bad at keeping this up do date someone help!

probably some more shenanigans…

MAKE SURE TO BRING WINE, CHEESE, and LYRICS of any songs you PLEASE! [make 20 copies to be sure everyone has one]

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occasional movie watching, boardgames playin, bowling and white russians

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"Martin Luther King Day has become a yearly ritual that seeks to turn a black radical into a..."

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:28:59 -0500

““Martin Luther King Day has become a yearly ritual that seeks to turn a black radical into a red-white-and-blue icon. It has become a day that allows us to pat ourselves on the back for “overcoming” racism and “fulfilling” King’s dream. It is a day filled with old sound bites about little black children and little white children that, given the state of America, would enrage King. Most of our great social reformers are sanitized for mainstream public consumption after their deaths, and turned into harmless props of American glory. King was not only a socialist but also fiercely opposed to American militarism. He was aware, especially at the end of his life, that racial justice without economic justice was a farce.
“King’s words have been appropriated by the people who rejected him in the 1960s,” said James Cone, who teaches at Union Theological Seminary in New York and is the author of Martin & Malcolm & America:
So by making his birthday a national holiday, everybody claims him even though they opposed him while he was alive. They have frozen King in 1963 with his “I Have a Dream” speech. That is the one that can best be manipulated and misinterpreted. King also said, shortly after the Selma march and the riots in Watts, “They have turned my dream into a nightmare.”
“Mainstream culture appeals to King’s accent on love, as if it can be separated from justice,” Cone said:
For King, justice defines love. It can’t be separated. They are intricately locked together. This is why he talked about agape love and not some sentimental love. For King, love was militant. He saw direct action and civil disobedience in the face of injustice as a political expression of love because it was healing the society. It exposed its wounds and its hurt. This accent on justice for the poor is what mainstream society wants to separate from King’s understanding of love. But for King, justice and love belong together.
Malcolm X, who could never be an establishment icon because of his refusal to appeal to the white ruling class and the liberal elite, converged with King’s teachings in the last months of his life. But it would be wrong to look at this convergence as a domestication of Malcolm X. Malcolm influenced King as deeply as King influenced Malcolm. At the end of their lives, each saw the many faces of racism and realized that the issue was not simply sitting at a lunch counter with whites—blacks in the North could in theory do this—but rather being able to afford the lunch. King and Malcolm were both deeply informed by their faith. They adhered to belief systems, one Christian and the other Muslim, that demanded strict moral imperatives and justice.
King, when he began his calls for integration, argued that hard work and perseverance could make the American dream available for rich and poor, white and black. This is the staple message and mythology embraced by the liberal class. King grew up in the black middle class. He was well educated and comfortable in the cultural and social circles of the liberal class. He admitted that until his early twenties, life had been wrapped up for him like “a Christmas present.” He naively thought that
integration was the answer. He trusted, ultimately, in the liberal, white power structure to recognize the need for justice for all of its citizens. Like most college-educated blacks, he shared the same value system and preoccupation with success as the liberal whites with whom he sought to integrate.
But this was not Malcolm’s America. Malcolm grew up in urban poverty in Detroit, dropped out of school in eighth grade, was shuttled between foster homes, was abused, hustled on city streets, and eventually ended up in prison. There was no evidence in his hard life of a political order that acknowledged his humanity or dignity. The white people he knew did not exhibit a conscience or compassion. And in the ghetto, where survival was a daily battle, nonviolence was not a credible option.
“No, I’m not an American,” Malcolm said:
I’m one of 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the … victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy. So I’m not standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver—no, not I! I’m speaking as a victim of this American system. And I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare!
King came to appreciate Malcolm’s insights, especially after he confronted the insidious racism in Chicago. A visit to the Watts section of Los Angeles in 1965, two days after riots there, shook King, as did a dialogue with residents, in which they informed him that from their viewpoint, the vote was nice, but jobs would be better. As King said on the second anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, “any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that cripple them, is a spiritually moribund religion in need of new blood.
“King began to see that Malcolm was right in what he was saying about white people,” Cone explains. “Malcolm saw that white people did not have a conscience that could be appealed to to bring justice for African Americans. King realized that near the end of his life. He began to call most whites ‘unconscious racists.’ “
The crude racist rhetoric of the past has now been replaced by a refined, polite variety. We pretend there is equality and equal opportunity while ignoring the institutional and economic racism that infects our inner cities and fills our prisons, where a staggering one in nine black men between the ages of 20 and 34 is incarcerated. There are more African American men behind bars than in college. “The cell block,” the poet Yusef Komu- nyakaa, told me, “has replaced the auction block.”
The fact that prisons and urban ghettos are populated primarily with people of color is not an accident. It is a calculated decision by those who wield economic and political control. For the bottom third of African Americans, many of whom live in segregated enclaves in cities such as
Detroit or Baltimore, little has changed over the past few decades. Life, in fact, has often gotten worse. But this is not a narrative acceptable to the liberal class, which speaks of a postracial America. The liberal class continues to insist that hard work is the route to a better life.
In the last months of his life, King began to adopt Malcolm’s language, reminding listeners that the ghetto was a “system of internal colonialism.”
“The purpose of the slum,” King said in a speech at the Chicago Freedom Festival, “is to confine those who have no power and perpetuate their powerlessness… . The slum is little more than a domestic colony which leaves its inhabitants dominated politically, exploited economi- cally, segregated and humiliated at every turn.” Coming close to a teaching Malcolm had long espoused, King concluded that the chief problem is economic, and the solution is to restructure the whole society.
“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” was, as King and Malcolm knew, a meaningless slogan if there was no possibility of a decent education, a safe neighborhood, a job, or a living wage. King and Malcolm were also acutely aware that the permanent war economy was directly linked to the perpetuation of racism and poverty at home and abroad.
In a speech titled “Beyond Vietnam” given at Riverside Church a year before his assassination, King called America the “greatest purveyor of
violence in the world today.” That quote doesn’t make it into many Martin Luther King Day celebrations. The New York Times, expressing the indignation of the liberal class, attacked King for his antiwar message. King’s stance on the Vietnam War and demands for economic justice at the end of his life caused many in the liberal class, including members of his own staff, and allies within the white political power structure, to turn against him. King and Malcolm, in the final days of their lives, were solitary prophets.
“There are many ways in which Malcolm’s message is more relevant today,” said Cone, who also wrote A Black Theology of Liberation:
King’s message is almost entirely dependent on white people responding to his appeals for nonviolence, love, and integration. He depends on a positive response. Malcolm spoke to black people empowering themselves. He said to black people, “You may not be responsible for getting yourself into the situation you are in, but if want to get out, you will have to get yourself out. The people who put you in there are not going to get you out.” King was appealing to whites to help black people. But King gradually began to realize that African Americans could not depend on whites as much as he had thought.
“King did not speak to black self-hate, and Malcolm did,” Cone explained:
King was a political revolutionary. He transformed the social and political life of America. You would not have Barack Obama today if it had not been for King. Malcolm was a cultural revolutionary. He did not change the social or political structures, but he changed how black people thought about themselves. He transformed black thinking. He made blacks love themselves at a time when they hated themselves. The movement from being Negro and colored to being black, that’s Malcolm. Black studies in the universities and black caucuses, that’s Malcolm. King never would have done black studies. He taught a course at Morehouse on social and political philosophers and did not include a black person. He didn’t have W.E.B. Du Bois or Frederick Douglass. None of them. He had all the white figures like Plato and Aristotle. Malcolm helped black people to love themselves.
King and Malcolm would have excoriated a nation that spends $3 trillion waging imperial wars in the Middle East and trillions more to fill the accounts of Wall Street banks while abandoning its poor. They would have denounced liberals who mouth platitudes about justice while supporting a party that slavishly serves the moneyed elite. These men spoke on behalf of people who had nothing left with which to compromise. And for this reason they did not compromise.
“You don’t stick a knife into a man’s back nine inches, pull it out six inches, and call it progress,” Malcolm said.
“I’ve decided what I’m going to do,” King preached at one of his last sermons at Ebenezer Baptist Church:
I ain’t going to kill nobody in Mississippi… [or] in Vietnam. I ain’t going to study war no more. And you know what? I don’t care who doesn’t like what I say about it. I don’t care who criticizes me in an editorial. I don’t care what white person or Negro criticizes me. I’m going to stick with the best. On some positions, cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” Vanity asks the question, “Is it popular?” But conscience asks the question, “Is it right?” And there comes a time when a true follower of Jesus Christ must take a stand that’s neither safe nor politic nor popular but he must take that stand because it is right. Every now and then we sing about it, “If you are right, God will fight your battle.” I’m going to stick by the best during these evil times.
Because neither man sold out or compromised, they were killed. If King and Malcolm had lived, they, too, would have become pariahs, victims of the liberal class.””

- Chris Hedges, Death of the Liberal Class

YEAR ONE. TERRIBLE TWOS. FEB 16th. 2013.

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:15:30 -0500

YEAR ONE. TERRIBLE TWOS.

FEB 16th. 2013.

aodmo: TRIALS AND TRIBADISMS : THE ATTAINMENT OF ONENESS...

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:24:50 -0500

aodmo:

TRIALS AND TRIBADISMS : THE ATTAINMENT OF ONENESS THROUGH SCISSORRING

#scissors #scissoring #thesnakepictures #48hours

THIS TIME LAST YEAR! Happy bday Christian! Let’s GET...

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:35:32 -0400

THIS TIME LAST YEAR!

Happy bday Christian!

Let’s GET ACTIVE.

And now…

The man is working on some tunes - ”We Are One” and I’m certain many more…

MAY the creatures drink… FRESHLY BAKED FRIDAY IS...

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:26:12 -0400

MAY the creatures drink…

FRESHLY BAKED FRIDAY IS BACK

htw + fbf + creatures +footclan = get active

Bustin’ out some fundamental local pillars of hip hop. As...

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 16:31:52 -0400

Bustin’ out some fundamental local pillars of hip hop. As the RZA said “Hip hop belongs to everyone.”

50 Turn Mario Party? Unless someone can bring Conkers Bad Fur Day

HOSTED BY EMCEE RAE

UNDERGROUND ////

G-MANTIS & THE SHADOW MONKS
http://youtu.be/75OhYEs2Ggs

JACE of WILDCORE
KRS ONE & theWildCore - SAVE HIPHOP

ABOVEGROUND ////

Bo Gottaeat
http://soundcloud.com/bogottaeat/sisyphus-in-the-raw

DJHeaDIN

BLAKEBLAKELY
http://soundcloud.com/blakeblakely

FREE // PWYC // SUPPORT

cheap drinks, as always

FRESHLY BAKED GROUP:
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FRESHLY BAKED TEES
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SPONSORED BY : @BLOODOWL + FOOT CLAN

GET ACTIVE

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Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:37:31 -0400

COYOTE BOXCAR FOX CHOIR

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:25:35 -0400

COYOTE BOXCAR FOX CHOIR:

happytrainwreck:

wrecktrainhappy:

COYOTE BOXCAR FOX CHOIR!!!

@ 294 BATHURST

▲ΠD.MØRΞ ‡ BL➌➋D ØWL

http://duspacollective.wordpress.com/MUSIC

^AGAIN WE ALL TRULY RULE^

COYOTE BOXCAR FOX CHOIR PRACTICE:

WEDNESDAY
AUGSUST 16th from 8-11 @ 294

MAKE SURE TO BRING WINE, CHEESE, and LYRICS of any songs you PLEASE! [make 10 copies to be sure everyone has one] GET ACTIVE

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COYOTE BOXCAR FOX CHOIR

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 11:41:00 -0400

COYOTE BOXCAR FOX CHOIR:

wrecktrainhappy:

COYOTE BOXCAR FOX CHOIR!!!

BACK WITH A FURY?

thanks to all who came to the secret potluck show - it was a crazy night - Taragon and Laudromat too… and the DUSPA FUNERAL SHITSHOW of a party.

and probably some more shenanigans…

▲ΠD.MØRΞ ‡ BL➌➋D ØWL

http://duspacollective.wordpress.com/MUSIC

^AGAIN WE ALL TRULY RULE^

After Anticipating the end of an era, we’d like to make sure all our friends and neighbours ][you’re our friends too]] make it out to celebrate the past 5 years of art, activism, bolschevism, cannibalism, and all the fun things we did there at the DUSPA.

COYOTE BOXCAR FOX CHOIR PRACTICE:

WEDNESDAY
AUGSUST 16th from 8-11 @ 294

MAKE SURE TO BRING WINE, CHEESE, and LYRICS of any songs you PLEASE! [make 20 copies to be sure everyone has one]

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Good choir song?

FIRE PARADE // BEACH BONFIRE PARTY~ ~ ~

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:55:27 -0400

Shadowland Theatre will be hosting a kick-off parade with MASSIVE GUERILLA PUPPETS and facets of silly opressive colonial history including the Canadian’s betrayal of trust regarding Isaac Brock’s promises to Tecumseh during the mindless battle for stolen land during the year of 1812…

200 years, and yet so much is the same.

8 pm WARDS ISLAND

Come at @ 6 PM and bring buns and veggies for BBQ, bring percussion!

The next two days following will also be host to blowout festivities on the island, but you have to come tomorrow to find out about them!

CASTLES, gardens, CHILI and SOYBOMBS, OH MY! rarely this city can steal your heart but it mostly breaks it.

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:30:55 -0400

wow didn’t know this “tonight is a big deal for soybomb…
i first heard calvin johnson on the subpop200 comp back in 1989?
and have crossed paths with his music ever since.
he is the founder of K records, dub narcotic studios, Beat Happening, Dub Narcotic Sound System, The Go Team!…(infinity projects…)
he has helped put bands like Built to Spill, Modest mOUSE, and Nirvana on the map
his effect on modern alt/DIY music is incalculable…. check out his info’s, it may blow your mind…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Johnson_(musician)”

ARTUNG!

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:44:53 -0400

ARTUNG!:

THIS TIME LAST JUNE : : : :

http://grapesofrawth.tumblr.com/MR.SPLAT

ikilledphil: FRESHLY BAKED FRIDAYS #1 FRESHLY BAKED FRIDAYS...

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:38:31 -0400

ikilledphil:

FRESHLY BAKED FRIDAYS #1

FRESHLY BAKED FRIDAYS GROUP

FBF on TUMBLR

ARTWORK : CARLO SCHEFTER

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:30:59 -0400

aodmo: ALPHABOT - CONCRETE CLOUDS CATCH ALPHABOT! @ FRESHLY...

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:26:48 -0400

aodmo:

ALPHABOT - CONCRETE CLOUDS

CATCH ALPHABOT! @ FRESHLY BAKED FRIDAYS : BYOBLOOD EDITION

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SID ALAISTAR

THE PEOPLE OF CANADA

FRIDAY THE 13th // FRESHLY BAKED TEES + HAPPYTRAINWRECK