Browsing all posts tagged with Oppression.

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The Common Elements of Oppressions

THE COMMON ELEMENTS OF OPPRESSION is a piece written by Suzanne Pharr, and should be required reading for all activists and media influencers and bloggers or anyone else who deals with society on a level more involved than waving to a few people on the way to the mailbox.

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All About This Game Dances Death and Pain

ANYWHERE THE PEOPLE GATHER to express their voice, their government—be it communist, democratic or otherwise—will be infiltrating and disturbing the cohesion and strength of that voice, ultimately using violence with no hesitancy or remorse. The unsettling juxtaposition of profit, spotlight, and ignored oppressions will always cause this confluence of energy and tumult. This is our modern-day Olympic Games Carnival settling down uneasily into a world where war and class divides are hurting so many.