As we note throughout the Red Deal, caretaking is at the center of contemporary Indigenous movements for decolonization and liberation. Healing the planet is ultimately about creating infrastructures of caretaking that will replace infrastructures of capitalism. We have chosen life, therefore we've been marked for death. This is why Indigenous water protectors and land defenders throughout the world are criminalized and assassinated on a daily basis. There is no turning back these bonds are sacred and will never be broken. We have unapologetically renewed our bonds with the earth by implementing our intellectual traditions in our movements for decolonization. Indigenous people understand the choice that confronts us: decolonization or extinction. This isn't an exaggeration it's simply the truth. There is no hope for restoring the planet's fragile and dying ecosystems without Indigenous liberation. They are also taking direct action to stop fossil fuel projects and building a new global vision based on caregiving rather than limitless extraction of resources for short-term profit for a few (see below).Įxcerpted from The Red Deal: Heal Our Planet (PDF available for download) That's why Indigenous activists are not only protesting, petitioning, and fighting in the courts.
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She started to tremble, then fell back in a swoon. Unfairly, cruelly blamed by a world jealous of your talent, your beauty, your capacity for love.” Not only has someone you loved deeply been taken away-you have been blamed for it. Shawn put his fingertips to his forehead and sniffed the air. “Yes, you sensed that already,” Gus said. “But not this time,” Shawn said, dropping his arms. “Often I need to use my hands to be sure,” Shawn said, extending his arms toward her. “You have to understand that Shawn sees the spirit world so clearly that sometimes he can’t tell if he’s addressing a living person or a ghost.” Gus dived for the door, throwing himself between the woman and the exit. The hope flickered out and died.“I’m sorry. “I’m sensing that you were not the victim,” Shawn said. “I’m sensing something.” Shawn rose out of the chair as if yanked up by unseen strings and stared into the woman’s eyes. Shawn lay spread-eagle in his desk chair, arms flung out at his sides, legs up on the desk, eyes screwed shut. Gus heard a moan of pain from behind him. In the breakthrough first volume in the Empress of Bright Moon duology, Weina Dai Randel paints a vibrant portrait of ancient China - where love, ambition, and loyalty can spell life or death - and the woman who came to rule it all. But just as she is in a position to seduce the most powerful man in China, divided loyalties split the palace in two, culminating in a perilous battle that Mei can only hope to survive. Mei's intelligence and curiosity, the same traits that make her an outcast among the other concubines, impress the emperor. But young Mei knows nothing of these womanly arts, yet she will give the emperor a gift he can never forget. Some present him with fantastic gifts, such as jade pendants and scrolls of calligraphy, while others rely on their knowledge of seduction to draw his interest. Many paint their faces white and style their hair attractively, hoping to lure in the One Above All with their beauty. 10 free for Friends of the Crow Collection. March 1 at the Crow Collection of Asian Art. There is no easy path for a woman aspiring to power.Ī concubine at the palace learns quickly that there are many ways to capture the emperor's attention. Weina Dai Randel will discuss The Moon in the Palace at 6:30 p.m. The more I read literature set in a variety of times and places, the more I see what we as people have in common, instead of our differences. Reading the blurb, there’s no way I would imagine identifying with the protagonist so strongly, but I did, and that’s what made for such a powerful experience for me. I never would have picked up this book off the shelf by myself, but having it on the list for the project had me seek it out and determined to read it within a set length of time. A reading experience like this is what makes reading projects/challenges such a pleasure to participate in. This is the third book and second fictional work for The Real Help reading project I’m co-hosting with Amy, and it totally blew me away. But Lilith isn’t really sure what exactly will get her what she truly wants–to feel safe and be with the man she cares for. Homer brings her into a secret meeting of the night women in a cave on the grounds and attempts to bring Lilith into a rebellion plot, insisting upon the darkness innate in Lilith’s soul. Assigned to be a house slave, Lilith finds herself in direct contact with the most powerful slave on the plantation–Homer, who is in charge of the household. And maybe to understand why her green eyes seem to freak out slave and master alike. Raised by a whore and a crazy man, all Lilith has ever wanted was to improve her status on the plantation. A mulatto with green eyes born on a plantation in Jamaica to a mama who was raped at 14 by the overseer as punishment to her brother. The 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers was remade twice. Finney maintained that the novel was nothing more than popular entertainment. Many critics interpreted the insidious infiltration by aliens as a cold-war allegory that dramatized America's fear of a takeover by Communists. A year later he published The Body Snatchers (later reissued as Invasion of the Body Snatchers), a chilling tale of aliens who emerge from pods in the guise of humans whom they have taken over. His first novel, Five Against the House (1954), told the story of five college students who plot to rob a casino in Reno. After moving to New York and working in the advertising industry, he began writing stories for popular magazines like Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post and McCall's. Finney, whose original name was Walter Braden Finney, was born in Milwaukee and attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. The novel, about an advertising artist who travels back to the New York of the 1880s, quickly became a cult favorite, beloved especially by New Yorkers for its rich, painstakingly researched descriptions of life in the city more than a century ago. Two of his novels, The Body Snatchers and Good Neighbor Sam became the basis of popular films, but it was Time and Again (1970) that won him a devoted following. Finney specialized in thrillers and works of science fiction. 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How did women go from being over 50% of university educated people in the 1900’s through 1930’s to a human being who was supposed to be dedicated to others who gained her sense of self-worth and fulfillment from serving and giving up her own personhood? How did this effect the women themselves, and their family? How did it affect the age at which women married? In the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, how did women, who while society was telling them that they should be happy, start breaking out of the mold of the feminine mystique. This book describes the early 20th century turning of women from vital human beings, who were fulfilled by higher education and work, into a mystique that proved to be a mix of self-suppression and repression, which eventually was supported by society at large and by women themselves. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan is a landmark book of its time, and it is still relevant for all women today. 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Nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American Read And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever. Written more than 70 years ago, 1984 was George Orwells chilling prophecy about the future. THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU - An Interactive Adventure. Moreau has appointed himself ruler over a menagerie of genetic mutants fashioned in his gene-splicing chamber of horrors. Wells classic work of literature, YOU decide your fate! Over 100,000 words of interactive fiction, complete with 25 haunting internal illustrations by Mays Thamer, a stunning cover by Pontus Unger and a map by David Lowrie ( David Gillson). THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU - AN INTERACTIVE ADVENTURE Been almost 2 years in the making, but it’s finally here my debut gamebook. Some terminology that may be used in this description includes: Spine The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. 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