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Furtive Movements
The Precision Afrikan, very dark and furtive, doing furtive movements like squatting in an empty room and chewing, indeed chomping, into the innocent white flesh of an apple. Filthy delinquent.
I have wondered about the criteria for NYC's (and other cities') stop and frisk policies for some time now, namely that of "furtive movements." I have been a black man in NJ and NYC for 28 years now. I have been stopped and questioned in NJ once, stopped and frisked there once, and stopped, frisked and arrested in NYC once, that one for riding a bike in the street, all charges dropped of course. All of this happened in the period from my mid-teens to my very early twenties, the early 2000s, and none recently. All of it happened while just walking or standing around somewhere, or in the Manhattan case, bike riding, not on the sidewalk or anything, nor in the opposite direction of traffic. 100% law-abiding casual activities. But I know very few young or older black men in my circle who haven't had such an experience, as law-abiding, peaceful citizens doing ordinary things in their everyday travels. Neither I nor any of these men have ever been engaged in Uncle Sam's work of poisoning our community with narcotics, have never engaged in highway robbery nor attempted knocking over a bank, have never abused women nor anyone else sexually, nor perpetrated any other proper statutory crime. Yet we all walk around as suspects automatically as a result of our existential condition as black men inhabiting North America.
The wiktionary defines "furtive" as stealthy or exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy. The NYPD will initiate a stop and frisk on the basis of, among other justifications, "furtive movements," which is my favorite. The NYPD has stopped and frisked 4 million New Yorkers since 2004, and about 690,000 in 2011 alone, 85 percent of those stopped and frisked black or latino, the vast majority young men. Only 9 percent of these stops yield arrests, those often for past warrants for minor crimes, along with a very modest number of discoveries of narcotics and even less weapons (read a good Village Voice article on the matter here). So stop and frisk evidently has nothing to do with crime, and everything to do with intimidation of an entire population which the city, the Bloomberg administration anyway, does not want around – young black and brown men like myself.
We can also safely draw the conclusion from the evidence presented that all movements by black men are furtive. Notice the picture above, wherein the Precision Afrikan chews an apple. How furtive! How dare he! What is he hiding? Why is he being so sneaky, squatting in the corner, darkly and rudely, slinking around with mysterious and ominous intentions? He must be about to sell crack cocaine while raping a baby. The image says it all.
If you're young, black and male and you're brushing your teeth, you're guilty. If you're young, black and male and you're scratching your nose while reading a newspaper on a bench in Prospect Park, you obviously just flooded the hood with heroin laced with gun powder. If you're black, young and male and you're taking a walk, we all know you just molested a toddler before mugging a tourist. And if you're black, young and male and you're taking a jog around the neighborhood, you definitely just killed five white people.
Everything we do, by the mysterious, snaky gesticulations of our lanky black limbs, by the odious shifting of our dark eyes, is obviously suggestive of evil intent. Yes, this must be why this happens to us. Existentially, black youth is elementally married to the characteristic of furtiveness. Even the most mundane thing we could possibly do has the flavor of villainy. At least to cops.
That's why they're also very quick to kill young black men, even in their own homes, like the teenager Ramarley Graham earlier this month in the Bronx, who was unarmed and assassinated by the cops in his own bathroom in front of his little brother and grandmother. This sort of police terrorism happens ever so frequently and consistently. With us, any commitment to apply constitutional considerations or restraint of force flies out of the window. The "war on drugs" and "tough on crime" policies are primarily about containing and terrorizing youth of color and ruining our lives, not crime prevention or improving our quality of life, not in the least. The police truly work us and our communities like an occupying army.
I go to school at Columbia University Medical Center in Washington Heights; most afternoons during lunch break I take a walk around the hood, around the Heights and Harlem. And whenever I see the cops, I admit, I hate them. I often feel like wearing this black skin and being a young man is something akin to wearing a yellow star of david in Hitler's Europe – not precisely like that, but not too far either. The prison-industrial complex, a beneficiary of society's willful failure to provide a future for youth of color, a beneficiary of the insane war on drugs, and a beneficiary of the criminalization of people who look like me, is literally eating black men alive by the hundreds of thousands in this country. This is how a vile colonial relationship with imperial power works, with mass incarceration of subject populations. This is how a caste system works, where it is assumed that a young black or brown man is a lesser being and a morally depraved being, a convenient conclusion to those who profit from our oppression and destruction.
So is it so far fetched to assume, based on how society shallowly and dishonestly draws its racist conclusions, that when they see me eating that apple, they see rage and dark intentions, solely because I'm a black man?
Naked villainy.
How many other brothers out there, particularly up here in NYC, or in Newark, Philly, DC or wherever, feel me on this? That we are almost made to internalize our own supposed guilt about something, so that we learn somehow to move in "less threatening" ways? I just move however I want, personally, and stare down the cops, cursing under my breath, and watching them close, the same way they do me.
Discuss. More importantly, organize and resist. As Dead Prez said, it's war.
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The Beauty of African Resistance
I have been admiring the actions in this video since I first saw it six weeks ago when Mr. Omoyele Sowore, founder of Sahara Reporters, and his comrades pulled this off. This event, where Nigerian Minister of State Viola Onwuliri was supposed to explain the "virtues" of the radical removal of fuel subsidies in Nigeria effective January 1, was essentially prevented from happening by the revolutionaries in the room, after the "honorable" minister was shamelessly late to her own event, dishonoring everyone present on that front alone. Brother Sowore has been upstaging Nigerian politicians in their NY diplomatic theater events for some time now, operating with the "this is not Nigeria" philosophy that if there's any place we can call these people out for the thieves and liars they are, it is here in New York. Most politicians in New York City and in America are also disgusting thieves and scoundrels of the lowest order, but for the purposes of this post I will discuss the international, particularly African thieves of state who visit for "diplomatic" reasons. Wherever and whenever they try to make noises about how some new policy that's supposed to slaughter and consume the poor is actually good for them somehow, and try to convince a misinformed or bourgeois crowd that black is white, people like Omoyele Sowore, people like us, should do our utmost to make them uncomfortable, and make business as usual impossible. Revolution depends on us exposing the absurdity and inhumanity of the status quo, and it also depends on us creating and living, right now, the new norms by which we would prefer the world would operate – the Chomsky approach.
Comrade Sowore and his heroic brothers in this scenario provide an excellent and proper example for how to push forward the African revolution today. The crimes of the political class in the nation-states across Africa must be exposed everywhere. They must be explained to African people clearly, fully, and passionately. More of us, myself included, must become passionate about the African revolution. In this instance, even if ever so briefly, the good guys won the day, and they could make clear to anybody that such was the case. The greedy and wasteful political masters could not withstand the passion and the power of truth that brother Sowore and his colleagues threw at them.
Personas like Minister of State Viola Onwuliri are in fact the enemy. Anyone who defends the status quo, a status quo which is tailor made to destroy life for poor everyday Africans, is an enemy. Anyone who benefits from the status quo, who dines and lives large at the expense of the masses of suffering people, is an enemy. There is no future for them, no future for their politics, no future for their ideology, no future for their misleadership.
We are our own leaders, our own heroes, our own hope. It is we working-class hardscrabble Africans who, armed with knowledge, passion, and fearlessness, will revolutionize Africa until it is a land that provides all its citizens with a chance to thrive, create, innovate, and win. We are the majority, and those of us still blinded by the strange floodlights of heads of state, ministers and governors are dwindling among us, the truth of suffering making them question the fundamental construct of their reality.
A liberated Nigeria belonging to and run by the people of Nigeria would be a land of immense prosperity and productivity. A liberated Congo belonging to and run by the people of Congo would be a land of incredible bounty to Africa and the world. A liberated Senegal, a liberated Ghana, a liberated Liberia, a liberated Uganda likewise.
A united Africa, a union of the subaltern, of the oppressed throwing off the mindset of misery and building the will to win with the power of knowledge, would accomplish untold greatness.
But it starts with the boldness of men and women like Omoyele Sowore and men and women like you, transforming your individual lives, your families, and your communities with the passion and vision of what a liberated Africa would mean.
This boldness is a template for the revolutionary African in the 21st century, upstaging the thieves and cowards wherever they are and building the revolution right in the place where they stand.
I leave it to the Nigerian funk-masters the Action 13 who in the 1970s said what needs to be done today – GET… MORE… BREAD…. TO THE PEOPLE!
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Poverty Contests
An article published in today's New York Times reports on efforts in India to enshrine access to food as a constitutionally protected right, a law its proponents expect could enable the food-insecure to make their own market choices to purchase food with food coupons or cash, instead of waiting for monthly 77 pound bags of grain, sugar and kerosene under the current regime. The article also goes on to highlight statistics about how India's poverty is more widespread and intense than Africa's, despite the "Tiger" rebranding and annual economic growth rate. A report compiled in India Current Affairs in July also highlights these poverty rankings, comparing the one Indian state of Madhya Pradesh in the country's center with the entire Democratic Republic of Congo, both of similar population (though the Congo's size is more comparable to India in its entirety), and finding the same levels of deprivation, even with DRC's wars (though Madhya Pradesh is not without Naxalites and other struggles for land and resources between communities and multi-national mining and other interests, not unlike DRC).
On the one hand, the expectation around the world seems to be of Africa as the world's eternal poverty yardstick. This in spite of similar levels of conventionally measured economic growth in a number of Sub-Saharan countries that approach such activity as seen in India in recent years. By comparing favorably to Africa, a government should have license to claim progress in the war on poverty – that's the ridiculous, racist assumption, an assumption of development stasis.
On the other more important hand, these rankings and contests, especially as presented in the links mentioned above, are patently absurd in themselves, ignoring the basic fact that most of the annual GDP growth measures the rise in income of mostly exclusive urban, male, elite high-end sectors which determine and direct mining, cash-crop, real estate (land displacement), and [cheapest] labor configurations which exclude vast rural populations, whether in India, Congo, or Colombia. Human beings are impoverishing other human beings – not continental geographies. And the story is similar in most geographies including those concerned in this essay – Adivasis in rural Chhattisgarh struggle to hold on to their land in the face of "Memoranda of Understanding" signed by illegitimate politicians to mining interests to violently displace the people from their land, similarly to how Niger Delta militants attack oil infrastructure and kidnap oil workers in response to land displacement and ecosystem destruction by a half century of oil exploitation by foreign corporations in happy concert with local state governments and the Federal Government of Nigeria.
Once you understand neo-colonialism and neoliberal market economics, these patterns can be easily understood as to how they determine poverty and struggle around the third world. Malnutrition and poverty propagate fastest and most consistently wherever governments fail to prioritize enabling peripheral population groups to exact their own capacity to cultivate, live and eat of the land. Changes in the environment, and dietary demands which may place undue stress on the ecosystem and reduce its carrying capacity, may further impede nutrition and food security, as predominates in Sahelian countries that currently suffer serious drought. But policy-makers in much of the third world more often than not do not care, since they do not share the same fate as those far beyond the capitals, the urban and privileged spaces where they bury their heads, forgetting what rural populations go through, forgetting they exist.
I think that in itself, that food security should become a constitutional and human right anywhere is excellent. But a shifting in societal priorities would be a more lasting solution, towards actually considering the plights of women, of agriculturalists, and enabling their self-determination while the wealth of the nation focuses first on human and ecological needs rather than profit for exploitative corporations and salaries for ministers and bureaucracies.
Why focus on these poverty contests, with Africa at level zero? These statistics only measure those who, already in positions of control over powerful economic interests, are getting richer as they exploit more underpaid, vulnerable workers, and the land those workers may have been displaced or evicted from. These statistics don't measure women's reproductive work, don't measure broader levels of quality of life that get inflated by those at the very top, even while the masses at the bottom suffer more dispossession and malnutrition year after year.
Human solidarity is to be encouraged instead. The same problems in Nigeria or Congo are found in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia or Peru, the same exact identical types of fierce corruption, the same exact types of high-official sellouts, the same exact identical types of Western aspirationalism and mimicry, the same exact types of ideological and religious extremisms and hysterias which cripple the masses from thinking critically and boldly enough to challenge the regimes that cause their suffering, the same exact multinationals praying on their resources, human and natural, to be exploited to the lowest common denominator. The same exact types of ignorance forced upon the masses with the absence of schools and the tolerance of illiteracy, despite official claims to the contrary. The exact same types of oppression of labor activists and human-rights campaigners and journalists. The exact same types of classisms and casteisms that compel generations to accept their designated desperation. The same exact types of false democracies in which the people do not have choice or voice in the structural economic questions of society, only at best over the latest personality who says the prettiest things or just looks pretty, but in power does little to nothing of the good he or she promised.
Thus I reject poverty contests. Instead, I move towards human collaboration and solidarity in the third world in pursuit of revolution! Towards the African revolution, the South Asian revolution, the Latin American revolution, the world revolution! Towards human-based economics! Towards the end of rapacious capitalism, the end of the rush to privatize water, seeds and land! Towards human and community-level self-governance and self-determination! Towards the humanization of labor such that people are not reduced to pack mules to produce Wal-Mart products at competitively lower and lower wages in ever more dangerous workplaces!
Towards human development work which is interested in human development, not numbers nudging and statistics masturbating.
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Access to Clean Water AND Sanitation Declared a Human Right!
Couple days ago, heroic Bolivians lead the way to finally getting access to potable water and sanitation declared a human right at the UN general assembly. This is profoundly correct.
I do recognize the UN as a bourgeois organization at the global level, but its moral authority does manage to have some pull in this world, so I can't help but to fully endorse this declaration and urge all readers to take this seriously.
Capitalist Anglo countries like the US who want to privatize every resource and destroy humanity had the gall to abstain from the vote and complain of procedural issues, but to hell with these capitalist degenerates; they are dying. Human beings are starting to win.
Onward to access to clean water and sanitation in India! In Nigeria! In Ethiopia! In Egypt! In Mexico! In Bolivia! In Brazil! In Haiti! In Bangladesh! In the USA! Wordwide! For ALL humans!
Check the UN news report and the "Story of Bottled Water" educational video by Annie Leonard below.
General Assembly declares access to clean water and sanitation is a human right
Safe and clean drinking water and sanitation is a human right essential to the full enjoyment of life and all other human rights, the General Assembly declared today, voicing deep concern that almost 900 million people worldwide do not have access to clean water.The 192-member Assembly also called on United Nations Member States and international organizations to offer funding, technology and other resources to help poorer countries scale up their efforts to provide clean, accessible and affordable drinking water and sanitation for everyone.
The Assembly resolution received 122 votes in favour and zero votes against, while 41 countries abstained from voting.
The text of the resolution expresses deep concern that an estimated 884 million people lack access to safe drinking water and a total of more than 2.6 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation. Studies also indicate about 1.5 million children under the age of five die each year and 443 million school days are lost because of water- and sanitation-related diseases.
Today's resolution also welcomes the UN Human Rights Council's request that Catarina de Albuquerque, the UN Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation, report annually to the General Assembly as well.
Ms. de Albuquerque's report will focus on the principal challenges to achieving the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation, as well as on progress towards the relevant Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The MDGs, a series of targets for reducing social and economic ills, all by 2015, includes the goals of halving the proportion of people who cannot reach or afford safe drinking water and halving the number who do not have basic sanitation.
In a related development, Ms. de Albuquerque issued a statement today after wrapping up a nine-day official visit to Japan in which she praised the country for its nearly universal access to water and sanitation and for its use of innovative technologies to promote hygiene and treat wastewater.
But the Independent Expert said she was shocked that some members of the Utoro community near Kyoto, where Koreans have been living for several generations, still do not have access to water from the public network.
"People are also not connected to the sewage network, despite the fact that the surrounding area is largely covered by sewage service," she said. "When floods occur, as happened one year ago, the lack of sewage and proper evacuation of grey water result in contamination of the environment, including with human faeces, posing serious health concerns.
"I am also worried that water and sanitation are extremely expensive for some people living in Utoro, who reportedly do not have a right to receive a pension."
UPI coverage
BBC coverage
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The good folks over at La Terre d'abord or Earth First in France requested an e-mail interview with me the other day and sent over some good questions. Here are my responses, in case you won't be able to understand it by the time it's translated into French on their side. Please let me know what you think of these ideas – I'd really like some discussion and building out of this one.
Comment allez vous?
Here is a response for our interview:
1.What is your website about?
"Afrikan Raw Vegan Talk" basically seeks to demonstrate that black vegans, including black raw vegans in particular, exist, are becoming visible, and are having relevant experiences and success as vegans across the African world, whether on the continent or in the diaspora. It also seeks to actualize and document the notion that being African and vegan is a critical and progressive part of our liberation struggle and the desire to humanize our existence while cherishing our singular and delicate planet.
2.How did you come about it?
I've been a vegan for eleven years now, and when I started this website in early 2008 I wanted to see more black vegan presence and commentary on the Internet, especially from the perspective of experienced, long-term, confident and determined vegans of color, not only blog diaries of 30-day trial vegans trying to lose weight, even though that is important as well. This blog represents an anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, anti-white supremacy, humanist, activist, radical environmentalist, Pan-Africanist, African-centered and third-world perspective that is hardcore, straight-edge and long on the scene. This is third-world veganism that is very engaged with society from the perspective that revolution is necessary and veganism is an empowering and liberating part of the human transformation necessary for the survival and progress of this primate species.
3.How do you see the culture that developped in Black Africa as connected to veganism?
I am not a practicing archaeologist or anthropologist in this matter, but much anecdotal and historical evidence presents some of the people of Kemet, also known as Ancient Egyptians, as vegetarians. In general, pre-colonial diets where of whole foods, whether or not meat was included, and pre-colonial lifestyles in many parts of black Africa were seen, by Western anthropologists of the time (mid-19th century), as among the healthiest in the world. Now our life-spans and quality of life are the shortest and most miserable, largely due to neo-colonialism, neo-liberalism and rule by criminal governments. We are aid-dependent, and land tenure in Africa is at a state of perpetual crisis, while cash-crops prioritize growing cacao, coffee, and flowers over food. We even sell immense hectares of land to foreign countries for them to grow food for their own populations! Animal pastoralism is another problem, destroying vegetation across vast swaths of land and accelerating desertification. If all that land grew fruits and vegetables, many of our dietary and food security problems could begin to find resolution. And all these tendencies greatly exacerbate gender inequality as women struggle to grow kitchen gardens to feed families and tend to the crucial but totally unpaid task of reproductive labor, while men tend to focus on cash-crops and preferentially receive implements and resources from governments, multinationals and some NGOs to grow them.
Overall, transitioning towards veganism in Africa will ease malnutrition, raise production levels, increase self-sufficiency and I think reduce tendencies towards conflict and needless aggression. In terms of food policy, we can grow so much of our own fresh fruits and vegetables, organically and sustainably, if we focus on that goal at the continental and grassroots levels. In terms of societal outcomes, I think veganism improves social tolerance, physical well-being, reduces stress, makes the brain work more efficiently, improves immunity and reduces illness, reduces cancer levels, and so on. People will be more cooperative and conscientious of proper land stewardship and societal responsibility and cohesion in a vegan society – at least. Veganism in Africa would probably be far more revolutionary than that.
4.In France, we have people of african origin, and they are in a way or another culturally connected to Africa. But if the elders have often a very wise point of view, a very critical one, which stress that justice will necessary prevail even if it will take time, young people are quite far away from veganism and from a cultural critical stance of what we may call Babylone. What do you think about that?
I have faith in the youth. I'm 26 years old. I'm still considered a youth. I would almost say I have more faith in youth than in the old generation, which in many ways have failed us, failing to realize the promises of Pan-Africanism or Civil Rights. It's young people who are becoming vegans, who are becoming critical thinkers, who are questioning the old ways and rightfully disposing with useless traditions that have no value and make no sense. I don't have an innate respect for tradition, personally. I say, choose reason over custom. Babylon includes not only white-supremacist and capitalist society, but also anti-human, divisive, anti-intellectual, reactionary, authoritarian, homophobic, misogynistic and stupid traditions and tendencies in Africa and the black world. Many black youth are lost, many youth are hopeless, due to the failings of society which lead them to go after what they need at the expense of each other. The self-hate, ignorance and poverty at the root of the lives of the youth lead to many poor outcomes, which are all too visible. Less visible are the visionary youth, the revolutionary youth, the organized youth building art, building armies of wisdom and change. But I think the visionary youth hold the reigns of the future and will courageously confront the immense challenges of the present and near future, mostly given us by our often greedy, stubborn and foolish parents and grandparents.
5.In France, when we think about revolutionary afrikan position in North America, we think about Move or Dead Prez. Nevertheless, we would have a criticism: it seems that a poisonless perspective was the central aspect, not really nature, the animals, the Earth. What would you say to that?
For Africans, there is little time to focus on animal liberation alone. It makes no sense, when humans are in so much misery. Someone like me could never get behind the white animal liberation scene, because they act like it is the central problem of injustice in the world, which from my perspective is absurd and laughable. Oppressed people start at the perspective of their own oppression. Of course, everything else is included when we consider the foul human trends that lead to all kinds of exploitation. Aggression, greed, ignorance, violence, dominion – these are applied to create hierarchies and exploitation amongst humans and between humans and animals. But someone like me and I think Dead Prez or the MOVE Organization sees an urgent need to focus on human problems, and cannot in good conscience focus on animal liberation alone. Only a very privileged person can afford to only focus on animal liberation, so for a lot of people of the revolutionary African position in North America, that sort of thing is very alien, and rightfully so in my opinion. We don't have the luxury to focus on one single issue, especially one that is tangential to our own suffering and oppression as black human beings. It all must be included – human liberation, Earth liberation, non-human liberation.
6.You stress the importance of raw food. Can you tell us about it?
Raw vegan food to me is so healthy. It liberates a person from dealing with disease and worrying about health, in large part. I haven't been even slightly sick in many many years. In the US, especially among African peoples, disease is practically the central concern of life, whether it be obesity, cancer, diabetes, stroke, heart attack, impotence, stress, and so on. Raw veganism, particularly low-fat raw veganism that mainly consists of fresh fruits and greens, is practical, affordable and creative. And it requires discipline and consistency, tendencies that we need as peoples who consider ourselves revolutionary. Raw veganism is both extremely healthy, and also builds people to be more hardcore and serious about life and work. Raw veganism is about vigorous health and uncompromising mentality.
7.Africa is a continent waiting for revolution. Do you think veganism is the key for that?
Yes. Veganism is a potentially important part of revolution everywhere, and we need revolution all over the world. We need vegan warrior spirits that consider the whole picture in terms of how humans coexist in the world with all other beings, while correcting the social contradictions in human society. A more humane society will emerge with veganism in the picture, during and after the revolution. And also a much healthier, just and sustainable one.
ONA MOVE!
-The Precision Afrikan
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Fresh Produce in the South Bronx by Ownership Societies (Not the Bush Kind)
This is Professor Dennis Derryck of the New School in NY, as profiled in this very good NY Times article from Tuesday ("For a Healthier South Bronx, a Farm of Their Own"). At the very least, it highlights the power, the empowering sense inherent to feeling ownership of the means of one's life, whether that means the building one lives in, the land where one's food is grown, or the means of production (as we build the global ubuntu step by step). When the people find opportunities to feel in true fundamental control of their livelihood, social space, the streets, and their economic structures, conditions inevitably improve where they live. The bourgeois class has a sense of stability where it dwells in comparison to us proletarians precisely due to the security of control. By control I don't mean dominion and domination. By control I mean being able to act the agent who defines and arranges one's means and chances of survival, for better or worse. To be impoverished and disempowered is to be deprived of this sense of control, which at the psycho-social level initiates destructive forms of desperation within environments that are materially, dietarily, educationally, and judicially impoverished.
It's no accident that the South Bronx, Central Brooklyn, Newark, Detroit, West and South Philly, and on and on are what they are, disparaged at leisure by the white supremacist establishmentarian mainstream zeitgeist. A friend of mine who used to live in the South Bronx constantly referred to it as a reservation, depressing to just live there amidst its oppressed ambiance. People are disfranchised and pushed into disowning any sense of fundamental ownership of their circumstances – as immigrants, as refugees, as oppressed peoples.
The human project at hand for we of the reservations and slums of the world is to claim our lives, claim our lands, our social spaces, our food sources, as our own. It may seem that the very notion of self-actualization is made foreign to us within the anti-human, anti-African, anti-Latino, anti-Indigenous, anti-freedom education system – corporate training camps and prison seeding centers. But this is why we must un-school into the mindset that, as Nas said, the world is yours.
The world is yours.
Whose world is this?
A revolutionary assertion indeed. From another reservation called Queensbridge, Nas in the simplest terms told us to claim our world boldly. Claim the land, including every NYCHA project and every street and household and body deemed rejected and flotsam by the likes of the NY Times.
I'm often anxious when I read the NY Times and they talk about us. This past Saturday they ran a showcase of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the heart of Afro-Caribbean BK and where my heart lives. Whenever they do shit like that it's like they're claiming space to push out poor people and bring on the hipsters, bluppies and yuppies and their damn coffee shops. The Real Estate section is often a lens to the newest front-lines of gentrification. With critical eyes we must stare down attempts to get us to disown our lives, land and liberty further.
It's war out here. While Prof. Dennis Derryck's work is not pure non-monetized socialistic exchange, it is proper for the world we live in, and for the South Bronx. As a black man and homebody to the Harlem/ So. Bronx world, his practice is relevant, buying farmland collectively on behalf of his community, in partnership with farmers upstate, to bring the freshest food to this utterly neglected and poisoned community.
He is claiming the resources that we need on behalf of the people.
To me he is already winning on behalf of all of us.
We only begin to win when we claim ownership over our minds, bodies, lives, homes, communities, and planet, the type of ownership that places us in full responsibility to realize human potential as fully as possible. It is by owning the land for the people that the people may consume actual food in greater quantity and quality. See how this works?
The world is yours, fool!
Let us join the battle.
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Q: Perl print line over Prompt My script asks for download URLs and sends them to the download queue. The progress of the download should be printed back.
I don't find a way to keep the prompt on bottom and do the status over it.
I tried a search on CPAN, but I found no module for it.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use 5.14.0;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Term::UI;
use Term::ReadLine;
use threads;
use Thread::Queue;

sub rndStr{ join'', @_[ map{ rand @_ } 1 .. shift ] }

my $q = Thread::Queue->new(); # A new empty queue
my $thr = threads->create(
  sub {
    while (defined(my $item = $q->dequeue())) {
      say "Downloading: ".$item;
      sleep 1;
      #$q->enqueue(1..10) if $item eq '10';
      $q->enqueue(rndStr rand (15)+5, 'a'..'z', 0..9);
    }
  }
);

$q->enqueue(rndStr 10, 'a'..'z', 0..9);
my $url;
my $term = Term::ReadLine->new('brand');
while ($url ne 'end'){
  $url = $term->get_reply(
      prompt => 'URL to download',
      default => 'end' );
  $q->enqueue($url);
}
say "Finishing remaining downloads";
$q->enqueue(undef);
$thr->join();

A: say adds a newline in the output; use print instead. Add a carriage return to write over previous output:
print "Downloading: ".$item."\r";

A: The basic just of what you are trying to do is use ANSI codes to move the cursor around.  Something such as ncurses (windows version) will allow you do this.
Alternatively you can do it yourself with raw ASCII/ANSI codes (as explained by these two links)

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*http://ascii-table.com/ansi-escape-sequences-vt-100.php

*http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x361.html
Or lastly you could use a Perl Module Win32::Console::ANSI which is designed to help you do this.
As this is a perl question I would suggest looking at Win32::Console::ANSI.

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Inconsistency in approach and lack of visibility both feature. This is no surprise. Let's look at consistency first. Many organisations have defined a project management approach, their project management methodology. Often the work of a studious PMO manager or head of projects, the project management methodology should set out the agreed approach to project management.
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Consistency in approach is key to moving away from the "Bob model" of project success. You will not be able to hire another Bob. It's less to do with his skill sets and more to do with his network which you just can't replicate. If you need to scale then you need a consistency, practical approach. This does not mean "one size fits all" and this is a common mistake. Projects vary in size, complexity, cost, risk and benefit. The methodology should flex to suit a range of sizes and often we define a scaled approach based on as simple a classification as small, medium, large or light, standard, complex. If you are working on a light project you do x amount of project management. If you are working on a complex project you do xyz amount of project management. Quite simple.
The project managers can't help but use the same approach and incomplete forms, logs and documents are easy to spot.
This really helps with the second problem; collaboration. Fed up with saving your Microsoft Project plan as a .pdf and emailing it around? It's a bit of a rubbish way of working isn't it? With Microsoft Project Online everyone can see the project schedule, yes, the Gantt chart and no they don't need a Microsoft Project license. Good eh? Finally everyone can see the plan, interact with the plan and, if given permission, provide updates on their tasks straight back to the project manager to review and approve.
Also we now have a web site (Project Site) for the project team. All the logs (RAID and friends) are accessible as SharePoint lists (think Excel but with everyone being able to access at the same time with clearly defined permissions). Equally we have one central place for all those project documents. No longer lost in the complexity of the shared drive folder forest, all project documents are accessible by the project team and we can even spoon feed them the right document templates. Ahhh…consistency and collaboration.
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Hi Do u do any Flirties training in Norwich. How much is the training and student kit? Or if I did training in Norwich maybe I can still get just the kit.
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The Karesuando Church () is a wooden church building in Karesuando, Sweden. Belonging to the Karesuando Parish of the Church of Sweden. It was inaugurated on 3 December 1905 by Bishop Olof Bergqvist of the Diocese of Luleå., replacing an older church. The church is the northernmost in Sweden.

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Та́сос () — остров в северной части Эгейского моря, исторически часть более крупной материковой области Фракия, расположен южнее устья реки Нестос или Места.

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Остров отделён от материка (Балканского п-ова) проливом Тасос (ширина около 6 км). Является территорией Греции. Площадь острова — 380 км².

Остров Тасос расположен вблизи от самого южного разлома Рило-Родопского массива и является его частью. Наивысшая точка — гора Ипсарио, 1206 м. Остров сложен гнейсами, гранитами, сланцами. Имеются месторождения железных и полиметаллических (олово-цинковых) руд, так же с древних времен добывалось в небольших количествах и золото, но сейчас его добыча прекращена из-за низкой рентабельности. Производится ломка мрамора. Близ Тасоса на шельфе моря разрабатываются месторождение природного газа. Горные склоны острова покрыты средиземноморской растительностью, у подножий — кипарис, чинара, дуб, вечнозелёные кустарники, хвойные леса.

Написание названий
На карте в словаре Брокгауза и Эфрона остров и главный его порт надписаны «Ѳазъ». Для острова в скобках указан вариант «Ѳазосъ»: начальная фита соответствует греческой «». Однако ещё до орфографической реформы 1918 года существовала тенденция к упрощенному написанию, без буквы «фита», при котором название острова передается как Фасос. Кроме того, при заимствовании греческих слов и имен не напрямую из греческого языка, а посредством латинского и других западноевропейских языков, греческая буква «θ», соответствующая латинскому диграфу «th», на русский язык транслитерируется как «т». В связи с этим по недосмотру редакторов в словаре Брокгауза оказалось две разных статьи, посвящённые одному и тому же острову: «Тас(з)осъ» и «Ѳазосъ».

В статье «Тасос» упоминается и утраченное ныне название главного города острова: Болгаро, так как в Средние века и в Новое время на острове кроме греков проживало и болгарское меньшинство.

История

Легендарный сын Посейдона Фасос — эпоним острова и основатель одноимённого города.

Гиппократ восхвалял очень приятный и здоровый климат этого острова. На этом острове провели свой «медовый» месяц родители Александра Великого (Македонского), впоследствии на нём же впервые и появился его культ. Долгое время входил в состав Византийской империи. С конца V в. до н. э. на Тасосе существовал театр. В ссылке на острове были будущий патриарх Константинопольский Мефодий и митрополит Сардский Евфимий.

В 1204 году остров попал под власть франков, а в 1307 году — генуэзцев. В 1414 году он был подарен византийским императором Мануилом II Палеологом Джакомо Гаттилуси, генуэзцу, который уже был владыкой Лесбоса.

В период между 1449 и 1479 годами он находился под властью Венецианской республики.

В 1479 году был завоёван османами, но турецкой колонизацией практически не затронут. В 1912 году перешёл к Греции. В 1941—1944 годах остров был передан немцами союзной им Болгарии. Освобожден в 1944 году.

Население
Население острова по состоянию на 2011 год составляло 13 770 человек. Главный город острова носит то же имя, что и весь остров, но также известен под названием Лименас, что означает просто «порт». Недалеко от современного Тасоса обнаружены развалины античного города Тасос (сохранились остатки городской стены, святилищ, рыночной площади и пр.) возле которых расположен исторический музей. В церкви, расположенной южнее населённого пункта Панагия, хранится привезенное с собой греками-беженцами из Малой Азии, оригинальное знамя крестоносцев Ричарда Львиное Сердце, а также расположена иконописная мастерская. Второй по значению населённый пункт острова — Лименария, в котором до сих пор (со времён золотодобычи) имеется традиционная мастерская злотых дел. У отдаленного от побережья населённого пункта острова, рядом с ним расположен его прибрежный пригород с добавлением к названию слова Скала (лестница). Население занимается обслуживанием туристов и сельским хозяйством — имеются виноградники, оливковые рощи, ведётся рыболовство, распространено пчеловодство. По причине большого количества пасек, на острове не используются пестициды. Из-за этого остров ценится своим чистым воздухом и водой. Вокруг самого острова расположены несколько маленьких островков «дети» Тасоса, на которые население вывозит пастись свой рогатый скот. Внутри острова, в лесу у вулкана, расположено заброшенное со времён коммунистического партизанского движения в середине XX века село, являющееся частью туристического маршрута на внедорожниках по «дикой» местности.

Туризм
Как и на практически всех островах Греции, на острове Тасос хорошо развит туристический бизнес.
Сообщение с материком осуществляется с помощью паромов. На остров ходят паромы из двух городов Кавала и Керамоти. Среднее время в пути из Кавала 1,5 часа, из Керамоти 0,5 часа.

Известные уроженцы

  (конец VI — начало V в. до н. э.) — древнегреческий художник, отец Полигнота.
 Андростен Фасосский (IV век до н. э.) — один из навархов Александра Великого.
  (I век) — врач.
 Василикос, Василис (род. 1934) — греческий писатель, всемирную славу ему принес роман «Z», экранизированный греко-французским режиссёром Коста-Гаврасом.
 Димитриос Васильядис (; род. 1958) — преподаватель Афинского университета, крупнейший греческий специалист по Индии, писатель.
 Гегемон Фасосский (V век до н. э.) — древнегреческий комедиограф и создатель пародий.
  (1892—1965) — греческий и американский скульптор.
 Леодамант Фасосский (вторая половина V — первая половина IV в. до н. э.) — древнегреческий математик, близкий к Платону.
 Несей Фасосский (вторая половина V в. до н. э.) — древнегреческий художник и учитель Зевскиса.
 Полигнот (V век до н. э.) — древнегреческий художник и скульптор.
 Стесимброт Фасосский (470—420 гг. до н. э.) — логограф, историк, противник Перикла.
  (V век до н. э.) — древнегреческий спортсмен, двукратный победитель в Олимпийских играх.
 Георгиу, Йоргис (1908—1957) — участник греческого коммунистического подполья послевоенного периода.

См. также
 Список островов Греции

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки

Тасос
Димы Греции


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Rogue • Strike Back • Law & Order: SVU • Fringe
Photography: Danielle Lopez
First off, how are you?
I'm doing well, thank you. All things considered this has been an encouraging year for me and my family.
The world is slowly starting to get out of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown measures. How did you experience the lockdown? Did it drive you crazy or was it a welcome break from everything?
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How did you prepare for the role? And what drew you to it?
My good friend, MJ Bassett wrote and directed the film. Early on she asked me to have a read of the script and look at the role of Joey. Little did I realize she was actually offering me the role. We went back and forth on the phone a few more time before it was clear to me that she wanted me to play Joey. After that revelation I did some training with a few military friends of mine and started to get back into shape. When you accept a MJ Bassett movie, there is a certain amount of ass kicking you will receive... you have to be prepared for anything.
Coming off of Law & Order, how different was playing in an action-packed film like Rogue?
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Running in the fields of my grandmother's farm in England.
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Next to bacon
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Oodini — триба жужелиц из подсемейства харпалины.

Описание
Жуки среднего или мелкого размера, овальной формы и металлического цвета. Мандибулярная бороздка без щетинки у переднего края, мезококсальные впадины соединены (мезэпимерон не достигает средней тазиковой полости), метэпистерна отделена от метэпимерона отчетливым швом, а парамеры без щетинок. Голова с одной парой надглазничных щетинок, её капсула без кольцевой перетяжки за глазами. Конечный максиллярный членик удлиненный и хорошо центрированный по отношению к предпоследнему членику. Переднеспинка обычно без переднебоковых щетинок, передние тазиковые впадины двуперфорированы, надкрылья с внутренней пликой, метэпистернум латерально коадунатный с эпиплеврой надкрылий, задний край среднего бедра без более длинных щетинок, метакокса без задней щетинки, и срединная доля эдеагуса при виде сбоку длинная и значительно изогнутая, с уменьшенным базальным бульбусом. Тегумент голый, в значительной степени непунктированный, третий антенномер голый (за исключением апикальных щетинок), задний край переднеспинки не окаймлен. 7-я бороздка надкрыльев заканчиваются перед вершиной, 8-я бороздка глубже остальных бороздок, а 9-й интервал частично или полностью превращен в краевой желоб (у всех родов, кроме Bamaroodes, надкрылья также с 7-м и 8-м промежутками слившимися и сзади образующими валик). Пронотум сужен только у вершины; верхняя часть тела голая, без волосков.

Систематика
Более 30 родов и более 200 видов. Встречаются повсеместно, но главным образом в тропиках и субтропиках. Триба была впервые выделена в 1851 году французским энтомологом Faustin de La Ferté-Sénectère (1808—1886). Включают в состав большого сборного подсемейства харпалины. Некоторые авторы выделяют их вместе с несколькими другими харпалиновыми трибами (Chaetogenyini, Cuneipectini, Dercylini, Geobaenini, Licinini, Melanchitonini, Chlaeniini) и рассматривают в составе подсемейства Licininae (по современной классификации это в основном соответствует надтрибе Chlaeniitae).

 Acanthoodes
 Acutosternus
 Adelopomorpha
 Anatrichis
 Bamaroodes
 Brachyodes
 Chaetocrepis
 Coptocarpus
 Holcocoleus
 Holosoma
 Hoplolenus
 Lachnocrepis
 Lobatodes
 Lonchosternus
 Macroprotus
 Megaloodes
 Microodes
 Miltodes
 Nanodiodes
 Neoodes
 Oodes
 Oodinus
 Orthocerodus
 Polychaetus
 Prionognathus
 Protopidius
 Pseudosphaerodes
 Simous
 Sphaerodes
 Sphaerodinus
 Stenocrepis
 Systolocranius
 Thaioodes
 Thryptocerus
 Trichopalpoodes

Примечания

Литература
 Bousquet Y. (1996). Taxonomic revision of Nearctic, Mexican, and West Indian Oodini (Coleoptera: Carabidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 128, 443—537. https://doi.org/10.4039/Ent128443-3
 Bousquet Y. (2003). Tribe Oodini LaFerte-Senectere, 1851. In: Lobl, L. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata-Myxophaga-Adephaga. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 444—445.
 Bousquet Y. (2017). Tribe Oodini LaFerte-Senectere, 1851. In: Lobl, I. & Lobl, D. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Revised and Updated Edition. Archostemata-Myxophaga-Adephaga. Brill, Leiden and Boston, pp. 635—636.
 Guéorguiev, Borislav & Liang, Hongbin. (2020). Revision of the Palaearctic and Oriental representatives of Lachnocrepis LeConte and Oodes Bonelli (Coleoptera: Carabidae), with special account on Chinese species, Zootaxa 4850 (1), pp. 1—89. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4850.1.1
 Habu A. (1956). On the genera and species of the Oodini (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from Japan. The Bulletin of the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Series C, 6, 49 — 73.

Ссылки
 Tribus Oodini. biolib.cz
 Tribe Oodini. bugguide.net

Харпалины


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U. unlikely to divest from coal in May
Admins, faculty members and students at Tuesday's BUCC meeting debated divestment
By Mark Valdez
The Corporation will likely not vote to divest from coal at its meeting in May, "as it will be the first time they will discuss the issue," said President Christina Paxson at a Brown University Community Council meeting Tuesday.
Trevor Culhane '15, along with two other members of the Brown Divest Coal Campaign, asked the University to divest from "the top 10 coal burning utilities and the top five coal extraction companies" at the meeting.
The BUCC also heard presentations from members of the Sustainability Strategic Planning and Advisory Committee and Alpert Medical School Student Senate President Julia Heneghan '09 MD '13.
Culhane said "considering the urgency of climate change," the University should "recognize (its) responsibility as a moral compass and a moral leader" in the divestment campaign.
Tammy Jiang '16 talked about visiting her home in Brooklyn after Hurricane Sandy last October and attributed coal to worsening climate change.
"There will be more extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy if we don't take action against climate change," Jiang said. "Brown would be the first university of this magnitude in size and prestige to divest from these coal companies."
Paxson formed an ad hoc committee of the Corporation after the Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies released its recommendation that the University divest from the 15 coal companies. The ad hoc committee will meet with students from the campaign Friday and report to the Corporation in May.
Eric Suuberg, professor of engineering, said the University would be sending "a peculiar mixed message" if it divested.
"We're saying on the one hand that this is an evil, and on the other hand we're benefiting from the existence of that industry and the very companies we're saying we should divest from," Suuberg said, referring to Rhode Island's use of coal for electrical power.
Chris Powell, director of sustainable energy and environmental initiatives, said the University's electrical supplier, TransCanada, "has one of the lowest coal percentages."
The University uses 3.7 percent coal "of our fuel mix from electricity that we get from TransCanada," Powell added.
Provost Mark Schlissel P'15 said he doesn't think divesting will achieve the long-term goal of the Brown Divest Coal campaign to combat climate change.
"I'm concerned it's a more symbolic strategy than a substantial strategy that the problem deserves," Schlissel said. He asked the group members whether they have considered focusing their efforts "on elected officials that can actually make laws that influence all companies."
Daniel Sherrell '13.5 said the Brown Divest Coal Campaign aims "to send a strong symbolic signal to start eroding the social license of the fossil fuel industry that has allowed it with a good deal of impunity to prevent the legislators from taking serious action." He added that fossil fuel companies have the financial resources to lobby Congress "to make sure that this industry perpetuates itself."
Culhane asked Paxson to allow BUCC to vote on an endorsement for divestment. But Paxson said "formal votes are rare" and BUCC meetings are "for conversation and idea generation, not to formally endorse or not endorse" recommendations.
The Sustainability Strategic Planning and Advisory Committee also presented its interim report to BUCC. In its presentation, the committee recommended creating an EcoDistrict to enable "strategic and centralized" sustainability efforts.
An EcoDistrict is "a conceptual framework for planning … and maintaining sustainable solutions at a district level within a community … considering water, transportation, air and energy in decisions beyond the level of the building, but at the level of the campus and the community," said Kai Morrell '11, outreach coordinator for Facilities Management.
The interim report also recommended that the University add sustainability to its liberal learning goals.
"We'll work on the details of each of the recommendations," Schlissel said. "I think they're all worth pursuing."
Heneghan spoke on behalf of the Medical School Student Senate and provided an overview of what the organization does. Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services, asked Heneghan what the University could do to facilitate more involvement with the Senate.
Anne Fausto-Sterling, professor of biology, said the differences in undergraduate and medical student schedules makes it difficult for interaction to happen.
"I can tell you it has had a huge negative effect … on collaboration of medical students with campus faculty and campus undergraduates," Fausto-Sterling said.
Tuesday's meeting was BUCC's last of the semester.
Topics: BUCC, Christina Paxson
At BUCC, Divest Coal urges long-term U. divestment
Billionaire supports U. coal divestment
Advisory committee votes to recommend coal divestment
Paxson forms Corporation committee to talk divestment
It's still not too late for the Corporation to vote to divest in May! After a full school year of debate, discussion, and conversation, the campus has spoken. It's time to divest!
ACCRIP, the Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies, has already voted to recommend divestment from the fifteen largest coal companies in the U.S.!! The Board of Trustees needs to vote yes to divestment to bring its investments in line with its values and commitments to sustainability and reducing environmental impacts!