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New Projects in the Future
So a while back in this post, I started talking about a slow-burn project I was thinking of. (Because of course, the best time for new ideas to spring up is between November 1-7.) I still poked at it a little during November but not a ton, and now that December is here and I am not swimming in NaNo stoofs, I can take my time to start working on this project.
…you know, and my other manuscripts. DETAILS.
For the longest time, I've played a type of game and never really knew it was a genre in and of itself. The otome game–literally translated to "maiden game" in Japanese–is a game usually targeted at young women, and is often revolving around getting the main character romantically involved with one of several men to choose from. Most recently, the phone game Mystic Messenger has been a popular newcomer, and a fairly innovative one, using its existence as a phone app as a part of the game, in addition to being able to add "phone calls" and "texts" from the characters able to be pursued. (I particularly like MysMe for the fact that there is another woman who you can take that path of, though whether or not it is romantic is left ambiguous; unsurprising, given the pieces of Japanese culture I know.)
I've always had fun with these, even though the English translations are not always fantastic, and the plot lines can be fairly shallow. (Not always! But sometimes.) The one originally English-language one I know, Seduce Me and its sequel both created by Michaela Laws, has a level of character depth and storytelling I can only hope to emulate in portions. They're very nicely done.
But I've always said that in order to write one of these, all you really need to be good at is writing characters…and writing dialogue. Two things I've always been told I'm good at. I did my undergrad thesis on character development, and every writing teacher I've had (basically) has told me that dialogue is my strong suit.
So I figured why not? I'd try writing my own game.
The setting was the hardest part for me, and it's one that I'm really still working on as I go. Taking a look around the Interwebs, it looked fairly torn between people liking games they could relate into their real lives, and people who said that if they wanted a real life simulator, they'd just go do it themselves. But the high levels of sword and sorcery that some of the games get I just don't have the knowledge for, and while samurai/ninjas appear to be very popular, I know nothing about them. I didn't really want to play too strongly with magic, but I wanted something to be just a shade otherwordly. So I came up with the concept of Art. I'm still building on it, and I don't want to reveal too many secrets right off the bat, but it's a fun project.
I've always loved the old Choose Your Own Adventure style stories, and that's essentially what this is. I don't know how I'm going to write it, in the long form. There are something like 8 paths to be chosen, and I'm hoping to not require the player to choose one, and rather simply find themselves on one based on their actions. (I've seen games do this either way, and I like them both for different reasons. I'm not sure what I'll choose yet. Right now I just need to get the basic introductions done.)
I've also invested in a product to help me make it, because I've found that I'm more likely to work hard toward something if I've already invested money in it. (Not always the case, but that's how I've gotten myself through 3 5k races now.) It's called TyranoBuilder, I do believe, and it was recommended to me by a fellow writer and aficionado of otome-style games. For something like $15, I think it's a worthy investment just because it does say that it caters to people who aren't savvy with HTML and the like. While I did take a few classes on HTML, it was many many years ago now, and I don't remember a ton. For example, the platform that Seduce Me was built on, Ren'py, is free and from the looks of it, decently user-friendly. If TyranoBuilder doesn't work out for whatever reason, I'm more than willing to try poking at that. I've got plenty of options and all the time I want to mess around with whatever I want to do. It's kinda nice, not having a deadline hover over me. A bit of a novel concept, after the madhouse of November, but I like it.
And of course, as I think I mentioned somewhere, I do have a manuscript that's just waiting on the final touches so that I can send it off into the world and cry as my baby gets torn apart by readers everywhere. (Maybe someone will like him. Some of my classmates like him. *sob*) I think it's that fear that's keeping me from working on it. I love my book and I think it's good, but I'm so sure that no one else is going to like it, or feel like it's a good story, and I'm just going to put my heart and soul out there and everyone's going to step on it. Or worse yet, ignore it. I know that self-publishing–and indeed, any publishing nowadays really–is 95% on the author to get the word out. And I will do everything in my power to do just that. But it's still pretty scary.
In any event, I've got more than enough to be working on, and I'm always on the edge looking for more. Got to keep myself busy. Because that's how I'm going to get myself back onto any kind of normal target.
And I hope you all have fun as I go.
(Any suggestions? Concerns? Ideas for the game? Lemme know! I'm always happy to hear.)
December 12, 2016 December 10, 2016 future plans, new project, otome game, projects, Ren'py, Seduce Me, stories, TyranoBuilder, Writing
2 thoughts on "New Projects in the Future"
Cami Lui says:
I use Ren'Py for making visual novels cos it's free (and I can't afford anything else >.>) But it's a good thing you get encouraged into doing something when you've invested money for it. I feel you with that part of being scared about stories and ideas getting out there. I'm not very good at writing and drawing and coding but I still try anyway, with my mind set of not caring whether the readers won't like it (or if I'd have any readers at all!). Good luck with your project and hope it will be successful! Looking forward to it!
Thanks so much for the comment! The project is plugging along, albeit slowly, but I'm still having fun with it. I'm excited to see how far I can take the idea! 🙂 Keep working at yours as well; I'm always looking for new and interesting stuff to read/play!
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Debut offering from a Brazilian band fronted by German vocalist Carsten 'Lizard' Schulz (Evidence One, ex Domain) and its nice to see musicians from outside European or North American lands getting a shot. Home to 11 tracks clocking in at a reasonable 53 minutes, this is a strong first offering full of enjoyable melodies and strong musicianship in the melodic rock field.
Opener "Time (Live And Learn)" sets a high bar from the off with its strong chorus refrain, before "Close Your Eyes" serves up some scandie rock overtones reminiscent of the now sadly defunct Damned Nation and again has a very worthy chorus – home to some trademark vocal harmonies from Schulz. Dual guitar team of De Grigo and Marcos Peres combine well on "Who's Fooling Who" with a commercial edge reminiscent of Bad English. The track written by Eden Curse's Paul Logue is a heart-warming number with another strong vocal. The power balladry of "I Will Wait" is another winner with a nice modulation into the chorus. The fast paced "Wait And See" is another Paul Logue number and is carried along by a pumping riff.
The piano intro of "No More Mistakes" originally had me thinking its was going turn into Savatage's 'Gutter Ballet' but instead it develops into an east coast AOR infused number, the vocal from Schulz is again commendable working around a low-end smoky Coverdale-ish timbre. The drums samples (one presumes) do get a little overwhelming here but otherwise it's another highlight. Likewise "You" begins with humble piano beginnings before developing into a heavier number than its predecessor and again works well. This heavier timbre is continued with the mid tempo of "Set Me Free" which has another nice refrain to it.
The first of two versions of "Steel Or Stone" sets us on the home run. The first is geared towards radio although I prefer the bonus acoustic version to the electric one. Both versions sandwich "Not In Paradise" which sees a guest vocal from Doogie White (ex Rainbow, ex Malmsteen, Cornerstone) although sadly he has the weakest track on the album with it just lacking some of the fire of the music heard elsewhere.
Overall Paradise Inc has served up a strong debut. Whilst it could be argued there is a lack of a totally original sound, this is something that could be thrown at the majority of the melodic rock scene. As it stands they are good songwriters, good musicians and possess more than many that command a bigger following and the best band yet to have come from the Avenue Of Allies roster.
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Dylann Roof guilty on 33 counts of federal hate crimes for Charleston church shooting
By Dustin Waters and
Senior correspondent covering national and international affairs
A jury finds Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof guilty of federal hate crimes resulting in the death of nine black parishioners at a historic church in South Carolina last year. (Reuters)
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Dylann Storm Roof, a ninth-grade dropout who learned to hate black people on the Internet, was convicted Thursday of 33 counts of federal hate crimes for slaughtering nine black parishioners at a church Bible study meeting here last year.
A federal jury took less than two hours to reach its decision, following a seven-day trial in which Roof, 22, a self-described white supremacist, chose to remain silent and motionless amid a barrage of testimony and evidence so thorough and devastating that his mother, watching from the third row, suffered a heart attack on the first day.
"He executed them because he believes they are nothing but animals," prosecutor Nathan Williams said in his closing argument, addressing a somber jury that had seen crime-scene photos of all the dead, including Susie Jackson, 87, the oldest victim, into whom Roof had emptied an entire 11-round magazine from his Glock .45-caliber pistol.
['Evil, evil, evil as can be': Emotional testimony as Dylann Roof trial begins]
As Williams spoke, a photograph of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney was shown on the screen. The pastor, who had offered Roof a seat next to him at Bible study, was wearing a crisp white shirt and new suit now stained by blood from the five bullet wounds in his neck, back and arm. Roof's grandmother, sitting in the courtroom while the image was displayed, wiped a tear from her eye.
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Judge Richard M. Gergel dismissed the jury for the holidays and told them to return on Jan. 3, when they will hear prosecution and defense arguments about whether Roof should be executed or sentenced to life in prison without parole. Roof also faces a separate state murder trial in January, which also carries a potential death penalty.
Many friends and relatives of the dead attended the trial, in the historic heart of the city where the Civil War began, and many sat with their eyes closed tight as they listened to the verdict.
"There's no win in this. We still have grieving families, a grieving community. There's some closure, but there's no win in this thing," said Kevin Singleton, 43, whose mother, Myra Thompson, was killed. "We just want to move forward and put this behind us and try to get on with our lives. Nothing good came out of any of this."
[Scene in Charleston: 'At the end of the day, we are just looking for justice.']
But some allowed themselves a moment of gratitude.
The Rev. Sharon Risher, whose mother, Ethel Lance, was among the dead, said she was "overjoyed that this part is done."
At the moment the verdict was read, she said, the family members "looked at each other with smiles, like, 'Hallelujah, God is still in the miracle-working business.' "
Roof's guilt in the killings was essentially uncontested; prosecutors showed the jury Roof's interview with FBI agents in which he calmly confessed to the killings and complained that he was "worn out" after pumping more than 60 bullets into his victims.
Prosectors introduced and played Dylann Roof's two-hour video confession during the third day of Roof's federal death penalty trial. (U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina)
Under federal law, he was charged with hate crimes resulting in death, obstruction of religion and firearms violations. He was also charged with attempting to commit those same offenses against two adults and a child who survived.
[The white flight of Derek Black]
His attorney, David Bruck, a death penalty specialist, told the jury he expected them to find Roof guilty, but he repeatedly tried to inject the notion that Roof was mentally or emotionally unstable. He was consistently cut off by Gergel, who said that was relevant only in the penalty phase of the trial.
Roof has said he will represent himself during that phase, and Bruck was apparently trying to help his client in advance of that by giving the jury some justification to spare his life.
"Consider the mad energy, the rationale, the senselessness," Bruck said as the prosecution mounted objection after objection. "The fact that one is a racist does not tell you what else is going on. And what else is going on is what you should be thinking about."
The federal death penalty is rarely imposed; the last time was more than a decade ago. Roof had offered to plead guilty and accept life in prison, but the U.S. Justice Department determined that the circumstances were so egregious that they warranted seeking Roof's execution.
The crime stood as a new and hideous chapter in the long history of racial killings in America. Prosecutors read lines from a journal found in Roof's car and the manifesto he posted online, and they told jurors that Roof wanted to incite a race war.
Prosecutors presented evidence that Roof chose the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historic monument known as Mother Emanuel, because of its spiritual and symbolic importance to the black community.
[What happens next if Dylann Roof is sentenced to death]
Roof told FBI interrogators that he "had to" kill blacks because they rape white women; computer records showed that he had researched "black on white" crime and spent time on white supremacist sites.
He said he chose Mother Emanuel because it was the South's oldest black church and he "knew that would be a place to get a small amount of black people in one area."
During the trial, prosecutors documented Roof's meticulous planning in the seven months leading up to the killings. Data collected from his GPS showed that he had made at least six trips to Charleston, visiting historic plantations and studying the church. He videotaped himself on several occasions taking target practice with his Glock in the back yard of his home.
Photos showing Roof posing with the Confederate battle flag prompted South Carolina officials to remove the flag from the state capitol in Columbia.
A deep hostility revealed online
A Web site linked to accused Charleston shooter Dylann Roof includes chilling images, detailed racist rationale
The online manifesto attributed to Dylann Roof reveals a deep hatred of minorities, particularly black people. From Roof's Web site
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"A person's actions tell us what they are thinking and what is in their heart," Williams said, citing the "vastness" of his "cold, calculated hatred," and his "tremendous cowardice" in shooting nine people who had closed their eyes to pray.
"There is no bravery in this defendant. There is no bravery in his actions. But there is bravery in this case," Williams told the jury before recounting the courage shown by the victims and the two adult survivors who testified.
[Dylann Roof wants his attorneys back for part of the Charleston church shooting trial]
As the prosecutor presented his closing, each victim's body was shown on the floor of the church's basement, along with smiling portraits of the victims in life.
"What does 'malice' mean?" Williams asked the jury. "It means everything you've seen in this case."
Huddled together under blankets in the chilly courtroom, the families of the victims began weeping. Some kept their heads bowed, rocking back and forth, while other held their heads high, refusing to look away. One relative groaned and rushed from the courtroom as an image of Tywanza Sanders, 26, the youngest victim, was shown, his arm outstretched toward Susie Jackson as they lay dead on the church floor.
Singleton said he had initially planned to stay away from court on the day photos of his mother's body were shown. But in the end, he said, he felt he needed to be there.
"To see your mom face down on the ground, it's a life-changing experience," he said. "A part of me regrets seeing it, but I'm glad I did because I needed to have that closure. It's like a dream. This doesn't seem real, so I needed something real. I wanted to have that connection with my mom."
Sullivan reported from Washington.
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Issued a 2020 Statement Condemning Azerbaijan/Turkey Attacks on Armenia/Artsakh? Yes
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12/12/19 - Rep. Beyer tweeted "Historic: for the first time, both chambers of the United States Congress have passed resolutions recognizing the Armenian Genocide.With nearly unanimous bipartisan support." View the tweet here.
11/13/19 - Rep. Beyer tweeted "Trump let Erdogan's thugs get away with assaulting people in DC two years ago without lifting a finger, then sounded a retreat so Erdogan's forces could attack our allies the Kurds.Welcoming this authoritarian to the White House today was another embarrassing act of submission." View the tweet here.
10/29/19 - Rep. Beyer tweeted "The House just passed a resolution to recognize the Armenian Genocide. This was always the right thing to do, and it's more important than ever now -- as we witness the ugly specter of ethnic cleansing again in the same region, this time against the Kurds in Northern Syria." View the tweet here.
10/27/19 - Rep. Beyer posted the following to Facebook: "It's time to start holding Turkey accountable for its actions. Both Congress and the White House have remained silent on this issue for far too long, and I look forward to changing that next week." View the Facebook post here.
10/23/19 - Rep. Beyer tweeted "House leaders just announced that we will indeed be voting next week on House Resolution 296, recognizing the Armenian Genocide. Such recognition, the official acknowledgment of the worst atrocities in history, is long overdue. You can read the text here: https://twitter.com/RepDonBeyer/status/1121099732435206144" View the tweet here.
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1-9 To Be an Adventurer
Author: EnroItzal Original Source: Scribble Hub
"Right now?" Lyra asked with an arduous face.
"Yes," Erin answered with a gleam in her eyes but she quickly realized the change in Lyra's expression. "Why you ask? Is it too late?"
"It is kinda late but it's not exactly a matter of late…" Lyra was dragging her sentence, unsure of how to put her words.
"Is the registration going to take long?" Erin asked back.
Before Lyra could reply, the receptionist, Sam responded in her stead. "It'll only take a minute, Miss Erin."
"Then let's—"
"However, it's the test that's the problem. You see, each applicant is required to take a test to prove that they have at least the minimum amount of capability to be an adventurer."
Erin shrugged. "I'm capable enough."
More than that, actually. I'm the Sword Saint, damn it. If I still have skills, I would— Okay, okay. Calm down, it's just a test.
"I can attest to that," Lyra spoke up. "She won a duel against Kane."
The receptionist's eyes widened. "Kane? Truly?"
Lyra nodded with a straight face.
Sam stared intensely at Erin. "If you don't mind me asking, what's your level?"
"Four," she answered without a pause.
Sam dropped her jaws.
Lyra snapped her surprised gaze at her. "Are you being serious?"
"Is that so hard to believe?" Erin couldn't understand their amazement. She could understand Sam's surprise but not Lyra's. She was there to witness the whole thing.
"Well… not really." Lyra's eyes went swimming. "I did see you in action after all."
"What do you mean not really?" Sam raised her voice. "A level four won against an opponent with a gap of more than five levels. You have to be incredibly skilled to be able to do that."
I am the Sword Saint— well, was the Sword Saint.
"Hey, um… Erin?" Lyra whispered. "Maybe you should let her see your true identity. Show her your ears, I mean."
Seeing no harm in showing the receptionist her true race, Erin uncloaked her head of the hood. There was no one else here but The Guild's staffs, so Erin wasn't too worried about being seen or stared at.
Sam gasped in astonishment. "A Fox-kin?" Her voice was loud enough to reel in the attention of the other staffs. Since they were still technically working, they didn't gather around Erin and swamp her with questions like they eagerly wished to.
"I do not like to be stared at," Erin said with a firm tone when she noticed Sam's gaze was frozen on her.
"Of course. Sorry about that." Apologizing so, Sam brought out some sort of a Magic tool from underneath the counter. It was a sky blue hemispherical crystal with a palm width, embedded on a small pedestal. On the side of the pedestal was a similar tag slot like the desk. Sam took out a brass tag from a drawer nearby and inserted it into the slot. The hemispherical crystal lit up with a blue glow.
Erin didn't know what the tool was for or doing but she was already impress by the design and the aesthetics.
"Now, put your hand on the crystal, please. Either side will do."
Erin did as she was requested. The crystal turned green after a while.
"Okay, good." Sam nodded and gestured for Erin to let go. "No red records."
"What's a red record?" Erin asked.
"History of violation, criminal records, those kind of things," Sam answered. "The Guild has a reputation to maintain. We can't just accept every applicants blindly."
"Oh, I see." Erin was now even more impressed. There were no such Magic tools in the Evaren he knew. This sort of tool was only mere design and ideas on pieces of papers. The scholars had deemed such concept "too advance" to be realized.
Is this perhaps the future?
Sam then did the same thing she did for Lyra. She inserted the tag into the desk's slot and began scribbling on the paper that were fill with words made from the tag's lights.
"You're really level four but your skills…"
Oh f̲u̲c̲k̲! I forgot about my skills, that one f̲u̲c̲k̲i̲n̲g̲ skill. F̲u̲c̲k̲i̲n̲g̲ Lust Deviant!
All colors was drain from Erin as she prepared herself for the imminent predicament.
"You have Spirit Magic and Sword Art, a level five at that. You must be extremely skilled with a sword to have a level five Sword Art at only level four. Forest-kin really are an amazing bunch."
Hmm? Something's wrong? Why is she not reacting to Lust Deviant?
Feeling something amiss, Erin focus her gaze at the paper. Near the bottom where it said, Innate Skills, she scanned that row of words.
Eh? There's no Lust Deviant?
When she looked at her own stats screen, the innate skill Lust Deviant was clearly listed there but for some reasons, it didn't appear on the paper. Although she didn't know why, she was just glad she dodged a chance at being lynched. Speaking of chance, she conveniently saw her own other information on the paper.
I'm two hundred thirty-six years old?? Damn, I'm old— no wait. I'm a Fox-kin, a Forest-kin. If I remember correctly, Forest-kin are known to have a long life in comparison to humans. Maybe I'm not that old in terms of a Forest-kin's age?
"And you also have Toxin Resistance!" Lyra shouted with excitement as she peered over the counter. "Huh? A Forest-kin? Aren't you a Beast-kin? I'm pretty sure you're not an Elf, Druid, or a Spriggan."
Only then, it hit Erin.
Come to think of it, Demi-humans with animal traits were call Beast-kin in my previous life. Am I not a Beast-kin?
"The ancestors of the Fox-kin were tired with the Beast-kin's nomadic and barbaric ways of living. They joined the Forest-kin in hopes of a more suitable life for their mild nature," Sam explained. "Since then, they have been known as Forest-kin and they also gained the natural talent for Spirit Magic, this is a prominent factor as it stands to show that they have been acknowledged by the Forest Spirits."
Lyra made a pondering face with pursed lips. "I didn't know that."
Sam shot Lyra a glance. "You should have. Being an adventurer isn't all just about brawn. And Miss Lyra, lest you forgot, it's rude to peek at other people's stats." Sam reprimanded her.
"It's fine, right Erin?" She directed a smile at the fox-kin.
"No." Erin didn't want to hurt her feelings but a line needs to be drawn. She learned this too well in her previous life, some words just need to be said no matter how much it would hurt the other party.
Lyra cast her gaze down as her eyes darkened. "I-I see. Sorry about that. That was… inconsiderate of me."
Sam sighed as she was use to Lyra's antics. She scribbled something onto the paper and finished the process with that. However, instead of the tag, Sam handed Erin a piece of paper.
Reading Erin's confused expression, Sam explained with all the patience in the world. "You'll have your Adventurer's Tag after you complete the test. For now, this will serve as a substitute adventurer license."
Receiving the paper, Erin examined the contents. It looked like a watered down design of her stat screen. At the bottom of the paper, there was a set of instructions. It read; "Eliminate 5 Kobolds and bring their Cores as proof. Time limit of three days."
Kobolds were humanoid monsters that resembled a mix of lizard and rat. They weren't as smart as Demi-humans but they were known for their use of simple tools. There were even known cases of Kobolds using stone swords. It was the best monster available in Green Scar to test a adventurer's skill with a sword.
Perhaps sensing the eagerness in Erin's eyes, Sam began another chain of lectures. "While The Guild can't tell you what to do, you are advised to stay inside the boundaries of the town at night. And should you wander off into the night and get hurt, The Guild will take no responsibility for it. Any questions?"
Looking at Lyra, Erin was reminded of one question she had been itching to ask. "What's a starless adventurer?"
Sam frowned while Lyra threw her face into her palm.
"Was it rude to ask?"
Sam stared vacantly at Erin before switching her glance to Lyra.
Even without words, Lyra understood Sam's inquiry. "It's a long story. Just treat her like she know nothing."
Erin really did know nothing about this Evaren, so she wasn't irk about being labeled as such.
"Very well." Sam cleared her throat. "A star is given to an adventurer for each distinguished deed they have committed. The amount of stars an adventurer has dictates the type of privilege an adventurer is eligible for."
"You mentioned distinguish deeds. Such as?"
"Depends. For example, subjugating the Razor Grizzly alone at a level below twenty. However, it won't be seen as a distinguish deed if it's subjugated by a high level or a group. And I must warned you, don't go risking your life for a star. Many have tried and many have died trying, this is especially true for young people."
"I understand," Erin said. She tried to not show it on her face that Sam just hit the nail of her intentions.
"Good." Sam handed Erin a small book. "This is the Adventurer's Handbook. It contains the rules and ethics an adventurer should uphold and a few advice."
Oh wow, this is neat. The Evaren I know wasn't this… orderly.
"Would that be all?" Sam asked.
"Yes, for now." Erin thanked the receptionist and left The Guild while being pulled by Lyra who was grumbling about her empty stomach.
But Lyra's true intentions were plain to Sam's eyes. "Ah, youth."
They had a light dinner at a small stall by the roadside just a few blocks away from The Guild. The dishes were all familiar to Erin, so she didn't have much question regarding the cuisine. Over their meal, Lyra had told Erin everything she knew about being an adventurer and also the currency which greatly astounded Lyra that Erin didn't even know about the currency.
After Lyra was finish with her main course, she began to explain. "There's small copper, copper, silver, gold, and gold plates. Ten small copper is one copper. Ten copper is one silver. Ten silver is one gold. Ten gold is one gold plate. It's easy. And mind this, try to get your money in the form of coppers and silvers. You only use gold in the big cities. Small towns like this one don't use gold. You can still pay with a gold coin but don't go expecting change from it."
After the brief and concise lesson of currencies, Erin asked another question that had been itching her since she received her adventurer application test.
"What happens if I cheat on the test?" Erin asked. "What if I get someone else to do them for me?"
To that question, Lyra laughed. "Don't. The Guild will know, always and somehow. You can't cheat or lie to them. Don't even dare to think about it."
After another strings of inquiries from Erin, it was time for Lyra's own story. It seemed like she had been waiting to tell her tale.
Lyra was currently only twenty years of age. Her family was poor and it was her village's tradition for the chosen children to live a independent live starting from their eighteenth birthday. She and her childhood friend went off to the next town and bounced between odd jobs for a few years until her friend became a prominent smuggler in the town thanks to his natural talent. Disappointed, Lyra left that town and came to Green Scar where she became an adventurer. It had been two weeks since then. She had a rough start like all young and new adventurers but she was one of the few who made it thought the rough patch.
When Lyra finished her backstory, her sullen face turned into a devious grin. "Your turn. What's your story?"
"M-mine?"
"Well, it's only fair that you told me yours after I told you mine." It had been her plan to get to know Erin's story. She knew people always spill their own stories after one spilled their own.
"Um… I don't know…"
"You can't remember?" Lyra's expression turned grim.
"It's complicated." Erin laughed nervously. "I don't even know how I got here."
"What do you mean?"
"I was in some place else entirely when suddenly, I was somehow… here." Erin wasn't lying. She was at some place else upon her death but after the blinding lights swallowed her, she found herself in Green Scar, in a new body and a different gender.
"Must be somewhere pretty far away if you weren't in the know of so much of these common knowledge."
"Yeah, it must have been somewhere far away," Erin agreed gloomily. For all she knew, she could be in a parallel world, a world with the same foundation but different courses of history. Or, it could be the future, many years in, judging by the advancement of the Magic tools she saw.
"Well, putting that aside, where do you learn how to fight like that?" Lyra leaned forward.
"Self-taught. Nothing else I can say."
Lyra gleamed. Her evaluation of Erin was just getting higher and higher. "How long have you wield a sword?"
"Forty years, give or take." Again, it wasn't a lie. Erin's first time wielding a sword in her previous life was when she was only six.
"So you're saying that you overwhelmed an opponent who's more than five levels ahead of you by using a good forty years of experience with a sword?"
Erin shrugged without looking at Lyra's way. She was just wanted to finish her meal. "I guess so."
"Don't undersell yourself now, Erin" Lyra pulled herself closer to Erin. "You were magnificent in that duel. I dare say not even Nivia's movements were as fluid as yours."
"Nivia?"
"Oh right, you wouldn't know her. She's the Elf I mentioned earlier. She's the highest level adventurer in this town at level sixteen."
At first, Erin wanted to meet the Elf due to the renown beauty of Elves but now, she wanted to meet her for other reasons. She could beat a man that was seven levels apart from her. She was curious on how far her former status as the Sword Saint could bring her. Nivia sounded like the perfect candidate to test her current abilities.
"Do you perhaps know where this Nivia is now?" Erin asked, hesitantly. She knew it was weird to ask such a question out of nowhere.
Per her expectations, Lyra's expression darkened and threw Erin a narrow gaze. "Oh my, Erin. Are you perhaps interested in her?" Lyra put her face directly beside Erin's ears while her left hand slowly brushed across Erin's thigh.
"Meep~!!" Erin cried at the sudden intimacy. She was aware of Lyra's orientation but this was beyond what Erin expected. Lyra was aggressive. Erin had hated this kind of people— had hated, that is. Now, she found herself burning up from Lyra's aggressive advances.
The heat and tingling sensation from this afternoon were coming back to her.
"Am I not enough, you tantalizing vixen?" Lyra breathed and moaned into her ears. "Or is a human not up to your standards?"
"T-there's no such thing, M-Miss Lyra!" Erin squeaked. "I-I'm just excited at the prospect of meeting another F-Forest-kin, that's all."
"Miss?" Lyra raised an eyebrow. "My, it seems that you are still not comfortable with me." Saying so, her hand crept towards the inner parts between Erin's thighs.
"L-Lyra, we're still in public!" Erin managed to squeeze out her words in the midst of her bated breaths.
"So you're saying it's okay if we're alone and in private?" Lyra teased. Her grin reached her ears.
From Erin's angle, she was offer a glimpse of Lyra's slight valley. If she wasn't wearing a leather vest, Erin was sure she could have peeked at her bosom. She cursed inwardly at Lyra' vest.
And then, something snapped within her.
[Warning: User has entered Carnal Starvation. Lust Deviant activated.] [Provisional Increment – Might: 16 | Arcane: 15 | Finesse: 15]
The itch returned to her honeypot and it was wetting before she knew it.
Not good… I must not…
As if every ounce of shyness she had towards female were all thrown out of the window, Erin inched herself close to Lyra, surprising the human girl. "Yes, I won't mind if we're alone and in private." She told Lyra, in a brazen suggestive tone and stared at her with a fervent gaze.
Lyra's grin fell off. She stood up silently in a sudden. "Keep the change," she called out to the stall's cook-c̲u̲m̲-waiter as she threw a silver to the table. She grabbed Erin by the wrist without a word and pulled her out of the stall.
Erin was just letting herself be dragged off by the solemn Lyra.
Together, they swiftly strode back to Lyra's lodging with the both of them in silent and great anticipation along the short walk.
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Soon, you could build your satellite the way you put together a Lego truck as a kid.
Mads Wilson and his organization, Copenhagen Suborbitals, want to inspire people … by shooting them into space. Wilson and his all-volunteer Danish team want to strap volunteers onto small rockets, propel them beyond the atmosphere — and get them back safely. So far they've launched several unmanned test rockets, and they are steadily building up for their manned launch. "We want to show people that you can actually do amazing things with very little," he says.
Copenhagen Suborbitals is part of a worldwide trend of nonprofessionals going to space. Because of technological innovation and lowering costs, startups and companies like SpaceX have in recent years been able to challenge incumbents like NASA and Boeing for the space market. DIYers, open-source enthusiasts, hobbyists and even college and high school teams, however, are now also entering this new space race.
I think DIY projects are going to be the next step in the democratization of space.
An early DIY space project was SkyCube, a crowdfunded CubeSat — a miniaturized satellite in the form of a cube — that launched in 2013 with the hope of sending images and messages from space. It almost worked, only the solar panel deployer failed, recounts Tim DeBenedictis, an app developer who worked on the project. The Libre Space Foundation, a Greek group, recently launched the first fully open-source CubeSat. And small-scale space projects are now being built by students in university and even high school, which might further stimulate their interest in space or STEM occupations.
"I think DIY projects are going to be the next step in the democratization of space," says Jordi Puig-Suari, professor at Cal Poly State University. He co-invented the CubeSat standard for small satellites, and is an expert in low-cost space system development. This democratization might have implications for business and education, or simply be a source of inspiration.
Team members convene moments after the HEAT-2X rocket, launched by Copenhagen Suborbitals, took off on Aug. 16, 2014. The launch failed, with the rocket soon engulfed in flames. But the firm's ambitions remain on track.
That leap toward democratization isn't without challenges.
While it is now possible to crowdfund a satellite, the steep costs are still a major hindrance for hobbyists to get into the field. DeBenedictis, who now does consultancy work on small satellites, explains that "to launch a 1U satellite in a commercial launch, it still costs around $75,000 to $100,000." (1U is the smallest CubeSat, which measures 10-by-10-by-10 centimeters.) Universities and nonprofits can sometimes send up payloads for free. Regulation can also be tough for these projects — a startup, for example, recently sent up four satellites without the right license, raising questions of how to deal with them.
But the DIY space community is nothing if not resilient. Speaking about the solar panel deployer that failed SkyCube, DeBenedictis points out that much bigger projects have faced similar challenges. The Beagle 2, a 2003 British mission to Mars, failed because of the same problem. "This is just common in space," says DeBenedictis. "It affects many groups, from ours who built a satellite in a garage to the European Space Agency." Yet while it failed, SkyCube showed how a crowdfunded project could actually go to space.
HEAT-1X was launched on June 3, 2011, from the launch platform Sputnik in the Baltic Sea east of Spaceport Nexø. Standing 9.38 meter tall and with a gross lift-off weight of 1,630 kg, HEAT-1X was a game-changer, highlighting what amateur rocketeers can accomplish.
And costs, while high, are falling for a number of reasons. Launching rockets has become cheaper. Standards such as the CubeSat have standardized measures for small satellites, which improves efficiency and safety on launches. And consumer electronics built for Earth have been repurposed for space. Copenhagen Suborbitals uses a touchscreen it thinks was salvaged from a Burger King in its mission control, and in its rockets it uses electronics similar to those in photocopiers and smartphones.
One of the biggest areas where these projects might be useful is probably in education. "Actually, one of the greatest spin-offs of the NASA space program is educational," says DeBenedictis.
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« The Struggle for CUNY
2006 article: Student Activists Under Attack at City College »
Interview with Rachèl Laforest, Luz Schreiber, Lenina Nadal, Suzan Hammad, and Tamieka Byer
October 13, 2009 by Suzy Subways
A Culture of Resistance
Lessons Learned from the Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM)
By Suzy Subways
This interview with 5 women of color from SLAM appeared in the radical journal Upping the Anti, issue #8.
In March 1995, 20,000 students from City University of New York (CUNY) were attacked by police after surrounding city hall to protest a draconian tuition increase. This protest, organized by the CUNY Coalition Against the Cuts, marked an upsurge in student movement activity that continued into 1996, when the group transformed into the Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM), a multiracial radical organization. Before disbanding in 2004, SLAM established chapters at CUNY colleges in all five boroughs of the city. This roundtable focuses on the chapter at Hunter College in Manhattan and explores SLAM's legacy of building a left culture in New York City and across the country.
SLAM's legacy is bound up with the evolution of CUNY, which became the primary route out of poverty for the city's Black, Latino, and immigrant communities starting in the 1970s. Prior to that, despite offering free education since 1847, CUNY was predominantly white. In 1969, Black and Latino students at City College in Harlem, with support from the Black Panthers and Young Lords, occupied CUNY campus buildings and won an open admissions policy that made CUNY accessible to students who needed remedial classes because they had attended substandard high schools. By 1976, the student body was predominantly people of color, and CUNY started charging tuition, the first of many changes to push students of color back out. The policy of open admissions was reversed in 1999, despite SLAM's militant opposition.
This roundtable is part of a larger and ongoing SLAM oral history project (see http://SLAMherstory.wordpress.com). While many people helped build SLAM, this article highlights the voices of some of the women of colour members. These women represent different generations of SLAM, from founders to younger leaders. Their insights reflect their experiences in SLAM and draw out lessons about building organic leadership and creating multiracial, feminist organizations that are accountable to communities directly affected by the issues.
Lenina Nadal was a founding member of the CUNY Coalition Against the Cuts and SLAM. Having graduated in 1997, she returned in 2000 to help create SLAM's organizer training institute. She is a filmmaker, playwright, and poet, and works for the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition. Visit http://www.performingprofound.com
Rachèl Laforest was president of Hunter College's Black Student Union in 1995 and SLAM's first student government president in 1996. Before leaving SLAM in 2003, she defended open admissions and worked on SLAM's High School Organizing Program and the Mumia Youth Task Force. She is Director of Organizing for New York City's Transport Workers Union (TWU, Local 100).
Luz Schreiber worked on SLAM's open admissions campaign and other projects between 1998 and 2000. Co-founder of Ollin Imagination (a cultural circle of resistance of parents, artists, students, and educators of colour), Luz is a creative writing major and Hunter Student Union organizer.
Suzan Hammad was president of Hunter's Palestinian Club before joining SLAM and becoming a lead anti-war organizer in the early part of this decade. She is a painter (see http://www.cafepress.com/LailatiNar) and continues fighting for a free Palestine.
Tamieka Byer organized college and high school student walkouts against police brutality and the Iraq war as a member of SLAM between 2000 and 2004. She currently works with Amnesty International USA as the Board Liaison.
How did student clubs at Hunter come together in 1995, work in the CUNY Coalition, and start SLAM?
Suzan: Pre-SLAM, some of the first CUNY movement meetings were happening in the Palestinian Club. It was like we were all saying the same thing: "Oh shit, they're raising our tuition! Oh shit, they're bombing Palestine! Oh shit!"
Lenina: There was a lot of anxiety among the students, because tuition was going to be raised by $1,000. The Black Student Union had members who were responsible for some of the major takeovers of the Hunter campus and other CUNY campuses in 1990 and '91. The other clubs that had political consciousness included the Palestinian Club and the Arab Club, which were very strongly affiliated. And right across the hall was the Puerto Rican Club, which had some progressive membership. Those were the organizations that solidified a people of colour Left.
The only alternative we were being offered was from the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), which was like, "Let's lobby our representatives to see if we can change it from within." But the frustration was already building up and working class students were feeling like this might be the last chance they would have at a CUNY education. The stakes were very, very high. It was really a mass movement. It's like most movements — the leadership can claim it, but they have to claim it after the masses have already said, "This is what we want." Those of us who had been part of organizations, or who grew up with leftist parents, started to get to know each other and see that we had something to offer to sustain a movement. That's how some of SLAM's leadership started to come together.
SLAM was a student group. Why did it fight for political prisoners, visit Zapatista communities, bring medical supplies to Iraq, and protest police brutality and the navy occupation of Vieques?
Tamieka: CUNY doesn't exist in a vacuum. I mean, you talk about a tuition hike — which seems like a strictly CUNY issue — but you have to ask the question, "Why the hike?" The first thing I learned in SLAM was that tuition was free until the first year people of colour forced their way in. SLAM always made the point that tuition hikes were forcing out lower-income New Yorkers, while the government was spending more money recruiting these same lower-income people of colour to join the military.
Lenina: Despite the fact that SLAM had new leadership every year as people graduated and moved on with their lives, the last group of people in SLAM were still talking about police brutality and saying, "We can't forget what's going on in our own neighbourhoods." It was really amazing for me to see that a radical movement can be sustained if certain values are maintained. Instead of just a political organization, we developed our own culture to pass down.
Rachèl: There were a lot of young people on Hunter's campus who wound up being attracted to SLAM because we were speaking their language, politically and socially. Our Mumia Youth Task Force concert was a really dynamic event. We packed the entire 2,000-seat Hunter College auditorium. Mos Def and Dead Prez performed. People in the Mumia Coalition knew how valuable SLAM's level of organizing and sexiness was. Young people wanted to be around folks who really had their finger on the pulse of what was happening in terms of hip-hop. That's what made SLAM an easy thing to gravitate towards. Once you heard people talk about what they were really about, folks stuck around to listen and had ideas of their own.
I think the Amadou Diallo1 issue made it easier to pull young people into the Mumia stuff. Even though young people had heard about Mumia, he wasn't a New Yorker. He wasn't someone that you might have seen when you left the house to go to school that morning. Amadou was. Especially for young people in the Bronx who lived right next to him, Amadou's murder and the acquittal of those cops allowed them to look at a situation like Mumia's, and really believe that he was framed for killing a cop.
There are serious lulls in organizing work, and what's terrible is that sometimes events like this are catalysts. We realized that folks were angry because there were so many spontaneous gatherings throughout the city. Now, I have to tell you, I was very disappointed, because I think those mobilizations also showed how much people had gotten used to things. The response was angry, but I don't believe it went far enough. There were young people just running through the streets. But nothing really happened. When a community finds itself completely backed into a corner and is angry, fear drops away. Flipping over a police car, setting something on fire, rawly expressing the rage that you feel — there's nothing to hold it back. It showed SLAM that young people were so lulled by what the system offers that they were angry, but they weren't angry enough. We weren't angry enough.
How did people bring in traditions of resistance from their own communities?
Lenina: People learned about who they were. A lot of people came out of the closet and started to engage in queer political theory by bringing that analysis into the organization to challenge people. We had a Cambodian member who was taken out of Cambodia during a very repressive time and brought to the US. She was discovering what the repression in Cambodia had to do with US foreign policy. Another member taught us how Mao used pop culture to create cultural resistance. He was saying, "how can we have our cultural resistance?" That's what helped feed Mao's revolution, and that was going to help feed our revolution. The Puerto Rican students, because we had a department of Puerto Rican Studies, and Black students had access to institutions created in the '60s and '70s by young revolutionaries like ourselves. Together, this created a very sensual space: it wasn't a clash of cultures so much as a joint discovery.
Rachèl: I was a red diaper baby. My parents were an interracial couple at a time when that wasn't popular in any way. My mom's parents had been union organizers; both were involved in the Communist Party during the 1920s and '30s. When I was younger, my mom was a tenant organizer. My father participated in one of the first formations of the Communist Party in Haiti. His family was asked to leave the country because of it. Until I was about 14 years old, he delivered plastic slipcovers for furniture but still was politically involved in things that were happening in Nicaragua, in Guatemala, in El Salvador, in Haiti. For me coming up, what I learned is that if there were liberation struggles that affected your life, they were things that you participated in no matter what. "Yes, I have to work. Yes, I have to help the children with their homework." And interweaved into all of that has to be this fight. SLAM's creation was unique because most of the core group of people came from a similar background. Lenina – her very name shows you the kind of home she came from.
Luz: The village in Oaxaca where I'm from has a great spirit of resistance. It is said that it was a very militant town back in the Revolution in 1910. The APPO took over in June 2006 and ruled the town for a year— it was autonomous. I came to New York in 1998, four years into the Zapatista rebellion against neoliberalism's economic policies. People in Chiapas and elsewhere are displaced by these policies. The struggle in CUNY to keep admissions open was also about stopping students being displaced from the university. I was surprised that people in SLAM knew about the Zapatistas. From that, I knew that this was a group of people that cared about what was going on in the world and were eager to learn how indigenous people resisted. The Zapatistas declared, "We want a world that can fit many worlds," and that resonated with people everywhere. In New York there are many worlds, but the people in power don't want to make room for all of us.
How did SLAM develop leadership?
Luz: I think I was only able to imagine myself as a leader because I saw powerful Latina and Black women — leaders, intellectual, strong — doing stuff. They said, "We have to make you speak. There's a rally, and you have to testify because you're a remedial student." So they made me get up on top of a desk and recite a Nelson Mandela poem. It wasn't the most orthodox way to teach public speaking, but it worked. If someone had just said, "It's important to have women of colour leadership," that wouldn't have clicked as much as seeing it in practice.
Tamieka: Lots of trainings! Doing readings and coming back to the group to discuss them. And we were doing the readings while simultaneously doing the work: it was easy to look at something we had just read about imperialism and see how it was still relevant to how we interact with each other, and how America interacts with the rest of the world.
SLAM helped develop new leaders by actually having leaders that represented me. I've been at three other organizations since SLAM, and not once has there been more than one strong woman of colour at a time in each organization. In SLAM, part of what developed me was knowing that these strong women of colour had done the same readings I did, made many of the same mistakes I was currently making, and were the better for it.
Lenina: When we started the organizer training institute, we used the School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL)2 curriculum. We recruited about 25 students a semester, and taught them organizing skills like campaign development, power analysis, public speaking, media relations and messaging, graphic design and web design. We also did political education using current events and older texts to define imperialism, patriarchy, and capitalism. In the high school organizing program, we had a video instructor. The young people were looking into the Anthony Baez3 case, so they did a short documentary about that.
Suzan: I felt a very strong connection to our mentors from the Black Nationalist movement. They gave me good advice when I felt confused. I was mentored by their example of devoting their whole lives to the struggle for liberation and peace. They were experienced in organizing, and I really respected their anti-imperialism, anarchism, and Black Nationalism. Palestinians and the Black Panthers had worked together. To this day, not everyone works with Palestinians; we're still marginalized in the movement.
Why and how did SLAM become a women of colour-led organization? How did SLAM deal with questions of whiteness and male leadership?
Rachèl: The white men did much of the theorizing and writing. The women of colour did much of the relationship-building. The number of people recruited into the organization by white men was very slim. They built relationships with new people who didn't know them by having theoretical conversations about what was happening and pushed people little by little. The women – and mainly the women of colour – met people at a party or were handing out flyers and getting into a conversation about food or an event, or about our community, and developed many more relationships at a time.
Internally, the women ran the show. Because we had a better understanding of the population we were dealing with and what folks were going to respond to, we made decisions about what should happen. While some of the white men in SLAM had some great ideas, sometimes people said no for the sake of saying no, just to not move on another idea the white man had put forward. People were angry about not hearing their voices come through in the work. It was in the second year that people started to shut them down, and it came out angrily at first, but eventually it came out respectfully and it was for the right reason. It wasn't to shush up the white man but because, "Actually, we genuinely don't think that's a good idea right here, right now. But we love you, and we want you to keep putting ideas out on the table."
Luz: I learned to become aware of power dynamics within the group. We called out white privilege, sexism, and homophobia during meetings or any kind of gathering. All these forms of oppression persist because we internalize them. At times it was challenging and even painful. But if a man spoke for too long, someone would ask, "So what do women think of this?" I wasn't used to seeing a man following a woman's direction or being challenged for his behavior, and that was amazing. Many men preferred to only engage in theoretical work, write articles, speak at meetings, and argue ideas. For a lot of men, it's easier to take on the role of the intellectual and leave the organizing and networking to women. The men in the group acknowledged that women were better at organizing. But sometimes it was a cop out: men aren't good relationship-builders because they don't practice or try hard enough.
Lenina: SLAM allowed people of colour to have their voices at the forefront by teaching people public speaking, writing, and documentation skills. For white people who have had some level of privilege, who are good writers or speakers, or who have had a good education, their role is really to be a trainer. And they can continue to write because if you're teaching someone how to be a writer, but you're also writing yourself, that person feels like, "I'm being taught by someone who really does this stuff and takes it seriously." You have to see if you can play a role in helping somebody who is afraid that what they say or how they'll say something won't be accepted. Historically it hasn't been.
How did Maoism and anarchism shape SLAM's decisions and goals?
Rachèl: Those ideologies were interwoven in the work. Anarchism shaped our involvement in the global justice convergence protests against the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia in 2000. What we learned from Maoism showed up in the more institutionalized organizing work we did in the High School Organizing Program, the Hunter clubs, and our community anti-police brutality work. All of the folks involved had a genuine desire to be led by those most affected by what was happening. Sometimes it was SLAM members, and sometimes it wasn't. And I think our struggle to be a multicultural, multi-ideological group allowed us to ask about the needs of a particular community and figure out what role SLAM could play.
The anarchists leaned toward Maoism because the majority of the group leaned toward a Maoist tendency. Folks that subscribed to more Maoist ideas felt safer playing on both ends and were excited by a lot of the anarchist ideas that were put on the table. However, the fact that we had this institution to run that was university-based and had all of these rules and regulations played a role in quelling the more anarchist activities. The anarchist notion of tearing things down and resisting any structure that was not built by us was important. And where Maoism came into play was that it wasn't just tearing down for the sake of showing outrage. Institution building was meant to replace what we were tearing down with a different approach, new ideas, and a new way of relating to people. I think the two played hand in hand.
Luz: It was amazing to learn theory and see it applied. I remember a demonstration against Herman Badillo, a man on the Board of Trustees that wanted to end open admissions. This was someone who fought for education for minorities early in his political career, and then he made racist statements to the media about Mexicans. Coming from a Latino, it was internalized racism. He said things like, these short people from the hills are coming here and taking over our schools, and we can't allow this to happen. I was like, "Fuck, this shit is real, this is not something from a book." The ideology that as people of color, we are intellectually inferior, culturally inferior, and therefore we have to be segregated. That we should not have a right to education or do not have a capacity to be in the same educational space as other people.
You can hear all you want about theory, the masses, and how class relations work, but it's experiences like this that really bring it home and make you understand not only intellectually, but with all your senses. Mobilizing people to fight police brutality and for Mumia Abu-Jamal put ideas into practice. It wasn't just preaching. Because then Mao only becomes a gospel; it's not something you can live. I lived it with SLAM. Not only "What does it mean that women were disempowered systematically throughout the centuries?" but also "What does it mean to have women leadership? How does that look, how does that feel?"
Lenina: SLAM's Little Red Study Group brought together a group of radical teachers and community organizers: people who wanted to have a more radical nonprofit space. We decided to study Marxism seriously. We studied a lot of Mao, a little queer theory, a little feminism. That group evolved into the New York Study Group, which includes former members of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM).4 We felt a kind of identification and connection with STORM because it had the same goals around women of colour-led organization.
How did SLAM's militance relate to issues affecting its members' communities?
Suzan: I really am glad we were very loud when the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq broke out in 2001 and 2003. I wish a lot of people had stayed that loud, maybe because I related to it so much, because I'm from the Middle East, and there's been a lot of war in my history. What happened in the Nakba 60 years ago is happening today in Afghanistan, it's happening today in Iraq. When we took over the Hunter president's office in February 2003, we just wanted to make a really bold statement. We had a speak-out before it, and we picked up people that day who would later become SLAM members. Did we expect to stop the war that day? No. We were upset and angry, and we wanted the school to recognize what was going on and say something. Or don't side with the war. It was just an actual expression of a lot of people's feelings: "Fuck this!" The next day, we had a speak-out to support the takeover, and students were just running in line to speak. I'll never forget this girl, I think she was Lebanese, and her family had been bombed in the past. And she was like, "I'm so glad you guys did something." And you could just feel it from her heart. Everyone started clapping for her. I think in America today, there's a lot of people suffering under the surface of things. I think people were feeling it, but nobody was saying anything.
Lenina: We were of the sentiment that we had to find the most revolutionary way to react. And that was being more militant, at a time when this society is constantly encouraged to choose comfort, to choose being passive, to choose doing things without doing anything. Is it something that's also inside of you, like, this feels good? Yes, of course it feels good. Because you're really connecting, doing what's in your heart, despite whatever the state says. You know it's wrong that you're marching for someone to remove their troops from your place on the earth, or a war that's completely unjust and none of the American people support, and then there's a cop on a horse pushing you out of the way. And then you had a supportive community. So why not take over a bridge? A lot of younger people tell us, "I wish I was around when SLAM was around." We used to say that about the Young Lords, and the Young Lords probably said that about somebody else. Just do the best you can, you know?
What were some of the contradictions in SLAM becoming student government at Hunter College?
Tamieka: Trying to appease the administration and still hold true to our politics at the same time. Making other student groups and clubs feel welcomed and not like SLAM was a special club that benefited from student government while they were given crumbs. Feeling overwhelmed with hard, emotional, full-time jobs at 20, 21, 22 years of age, in addition to SLAM work.
Lenina: I think you're hitting at the core of the nonprofit industrial complex. Any time anything becomes institutionalized, it loses a certain amount of energy. It's like running a small country like Cuba or Nicaragua, where you're no longer an outside guerrilla. All of a sudden we had money and power within the structure of our college. We had access to CUNY by-laws and knowledge of important meetings where real decisions were going to be made for students. We received this information in memos. And we would raise hell in all those meetings. We had unlimited photocopying, and basically anything we needed for organizing (walkie-talkies, things we needed for rallies, for security), we could purchase with student government funds as long as we put it on the books. Plus, several organizations that weren't funded at the time — groups like Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) and the Taxi Workers' Alliance — could freely come in and use our copy machine, space, computers, and web access. Hunter was a hub for organizing work.
As time went by, we became a top priority for the Board of Trustees, which wanted to get rid of us. There were very explicit conversations about our organization. We took a very strong stance on Palestine in a city where, to be honest, it got us into a lot of trouble. And taking a stance on police brutality was very important to us, and we didn't give a shit. If it was going to mean losing student government, then F-it, you know?
Rachèl: We really did capitalize on a moment of a lot of young people being pissed off and wanting a space to channel that energy. You build institutions to try to carry people through the valleys until the next peak of movement activity arrives. People have to be better prepared, and have stronger and tighter language for how to talk about the peaks when they get there. But as far as our organizing capacity, I think it was a double-edged sword. SLAM could not have done the things we did without the resources student government provided. And I think the obligations to run the student government prevented SLAM from doing some of the greatest things it could have done. I lived in the office. I got caught up in so much of the financial bullshit that it didn't allow me to really go out amongst the students and talk about what SLAM did, why I was a part of it, and how important the issues we were dealing with were.
What do you think led to SLAM falling apart?
Rachèl: In 2000, it was easier to link police brutality to CUNY students. At that time, Hunter was still a majority of people of colour college, so students went home to the very communities we were talking about. Tuition was going up every year, so the class and complexion of the school changed. It became more of a challenge for SLAM to link the antiwar organizing with the student body because students didn't see the connection between undocumented immigrants being detained and CUNY students being targeted. They didn't see it as their struggle.
There was also a stigma tied to SLAM being in student government for eight years, as if it had been a dictatorship. Sometimes the student body didn't want to hear shit anymore.
Lenina: In the end, we were an institution getting money from students. A lot of the people who were getting a salary in SLAM didn't want to work on student issues. They wanted to work on issues in their communities. It wasn't too hard for the administration to tell the students, "These people aren't really serving you." The problem when you get money from any particular source is that you're beholden to that source of funding. Because open admissions ended, you began to see more middle-class students that were easily persuaded that we were a little too radical.
Also, when you have a job, it's no longer really a movement for you. It becomes your 9 to 5. You almost get sick of it, like any job. And it's funny, because small businesses are encouraged to constantly make people feel a sense of the team and a commitment to the cause. We didn't really do that, because we didn't know how. So we were functioning the way you would in a grassroots movement, where it's like, "You're not holding up your end of the stick here, what's wrong with you?" as opposed to "Let's go back to our mission, our values." What were we doing to heal ourselves, to reinvigorate ourselves, to keep ourselves excited and to be engaged and understand why this was so important? When you don't have that consistently, it's difficult. Especially when you have an administration connected to mayor Giuliani, and they're mobilizing against you, and you're doing your darnedest to stay in there, but you don't have as strong a connection to the student body that was initially so all about you being there.
Tamieka: The older generations of SLAM did the best they could with transferring information and skills to the incoming generation. Looking back, I see that there is a problem if the organization is unable to function without some of its founding members. If we can't survive without a member who has been in the organization for over eight years, then we're lacking the self-sustaining part, right? I look back and think, "Boy, if we had those contacts… I didn't know we had a contact in X organization! Wow, that could've been helpful." But folks get burnt out and are ready to wrap it up. We had a haphazard transfer of institutional knowledge. I've seen it everywhere; it's not just a SLAM problem. How to effectively pass knowledge and history along, and make sure new folks are receptive to this kind of learning. We all have such huge egos. I think too often we wanted to work on our own; we could've shouldered some of our work better if we partnered with more organizations, in my generation at least.
SLAM was great at movement building and leadership development, but not so successful at winning immediate victories. The loss of Open Admissions was especially painful. Why do you think SLAM lost so much, and how much do you think it matters?
Lenina: In 1995 they raised tuition by $750 instead of the initial threat of $1,000. Of course, the reformist groups took a lot of credit for that, like the threat of 20,000 young people showing up out of nowhere and running around Wall Street had nothing to do with it! The administration also didn't cut financial aid as much, but our vision was so much larger. We wanted a school where we didn't have to pay tuition, period. Some of the most amazing, transformative experiences are experiences where you lose. Those anti-globalization protests were so deeply transformative in terms of like, wow, we could actually build sectors of society with just who we have. We could build a little media sector and a little law sector, and a little sector of doctors, and we could really make this happen on our own. And we didn't win crap in that, you know?
Rachèl: SLAM chose issues sometimes that we knew weren't winnable, but were core issues that people could be unified and gathered around. And the strength built by people learning about each other and building that community was a kind of victory. If you are a longstanding organization, and you come down from a peak and you're in a valley for a while, there are times when choosing small, winnable issues is important for the morale of your members. People have to know that the organization has the strength to win things, even if they're tiny. But even if the issue itself is not winnable at this point in history it's a win to bring people together around it, especially if they're able to stay stuck together around that issue and grow outward. They say to pick your battles wisely, even in interpersonal relationships. And yeah, sometimes you only want to focus on the battles you know are significant to the relationship. And then other times, you just want to have the battle for the sake of making sure that something that's important to you doesn't just die by the wayside.
Suzan: Unfortunately, it's a very unfair power dynamic. The forces against us have a lot of power. But our spirit is stronger, and what we want is greater. Look at what just happened to Bush. He had a shoe thrown at him! Please. People are realizing, look, this is not acceptable, and it's not necessary.
What can SLAM teach the CUNY movement and the Left today?
Rachèl: The one-on-one relationship-building approach to organizing. The internet makes it so that you don't have to be in human contact with anybody anymore, and that's not such a great thing. My first boyfriend at Hunter became politicized because every single time I saw him by the cafeteria, I would stop to have a discussion with him about what was happening in the Black Student Union, and how he might be able to get involved. You sort of met a friend and didn't let them go. Working at Jobs With Justice, they had me running around East Harlem, door-knocking, and they had this whole laid-out script that I never used. That Alinsky5 style is devoid of any real, genuine investment in the issue. Because of SLAM, I had learned how to look for the elements in it that I identified with personally, and let that shape the discussion. And to sit down and try to figure out who folks were, where they were coming from, did this affect them, and if it didn't, why? Did it move them, and if it didn't, why? You've got to deal with people where they're at if you want them to move forward in another direction. I brought what I learned in SLAM about the relationship-building approach into my work at the transit union also.
Luz: One of the core philosophies in SLAM was the personal is political. We really took time to build relationships. Sometimes people think that part is not really organizing, because it's just social. But that's the foundation of organizing. If you cannot build personal relationships, how can you build organizational capacity? When people set up 1,000 barricades in Oaxaca in 2006 to protect themselves against the government, it was instinctual, because in Oaxaca people have really large, closely knit families. That is a natural social network. People were guarding all the entrances of town and if they said, "Go get your family," your family means like 200 people. In Oaxaca, those relationships are already built; you just have to tap into them. Here, you have to start from scratch.
For students who come to Hunter now, there's a student government in the service of the administration. Just knowing that there was this other alternative for so long is amazing. Some people can't get over it. They ask me, "How did it happen?"
I see less intergenerational work happening now. SLAM really had these mentors from older generations in the community; they weren't scholars. People who are active now at Hunter have a professor they look up to. Right now, everybody learns from each other, but I don't feel like there's leadership. Horizontalism is more attractive, because everyone gets to participate, and more ideas are exchanged. But I think it's equally important to have systematic accountability. Some people are very repulsed by the idea of leadership. But if there hadn't been true leadership in the Cuban revolution, it would have failed.
Lenina: We were visionary, because we weren't just about the economic revolution and the political revolution. It wasn't just about these capitalist pigs, and socialism was the answer; it was about how the hell does that relate to hip-hop? It's like, we're going to take this boring message, something you'd read in a newspaper, and present it in a way that you can understand, like something that happened to your mom or could happen to your best friend, and make it that personal and real for you. It was about love and kindness and getting excited, not just about a new, different type of order in this society.
1. Amadou Diallo was an unarmed 23-year-old immigrant from Guinea, Africa,
who was killed on February 4, 1999, by four New York City Police Department
plain-clothed officers. They fired a total of 41 rounds at Diallo, mistaking his
wallet for a gun when he reached for his identification.
2. SOUL works to lay the groundwork for a powerful liberation movement
by supporting the development of a new generation of young organizers,
especially young women, young people of colour, queer youth, and working-
class young people. See http://www.schoolofunityandliberation.org.
3. Anthony Baez was a Puerto Rican from the Bronx. He was killed in 1994 by
asphyxiation during a chokehold by Officer Francis Livoti, after his family's
football hit a police car.
4. STORM was a multi-racial, internationalist, left cadre organization based
in the Bay Area from 1994 to 2001. See leftspot.com/blog/files/docs/
STORMSummation.pdf.
5. Saul Alinsky wrote Rules for Radicals and has inspired many neighbourhood
activist groups like ACORN that have single-issue campaigns. The Midwest
Academy is a training center that draws heavily from Alinskyism.
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Effects of laser irradiation at different wavelengths (660, 810, 980, and 1064 nm) on transient receptor potential melastatin channels in an animal model of wound healing
Isman E., ARAS M. H. , Cengiz B., Bayraktar R., YOLCU Ü., Topcuoglu T., ...Daha Fazla
LASERS IN MEDICAL SCIENCE, cilt.30, ss.1489-1495, 2015 (SCI İndekslerine Giren Dergi)
Dergi Adı: LASERS IN MEDICAL SCIENCE
The aim of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of four different laser wavelengths used for low-level laser therapy(LLLT) on healing of mucositis in an animal model of wound healing, by investigating expression of transient receptor potential melastatin(TRPM) ion channels. Forty-five rats were intraperitoneally injected with 100 mg/kg 5-fluorouracil on day 1 and 65 mg/kg on day 3. Superficial scratching on left cheek pouch mucosa was performed on days 3 and 5. After ulcerative mucositis was clinically detected, LLLT was started (660 nm, HELBO; 810 nm, Fotona-XD; 980 nm, ARC-Fox; and 1064 nm, Fidelis-Plus3) at 8 J/cm(2)/day from days 1 to 4. Oval excisional biopsy was performed at the wound site, and expression of TRPM2 to TRPM8 was evaluated. Student's t test was used for evaluation of significance of TRPM gene expression according to "0" value (alpha = 0.05). In 980-nm group, TRPM4, TRPM6, and TRPM7 were significantly higher than in the control group (p < 0.005). In 660, 810, and 1064 nm groups, only TRPM6 was significantly higher than in control group (p < 0.005). There were no significant differences between control and sham groups (p > 0.05). These findings suggest that expression of TRPM6 gene was significantly affected by irradiation with lasers at different wavelengths, whereas the TRPM4 and TRPM7 genes were only expressed in the 980-nm diode laser group. TRPM6 gene was highly expressed during LLLT, which may lead to accelerated wound healing and tissue repair. In contrast, there was some evidence that the 980-nm diode laser caused increased expression of TRPM4, TRPM6, and TRPM7 which are responsible for stimulation of Ca2+ and Mg2+ metabolism, as well as apoptotic pathways of controlled cell death.


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