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Photos: Dance Parade Turns East Village Into A Party: Gothamist

multi-culturalism and diversity is certainly promoted and encouraged by the event’s organizers. Among the dozens of dance styles (and aesthetics) on display yesterday were Hip Hop, Butoh, Voguing, Funk, Scottish, American Tribal, Irish Step, Electro-Pop, Modern, Techno, Bolivian Pujilay, Traditional Chinese, Indian Baharantanatyam, Jamaican Dancehall, Bellydance, Salsa, Samba, Country and Western, Flagging, Disco, Ballroom, House, Bolivian Tinkus, Bollywood, Modern, and Chinese Waist Drum Dance.

Source: Photos: Dance Parade Turns East Village Into A Party: Gothamist

#In the Shadows of Men

Without your gifts, the world would die.

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I lived my life within harmony with this aspect. Modesty and richness. Contentment and ambition.

But I had to always remember that I am a girl. Be a man and remain a female. Be responsible and never forget that your strongest weapon is your beauty. Get tired, strive, struggle and resist, but beware, you are a woman. Your space is limited and your freedom is locked, with a locker that your mother puts and your father owns its key. And your actions are responsibility, any gag is a loss to your girl sisters … and never forget … that your arrival was a conditional good omen … after all… you brought behind you seven girls.

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Mario Torero: The ‘Artivist’ Who Changed the Face of Chicano Park | La Prensa San Diego

1970 marked a turning point in San Diego’s Chicano movement. Mere days after his near-death experience, Mario Torero met Salvador Torres, another artist and muralist with whom a few months later he would co-found – along with other artists – the Centro Cultural de la Raza in Balboa Park. On April 22 of that same year, Torero was among the Chicano activists who occupied Barrio Logan’s Chicano Park in order to keep it from being turned into a California Highway Patrol (CHP) station. They won the fight, and today the park has become an icon for Chicano, Latin American and Mexican-American culture in the United States. Once the community took over the space, the effort began to turn it into a place where art could converge. Mario Torero recalls how difficult it was in the beginning to find Latinos or other minority groups in museums, galleries, or any other art centers in San Diego. So, he decided to bring art closer to these communities through murals. Three years after Chicano Park was founded, he painted the first of what is today dozens of murals. From there, the Congreso de Artistas Chicanos en Aztlán, an art collective whose membership includes Torero, took on the mission of covering the rest of the park in murals that showcased Latin American culture and history. For the Peruvian painter, the murals are a reflection of  Barrio Logan’s essence, which has slowly morphed into an arts district, as evidenced by the new galleries opening their doors in the neighborhood. “The hood needed to heal, and it was the artists who brought the healing,” shared Torero, who is also an activist. “That’s the way it was when we started the movement, and that’s the way it is to this day.”

Source: Mario Torero: The ‘Artivist’ Who Changed the Face of Chicano Park | La Prensa San Diego

KS – this week in guns, LLC’s and more KS poor shaming — Aimee Patton

Kansas is keeping my blood pressure up this week with a series of ridiculous stories from around the state. Let’s start with the shooting at a graduation that started in an uncomfortable sock. I’ve watched a lot of action movies in my life and NEVER I mean NEVER have I ever seen the good guy […]

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Wednesday Open Thread | Native American Week — 3CHICSPOLITICO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU_ESmEwg5o

Native Americans’ daily lives in early-1900s Arizona PHOENIX – Edward Curtis‘ portraits of Native Americans living in Arizona was the race-defining iconography for the Western world in the 20th century. Curtis spent 20 years documenting the indigenous people of North America, taking nearly 40,000 photos of more than 80 tribes. He made thousands of wax-cylinder […]

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Incoherencing incoherence

We are under occupation since 1948.

We have a Palestinian authority functioning under occupation since 1994.

We have two Palestinian governments ruling us illegitimately since 2006.

We are inside a third intifada under occupation and under illegitimate governing bodies.

Our leadership (illegitimate by default) is thinking of finalizing the situation through some “peace” tilted agreement to reach a final status (nothing is left to negotiate on; prisoners are tripled in numbers, land had been tripled in confiscation, wall has seized more movement and swallowed more land. In addition, the refugees… who cares… Jerusalem, what do you mean? )

Egypt’s Sissi , amid all the mess he is putting himself in after two years of ruling Egypt and crowning himself as the eternal pharos he decided to talk Palestinian issue now .

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Something seems to be cooking in the political kitchen that concerns Palestinians, in another recipe that is designed to feed Palestinians with no intention to feed them, and many cooks preparing a recipe of ingredients that they will take home. The result will be lentil soup.

It must be with the commemoration of the nakba. The politicians realized that the status quo situation is even worse. We are in a fogyish intifada mode. Every day Palestinians are being killed under the same accusation of attempted stabbing or attacking. We actually no longer catch up with the series of events.

Is it that people are no longer interested or the media is not responding upon some political decisions? Why the same things are still going on but no responds are taking place.

Nevertheless, of course this is also not the case.

The situation is as follows,

We are under occupation since…

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50 Years Ago Today, The Beach Boys’ ‘Pet Sounds’ Brought Love To The World: LAist

Fifty years ago today, the Beach Boys released their masterpiece Pet Sounds. Declared the second-best album of all-time by Rolling Stone, it’s the clearest marker of Brian Wilson’s genius, and many believe it’s essentially his first solo album in all but name. Sonically, Pet Sounds is an audiophile’s dream. Lyrically, the themes of Pet Sounds—depression, alienation, heartbreak, nostalgia—at times feel incongruous with the beautiful harmonies, melodies, and upbeat, almost manic orchestration. But these arrangements illuminate the truth that you could be just as unhappy and tormented under the warm California sun as anywhere else; an enormous departure from the Beach Boys’ previous identity as cheery surfer boys just looking to have fun, fun, fun.

Source: 50 Years Ago Today, The Beach Boys’ ‘Pet Sounds’ Brought Love To The World: LAist