From October 2023 archives: My week in pictures, by Abelardo Ojeda.

My Street Photoblog

joining the mazatlan war on banda on the side of the banda

🇲🇽 #Mexico: Protesters broke down the doors of Mexico’s presidential palace today, repeatedly ramming a truck into the building. The protests were surrounding the violent kidnapping of 43 students in 2014, which many believe was directly enabled by corrupt police.

Ooh, your work sounds brill, I’m really happy for you! Can you please link us the Spanish comic as well, I don’t know how to refer to someone in a neutral way in Spanish

Hi, Anon! I'm not sure why I didn't see this until now, but thank you so much!

Here's the link to the comic about Latinx vs. Latine:

There appears to be alt text for the images in it.

Short version is that using the "e" ending is a great alternative instead of "a" or "o," so you'd say "amigue" or "nosotres" instead of "amiga" or "nosotros," etc.

I have an essay in the tags...

Mexicans support Selena Quintanilla and protest against Howard Stern after he offended the community and her fans.

i was tagged by @pinktinselmonstrosity to list my 9 favourite books!!! ty <333

i'm tagging: @hunnycutt, @gh0s1y, @fig, @loveology2022, @shostakoviching, @unmarrow, @allofmechanged and @tidemaul

The auditory version of the blank sheet is, of course, silence. Protesting wordlessly was a technique employed by Black Americans in July 1917, when an estimated 10,000 citizens, organized by religious groups and the NAACP, marched down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan to protest racial violence and discrimination. As the New York Times reported, “Those in the parade represented every negro organization and church in the city. They marched, however, not as organizations, but as a people of one race, united by ties of blood and color, and working for a common cause.”

In September 1968, tens of thousands of students staged a silent march calling for greater democracy in Mexico. Contradicting the Mexican government’s accusations that they were resorting to violence, the students protested by simply carrying flags. (Around this same time, civil rights activists in the United States wielded flags with similar goals in mind.) “You’re taking the symbols of the regime and exposing the illegitimacy of the regime at the same time,” says David Meyer, a sociologist at the University of California, Irvine.

Other protests have employed more obvious symbols of repression, including handcuffs, blindfolds and gags. The last of these became widespread as a political prop following the trial of the Chicago Seven (originally eight), antiwar protesters who were charged with inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. During the 1969 trial, the judge ordered defendant Bobby Seale to be gagged and chained to his chair.

Decades before football player Colin Kaepernick created a stir by kneeling during the national anthem, Black athletes silently used their status to fight oppression. At the awards ceremony for the 200-meter dash at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos each raised a clenched gloved fist in a call for global human rights.

The operating theory behind silent protests is that when the cause is clear and righteous, there’s no reason to yell about it—a principle demonstrated by more recent examples of silent protests, too. In 2009, a peaceful rally in Iran against unfair elections ended in gunfire and explosions. To vent their fury, hundreds of thousands of Iranians met at Tehran’s symbolic central roadway, Islamic Revolution Street, and marched quietly to Freedom Square, hoping to avoid a police crackdown. In 2011, protesters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, stood quietly in solidarity with activists detained without trial by the country’s regime. Multiple times in Hong Kong, lawyers have marched in silence to protest Beijing’s incursions into the city’s constitution and legal affairs.

  —  The History Behind China's White Paper Protests

u guys ever just think about an ex mutual, like you never actually talked outside of your dashboard and replies, but then you saw something and were like “oh i gotta get outta here” bc whew

From 2023 Archives: December Notes (Part Two), by Abelardo Ojeda.

My Street Photoblog.

Literally hard for me to believe so many of the “I feel guilty for being white in America” people are also the “but I don’t feel guilty about my choice of job for a #1 arms manufacture. Gotta do what you gotta do!”

But the soul is still oracular, amidst the market's din/ List the ominous stern whisper from the Delphic cave within:/ They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

Honestly I’d stomach the term Latinx much better if people didn’t constantly make up fake origin stories to justify it being The Only Correct Word (TM)

Stewards dismiss Alpines Alonso penalty protest team immediately requests review | 2022 Mexican Grand Prix

The FIA stewards have turned down Alpine’s attempt to have Fernando Alonso reinstated to his points-scoring finish in the United States Grand Prix, ruling their protest against the decision is not admissible. However Alpine is not prepared to give up its fight to reclaim Alonso’s seventh place and has immediately petitioned the stewards for a review. A hearing on that was scheduled to begin at 8:45pm in Mexico City, where this weekend’s race in taking place. Alonso was penalised after Haas brought a protest against his team, claiming his car was run in an unsafe condition during Sunday’s race. The right-hand-side wing mirror fell off his A522 around 38 minutes after it was damaged in the collision with Stroll. The stewards agreed with Haas and penalised Alpine on the grounds that they were responsible for the safety of the car. They also admonished race director Niels Wittich for failing to display the black-and-orange flag to Alonso which would have forced him to pit for repairs. Haas brought the protest as they have had to comply with the same flag three times already this year. They failed to submit their protest within 30 minutes of the provisional race classification being published, which the stewards acknowledged in their original verdict, stating it was “lodged 24 minutes out of time.” However the International Sporting Code stated stewards may grant exceptions to this rule “in circumstances where the stewards consider that compliance with the thirty-minute deadline would be impossible.” In their original verdict the stewards started “compliance with the deadline was not possible in this case and that the protest was admissible.” Alpine sought to challenge that decision in their protest today. However the stewards rejected their attempt on several grounds. These included the fact Alpine’s protest was submitted too late – one hour and eight minutes after the decision on Haas’s original protest. The stewards also noted that decisions of the stewards and summons to hearings cannot be protested. “The appropriate course of action for Alpine, if it disagreed with the decision of the stewards, would have been to appeal to the FIA International Court of Appeal, and to do that it would have to have given notice of intention to appeal to the stewards within one hour of the decision, as prescribed in the FIA International Sporting Code and the FIA Judicial and Disciplinary Rules,” they noted. “Alternatively,” they added, “should a significant and new element be discovered (by Alpine), it could petition the Stewards under Article 14 of the Code, for a review. That option remains available for 14 days after the end of the Competition.” As it is still within that window, Alpine has now taken advantage of this opportunity. Earlier on Thursday Alonso said he was “very confident” the penalty would be overturned and warned F1 would face “huge problems” if it wasn’t. Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free 2022 Mexican Grand Prix Browse all 2022 Mexican Grand Prix articles via RaceFans - Independent Motorsport Coverage https://www.racefans.net/

love hiphop with all my soul and im going back listening to shit like public enemy and bambata and thinking about my old eastside musical school w/mclachlan, and man, i miss that shit so bad. i shoulda learned to dj when raul gave me the chance

every now and then i will have a thought about the 70s and then spontaneously combust into a thousand fla[gets dragged away by security]

Protests and memorials in honor of the first and only openly nonbinary Mexican magistrate, Jesús Ociel Baena Saucedo, in CDMX, Aguascalientes and Mexicali.

Ociel advocated for laws protecting LGBT people, trans youth, equal marriage, gender identity recognition, between others. They inspired a lot of trans and gnc people in the country, being widely celebrated for their advocacy in court and for being open about their relationship with gender.

On the morning of November 13, 2023, Ociel was found murdered with their partner in their house. Police said they didn't have "enough proof" to consider it a homicide.

Justice for Ociel, for Karen, for Renata, for Paola, for Naomi, for Dayanne, for Ivonne, for Valeria, for every trans person murdered in this country and in the world.

“I didn’t want him to be gone. I didn’t want this to be real. I will never forgive you.”Genesis Davila, 16 mourns “Memo” Garcia, as El Paso Walmart assassin receives 90 life sentences…

www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2023/07/09/victims-receive-sense-of-justice-as-they-confront-walmart-shooter/70392627007/

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