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Peru’s brutal murders renew focus on tourist boom for hallucinogenic brew

princessnijireiki:

nativenews:

downhomesophisticate:

maybe disaffected white people looking for a cosmic experience should just stick to doing acid in their fucking backyard and maybe go to church once in a while.

But no, instead they travel around the world, disrupt communities and sometimes commit literal murder, and I’m supposed to feel sympathetic because he cried for his mama shortly after killing a medicine person? 

Her name was Olivia Arévalo. At 81, she was not only an Elder but the spiritual mother of the Shipibo-Konibo Nation. This wasn’t a one-off occurrence. Indigenous spiritual leaders are being targeted and assassinated throughout Latin America. 

Indigenous leaders & spiritual figures are murdered for political reasons, for capitalist reasons, and generally both where land or water disputes arise— particularly where human rights violations come into play, as well. And there’s your “standard,” local anti-Native hate crimes and violence. And then there’s this.

Tourism to consume and use pieces of a culture to ~decorate / enrich~ paying visitors, particularly “visitors” with colonial intent or privilege, often walks hand in hand with racialized violence & exploitation, whether it’s sexual in nature (“sex tourism” or out and out sexual assaults & abuses) or non-sexual violence— like these kind of targeted murders, tantamount to & continuing legacies of both physical and cultural genocides, fulfilling tourists’ fantasies of conquest or supremacy; or just reinforcing the disposability of “visited” peoples whose reliance on tourism makes them easy targets for abuse by people who will never face the consequences of their actions.

When indigenous peoples must turn their culture into a sideshow & open themselves up to vulnerability to the highest bidder just in order to subsist, that is a kind of occupation.

It is an inherently neocolonial capitalist racial violence, with a very real body count.

I hope Olivia Arévalo’s surviving family finds peace in the wake of the injustice & violence they endured and avenged. I hope Olivia’s spirit finds a kinder fate in her next life than this.

Also it mentions in the article that the community tried to report the tourist to the police on several occasions for other bad behavior but the police didn’t do anything. The MP to the region called the community “savages” as well. I understand why the community wanted to take matters into their own hands considering how little institutional support they get because they’re indigenous.

Peru’s brutal murders renew focus on tourist boom for hallucinogenic brew

Dear young black kids

thenightling:

free-spoken:

thesoulofablackguy:

deehenn:

Don’t let your white friends get you in trouble.

You better say that.

i want to elaborate on this.

don’t buy from white dealers and don’t sell to white people.

don’t underage drink with white people.

don’t do anything that could be viewed as illegal by cops with white people and this isn’t me trying to be anti-white this is me telling you to protect yourself from anti-black cops. they won’t hesitate to pin the entire crime on you even if your white friend did 90% of the crime.

most (if not all) white people don’t understand the same crimes they commit (getting into a bar with a fake ID, stealing cigars, playing with toy guns in walmart) we are given a lengthy imprisonment or executed on the spot for.

so don’t put yourself in a situation that could get you killed and a white person a slap on the wrist.

And no one notices the casual racism in this “enlightened” post.  “

and don’t sell to white people.

“ inferring that black kids definitely are going to deal drugs.   (Slow clap).  That’s brilliant, Tumblr.  Way to perpetuate negative stereotypes as a normal and casual part of black childhood, while warning them of the evil of white people.  In the process of trying to act enlightened and pro-black you perpetuated an antiquated negative stereotype as normal and even expected of black childhood and look how many people shared this garbage.

@thenightling

the post is
talking about teenagers, not kids (kids aren’t going to be underage
drinking either) and some teenagers deal drugs. Some teenagers drink.
Some teenagers do dumb shit. Kids deserve not to die or be seriously hurt for doing dumb shit.

The people above you aren’t “trying to act enlightened and pro-black.” They were having an intracommunity conversation about how police will use violent force on Black teenagers (as has been demonstrated again and again and again) and are trying to help young kids not die. They’re not qualifying their statements to your liking because you are not their intended audience.

sauvamente:

tahreza:

they was really doing this at the march for our lives why take something that was specifically made for black people getting shot by cops and make it about school shootings it doesn’t even make sense

This is disappointing but it’s not surprising Black civil right movements is always repackaged and reformulated into something palatable as a blueprint for other non-black protests and disruptions and it is always a wildly disrespectful

newvagabond:

My most controversial post was one where I said, “just because you’re angry doesn’t mean it’s okay to be cruel.”

And sooo many super hardcore “internet activist” types were so mad about it. They argued that they are allowed to be cruel to people because of the hurt they’ve experienced, because of their anger at the world. (And accused me of being neurotypical, and having a perfect life, wtf?)

And I’m like… okay. But. Punishing people for your hurt and anger is something someone does when they start to become abusive. Or when they decide to punish the place that fired or expelled them by buying a gun.

Are you really trying to say it’s okay to punish people with cruelty when you’re angry? Sorry, but I still disagree.

This might be the only original post I make about gun control

solacekames:

rush-keating:

nerdfishgirl:

rush-keating:

As of right now, I own no guns.

Most of my friends own at least one (I live in Nevada, it happens)

I’ve had several conversations with my friends about this issue and the first response is always defensiveness and cliches (usually “from my cold dead hands” and “guns don’t kill people, people do”). But as the conversation continues, I find that they’re as dissatisfied by the current status quo as I am. They want background checks, and registries, and gun licenses, and exams for possession (not just for a CCW permit). Basically, everything they want is gun control, and can be found word for word on the website of Everytown. But they’ll swear up and down that they’re anti gun control. That, I think, is because they hear “gun control” and they immediately go to bans and confiscation. They’re not conservatives. They’ll say they’re liberal/independent but “conservative on gun control”. Because, again, when they think of “gun control” they think of bans and confiscation.

Keep reading

I hope is okay if I reblog? Because I agree very much with all this. All of the posting I’ve seen on Facebook (from both sides bc I have friends spanning the political spectrum) is pure emotion with no actual discussion of what anyone wants.

And I think MANY gun owners (even conservative ones!) would be in favor of some gun controls – particularly background checks, exams for possession, and registries – especially for higher capacity magazine guns.

I mean – my dad is relatively conservative (he is from rural PA), and yeah – he owns a couple guns – mostly hunting rifles. I would say its kinda unusual for a dude from rural PA not to have a hunting rifle tbh. Unprompted the other day, he told me that he thought it would be a good idea to regulate guns more and to have people take a gun safety course before they could buy them. But – again, when he thinks of the “gun control” pushed by Democrats he thinks – they are gonna take all the guns away (which is also unrealistic – like how would you even do that?).

Anyway – I also work with quite a few working class dudes from rural PA who are almost certainly rural Republican voters. And I think even they would be in favor of at least gun safety courses, if not other gun control measures – particularly registries or limits on the sale of guns with high capacity magazines or rapid fire rates.

The big thing is that these policies need to be clearly defined – not just some sort of nebulous “gun control”.

Reblogging is fine as I don’t expect this post to blow up. I’m glad I’m seeing the same sort of dialogue happening in other places.

I do think you’re wrong. Well meaning, but wrong, because you’re framing this in terms of rational individuals on a substantially equal playing field who need to have rational conversations with each other. The role of the NRA and the gun lobby ensures that’s never going to happen! Sure, they’ve poisoned the word “gun control” but if we picked another more sympathetic phrase, they’d just poison that in the same way within a few years.

We have to destroy their chokehold institutional power, or at least weaken them substantially, before we can even START having that conversation. And any tactic is fair game for that strategy, be it logical or emotional. 

Also, as someone who wants dirt-basic common-sense gun control I’m tired of being held to a ridiculously higher individual standard. And our groups are already held to stupidly high standards too. I went to a gun control event this morning from Moms Demand Action that was incredibly careful about being non-partisan, had speakers saying multiple times, “NO WE DON’T WANT TO TAKE YOUR GUNS AWAY,” even taking time to laud responsible gun ownership, because it’s Georgia and everyone has guns or knows somebody who has guns anyway and we’re realistic. Everyone was sooooo careful! But the right-wing press is going to completely ignore all that nuance anyway because of the institutional factors I mentioned above. I still believe in being honest for the sake of honesty but fuck tailoring our message to those assholes. They don’t care about honesty or logic, they only respect strength, numbers and money.

I think in terms of base mobilization that rolling over and giving in to NRA demands is a terrible strategy. The rallies are good for that reason. They’re very confrontational and they work by being confrontational. There’s nothing Republicans want more then for nice looking kids and Moms to stop talking about gun control and to stop pushing for gun control. If Everytown, Moms Demand Action etc. make reducing gun violence/mass shootings a 2018 issue that will be a victory on its own because it will mean more urban Dems will turn out. I’m not sure if it’s even possible to undermine the NRA’s power (at least without overturning Citizens United) but it is possible to match them in parity.

But persuasion is another political strategy that should compliment turnout. I don’t want to give too much away about my life but I know people who were organizers on the Clinton campaign in my area and they credit our county going for Clinton on that they went all in with a persuasion strategy. One issue we have going into 2018 in my state (again sorry for pointing to more local stuff, I know you live nowhere near me) is that GOP registered voters outnumber Dem registered voters. The reason why my state goes Dem every Presidential year regardless is there’s those “I’m above both parties and ~~independent~~” people and most of them cross the aisle into voting Democrat anyway if given a nudge in that direction. If I’m having one of those 15 minute long “deep canvassing” conversations with one of those voters, and the topic of gun control comes up, I want to be able to say “this is what the local Democratic Party wants in terms of gun control. It’s written here on our platform. If you’re a nonpartisan because you think we want to take your guns away, you should reconsider” and have that not be contested with what the local Democratic leadership said last week on TV. So I guess that’s more where my frustration is, just the lack of consistent messaging in my own community, which I’m venting about on my blog just to try to process it before I talk about it when we’re updating our platform at our Caucus later this month.

Also I apologize if I was making it out like everyone who is pro-gun control should stop being angry around gun owners. I was talking more about people who were doing political work, not like ordinary people. If a gun owner is acting like a callous asshole or putting his hobby above the lives of kids then it’s his problem if he gets reprimanded for that behavior in public and loses friends over the issue.

becauseweknowthem:

Chris Hayes compiled all the times that Paul Ryan has said we shouldn’t make knee jerk decisions after tragedies.

Apparently the Speaker of the House permanently thinks all these requests for action are knee jerk.

Columbine was nineteen years ago.

The kids at Parkland and every other high school in the country have grown up with shooter drills and low grade ptsd.

I don’t know a single kid that doesn’t clock the exits in a room they enter. That’s the impact Columbine has had.

It isn’t a knee jerk reaction anymore.

It’s the long over due correction of a national mistake.

Wait…do people who grew up before Columbine not do this…?

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)