The Angry Black Woman

This is just the week for me to be pissed off at the world, apparently.
The Great Land Grab PDF
Farm Land Grab One of the best resources, but is having bandwidth troubles.
GRAIN statement at the joint GRAIN-La Via Campesina media briefing
For over a year a half now, we have been watching carefully how investors are trying [...]

Thanksgiving is on us.
Wednesday Addams

So, I thought a post would be cool.
(Earlier video was replaced due to well-argued objection)

delux_vivens linked me to Deconstructing the Myth of Thanksgiving
Myth #1: “The First Thanksgiving” occurred in 1621.
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Fact: No one knows when the “first” thanksgiving occurred. People have been giving thanks for as long as people have existed. [...]

Internets? I am so fucking angry right now. Why? I saw this two days ago: Thanks to GM, People Are Being Displaced So Their Forests Can Become Offsets for SUVs. and I’m thinking what the everloving fuck????? Then I am meandering about on Daily Kos and I see a book review for Conservation Refugees: [...]

Is there ever a time when Hollywood is not FAILing? First up, What these people need is a honky syndrome goes off planet in:
James Cameron’s Avatar

Lawd ha’ mercy internets. Lord ha mercy. Because Hollywood sure as hell won’t. You know, a lot of those bullshit tropes that show up in movies like this [...]

Does teen literature exaggerate the mean girl phenomena too much?
Neesha Meminger: “This is a question I’ve often pondered myself. I think my main concern with the “mean girls” phenomenon is that they focus on inter-personal dynamics without also looking at the larger, social,
economic, and political constructs within which we all function. In the case [...]

EDIT: So I deleted this cause I was having trouble cutting the post, saw nojojojo and decided to leave it deleted, but it got crossposted anyway. Whoops.
Have a midweek linkspam. (Alas a blog? This post is video heavy)
I went to see Whip It a few weeks ago. It was absolutely wonderful! The Roller Derby scenes [...]