Roasted Red Bell Pepper Hummus & Avocado Sandwich by Chef Tanya, Leafygreensandme.com on Flickr.
Automatic Fav!
“Pinocchio” by Eli Conley
My friend Eli is a pretty bad-ass trans folk artist in the bay. This song is one of my favorites!
”I am not a real man, I’ll tell you why
It’s not the reason you are thinking of
Lean in close, I’ll share with you a secret
No one is a real man at all
Pinocchio, you are a boy
it doesn’t take no fairy blue
much less a therapist, three doctors and a knife
to cut your flesh and make you real
you are as real as dreams come true
I’m tired of tracing one straight line back through our lives…” (transcript cont. here)
REST IN POWER: Camilla Williams. (Black Opera OURstory)
“Camilla Williams, the first black woman to appear in a leading role with a major US opera company has died in Indiana aged 92.
She had been suffering from cancer, according to Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where Williams became the first black professor of voice.
The singer made her debut in May 1946 in the title role of Madam Butterfly with the New York City Opera.
She also became a strong advocate for civil rights.
“It’s impossible to overstate how important that was for the music scene in New York, for African-American singers, and for American singers,” F Paul Driscoll, the editor-in-chief of Opera News, told the Washington Post.
Williams’ debut performance came nearly nine years before Marian Anderson became the first African-American singer to appear at New York’s more prestigious Metropolitan Opera.
A New York Times review of Williams at the time, said the singer displayed “a vividness and subtlety unmatched by any other artist who has assayed the part here in many a year”.
The following year she performed the role of Mimi in Puccini’s La Boheme and in 1948 she sang the title role of Verdi’s Aida.
In 1951 she sang the title female role in first complete recording of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.
A lifetime member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the singer performed in her hometown of Danville, Virginia in 1963, to raise funds to free jailed civil rights demonstrators.
She also sang the national anthem before 200,000 people at the 1963 civil rights march on Washington, immediately before Martin Luther King gave his famous I Have a Dream speech.
In 1950, she married defence lawyer Charles Beavers, whose clients included civil rights leader Malcolm X.
After Beavers’ death in 1970, Williams stepped away from opera in 1971 and began teaching before eventually retiring in 1997.
Her autobiography - The Life of Camilla Williams, African American Classical Singer and Diva - was published last year.” - BBC News
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Fat Elvis Pudding Pops - Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Banana. Oh yes.
shine upon me.
Thy morning blessing, which,
like the new dawn, refreshes my Spirit and
lifts my heart with song.
Blessed Be.
All photos I took from a Bank of America branch at Montgomery on the #J20 Day of Action to shut down San Francisco’s Financial District, and also to commemorate the anniversary of the Citizens United ruling.
From the San Francisco Bay Guardian:
Protesters packed the day with an impressive line-up of marches, pickets, flash mobs, blockades, and everything in between.
The action began at 6:30 a.m., when dozens chained and locked themselves together, blocking every entrance to Wells Fargo’s West Coast headquarters at 420 Montgomery Street. The bank didn’t open for business that morning.
Another group of protesters did the same thing at the Bank of America Building around the corner. A dozen blockaded one of the bank’s entrances from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., preventing its opening. A group organized by Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) closed down the Bank of America branch at Powell and Market for several hours.
The Bank of America branch at Market and Main was also closed when activists turned it into “the Food Bank of America.” Several chained themselves for the door, while others set up a table serving donated food to hundreds of people.
Meanwhile, activists with the SF Housing Rights Coalition and Tenants Union occupied the offices of Fortress Investments, a hedge fund that has overseen the destruction of thousands of rent controlled apartments at Parkmerced. Direct actions also took place at the offices of Bechtel, Goldman Sachs, and Citicorp.
Hundreds picketed the Grand Hyatt at Union Square in solidarity with UNITE HERE Local 2 hotel workers.
A group of about 600 left from Justin Herman Plaza at noon and marched to offices of Fannie Mae, Wells Fargo, and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) in a protest meant to draw attention to housing and immigrant-rights issues.
“It’s not just a corporate problem. The government has been complicit in these abuses as well,” said Diana Masaca, one of the protest’s organizers.
More than 100 activists from People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER) and the Progressive Workers Alliance “occupied Muni,” riding Muni buses on Market Street with signs and chants demanding free transit for youth in San Francisco.
Another 200 participated in an “Occupy the Courts” action at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in protest of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision and corporate personhood.
set aside Your lightning bolts
and take Your ease of Love with me.
You are the God of laughter!
You are the God of all delights!
Blessed Be.
i really like this, except i want my vegetables without rubber bands around them & i want my carrots to have green stems. please.
(Source: rebeccaadele, via girl-germs)
Safer Spaces Committee of Occupy/Decolonize Oakland posted these flyers around Ogawa/Grant Plaza. The flyer advertises the committee’s availability as a resource for people who want/need to discuss the police brutality that has occurred since the inception of the site. As someone who studied the sociology of emotions, I am super stoked to see a group in #OO take this straight on. It’s incredibly uplifting.
