April 2012
23 posts
SiGAw! | SISTERS OF GABRIELA, AWAKEN!: US Intervention, NOT CHINA, is the Greatest Threat →
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News Statement
April 16, 2012
Reference: Bernadette Ellorin, Chairperson, BAYAN USA, email: chair@bayanusa.org
US Intervention, NOT CHINA, is the Greatest Threat to Peace & Security in the Philippines— BAYAN USA
Filipino-American Alliance Calls Aquino Gov’t to…
“I cannot hide my anger to spare you guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering anger; for to do so insults and trivializes all our efforts. Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it becomes no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.”
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The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism by Audre Lorde
so powerful. I need to read more Audre Lorde.
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Love me some Audre Lorde
