Lindsey

Feelin' the Bern

[Lindsey @littlelinnyloo]

"After all the layers of subcontractors had taken their cut, there was next to nothing left for the people doing the work."
-the epitaph on capitalism's GRAVE

[C✮M @titzpalmer]

connection and attachment are not the same.
energy moves back and forth within a connection, it's a balanced exchange.
attachment involves one party being dependent on the other. it's rooted in need.
connection is rooted in understanding.

[Animated Text @animatedtext]

i showed you my cats please text back

[Lindsey @littlelinnyloo]

"Racial presumptions about Mexican laborers, not law, dictated the procedures at the Mexican border."
Impossible Subjects
Mae M. Ngai

[Lindsey @littlelinnyloo]

"Inspection at the Mexican border involved a degrading procedure of bathing, [literacy testing], medical line-inspection, and interrogation... [it] exempted all Europeans and Mexicans arriving by first class rail...."

[Lindsey @littlelinnyloo]

"The Border Patrol's capacious definition of it's jurisdiction illustrates the nation's borders... collapsing into and becoming indistinguishable from the interior..."
Impossible Subjects
Mae M. Ngai
This means it does not, will not, and can not end with the wall

[Lindsey @littlelinnyloo]

"Border Patrol, which was not a criminal law enforcement agency... had defined it's jurisdiction not just at the border but far into the nation's interior — easily one or two hundred miles but, theoretically, the entire interior."

[Lindsey @littlelinnyloo]

"The problem of differentiation revealed a discontinuity between illegal immigration as... a 'scare' discourse used at times to great political effect, and illegal immigrants who were real people known in the community..."
Impossible Subjects
Mae M. Ngai

[Lindsey @littlelinnyloo]

"[In the view of restrictionists], illegal aliens were an invisible enemy in America's midst. Yet their proposed solutions such as... mass deportations were problematic exactly because undocumented immigrants were so much like other Americans."

[Lindsey @littlelinnyloo]

"The view that the undocumented migrant was the least desirable alien of all... made state territoriality — not labor needs, not family unification, not freedom from persecution... the engine of immigration policy."
Impossible Subjects
Mae M. Ngai

[Lindsey @littlelinnyloo]

Maybe we should all start referring to each other as "fellow global citizens"

[Lindsey @littlelinnyloo]

"[Immigration] is not, as conventional thinking suggests, a unidirectional phenomenon, in which the hapless Poot of the world clamor at the gates of putatively disinterested wealthier nations."
Impossible Subjects
Mae M. Ngai

[Lindsey @littlelinnyloo]

"Particularly in the decades since WWII, migration to the US has been the product of specific economic, colonial, political, military, and/or ideological ties between the US and other countries, as well as of war."

[Lindsey @littlelinnyloo]

"...illegal alienage is not a natural or fixed condition but the product of positive law..."
Impossible Subjects
Mae M. Ngai

[Lindsey @littlelinnyloo]

@whoszachkolberg REAL TALK

[Lindsey @littlelinnyloo]

Something about needing to go dancing and that I need to be twirled.

[Lindsey @littlelinnyloo]

I download twitter just to tweet something and then I delete twitter again

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Dr. King was 26 when the Montgomery bus boycott began. He started small, rallying others who believed their efforts mattered, pressing on through challenges and doubts to change our world for the better. A permanent inspiration for the rest of us to keep pushing towards justice.