OPPRESSION

To reach an existance without oppression we don't need a "his" or a "hers" an "us" or a "theirs"

Challenge the Global Cultural Factory!

When racism and sexism are unfashionable, how much will your art collection be worth?

Before 1986, all editions of H.W. Jansons History of Art (the standard text used in introductory college art history classes), included 3000 male and no female artists. In the latest version, published in 1991, only 19 women are represented.

RANT FUME RAGE SEETHE SCREAM

We have begun challenging the patterns of oppression that have formed from centuries of biased history. I have no tolerance for the rude coments, intimidation and violence that come from embracing the archaic notion that a person can take their insecurities out on others. These atrocities continue to be played out daily: A comment about a persons weight or color; people with disabilities working for slave wages in workshops; animals getting slaughtered because of egotistical bastards; people complaining about violence, eating disorders and the fashion industry and then going out and continuing the addiction to consumption of mainstream media; young gay and lesbian people opting for suicide over the constant victimization they experience in their communities; and the list continues.

The history of a nation is, unfortunately, too easily written as the history of its dominant class.
Kwame Nkrumah

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
Malcolm X

When you're publising a book, if there's something that is controversial, it's better to take it out.
From a Holt, Rinhart, and Winston representative (One of the largest publishers of a school textbooks.)

Links for challenging oppression

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