#self-determination
Kalki Subramaniam: Why she kicks ass
- Kalki is a transgender rights activist, actor, writer and celebrity from Tamilnadu, India. She also holds two Master’s degrees - in Journalism and Mass Communication, and in International Relations.
- She was signed up a film ( ‘Narthaki’) in a lead role. the film is an offbeat film about the life journey of a transsexual woman - her quest for happiness, love and finding her identity. She became the first trans film star in the world to do a lead role in a major feature film.
- She is the Founder of ‘Sahodari Foundation’ an organization working for the social, economic and political empowerment of transgender persons in India.
- She works with in the transgender community on several issues, by creating empowerment programmes like entrepreneurship training which can positively change the poor transgender and intersex people’s livelihood choices, and with the public, advocates against transgender discrimination and hatred and voices for inclusion of transgender and intersex people at all levels. She has lectured in numerous seminars, colleges and universities in India and USA.
- Kalki is also an actress and also makes short documentary films and is also the editor of the Tamil magazine for transgender women called ‘Thirunangai’. She works as an independent Media Specialist, and develops web based projects and is a script writer for documentary and animation films. She is currently working two of her books, a novel and a semi autobiography.
- She was awarded the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ by the Lioness Club of Chennai in appreciation of her transgender rights advocacy work, and was also chosen by ‘Ananda Vikatan’ Tamil magazine as the ‘Top Ten Nambikkaikal’ (Youth hopes) for the year 2009.
- In 2010, she was invited by the government of the United States of America for a 16 days Human Rights activism & Awareness program through IVLP. She is the first transsexual foreign national to be invited by the United States government.
information via fuckyeahsouthasia
picture via thirunangainews (reposting with another picture since the original post has one where Kalki’s skin is lightened through make-up and lighting)
Go to http://www.sahodari.org to find out more about Sahodari Foundation, which Kalki founded. “Sahodari is not funded by inland or foreign agencies. Our work is supported through our own money and small donations from friends and well wishers.” (Non-profits take notes on this grassroots fundraising!) Sahodari is a space for trans and intersex people to come together around the following goals:
- to promote social, political and economic equity and campaign for civil and legal rights of transgender and intersex people.
- to work for establishing social, economic, and environmental justice for transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people and to eliminate oppression and exclusion based on such factors as race, ethnicity, gender, class, religion, legal status, sexual orientation, age, and disability.
- to prohibit discrimination based on “gender identity or expression” and ensure that the entire range of transgender, interest and gender non-conforming people are protected.
Go to http://projectkalki.blogspot.in/ to find more about Project Kalki, which empowers poor transgender women to become community journalist.
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Two inmates at the Attica State Prison visit with another inmate inside a makeshift hospital set up by the inmates inside cellblock D, Sept. 11, 1971.
SELF DETERMINATION
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Anarchism and Its Aspirations (PDF) byCindy Milstein
The first book the “Anarchist Interventions” series published by the Institute of Anarchist Studies and AK Press in 2010.
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Yuri spent a good portion of her young adult life in a concentration camp of Japanese people in the US. From this foundational experience emerged a solid revolutionary force of nature. While we all remember her work with Malcolm X, she should be remembered also (and perhaps, more visibly) as a participant in actions such as taking over the Statue of Liberty with Puerto Rican independence activists. Her commitment to active participation in anti-imperialist and national liberation movements the world over was her life’s work - and it went on for decades after Malcolm X’s murder.
She was pivotal in the movements to free Mumia Abu Jamal and other political prisoners and end nuclear proliferation. She has been a consistent friend of the oppressed peoples of the world. She has prominently defended the revolutions in the Philippines, Peru, and elsewhere. Despite the very small active base of Japanese-Americans involved in struggle for national liberation, Yuri is an important figure and worker for liberation precisely because while jettisoned by the persecution and internment of her own family and community, she actively took up the struggle of the world’s majority. Her relationship to national liberation organizations fighting for self-determination, as a working active figure, sets her as a giant on whose shoulders we all stand.
Evaristo Marrero, maosoleum an organ of the Liaison Committee for a New Communist Party
TheBlack is Back Coalition will hold the National Black Political Agenda for Self-Determination Convention in Washington D.C., Nov. 5 and 6. Poor and working class Black people in Florida are struggling to go to the convention – people who work tirelessly and still struggle to feed their families. While the convention itself is free, the costs to travel, house and feed these people (and in some cases their families) prevents them from attending the conference.
These are people who genuinely want to attend and cannot because of financial inability. In an effort to cover the costs for people who want to attend, they created a gofundmepage.
If you can, please help by donating money to support these costs. If you can’t donate, please boost this and share the link.
https://www.gofundme.com/2v6kgis
For more information about the Black is Back Coalition, please follow the link below:
blackisbackcoalition.org
Long live the people in Donbas!
Power to them and their struggle to achieve the freedom of secession as well as their right to secure and determine their own present and future!
Peace be upon them!
Check out the trailer for this new documentary showcasing the self determination of the Puerto Rican people of Comerio. Find out more information about it here at We Still Here.
