A place for Huey

When I realized that I did needed to know how to calculate compounded interest post college and that I did not know/remember how to do so even as an Economics major (b/c it was not stressed as important)... And when I realized that all of the jobs I am applying to ask for proficiency in MS Excel, Outlook, Access, or other programs such as Raiser's Edge but that I had not once used it in anything at all in college or prior.... I remembered the quote below by Tupac. Don't get me wrong, I love learning most things - abstract, theory, or otherwise. But if schools truyly aim to prepare the next generation of global citizens, we need to instruct them on how to perform basic administrative tasks, have financial literacy - ie. investment, home ownership, etc  - especially for students in minority groups. One can make an argument here about how the lack there of is a deliberate act to keep the tools of power in the hands of those in power. But I am not even trying to get too deep ...

I just received an email from Change.org on how to register/ check my status to vote [link below]. The website I received in the email was really helpful in easing some of my concerns as I did not know whether I was registered or not and had no idea on how to check for that information. So if you want to register to vote: http://www.ourtime.org/ Want to check if you are in fact registered to vote: https://www.usvotefoundation.org/state-elections/state-election-dates-deadlines (Click on your state and fill out the information to check you voter status. It should say active) If you need an absentee ballot or have questions about deadlines, the site is also a good resource. The organization On The Count: The Prison and Criminal Justice Report shared this on their page on facebook and I think that it is important to share. &&&&& It is National Voter Registration Day... My next post will be on my thoughts on the "debate" of whe...

 For Women Who Are 'Difficult' To Love you are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highway to a burning house says you are blinding him that he could never leave you forget you want anything but you you dizzy him, you are unbearable every woman before or after you is doused in your name you fill his mouth his teeth ache with memory of taste his body just a long shadow seeking yours but you are always too intense frightening in the way you want him unashamed and sacrificial he tells you that no man can live up to the one who lives in your head and you tried to change didn’t you? closed your mouth more tried to be softer prettier less volatile, less awake but even when sleeping you could feel him travelling away from you in his dreams so what did you want to do love split his head open? you can’t make homes out of human beings someone should have already told you that and if he wants to leave then let him ...

Thinking a lot about love, man.

"Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and who I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be…….and when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe." - Andrea Gibson

Free Mumia: Notes from the panel discussion on Mass Incarceration, the Prison Industrial Complex, Closing Attica, & Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal Juan Mendez - UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (via video): Solitary confinement is considered torture under international law but the U.S. still upholds the practice [What role do the international community, UN, ICC, NGOs and other civil society actors play in holding the U.S. Accountable? How does the status/soft and hard power of a country influence if/how it responds to international pressure?] Mumia Abu-Jumal (via phone): The truth is that reform does not work Time for revolutionary transformation: Build a movement! Abolish the ingrained ideas, do not rebuild or reform the different facets of prisons “Power concedes nothing without demand” “Politics is the cruel art of betrayal” Angela Davis: Prison industrial complex [PIC] has a great deal to do with global capitalism which is fueled ...