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Idil

While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it. While there

About Me



*don't mess wit me or i'll bust yo' blackhawk*

My Interests

I'd like to meet:


Josephine Baker, Margaret Cho, Emma Goldman, Jean Paul Sartre, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, M.I.A., Waris Dirie, Man Ray, Che Guevara, Angela Davis, Rosa Luxemburg, Patrice Lumumba, Nuruddin Farah, Marlene Dietrich, Eduardo Galeano, Hanan Ashwari, Fela & Femi, Alice Walker, Frida Kahlo, Wole Soyinka, Leila Ahmed, Sarah Jones, Simone de Beauvoir...

*TERRORISTA*

Music:

DANCE DANCE DANCE
Sade, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Neneh Cherry, Broken Social Scene, Mos Def, Erykah Badu, Sonic Youth, Fela & Femi Kuti, Nina Simone, M.I.A., Ani DiFranco, The Roots, K'Naan (Big up Somalia!!) , Salt n Pepa, K'Os, Cheb Mami, Mr. Bob Marley, Uffie, Ali Farka Toure, Lila Downs, Lauryn Hill, Morcheeba, Michael Jackson, MC Lyte, Les Nubians, La Chat (LOL!), Khaled, Indigo Girls, Public Enemy, LAL, Tina Turner, Verve Remixed, Cat Power, Billie Holiday, Feist, D'Angelo, Slum Village, Buju Banton, Bjork, Gotan Project, Billy Bragg, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ben Harper, Portishead, The Be Good Tanyas, Alicia Keyes, Fiona Apple, St. Germain, The Arcade Fire, Manu Chao, Le Tigre, Peaches, Manu di Bango, Meshell Ndegeocello, Radiohead, Sam Cooke, Jorane, Dead Prez, Sinead O'Connor, Tricky, Ernest Ranglin, The Streets, Talib Kweli, Otis Redding, Youssou N'Dour...

Movies:

ROSEBUD...
Ôdishon (Audition), La Battaglia di Algeri (The Battle of Algiers), The Swenkas, Girlfight, Todo Sobre Mi Madre (All About My Mother), Life & Debt, La Femme Nikita (Nikita), Alien Quadrilogy, Frida, Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run), 8 Femmes (8 Women), L'Homme du Train (The Man on the Train), Chihiro No Kamikakushi (Spirited Away), Yi Yi (Yi Yi: A One and a Two), A Fish Called Wanda, Ladri Di Biciclette (The Bicycle Thief), Swimming Pool, Malcolm X, Pixote, Salaam Bombay!, Rize, The Matrix, Bandit Queen, Carne Trémula (Live Flesh), Thelma & Louise, Pane e Tulipan (Bread & Tulips), Secrets & Lies, Da Hong Deng Long Gao Gao gua (Raise the Red Latern), Moonstruck ("snap out of it!"), Rabbit Proof Fence, Do the Right Thing, Heat, Central do Brasil (Central Station), Dead Calm, Ma Vie En Rose, Lucía y el Sexo (Sex and Lucia), The Color Purple, La Haine (Hate), Insomnia, Tsotsi, Desperado, To Sir, with Love, Shaun of the Dead, Léon (The Professional), Rush Hour, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amélie), Pinky, Yin shi nan nu (Eat Drink Man Woman), The Last Emperor, Blade Runner, Y Tu Mamá También, Blood Simple, Wandâfuru Raifu (Afterlife), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mononoke-Hime (Princess Mononoke), Como Agua Para Chocolate (Like Water For Chocolate), Momento, Heathers, Fa Yeung Nin Wa (In the Mood for Love), Ringu, Vivre sa Vie: Film en Douze Tableaux (My Life to Live), Wo Hu Cang Long (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon), Signs & Wonders, Vera Drake, Lumumba: Retour Au Congo (Lumumba), 28 Days Later, Before Night Falls, Cidade de Deus (City of God), The Terrorist, ¡Átame! (Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down), Maelström, Belle De Jour, Antonia (Antonia's Line), Les Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows), Transamerica, Breaking The Waves, Festen (The Celebration), Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), 2046, Death and the Maiden, Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Cinema Paradiso), Human Traffic, Clean, Theeviravaathi (The Terrorist)...

Television:

The Office (UK), Arrested Development, Coronation Street (UK), Mr. Show, Chappelle's Show, Bad Girls (UK), Family Guy, Girlfriends, Tipping the Velvet (UK), Dead Like Me, Seinfeld, Roseanne, The Soup...

Books:

"The Outsider" Albert Camus, "Notes of a Native Son" James Baldwin, "Black Skin, White Masks" Frantz Fanon, "The Souls of Black Folk" W.E.B. DuBois, "Persoplis: Story of a Childhood" Marjane Satrapi, "The Water Method Man" John Irving, "The Book of Embraces" Eduardo Galeano, "Woman at Point Zero" Nawal El Saadawi, "The Strong Breed" Wole Soyinka...

Heroes:


Phoolan Devi a.k.a Bandit Queen

Paul Robeson, Sojourner Truth, Angela Davis, Hanan Ashwari, Edward Said, Emiliano Zapata (ZAPATA VIVE!)...
...GET POLITIKIN'...

  • Mostly Africa
  • New Internationalist Magazine
  • Z Magazine
  • Monthly Review
  • Common Dreams
  • Utne Reader
  • Ms. Magazine
  • Bitch Magazine
  • This Magazine
  • Red Pepper
  • Bust
  • Adbusters
  • MoveOn
  • Women in Media and News
  • Challenging White Supremacy Workshop
  • White Privilege.Com
  • Free Leonard Peltier
  • Assata Shakur
  • Free Mumia Abu Jamal
  • Chomsky Info
  • bell hooks
  • Tim Wise
  • Norman G. Finkelstein
  • Tariq Ali
  • Michael Moore
  • Freedom to Marry
  • Love is Love is Love
  • Alternative Radio
  • Independent World Television
  • Bioneers
  • Proletarian Threads
  • Freedom Fits
  • Bloodsisters
  • Seven Stories Press
  • Pages Books
  • Toronto Women's Bookstore
  • M.I.A.
  • Margaret Cho
  • Waris Dirie Foundation
  • K'Naan
  • Sarah Jones
  • Black People Love Us
  • Rent-A-Negro
  • Big Bad Chinese Mama
  • Toronto Public Space Committee
  • Guerilla Girls
  • NDP
  • Daryl Vocat
  • Space Hijackers
  • Banksy
  • Stencil Revolution
  • Wooster Collective

  • My Blog

    Africa HOT!

    Znet | Africa Babies and Banks: Celebrity Colonialism in Africa by Adam Elkus; November 04, 2006 Celebrities have always identified with underdogs. Playing a victim or otherwise disadvantage...
    Posted by Idil on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 07:13:00 PST

    Why Socialism?

    Einstein's Why Socialism Manuscript (pg. 1)Why Socialism?by Albert EinsteinThis essay was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949).Is it advisable for one who is not an exp...
    Posted by Idil on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 06:00:00 PST

    Racist Socialization

    Exploring the Depths of Racist Socialization By Tim WiseEvery now and then a lesson comes easy. Other times we learn things by accident, if at all. And inevitably it seems, the lessons that matter mos...
    Posted by Idil on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:39:00 PST

    Happy Belated KKKanada Day!

    ...Our home and Native land... Canada portrays itself as a "peaceful multicultural" society when in fact, Canada is responsible for an ongoing assault on the identities, lives, and lands of the Origin...
    Posted by Idil on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 09:39:00 PST

    Feminism as Imperialism

    Published on Saturday, September 21, 2002 in the Guardian/UKFeminism as ImperialismGeorge Bush is Not the First Empire-Builder to Wage War in the Name of Womenby Katharine Viner "Respect for women... ...
    Posted by Idil on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 03:03:00 PST

    King of Ska Dies

    Mr. Desmond DekkerMay 27, 2006Desmond Dekker, 64, Pioneer of Jamaican Music, DiesBy JON PARELESDesmond Dekker, the Jamaican singer whose 1969 hit, "The Israelites," opened up a worldwide audience for ...
    Posted by Idil on Sat, 27 May 2006 01:18:00 PST

    No Choice for Migrants

    Tina Modotti, Woman with Flag No Choice for Migrants Immigration lessons from the Other Campaignby John Gibler; April 29, 2006Much of the current immigration debate is founded on a deep and arrogant...
    Posted by Idil on Mon, 01 May 2006 09:20:00 PST

    May Day!

    Quan shijie renmin da tuanjie wan sui Long live the unity of people all over the world! ZNet | LaborWhat You Need To Know About May Dayby Leo Panitch; May 01, 2006For more than 100 years, May Day has...
    Posted by Idil on Mon, 01 May 2006 08:44:00 PST

    AIN'T I A WOMAN?

    Sojourner Truth ain't i a woman?Sojourner Truth Women's Rights & African-American Rights PioneerSpeech delivered To The Women's Convention In Akron, Ohio - December, 1851"Well, children, where there i...
    Posted by Idil on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 06:03:00 PST

    Listen Comrades

    LISTEN COMRADES Listen comrades of the struggling centuriesTo the keen clamour of the Negro from Africato the AmericasThey have killed MambaAs they have killed the seven of MartinsvilleOr the Madagas...
    Posted by Idil on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:54:00 PST