Images pas cool, justice sociale & steaks saignants

[Lancelot]

Ç'eût été une bite qu'on aurait su qui était le coupable bien plus tôt.

[FabriceM]

( Note : S'il y a une option pour rédimensionner les images insérées, je suis preneur )

 

Who Are We?

On November 12th, 2015, Amherst College students held a sit-in at Frost Library in solidarity with black college students nationwide who experience the daily effects of white supremacy in academia. The violence, harrassment, and exclusion felt by students at Yale, and Missouri, are also felt by members of our own community. Today, we created a space for black, brown, and other marginalized students and their allies to be heard. Today, we, #AmherstUprising, with the support of fellow students, faculty, staff and administration are united in rising to the demands of our community.

What You Can Do

1. Join the sit-in at Frost Library

    2. Have conversations with people not at the sit in

    3. Like, follow, and use these hashtags on social media:

#amherstuprising, #sitinsolidarity, #radicalcompassion

**These are the only social media accounts affiliated with Amherst Uprising. All other accounts do not accurately reflect the official views of our movement. So follow @UprisingAmherst!**

 

Supported by Members of:

[Note : spoiler car liste longue]

AC Voice

African and Caribbean Students Union

Amherst Christian Fellowship

Amherst Dance

Amherst Equestrian Club Team

Amherst Soul

Amherst United Left

Asian Students Association

Association of Amherst Students

Athlete Bible Study

Baseball

Basketball

Black Students Union

Charles Drew Health Profession Society

The Charles Drew Memorial House

Chinese Student Association

Choral Society

Computer Science Club

Crew

Cross Country/Track & Field

Dance and Step at Amherst College (DASAC)

Diversity Interns

Divest Amherst

Field Hockey

First-Generation Association

German House

GlobeMed at Amherst College

Golf

Gospel Choir

Habitat for Humanity

Hillel

Hip Hop Club

International Students Association

Japanese and Chinese Language House

Jazz at Amherst

Korean Students Association

La Casa

La Causa

Lacrosse

Marsh House

Mental Health Education

Middle Eastern Students Association

Minority Students/ Allies in Football

Multicultural Resource Center

Multifaith Council

Muslim Students Association

Native American Students Organization (NASO)

Newman Catholic Club

Paper Arts Club

Peer Advocates of Sexual Respect

Pride Alliance

Purple Pride

Queer Resource Center

Remnant (Black Christian Ministry)

Roosevelt Institute at Amherst College

Soccer

Softball

Somos

South Asian Student Association

Student Athlete Advisory Committee

Students for Justice in Palestine

Student Security

Swim

Tennis

TransActive

Transfer Student Association

Women and Gender Center

Women and Men’s Club Soccer

Women in Computer Science

Women in Science

Women of Color Empowerment Group

Women’s Rugby

Women's Ultimate

The Zumbyes

 

Our Immediate Demands

We, Students of Amherst College, refuse to accept the negative social climate created towards our peers of color and other marginalized groups. We have begun this movement, Amherst Uprising, in an effort to change the status quo for a more just and inclusive environment within our campus. We demand that Amherst become a leader in the fight to promote a better social climate towards individuals who have been systematically oppressed. Student leaders acknowledge and support the demands previously stated and currently being presented. Furthermore, we demand the College acknowledge its ethical and moral responsibilities as an institution and community of our world. Amherst College should not be complicit in oppressive organizations and systems, no less.

 

We as a compassionate student body have gathered to address the legacy of oppression on campus. If these goals are not initiated within the next 24 to 48 hours, and completed by November 18th, we will organize and respond in a radical manner, through civil disobedience. If there is a continued failure to meet our demands, it will result in an escalation of our response.

1. President Martin must issue a statement of apology to students, alumni and former students, faculty, administration and staff who have been victims of several injustices including but not limited to our institutional legacy of white supremacy, colonialism, anti-black racism, anti-Latinx racism, anti-Native American racism, anti-Native/ indigenous racism, anti-Asian racism, anti-Middle Eastern racism, heterosexism, cis-sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism, mental health stigma, and classism. Also include that marginalized communities and their allies should feel safe at Amherst College.

 

2. We demand Cullen Murphy, Class of 74, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, to issue a statement of apology to students, alumni and former students, faculty, administration, and staff who have been victims of several injustices including but not limited to our institutional legacy of white supremacy, colonialism, anti-black racism, anti-Latinx racism, anti-Native American racism, anti-Native/ indigenous racism, anti-Asian racism, anti-Middle Eastern racism, heterosexism, cis-sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism, mental health stigma, and classism

 

3. Amherst College Police Department must issue a statement of protection and defense from any form of violence, threats, or retaliation of any kind resulting from this movement.

4. President Martin must issue a statement of apology to faculty, staff and administrators of color as well as their allies, neither of whom were provided a safe space for them to thrive while at Amherst College.

5. President Martin must issue a statement to the Amherst College community at large that states we do not tolerate the actions of student(s) who posted the ''All Lives Matter'' posters, and the ''Free Speech'' posters that stated that ''in memoriam of the true victim of the Missouri Protests: Free Speech.'' Also let the student body know that it was racially insensitive to the students of color on our college campus and beyond who are victim to racial harassment and death threats; alert them that Student Affairs may require them to go through the Disciplinary Process if a formal complaint is filed, and that they will be required to attend extensive training for racial and cultural competency.

6. President Martin must issue a statement of support for the revision of the Honor Code to reflect a zero-tolerance policy for racial insensitivity and hate speech.

7. President Martin must release a statement by Friday, November 13th, 2015 by 5:00pm that condemns the inherent racist nature of the unofficial mascot, the Lord Jeff, and circulate it to the student body, faculty, alumni, and Board of Trustees. This will be followed up by the encouraged removal of all imagery including but not limited to apparel, memorabilia, facilities, etc. for Amherst College and all of its affiliates via a phasing out process within the next year.

8. Dean Epstein must ask faculty to excuse all students from all 5 College classes, work shifts, and assignments from November 12th, 2015 to November 13th, 2015 given their organization of and attendance at the Sit-In.

9. Do not threaten the jobs of the faculty, staff, or administrators that support our list of demands. Such threats will result in an escalation of our response.

10. The Office of Alumni and Parent Programs must send former students an email of current events on campus including a statement that Amherst College does not condone any racist or culturally insensitive reactions to this information.

11. Dean Epstein must encourage faculty to provide a space for students to discuss this week's events during class time.

 

Please acknowledge that all of these statements of apology are not the end all - that they are only a part of short-term healing and by no means achieve all of the goals we will set forth. We are in the process of finalizing long-term goals which we hope to collaborate on regularly with all members of the community. By no means does this start/stop with the administration.

Note : passages mis en évidence par mes soins.

 

(badurl) http://amherstuprising.com/index.html (badurl)

[Eltourist]

Meanwhile

 

[Fagotto]

C'est flippant (Amherst) je pensais pas que ça pouvait aller aussi loin dans le ressentiment, encore une fois je regrette les gauchistes 60s, ils avaient l'élégance d'être contre le gouvernement, là Obama a félicité les mecs de Mizzou.

[Lancelot]

Bon pendant qu'on y est...

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[FabriceM]

Meanwhile

En tout et pour tout, 25 comptes ont utilisé ce tag (fuckparis) sérieusement, tout le reste, ce sont des indigniais qui noient les salopards dans la masse de leur tweets inutiles.

Pour rentabiliser un peu le temps passé sur ce hashtag, j'ai fait la liste de ceux qui l'ont utilisé "pour de vrai", vu le potentiel pour alimenter ce fil.

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[Mathieu_D]

Tu utilises quoi comme outil Fabrice pour fouiller Twitter ?

[FabriceM]

Tu utilises quoi comme outil Fabrice pour fouiller Twitter ?

Recherche avancée de twitter, recherche de firefox.

Et de l'huile de coude.

Ce hastag n'a pas été tellement utilisé. Quelques centaines de tweet, c'est gérable.

[Lancelot]

Il faudrait un auteur russe dépressif pour décrire correctement un tel degré d'absurdité.

[G7H+]

Ce fil est fascinant.

Comment mettre un terme à... ce mouvement ?

[h16]

Ce sont des trolls. Il ne faut pas nourrir les trolls.

Psychologiquement, ce qui leur fait le plus mal est le mépris et l'absence totale d'attention portée à leurs manœuvres.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-islamist-tantrum-1447720016

[laurett]

Le problème étant que des gens leur portent du crédit, cèdent à leur caprice, et se font contaminer par leur absence de réflexion.

C'est une attaque de zombies.

[DiabloSwing]

Le WSJ ? Un anagramme de SJW. Pas de hasard.

[FabriceM]

Le problème étant que des gens leur portent du crédit, cèdent à leur caprice, et se font contaminer par leur absence de réflexion.

C'est une attaque de zombies.

 

Si les SJW sont des zombies contaminés par quelque chose, l'épidémie est activement propagée par des savants fous subventionnés par les Etats américains et l'Etat fédéral.

[Lancelot]

Il faut juste les envoyer chier. Si seulement ils n'étaient pris au sérieux par personne...

[Eltourist]

Lol who's the bigot now?

 

[Noob]

Le WSJ ? Un anagramme de SJW. Pas de hasard.

 

Lol who's the bigot now?

 

[Alchimi]

Sinon je viens de voir passer sur facebook un mec qui râlait parce que FB n'as pas mis l'option de mettre la couleur du drapeau Malien après les attentats de Bamako et qu'il n'y a pas non plus le check de sécurité pour les maliens... en plus s'y faut elle y est mais le mec ne le voit pas parce qu'il est probablement pas au Mali mais on s'en tape

J'ai une tendinite à force de facepalms mentaux depuis une semaine.

[FabriceM]

J'ai une tendinite à force de facepalms mentaux depuis une semaine.

 

C'est ce qu'on appelle une tendinite idiopathique.

 

Blague pourrie^TM

[Gilles]

Bah si ces débiles avaient cherché genre 10 secondes sur Google, ils auraient vu que l'activation du safety-check pour les attentats de Paris était une première pour une catastrophe non-naturelle. Et qu'après-coup, la fonction a aussi été activée pour l'attentat au Niger.

Quant au Mali c'est peut-être simplement trop localisé pour avoir besoin de cette fonction.

[Hayek's plosive]

Et encore faut il qu'ils aient internet dans l'hôtel.

[Adrian]

 

Student leaders have pulled the mat out from 60 University of Ottawa students, ending a free on-campus yoga class over fears the teachings could be seen as a form of "cultural appropriation."

Jennifer Scharf, who has been offering free weekly yoga instruction to students since 2008, says she was shocked when told in September the program would be suspended, and saddened when she learned of the reasoning.

Staff at the Centre for Students with Disabilities believe that "while yoga is a really great idea and accessible and great for students ... there are cultural issues of implication involved in the practice," according to an email from the centre.

The centre is operated by the university's Student Federation, which first approached Scharf seven years ago about offering yoga instruction to students both with and without disabilities.

The centre goes on to say, "Yoga has been under a lot of controversy lately due to how it is being practiced," and which cultures those practices "are being taken from."

The centre official argues since many of those cultures "have experienced oppression, cultural genocide and diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy ... we need to be mindful of this and how we express ourselves while practising yoga."

The concept of cultural appropriation is normally applied when a dominant culture borrows symbols of a marginalized culture for dubious reasons -- such as the fad of hipsters donning indigenous headdresses as a fashion statement, without any regard to cultural significance or stereotype.

But Scharf, a yoga teacher with the downtown Rama Lotus Centre, said the concept does not apply in this case, arguing the complaint that killed the program came instead from a "social justice warrior" with "fainting heart ideologies" in search of a cause celebre.

"People are just looking for a reason to be offended by anything they can find," said Scharf.

"There's a real divide between reasonable people and those people just looking to jump on a bandwagon. And unfortunately, it ends up with good people getting punished for doing good things."

There were about 60 students who participated in the free program.

Acting student federation president Romeo Ahimakin denied the decision resulted from a complaint.

Ahimakin said the student federation put the yoga session on hiatus while they consult with students "to make it better, more accessible and more inclusive to certain groups of people that feel left out in yoga-like spaces. ... We are trying to have those sessions done in a way in which students are aware of where the spiritual and cultural aspects come from, so that these sessions are done in a respectful manner."

Scharf offered a compromise, suggesting she change the name from yoga to "mindful stretching," since that would reflect the content of the program and would "literally change nothing about the course."

"I'm not pretending to be some enlightened yogi master, and the point (of the program) isn't to educate people on the finer points of the ancient yogi scripture," she told the Sun.

"The point is to get people to have higher physical awareness for their own physical health and enjoyment."

According to email correspondence between Scharf and the centre, student leaders debated rebranding the program, but stumbled over how the French translation for "mindful stretching" would appear on a promotional poster, and eventually decided to suspend the program.

Student federation official Julie Seguin sympathized with Scharf, defending the use of the term "yoga," and saying, "I am also still of the opinion that a single complaint does not outweigh all of the good that these classes have done."

Seguin said "labeling the CSD's yoga lessons as cultural appropriation is questionable (and) debatable" and called on further discussion with the student executive.

http://www.ottawasun.com/2015/11/20/free-ottawa-yoga-class-scrapped-over-cultural-issues

 

[NoName]

tl;dr ?

[Noob]

T'es qu'un gros connard de colon. Ben oui quoi t'as fait du judo étant gamin, sans jamais penser ou myé de nippons morts à Nagasaki et Hiroshima.

[FabriceM]

tl;dr ?

 

Pour lancer un cours de yoga, il faut faire une analyse de risque de troubles socio-culturels par un groupe de SJW agréé et envoyer un requête officielle au ministère de la culture Japonais.

Sinon, on vient te démonter ton cours de yoga gratuit pour des handicapés.

[Gilles]

Les SJW ne seront réellement complets que lorsqu'ils refuseront d'utiliser les chiffres arabes par peur de faire de l'appropriation culturelle.

[FabriceM]

Les SJW ne seront réellement complets que lorsqu'ils refuseront d'utiliser les chiffres indiens par peur de faire de l'appropriation culturelle.

Corrigé.

[Jesrad]

On les voit pas beaucoup pester contre l'usage de l'informatique par le reste du monde pourtant.

[ph11]

Les SJW ne seront réellement complets que lorsqu'ils refuseront d'utiliser les chiffres arabes par peur de faire de l'appropriation culturelle.

 

Sans oublier l'alphabet latin, la philosophie grecque…

[Tramp]

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/11/a-national-wave-hits-harvard/

 

 

On Thursday morning, portraits of black professors on the walls of Wasserstein Hall at Harvard Law School had black tape across their faces. The incident prompted an ongoing police investigation and set off a wave of concern among students and University officials amid a growing movement for racial justice that is unfolding in colleges across the country.

“It was an act of blatant racism,’ said Leland Shelton, JD’16, president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association. “I was taken aback that somebody had the audacity to do this.”

“We have much work to do to make certain that Harvard belongs to every one of us,” said Harvard President Drew Faust. “We must create the conditions in which each one of us feels confident in declaring, ‘I, too, am Harvard.’ ”