Welcome to the September 2010 Just Posts, the latest edition of a monthly roundtable of posts on a range of topics relating to activism and social justice hosted here and at Cold Spaghetti. Please show your support and check out the great posts on the list below!

• Accessibility and Sydney’s public transport: people with different mobilities on buses, by Jo Tamar of Wallaby
• All Jews, Christians and Muslims like to sing, by Neil of Citizen of the Month
• Bullying, by Emily Rosenbaum
• Defending intolerance: Terry Jones and the Quran, by Lawyer Mama at BlogHer
• Did you see this? by bluemilk
• Don’t forget the Blogladesh chat today, by Jen of Jenography
• Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, by Zetta Elliot of Fledgling
• Eat Pray Love. Why not?, by subWOW of The Absence of Alternatives
• food waste, by Emily at Hybrid Mom
• guilty pleasure monday: I believe in love (dixie chicks), by wreke of wrekehavoc
• It gets better. by Erika of Be gay about it.
• Latino Racism, by Latinegro of Inside my head…
• mightier than the sword, by bon of crib chronicles
• New Politics by Antropóloga
• Now presenting (the invisible past), by BipolarLawyerCook
• Oh, Stop N’ Shop… , by Heather of Food Ponderings
• Oil – All Day, Everyday, by Laura C. of LA to NOLA
• On being a girl by Emily Rosenbaum
• Remembering/Re-Membering, by Prof. Susurro of Like a Whisper
• Return to Kyrgyzstan, by Prof. Susurro of Like a Whisper
• See me, hear me… , by girlgriot of If you want kin, you must plant kin
• Sex-trade workers win one – for now, by zoom of Knitnut
• Take Our (Farm) Jobs Campaign, by Maegan La Mala of Vivirlatino
• Test this by Emily Rosenbaum
• That time again, by girlgriot of If you want kin, you must plant kin
• To the Other Side of Dreaming: Finding Housing & Putting Disability Justice Into Practice, by Stacey Milburn of cripchick’s blog and Mia Mingus of Leaving Evidence (cross-posted at both blogs)
• The Undesirability of Hijas, by lamamitamala of Mamita Mala: One Bad Mami Blog
• With all due respect, by fatboyfat of Make Lard History

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Welcome to the latest Just Post roundtable, a collection of posts from the month of July on topics relating to social justice hosted here and at Cold Spaghetti.

• wreke of Wrekehavoc.com with homeless
• subWOW of Absence of Alternatives with Lost in Translation
• Stacie of If you want kin… with Using and Abusing
• Rebekka of rebekkaguðleifsdóttir with Excess
• prof susurro of Like a Whisper with On this Historic Day and Dr. Laura: Free Speech Hero
• Paul of Give a Damn about Poverty? with Responsibility and Pakistan Flood Emergency – Why??
• Painted Maypole with Hatred and Fear as American Values?
• Oh, the Joys with The Worst are Full of Passionate Intensity
• Mary of The Eleventh with Let Freedom Ring
• Magpie of Magpie Musing with Cranky About Chase Again
• Leslie of Love Street with Health Care as Human Right
• L.A. to N.O.LA with If God is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise
• laloca of baggage carousel 4 with a letter from the department of defense
• Kismet of Nuñez Daughter with The Internet of Things Ate My Activism
• Kat of This could get ugly with Just Being Honest
• julochka of moments of perfect clarity with in which she ponders the waning years of the american empire
• Erika of Be gay about it. with No cause to celebrate. and Talking back to talking smack.
• Emily of Emily Rosenbaum with Really?
• Em of Social Justice Soapbox with The OnEarth Weekend Away, The future is in safe hands and Election Rant 2010
• alejna of collecting tokens with stemming the flood of apathy

The posts of this month’s roundtable were nominated by:

Erika
Leslie
Stacie
Holly
Alejna

If you have a post in the list above, or would just like to support the Just Posts, we invite you to display a button on your blog with a link back here, or to the Just Posts at Cold Spaghetti. If you would like to have a post included next month, you can find out how to submit posts and all sorts of other stuff about the Just Posts at the information page.

Welcome to the latest Just Post roundtable, a collection of posts from the month of July on topics relating to social justice hosted here and at Cold Spaghetti.

Just Posts for a Just World, July 2010.

• Absence of Alternatives with Remember the Gulf
• Citizen of the Month with I Cannot Imagine
• Flying Tomato Farms with Junk Food and Other Magic and Local Food in Vermillion Schools Hurrah
• Cold Spaghetti with No Need for Missionaries
• Fledgling with Hands ON and Get to Know Tim Wise
• Knitnut with What’s Harper Got Against the Census Anyway
• Mary Murtz with I Get a Little Soap Boxy… and The Choices We Make the Things We Hold Onto
• Food Ponderings with Welcome
• ShrinkWrap with Why I Should Not Allow My Dad to Drive Me to the Airport
• Collecting Tokens with Petroleum Junkie Part 3
• Bayou Woman with Gulf Spill Update
• Shore Acres with Galveston Rising – The Trees
• Parenting by the Light of the Moon with Lessons for my Son
• Taco Girl with Global Giving Green Open Challenge
• The Bottom of Heaven with The Bluest Eye Bloggers Roundtable, and participants: Cold Spaghetti with Poverty, Invisibility, and Dignity, Zetta Elliot with Legacy of Colorism, Xavier Passavant with Human Rights and Global Reach, and Claudia with Celebrating Toni Morrison’s TBE

Readers:

• Alejna
• Holly
• Lily

If you have a post in the list above, or would just like to support the Just Posts, we invite you to display a button on your blog with a link back here, or to the Just Posts at Cold Spaghetti. If you would like to have a post included next month, you can find out how to submit posts and all sorts of other stuff about the Just Posts at the information page.

Welcome to the Just Posts, a collection of posts on topics of social justice hosted here and at Cold Spaghetti.

• Zoom of knitnut with What really happened in Toronto?
• subWOW of Absence of Alternatives with Do Over: A perfect comeback is a terrible thing to waste
• Sherry of Chaos Theory with Being a refugee for a morning
• Rebecca of Flying Tomato Farm with Single Female Farmer
• Paul of Give a Damn about Poverty? with The World Cup’s in Africa The richest fans are there. So are the poorest…
• Morganna of Lizbeth’s Garden with Ode for the Dead
• Maitri of Maitri’s Vatulblog with Women In Science … Again
• Maggie of okay. fine. dammit. with Pain is pain
• Linda of The Task at Hand Musée des Petroleums Arts
• Lily of Witch Mom with As a Mother, I Parent the Whole World Now…
• kittenpie of Life of ‘Pie with Meaning is Lost
• Emily of Wheels on the Bus with Wrapping and Spirit of it
• becky of I’m just sayin with Father’s Day Do-over
• Bayou Woman of Life in the Louisiana Wetlands with Unofficial Local Oil Leak Update
• antropologa of antropóloga with Evil socialist medicine
• alejna of collecting tokens with petroleum junkie and trying to cut down

The posts of this months roundtable were nominated by:

Elizabeth (Morganna)
Lily (Witch Mom)
Holly
alejna

If you have a post in the list above, or would just like to support the Just Posts, we invite you to display a button on your blog with a link back here, or to the Just Posts at Cold Spaghetti. If you would like to have a post included next month, you can find out how to submit posts and all sorts of other stuff about the Just Posts at the information page.

Welcome to the March 2010 Just Posts, the latest (and in this case quite late¹) monthly round-up of blog posts on topics of social justice.

The March Just Posts:

• Aimee of Greeblemonkey with Healthcare Reform and Political Discord
• almost idealist of Time to Change the World with Poverty and Plenty
• Antropóloga with Hooray! We can come back to America!
• Barbara at An American in Lima with “All Hail the Glacier Gods”
• bon at crib chronicles with little plastic castle, or what the f*ck ever happened to Liz Phair?
• Em of Social Justice Soapbox with The Sunshine Centre (Kids that changed my life)
• Emily of The Wheels on the Bus with The Boy in Fourth Period
• heather of finding atman with finding out about food
• Heide Estes of Imagine1Community with Health Insurance Should Not Be Business (Again)
• Ilina at dirt & noise with Project Enlightenment Saved My Family
• kittenpie of Life of ‘Pie with Good Question, Kid. and Jacob Have I Loved – Until Now
• Lady M at Empress M with cute drinks
• Lisa at Left Coast Cowboys with dispatches from the war on terrorism
• Mad, guest posting at Frog and Toad are Still Friends with Food as Solace; Food as Hope
• Magpie of Magpie Musing with Thinking about Health Insurance, as one does when one is SICK
• Mary of The Eleventh with Another Head Start?
• Mocha Momma with I’m Black Irish and I’m Proud
• Sahar of Sahar’s Blog with ‘Boots that are easy on your conscience’
• Stacie of If you want kin, you must plant kin… with My Body Politic
• Tami of What Tami Said with Social capital and denying the pain of black women
• wreke of wrekehavoc with i feel good
• zoom of knitknut with All the way to the top

The posts of this month’s roundtable were nominated by:

Magpie
Mary
Stacie/girlgriot
Alejna
Holly

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¹ The lateness is in part be due to our having overdone things a bit in getting the Best of the 2009 JP project done. But done it was, if overdue. In sum, we’re overdue ’cause we overdo.

Strike up the band! Break out the champagne! Holly and I are ready to announce the results of the “Best of the Best of the 2009 Just Posts” voting. Can you believe we’ve finally gotten here? The imperfect process has taken us almost 3 months, and it’s been a remarkable experience. We’ve learned lots, and read and re-read lots, and been gratified by your comments and support. And we got lots of help, for which we are hugely grateful. Thank you, again, to all of you who read, reviewed, promoted, voted, and were otherwise there for this project. I could go on and on, but I’ll spare you. (For now. [cue ominous laughter])

And now [cue drumroll] the voting results, by category:

SOCIAL JUSTICE as political/legal :

• Posts Related to GENDER EQUITY
  forgiveness by Christine at by flutter
• Posts related to RACE (a tie)
  Attention White Folks by Stacie at If you want kin, you must plant kin…
  Ma: Little Bigot On the Prairie by Mary at The Eleventh
• Posts related to SEXUALITY
  Maine. by Erika at Be gay about it.

SOCIAL JUSTICE as health/wellness:

• Posts related to FOOD AND NUTRITION
  When is zero not really zero? When it describes your food. by Kimberly at The Gav Menagerie
• Posts related to DISEASE AND ILLNESS
  In Health there is Freedom, Health is the First of all Liberties by thordora at Spin Me I Pulsate
• Posts related to CHILD WELFARE
  The Speech, Remix Edition by Kyla at The Journey

SOCIAL JUSTICE as socio-economic inequalities :

• Posts related to VULNERABLE POPULATIONS
  guilty pleasure monday: millworker (james taylor) by wreke at wrekehavoc
• Posts related to EDUCATION
  On Social Justice and Education by Brigitte Knudson at A Liberal Education
• Posts related to SOCIAL/SOCIETAL VALUES
  American Me by jen at one plus two

SOCIAL JUSTICE as advocacy/service :

• Posts related to SERVICE AND ACTION
  No More Hall Passes by Emily at Wheels on the Bus
• Posts related to INFORMATION AND ADVOCACY
  Charity vs. Democracy by Magpie at Magpie Musing

SOCIAL JUSTICE…

• serious topics approached with HUMOR
  My, what a gayngled web we weave. by Erika at Be gay about it.

We have a prize for each of the post authors above in the form of a hand-made piece of New Orleans art (from Holly) and a bit of fair trade Theo chocolate (from Alejna). To collect your prizes, please send your snail mail addressess to Holly at (coldspaghetti at gmail dot com) or Alejna (alejna99 at gmail dot com).

And, for the post that received the largest number of votes in any category:
When is zero not really zero? When it describes your food. by Kimberly at The Gav Menagerie

Congratulations, Kimberly! We’ve got an extra special prize for you (and we promise it won’t have trans fats!)

Editors’ Picks:
And just because we’ve gone absolutely mad with power, we also wanted to recognize a couple more posts that, in addition to all those voices that have been recognized above, have really spoken to us. So we’ve got loot for two more, too! (Mind you, I wish we could send prizes to every single participant in the project: finalists, semi-finalists, and everyone who read, commented, posted and contributed in various ways. But that much fair trade chocolate and postage would definitely break the bank…)

I had a hard time choosing just one, as so many of the posts from the year really moved me. There are, for example, quite a few posts by authors in this lists above that have moved and inspired me. For example, Stacie, Emily, Erika and Jen have all written powerfully on so many different topics, and they each have written posts that, for me, really capture the spirit of the Just Posts: posts that bring in personal experiences to the larger social issue, posts that move me emotionally as well as make me want to act. But they each already have posts on the list above. I also really appreciate it when writers bring in humor to address serious subjects, and I confess that I am quite fond of submom’s All Things on Cable TV Considered, I wish my Hotel had Porn…. (Come on, is that a great post title, or what?)

In the end, though, I decided that I want to highlight a post that has really kept me thinking, for months after I read it: When Allies Fail, Part One by Tami at What Tami Said, as well as its companion post,Part Two.

I love that these posts gives practical advice on furthering activist movements, and in particular “maintaining alliances in the face of failure.” They speak to my periodic frustrations with some members of activist communities, where the discourse between those working towards the same ends is often more bitter and caustic than that directed against those who more actively demean marginalized groups, or who actively oppose the agenda of the activist movement. But I suppose the reason that these posts stuck with me most is that they speak to me as an activist, and to my ongoing internal struggles with my imperfect self. They lay out what it means to be a member of marginalized group vs. what it means to be an ally who comes from a more privileged group. They have helped me to process thoughts and actions in my own past that have shamed me, as I have bumbled along as a well-intentioned yet often insecure and under-informed individual.

Please also see which post Holly has chosen for her editor’s pick.

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[pssst…3/23 um…”update”…the polls are still up for a bit even though it’s technically past midnight in known timezones. But when was I ever one to be strict about a deadline? As long as you can see the polls, you are welcome to vote. They’ll probably be coming down later this evening…]

Don’t forget to vote for the Best of the 2009 Just Posts. Voting ends tonight: Monday, March 22nd. (We will be flexible about which time zone you choose to vote in–we want your votes, even if you want to pretend you’re in Hawaii!¹)

Please vote in as many categories as you can, but even if you only have time to read posts in one category, we still value your input.

If you have managed to vote in more than one category, please take a moment to consider which of all the posts you read stood out for you as the best of the best.

Thank you!²

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¹ Aloha!
² And mahalo to those of you voting in the Hawaiian time zone.