Beloved,
In what other lives or lands
Have I known your lips
Your hands
Your laughter brave
Irreverent.
Those sweet excesses that
I do adore.
What surety is there
That we will meet again,
On other worlds some
Future time undated.
I defy my body’s haste.
Without the Promise
Of one more sweet encounter
I will not deign to die.
Maya Angelou, “Refusal”
When asked if the groups are calling for a strike, Bates Imari said, “For some people, that is what this will feel like. The reality is that we have to make sure that every single person is doing what we are called to do at this time, that is grounded in their commitment and their conviction. For some people they call that a strike. For many of us, this is our right to refusal until something changes.”
JaNaé Bates Imari quoted in reporting by Amie Stager and Sarah Lazare in Workday Magazine. “We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on January 23.
10 On the seventh day of the feast, when King Xerxes was in high spirits because of the wine, he told the seven eunuchs who attended him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas— 11 to bring Queen Vashti to him with the royal crown on her head. He wanted the nobles and all the other men to gaze on her beauty, for she was a very beautiful woman. 12 But when they conveyed the king’s order to Queen Vashti, she refused to come. This made the king furious, and he burned with anger.
— Esther 1:10-12 | New Living Translation (NLT)
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. All rights reserved.
Cross References: Genesis 3:16; Genesis 12:14-15; 2 Samuel 11:2-4; 1 Kings 10:1-3; 1 Kings 10:23-25; Proverbs 20:1; Proverbs 31:4-5; Isaiah 5:11-12; Daniel 5:1-4; Ephesians 5:18; Ephesians 5:22-24; Colossians 3:18; 1 Peter 3:1-6; 1 Peter 4:3
Law of Permission
I do not must. I may. Every demand from outside is only an offer. Refusal is as valid as assent.
He wondered if … she was still angry with him, if she was still adamant in her determination to refuse him.
Mary Balogh, from Tangled
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🇺🇸 Receiving a 221(g) refusal after your U.S. visa interview can feel confusing and stressful.
🇺🇸 But unlike a flat-out rejection, a 221(g) isn’t the end of the road — it simply means your case is on hold for now.
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Legislation enforcement was captured on video utilizing tear gasoline to push again anti-ICE protesters attempting to interrupt right into a federal constructing in Los Angeles. (Credit score: Reuters)
The U.S. Small Enterprise Administration (SBA) introduced Saturday it’ll relocate its regional workplace from Los Angeles as a result of metropolis’s lack of cooperation with Immigration and…
SBA relocates workplace from LA over metropolis’s refusal to cooperate with ICE
Refusal | Cytotoxin | Whitechapel | GraveMass | Blood Monolith | Clactonian | Foetorem | Desekryptor | Undecayed | Imperishable | Ancestor Of Kaos | Inhuman Nature | Cocaine Culture | Impaled | Ophiolatry | Cryptopsy
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Refusal: “Venomous Human Concept”
taken from the album “Venomous Human Concept”
Cytotoxin: “Eventless Horizon”
taken from the album “Biographyte”
Whitechapel: “Hate Cult Ritual”
taken from the album “Hymns in Dissonance”
GraveMass: “Fallen”
taken from the single “Fallen”
Blood Monolith: “Prayer To Crom”
taken from the album “The Calling Of Fire”
Clactonian: “Blood Red Petroglyphs”
taken from the album “Everlasting Paleolithic”
Foetorem: “Oozing With Pustulent Fluids”
taken from the EP “Demo 2025”
Desekryptor: “Leprous Exsanguination”
taken from the album “Sarcophagal Corridors”
Undecayed: “Death’s Only Demand”
taken from the album “In Death’s Image”
Imperishable: “Blood To Bleed”
taken from the album “Swallowing The World”
Ancestor Of Kaos: “Dance Of The Sullen”
taken from the album “Animal Ritual”
Inhuman Nature: “Servants Of Annihilation”
taken from the album “Greater Than Death”
Cocaine Culture: “Ritual Abuse”
taken from the album “Cocaine Culture”
Impaled: “The Worms Crawl In”
taken from the album “Demo Medicale”
Ophiolatry: “Death Tour”
taken from the album “Serpent’s Verdict”
Cryptopsy: “Until Theres Nothing Left”
taken from the album “An Insatiable Violence”
I watched an interview today. The host asked the guest why aren’t Republicans standing up to trunt? And he said:
“They’re scared, scared for their families ”
This tells me that most of the gop is either hiding a big secret or they really are scared. Russian troops are brutal heartless animals. They do whatever they want. And they will be here soon enough. It will be a few here and there and then, they’re everywhere and you can’t do a effing thing. America is being disassembled piece by piece. Those who should step up and help are cowards. We are in this together, don’t let democracy die.
… she felt that to refuse would be to throw away a life-line.
L. P. Hartley, from My Fellow Devils
RADIO GABINETTO SU ZAPRUDER!
Rage against the machine? Automazione, lavoro, resistenze. N° 65
Was the wrong country disarmed 30 years ago?
This December 5th marks the 30th anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum—an agreement meant to provide security assurances to Ukraine in exchange for its decision to give up the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal.
Women’s demonstration against apartheid, Cape Town, August 9, 1956. Source: National Library of South Africa
