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What is the best brand of disposable pens?
I am interested in buying some disposable pens. At this point, really do not know enough about them to ge, real nice Fountain Pen. Is there a certain brand you prefer (you can find in the U.S.)? Where I can find, and what is the overall cost? I found two marks at OfficeDepot.com. There is a product that is the tip Foray half, for about $ 3. It is a package of three with a blue-black and red pen. This seems reasonable, and the three colors would be necessary for school anyway. But there is also the Pilot Varsity, where you can buy one for $ 3 for the same price. Which of these is better, or as I previously asked, is there another brand I should consider? Thanks!
I would like Use Pilot Varsity because it will last longer, have more quality, and be a little darker and legible. other types are cheap for a reason.
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FORAY Metallic Gel Pens Set of 8 Medium Point GREAT COLORS $3.95 |
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Foray Highlighters Set (4). Assorted colors. Double ended (narrow & wide points) $4.45 |
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Foray Mechanical Pencils, 0.5 mm, Assorted Barrel Color $5.99 |
Something I Said-Women Of Color Against Violence, Book Review
Something I Said
Incite! Women of Color Against Violence – Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology
Dwight Hobbes
MN Spokesman-Recorder We call ourselves a civilized society. But, we lie. In this savage realm, women daily are beaten and raped. Which makes it crucial that they can turn to support resources. Accordingly, there’s an international organization, Incite! Women of Color Against Violence. Their idea, as articulated at the website www.incite-national.org: it’s an “activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and our communities through direct action, critical dialogue and grassroots organizing.” Before anybody gets uptight, yes, white is a color and Caucasian women count. This undertaking, however, happens to be devoted to who it’s devoted to. In 2006, Incite! put out there, for women and girls to read, a strong collection of writings, Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology, published by South End Press (frankly, it wouldn’t hurt men and boys to give the book a serious look-see). Culled from the hearts and minds of roughly 25 writers, it’s a self-empowering foray many females will find painfully long overdue (and one males will find stupefyingly insightful). Aishah Simmons, in the brilliant essay, “The Making of the War Against Black Women and the Making of NO!”, attests, “I am a Black woman who is a survivor of incest and rape. I write this because there are too many Black women who are unable to write, much less speak these words. I write this because I do not want to be ashamed that my body was violated…on several occasions. I write this because victims and survivors of rape and other forms of sexual violence shouldn’t ever have to carry the burden of shame and guilt. [And] in the hope and the belief that, by breaking my silence, more and more Black women will break their silences about the atrocities that have been forced on them.” Simmons goes on bring it straight home: most rapists of Black females are Black males. “There is a silent war going on in the Black community. This war is being raged by Black men and boys on Black women and girls.” Sylvanna M. Falcón’s “‘National Security’ and the Violation of Women: Militarized Border Rape at the US-Mexico Border” gives you the whole story right there in the title. Between the U.S and Mexico, in a slipshod excuse for keeping international law and order, officers, just like those smuggling immigrants, get to take off a women along with any daughters she might be trying to bring to a better life, and have a field day, rendering them vaginal toilets and human beings who, after, must try and salvage some sense of their humanity. While praying they don’t sooner or later get deported back to abject poverty, so desperate, succumbing to the indignity and health-threat of prostitution, through either violence or sexually transmitted disease, begins to look like a viable option. Sarah Deer contributes “Federal Indian Law and Violent Crime: Native Women and Children at the Mercy of the State”. S.R., an Iraqi living in the U.S. wrote, “Don’t Liberate Me”. There’s “INS Raids and How Immigrant Women are Fighting Back” by Renee Saucedo. End to end, you keep coming across powerfully articulated perspectives from women who have had quite enough, thank you, of seeing themselves, their mothers, sisters and daughters routinely victimized as though it is a male’s (you can’t really call him a man) natural born right to take his self-loathing out on them with culturally sanctioned impunity. Until such time as these industrialized, supposedly developed United States of America moves beyond an historically entrenched, caveman mentality, women will be beaten, raped and killed. For the simple reason that today’s Neanderthals, like Alley Oop of old, fail to realize females are human beings, not punching bags or sexual receptacles. As long as cruel stupidity tragically prevails, let us be grateful to God for Incite! Women of Color Against Violence and for Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology. Let us be grateful to God and to women everywhere who have drawn a line in the sand, standing up for themselves, for their humanity, for their right to stop being victimized, in no uncertain terms.
About the Author
Twin Cities Daily Planet articles archived at www.tcdailyplanet.net/profiles/dwight-hobbes. Dwight Hobbes has written for ESSENCE, Reader’s Digest, Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, City Pages, Mpls/St. Paul, MN Law & Politics, Pulse of the Twin Cities, Twin Cities Daily Planet, Women & Word, San Diego Union-Tribune and Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder (where he contributes the commentary column Something I Said). He’s spoken his mind over National Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, Blog Talk Radio’s UNOBSTRUCTED and KMOJ in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Was regularly featured as guest commentator on NewsNight Minnesota (KTCA-Minneapolis/St. Paul) and Spectator (Minneapolis Television Network). His monthly column “Hobbes In The House” in MN Spokesman Recorder speaks to domestic abuse and rape. His plays are Shelter – produced at Mixed Blood Theatre by Pangea World Theater, Dues – produced by Mixed Blood Theatre, University of Southern Illinois in Point of Revue, selected for Bedlam Theatre’s 10-Minute Play Festival and published by Playscripts, Inc. You Can’t Always Sometimes Never Tell – produced by Theater Center Philadelphia, Long Island University, reading at The Kennedy Center and published in the anthology CENTER STAGE, In the Midst – produced by Long Island University, starring Samuel E. Wright. Hobbes spoke on the panel “Farewell To August Wilson” at the Guthrie Theater, broadcast on Conversations With Al McFarlane (KFAI, KMOJ). Singer-songwriter Dwight Hobbes recorded the single “Atlanta Children” (BeatBad Records) and gigged 10 years in the Long Island/NYC area, including The Other End, Kenny’s Castaways and My Fathers Place. He fronted the Boston blues band Midlight. In Minneapolis, Hobbes opened for David Daniels at First Street Entry, James Curry at Terminal Bar, sat in with Yohannes Tona, Alicia Wiley at Sol Testimony’s Soul Jam, The New Congress at Babalu, Willie Murphy at the Viking Bar and Wain McFarlane & Jahz at Lucille’s Kitchen. Dwight Hobbes still drops in at the occasional open mic around town. www.myspace.com/dwighthobbesmusic
