<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 09:47:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@jessij/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Stop deportations! Stop tearing families apart!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stop criminalizing workers and tearing families apart. Stop the deportations. Stop detaining children. Stop the inhumane profiteering of privately owned immigrant detention centers. The borders did not]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/news/@jessij/stop-deportations-stop-tearing-families-apart</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/news/@jessij/stop-deportations-stop-tearing-families-apart</guid><category><![CDATA[news]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jessij]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2018 17:37:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/TZjG7hXReeVthqpTJZmwvzsLcvMeG4TU4Gjdfy25otKFgG1J2dywC2CukuXFfb31J4NXhS29n4HmvSRTxDnRVk7jWnLoK32XekxEUdee6a4pbTgi2xUuZ9fCi9Rs2Xo2NKFWfBf6pSjyyQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dangerous Ideas:  MLK a year before his death]]></title><description><![CDATA[Years after formal de-segregation, Dr. King had come to argue that civil rights were not enough, and in many ways the situation for Black Americans had actually gotten worse. This speech, The Other America,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@jessij/dangerous-ideas-mlk-a-year-before-his-death</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@jessij/dangerous-ideas-mlk-a-year-before-his-death</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jessij]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2018 19:53:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/26uUsAjKTsXCQk1qYXWBvaB21CARpb7vMcFWaRZ84YrYQdv3qUZx2baWR4CLj3orUs7ijczJyXz1Mc9P5mMnwUmrDfw3jXhCewBcPwv8PGazbxXKVGF9XvCajmdqR71LcAGdewigBd5UFvzz3E5a1rY25QgPufQWD8YZsC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you miss this New York Times article in the late 90s?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was not killed by James Earl Ray, a Memphis Jury found in 1998... but the history books haven't changed, have they? From the New York Times: "After four weeks of testimony]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/news/@jessij/did-you-miss-this-new-york-times-article-in-the-late-90s</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/news/@jessij/did-you-miss-this-new-york-times-article-in-the-late-90s</guid><category><![CDATA[news]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jessij]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2018 16:31:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/5s4dzRwnVbzHMnrhG9dqDTRDRrGcZ3bYVxb3YXNn7SnJfxoF4xdxjxSSZKNiedp73WbQD5BqLmnSEFGj4K6ZoJiQ2hvEeD1y5yDLFVRAAfELQFKdtnnpinRGvPEQdVQDxjzVSA4epvVCSMWZ9TMZYAvyL6ZLpkyBNd8hsqG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the Irish became White: Part One]]></title><description><![CDATA[The images below remind us that Irish immigrants were racialized in the U.S. in the 1800s. They were dehumanized and depicted as apelike, as the blog Sociological Images points out. Harper's Weekly, below,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/history/@jessij/how-the-irish-became-white-part-one</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/history/@jessij/how-the-irish-became-white-part-one</guid><category><![CDATA[history]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jessij]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:18:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/8SzwQc8j2KJb4ARrxQxCjX4jizub4U5CAK3WwB89wDKmigNJ36jnriaBooGQTfmrg7MBwhSQdmLYmxirRwN5iQpYDykzEYGGizMN3U8QYh8yK3t38Ez?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slavery's role in building the American economy]]></title><description><![CDATA["... in 1860, 80% of the nation's Gross National Product was tied to slavery." -from Carol Anderson's White Rage]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/history/@jessij/slavery-s-role-in-building-the-american-economy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/history/@jessij/slavery-s-role-in-building-the-american-economy</guid><category><![CDATA[history]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jessij]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2018 03:26:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jokes about Capitalism:  What do you want to be when you grow up?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I love jokes-- as a way of showing how ridiculous something like capitalism really is. Capitalism is a historically specific type of political/ social/ economic system, although many people in our society]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@jessij/jokes-about-capitalism-what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@jessij/jokes-about-capitalism-what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jessij]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2018 21:31:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/4i88GgaV8qiGEw1xifwYz2xp7RJEnNpBZq7dn2K62fvGuA8PNFpBRFzsMx5s1VxbNPNJawd1tR29o2VaPZawQwgXWdeRWagT2XArBCjdmNxTQF5CvhY3WtAwmY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism vs. Socialism Debate]]></title><description><![CDATA[A provocative discussion we do not have often enough. Here is the video (1 hour and 20 minutes long) on C-Span: Capitalism is a system driven by profit. Is that (such) a bad thing? To answer one of the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@jessij/capitalism-vs-socialism-debate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@jessij/capitalism-vs-socialism-debate</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jessij]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2018 18:45:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/26uUsAjKTsXCQk1qYXWBvaB21CARpb7vMcFWaRZ83yGdJce2sWkuMkYFsp9XsWVRQKbXnBKKGs34vwqwTViQF9Y5ss4h47FMsmfnMaJGgiWNztG9LtUwq3rvhjhM2wAdsucwkzCuSgqvnWZMntsQp53agrQniU1pHpeAjg?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "Privacy" of Gendered Violence]]></title><description><![CDATA[We live in a modern state obsessed with law and order and marked by unprecedented levels of mass incarceration. Yet some crimes are ignored or dismissed-- or at least enjoy a level of apparent acceptance]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@jessij/the-privacy-of-gendered-violence</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@jessij/the-privacy-of-gendered-violence</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jessij]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2018 17:19:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Images of Gender in Media Advertising]]></title><description><![CDATA[Until the 1970s, it was lawful for a man to force sex on his wife even if she did not want it. Activists in the 1970s demanded the recognition of forced sex within marriage as rape. It finally achieved]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/science/@jessij/images-of-gender-in-media-advertising</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/science/@jessij/images-of-gender-in-media-advertising</guid><category><![CDATA[science]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jessij]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2018 01:44:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNchGPKLQuxAL7oEwDJ42cT977qXjChbkqxr8WC6e66CwDjSTq9Mx3Y1dDibLH19YaxPX4ZnMgQafHNFb9KwKNFQyv3xd1GbqhUujyrdYF87ti?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sociology and the modern obsession with the "individual"]]></title><description><![CDATA[photo: sfsafehouse.org It is sometimes difficult for people to think outside of the lens of individualism. The notion of the "individual" may appear as common sense to modern Western readers,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/sociology/@jessij/sociology-and-the-modern-obsession-with-the-individual</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/sociology/@jessij/sociology-and-the-modern-obsession-with-the-individual</guid><category><![CDATA[sociology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jessij]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2017 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXZtBi1gYMfiSC4gqTeXem2f3UbtHqUY4CqfKgzxVgGqRpyivtbdenH2SzZVfDR1JemV2uKFasCS?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>