February 2012
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“I have no particular love for the idealised ‘worker’ as he appears in the...”
– George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (via solitaryforager)
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Kalamazoo Mutual Aid - Creating conditions for... →
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#MicCheckWallStreet - Thanksgiving Day Money Drop →
Once upon a time Valentine’s Day was a celebration of love. Now, it seems, it’s all about money. Every year it becomes more and more commercialized. Every Valentine’s Day, we collectively spend an incredibly large amount of money on lavish gifts and extravagant dinners. Just how much money is an incredibly large amount? According to the National Retail Foundation, an estimated $15.7...
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M.I.A.’s Raised Middle Finger Raises Question: Why... →
So, who used whom in the Madonna/M.I.A. Super Bowl halftime controversy—per that already famous middle finger that M.I.A. offered tens of millions of viewers before the censors could get to it? Did Madonna encourage this insurrection from her guest rapper, so that she’d have some provocation in her otherwise family-friendly set without having to take the rap herself? Or was M.I.A....
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To commemorate Ronald Reagan's birthday, I present... →
gedenkenbrauchtwissen:
The following is an excerpt from Ronald Reagan’s remarks on the American War with Vietnam (from a news conference in 1982). I have taken the liberty of correcting his historical inaccuracies because I have nothing better to do with my life.
If I recall , when France gave up Indochina as a colony (If by “gave up” you mean “begged the United States to use nuclear...
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Chicago Tribune - Romanian government collapses... →
The Romanian government collapsed Monday after weeks of protests over biting cuts meant to keep outside funding flowing to the troubled nation. Prime Minister Emil Boc said he and his Cabinet were resigning “to defuse political and social tension,” the Associated Press reported. Opposition leaders are calling on President Traian Basescu to step down as well. Crin Antonescu, who...
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ACLU - Al-Aulaqi v. Obama: Lawsuit Challenging... →
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) have filed a lawsuit challenging the government’s asserted authority to carry out “targeted killings” of U.S. citizens located far from any armed conflict zone.
In Al-Aulaqi v. Obama (Al-Awlaki v. Obama) the groups charge that the authority contemplated by the Obama administration is far...
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“To understand domination, we must understand that our capacity as women and men...”
– bell hooks, “feminism: a transformational politic”; Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black; (1989); (p. 20-21). (via agradschoolbreakup)
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there are still 100-ish people missing in oakland....
virgin-eater:
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negationparty:
money for bail is needed pretty desparately. donate here
if you’re doing jail support, were jailed, or are just involved with the shit going down in oakland: <3 <3 <3 i love yall so much
Shit is dire, please pass this on!
Stay strong Oakland. Boost it, followers. There some great people there who need your support.
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“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity, it is an act of justice.”
– Nelson Mandela (via solitaryforager)
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Newt Gingrich denied any knowledge of a robocall... →
mohandasgandhi:
Gingrich’s campaign spokesman R.C. Hammond confirmed the calls were going out statewide in Florida Tuesday. The call’s claim that Romney vetoed a bill providing kosher meals to nursing home residents during his time as governor first arose Monday, when Gingrich cited a report from the New York Post.
The robocall begins by saying: “As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney...
January 2012
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500 Years of Chicano History offered for FREE to... →
velocicrafter:
Banned 500 Years of Chicano History offered free to AZ students by ABQ publisher
500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures, edited by Elizabeth Martinez and published by the SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP), is included in a set of primarily Chicano and Native American books that have been banned by the Tucson Independent School District. The school district says it’s not a ban,...
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To #OWS: we need a blueprint for the future,... →
solitaryforager:
Historian Lawrence Goodwyn said that successful movements go through four stages:
1) First, the movement forms. This happens when people acknowledge oppression and defy it. They create physical and psychic spaces where they can cast off conventional modes of deferment, reject resignation and start acting with radical self-respect. This self-respect involves speaking with the...
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“I’ve been told not to talk, but these stooges don’t scare me. Threats or no...”
– From Ron Paul newsletter solicitation, 1993 (PDF), in which Paul describes his political newsletter (via shitthatronpaulsays)
Alex Jones approves of this insanity.
(via joemccarthyblues)
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Update: More than 300 arrests have been made at...
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What the world thinks of the GOP candidates →
Germany - “Those who follow this race daily may have long since lost perspective on how absurd it is,” writes Marc Pitzke in the Hamburg-based Der Spiegel. Commenting on CNN’s debate in Florida earlier this week, Pitzke writes,
“For 120 minutes they “debated” the “hot topics,” producing sound bites but offering no insight into how these men would cope with the enormous challenges facing the...
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“Occupy Oakland has got to stop using Oakland as its playground.”
– Mayor Jean Quan said at a late evening press conference as officers in riot gear were still lined up against demonstrators in parts of downtown. - Reuters (via brooklynmutt)
Mayor Jean Quan has got to tell Oakland PD to stop using Oakland at its playground. How about Occupiers stop protesting when...
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Fear and War: You really cannot make this shit up. →
anarchei:
Dagseoul, if you cannot own your self, then who just made that statement? It’s not your statement, because according to you one cannot own themselves and by extension everything they say and do. But if we follow that logic, it cannot be anyone else’s statement either, because as…
OK, “anarchei.” (Winces and turns his head away in shame.)
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Huffington Post - Oakland Police Department Only... →
Nearly a decade after the city of Oakland was first threatened with losing control of its police force, Judge Thelton Henderson has severely curtailed the independence of the Oakland Police Department, saying that it could placed under federal receivership as soon as this March.
In 2000, a group rogue of Oakland police officers, calling themselves the “Rough Riders,” were found to...
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Solitary Forager: Democracy Clearance Sale →
rockyanderson2012:
What do they take us for? A flock of sheep? Know-nothings? Or just forgiving twits who don’t mind being taken for a ride?
It doesn’t matter, really, what they take us for. What matters is that, to save our democracy, we must stop allowing this nonsense - this outright…
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“It is time to allow farmers to grow industrial hemp in the United States. There...”
– Rocky Anderson (via rockyanderson2012)
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FBI releases plans to monitor social networks →
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has quietly released details of plans to continuously monitor the global output of Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, offering a rare glimpse into an activity that the FBI and other government agencies are reluctant to discuss publicly. The plans show that the bureau believes it can use information pulled from social media...
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