Milwaukee, WI Anti-SB1070 Protest July 29th, 2010
Eli's Tmblg
Jul 31
(via whatthefwook)
“Im an anarchist! I couldnt possibly be racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic!” I dont know how many times that one has been muttered in so called safe spaces.
What ana-r-kissed said…
They get even worse when you mention “white supremacy”. YIKES.
Max Fischer: So you were in Vietnam?
Herman Blume: Yeah.
Max Fischer: Were you in the shit?
Herman Blume: Yeah, I was in the shit.
Jul 30
» Boy's suicide reveals continued problems with county social services
On a still night last month, a Montebello fifth-grader walked to a bedroom closet, pulled out a jump rope and hanged himself — apparently to end the abuse that had tormented him for years. Just hours earlier, Los Angeles County mental health and child abuse investigators had visited the drab apartment building to examine 11-year-old Jorge Tarin. He had told a school counselor that day that he wanted to kill himself. After speaking to Jorge privately, the county workers left. A review following his June 8 suicide uncovered evidence that persistent communication breakdowns at the county Department of Children and Family Services may have contributed to the tragedy, according to county records reviewed by The Times.
When county workers decided not to hospitalize or detain the boy, they were unaware of key pieces of information, according to documentation about the case. The social worker did not have one of the portable tablet computers that the department uses to pull case records in the field.
The department paid $5.9 million for about 2,400 tablets in 2007, but purchased only 400 wireless cards to allow them to connect remotely. As a result, in a department with about 7,300 employees, the overwhelming majority of the tablets gather dust on social workers’ desks. Many field workers instead rely on personal cellphones to connect to the office.
It was not until after Jorge killed himself that the workers learned that the stepfather who answered the door had a long history of drug abuse and domestic violence. He was there when county officials visited, even though a court order barred him from living in the home.
Although county workers had visited Jorge in disheveled homes since his infancy — noting drugs, violence and neglect in the households — the complete history was not available to the officials who interviewed him that day. Without remote access to the department’s computer system, the social worker at the scene was unable to fill in some blanks that may have changed the decision to leave Jorge at the home.
“ There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!
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Mario Savio (via bradicalmang)
(this is probably one of my favorite quotes of all time)
(via adailyriot)
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In order for us poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed. This means that we are going to have to think in radical terms.
I use the term “radical” in its original meaning – getting down to and understanding the root cause. It means facing a system that does not lend itself to your needs and devising means by which you change that system.
That is easier said than done. But one of the things that has to be faced is, in the process of wanting to change that system, how much have we got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going … I am saying, as you must say too, that in order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but must understand where we have been.”
— Ella Baker, 1969 (via guerillartfare)
Poema (Poem) by Nel Amaro
TURF FEINZ “RIP Rich D” | YAKFILMS | ERK THA JERK | TURF DANCING in the RAIN | DANSE SOUS LA PLUIE (via YAKfilms)
this is beautiful - four black men dancing in the rain in oakland. challenging expectations of what we expect young black men to do on street corners, how we expect them to inhabit space.
In Los Angeles, protesters opposing Arizona’s anti-immigrant law chain themselves together with plastic pipes and handcuffs, blocking traffic on Wilshire Boulevard.
