August 2010
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July 2010
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Boy's suicide reveals continued problems with... →
abbyjean:
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...
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“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you...”
– 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...”
– Ella Baker, 1969 (via guerillartfare)
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Facebook group: Boycott Target Until They Cease... →
“Target, practically everyone’s favorite discount retail store, is headquartered in Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes. But along with precious bodies of water, Minnesota is home to some pretty rabid anti-gay politicians and groups. Among them include Tom Emmer. And Target, it seems, is apparently filling his campaign coffers with nearly $150,000. Follow the money. At least,...
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Real America: Why Target Supports Tom Emmer →
adailyriot:
abbyjean:
A PAC called MN Forward raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in just a few weeks. MN Forward is using that money to run ads in support of Emmer, a Republican [candidate for MN governor]. Target, long headquartered in Minneapolis, was one of the four corporate patrons of MN Forward. They forked over $100,000 cash and another $50,000 of in-kind goods and services. It’s...
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“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via ishsherylltonog) (via fuckyeahtranscendentalism) (via awritersruminations) (via astrophysicists) (via soul-surfer)
true
(via horribleideas, irishsherylltonog)
Definitely how I feel about school. x_x And yet im paying to do this very thing smh!
(via it-all-falls-down)
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“Not everyone has jumped onto the bandwagon of despair. Most people continue on;...”
– Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) - from The Shadows of Tender Fury (p. 45)
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“VIOLENCE is to work 40 years for peanuts and wondering if you will ever retire....”
– Leaflet by the liberated town hall of Agios Dimitros, Greece, December 2008 (via introtoclasswar) (via clitorisaurusrex) (via ifighttheonesthatfightme) (via ihatethismess) (via radioactiveriotgrrrls) (via popnihilism)
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t r u t h o u t | “Our American Heroes”: Why It’s... →
“By making our military a league of heroes, we ensure that the brutalizing aspects and effects of war will be played down. In celebrating isolated heroic feats, we often forget that war is guaranteed to degrade humanity. “War,” as writer and cultural historian Louis Menand noted, “is specially terrible not because it destroys human beings, who can be destroyed in plenty of other ways,...
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“Two persons – one white and the other black – are playing a game of poker. The...”
– Roy L. Brooks (via azspot) (via adailyriot)
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viva la anarquia en todas partes →
popnihilism:
un sitio web sobre anarquismo mundial
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This is the link to the International Burn A Koran... →
adailyriot:
elengberg:
goddamnedxvx:
redguard:
hoaxzine:
cutmywires:
brosephstalin:
Here’s what you do:
1. Click the Link
2. Lol at their stupidity and bigotry
3. Go to the bottom of the left hand side column, see where it says report?
4. Click it and report it as racist/hate speech
No free speech for fascists.
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stuff white people do: insist on racially... →
adailyriot:
midnightsnak:
tranzient:
When asked to a white person, this question is met with confusion. But for me, it’s an inquiry about my race. No one had to tell me, even as a child, that “What are you?” meant “What race are you?” I just knew. My answer used to be, “I’m mixed,” which would raise other questions about what I was mixed with and how much of it. “Mixed” was never a good...
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The Two Big University Lies: Why the University of... →
In discussing the fiscal problems of the University of California with the Chronicle of Higher Education, President Mark Yudof argued that driving the budgetary problems for the university is the high cost of instructional salaries. According to this common argument, many costs of universities can be reduced, but the high salaries of tenured faculty cannot be lowered, and so the only solution is...
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Here's what white privilege sounds like... →
(via adailyriot)
[Note: This article appeared in the Baltimore Sun newspaper and was written by a Caucasian professor of journalism at the U of Texas. A followup piece can be found here. ]
Here’s what white privilege sounds like: I’m sitting in my University of Texas office, talking to a very bright and very conservative white student about affirmative action in college admissions,...
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June was worst month for Army suicides, statistics... →
abbyjean:
More U.S. soldiers killed themselves last month than in recent Army history, according to Army statistics released Thursday, confounding officials trying to reverse the grim trend. The statistics show that 32 soldiers killed themselves in June, the highest number in a single month since the Vietnam era. Twenty-one of them were on active duty, while 11 were in the National Guard or Army...
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My Summer Reading List...
racerebel88:
I brought these books off of Amazon today. This is going to be a looooong summer…
1. “Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics” Joy James
2. “Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination” Robin D.G. Kelley
3. “Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton” Bobby Seale
4. “The Black Panther Party...
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“There is a simple and clear reality in this country: there’s no future for...”
– French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux (sort of discounting most of French political history) to reporters after recent riots in Grenoble (via popnihilism)
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Republican governor candidate Tom Emmer slammed on... →
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itisrighttorebel:
Roseville, MN - This may be seen as the week that Republican candidate for governor Tom Emmer’s campaign imploded. After making a statement on the campaign trail calling for restaurant workers who earn tips to get a wage cut so that restaurant owners can earn more money and then bizarrely stating that many tip-earning servers make over $100,000 a year, a firestorm...
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Facebook’s censorship of left must be fought →
The U.S.-based social-networking monolith Facebook has begun an all-out assault on its members, deleting three active groups that advocated for progressive and radical causes, permanently banning the… (read more)
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“Ward Connerly acknowledged that minorities are scarce at tea party events he’s...”
– American Prospect.
yikes. that’s a moebius strip of racism that just keeps folding in on itself.
(via abbyjean)
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(LA) Council Balks at Library Tax for November... →
“Libraries gave us power” was the opening line from the Manic Street Preachers’ first major hit ‘A Design for Life’, and reflected their pride in their working-class upbringing in industrial South Wales, the line being inspired by the main entrance to the Central Library in Newport which contains an inscription of the said legend. The library was built for the...
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