March 2012
Sense Offensive: Man of Cherokee descent says:... →
adailyriot:
senseoffensive:
Man of Cherokee descent says:
“Native American headdresses are no more sacred than the materials they are made from. Native Americans are not a peace-loving, ‘Na’vi’ like race of humanoids on the Great American Plains living in harmony with one another, as history would show us:
Mounted…
few things here:
just cuz that man is cherokee, doesn’t mean he gets to...
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Top 5 Stratfor Revelations →
sharquaouia:
Up to 12 Pakistani active-duty and retired officers from the Inter-Services Intelligence agency knew that Usama Bin Laden was in Abbottabad and were in regular contact with him. The Pakistani chief of staff is denying the report.
Dow Chemicals hired Stratfor to spy on activists in Agra who continue to protest over the Bhopal environmental disaster that blinded many workers and...
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“That’s the curse plaguing our land,” he said, pointing to the Imider mine. “It...”
– Brahim Udawd
The Imider mine, on the eastern slopes of the Atlas mountains in Morocco, is the world’s seventh biggest producer of silver.
But instead of welcoming the mine, many local people resent it as a symbol of how Morocco’s wealth is concentrated in the hands of a privileged few while...
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You can learn a lot from someone based on how they...
this-is-not-native:
How someone interested in fighting racism responds:
“I didn’t know that! I’ll avoid doing/saying that from now on.”
How someone who doesn’t care about racism responds:
“Who are you, the PC police?”
“Calm down.”
“It’s really not a big deal.”
“You’re just racist against white people!”
“There are bigger battles to fight.”
“I don’t complain when someone does (rude but not...
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“We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human...”
– Former US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bowman, in Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States”.
(via timmytime)
YES YES YES THIS THIS THIS
(via whatsajuthika)
I want this emblazoned on my forehead for all of the American entitlement people out there.
(via baxtavius)
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senseoffensive:
Man of Cherokee descent says:
“Native American headdresses are no more sacred than the materials they are made from. Native Americans are not a peace-loving, ‘Na’vi’ like race of humanoids on the Great American Plains living in harmony with one another, as history would show us:
Mounted Lakota Sioux warriors pushed such Plains nations as the Blackfeet and the Crow westward,...
February 2012
Contrary to "Entitlement Society" Rhetoric, Over... →
anticapitalist:
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“I hate my son’s homework. I hate the shallow worksheets and the confusing...”
– Abolishing Homework: Practical Thoughts
(via anticapitalist)
If I had gone into education, I personally feel that my daily homework assignment would be to the effect of “If your parents let you, go outside. Walk around in the woods. Look and SEE. Listen and HEAR. Touch and FEEL. Just...
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“In a statement Monday, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama welcomes...”
– TransCanada to push ahead with part of Keystone pipeline
There’s one way to sum this story up: Crap.
(via mohandasgandhi)
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Gay sex is now legal in India →
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“Everyone is trying to save the Muslim woman; Western society must save her from...”
– Nadia El Awady (via egyptiansoapbox)
Cracked on Anarchism →
anticapitalist:
Anarcho-Synicalists
These are boring people. Their hobbies include; talking about their anarchist organization’s structure document, reading books about the IWW’s structure documents, having inappropriate sexual dreams about future structure documents, and (once a year or so) organizing a union picket (maybe). They saw Newsies when they were little, and took it as absolute fact....
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Hey New Yorkers: Stop Police from Criminalizing...
14kgoldnyc:
deliciouskaek:
baddominicana:
latinosexuality:
Hey New York-based HIV PJA’ers - please take part in this action opportunity from our allies in your state!
Please support bill A1008/S232 by signing this petition! This bill would stop police and prosecutors from using possession of condoms as evidence that people intend to engage in prostitution. We should be encouraging as...
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“Anarchists use every means at their disposal — the speech, the press, the deed —...”
– Emma Goldman (via emma-goldman)
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emma-goldman:
The great harm done by our system of education is not so much that it teaches nothing worth knowing, that it helps to perpetuate privileged classes, that it assists them in the criminal procedure of robbing and exploiting the masses; the harm of the system lies in its boastful proclamation that it stands for true education, thereby enslaving the masses a great deal more than could...
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“The world has become a prison, and life continual solitary confinement.”
– Emma Goldman (via emma-goldman)
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adailyriot:
The day Canada’s reconciliation paradigm died: TRC Commissioner changes tune on residential schools as genocide
niibish-tart:
bannockandbutter:
Just a refresher, courtesy of Pamela Palmater…
*TW: residential schools, children, parents, sexual abuse, abuse, neglect, torture, death, genocide
The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of...
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Overwhelmed by Opposition, Wisconsin's Walker... →
nefariousnewt:
tehblackbirdisincognito:
quickhits:
The Nation
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The handwriting is on the wall, Governor… so to speak. I would suggest you take some of those millions you’ve drummed up and invest in packing supplies.
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Is Alabama About to Execute an Innocent Man? →
anticapitalist:
Last Wednesday, Alabama scheduled the execution of Thomas Arthur for March 29. I object to the death penalty under all circumstances, but Mr. Arthur’s case is particularly troubling, because it’s possible that he’s innocent.
Mr. Arthur has been on death row since 1982 for the murder of Troy Wicker. He was not an upstanding citizen. At the time of the killing, Mr. Arthur was an...
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“With all our boasted reforms, our great social changes, and our far-reaching...”
– About prisons - Emma Goldman (via emma-goldman)
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“We have long ago taken it as a self-evident fact that the boy may follow the...”
– Emma Goldman (via emma-goldman)
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“Liberty is not the daughter but the mother of order.”
– Voltairine de Cleyre - Emma’s close colleague (via emma-goldman)
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“I wish to say that I am a social student. It is my mission in life to ascertain...”
– Emma Goldman - Address to the Jury (via emma-goldman)
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“It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom.”
– Emma Goldman (via emma-goldman)
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“However, it is not only government in the sense of the state which is...”
– Emma Goldman (via emma-goldman)
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Police agencies in the United States to begin... →
solitaryforager:
from Deep Green Resistance News Service
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“So I decided to become a midwife… I wanted to deliver a thousand babies. And as...”
– Emma Goldman (via emma-goldman)
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“All politicians, no matter how sincere (if such an anomaly is at all thinkable),...”
– Emma Goldman (via emma-goldman)
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“Anarchism aims to strip labour of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom...”
– Emma Goldman (via emma-goldman)
“Whether you use bullets or ballots, you’ve got to aim well; don’t strike at the...”
– The Autobiography of Malcolm X (via warriorsrise)
Activists against mountaintop removal and fracking... →
solitaryforager:
from Deep Green Resistance News Service
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“We have lost touch with the natural order of things… which day of the workweek...”
– Thomas Berry in Endgame Vol. II: Resistance I have often thought this culture cannot be saved. It can’t be. In these moments, I wander, I yearn, that I may at least remember the beauty not yet lost. (via americawakiewakie)