February 2013
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“Eight men have already been arrested as part of a sex trafficking ring exposed...”
– Sex Trafficking at the Super Bowl (via jayaprada)
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Bradley Manning denied chance to make... →
The judge, Colonel Denise Lind, ruled that general issues of motive were not relevant to the trial stage of the court martial, and must be held back until Manning either entered a plea or was found guilty, at which point it could be used in mitigation to lessen the sentence. The ruling is a blow to the defence as it will make it harder for the soldier’s legal team to argue he was acting as...
January 2013
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“I was asked if it was fair to say I liked to have a drink. That’s all I need to...”
– -SWP member
The SWP recently had an allegation of rape. Their dispute committee conducted an ‘investigation’ in which questions about personal relationships and non-sequiturs like alcohol were asked. You can read more about the dispute and the SWP’s disgusting reaction to it in...
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Bhaskar Sunkara on the media's CTU strike coverage →
Bhaskar Sunkara gives his take on Ryan as all show and no substance, but this piece really shines when he begins to analyze similar distractions in debate about public sector unions:
Just look at the recent Chicago Teachers Union strike, which prompted a quick editorial from the New York Times. Called “Chicago Teachers’ Folly,” it claimed that “Teachers’ strikes, because they hurt children and...
Watchtheatlantic:
Here’s How Lupe Fiasco Got Kicked Off Stage at an Inaugural Concert
“Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for...”
– Huey P. Newton (via socialismartnature)
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Rebuilding the Labor Movement: From Wisconsin to...
The ISO in Denver is putting on a panel of labor activists to discuss the resurgence of the labor movement. It promises to be very interesting, stop by to participate in the discussion! Details below.
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Thursday, January 24 at 7 PM
Room 442, Tivoli Student Union, Auraria Campus ( map | parking )
Featuring:
• Michael Billeaux, participant in the Wisconsin capital occupation, UW-Madison...
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If someone has a political opinion or belief you...
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b/c this needs to be said: The New Black Panthers...
so-treu:
they are in no way shapre or form affiliated with the ORIGINAL Black Panther Party for Self Defense.
in fact the ORIGINAL Black Panthers have disavowed the New Black Panthers:
Secondly, they denigrate the Party’s name by promoting concepts absolutely counter to the revolutionary principles on which the Party was founded. Their alleged media assault on the Ku Klux Klan serves to...
“Mass incarceration is not a solution to unemployment, nor is it a solution to...”
– Angela Davis, Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex (via zeram)
December 2012
Israel denies Bedouins right to elect... →
As campaign posters pop up around Israel ahead of the country’s upcoming parliamentary elections, Palestinian Bedouin citizens of the state are still reeling after being denied the chance to elect their own local council representatives.
Legal rights activists say the move represents the limits of democracy in Israel, particularly with regard to its non-Jewish citizens.
“Every citizen wants to...
“In a war justified at least partly to “liberate” Muslim women, the fact that...”
– From “Veil in the Time of War” or “Veilin’ the Time of War”
Yes, yes, YES! Now read the essay
(via kawrage)
In case you missed the Doctor Who Christmas...
“Being body positive doesn’t mean you have to find every body type attractive....”
– Damn My Feminine Wiles: PSA
Why is it so difficult for people to understand that someone else’s being unattractive to you doesn’t mean you can treat them like shit? What kind of person are you to think your boner is the only measure of a woman’s worth?
(via thewestniallvirus)
savedbyequine:
reinventingmysoul:
My therapist in session:
“Anorexia is serious. You need this help.”
“I’m not anorexic.”
“Why?”
“Because I am too fat now.”
And she said:
“You can be over weight or even obese and still restrict under 500 calories and over exercise. Some people just mess up their metabolism that much they can NOT lose weight. But they’re still anorexic. Anorexic isn’t 90...
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solitarysocialist:
basedsushigoat:
how does the Austrian School of Economics explain chronic masturbation
trick question: the Austrian School of Economics is chronic masturbation
Remember that I love you.: adecentfellow: An... →
adecentfellow:
An entire 1% of the USA’s adult population is in jail.
That’s between 2.5-3 million people.
Proportionally, America imprisons more than twice as many of its citizens as South Africa, more than 3 times as many as Iran, and more than 6 times as many as China.
No society in…
so-frustrating asked: As a Pakistani girl who's...
brashblacknonbeliever:
I don’t know if I made my point clear enough.
I want the voices of Pakistani people to be heard. It is extremely important that we listen to the people who are directly affected by America’s foreign policy when they speak out against drone strikes, invasions, and wars. There are many people who have offered extremely good and consistent commentary and criticisms for...
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“We live in a nation that executes people at a rate unheard of among western...”
– (via oldenough2burmom)
168 children killed in drone strikes in Pakistan... →
Let’s see those crocodile tears now.
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“The truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that if I had set...”
– Barack Obama
So “Change” would really better be described as “Change Back,” I suppose.
geekvariety asked: I find all this push back you're getting, and people across the internet doing the same all over the place, kind of troubling. If not now, when? When do we talk about this? Since Columbine in 1999 we haven't had this discussion. Nobody wants to talk about this and if they try they get shouted down. The only time we had this discussion (that I remember) was when Reagan got shot and when...
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“I weep for you,’ the Walrus said:
I deeply sympathize.’
With...”
– Lewis Carol, The Walrus and the Carpenter
Tumblr have some respect it's only been a day...
“If roads were collapsing all across the United States, killing dozens of...”
– Eleven facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States (via messily)
THIS. (via keepinitweil)
It’s MUCH TOO LATE….
(via ladyofleisuredc)
zigziggityzoo asked: Now I'm curious. Do you think the 400 million guns already out there are a lost cause and you're only going to focus on new ones?
Anonymous asked: Just as the regulations on morphine (heroin) only actually affect the legal manufacture - regulations on guns are only going to affect the law abiding supply chain as well. I believe the true thing to address with BOTH problems is actually the human being that everyone ignores.
Anonymous asked: If banning drugs didn't stop drug usage, what makes anyone think banning guns is going to stop gun usage?
okay so tumblr concurs that we need to "have a...
jakke:
What does that conversation look like? Like, what kind of firearm regulation is going to be feasible and low-cost and effective? Are we talking about mandatory safety exams, or outright bans on assault weapons, or prohibition of gun resales, or what? The Second Amendment isn’t going away (or getting drastically reinterpreted) any time soon, so you’re going to have to work within that...
