April 2012
Few options for homeless young people in Chicago -... →
“For months, Chen Guangcheng, one of China’s best-known dissidents, played a...”
– The New York Times, “Daring Circle, Now at Risk, Aided Activist’s Flight in China.”
Fucking amazing. Can’t wait to see how Hillary deals with this.
And I can’t think of a better fuck you to Chinese leaders.
(via inothernews)
“For months, Chen Guangcheng, one of China’s best-known dissidents, played a...”
– The New York Times, “Daring Circle, Now at Risk, Aided Activist’s Flight in China.”
Fucking amazing. Can’t wait to see how Hillary deals with this.
And I can’t think of a better fuck you to Chinese leaders. (via inothernews)
More Free Textbooks and Courses Online →
mehreenkasana:
It makes me so happy to know that whenever I share these links on free education, books and resources online, people not only learn a lot from it but are often generous enough to share it with their friends and other folks online. It goes positively viral. That’s the beauty of learning: Passing it on. So let’s see what I have this week on more book-sy, academic stuff.
We all know...
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when i'm really high and watch national...
patheticlifestory:
“This past month, there was much outrage over the fact that General Electric,...”
– Undocumented Immigrants Paid $11.2 Billion In Taxes While GE Paid Nothing
(via odiosmios)
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Daily Kos: For Sexual Assault Awareness Month,... →
“This ongoing violence, a violence that has been taking lives and stifling the...”
– Over at The Risky Shift blog, where I’m a contributor, I wrote about the effects of ongoing violence in Karachi and some of the difficulties in untangling its root causes. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
“Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.” ~Charles de Gaulle”
“The precise number of slaves exported to the eastern Mediterranean (and later to...”
– John M. Lipski, “Sub-Saharan Africans in Spain: the first contacts” in A History of Afro-Hispanic Language: Five Centuries, Five Continents (via liquornspice)
Watchpaigeevictoria:
ascensionandescape:
shakethedustt:
pura-vidaa:
What the literal fuck.
WHAT IS GOING ON
Get it Granny.
Its weird, but this makes me kinda sad
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there are people who: Spanish Government Plans Ban... →
fralcon:
Spanish bloggers could face up to two years in jail for organizing street protests, according to draconian new laws proposed by the country’s interior minister. Jorge Fernandez Diaz laid out the measures in parliament on Thursday; they would criminalize those caught organizing…
Think Progress: SIX FACTS about the wage gender... →
think-progress:
1. In 2010 women who worked full time, year round, still only earned 77 percent of what men earned.
2. For working women between the ages of 25 to 29, the annual wage gap is $1,702. In the last five years before retirement, however, the annual wage gap jumps to $14,352.
3. More than 40 percent…
Socialist Assassin Pony: The progressive tax is a... →
sushigoat:
I would like to remind you all that the democratic party, and progressive liberals in general are far more dangerous to leftist values than any fringe GOP loon. What they advocate is precisely what the corporate class wants: A justification for their privilege.
As no-one with an…
“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United...”
– WEB DuBois (via wakeupblackpower)
The fact that this quote is still valid is really quite sad.
(via bringmewaterformymind)
“For every soldier killed on the battlefield this year, about 25 veterans are...”
– Nicholas Kristof (via think-progress)
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“The Taliban launched a series of coordinated attacks on at least seven sites...”
– Taliban attack Afghan capital, 3 other cities - latimes.com
That’s not good.
(via sexartandpolitics)
more evidence that our imperialist agenda is not going well
Titanic Survivors: A Breakdown by Class →
thepoliticalnotebook:
First Class Passengers: 63% survived (200 out of 319 lived).
Second Class Passengers: 43% survived (117 out of 269 lived).
Third Class Passengers: 25% survived (172 out of 699 lived).
Any death, regardless of class, is a horrible and tragic thing, but on the anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking it’s important to remember one of the things that night symbolizes: that,...
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Free the Market, Abolish the Wage System →
Under capitalism — as opposed to a freed market — the state makes the means of production artificially scarce and expensive for workers, and raises the threshold of comfortable subsistence, so that workers are artificially dependent on wage labor.
The state enforces artificial property rights and artificial scarcities, like so-called “intellectual property” (the source of the $150 markup on...
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“We can continue to simply move around the players, the Democrats and...”
– Rocky Anderson (via rockyanderson2012)
“Nonviolence declares that the American Indians could have fought off Columbus,...”
– -Peter Gelderloos, Why Nonviolence Protects the State- Nonviolence is Racist (via fuckyeahradicalquotes)
REBLOGGING FOREVER! USING VIOLENCE (OR TALKING ABOUT IT AS AN OPTION) DOES NOT MAKE YOU OPPRESSIVE!
(via msamberhazard)
This is the most ridiculous quote I may have seen float around yet and...
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The spirit of Kim Il Sung lives on →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
By Deirdre Griswold
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is preparing to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, an amazing revolutionary who for more than 60 years led the Korean people’s struggle against imperialist domination.
His life began in April 1912, shortly after Japan had formally annexed Korea as its colony. His political...
