December 2010
Jan. 25: Take Action to Protest FBI and Grand Jury... →
redguard:
Join the National Day of Action on Tuesday January 25, 2011
In December 2010, under the direction of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, the FBI delivered nine new subpoenas in Chicago to anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists. Patrick Fitzgerald’s office is ordering the nine to appear at a Grand Jury in Chicago on January 25.
In response we are calling for protests on Jan. 25...
Ohio: Hunger strike of the Lucasville uprising... →
redguard:
Dear family members, friends and supporters of the Lucasville uprising prisoners,
Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Bomani Shakur (Keith LaMar), Jason Robb and Namir Mateen (James Were) will start a hunger strike on Monday Jan. 3 to protest their 23-hour a day lock down for nearly 18 years. These four death-sentenced prisoners have been single-celled (in solitary) in conditions of...
They're still protesting the so-called "Ground... →
timekiller-s:
… and now an anti-Park51 group has targeted teenybopper Justin Bieber.
Seriously, this is golden. Click thru the headline.
Harry Potter and the Girls Who Weren’t Chosen Ones →
I Hate This Mess: You can't justify your *isms... →
justjasper:
Being non-neurotypical doesn’t mean you can get away with ableism. If you slip up and use an ableist slur, note your mistake (we all make them). Apologise if you need to. “I’m not ableist because…” or “maybe it was ableist but it’s okay because…” bawing does you no favours….
“I don’t think any gay person is going to be happy and bring joy to themselves...”
– Sir Ian McKellen (via inherhipstheresrevolutions)
Smash the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy:... →
diyorgasms:
trastorn:
I understand the need to avoid language that is harmful in various ways, whether it be racist, sexist, ableist and so on. Like everyone, I have my issues with problematic language and I am working on that. But where is the line? Where does calling others out cross from seeking to…
Freedom of speech does mean ‘being able to say whatever you like’. However, there is no...
Live, laugh, love, rinse, and repeat: Question →
zoezoloft:
Why the fuck do so many white people suddenly think the n-word is ok to say? More and more on tumblr I’m seeing this word come up on memes and people making comments like “AHAHAHAH” or “LAWL THIS IS HILARIOUS”…foreal? When the fuck did America decide that this was perfectly normal?? Know this and remember this forever that I will never tolerate that word ESPECIALLY FROM WHITE PEOPLE...
sabrinadropkick asked: I studied screenwriting in film. Well technically still do. I graduate in May but I'm done in Chicago, doing the LA program for the spring semester.
The truth is, I'm one of those few people who...
(story of my life!)
Why the Rich Are Getting Richer →
If there is a flaw in their telling of this grim tale, it is that Hacker and Pierson perhaps underestimate the actual discontent of the American middle class over the period they discuss. In the 1960s and 1970s, Americans came increasingly to distrust their government, and not without reason. Their leaders had led them into a distant war that proved unwinnable and tore the country apart; a...
Is it weird that I miss my books?
i miss being able to just go to them for reference and quotes… I can’t do that here. I don’t like having them so far a way.
… I’m such a nerd.
as a side note, after last night I realized that I need to get more interests besides:
talking, reading, writing and ranting about radical politics & social justice philosophy/theory/tactics/history/ect
history [in...
“When I was the rabbi of the Jewish community in Berlin under the Hitler regime,...”
– Joachim Prinz (via azspot)
“Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of...”
– Cherrie Moraga (via fuckyeahchicanawriters)
relevant to my year.
(via isabelthespy)
Song of Solomon Transformed My Life →
isabelthespy:
ilykadamen:
Young people are more isolated from adults than they’ve ever been. Unless you’re an adult who is getting paid to somehow be involved with young people, chances are most adults have no contact with young people that they’re not related to. And the isolation is kind of structural and it’s very deep and it’s very visible. It’s basically divided the country into people...
New York City Government : We Have The Right To... →
neighborhoodr:
A video where a New York City snow removal worker was seen destroying a car by improperly attempting to free themselves from being stuck in the snow circulated all over the Internet this past week.
We copied the official New York City 411 Twitter account on the link he posted:
Here’s their response:
I agree that in an emergency, your car will need to be damaged if it helps...
Genderbitch Lite: Now With More Rambling!:... →
a-n-a-r-c-h-a:
“A substantial number of American Indians have protested that use of native names, images, and symbols as sports team mascots and the like is, by definition, a virulently racist practice. Given the historical relationship between Indians and non-Indians during what has been…
“And you, Truth:
Give me the strength and the anger
So that when my foot...”
– A. Joyce Andem, “An Anarchist’s Prayer” (via a-n-a-r-c-h-a)
Watchshanaelmsford:
Lauryn Hill talking to a crowd of upset hipsters like they’re children is funny.
i wouldn’t say she’s talking to them like they’re children, i’d say she’s just telling them how it is.
CRACK: Sterilizing Drug Addicts Since 1997 →
readnfight:
Reading this article right now, pretty sure I might vom. Eugenics like everything else has been “modernized” so that it carries all the signs of the times: technology, vouchers, and the nonprofit industry mindset.
Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity (CRACK), a non-profit based in California, will give $200 cash to any drug-addicted man or woman willing to undergo sterilization....
sabrinadropkick asked: Ha! I went to Columbia too! Small world.
sabrinadropkick asked: Ha! I went to Columbia too! Small world.
chicana/xicana feminist theory books →
xicanagrrrl:
erespielmorena:
revolutionaryhips:
i need to read every single book on this list
y muy que reteke pronto!
omg, this could not have come at a more perfect time. now, to get my hands on these without money or a university ID card.
7 STEPS TO STARTING A FOOD NOT BOMBS CHAPTER IN... →
elitc:
urbanfoodproduction:
(via jail-baitcore)
Student protester operated on after being 'hit... →
socialisimo:
Get well soon! we’re all thinking of you. lets stand up for Alfie!
A 20-year-old student underwent a three-hour operation to treat bleeding on the brain last night after being hit on the head by a policetruncheon, according to his mother.
Alfie Meadows is said to have fallen unconscious on the way to hospital after being struck as he tried to leave an area outside Westminster...
Think women have achieved equality? Think again. →
We Can’t Be Equal While:
Gender Roles
Men are the default and women are the Other (and therefore lesser).
Being called “girly” or a “sissy” or “pussy” are some of the worst insults you can give a man.
When a woman shows confidence in herself, she is said to “have balls”, or conversely she is a “man-eater”, “ball-buster”, or a “bitch” because she was “too” assertive.
Men are beat up,...