January 2011
13 posts
Knowing Coves: Third World Protest as US Spectator... →
zuky:
I’m not a fan of the US cultural habit of turning political turmoil in faraway lands into a gawkworthy spectator sport. I came to this realization in the aftermath of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square, as it gradually dawned on me that sheltered, largely clueless people who had no stake in…
“Political Correctness” is a reactionary term... →
panasonicyouth:
Laurence Berg, Canada Research Chair for Human Rights, Diversity and Identity, disagrees with the idea that PC language and policies are oppressive. Why? Because he doesn’t really believe that PC policies existed in the first place.
“What [they]’re calling the ‘PC movement’ I would call a social movement by marginalised people and the people who support them,” he said. “[A...
“Kimberly Hutchings from Atlanta described how after losing her job, she applied...”
– Monica Peabody, “Moms for Change.” Real Change, May 19th 2010. (via quixotess) (via quixotess) (via ilykadamen) (via so-treu) (via jadedhippy) (via guerrillamamamedicine) (via thecurvature)
Wanted: A New Best Friend For The Dog Who Survived...
thecurvature:
healingsakina:
thecranium:
A cruel person left this dog chained to the pedestrian walkway on the Williamsburg Bridge during the massive snow storm the other day. A nice person noticed her on his way to work and rescued her. Now he needs someone to give her a forever home! Read the whole story here.
reblogging cuz i got lots of friends/acquaintences in NYC…
Help find this...
tangerine trees and marmalade skies: Juarez... →
radicallyhottoff:
fuckyeahchicanopower:
A Mexican activist who led protests against the unsolved killings of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez has herself been murdered.
Susana Chavez was found strangled and with one hand cut off in Ciudad Juarez last week, but has only now been…
Birds and Fish are now Dying all Around the World →
guerrillamamamedicine:
materialworld:
jaeboogie:
livingasana:
“HAARP has also been named as a cause of these deaths but HARRP is an artificial earthquake generator and what would earthquakes have to do with birds and fish? Besides, HAARP couldn’t have been used all over the world.”
Damn, they came out and said it. (it does other nasty things too…)
This mysterious apocalyptic phenomenon...
NAACP: Georgia Prison Guards Beat Inmates in... →
At least three inmates at two Georgia prisons were severely beaten by prison guards as a measure of retaliatory abuse, the NAACP of Georgia charges. The alleged beatings followed prison visits by a delegation of civil rights advocates, which came on the heels of an inmate strike that drew national headlines last month.
One inmate at Macon State Prison in Oglethorpe, Ga., sustained...
