June 2012
5 posts
May 2012
30 posts
“Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep people from...”
– Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape - Sex Positive Activism. (via likeknivesandwolves)
In 2011, NYPD Made More Stops Of Young Black Men... →
liquornspice:
urbanafrofuturism:
I do believe I was one of these stops.
Domestic terrorism.
Watch[trigger warning for graphic violence] Video of police slowly murdering a homeless man in CA. Two officers are being charges with homicide in the case. Article with more info here.
Ms. Blaspheming Bitch: there is SO much wrong with... →
trubr0wn:
homophobia has existed for centuries
racism has existed for centuries
there are straight people of color
there are gay people of color
there are straight white people
there are gay white people
there are INTERRACIAL GAY COUPLES
THERE IS SUCH A THING AS INTERSECTIONALITY. IT EXISTS. IT’S THERE.
these are SEPARATE and both IMPORTANT issues. but they are not comparable like this....
Stop Incarceration for Profit in Your State →
If you live in one of 48 states, right now there’s a proposal sitting on your governor’s desk from a company called Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). That for-profit corporation is offering to buy and run prisons across the nation. In exchange, states must agree to keep the prisons at least 90 percent full. Two articles in USA Today examine the ethical concerns raised by the proposal.
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WatchVideo: Police repression of non-violent sit-in at Brooklyn College
“Rape culture is a culture in which people who have survived a violent crime are...”
– (via gracefree)
It's funny how the poor are the ones who must do...
anirishginger:
voodoo-acid-zombie:
Thats why we’re going to burn their mansions down.
Its gets even worse when you consider the fact that all that money they “earned” was made from the labor of the rest of us.
Do You Hear the People Sing?: anticapitalist: New... →
anticapitalist:
New Police Strategy in NYC - Sexual Assault Against Peaceful Protesters
Horrifying
“What happened to you?” I asked.
“Oh, this?” she held it up. “I was in Liberty Park on the 17th [the Six Month Anniversary of the Occupation]. When the cops were pushing us out the…
Rethinking The New Jim Crow →
violentopinions:
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, As A White Liberal Consumer Product!
Riveted on “skeptics,” Michelle Alexander writes of “three major racialized systems of control adopted in the United States today” in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010). She will never label them “white,” or “white-supremacist,” or “colonialist.” Yet...
Advocating Progress: Anonymous asked: I don't... →
stfuconservatives:
dionthesocialist:
ladyatheist:
Woops, forgot to add that Obama bailed out the banks, costing tax payers billions of dollars.
So what the fuck am I supposed to do? Not vote? Vote for Romney? Vote for a third party candidate that has no chance of…
Is it a privilege to realize that the least effective thing you can do to create change on election day, or any...
Israel starts building wall on Lebanon border →
theyoungradical:
verbalresistance:
Israeli army begins constructing wall, set to stretch for more than 2km, to “avoid frictions on the border”.
The Lebanese-Israeli border has witnessed sporadic clashes since the 2006 conflict between Israel and Lebanon
The Israeli army has begun building a wall that will run several kilometres along part of its border with Lebanon, a military spokeswoman...
Planned Parenthood Funding - with a twist →
wheretheweedstakeroot:
A month ago, the story The Right Not to Know appeared in the Texas Observer: one woman’s experience with a second-trimester abortion after discovering her desperately-wanted baby had a genetic defect that meant abortion was by far the more humane choice. This was just after Texas’s new sonogram law went into effect, meaning that she had to endure not only a 24-hour wait,...
April 2012
70 posts
“The working class did not expect miracles from the Commune. They have no...”
– Karl Marx, The Civil War in France (1871)
“Nearly a million prisoners are now making office furniture, working in call...”
– Sweatshop labor is back with a vengeance. (via motherjones)
Labor exploitation.
(via stfuconservatives)
http://dionthesocialist.tumblr.com/post/21090990273... →
thechocolatedandy:
strangelanguage:
Why the Trayvon Martin Case is Not Unique
Twenty-eight Black People (27 Men and 1 Female) Killed by Police Officials, Security Guards, and Self-Appointed “Keepers of the Peace” between January 1, 2012 and March 31, 2012 - 28 cases of state sanctioned or justified murder of Black people in the first 3 months of 2012 alone have been found (due to under...
