November 2011
26 posts
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Only 2 countries give life-sentences to minors -...
This proud country has sentenced an 11 year old to life in prison. Nothing more to say.
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Occupy L.A. Eviction: Is LAPD Restricting Coverage...
Freedom of the Press is not a right granted to Americans, we are not allowed to know the tactics employed by police to clear a park. What? Tactics for clearing a park, of a peaceful protest, do not sound like super-sensitive government secrets. It sounds more like an attempt to prevent anything damning to the LAPD from being released. If LA fears its police force may break the law, attack...
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“You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it...”
– Abbie Hoffman (via capitalist-chan
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Parenting in the Secular Age
From the wonderful blog Parents Beyond Belief comes Ten Books for Secular and Progressive Families. If there is a youngster in your life, then these books are worth investing into. I have a few, but did not know about them all. Sharing knowledge and provoking curiosity are the best gifts we can give our children.
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Occupiers can decide for themselves
Much chatter has been written considering the obligation of local governments to protect the occupiers from, well - themselves. A big ‘concern’ seems to be the weather. Many cities are saying they will not allow the occupiers to endanger themselves by letting them camp overnight. Gee, could this just be a ruse to dislodge those actively defending the rights of all.
Oddly enough,...
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Signs Taken for Wonders: Check my Privilege →
ghoulmann:
For years I have diligently struggled to check my compound privileges. It’s never ends the way it sounds like it should. It’s always already a failed endeavor. I do it in spite of that, just as I use language in spite of my certainty that language fails. I must.
It’s good of you to help. We share…
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Speed Drought →
ghoulmann:
Pay Attention: How Big Pharma Contrived the Great American Adderall Drought
During the Great Ritalin Scare of 1993, shortages prompted thousands to switch to Adderall. Now, Shire is contriving an Adderall drought to convert patients to a new ADD drug.
This is having concrete, material, substantive effects in secondary schools. The dread in the eyes of the students in need to...
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Signs Taken for Wonders: 13 More Students Charged... →
ghoulmann:
From NPR:
Additional students have been charged in an SAT cheating scandal on Long Island, New York. Thirteen students were charged Tuesday with being part of a scheme in which students paid other teens to take college entrance exams on their behalf. So far, 20 current and former students at…
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Backlash
I know it is quite predictable for there to be a ‘we’re too cool’ for the occupations backlash, but saying people deserve to be assaulted by the police transcends wrong. No one, no matter where they live or what they are peacefully doing, deserves to be assaulted. Protesting is not an active of violence, it is an act of peaceful non-compliance. Stop trying to be more cool than...
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a cool graphic of the occupy DC encampment →
Truly a beautiful illustration.
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Support is gaining.
A decision by the Maryland and DC AFL-CIO not only gives support to occupiers in DC and Baltimore, but also give their support to others supporting the occupiers. This is an enormous step. The AFL-CIO said they will support any “unionized or non-unionized worker who refuses to break up, raid or confiscate the belongings of protesters.” We are not alone. The overwhelming feelings of fear an...
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list of Internet Severe Providers that are...
agoristmike:
youranonnews:
list of Internet Severe Providers that are blocking http://www.americancensorship.org
WILL STAY UPDATED
Time Warner Cable
Cablevision
Shaw
O2
Comcast
sympatico
bell
Charter Communications
Orange UK
vodafone
Verizon (NOT MOBIComcast)
Americancensorship.org ip is 174.129.212.2, you may be able to access it by punching that into your host file.
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Occupy Seattle: Octogenarian activist Dorli Rainey... →
We can all learn a little from watching this.
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Signs Taken for Wonders: Conspiracy: Feds and... →
ghoulmann:
At this point, what analogies to which despotic regimes are absurd? This consipiracy requires no theorizing, so those in search of an all-inclusive master narrative needn’t look here. This clearly is not what “democracy looks like.” And the answer is “our streets.”
“The Feds helped break up…
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Occupy the Education System: Students, Teachers... →
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Hawaiian singer surprises Obama summit with... →
He is my new hero.
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A Tale of Two Protests →
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Observations from OWS
Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending. - Lemony Snicket
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“If he got a “C” in a course, nobody cared, but if he went to school three...”
– Noam Chomsky (via r-i-o-t) 