February 2012
January 2012
500 Years of Chicano History offered for FREE to... →
triangularisthepie:
velocicrafter:
Banned 500 Years of Chicano History offered free to AZ students by ABQ publisher
500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures, edited by Elizabeth Martinez and published by the SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP), is included in a set of primarily Chicano and Native American books that have been banned by the Tucson Independent School District. The school...
Please Check out this Video & Support Gordon →
kahs2012:
Gordon will not be defeated. His situation is unique and the system cannot meet his travel needs. he continues to move forward. A benefit event with Comedian Don Burnstick performing at the Ecole Secondaire Algonquin theatre in North Bay On. is schedule for Friday Nov.19/10 to help purchase much needed updated equipment and safe travel. Donation are being accepted at the Anishinabek...
The Unfriendly Atheist: What the Bible says about... →
babydali:
Abortion is not murder. A fetus is not considered a human life.
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the…
Always worth having on my dash.
“[This is] a culture that holds private property as sacrosanct above public...”
– Eric Zimmerman (via earlyfrost)
“To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before...”
– Huff Po (via rachelfershleiser)
This is the most beautiful thing. Can we send her flowers?
(via jaimealyse)
BOOM.
(via nerdysouth)
I think I love you, Janet Howell.
(via panamanianmoon)
Seems only fair.
(via nefariousnewt)
This is Only a Test: Today in "I didn't know they... →
theafrosistuh:
SOURCE
The true identity of Ludwig van Beethoven, long considered Europe’s greatest classical music composer. Said directly, Beethoven was a black man. Specifically, his mother was a Moor, that group of Muslim Northern Africans who conquered parts of Europe—making…
Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. to plead guilty in federal... →
“White people say [“It’s not fair, if white people can’t say n*gger, black people...”
– QUEERING THE GAME OF LIFE (via cocknbull)
“Fat bodies are seen as “evidence”. People try to claim that our bodies are...”
– Fat Bodies are Not Evidence « Dances With Fat (via mmmajestic)
“At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about...”
– The Secret Life of Prince Charming, Deb Caletti (via creatingaquietmind)
Then there’s knowing somethings wrong and not being sure what to do about it.
“We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives...”
– Howard Zinn (via solitaryforager)
Dear Howard Zinn, You were one of those people for me :) Thanks!
Protecting the Internet Activist
ideasandopinions:
Necessary:
HTTPS
Consciousness of what information you write to the public domain.
Safe:
A Pseudonym
Obfuscation
TOR
Linux
Marginally Paranoid:
VPN
Truecrypt
TOR with Onioncat
Paranoid:
Linux USB
Email Encryption
Remailer
Pidgin w/ OTR
Main system with Linux VMware,Two different VPN services,TOR for VM (only socks4a)
On the Run:
Hidden operating system
...
Canadian Aboriginal groups labelled “adversaries”... →
solitaryforager:
The document, obtained by the Climate Action Network Canada under the Access to Information Act, surfaced Thursday on the heels of a Crown-First Nations gathering which saw the Harper government and First Nations chiefs, through the Assembly of First Nations, agree to joint plan to begin discussing a host of issues that have defied resolution for years.
The gathering was hailed...
Racism 101: Are you a Racist?: Hard Truths:... →
racismschool:
White Men are the new minority. They can’t get scholarships for school because of the colored and lady folk. Except, that’s not true. Not even a little bit.
Once again, because of the amount of “…but white men” complaints, a study was done on their behalf to see if there was any validity to…
“To gain perspective on what’s happening in the world, it’s sometimes useful to...”
– Noam Chomsky, Marching Off the Cliff (via solitaryforager)
Using Menominee words at school gets girl benched →
anitsirhcchristina:
WHITE PEOPLE
Disgusting. I really like that they have to know what they’re saying in case they’re saying something racist.
“see! We can’t be racist cuz we so worried the two non-white girls are being secretly racist!”
One hundred Brooklyn community members and... →
theyoungradical:
Approximately 35 people arrested for nonviolent civil disobedience, singing in courtroom: “Mr. Auctioneer, all the people here are asking you to stop all the sales right now.”
Brooklyn, NY — This afternoon approximately one hundred people peacefully and powerfully disrupted a foreclosure auction by bursting into song. At 3pm the foreclosure auctioneer attempted to start bidding...
nonplussedbyreligion: TW: Domestic Violence,... →
nonplussedbyreligion:
Yes I know I added Republicans as a trigger warning. They have moved me to unspeakable rage so much lately that I can’t be the only sick and tired of them!
I’ve not read these bills so I can’t speak to all the components of them, but what the hell? I know lots of generalizations are going on in…
Custer Died for Your Sins: ALERT: JUST RECEIVED... →
adailyriot:
queerfury:
BIA Livestock Impoundment crews are confiscating sheep, goats, horses, cattle belonging to the Dine People of Big Mountain/Black Mesa, Arizona right now. Human rights violations against traditional Dine (Navajo) taking away one of their major food sources as well as wool essential to their livelihood. Please flood the office of Robert Carolin and tell him the elders...
occasionally pensive: Hard Truths: Affirmative... →
racismschool:
How many times have you heard “I can’t get a job because of Affirmative Action” or some variation of this line?
There is an ongoing rhetoric about how white men are the new minority. This idea that they, themselves feel the need to perpetuate. For the rest of the day, I…
Awesome post.
dolgemátki: Anonymous asked: My friends all have... →
velocicrafter:
panasonicyouth says:
Honestly, this still works for me most of the time, at least in a sense to shame people into silence and make them feel embarrassed. The key to this is stating this completely deadpan. The next time a friend of yours makes a racist or sexist joke,…
“President Obama announced a potential environmental nightmare when he called...”
– Greenpeace Executive Director Phil Radford
State of the Union: Obama Opens Public Land and Waters to Energy Industry (via solitaryforager)
I’ve worked in the Arctic, for BP actually. If there’s a spill in the water, we’re fucked. And it actually costs more expended oil to...
Wisconsin Endangers a Sacred Tradition →
fangirlmarena:
Opinakii, the place where the wild potatoes grow, lies just south of the Bad River Reservation on land ceded to the United States by the Ojibwe in 1842. Remote and beautiful, Opinakii is more commonly known as the Penokee Hills, a range of mountains that ride the Northern Continental Divide and is currently ground zero for a battle that stems from a cultural chasm between two ...
“Approximately 6 million Jews died at the hands of the Nazis. Approximately 12...”
– Following Judah’s Lion (via azspot)
This! I want to tear ppl apart every time I see the fucking confederate flag.
A Daily Riot.: Children of the Dragonfly:... →
adailyriot:
“Gradually, as education ceased to function as the institutional agent of colonization,” Patrick Johnston wrote in 1983, “The child welfare system took its place” (24). Johnston’s study Native Children and the Child Welfare System documented the disproportionate removal of Indian children by…
Great read.
The Unfriendly Atheist: Woman Not Allowed to Drop... →
helvetebrann:
Ginger Strivelli delivered on her promise to bring Pagan spell books to North Windy Ridge after the intermediate school made Bibles available in December. She said school officials said they would allow for the availability of her materials, just as they did the Bibles from a…
Short family convo
Sibling: Do you know when we stopped trusting the government?
Me: I’ll play along, when?
Sibling: Watergate. Cuz…
Me (interrupting): I don’t know bout that. I’m pretty sure native Americans stopped trusting the government since at least Andrew Jackson.
I was a little surprised to get nothing but agreement. Not a single “they don’t count” was...
10K Reasons to Worry About Critical Infrastructure... →
cultureofresistance:
A security researcher was able to locate and map more than 10,000 industrial control systems hooked up to the public internet, including water and sewage plants, and found that many could be open to easy hack attacks, due to lax security practices.
Infrastructure software vendors and critical infrastructure owners have long maintained that industrial control systems...
