May 2012
If your politics prioritize profits over people
pieceinthepuzzlehumanity:
Then you’re a part of what’s wrong with this world.
This Is The Right One: "African-American" is NOT a... →
zorascreation:
It is a Diasporic ethnic group and nationality.
It is a PC description of a complex series of cultures.
It is a name for a humongous amassing of various different West African ethnic groups (Vai, Mende, Kpelle, Ewe, Ga, Hausa, Fon, Igbo, Senegambian, Temne, Bambara,…
April 2012
“Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.”
– Japanese Proverb (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
Banks cooperate to track Occupy protesters →
After evictions and arrests from Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park to London that began last year, the movement against income inequality and corporate abuse will regain strength, said Brian McNary, director of global risk at Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations.
He works with international financial firms to “identify, map and track” protesters across social media and at their assemblies, he...
The freedom to be a monarch is not a freedom I...
anticapitalist:
anticapitalist:
Your right to use violence to occupy land and oppress all the users of that land is not a ‘natural right’. It is not the result of some ‘non-aggression principle’.
You libertarians claim to be against the social contract, but the very core of your political philosophy is the right of individuals to become monarchs.
Things Capitalists do:
Use violence to...
“I promise to plant kisses like seeds on your body, so in time you can grow to...”
– Tyler Knott Gregson (via teacupsofstardust)
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or...”
– Samuel P. Huntington
(via helvetii)
Feminism: Race Matters (Crime Stats)
racismschool:
There is a lot of push back from women who claim to be feminists but don’t believe race is part of the conversation. I’ve seen impassioned arguments and explanations as to why the two things must be talked about together. It never fails to end with the faux Feminist saying that the person explaining is just trying to hijack the movement. Which means, in the eyes of the faux...
highwayaisle:
Xeno n.The smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers—a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence—moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone.
“The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know...”
– Noam Chomsky (via elige)
“The police are very kind when I’m a young white woman just doing my job,...”
– - Mary Burnet, quoted in “Trying to understand a tragedy” at the Halifax Media Co-op (April 23, 2012)
one of the best ways i’ve seen a white person address their privilege in relation to the attitude of “calling the cops” when you feel unsafe. for so, so many people, calling the cops means exactly...
“Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of...”
– Albert Einstein, Why Socialism? (via socialuprooting)
This is one of my favorite essays. I talked about it on Anarchist Review.
(via tiny-irishman)
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“Poverty is not simply having no money — it is isolation, vulnerability,...”
– Megan Lee (via sociolab)
“Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without...”
– bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love (via speaktomeofsadness)
