February 2012
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“Vegan alternatives are not inherently better for animals or the planet. Pleather...”
– Vegans miss the larger point (via voorwaarts)
/YOUR SOY- AND CORN-BASED PRODUCTS ARE GIANT MONOCROPS CONTRIBUTING TO THE DECLINE OF SMALL FARMERS, SOIL EROSION, FERTILIZER-RUNOFF-INDUCED OCEANIC DEADZONES, AND/OR THE CLEARCUTTING OF THE AMAZON, among lots of other fun environmental devastations
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Anarchism and 21st Century Social Movements: A... →
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Rain and soil, dust and wind
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As for the current state of affairs I am afraid I must conclude that the contemporary spirit of revolt lies among the silent graves of the resting dead. The people of the West have been enslaved and firmly chained down by their own comforts. Comforts that are being sustained by the depletion of ancient resources of this noble planet, the destruction of the pristine wilds and the utter...
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Spanish police brutalize student protesters in...
kadbudugorjeligradovi:
by Jerome Roos on February 21, 2012
Conjuring up memories of Franco’s dictatorship, a peaceful student protest in Spain was violently disturbed by police assaults on harmless minors.
A peaceful protest against budget cuts in education in Valencia, Spain on Tuesday ended in bloody police repression. Conjuring up memories of Franco’s brutal dictatorship, squads of...
BREAKING: Khader Adnan is to be released from...
“[W]e use the term ‘Indian peoples’ or ‘American Indian’ peoples rather than...”
– Paula D. McClain and Joseph Stewart Jr., Can We All Get Along?: Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics
I admit to being guilty of using the term “Native American” because I thought it was the preferred nomenclature of American Indians, while being partially unaware of its white...
Two things you have to accept when being an...
yoctavias:
Accepting that it is NOT popular, and you will have to either hate or give up things that you used to enjoy with your friends, family and loved ones—- because whatever it is it probably goes against what you are supposed to believe as an activist.
Accepting that you don’t know everything about what you support. Accepting that you will sometimes find yourself doing things that make...
Mumia calls on you to ‘Occupy 4 Prisoners’ Monday,... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
On Monday, Feb. 20, over a dozen rallies and demonstrations will be held throughout the U.S. for a “National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners,” including in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Fresno, Austin, Columbus, Denver, Durham, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia and New York – even the smaller towns of Eureka and Indio, Calif. Family and...
“For anarchists who do know something about anthropology, the arguments are all...”
– David Graeber (via slamdanceonyourgrave)
I actually consider David Graeber one of the foremost contemporary anarchist theorists, which is weird because he is primarily and unapologetically an anthropologist. This quotation is from “Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology” (pdf), which is short and...
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agri-om asked: Hey. LOVE the music post, thank you SO much! And I'm still only on the first link!
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Music in a Culture of Resistance
The presence of music, in any Cultural movement, is both inevitable and necessary. From protest songs and crowd chants, to soaring metal epics. The point is a communication of ideas, feelings and community.
No matter where the world goes from here, we will need our bards, our poets and our artists; A Culture of Resistance requires them. They are like arteries, pumping the mix of ideas and emotion...
#9febHungerStrike – WE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN... →
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One of Khader Adnan’s daughters… no words needed
Ramallah Febr 7, 2012
Today’s demo in solidarity with arbitrary detained (without charges) Palestinian Khader Adnan today on this 52nd day of hunger strike since Dec 17, 2011. He lost a third of his weight, is loosing his hair and his condition is...
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A perspective on the Black Bloc in Occupy Oakland
Compared to the rest of the country, Occupy Oakland is still on fire.
Occupy Oakland, January 28, 2012. (Photo: J. Paul Zoccali)
January 28 was not supposed to turn out the way it did. After Occupy Oakland failed to occupy its first two targeted buildings and had a short-lived street battle in front of the Oakland Museum, police in riot gear contained the march of nearly 1,000 in a public...
Congress Paves Way for Unmanned Drones in U.S.... →
solitaryforager:
Ready to see drones flying over your house? A new bill passed by Congress will give commercial, private and military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) greatly increased access to U.S. airspace that’s currently reserved only for manned planes.
Right now drones are mostly limited to the U.S.-Mexico border and military airspace, as well as use by around 300 public agencies located...
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“… many scientists have pointed to a two-degree rise in global temperatures as...”
– — Bill McKibben, “The Great Carbon Bubble, Why the Fossil Fuel Industry Fights So Hard” (via nickturse)
And that, ladies & gentleman is why the Republicans[*] will lie every chance they get, when it comes to Climate Change. We want to save what’s left of the planet. And they just want more...
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Remember HIV/AIDS? It’s Still Raging in the U.S. →
We have been told for decades that HIV/AIDS has no bias, and that much is true. The virus could care less about racial, sexual or gender identity. But sadly, American society very much has bias, and as a consequence HIV/AIDS is quite a bit more of a threat to some than it is to others. So it is that black Americans account for nearly half of all people living with the virus in the U.S. Nearly...