January 2012
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December 2011
21 posts
Dear President Obama →
Your Administration has expanded tactics used by law enforcement to deny US citizens their constitutional rights. Just this week you expanded the ability of law enforcement to detain US citizens, deny them legal representation, and hold them indefinitely. Instead of rolling back the heinous policies of the Bush Administration you have expanded them. We are turning into a fascist police state and...
“I’ve found the saddest people are also the funniest, and only those who...”
– Unknown (via wild-reckless-daydreamers)
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“This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the...”
– President Barack Obama (via azspot)
Now let’s see some action behind those words and maybe I’ll like you again.
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“You will observe that the future is usually imagined as either better or worse...”
– Eckhart Tolle
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“The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered...”
November 2011
4 posts
Israel's Strangulation of Gaza by the Numbers →
Unemployment rate in Gaza, 2010: 37.4%
Percentage of households in Gaza living below the poverty line of $2 a day: 77%
Percentage of the 1.6 million Palestinians of Gaza who are minors: 50%
Percentage of households in Gaza that are food insecure: 61%
Percentage of Palestinian children in Gaza who are stunted from malnutrition: 15%
Percentage of Palestinian infants aged...
How to Frame Yourself: A Framing Memo for Occupy... →
Conservatives have figured out their moral basis and you see it on Wall Street: It includes: The primacy of self-interest. Individual responsibility, but not social responsibility. Hierarchical authority based on wealth or other forms of power. A moral hierarchy of who is “deserving,” defined by success. And the highest principle is the primacy of this moral system itself, which goes beyond...
October 2011
33 posts
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I...”
– Neil Gaiman
“Does the GOP, the party of Tom Delay and The K Street project, strike you as...”
– Conor Friedersdorf
Whoever this is just put into words every thought and feeling ive had about politics/current events in the last 3 or so years
“The direct conservative attacks are easy to answer. Are the protests...”
– Slavoj Žižek
“There is … the danger that, with affluence, we will settle into a comfortable...”
– John Kenneth Galbraith (via azspot)
How Christian Fundamentalism Helped Empower the... →
The fundamentalists have replaced economic and political justice with a bogus (and hate-driven) “morality” litmus tests of spurious red herring “issues” from abortion to school prayer and gay rights. The result has been that the masses of lower middle-class and poor Americans who should be voting for Democrats and thus their own economic interests, have been persuaded to vote against their own...
Stand with the resisting African workers in... →
leonineantiheroine:
Reread this about UK riots. The writing is gold.
“The British government denounces the rebellions as unacceptable violence. Meanwhile, the British government is involved in bombing Libya.
It is in Africa 24 hours a day, for seven days a week. It is involved in unjust wars in Afghanistan, and we have seen how the British rulers lied in front of the world to justify the...
