January 2012
71 posts
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ACTA petition. Sign and reblog like crazy.
starkinglyhandsome:
internet-justice:
harmonyshipper:
internet-justice:
ACTA has already been signed by several countries, but if we can get the European Parliament to vote no, it can be dismantled and sent back.
Sign here
REBLOG! REBLOG! REBLOG!
We got this. Keep it circulating!
signed and boosting
(Facebook) What the Actual Fuck? →
zhounder:
somethingworthconsidering:
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mindbabies:
anticapitalist:
unknownbinaries:
“I ordered some video-editing software from Hitfilm in the UK which also comes with some instructional videos. So a few days later I get a call from FedEx saying that the DVDs were being held at U.S. Customs until I filled out a Video Declaration Form, which she said was now...
“Every person in this chamber can point to a teacher who changed the trajectory...”
– OBAMA (via l1feisbeaut1ful)
Amazing, so so amazing. As someone who is planning to go into education, I can’t agree enough. Republicans are working so hard to tell us that education doesn’t matter. At least it doesn’t matter enough for the government to support. But I literally cannot think of...
“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that’s...”
– Malcolm X (via warriorsrise)
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“Nobody in history has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense...”
– Assata Shakur (via thegoddamazon)
ALWAYS REBLOG.
(via ndnsurgency)
*not even Martin Luther King Jr.* if you really think the progress of the Civil Rights Movement was achieved solely by the moral strength of their argument, you were miseducated. you really were.
(via so-treu)
: 10 Reasons the U.S. is No Longer The Land of the... →
cultureofresistance:
Assassination of U.S. citizens
President Obama has claimed, as President George W. Bush did before him, the right to order the killing of any citizen considered a terrorist or an abettor of terrorism. Last year, he approved the killing of U.S. citizen Anwar…
Watchsoapboxeducation:
Check out this video from one of education’s leading thinkers Alan November. Here, he talks about the future of education, specifically about the need for a shift of control in our classrooms from the teacher disseminating information to his students TO our students contributing ideas and sharing them with each other. Further, we need to THINK GLOBALLY and use technology to...
Please Tumblr Bomb this poll asking whether or not... →
stfuconservatives:
It’s already been pretty slaughtered but I’m always down for a good poll bomb.
-Joe
“Police around the country have been affixing high-tech scanners to the exterior...”
– Um, what!? Is that legal? Civil liberties experts are appropriately alarmed. Perhaps you should be too. (via newsweek)
Fourth amendment? What’s that? Oh, you silly, silly citizen. Just shut up and buy more things.
(via wilwheaton)
“According to The Guttmacher Institute, virtually every state limits who can have...”
– “Anti-Abortion Harassment and Violence Still Stifle Access,” Eleanor J. Bader (via unknowablewoman)
Not to mention the many states that require ultrasounds 24 hours prior to abortion.
“Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last...”
– Loggers ‘burned Amazon tribe girl alive’
This ruined my night.
(via thenoobyorker)
Jesus Christ.
(via fearandwar)
This is what evil looks like.
(via frombaghdadwithlove)
There are few things in the world this horrible. No matter what the outcome of this tragedy is, justice will never be...
“We accept all girls in kindergarten through 12th grade as members. If a child...”
– Rachelle Trujillo, vice president for communications of the Colorado Girl Scouts, responding to a story about a transgender girl who was allowed to join the Brownies.
Looks like I’ll be buying a ton of cookies this year.
(via Shakesville article on various bigoted attacks on the GSA by religious...
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“Women don’t get raises — even when they ask. Forever research has told women...”
– pushy women don’t get raises either: the atlantic
a longer article at the washington post
the original study (free access)
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Watchmohandasgandhi:
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mohandasgandhi:
therecipe:
Rick Santorum voices support for assassination of nuclear scientists. “…I’m hopeful that some of the things we’re seeing with respect to their [Iran] nuclear program that the U.S. is involved in. Which is, on occasion, scientists working on the nuclear program in Iran turn up dead. I think that’s a wonderful thing. …And if people...
“You should date an illiterate girl.
Date a girl who doesn’t read. Find her in...”
– Charles Warnke (via jarrodis)
