January 2012
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Watchladyatheist:
newwavefeminism:
Things white activists say to Activists of Color
umm how much do I love that someone made this and decided to send it in to me? A LOT
fixedwhilefeminist submitted:
We are People of Color. We didn’t choose to be, but we love our cultures. Because of our skin, we have added struggles. In our safe spaces, we have every right to feel welcomed and not tokenized,...
“I don’t care what your problems are, I know you have problems we all do....”
– refenestration’s grandpa
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Students shutdown BoA in Amherst, MA
bankruptingamerica:
Via OccupytheAirwaves:
About Mid-way into our 11/20/11 Occupy the Airwaves Show on WXOJ-LP in Western Massachusetts we have audio from a student march on BoA in Amherst, MA. Students from Occupy UMass Amherst and Hampshire College marched right into the bank and shut it down!
Listen here.
93-Year-Old Tennessee Woman Who Cleaned State... →
so-treu:
thepoliticalfreakshow:
A 93-year-old Tennessee woman who cleaned the state Capitol for 30 years, including the governor’s office, says she won’t be able to vote for the first time in decades after being told this week that her old state ID failed to meet new voter ID regulations.
Thelma Mitchell was even accused of being an undocumented immigrant because she couldn’t produce a...
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Watchshortformblog:
mashable:
“Because the biggest producers of content on the Internet are not Google and Yahoo — they’re us – we’re the ones getting policed. The real threat to the enactment of PIPA and SOPA is our ability to share things with one another.”
-Clay Shirky, in his “emergency” TED talk about SOPA and why it would create a “consumption-only Internet.”
Watch this, all. “The threat...
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Infinite Drunk Ron Swanson →
thelastsemester:
so….beautiful…they should have sent a poet
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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...
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On the NDAA's passage, we recommend you read this... →
shortformblog:
This is pretty basic political maneuvering and the biggest problem is that it almost always works because most people either don’t know or don’t care how their political system actually functions. The President was saddled with a lose-lose situation where he either seriously harmed American defense policy (political suicide), or passed offensive legislation knowing that it would...
EFF New Year's Resolution: Full Disk Encrytion →
