February 2012
Al-Jazeera's bias in the Syrian Conflict Leaked →
thetruthaboutsyria:
Damascus, (Al-Akhbar): Emails said to reveal dismay among Al-Jazeera staff over its “biased and unprofessional” coverage of Syria have been leaked by pro-Assad hackers. On Wednesday, the entire staff of the Al Jazeera network allegedly received an email instructing them to change their computer and email passwords. Earlier in the week, the network’s server had been hacked...
65 percent of Yemeni voters pick a new president →
warriorsrise:
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s election commission said Friday that 65 percent of registered voters in the country cast their ballot for Vice President Abed Rabo Mansour Hadi in this week’s single-candidate presidential election aimed at bringing an end to months of political turmoil.
The vote, part of a U.S.-backed agreement to ease out of office longtime President Ali Abdullah...
occupyallstreets:
Twitter has suspended two OWS-related accounts @F29Action and @M1Walkout without cause.
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Inside Facebook’s Outsourced Anti-Porn and Gore...
http://gawker.com/5885714/ Amine Derkaoui, a 21-year-old Moroccan man, is pissed at Facebook. Last year he spent a few weeks training to screen illicit Facebook content through an outsourcing firm, for which he was paid a measly $1 an hour. He’s still fuming over it. “It’s humiliating. They are just exploiting the third world,” Derkaoui complained in a thick French accent...
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Soy un dinosaurio: URGENTE EN AYSÉN →
HOY EN AYSEN: - Camiones NO entran a Coyhaique, la basura no se recoge más. - No hay paso de transfers al aeropuerto. - Los caminos están todos tomados, no solo en Coyhaique sino en toda la región. - Ya no queda combustible. La aproximación de abastecimiento es: - Carne: queda en…
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Libertarian philosophy is a Utopian ideal predicated upon circular logic and an imaginary society where everyone are not just rational actors but are also possessed of a uniformity of thought that simply could not ever exist. It’s magical thinking that relies almost entirely on confirmation bias to maintain through special pleading and various other logical fallacies. Libertarian philosophy...
Everything is poison, nothing is poison. It’s the dose that makes the poison.
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When we grew up and went to school there were certain teachers who would hurt the children anyway they could:
By pouring their derision upon anything they did, exposing every weakness, however carefully hidden, by the kid. But, in the town, it was well known:
When they got home at night, their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them within inches of their lives.
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“Apart from bigots and backlashers, it seems to be a malady even among those...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. on the hindrance and ignorance of privileged pacifism. (via liberationorstarvation)
Dave lawrence: Tin Soldiers →
dave-lawrence:
Tin Soldiers “Please let us in!” The girl screams while pounding on the glass as the crowd presses us even tighter into the shallow alcove. On the other side of the glass is a YMCA pool with about a dozen seniors and two or three families standing waist deep in the water staring at us in horror….
Non-Violent Civil Disobedience vs OWS →
revolther:
I’m all for organized non-violent civil disobedience but that is not what Occupy Wall St. has been doing. When Gandhi convinced hundreds of thousands to participate in sustained, organized non-violent civil disobedience the objective was to blockade the economy from the ruling elite’s. It worked over and over again but once again this is not what OWS is doing nor is it what the...
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Oakland’s Beautiful Nonviolence
Now that we’re done remembering the major violence, let’s talk about Occupy Oakland. A great deal of fuss has been made about two incidents in which mostly young people affiliated with Occupy Oakland damaged some property and raised some hell.
The mainstream media and some faraway pundits weighed in on those Bay Area incidents as though they determined the meaning and future of the transnational...
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The Faces of Violence
The most important direct violence Occupy faced was, of course, from the state, in the form of the police using maximum sub-lethal force on sleepers in tents, mothers with children, unarmed pedestrians, young women already penned up, unresisting seated students, poets, professors, pregnant women, wheelchair-bound occupiers, and octogenarians. It has been a sustained campaign of police brutality...
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Anonymous vandalizes US prison contractors’ site
Geo Group’s website replaced with hip-ho song devoted to Mumia Abu Jamal
Hackers allied to the loose-knit Anonymous movement have claimed responsibility for vandalizing the website of an international prison contractor.
The GEO Group’s website was defaced and replaced with a hip-hop song devoted to former death row inmate...
“There is no such thing as a pacifist labor strike. There has never been one in...”
– Boots Riley (via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
Pro-Syrian crowd tries to storm imperialists'... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
(AP) TUNIS, Tunisia - About 200 pro-Syrian demonstrators tried to storm the hotel where a conference is being held by Arab and Western officials over the crisis in Syria.
The protest forced U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to be diverted to her hotel, delaying her appearance at the “Friends of Syria” conference.
The protesters, waving Syrian and...
hannahology: THIS BLOG IS NOT RON PAUL FRIENDLY. →
paxamericana:
Ron Paul wants to define life as starting at conception, build a fence along the US-Mexico border, prevent the Supreme Court from hearing cases on the Establishment Clause or the right to privacy, permitting the return of sodomy laws and the like (a bill which…
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Watch
Police standoff with protesters in Valencia over education cuts.
Thursday, 23 February 2012
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Police standoff with protesters in Valencia, Spain...
A TENSE and heavy-handed encounter between police and student marchers in Valencia this week sparked sympathetic protests across Spain with rallies organised over several days in a surge of protest against education cuts and corrupt politicians. Police resorted to chasing students and schoolchildren around the streets of Valencia on Monday, wielding batons in an effort to control demonstrators...
“Nonviolence declares that the American Indians could have fought off Columbus,...”
– Peter Gelderloos, Why Nonviolence Protects the State- Nonviolence is Racist (via fuckyeahradicalquotes)
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Cargo Cult Toughness, posted by HidingFromGoro
It’s funny because it [police wearing wearing ski masks] started in Europe so that the “special operators” wouldn’t be recognized because they didn’t want the IRA/Baader-Meinhof/whoever to figure out who they were and kill their families; and in the US they wear them to serve possession busts or failure-to-appear warrants and the cops basically trip all over...
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WatchThe Greek debt crisis: it’s, like, totally over - video
Have you heard about the Greek debt crisis? After a year and a half, Europe has agreed something that might not work at all and, in the best case scenario, will take eight years to reduce Greek debt to a level that is still too high. Hopefully
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Here is an art project from an Israeli that I believe will resonate very well.
Sivan Hurvitz posted:
This is my senior project in visual communication studies in HIT - Holon Institute of Technology, instructed by Judith Asher. This project criticizes my country’s current government’s anti-democratic direction in the past two years. It is a series of illustrations that show an...
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Hindenburg was an inside job.
5-06-1937 NEVAR FORGET
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Five police officers have boarded the Shell oil...
Activists will not leave the Shell drilling ship Noble Discoverer until they are forced to, a Greenpeace spokesperson says.
Nathan Argent said the protesters had blocked access to their position on the ship’s derrick so police could not apprehend them.
Earlier today five police officers boarded the ship and told the protesters they were under arrest, Argent said.
But the activists,...
readin & fightin: Black gender & black feminism →
readnfight:
This past weekend, Black Students at Yale held their annual Black Solidarity Conference. A coworker of mine (the other young black woman on staff) got funding from the school for us to take a few students. The day we spent at the conference was exciting and disappointing—the shallowness of a lot…
Workers occupy factory in Chicago →
selfactivity:
News, Twitter and on-the-ground updates from the occupation of Serious Materials in Chicago.