January 2012
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SOPA BLACKOUT
chazmcintyre:
In objection of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) , I will not be blogging tomorrow.
My theme will be blacked out.
If you want to take part, place this in your code under header.
<script>
var a=new Date;if(18==a.getDate()&&0==a.getMonth()&&2012==a.getFullYear())window.location=”http://sopastrike.com/strike”;
</script>
Hopefully, Tumblr will take part...
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Home alone nights are for brown rice and veggie sushi from Jewel, and Turntable. Beer foamy! Internet shiny!
December 2011
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November 2011
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“Five states have abridged early voting this year, including Florida, which...”
– Why Tuesday? Because Republicans Said So
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“In juvenile detention centers across the United States, one in eight detained...”
– Amanda Hess, How Do We Stop Child Sex Abuse? What Penn State Can Learn From Prisons - Politics - GOOD
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“eThousands of other inmates in the Texas prison system have been eating fewer...”
– Read more here: In Bid to Cut Costs at Some Texas Prisons, Lunch Will Not Be Served on Weekends
(via harmreduction:This is totally nuts…not to mention, unacceptable! If Texas doesn’t want to pay to feed the thousands of people it incarcerates, how bout they STOP incarcerating people. Community...
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Womanist Musings: A Forced Eugenics Survivor... →
curate:
On March 8, 2011, Governor Beverly Perdue established the five-member, Governor’s Task Force to Determine the Method of Compensation for Victims of North Carolina’s Eugenics Board. The following is the testimony of Elaine Riddick who was sterilized at the tender age of 14 when she became pregnant after being raped by a much older neighbor. Not only was she sterilized but she was...
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“Some members of Congress have described this move as “eliminating a big increase...”
– What proposed cuts to doctors’ Medicare fees will mean - NorthJersey.com (via sexartandpolitics)
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Nick Gerber: After Reading The Occupy News For The... →
nickgerber:
I’m in a place I don’t often find myself. I’m equally horrified and proud. I’m disgusted with the police for beating non violent protestors and I’m so amazed at the resilience of the protesters who have been maced, beaten, arrested, denied due process, and generally fucked over by the police…
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“The Latino population in the Chicago area contributed more in tax revenue than...”
– New report: Latinos in Chicago contribute more in tax revenue than public services received | Chicago Muckrakers
Today in studies that concur with my world view.
(via sexartandpolitics)
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“The organized right justifies its draconian policies toward the poor with moral...”
– Guernica / Frances Fox Piven: How the 99% Could Stop the War Against the Poor
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“A moral economy for our own time would certainly take on the unbridled...”
– Guernica / Frances Fox Piven: How the 99% Could Stop the War Against the Poor
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CENSORED NEWS: Anonymous Hacks International... →
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“Joe Paterno’s right to his dignity is not more valuable than the right of...”
– Alyssa Rosenberg, The Shame of Joe Paterno, Or, Sports Are Just a Job | ThinkProgress
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“However, EFF offers a glimmer of hope in the precedent that Twitter sets in...”
– Adam Clark Estes, The WikiLeaks-Fueled Erosion of Civil Liberties Has Begun - Technology - The Atlantic Wire
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March 2011
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“The average life span of a transgendered person is twenty-three years. The...”
– Guernica / Trans-Formative Change
Dean Spade is the first openly trans law professor. Meaghan Winter interviews him for Granta.
H/T The Rumpus
(via irunfrombears)
^^^ a very basic intro to some of the reasons why i in no way support the human rights campaign or other mainstream “gay rights”...
February 2011
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“Women have done everything in their power to conform to the existing power...”
– Molly Lambert, In Which We Teach You How To Be A Woman In Any Boys’ Club - This Recording
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“There is a simple solution that would contribute to alleviating our children’s...”
– Kim Mikesell, Children Do Hard Time for Their Parents’ Crime | Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance
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“Fifty-three percent of the 1.5 million people held in U.S. prisons by 2007 were...”
– Judith Greene and Patricia Allard, Children on the Outside: Voicing the Pain and Human Costs of Parental Incarceration | Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance
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Beyondmedia Education: Women and Prison →
“Beyondmedia’s Women and Prison programming supports formerly incarcerated women and their families to voice their stories through the arts, engaging their issues and experiences to create opportunities for dialogue, healing and community organizing. Since 1998 Beyondmedia has collaborated extensively with formerly incarcerated women and girls to create interdisciplinary,...
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Beyondmedia Education →
“Beyondmedia Education’s mission is to collaborate with under-served and under-represented women, youth and communities to tell their stories, connect their stories to the world around us, and organize for social justice through the creation and distribution of media arts. Our Vision Beyondmedia Education envisions a compassionate and just...
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About Us « Chicago Books to Women in Prison →
“Chicago Books to Women in Prison is a volunteer collective working to distribute books free of charge to women in prison nationwide. We are dedicated to offering women behind bars the opportunity for self-empowerment, education, and entertainment that reading provides.”
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“The Workers’ Collaborative unites native-born, African American and...”
– Worker rights for Chicago area immigrants, street vendors, cleaning cooperative
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Worker rights for Chicago area immigrants, street... →
Chicago Workers’ Collaborative is an Illinois non-profit organization that unites low-wage workers so we can receive the proper respect and treatment in exchange for our important labor. We educate about workplace rights, provide critical services to our members, and mobilize to gain full access to employment for all workers, especially immigrants and African Americans. The CWC ...
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“Did you know HIV/AIDS is:
The leading cause of death among black men ages 35-44?
The leading cause of death among black women ages 25-34?
Is manifesting 66% of its cases in African American women?
If black Americans made up their own country, it would rank above Ethiopia (420,000 to 1,300,000) and below Ivory Coast (750,000) in HIV population. (Source: CNN.com)”
SOUL -...
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SOUL - Southsiders Organizing for Unity and... →
“SOUL is a not for profit, grassroots, independent, multi-issue, power organization that addresses community issues on Chicago’s Southside and South Suburbs.
We are not for profit. We need money to organize but nobody is in this to get rich.
We are grassroots. If you are a person you can participate, you don’t have to be a big shot or have a fancy title to join in. And we are ...
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“STOP is a community organization that builds the power of residents on the...”
– STOP - Southside Together Organizing for Power