If you hate on Tyler the Creator but watch Dexter or Breaking Bad you need to just stop talking.
Prisons do no disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.
Moral grey area: convincing a classmate not to start using cocaine by lying about having had a cocaine habit.
In their unrestrained eagerness to posess, the oppressors develop the conviction that it is possible for them to transform everything into objects of personal power; hence their strictly materialistic concept of existence…. For them, to be is to have and to be the class of “haves.” As beneficiaries of a situation of oppression, the oppressors cannot perceive that if having is a condition of being, it is a necessary condition for all men. This is why their generosity is false. Humanity is a “thing,” and they possess it as an exclusive right, as an inherited property.
I was bored earlier so this is me if I were some kind of a forest princess or something from Adventure Time.
Philadelphia: High school students walk out of class and march to City Hall to protest severe budget cuts and planned school closings, May 9, 2013.
The budget cuts are absolutely horrific. Here are some of the proposed changes:
- Schools with more than 1,000 students would no longer be required to have librarians or librarian assistants.
- Schools would no longer be required to have counselors, and counselors’ caseloads would no longer be capped.
- Teachers could be assigned to unlimited classes outside their subject area, and high school teachers could be assigned an extra class without pay. There would be no limit on amount of consecutive time taught in a school day.
- There would be no limit on class size
- The district would no longer be required to provide copy machines, or “a sufficient number of instructional materials and textbooks.”
- Counselors would no longer be guaranteed to have rooms with privacy and confidentiality, a telephone, a locked filing cabinet and a door.
There’s more here.
Cairo! Before he decided attempting to assassinate everyone on a daily basis would be a fun hobby.
Fast Food Strike Wave Spreads to Detroit | The Nation
(10 May 2013) According to the campaign, a walkout by twenty workers at Detroit’s 10400 Gratiot Avenue McDonald’s prevented the store from operating. Some workers brought in as strikebreakers to replace those striking workers chose to join the strike instead!
Organizers say that by day’s end, today’s strike could be the largest fast food work stoppage yet, topping last month’s 400-strong strike in New York.
Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.
(via amodernmanifesto)
