February 2011
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January 2011
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“This is the start of a new era, the masses are rising, and their freedom is at...”
– Mazen Kamalmaz, editor of the Arabic anarchist blog.
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“In the face of the looting started mostly by the ex-secret police, people formed...”
– Mazen Kamalmaz, editor of the Arabic anarchist blog.
5 new anon hearts.
= 4 facts. That’s right, anon hearts are worth 4/5 of a heart.
1. I cooked for a year at a restaurant and got fired by the new manager in December because I had a panic attack at work.
2. I’m an English major.
3. I can play guitar, bass, drums, some keyboard/piano, and I’m planning to learn the Cello, and re-learn the violin.
4. I get really jealous of girls for being able to...
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Please, Egypt, for the love of God, don't buy into...
I hope this makes the United States realize that...
“Many americans are seduced by the idea that piecemeal voluntary efforts can...”
– Democratizing American Philanthropy - Christine Ahn (via whereisdrew)
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Inspired by Tunisia, Egypt's protests appear... →
The scope of Egypt’s protests today, calling for greater freedom and downfall of strongman President Hosni Mubarak, is unprecedented.
Though tens of thousands took to the streets of Cairo in 2005 calling for democratic reform, today’s protests are far beyond the action in the capital. Reporters and activists on the scene in Cairo say there was a spirit of anger and defiance in the...
1. Explain your Tumblr name:
Around the time of the Bill Ayers scandal during the 2008 election, I was the columnist for my student newspaper (also the tagger “scribble,” but only a few people knew about that), sorta the official class radical, and was identifiable by my Korean War surplus jacket. More than once I was called a terrorist, so I just kinda went with it, saying that ideas are more dangerous than bombs...
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If you really gave a flying fuck about the...
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Tunisia’s Inner Workings Emerge Online →
“In the week since Mr. Ben Ali’s flight, Mr. Amamou has become a kind of embodiment inside the cabinet of the revolution’s roots in the online world of Twitter and Facebook. Before the advent of such networks, local outbursts of unrest here were quickly crushed. This time, the revolt flashed across the country as protesters shared video of their own demonstrations. Grainy cellphone images...
“Personal freedom is always restricted when the social value of unbridled wealth...”
– NWBTCW
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Bankers get tired of being sorry →
Bankers have shown a remarkable degree of self-restraint. So why aren’t they receiving the praise they deserve, wonders Mark Steel?
…AT LAST, someone has dared to defend the oppressed people of the banking community. On January 11, Bob Diamond, chief executive of Barclays, who himself has to suffer the trauma of an $12.7 million bonus, said that the bankers’ “period of...
Off to leave IWW flyers at Starbucks. Happy MLK...
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A revolution unfolds in Tunisia →
AFTER FOUR weeks of mass protests in nearly every corner of Tunisia, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled the country January 14.
With protesters outside of the Ministry of Interior in Tunis chanting, “Ben Ali, thank you, but that’s enough!” his corrupt, repressive, 23-year rule came to an abrupt end. Ben Ali’s departure marks the end of a de facto dictatorship in...
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (via borderlessvoyage)
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Banks seize over one million homes in 2010 →
Banks seized more than one million homes last year, a new record - and that figure would have been even higher but for a temporary moratorium by several banks on foreclosures late last year due to improper and shoddy paperwork.
This year the numbers are sure to be even higher still. “About 5 million borrowers are at least two months behind on their mortgages and more will miss payments as...
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As American as Apple Pie
Over the last few months I’ve come to realize that many anarchists and socialists in the U.S focus a great deal on the radical traditions of Europe (Spain, France, Russia, Greece, etc) while ignoring the fact that the United States has a very rich Socialist tradition. In fact, many on the right seem to ignore or are unaware of the fact that the Pledge of Allegiance was written by a...
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The Wingnut Collective Wins Community Favor →
But one of the main goals of their collective, known as The Wingnut, is “getting to know everyone in our community as well as we can,” said Karn’s housemate, Jeremy Hawthorne, 26. Residents give food to the hungry, organize craft nights and show movies from a giant screen in their front yard.
This week, Richmond Police Chief Bryan T. Norwood filed a suit against Karn to require...
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Student strike in Puerto Rico met with repression →
A student strike against the neoliberal education policies of conservative Governor Luis Fortuño Burset of the right-wing, pro-statehood New Progressive Party has led to the invasion of the University of Puerto Rico’s campus in Rio Piedras, just outside San Juan, by police.
But the students are not giving up.
The central issue in the strike is the role of the university as an educational...
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Capitalism and democracy are incompatible, because freedom becomes another commodity to buy and sell, because corporate controlled media prevents a well informed electorate, because the rich have more influence over lawmakers than ordinary people, because tyranny through property is not somehow more free than tyranny through government power, because resources people need to live should not be...
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cuddlecorepoems asked: RE: anarcho syndicalism and bigender marxism.
academics are impressed by academic jargon, but the people most oppressed don't use or know how to understand this language. i would be interested to know what you DO rather than what you idealized as good actions. from one student to another, respectfully. do you have PLANS for social change outside of the realm of ideas in other...
academics are impressed by academic jargon, but the people most oppressed don't use or know how to understand this language. i would be interested to know what you DO rather than what you idealized as good actions. from one student to another, respectfully. do you have PLANS for social change outside of the realm of ideas in other...
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10 Day Challenge
to kill time, and dump a little bit of auto-biographical personal crap onto your dash.
10 secrets 1. I won’t come up with 10 secrets 2. I really don’t have many secrets 3. I think you’re starting to see what I’m doing 4. The things I keep secret, I do so for a reason 5. I’m taking this seriously starting now 6. I avoid caring about things to avoid stress 7....
UK students to launch new wave of protests →
Students will mark Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s birthday this Friday by marching on his party’s headquarters as a reminder that young people have not forgotten about his tuition fees betrayal.
A spokesman for the Education Activist Network said: “Students will march on the Liberal Democrat HQ to present Clegg with his birthday gift. After the police repression of last...