March 2012
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Join the Impact presents at Occupy Chicago... →
Join the Impact presented an Occupy Chicago teach-in Saturday, sharing information about how Occupy can become more inclusive of LGBT people and the way that the struggle for gay rights complements Occupy’s overall goals.
Twenty-two people attended the event, Out of the Closets into the Occupation, held at Occupy Chicago’s indoor headquarters at 500 W. Cermak in a loft space. The...
“I am certain that the seed we planted in the worthy consciousness of thousands...”
– Salvador Allende’s final radio address before his assassination on September 11, 1972
February 2012
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“The question is: Should the privatization of public water supplies be allowed?...”
– Peter Brabeck - President of the board of directors of Nestlé.
This speaks volumes.
No but seriously if you repress a woman’s right to choose because of “life” while advocating (or at least passively accepting) war and refusing to make sure poor mothers can care for their born children through social programs, you’re either a moron or you (a) see women as nothing but incubators, (b) your main concern is with the maintaining a large and desperate work...
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UPDATE: Window factory sit-in ends with 90-day... →
Workers at a window factory on Goose Island ended a sit-in early Friday morning after the company agreed to keep the plant open for 90 days, union leaders said. California-based Serious Energy will work with the workers to find a new ownership. “We are committed to finding a new buyer for the plant or if we can, buy the place ourselves and run it. Either way, we are hopeful,”...
If I was as social in real life as I am on the internet I would not need to go on the internet.
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Some Greeks Might Have to Pay for Their Jobs →
It’s being called the “negative salary”: Due to austerity measures in Greece, it’s being reported that up to 64,000 Greeks will go without pay this month, and some will have to pay for having a job. Numbers in austerity reports have usually reflected figures in the millions, since they reflect industry-wide cuts (i.e. a 537-million euro cut to health and pension funds)....
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Anonymous asked: yea meant turn off. You got my point and answered it as I expected & I agree with you. Tell me if you agree with this: ppl should be realistic about their jobs and their lifestyle. But they shouldn't be depressed by it and quit. No point comparing yourself to a nazi officer taking orders. It's healthy to blame others, no point in claiming responsibility for all the things you...
yourenotaheroyourealiar:
I bet Rick Astley struggles with Lent.
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Democratic Lawmaker Responds To ‘Fetal Pain’ Bill... →
A Democratic lawmaker in Georgia isresponding to a Republican-backed effort to prevent women from receiving abortions 20 weeks after fertilization with a tongue-in-cheek measure that seeks to limit men’s health care choices: legislation that “would limit vasectomies only to men who will die or suffer dangerous health problems without one.” “Thousands of children are deprived of birth in this...
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I bet Ron Paul has the Juggalo vote
My brother just told the dog to put his paws up so I ran into his room and said “‘cause you were born this way, baby!” and he didn’t get the joke so I just stood there like an idiot.
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About two dozen City University students rallied outside City Hall Monday against perceived failures in the public education system.
As part of its “State of the Students” Address, the group blasted Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor Andrew Cuomo for what they say is a privatization of public education from kindergarten through college that makes it for students to take advantage...
Education is a shared good. It is not an economic...
Mischief Brew - “The Preacher and the Slave”...
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occupywallstreet:
Evidently San Quentin guards are planning to retaliate to Occupy’s actions by keeping all inmates in solitary confinement for all of Monday. By the guards’ design, the inmates are reacting with resentment of occupiers.
Unfortunately 4,000+ men will spend 24 hours within the confines of an 8 X 4 foot cell without sunshine, exercise, classes, or work - in “lock down” all day...
“Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new...”
– Rosa Luxemburg (via rethinksocialism)
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Chicago Communities Occupy School In Protest of... →
The Brian Piccolo Specialty School in Humboldt Park, Chicago is currently Occupied by parents and students. Occupy Chicago and other allies are outside the building in solidarity and have set up an encampment. Around one hundred people are present and are taking shifts to ensure the safety of the occupation. The Chicago Teachers Union has expressed support for the action. Piccolo, an elementary...
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“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the...”
– Karl Marx (via wretchedoftheearth)
Willie Nelson and 300,000 Other Activists Sue... →
Nelson states, “Corporate control of our food system has led to the loss of millions of family farmers, destruction of our soil…”
Hundreds of citizens… joined Occupy the Food System groups, ie Food Democracy Now, gathered outside the Federal Courts in Manhattan on January 31st, to support organic family farmers in their landmark lawsuit against Big Agribusiness giant Monsanto…
The lawsuit...
“It is immoral to use private property to alleviate the evils that result from...”
– Oscar Wilde -The Soul of Man under Socialism (via sowhenyoufeellikeitsallpretend)
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Rick Santorum said something interesting recently about privatizing public land:
But there’s a lot of land out there that…can and should be managed by stewards who care about that land. I believe the land is there to serve man, not man there to serve the land. The federal government doesn’t care about it, they don’t care about this land. They don’t live here, they don’t care about it, we don’t...
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Israel To Demolish Palestinian Solar Energy... →
A sustainable energy program in ‘Area C’ of rural West Bank is being threatened by Israeli authorities. The program, which recently installed solar panels and wind turbines in 16 communities, is providing 1,500 Palestinians with electricity — who were formerly without reliable energy.
The foreign aid program, thus far successful, has become a new target for Israel as it...
Guys I was going to reluctantly pay my heating bill so we don’t freeze to death but then I didn’t want to be a closeted, self-hating capitalist.
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Dave Mustaine should rewrite Megadeth’s lyrics to better fit his views:
“Peace isn’t Profitable, So I’m Not Buying”
“Blackmail the Universe Sounds Like Great Foreign Policy”
“A Countdown to Extinction is Still Better Than Job Killing Regulations”
“A Tout le Shut the fuck up, Frenchie”
“Back in the Day Before the Homos and...