January 2012
“It was the new politics of ambiguity - speaking for the lower and middle classes...”
– Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States
“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a...”
– Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus”
“I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you...”
– Malcolm X
“I quite agree with the speaker’s indignation. I think it’s a monstrous thing —...”
– Ayn Rand
This is the hero of people like Eric Cantor, Ron Paul, Rand Paul, etc.
Fuck her.
(via fearandwar)
And this is why Ayn Rand and all of those who follow her are gigantic fucking assholes.
(via elpueblounido)
What really irks me about Ayn Rand is the fact that she refers to her...
Anonymous hacks another private intelligence... →
solitaryforager:
Documents reveal law enforcement sharing information with STRATFOR
Computer hackers known as Anonymous leaked information obtained by hacking into private intelligence firm Stratfor’s computer network. The documents—what Anonymous is calling a teaser—suggest that from at least October to November 2011 Stratfor worked with Texas law enforcement to infiltrate the Occupy movement...
“If you wage war on the natural world, you may be able to kill the passenger...”
– Derrick Jensen,
Endgame Volume II
Resistance
(via cultureofresistance)
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Twitter agrees to censorship in some countries →
solitaryforager:
producermatthew:
From the Twitter company blog:
Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country — while keeping it available in the rest of the world. We have also built in a way to communicate transparently to users when content is withheld, and why.
We haven’t yet used this ability, but if and when we are...
Whitey on the Moon -Gil Scott Heron
This one goes...
“The primary purpose of everything we do must be to make this society...”
– Ward Churchill (via cultureofresistance)
Watchtrillationship:
ihavethisblog:
ashleyweasleypresleywho:
this lady just moved into my top ten favorite people in the world
“okay calm down, dee”
always gonna reblog this
“This is to warn you that I am no longer held in check from fighting white...”
– Malcolm X’s telegram to George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party who attempted to forge friendships with the black separatist movement (1965)
Geek in...Geek out: What’s wrong with cultural... →
moniquill:
field-day-for-the-sundays:
Anon asked:
What’s wrong with cultural appropriation? I mean, I know it’s bad, but I need this one kind of spelled out for me. Is it always bad? Are some cases worse than others? I want to be a good anti-racist, but I fear I’m not educated enough.
whatfreshhellisthis responded:
Cultural appropriation exists because of centuries of:
...
“… imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an interesting...”
– Douglas Adams
This book has all of the answers to life’s mysteries that the Bible claims to have and more.
andrewjacksonjihad:
Free New Song: This is Not a...
We're Out Looking for Astronauts: here's the thing... →
so-treu:
it’s really not enough to acknowledge that you have it. like, good for you, but it doesn’t *stop* there.
it’s kind of one of those zero sum “if you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the problem” things.
if you’re not actively working to dismantle the structures that give…
occupynashville:
I’ll believe corporations are people when Obama indefinitely detains one.
“Now, in contemporary industrialized democracies, the legitimate administration...”
– David Graeber (via bbcity)
This fellow was in town just yesterday!
“Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for...”
– Huey P Newton (via thisbeautifulwound)
“Climate change is a message, one that is telling us that many of our culture’s...”
– Naomi Klein (via cultureofresistance)
“Ironically, Adolf Hitler displayed more knowledge of how we treated Native...”
– James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me (via pupunahsh)
truth! he was a real fan of Andrew Jackson and his tactics too