February 2012
37 posts
Why Don't We Give a Scheiße About Bradley Manning? →
Because to give a shit about Bradley Manning would entail facing unpleasant truths about ourselves and our country—one of them, that we really don’t care about another’s liberty, as long as we perceive we still have ours. Another, that our country isn’t the beacon of freedom that our handlers have a vested interest in us continuing to believe.
We don’t give shit...
On Being Blog: Do Nothing for Lent and Be Grateful →
beingblog:
by Amy Ruth Schacht, guest contributor
“Contemplation” (photo: Kasia/Flickr cc by-nc-sa 2.0)
Ash Wednesday is today, inaugurating this year’s season of Lent. Cultural customs dictate “giving something up” for Lent. Without any meaningful or theological reflection, it becomes…
Why Small-Town America is Drowning In Drugs.
We occupy because good people have been, and are being, mutilated in the grinding gears of plutocratic capitalism.
From the article:
When people lose 66% of their paychecks overnight at a local meat-packing factory because cheap immigrant labor from Mexico is available in substantial numbers, the shock waves that result are not just local and immediate—they quickly spread out in time and space....
The Dirty Thirty - February 2012 Edition →
The people’s weapons: knowledge and organized, nonviolent protest.
shihtzuman:
The list grows larger every month
On March 14, 2011 we first published a list of thirty pieces of Republican legislation “that Republicans are using to destroy America” and called it “The Dirty Thirty.” That original list has been updated several times and grown significantly although the list is incomplete,...
Methodist Church Pulls Investments from Private... →
Perhaps people are beginning to understand that they don’t make investment choices in a vacuum; these decisions have moral dimensions.
shihtzuman:
Private prison operators have lost a high-profile investor, now that one of the nation’s largest Protestant churches has pulled its money from the companies.
The General Board of Pension and Health Benefits of the United Methodist Church,...
Mad, Passionate Love -- and Violence: Occupy Heads... →
U.S. Unemployment Increases in Mid-February →
To no one’s surprise.
“We’ve spent a lot of money in Wisconsin. We’re going to spend more.”
– David Koch
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/20/wisconsin-democrats-tell-david-koch-get-out-and-take-gov-walker-too/
“I think I speak for most Wisconsinites when I say to David Koch, ‘Get out of...”
– Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/20/wisconsin-democrats-tell-david-koch-get-out-and-take-gov-walker-too/
4 Signs the American Spring May Be Coming to... →
With so many police and security officers trained in military policing techniques out on the streets, one might think it wise to come armed with a camera to document abuse. However, pointing any recording device at police in Illinois can land one in prison for fifteen years. Still think you live in the “Land of the Free”? This oppressive rule comes from the state’s long-standing “Eavesdropping...
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...
Occupy protesters tased at Santorum event | The... →
“Democracy passes into despotism. —Plato”
Riots in Greece - Miami Herald →
Roe V World: Brilliant Democratic State Senator... →
Undaunted by the monumental failure of Personhood USA’s push to declare fertilized human eggs exactly the same as grown ass adults in Mississippi, conservatives in Oklahoma have pushed forward with their own Personhood Bill.
Hey Hoekstra...here's who is taking our jobs →
BREAKING: Handel quits Komen →
In this whole debacle, the one right action. Bras off to Handel.
Alabama State Senator Thinks Increasing Teacher... →
reagan-was-a-horrible-president:
According to Alabama state Sen. Shadrack McGill (R), the Bible says that increasing teacher salaries would only lead to less-qualified teachers. McGill said at a prayer breakfast that doubling teachers’ salaries — starting pay for Alabama teachers begins at $36,144 — would not help education. In fact, he said that keeping teacher pay low is a “Biblical...
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/to-my-old-mast... →
In 1865, Jourdan Anderson sent this response to his former master, who had written him to ask him to return to his old job in Tennessee.
January 2012
40 posts
Indiana welfare drug testing bill withdrawn after... →
Congress Doesn't Want to Give Up Its Insider... →
They don’t want to give up their taxpayer-funded healthcare, either. So what?
Elizabeth Warren explains why America stopped... →
“‘America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and...”
– Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Truth.
(via somepolitics)
Heroic Occupiers Close BoA, Hold Off Police for 10... →
Collecting rainwater now illegal in many states as... →
The word “illegal” is meaningless in this predatory environment. Collect it anyway, in peace and without fear, for it belongs to you.
silvergrim:
By Brooke Adison on December 27, 2011
Collecting rainwater is now illegal in many states as the Government claims ownership over our water sources. Yes even rain water. ~ Health Freedoms
Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S....