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collardgreensandawkwardthemes: 2013 World Press Photo of the...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:51:43 -0500

2013 World Press Photo of the year by Paul Hansen, Sweden, for Dagens Nyheter, shows two-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and her three-year-old brother Muhammad who were killed when their house was destroyed by an Israeli missile strike.

hope and hopelessness: i am so angry i was nominated for some bullshit honors thing where the...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:08:44 -0500

hope and hopelessness: i am so angry i was nominated for some bullshit honors thing where the...:

theviolentwaves:

i am so angry

i was nominated for some bullshit honors thing where the school would film me for whatever crazy reason and i thought it would be cool because i could talk about freedom university at gsu and really shove it in their face and fuck their stupid diversity nonsense and this was the…

Oh shit! Oh shit!

juliosalgado83: Francisco was on his way to work when he got...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:30:08 -0500

juliosalgado83:

Francisco was on his way to work when he got into a minor traffic accident. Instead of being released to the care of his family, he was detained and taken to Irwin County Detention Center.

Francisco has lived in the US for 15 years now, he has 4 children who need him, and has no criminal history. Why is he imprisoned?
-via DreamActivist Org

SIGN PETITION NOW: http://bit.ly/FranciscoM

Please share.

India LawtonScars, 2013

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:55:49 -0500

India Lawton
Scars, 2013

I have never been this irresponsible before. It’s amazing, terrifying.

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:52:57 -0500

I have never been this irresponsible before.

It’s amazing, terrifying.

andsotimshel: Beautiful Pakistani Babies Protesting Drone War

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:17:59 -0500

andsotimshel:

Beautiful Pakistani Babies Protesting Drone War

mariseduarte: For a period in the 1990s, John Schabel camped...

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:30:44 -0500

mariseduarte:

For a period in the 1990s, John Schabel camped out on overpasses near New York airports, peering with a giant telephoto lens into the cabin windows of aircraft waiting, and waiting, for takeoff. “The psychological state of mind that I got into when I flew was always interesting to me,” said Schabel, who, from such a great distance, found small moments that air travelers will recognize with a voyeuristic thrill. His photos are finally collected in “Passengers” (Twin Palms Publishers, $60).

"Your kingdom’s numb your children dumb on earth moldy bread unleavened."

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:28:41 -0500

“Your kingdom’s numb
your children dumb on earth
moldy bread unleavened.”

- Mary Karr, Poetry, December 2012 (via poetrysince1912)

Photo

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:29:13 -0500

poetrysince1912: Poetry contributor Katherine Starbuck sent...

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 15:46:04 -0500

poetrysince1912:

Poetry contributor Katherine Starbuck sent the above photo to us after writing a letter to the editor (also above) in the December 2012 issue. Her caption to the photo reads: “Donald Justice, Jon Anderson (student poet), Kathy Salyer (later Starbuck), James Tate (student poet), Marvin Bell, and unidentified woman at a late spring or early summer 1966 pot roast at the home of Vance Bourjaily outside Iowa City.” Read the entirety of her letter here.

"Many people believe that great crimes come from terrible ideas: Marxism, racism and Islamic..."

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 15:30:53 -0500

“Many people believe that great crimes come from terrible ideas: Marxism, racism and Islamic fundamentalism gave us the Gulag, Auschwitz and 9/11. It was the singular achievement of Eichmann in Jerusalem, however, to remind us that the worst atrocities often arise from the simplest of vices. And few vices, in Arendt’s mind, were more vicious than careerism. ‘The East is a career,’ Disraeli wrote. And so was the Holocaust, according to Arendt. ‘What for Eichmann was a job, with its daily routine, its ups and downs, was for the Jews quite literally the end of the world.’ Genocide, she insisted, is work. If it is to be done, people must be hired and paid; if it is to be done well, they must be supervised and promoted.”

- Robin, Corey. “Dragon-Slayers.” London Review of Books 4 Jan. 2007 (k*mb*rl**l*d**)

What Audre Lorde wrote in scholar Joy James's copy of The Black Unicorn:

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:30:53 -0500

possiblesubject:

“Reminding you
Sister
Its okay to rest your feet

from battles
But lay in gardens
warmed by sun
Not in spreading deserts
near convenient wells.”

I’m obsessed.

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: “Are you kidding me? Unmanned Predator...

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:21:00 -0500

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

“Are you kidding me? Unmanned Predator Drone stocking stuffer! It says, ‘Your adventure, your way.’” - Photo by Jason Peterson

Joe Lombardo (via Facebook): “These drones kill kids in Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Maybe a culture that promotes this will find people killing kids in schools at home.”

Oh my god.

Next year I’m changing everything.

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:51:09 -0500

Next year I’m changing everything.

Photo

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:09:33 -0400

Bolivia Set To Banish Coca-Cola To Mark Mayan End Of Capitalism

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:40:41 -0400

Bolivia Set To Banish Coca-Cola To Mark Mayan End Of Capitalism

shapeandcolour: This weekend, activists in Uganda - a country...

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:23:24 -0400

shapeandcolour:

This weekend, activists in Uganda - a country where homosexuality is punishable by death - held their first Pride.

This is the epitome of courage. I have no other words.

comomaquinita: On October 2010 the state of Georgia banned...

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:20:50 -0400

comomaquinita:

On October 2010 the state of Georgia banned undocumented students from enrolling in its university system. Freedom University was created with the help of volunteers and with leaders of Georgia Undocumented Youth Alliance. When Freedom U asked for help, the first thing I thought of doing was to make them a piece of art they could sell to fundraise for their school. It took hours! But it was worth it and so far they really seem to like it. Please check out their web site and see how you can contribute. Education is power! Education is a right!

http://www.freedomuniversitygeorgia.com/

Prisoners Begin Hunger Strike at Three Facilities In NC

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:16:27 -0400

Prisoners Begin Hunger Strike at Three Facilities In NC:

andsotimshel:

On Monday July 16th, prisoners began hunger strikes at Bertie CI in Windsor, Scotland CI in Laurinburg, and Central Prison in Raleigh. Targeting a wide range of conditions related but not exclusive to solitary confinement, the prisoners have vowed not to eat until their demands are met.

Prisoners…

“Boulos’s installation All that Is Solid Melts into...

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:22:00 -0400

“Boulos’s installation All that Is Solid Melts into Air (2008), comprised of two large-scale videos, presents two communities on opposite ends of the world, each locked in a struggle to control oil. Oil surrounds us on a daily basis, and yet we are scarcely aware of its source or presence; when refined into products, petroleum gives no clue as to its origin or its physical form. Boulos’s installation, however, begins to make visible the mechanisms of this process of abstraction, and the political conditions that these objects conceal. In one video, Boulos shows traders in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on the first day of the 2008 credit crisis. In the other video, Boulos presents footage of his experience living with Nigerian fishermen—members of the militant group Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, which opposes through [necessarily] violent means the exploitation of people and devastation of the environment in one of the largest oil fields in the world. The individuals in these two landscapes are connected through a desire to control petroleum, which vanishes into thin air, in the first instance through financial speculation, and in the second through corporate regulation of Nigerian mines.”

I cannot describe to you how it felt to sit between these two projections — an endless loop of militant (in)security & militant insurrection.