February 2012
14 posts
“There was a time when there was no distinction among this Primordial Goddess,...”
– Judy Chicago (via elige)
As Above, So Below: Spiritual Insurrection →
metaconscious:
We awoke one morning to the dark realization that humanity is being dragged into a black hole of ecological, financial and spiritual catastrophe … that our democracy has been seized by a corporatocracy … that every day two hundred species of plant, insect, bird and mammal become forever extinct ……
“For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
(via elige)
Graphic images flood out of Syria. Why no world... →
csmonitor:
Grainy videos depict the violence that has killed at least 6,000 Syrians, but the prospects for international intervention appear dim. Is the world inured to the ubiquitous images?
January 2012
44 posts
Social Uprooting: The Justice Party seeks to... →
rockyanderson2012:
The Justice Party seeks:
· To firmly establish that money is not speech, and that corporations are not people, and that only the people have Constitutional rights
· To end corporate influence over the political process; to protect people and the environment…
“What we need is two pronged. On the one hand we need to build local,...”
– Aric McBay, Deep Green Resistance (via cultureofresistance)
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
– Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (via meanderingwind)
100,000,000+ Workers in India to go on strike Feb.... →
“It’s like ecological succession. The groups that emerged from the 1960s are...”
– Stephanie McMillan,
Why are there so many small groups on the Left?
(via solitaryforager)
Watchwolfmama:
11 Year old Birke from Asheville, NC—What is Wrong With Our Food System
This is really really great
the world: hey man we've got some really serious problems like global warming and mass economic failure and riots and genocide and aids and cancer and your healthcare system is shit so maybe we should get to work
US government: sit down I have to stop people from sharing things online
US government: also pizza is vegetables
Culture Of Resistance: Why I'm "terrifyingly... →
ideasandopinions:
nogods-nomasters-nopants:
sinidentidades:
We got to talking about Thomas Carlyle, and my professor made the assertion that Carlyle was like Ron Paul and also had better ideas than Marx.
I involuntarily shook my head in disagreement at him, and he called me out…
Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright... →
bestpossible:
autumn-and-eve:
In a 6-2 ruling, the court said that, just because material enters the public domain, it is not “territory that works may never exit.” (.pdf)
What in the holy mother of fuck is going on lately?
Threatening New Bill. Worse than SOPA/PIPA. This... →
ratsinthekitchen:
ladyoflate:
runicbasso:
flannpyrope:
turntechdickhead:
selfproclaimedhilarious:
johnwhatsun:
princess-of-dicks:
himapapaftw:
pantskit:
tsarcasm:
this is so absurd that i honestly thought it was a joke until i clicked the link to find out that people in our government are really that stupid
are you fucking kidding me
what the actual fuck
wow that is...
Me: Am I free to assemble a protest of peaceful peers?
Government: Only with a permit.
Me: Am I free to travel?
Government: Only with a passport.
Me: Am I free to pursue my own ideas of happiness?
Government: Only within these constraints.
Me: Am I free to start a business?
Government: Only with a license.
Me: Am I free to marry who I wish?
Government: Only with my consent.
Me: Am I free?
Government: I'm legally obligated to say that you are.
Government: Stop asking so many questions.
Portland Declares That Corporations Aren’t People →
cultureofresistance:
Portland, Oregon, has followed in the steps of New York and Los Angeles in passing a city resolution denouncing the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, which allowed unlimited spending by corporations and unions in elections. The resolution:
establishes “that corporations should not receive the same legal rights as natural persons do, that money is not speech...
“You killed my son and now you are giving me a tree?”
– An Iraqi farmer to Peter Van Buren of the US State Department after his team tried to give away fruit tree seedlings to replant ruined orchards. (via ambitioussurvival)
How to Occupy the World: A Call for True... →
occupy-anthro:
The leading tagline of the Occupy Wall Street movement reads: “Protest for World Revolution.” This is an ambitious claim, to be sure. And in most respects it seems to ring quite true: the movement has successfully taken root not only in cities and towns throughout the United States but also in major urban centers around the world. On October 15, Occupy Wall Street’s success...