October 2011
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107 countries voted for Palestine, 14 voted...
la-vie-est-politiques:
So the US to veto then?
Correction to myself. This was the vote on admission to UNESCO, which is as an observer and cannot be vetoed. The bid for full statehood/membership is yet to come, which is when the US will likely use their veto if it goes through.
Mea culpa.
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107 countries voted for Palestine, 14 voted...
So the US to veto then?
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“Longshore workers are attempting to shut down the ports in the Bay Area. We will...”
– LONGSHORE WORKERS IN OAKLAND CALL FOR A GENERAL STRIKE (via akagoldfish)
Billy Bragg - Never Cross a Picket Line.
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“Before gas goes into a crowd shield bearers have to be making no progress moving...”
– Marine Says Oakland Used Crowd Control Methods That Are Prohibited In War Zones (via thepolitics)
There was a big story a while ago, if I recall correctly it was that a guy who was part of the ISM had been killed in Palestine when an IOF soldier shot him with a CS round to the face. That’s a...
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Storm In A Teacup: When people that have never... →
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I wish I had taken a photo of the entrance to Starbucks every day I’ve been there, because there is not one single person, in any fucking queue.
Sly dig.
I was going for more ‘quite...
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droppingthefbomb-deactivated201 asked: how was the conference?
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I don't understand why people aren't defending...
nekroterrorist:
Shit’s getting intense everywhere. Why are people letting this happen to them?
No praxis for what to do proactively and a subservience to the media hegemony that would instantly represent the citizen as the aggressor against the bourgeois state. I mean, ever since the civil rights movement and the way that’s represented by the education system and media rhetoric as...
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I bet feminists would convince more people if they...
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anticapitalist:
When I first got on tumblr I had very little knowledge of the feminist struggle. So I ended up getting in “debates” (if you could call it that, more like namecalling sessions) with feminists. I was turned off by that and become anti-feminists, mostly because I didn’t like the PEOPLE that were feminist.
Then I started reading actual feminist arguments and feminist...
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Never turn up to anything early. This is the Bristol rule and breaking it today was a mistake
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droppingthefbomb replied to your post: I will be at the Education Activists Network conference in London tomorrow
I got tickets to go but I fucking can’t now because I’m ill. FUCK. Have fun though!
As if. I went on the December 9th student demo smothered in vaporub and an olbas oil drenched scarf. No mercy for flu sufferers!
Unless you literally are bed ridden. In which case I guess …...
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OccupyLSX: Chancellor of St. Paul's Cathedral... →
The canon chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral [in London] resigned because he could not face the prospect of “Dale Farm [a massive recent police eviction of peaceful squatters in a camp near London] on the steps of St Paul’s”, as police prepared to take action against the anti-capitalist protesters within days.
Giles Fraser, who announced his decision on Twitter, said he could not sanction...
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I will be at the Education Activists Network...
If any of you guys will be there as well and want to meet up for a drink during the lunch break or afterwards, drop me an ask and I’ll send you my mobile number (or send me your mobile number and I’ll drop you a text?)
For obvious reasons though any anon asks on the subject will be ignored. I’m not giving my number to just anyone :)
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“It is the often covert nature of the industry and its activities that gives it a...”
– Chris Grimshaw - A Tour of the United Kingdom’s Public Relations Industry, a chapter in the book Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy.
Grimshaw is referring to the public relations industry. If you watch the documentary I just posted (here) one of the...
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David Cameron's priorities are very obvious......
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
News headline today concerns gender equality. Woo!
David Cameron is doing something towards gender equality. Woo!
Oh. Wait.
David Cameron will strike a deal today to reform the monarchy, which will let the eldest child of Prince William and his wife Kate inherit the throne – even if it’s a girl.
The Prime Minister will put an end to more than 300 years of history...
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“Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You...”
– arundhati roy from the guardian (via counterworlds)
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Israeli court rejects lawsuit about family hit... →
jonathan-cunningham:
An Israeli court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit filed by a Palestinian family that lost two relatives after their home in the Gaza Strip was bombed during an Israel Defense Forces operation.
The Jerusalem District Court refused the family’s request for damages, ruling that the fatal 2006 bombing was a legitimate act of war.
Fatma Wahabe and her son Khaled were killed...
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i remember one of my ex friends said she didn't...
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thekendroshow:
not even tryna put her out there but that’s nassstttyyyyy lbs
and boys was hella eating her out too? idk who nastier her or the boys
like i know it was gross down there lmbobs not even tryna be mean
i’m sittin here like how am i a whole virgin and i’m keepin myself up down there better than you smh
when you having sex you supposed to be more responsible than that....
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“He, who before was the money-owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the...”
– Marx, Capital vol. 1 (via waitingforbrodot)
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“The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to...”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and The Discourses (via sunrec)
wolfwomannn:
i cannot stand when people say things like “don’t take life so seriously” and follow it up with a rape joke or a sexist joke and you’re a mood-killing angry serious feminazi with no sense of humour if you get mad and therefore the offence you’ve taken is invalid
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if you’re not going to take life so seriously then keep your jokes away from serious issues
there is a HUUUUGE...
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Anarcho-capitalists really are fascists, they just...
The more I read about Anarcho-capitalism, right-libertarianism and Agorism; the more I find it relates to the idea of the passive revolution. The action of positional rather than structural change and the solidification of capitalist power structures as dominant above all else. To whit, it’s a contemporary realisation of a cosmopolitan fascism. Unbound by geographical boundaries and...
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tylermittan asked: I read a response you had and just wanted to ask a genuine question because I don't know from a Marxist perspective. Please don't think I am being pretentious or sarcastic, I'm not. What exactly is the definition of exploitative labor? Is it based on objective knowledge or arbitrary opinion? And lastly, what makes that particular labor (or all, if Marx sees all labor as...
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bbcity replied to your post: lolbertardians outtarding their loldecessors
PHILOSOPHY IS FOR ARMCHAIRS THEY ENGAGE IN DEDUCEMENT OF EMPIRICAL FAX FROM NORMZ GET IT RIGHT GET IT TIGHT
ARMCHAIRS ARE FOR LOLOSOPHY THEY ENGAGE IN COMFORT AND COZY CRACKLING FIRES. ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY? THEN LETS BEGIN. LOLGORISM FOR BEGINNERS:
In the beginning there was Marx, and he was wrong. We’re...
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bbcity-deactivated20120216 asked: lolbertardians outtarding their loldecessors
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la-vie-est-politiques replied to your post: “Oh dear. No…no…” - oh dear, no. no…
“In fact, Konkin was a consistent, radical Rothbardian, who often outRothbarded the great Murray himself. SEK3 called his extreme Rothbardianism — which advocated a stateless society of peaceful black markets —agorism.” I lolled. This shit is ace
“OutRothbarded”.
Good god. How do you “outRothbard”...
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“We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.”
– Subcomandante Marcos (via liberal-linguaphile)
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Watchwindycityinsurgency:
“Footage from the Occupy Oakland protest, October 25th, 2011. After protesters ran to the aid of a badly-injured person, Oakland Police deliberately lobbed a flash grenade into the crowd.”
Some protesters might insist that everyone stay peaceful, but there’s one group that will never listen to that plea: the police.
Video originally seen here.
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sonofapritch:
Nothing Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, PZ Myers, or Daniel Dennett has to say is of the slightest interest or import. It is all self-aggrandizing, white supremacist capitalist patriarchal bullshit.
Goodnight.
