December 2011
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“If your experience is that your water comes from the tap and that your food...”
– Derrick Jensen (via cultureofresistance)
To Build Community, an Economy of Gifts →
Wherever I go and ask people what is missing from their lives, the most common answer (if they are not impoverished or seriously ill) is “community.” What happened to community, and why don’t we have it any more? There are many reasons—the layout of suburbia, the disappearance of public space, the automobile and the television, the high mobility of people and jobs—and, if you trace the “whys” a...
“The best evidence of how capable candidates are of fruitfully interacting with...”
– Gary Gutting (via kohenari)
Brilliant, indeed!
“Under SOPA, websites can be blacklisted and removed from the Internet if they...”
– Alicia Eler, ReadWriteWeb. How SOPA Would Kill Art & Creativity Online.
In related news:
Technology Review argues that antipiracy legislation such as SOPA and PIPA will weaken Internet security.
Ars Technica writes that conservatives are beginning to line up against SOPA.
GoDaddy is still...
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SitDown. StartUp.: How to Upgrade your Macbook for... →
andrewferenci:
I bought my first Unibody Macbook Pro in February of 2010. For cost savings, I went with the baseline 13 inch model with 2.3Ghz, 4GB of memory, and a 320GB hard drive. After hammering my machine for about a year and downloading tons of software I noticed my baby began to slow down a little.
I did a little research and found that
I know what 2012 will bring for my seemingly...
FDA Withdraws Proposal To Limit Livestock... →
cultureofresistance:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday its withdrawal of a decades-old proposal to limit the use of antibiotics in animal feed, a move experts say could have dire implications for public health.
Experts warn the common and often unnecessary practice is decreasing the effectiveness of antibiotics in human medicine and increasing the deadly threat of...
FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms... →
progressivefriends:
emilyoccupies:
The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force has kept files on activists who expose animal welfare abuses on factory farms and recommended prosecuting them as terrorists, according to a new document uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act.
This new information comes as the Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a lawsuit challenging the Animal...
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wanderful
well this post is just wanderful.
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Just remembered the time a few friends and I
made an appearance at an acquaintance’s birthday party in one of the millions of sorority houses within OSU’s residential campus.
The most I can say is that I made a molotov cocktail.
The Green State: i've been thinking about tumblr... →
greenstate:
or more specifically, how people on tumblr educate one another. how people inform one another. how we spread information. how we [mostly you, if we’re being honest] seek to stop poor behavior and problematic language.
there are patient people. there are people who, every day, probably explain to…
The post that brings all tumblrites to the new age.
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Hackthissite responds to recent government... →
anticapitalist:
“As of lately, the United States government has taken some quite frightening positions in regards to the 1st Amendment and general citizens’ rights. First, there are egregious attacks on the 1st Amendment right to peaceably assemble (with blatant disregard for lawful use of force). Next, there is pending legislation to implement the Great Firewall of America (overriding “safe...
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Center for Constitutional Rights: Connect the... →
climateadaptation:
From the Center for Constitutional Rights Facebook page:
Friends, let’s connect the dots:
1) The NDAA allows the military to hold American citizens indefinitely without trial if labeled ‘terrorists’ by the President while effectively making GITMO a forever prison.
2) Counter-terrorism units were all over Occupy encampments. The 1% is taking no chances with this...
US: Refusal to Veto Detainee Bill A Historic... →
(Washington, DC) – US President Barack Obama’s apparent decision to not veto a defense spending bill that codifies indefinite detention without trial into US law and expands the military’s role in holding terrorism suspects does enormous damage to the rule of law both in the US and abroad, Human Rights Watch said today. The Obama administration had threatened to veto the bill, the 2012 National...
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I'm tired.
One of my four papers of which I’m currently writing, all being late, can wait til morning.
LiveLeak.com - Israel demolishing homes and... →
For those of you who believe that our military involvement is “bringing Democracy to the Middle East,” this captures in essence and quite literally how this “democracy” is not brought, but rather forced. Imagine your family being torn out of your home and subsequently demolished. Imagine our government having the power and willingness to do that. At this point NDAA should...
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The National Defense Authorization Act, the bill... →
mohandasgandhi:
flapjackstate:
brosephstalin:
socialistexan:
sanityscraps:
Now that I’ve got your attention with a marginally relevant gif…
The link going around saying it passed 93-7 is from a fake news site. This is from GovTrack.
Don’t believe everything you read on the internet!
Of course, what’s also sad about this is that about 7,000 people on Tumblr believed it did pass only...
LOS ANGELES POISED TO BE THE FIRST MAJOR U.S. CITY... →
freeyourmind716:
LOS ANGELES, CA – Next week the Los Angeles City Council will vote on a resolution that calls on Congress to amend the Constitution to clearly establish that only living persons — not corporations — are endowed with constitutional rights and that money is not the same as free speech. If this resolution is passed, Los Angeles will be the first major city in the U.S. to call...