December 2011
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November 2011
4 posts
PUT COLORS IN A MESSAGE.
Red - I love you. Deep Red - I’m in love with you. Pink - I could stay on your blog for hours. Yellow - You’re amazing. Peach - I miss you. Blue - I want to get to know you. Purple - You’re hot. Brown - I would fuck you. Green - I would date you. Black - I hate you. White - Delete your tumblr. Violet - Go die.
The customs of a community, this tumblr community
October 2011
20 posts
Time for action
Events have been getting more stressed. What the Oakland Police did against OccupyOakland last night could be a turning point for us.
Thursday - #5at5 a distributed, small, arrest free, action - ask a few of your friends to help you stand in any intersection of your choosing and protest for as long as you can without getting arrested. PUSH YOURSELF TO DO THIS HARD THING! Pass out fliers, make...
“1. How many years do you consider to be a fair prison term for a woman who has...”
– 10 Questions for Anti-Choice Candidates : Ms Magazine Blog (via tryingtofollow)
Kickstarter - The Uprise Books Project →
If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we’ve got to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition, and then admit that we just don’t want to do it. —Stephen Colbert
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Jesse LaGreca: The Smartest Man on Wall Street?
#OccupyPortland “One: be camera ready. Have your camera on you so if there is a media slant, you can capture it. Two: have a coherent message. Tell people exactly why you are here…not what other people are doing. The overarching theme here is that people are being screwed, but that can’t be summed up in a soundbite-ready statement. However if you tell the media your personal story, it’s the most...
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Think About Today
ethicka:
Think about today.
Sarah Palin has finally bowed out of the limelight.
Steve Jobs, the most influential person of this century, has passed.
And the people of the United States are starting to finally ask the right questions in front of every financial quarter and city hall in the country.
Tomorrow is going to be very different.
Do angry workers have the right to complain...
“Confusion about what workers can or can’t post about their workplaces has led to a surge of complaints at the National Labor Relations Board. They come to the NLRB, whether or not the company is unionized, because a decades-old rule that stems from union organizing is being applied to protect employees who are having a conversation on social media venues among co-workers about terms...
We are our own actors.
We like to think people judge our beliefs and ourselves by what we espouse.
But most of that judgment is done by how we act.
And most of the actions that are judged are not our grand moments on stage,
but in our day-to-day mundanities.
like snow-shoveling
or game-playing.
Fantasy Football is a cooperative game in some...
Everyone agrees they will play a game for many consecutive weeks. Setting a complete line-up every week is a chance to practice beliefs about acting cooperatively.
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September 2011
2 posts
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August 2011
3 posts
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female cyborg (updated link) →
jessicaland:
“Production of the female cyborgs goes beyond a reflection of their creator. They embody the visibility of hybrid identities and the organic symbiosis of human and machine. Female cyborgs contest and retaliate against patriarchal values and the colonial mentality of fixed...
July 2011
3 posts
1400heroes: press release →
1400heroes:
1400 Dutch Businessmen saved the life of businessman and children’s activist from KGB and Ukrainian militia(police)
Contact: J.M Tjon-Tam-Sin
Tel: +31 (0) 10 744 12 97
Mob: +31 (0) 6 49 723 359
Email: 1400heroes@gmail.com
The life of Dutch businessman…
Connecting with me
parts of this reasonate with me greatly:
“I read my email continuously 60% of the time, and x1/2 days, 95% of the time. Please call me at 206.427.2545 (answer 70% of the time,) or decipher this () to get that email address. There are no service level guarantees. Please call, I am a “phone person,” and I am interrupt driven.”
http://www.speakeasy.org/~lion/
June 2011
8 posts
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karma's only a bitch if you are
i'm really starting to not like explaining...
sunshineofgrace:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pansexuality
EightTracks FirstMix
May 2011
1 post
anti-G8 protests
(PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD)
Dear friends of the world,
We see you below a short declaration of principles of Barcelona Camp translated into several languages (English, Spanish, French, Neerlandés, Portugués, Greek, German, 原则宣, Italian, and Catalan).
Here a message from the International Commission to help to spread protest worldwide and coordinate internationally (sorry only in English):
We...
April 2011
10 posts
Hey Arianna, Can You Spare a Dime?
1. Portside Letter to Ariana Huffington - “Fair play and fair pay for freelance workers”
2. What You Can Do to Support the Electronic Picketline (Suggestions from the Portside moderators)
3. Guild tells HuffPost writers: ‘Don’t work for free’
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To: Ariana Huffinton Subject: Fair play and fair pay for freelance workers
Date: April 26, 2011
Cc: The...
Rally & March, Benton Harbor, next Wed. April 27...
DEMONSTRATION IN BENTON HARBOR, MICHIGAN
Wed., April 27, 12 noon
Public Library, 200 Wall St.
Joseph Harris, BH emergency financial manager, has removed all
authority from BH elected officials, and obliterated citizens’ voting rights.
This is sad news for democracy. Harris is now able to do Whirlpool’s bidding
because of the new Rep. Al Pscholka/Gov. Rick Snyder law expanding...
LabourStart video contest news
via: Derek Blackadder email:
74 entries from around the world are now being vetted by our panel of judges. Soon they will have their shortlist of finalists out and the final ranking will done by LabourStart’s readers using an online voting system.
Inevitably, some very fine videos won’t make it onto the list of finalists. Don’t miss any. You can see all the nominated videos here:...
Origination of Mich. EFM bill, and how Snyder...
State Rep. Al Pscholka introduced EFM bill -
let’s just come out with it: FOR WHIRLPOOL
The following is a very astute reader comment from the Michigan Messenger article.
http://michiganmessenger.com/48278/benton-harbor-emergency-manager-strips-power-from-all-elected-officials
No one seems to have noticed who introduced this bill. It was Rep Al Pscholka [517- 373-1403; represents St....
Facebook Action - please participate
The Bahraini regime has set up Facebook page in which it posts images of people its targeting, and it asks its loyalists to recognize by name the people joining in demonstrations.
Names are handed down to security forces at checkpoints in lists they carry. If your name is on that list, subsequent action is taken by the forces…
We are trying to make as many people as possible report these...
