February 2011
122 posts
Link: The Birther Plan To Block Obama's Reelection... →
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“Yes, they have a plan—and it may not be crazy.”
Link: Sustainable Food: Three Recipes →
Link: Haiti, One Year Later. via @PostBourgie →
January 2011
100 posts
Link: Is America finished with major expansions of... →
Link: Death to “The Strong Black Woman” »»» →
“…when a U.S. consumer buys a box of cereal or a cup of Starbucks coffee, she is...”
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Rising Food Prices Can Topple Governments, Too — NPR
Link: Shea Seger Redux: After a 10-year hiatus,... →
This woman made one of my favorite albums of all-time, “The May Street Project.” I’ve been searching for her on the internet once a year since she left the industry. She apparently came back close to the middle of last year. Looking forward to listening to her last album. Which she describes as much less manufactured than her debut. I love her debut, but I’m looking to...
Link: Sundance 2011: To Make Black Films or Not To... →
“To commit yourself so completely, to stand for a militant vivacity, instead of a...”
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Concussed - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Please Read. Link — "Reflections In A Time of... →
Doctors Without Borders: Women, men, and children... →
doctorswithoutborders:
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided specialized care to 53 women, men, and children who were raped in a series of incidents that occurred between January 19 and 21 in South Kivu Province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Most of the rape…
Link: What ‘Waiting For Superman’ got wrong, point... →
#Link: Why Oscar snubbed ‘Waiting For Superman’ —... →
#Link: How to Rebuild Haiti after the Quake »»» →
#MustRead #Link — Violence against women: War's... →
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via Salamisha Tillet
“Wal-Mart & China are a joint venture, and both are determined to dominate...”
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Frontline, “Is Wal-Mart good for America?”
Advice to left-wing radicals →
research-and-destroy:
If you’re going to make statements about how The System oppresses and hurts people, please a. define what ‘the system’ is, and b. give examples and factual evidence rather than saying ‘it’s just a fucking soul crushing machine, man’
Please stop calling me brainwashed for disagreeing with you….
Read more.
#Link: Which countries match the GDP and... →
#MustRead #Link: The Unbearable Whiteness of... →
#Link: Ta-Nehisi Coates on the slavery & the south... →
#Link: Police, the Mentally Ill, and How the... →
#Link: The More Americans That Go On Food Stamps... →
Study: 61% of men don't see forced sex with... →
elonjames:
If the word “forced” is accompanied by “sex” it’s rape. Case effing closed…
New Hospital Visitation Regulations for LGBT... →
liquornspice:
rosalarian:
This. Is. HUGE.
These new regulations require all hospitals participating in Medicaid and Medicare programs – virtually every hospital in the country – to permit patients to designate visitors of their choosing and prohibit discrimination in visitation based on a number of factors, including sexual orientation and gender identity.
Woot!
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Only Human by Vincent Armone
Flesh and bone that’s all I am no different then anyone one else same arms same legs same hair same ears same eyes Then why do people judge me? are their thoughts feelings and over all way of life truly better than mine Can they say they have lived sin free are their actions so much more perfect than mine I bet not yet all through the days and it’s not only me I bet that feels this...
“My father got sick when I was 22… and I was poor. And my father had an ulcer,...”
– CHRIS ROCK, responding to host Bill Maher asking if he ever went to the emergency room as his primary healthcare provider, on Real Time. (via xicanagrrrl, inothernews) (via chicanainchoos)
Let's Get This Straight →
robot-heart-politics:
azspot:
There is, demonstrably, no leftist equivalent to Sarah Palin, former veep candidate and presumed future presidential candidate, who uses gun imagery (rifle sights) and language (“Don’t Retreat, RELOAD”) to exhort her followers to action. There is no leftist equivalent to the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), a group which was created from the mailing list...
