February 2012
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AGENT OF CHANGE: A bunch of useful articles about... →
theagentofchange:
Alastair Crooke: Unfolding the Syrian Paradox
http://conflictsforum.org/2011/unfolding-the-syrian-paradox/
Asia Times: A mistaken case for Syrian regime change
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NA05Ak03.html
Michel Chossudovsky: The Destabilization of Syria and the Broader Middle…
An updated list of journalists killed covering the... →
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TONIGHT: HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT CAMPAIGN LAUNCH...
Join Metro Justice to FIGHT for Housing as a HUMAN RIGHT in our city! Every person has a right to adequate housing. But right now, in Rochester, there are 500 to1000 homeless people on any given night in our city, while 2,800 homes sit empty. And after receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer bailouts, banks continue to make more of our neighbors homeless, with the support of our city officials...
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“If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to...”
– — Lauryn Hill (via rudolove)
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Occupy Online: Rochester Students for Social... →
awwwwwyeahhhh
occupyonline:
As the nation heads into an election year, the Occupy movement — beginning with the Occupy Wall Street protests in the fall — has spread to local college campuses, providing students with a broader framework for issues and triggering a return of political activism on college campuses.
“We…
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A fantastic poem:
miseengarde:
white girls who want my culture’s bindis and saris and henna
take my skin colour too
and my dark brown lips
take my self-hatred because i don’t fit into the euro-centric ideals of beauty
take the oppression too
take the history of colonization that has devastated my country
and the drones that currently devastate my country
take all the bad stuff too
not just the pretty,...
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T Magazine: Asked and Answered | Swampy →
The artist and train hopper Swampy, known for his graffiti, talks with the Moment about his work, his plans for a new book and his thoughts on art.
January 2012
71 posts
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The Coathangers: Johnny (XRay Records)
diggin it.
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University of Rochester to extend benefits to all... →
ABOUT TIME!
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The University of Rochester announced that effective July 1 it is extending benefit coverage to opposite-sex domestic partners, as it does for same-sex partners of its employees.
Opposite-sex partners had not been eligible for benefits, which include health care, retirement, tuition and a home ownership incentive program.
The university has 20,340 employees, making it the...
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“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you, and...”
– DRIZZY!
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Tunisia's Jews shun 'migrate to Israel' idea (via... →
In the wake of the Arab Spring, an Israeli government minister said that for their own safety all of Tunisia’s remaining Jews should move to Israel.
Hundreds of thousands of Jews once lived across North Africa and the Middle East before the creation of Israel in 1948. But the suggestion that the small communities that remain should disband has been largely met with derision - from the...
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A US marine who admitted charges linked to the... →
“There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just...”
– Lemony Snicket (via pushinghoopswithsticks)
A Brief Thought On Newt Gingrich's Political... →
“In a development typical of Arizona, the students who walked out on Thursday,...”
– - Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, Arizona’s ‘banned’ Mexican American books
(via mohandasgandhi)
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“The way blacks are handling it, if you weren’t racially prejudiced, it’d make...”
– Newt Gingrich’s remarks on food stamps are winning him fans in South Carolina. via motherjones
Did you know more Whites are the recipients of food stamps than blacks? It’s true. Pitting whites and blacks against each other protects the establishment from a united working class. Race baiting...
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talluminati:
Nujabes - Reflection Eternal
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“Protest is when I say I don’t like this. Resistance is when I put an end to...”
– Ulrike Meinhof
(via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
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Watch
DJ ALYKHAN - CAN I HOLD HER? by Dj Alykhan on Mixcloud
TUMBLR! Start your morning off right by listening to this ATCQ x Amy Winehouse Remix!
A Tribe Called Quest x Amy Winehouse: Can I Hold Her - by DJ ALYKHAN
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A Long List Of The Most Terrible Things Rick... →
palahniukandchocolate:
spiegelman: (via)
indie-rock-jukebox:
Lana Del Rey
Off To The...
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