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... →
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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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