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November 2011

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the complications you could do without: “Police can’t be trusted. They may be “ordinary workers,” but their... → mundosinfin.tumblr.com

mundosinfin:

“Police can’t be trusted.

They may be “ordinary workers,” but their job is to protect the interests of the ruling class. As long as they remain employed as police, we can’t count on them, however friendly they might act. Occupiers who don’t know this already will learn it firsthand as soon as…

Nov 29, 20112 notes

“there is an obvious disproportion between lone-wolf incidents of protester violence and the organized physical assaults directed by the police at lines of peaceful protesters—simply because those protesters stand on squares, sidewalks and streets where the police suddenly announce they don’t belong.” —http://wagingnonviolence.org/2011/11/occupy-wall-street%E2%80%99s-coordinated-chaos-at-the-stock-exchange/#more-13909

Nov 25, 201111 notes

#ows #occupy everything #police #police brutality #waging nonviolence

Nov 24, 2011275 notes

so thankful (everyday) for the wonderful people in my life - friends who courageously explore ways to create a new world. friends who carry burdens of their own but selflessly will take on mine. friends who i can sit in silence with and not be uncomfortable. family who listens to my questions. family who let me sleep and then wake me up gently. family who cooks and bakes and eats delicious food together. so thankful : )

Nov 24, 2011

#thankful #thanksgiving #today and everyday #family #friends

“Most men do not attack or harass women; but those who do are unlikely to think themselves deviant. On the contrary they usually feel they are entirely justified, that they are exercising a right. They are authorized by an ideology of supremacy.” —Bob Connell, “Masculinity” (via petitefeministe)

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Nov 22, 201113 notes

#democracy now #ows #occupy

Waging Nonviolence - Don’t let them confuse you about violence → wagingnonviolence.org

Nov 19, 2011

#violence #nonviolence #occupy #uc davis

Squashed: Non-lethal weapons are designed to hurt people → squashed.tumblr.com

squashed:

There seems to be some confusion regarding appropriate and inappropriate use of weapons on non-violent protestors. Let’s clear up three things.

Non-violence is not the same as non-forceful or legal. A protester sitting in a sidewalk in violation of the law and in direct contravention of a police…

Nov 19, 2011225 notes

caught on tape - police brutality → alternet.org

Nov 19, 2011

#police brutality #nypd #occupy everything #acab

Nov 19, 201124,269 notes

#uc davis #police brutality #pepper spray #acab

Nov 19, 20112,210 notes

Nov 18, 2011960 notes

#obama #human rights? #police

“But when a saga popular with pre-adolescent girls peaks romantically on a night that leaves the heroine to wake up covered with bruises in the shape of her husband’s hands — and when that heroine then spends the morning explaining to her husband that she’s incredibly happy even though he injured her, and that it’s not his fault because she understands he couldn’t help it in light of the depth of his passion — that’s profoundly irresponsible.” —

NPR’s Linda Holmes reviews Twilight Breaking Dawn, Pt. 1 (via diandrabird)

Profoundly irresponsible.

(via librarysciences)

Nov 18, 201118,387 notes

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Nov 18, 2011

#fuck you #police brutality

“In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.” —Zooey Deschanel (via sorakeem)

Nov 18, 201116,173 notes

“The state and its police were not neutral referees. They were on the side of the rich and powerful. Free speech? Try it, and the police will be there with their horses, their clubs, their guns, to stop you. From that moment on, I was no longer a liberal, a believer in the self-correcting character of American democracy. I was a radical, believing that something fundamental was wrong in this country—something rotten at the root. The situation required not just a new President, or new laws, but an uprooting of the old order, the introduction of a new kind of society—cooperative, peaceful, egalitarian.” —Howard Zinn, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Time

Nov 16, 2011

been sick to my stomach too many days now.

Nov 15, 2011

#when will this be over #decisions #fuck everything #changes

“If Occupiers are expelled from specific geographic locations the Occupier movement can shift to broad-based organizing around the simple idea at the core of the movement: It’s time to occupy our democracy.” —Robert Reich: Occupiers Occupied: The Hijacking of the First Amendment (via squashed)

Nov 15, 2011376 notes

#i think i may agree

Nov 15, 2011271 notes

“The people who are working for these mayors and police and so on are doing Wall Street business for them, and we need to stand up against it.” — Dan Siegel, former legal advisor to Mayor Jean Quan of Oakland

Nov 15, 2011

when you roll your eyes and try to go to sleep and shake your head when we talk about human rights and poverty and homeless and sex trafficking and on and on it makes me want to scream.

Nov 15, 201124 notes

#wake up #patience #breathe #what will it take #what do you know that i don't

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Nov 14, 2011

#feminism #college grad #my generation

from Waging Nonviolence...women and war → wagingnonviolence.org

Nov 14, 20114 notes

#war #women #feminism #nonviolence

Nov 14, 20112,392 notes

#occupy oakland #this is a sign #occupy everything #wake up call

“First, by asserting herself as a personality, and not as a sex commodity. Second, by refusing the right to anyone over her body; by refusing to bear children, unless she wants them; by refusing to be a servant to God, the State, society, the husband, the family, etc., by making her life simpler, but deeper and richer. That is, by trying to learn the meaning and substance of life in all its complexities, by freeing herself from the fear of public opinion and public condemnation. Only that, and not the ballot, will set woman free.” —Emma Goldman (via ladycaloon)

Nov 14, 2011277 notes

Are you an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! → anarchistnews.org

Nov 13, 2011

#lawlz #learn something new

intelligence and wisdom come in many shapes and forms. feel lucky that i have been able to meet so many different people with some many different ways of being wise and intelligent.

Nov 13, 2011

#anarchists #new times and places

Nov 13, 201111 notes

#mountains #homesick #new mexico #bosque

Nov 13, 2011171 notes

#fall #mountains #wish i was there

pictures from arrested photographer at occupy atlanta → clatl.com

the caption of the photo at the top of the article is, “An Atlanta motorcycle officer falters as he drives toward a crowd of protesters at Occupy Atlanta’s Nov. 5 demonstration downtown.” which is not accurate. the comments below address this really well.

Nov 12, 20116 notes

#occupy atlanta #police #motorcycle cops

Nov 10, 20113,870 notes

#gender

Nov 8, 20115 notes

Not a Talker.: Remember, remember, the 5th of November-- OR-- I can now attest that Camp Pontiac is worse than a night in jail. → hereidreamtiwasablogger2.tumblr.com

hereidreamtiwasablogger2:

OCCUPY ATLANTA

Last night, I went to Troy Davis Park full of excitement. Colby, as usual, went with me, as well as Katie, his girlfriend/my college roommate. I had been looking forward to the reoccupation for a couple of weeks now and I was especially excited, because it was a weekend— so, if…

Nov 7, 20117 notes

IDIOSYNCRATIC ROUTINE: Can Birth-Control PIlls Kill Your Libido? → nessfraserloves.tumblr.com

thesexuneducated:

onecondoms:

New research is pointing to a possible link between contraception use and decreased sex drive. The Indiana University study examined the negative effects of contraception on things like arousal, lubrication, and orgasm. Involved were 1,101 sexually…

Nov 7, 201136 notes

Watch this Creative Loafing journalist get violently arrested for no reason at Occupy ATL → twitvid.com

Nov 6, 2011

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