stfuconservatives:

joegressivism:

“A thoughtful and lucid answer. YOU WILL BE DESTROYED!” 

The Futurama episode this week was so spot on that it kind of hurt.

my fellow earthicans…

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bapeonion:

nhaler:

whipporwill:

The Mayor of Oakland has acknowledged that the Department of Homeland Security had participated in an 18-city mayor conference call advising mayors on “how to suppress” Occupy protests

US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. 

 The National Union of Journalists and the Committee to Protect Journalists issued a Freedom of Information Act request to investigate possible federal involvement with law enforcement practices that appeared to target journalists. The New York Times reported that “New York cops have arrested, punched, whacked, shoved to the ground and tossed a barrier at reporters and photographers” covering protests. 

 Wonkette and Washingtonsblog.com reported that the Mayor of Oakland acknowledged that the Department of Homeland Security had participated in an 18-city mayor conference call advising mayors on “how to suppress” Occupy protests.

To Europeans, the enormity of this breach may not be obvious at first. Our system of government prohibits the creation of a federalised police force, and forbids federal or militarised involvement in municipal peacekeeping.

I noticed that rightwing pundits and politicians on the TV shows on which I was appearing were all on-message against OWS. Journalist Chris Hayes reported on a leaked memo that revealed lobbyists vying for an $850,000 contract to smear Occupy. Message coordination of this kind is impossible without a full-court press at the top. This was clearly not simply a case of a freaked-out mayors’, city-by-city municipal overreaction against mess in the parks and cranky campers. As the puzzle pieces fit together, they began to show coordination against OWS at the highest national levels.

You know, sometimes the media really stands with people, and sometimes it doesn’t. How many media entities are still out there, saying “What is OWS about?” How many are taking the questions and positions of OWS strait to the politicians themselves? How many are taking outright stands against the police brutality, and prominently covering it before their own journalists become targets? 

Furthermore, have we all forgotten about the despicable Rupert Murdoch trial already? Nobody even brings up the point that it was revealed nearly all major news agencies were implicated in illegal phone hacking and the illegal acquisition of personal information. 

Lol no media company would report on how they were implicated on phone hacking. Nor would one narc on the other. They have standards. Clearly.

From now on, I will post and reblog all entries related to politics, news and current events in it’s own blog. Partly because I’d like to keep my hobbies interests separate from political opinions and editorials, but mostly so I can keep myself organized and remember where the articles I want to share are.

Recent Entries:

• Egypt’s Crisis: Israel Backs Hosni Muburak’s Regime - TIME
• How The U.S. Chamber Of Commerce’s Egyptian Affiliate Went To Bat For The Egyptian Dictatorship - ThinkProgress
• Complete Internet Blackout in Egypt - Curt Hopkins of Read Write Web
• At least 7 dead in Egypt protests - The Hindu
• NPR Coverage of Egypt Protests
• The House GOP’s Plan to Redefine Rape - MotherJones

There’s another infamous shooting of a nine-year-old girl that is making headlines this week in Tucson. This time, we wonder if the rest of the media will bother to cover it.

The little girl’s name was Brisenia Flores. She lived near the border with her parents and sister outside the town of Arivaca, Arizona. On May 30 of 2009, a woman named Shawna Forde, who led an offshoot unit of Minutemen who ran armed border patrols for patriotic “fun”. Forde’s gang had decided to go “operational,” which meant they concocted a scheme to raid drug smugglers and take their money and drugs and use it to finance a border race war and “start a revolution against the government”. They targeted the Flores home, which had neither money nor drugs, based on dubious information. They convinced Flores to let them in by claiming to be law-enforcement officers seeking fugitives, then shot him point-blank in the head when he questioned them and wounded his wife, Gina Gonzalez. And then, while she pleaded for her life, they shot Brisenia in cold blood in the head. (Her sister, fortunately, was sleeping over at a friend’s.)

(via CrooksandLiars)

(Source: onceuponanotsolongtimeago, via stheno)

mohandasgandhi:

“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

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sunisup:

life:

It is the spring of 1961, and in the kitchen of a safe house in Montgomery, Alabama, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. looks tense, perhaps worried. As a volunteer bends his ear, the 32-year-old civil rights leader glances toward one of the 17 students hunkered down with him — fresh-faced college kids who, moved by King’s message of racial equality, have risked their very lives. The past two weeks have been harrowing for these young people — the “Freedom Riders,” they are called — as they inch across the state on integrated buses, their numbers diminished at every stop in the face of arrests, bloody mob beatings, fire-bombings. There to capture the mood in the room as the group plans its next brave move — a ride into Jackson, Mississippi — is LIFE photographer Paul Schutzer, who covered the “Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom” four years earlier and had seen firsthand the kind of courage and determination King could inspire in his followers. Now, nearly 50 years after these Freedom Rides and in celebration of King’s birthday, LIFE.com presents never-seen photos taken by Schutzer, tracking King and the nation-changing movement he led, from the monuments of Washington to the streets of the Deep South.

NEVER-SEEN: MLK & the Freedom Rides

I love candid shots like this.

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synthezoid:

mothgirlwings:

Martin Luther King Jr enjoys a rare moment of leisure

1966

oh wow i love this picture

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“Mr. President, there is a war going on in this country, and I am not referring to the War in Iraq or the War in Afghanistan. I’m talking about a war being waged by some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country against the working families of the United States of America, against the disappearing and shrinking middle class of our country. The reality is that many of the nation’s billionaires are on the warpath. They want more, more, more. Their greed has no end and apparently there is very little concern for our country or the people of this country if it gets in the way of the accumulation of more and more wealth, and more and more power.”

“Mr. President, in the year 2007 the top 1% of all income earners in the United States made 23.5% of all income. Top 1% made 23.5% of all income, more than the entire bottom 50%.”

Bernie Sanders, you have my vote in 2012.