May 2012
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Verizon tripled the salary of CEO Lowell McAdam to...
Call 800-229-9460 now to record a message that will be delivered directly to Verizon executives.
Anonymous asked: are you planning to go see 'the beatles: the lost concert' film?
April 2012
4 posts
“[It] is threatening the rights of people in America, and effectively rights...”
– Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, expressed opposition to the bill stating,
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US House Passes CISPA!! 248 to 168 →
pro-lifer: would you have wanted to be aborted?!?
me: yes
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Civil Disobedience
“Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience, democracy does not exist.” – US Historian Howard Zinn
When many people hear civil disobedience they think of either hippies or violent riots. But is this a correct assumption? Civil disobedience has been around since the beginning of organized civilizations and laws, but what is civil disobedience? Civil disobedience is...
March 2012
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KONY 2012: State Propaganda for a New Generation
(Taken from http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/kony-2012-state-propaganda-for-a-new-generation/)
The overnight viral sensation KONY 2012 brought worldwide awareness to the African war criminal Joseph Kony. Beneath this commendable cause, lies however an elaborate agenda that is presented in the video in a very manipulative way. We’ll look at the agenda behind KONY 2012 and how it uses...
iamateenagefeminist:
Some of the sex-ed blogs on tumblr scare me.
I would suggest that if you have a question about sex or sex-ed you direct it towards http://www.plannedparenthood.org/ or http://www.scarleteen.com/ instead of a tumblr that can be run by just about anybody.
“Republicans date women, they marry women, they have children with women. They...”
– Rush Limbaugh, explaining last Thursday why there’s no Republican war on women.
Shorter Limbaugh: “We buy you sluts diamonds and dinner! What more do you ungrateful feminazis want?!”
Ah, I see. So bullheaded restrictions on reproductive rights, opposing the Violence Against Women Act, not...
berryfemme asked: do you have sources for the facts quoted on the image about women being raped, starving themselves etc?
If you want to have the greatest impact on a...
• Women reinvest 90% of their income in their families and communities, compared with men who reinvest only 30% to 40%. (World Bank)
• Women are 70% of the world’s farmers, produce 90% of the world’s staple food crops and yet own less than 2% of the land. (Women for Women)
(taken from Women for Women, a non-profit group working to help women in war nations. For more info visit:...
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Occupy with international women's day →
We will not be divided!
“Unemployment is down, confidence is up, DOW 5,000 above Bush - or as Republicans...”
– Bill Maher (via brooklynmutt)
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February 2012
30 posts
150,000 Iraq citizens murdered,
15,000 Afghan civilians murdered,
1 million innocent civilians killed in Vietnam.
Who’s the real terrorist here? The US government.
'If you were my girlfriend/boyfriend' Finish it...
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Top Five Reasons I Don't Wear Dead Skin (aka...
5) One billion animals are killed every year for leather products.
Leather is not a “byproduct” of the meat industry. It is a coproduct. The meat industry makes a lot of money selling the skins of dead animals.
4) Leather is dead skin.
Literally. Ripping someone’s skin off and wearing it are the kinds of things that horror movies are made of. Don’t be a creep.
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Theres is Nothing Wrong with Dark Skin
fuckyeahfeminists:
daydreamingaimlessly:
vanachexfortune:
You don’t have to come from Africa to have dark skin. You can come from any part of the world and be born with a darker shade of skin.
Instead of demonizing dark skin. Understand the beauty in color.
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Beautiful
Fuck yeah, feminists!: Eric Bolling's "Crack Pipe"... →
On the February 16 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends, Eric Bolling responded to Rep. Maxine Waters’ (D-CA) recent comment that House Republican leaders are “demons” by saying in part that Waters should “step away from the crack pipe”:
BOLLING: What is going on in California? How’s…
“Some people think that you can’t let same-sex couples get married without...”
– California attorney and semi-professional cynic Bill Smith on today’s Ninth Circuit decision regarding Proposition 8. Read the full decision here. (via cognitivedissonance)
If you don’t think that the criminal justice system is racist, then you are blind to the world around you. Racism, sadly, still exist to this day. Don’t beehive me? Look at the facts
“One. The US has seen a surge in arrests and putting people in jail over the last four decades. Most of the reason is the war on drugs. Yet whites and blacks engage in drug offenses,...
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Five Things You Probably Don’t Know About Food... →
abbyjean:
A large and growing share of SNAP households are working households(see chart). In 2010, more than three times as many SNAP households worked as relied solely on welfare benefits for their income.
SNAP responded quickly and effectively to the recession.
Today’s large SNAP caseloads mostly reflect the extraordinarily deep and prolonged recession and the weak recovery. Workers who are...
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Year of the storm - The Pirate Bay
Found on the pirate bay blog (original: http://thepiratebay.se/blog/204)
“2012 is the year of the storm.
The Pirate Bay will reach an age of 9 years. Experiencing raids, espionage and death threats, we’re still here. We’ve been through hell and back and it has made us tougher than ever.
The people running the site has changed during the years. No sane human being would put up...