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I need feminism because other people shouldn’t shame me for wanting to be a single mom
This. Fucking this. Always.
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Love this! It’s so true & perfect!
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This is why gender neutral bathrooms are necessary
Some places around here have gender neutral bathrooms...
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All things truly wicked start from innocence.
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His shirt reads “They gave me a medal for killing two men, and a discharge for loving one.”
You are a bad-ass.
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This image is one of the most powerful pro-choice images I’ve ever seen. When I saw it in the newspaper I immediately cut it out and hung it on my wall.
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Jan 28: “Don’t fuck with the Oakland Commune”
Dear Mayor Jean Quan, Oakland Police Department, and Oakland City Council,As you probably know, Occupy Oakland is planning the occupation of a building on January 28th that will serve as a social center, convergence center, headquarters, free kitchen, and place of housing for Occupy Oakland. Like so many other people, Occupy Oakland is homeless while buildings remain vacant and unused. For Occupy this is in large part because of yourselves, having evicted us twice from public space that was rightfully ours. For others it is because of the housing bubble, predatory lending, the perpetual crises of capitalism, and far reaching histories of imperialism and systemic violence.
Our families, friends, and communities built the buildings that sit empty in post-industrial Oakland. Now these buildings outnumber the homeless and represent the theft of our collective labor as the class of the unpropertied and dispossessed. Allowing this building to remain vacant while so many are in need is injurious theft, injustice; its extralegal occupancy is not.
When Occupy Oakland was first evicted on October 25, we organized a General Strike on November 2nd with only a week to plan. November 2nd proved our strength and relevancy. Conservative estimates said twenty thousand took the streets, but for those of us who marched on the ports it could have been a hundred thousand. November 2nd was an inspiration for the Occupy Movement and public condemnation of your violent repression.
Eventually we reoccupied Oscar Grant Plaza only to suffer a second violent eviction on November 14th. At this time there was a national crackdown on the Occupy movement as evictions were happening in Boston, New York City, Atlanta, Portland OR and elsewhere. It was revealed that you, Jean Quan, had been coordinating with federal agents how to best repress dissent. In response Occupy Oakland was the impetus for a West Coast Port Shut Down, in solidarity with Longview ILWU workers whose union is under attack by EGT. The action escalated to a national and then international action as more occupations signed on. In Oakland alone the shutdown cost some $8.7 million dollars in lost revenue and proved that when civic and economic institutions do not serve us, we can shut them down.
Since the beginning of the Occupy Movement when you have exacted violent repression on us we have proven that we are more powerful and diffuse than you. If you try to evict us again we will make your lives more miserable than you make ours.
This may be in one or more of the following forms:
-Blockading the airport indefinitely
-Occupying City Hall indefinitely
-Shutting down the Oakland ports
-Calling on anonymous for solidarity
It will be in our mutual interest if you respect our occupation by recognizing our residency and eminent domain. We are sure that we all look forward to the needs of Oakland’s people finally being met.
Don’t fuck with the Oakland Commune.
Signed,
Occupy Oakland Move-In Assembly
This is happening. And if you are not sure what “this” is- believe me when I tell you it is Revolution.
“You say you want a revolution? Well, you know, we all want to change the world…”
And we will. Little by little, dissent is creating change, while solidarity continues to give us hope.
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BLACK MARCH
Thursday, March 1st 2012 to Saturday 31st March 2012With the continuing campaigns for Internet-censoring litigation such as SOPA and PIPA, and the closure of sites such as Megaupload under allegations of ‘piracy’ and ‘conspiracy’ the time has come to take a stand against music, film and media companies’ lobbyists.
The only way is to hit them where it truly hurts.
Their profit margins.March 2012 is the end of the 1st quarter in economic reports worldwide.
Do not buy a single record. Do not download a single song, legally or illegally. Do not go to see a single film in cinemas, or download a copy, Do not buy a DVD in the stores. Do not buy a videogame. Do not buy a single book or magazine.
Wait the 4 weeks to buy them in April: see the film later, etc. Holding out for just 4 weeks, maximum, will leave a gaping hole in media and entertainment companies’ profits for the 1st quarter, an economic hit which will in turn be observed by governments worldwide as stocks and shares will blip from a large enough loss of incomes.
This action can give a statement of intent:”We will not tolerate the Media Industries’ lobbying for legistation which will censor the internet.”
Doing. Plus, this will give me more time to read the Hunger Games trilogy :)
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When millions of Arab citizens rose up to protest rising food prices; lack of housing, health care, and jobs; disenfranchisment; and dictatorial, violent regimes run by greed and megalomania, we as a country largely stood behind them and offered them aid. We told their stories and treated them as heroes, even as they peacefully resisted their governments’ violent attempts at repression, even as they suffered, fought, and died. We joined them in solidarity and in some places, we joined them with military might. We asked the world to stand behind democratic protests for basic human rights and a better world.
When American citizens rose up to protest rising food prices; lack of housing, health care, and jobs; disenfranchisment; and an oppressive and violent socioeconomic standard run by greed and megalomania, we as a nation shrug, laugh, or otherwise attempt to further disenfranchise their cause. Liberal pundits like Bill Maher and media sources like the New York Times spend weeks calling them lazy hippies with little to no purpose. Municipal governments respond with riot police and mass arrests. Banks enter lock-downs during normal business hours when people peacefully attempt to close out their accounts—and these people are among several who are later arrested for—what, exactly?
Peaceful protesters are attacked: a chemical bomb in Maine; by knife in New Mexico; by worse and worse and worse as days turn into weeks turn into months. Our national government is curiously quiet about these acts of domestic terrorism. Those of us who actually care point our fingers and shout until we’re hoarse; the rest of us turn off the news for Law and Order or CSI re-runs: an alternate reality where the perpetrators are punished, rather than promoted.
So here’s a hint, in case you still need one. I am the 99%; and so are you. If you don’t start paying attention now, it’s going to be too late. It’s past time to stand up and demand that your rights as a US citizen, as a human being, are not only expected, but respected, too. I’m not saying we should live in a world where everything should go exactly as we want, where everything we’re promised has to be delivered. What I am saying is this: We shouldn’t be treated as a victim simply for showing up, and we damn well shouldn’t allow our government to blame us for being victimized while rewarding the criminals with bail-outs, lobbying power, and elected seats.
We are the 99%.
I’m tired of sleeping.
