June 2010
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Debunking veteran activist Judy Rebick's G20... →
We all know that the G20 was an inside job. And maybe the black bloc really are shape-shifting alien lizards from a secret civilization on the moon. But maybe we should use the time-honoured principle of sticking with the simplest answer rather than the most complicated and outlandish one. Cops harass, hurt and murder lots of people daily. So lots of people would like to see their cars go up in...
Here are some things you might like to know about...
faketrain:
clawsbeatskin:seaponies:pluseyes:meloukhia:
It grows like a weed.
Everyone here seems to forget this, and plants 8-10 plants every year, and subsequently ends up with a zucchini surplus. Hence, you have people attempting to unload zucchini in creative ways. If you leave your home or vehicle unlocked and unattended in summer, when you come back, there will be zucchini inside. I...
privilegedandgoodlooking-deacti asked: That's why I didn't go to Melbourne for Gender studies! I would have had a coronary/aneurysm daily. ugh. Hello new friend!
Watchshakepaper:
Amy Miller, an independent news journalist, speaks out about the sexist and abusive conditions that she, and many other young women faced in prison.
WARNING: CAN BE VERY TRIGGERING.
I became anti-cop and anti-state after I realised that the crime my friends and I were facing was usually sexual assault or assault by law enforcement or both. and that there was no justice for us in...
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And if you do know, don't act like you don't, cuz...
“And the context for this is really frightening, because the police are feeling...”
– Naomi Klein: The Real Crime Scene Was Inside the G20 Summit (via illegalsoul)
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AMY GOODMAN: Explain what the G20 is, and the G6 and the G8.
JOHN CLARKE: OK. Well, the G6 in ’75 was an initial grouping of the world's most powerful and important imperial nations, essentially.
AMY GOODMAN: Group of 6, uh-huh.
JOHN CLARKE: And they were formed at a time when the world economy was in crisis, and they were looking to rearrange the world economy on the basis of a neoliberal agenda, to impose massive cutbacks and austerity on populations, to reverse the relative concessions of the postwar boom years. And their strategy all along has been to do that.
And this gathering, which has now been broadened to the G20 formation, I think, is setting itself the task of essentially deepening the process of austerity massively. They just stabilized the system with this binge of spending, bailouts to corporations and banks and what have you, spent trillions of dollars, and they’re looking to impose—looking to come to us for the bill. The International Monetary Fund is talking about twenty years of austerity.
So these meetings are always vile. They’re always reprehensible. They always need to be challenged. But this one in Toronto, I think, is exceptionally important.
AMY GOODMAN: And the difference between the G8 and G20?
JOHN CLARKE: Essentially, they’ve brought some of the other economies in the world—major, often third world economies—to the table, so that they can form, I think, a partnership between the traditional imperial powers and elites in the rising economies within the third world. I don’t think it represents a democratization; quite the reverse, it represents a consolidation of an anti-democratic strategy.
http: //www.democracynow.org/2010/6/25/fortress_toronto_massive_security_clampdown_for
clingtomymouth:
Ethiopian Suicides…: Human Rights Watch: Protecting Working Women Worldwide
It was 2008, and along Hamra Street, one of Beirut’s main thoroughfares, women’s rights demonstrators had placed a series of identical cutouts shaped like women’s bodies. Painted red, each sign represented a migrant domestic worker who had died - and Human Rights Watch had discovered that they...
“Sexual harassment of women and queer people. We heard many first-hand accounts...”
– Maisonneuve | Appalling Conditions at the G20 Detention Centre (via illegalsoul)
“On Sunday June 27th 2010 at approx 1:30pm I was walking with a friend on Dundas...”
– A friend of mine, via Facebook. (via dorianisms)(via ilykadamen)(via illegalsoul)(via so-treu) (via picturethis-that)
Lose Your Wikipedia Crutch: 100 Places to Go for... →
so-treu:
(via keondillon)
this is JUST WHAT I HAVE BEEN CRAVING.
I seriously hate wikipedia. I mean, I use it sometimes, for stuff like album track listings. But I hate it. It’s dominated by young white male US-Libertarians (as distinct from the way “libertarian” is used in most of the rest of the world, to mean libertarian socialist i.e. anarchist), actively hostile to...
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faketrain:
kissakerho:
i’m never gonna be on PILF cos i’m not punk enough :( sigh.
fuck that. PILFs is a weird tumblr. fuck the aesthetic expectation of punks. fuck self-evaluation of being ‘punk enough’ to be on a website that objectifies people and says “this is a punk, and i’d like to fuck them” - telling people what a punk is/looks like and what an attractive punk is. fuck that. look...
ALTERNATIVE COVERAGE OF THE G20
poc-news:
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garconniere:
for those interested in alternative coverage of the G20 protests, here are some helpful links:
http://yg20.info/ - why the g20 in the toronto? lots of videos, see for yourself.
rabble.ca - news for the rest of us
toronto community mobilization network - organizers of the convergence. awesome.
toronto media coop - links from twitter,...
faketrain:
lioneater:
“Not That There’s...
WHY WE ARE OUT IN THE STREETS. (and why you should...
garconniere:
i can’t take this shit anymore. there is so much misinformation out there in response to the G20 protests. i’m going to swamp your dashboard with a bunch of links, articles and videos that call attention to WHY people are protesting the G20 and WHY people are pissed off and WHY the mainstream media is only paying attention to two cars set on fire and petty vandalism and blowing...
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“have you noticed that this city has been taken over by armed thugs??...”
– comment on G20 alt media centre.
just sayin’.
“To that end, the notion that “we” are practicing non-violence when “we” partake...”
– “Our western privilege is the legacy of historical violence” | Jewbonics (via clingtomymouth) (via skirtonfire)
What exactly is the blockade of Gaza? →
poc-news:
so-treu:
cuntymint:
mohamedn:danielextra:
Don’t let the Israeli government’s propaganda abroad or State-side obfuscate the fact that there is a humanitarian crisis brewing in the Gaza Strip. We have previously published a list of allowed and disallowed items and supplies that can and cannot be brought to Gazans, but what has been broad impact of the blockade to the territory’s...
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“I am explicitly not interested in discussions of “body image” which focus on how...”
– Body Image is a Furphy, Fatuosity
“Rather than bring more varied bodies into the aspirational economy, through the...”
– Why Don’t You Flip the Tortoise Over, Jennifer? at Thus Bakes Zarathustra
“I’ve seen it time and time again: A woman of “normal” weight...”
– Women Have To Stop Starving Themselves Past The Point Of Hotness, The Onion
in my opinion this is pretty much indistinguishable from most “healthy body image” campaigns
“This should come as no surprise, but some students are really uncomfortable...”
– “Five Reasons to Stop Giving ‘Participation Grades’” at Shitty First Drafts
Book: This Bridge Called My Back
fuckyeahradicalliterature:
First published in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back has been out of print since the expiration of its contract with Third Woman Press in 2008. Hopefully the digital copy will find its way to those who will circulate it and possibly build up pressure to have it printed again.
URL Set:
Introduction: http://www.mediafire.com/?e2taou2lzzl
Children Passing In the...
So here is where I shout
leonineclaire:
So I wanted to start a FuckYeahYeahYeahYeahs tumblr but it’s gone :(
I can never support the Greens and here is why:
Population
The Australian Greens believe that:
1. Australia must contribute to achieving a globally sustainable population.
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11. human settlements which are: · designed and built to minimise environmental harm and maximise social well-being; (GOOD BUT HOW...
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how soon is now — t.A.T.u.
yeah THEY WENT...
Long Post on Anti-Burqa/Anti-Niqab BS Forthcoming...
thingsimreading:
Tumblr still seems to be eating posts, so it was lost.
Thought i might try again tonight and copy & save it elsewhere just in case, but frankly… no.
Main Points:
Men should shut up telling women how to dress, and that includes men demanding that we wear less.
Contrary to stupid opinion, the niqab/burqa have nothing to do with being extremist, terrorist, Al-Qaeda...
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Paris Metro: Cheaters say solidarity is the ticket... →
suburbananarchist:
For the market-anarchist/agorists, this one is for you.
Scofflaws who jump the turnstiles or enter through the exits have formed an insurance fund that pays if they get caught.
The answer, here in the land that gave the world the motto “All for one, one for all,” is as typically French as it is ingenious: They’ve banded together to set up what are, essentially, scofflaw...
This is pretty cool, try it out - Web game...
picturethis-that:
New York - The Israeli legal advocacy group Gisha has set up a web-based game that explains the maddening bureaucracy that restricts Palestinian freedom of movement and is driving a wedge between the West Bank and Gaza.
The Flash animation game is called Safe Passage is a sort of ‘choose your own adventure’ in navigating Israeli legal-military bureaucracy. The player can...
