February 2012
5 posts
Looking for a Breast Cancer foundation who... →
Black Herstory: Rosa Parks Did Much More than Sit... →
fuckyeahfeminists:
To be clear, Rosa Parks left us a deliberate legacy of activism, not an accidental activist moment. Furthermore, she, like many other Black women, should not be remembered in the shadows of Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. or any other Black male civil rights activist, but rather right alongside of them. We must realize and teach that when Rosa Parks was helping lay the...
January 2012
3 posts
December 2011
17 posts
Years after immigration raid, Iowa town feels... →
My Occupy LA Arrest by Patrick Meighan
darcibastiaan:
My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica.
I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people at Occupy LA. I was sitting in City Hall Park with a pillow, a blanket, and a copy of Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Being Peace” ...
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley... →
abaldwin360:
By Jenifer B. McKim, Globe Staff | boston.com
The suit is the first major legal action taken against the nation’s biggest banks since settlement negotiations began last year between the lenders and a multistate alliance of attorneys general. The talks started after state attorneys general…
I'm hosting First Friday Night Live tomorrow... →
This show is amazing and I’m stoked to be December’s special guest host! Show starts at 11pm & the musical guest is Greenwood Sidee, don’t miss it!
First Friday Night Live, the largest sketch-comedy show to be filmed and broadcast from a backyard in Arizona, is coming up December 2nd, 11pm. First Friday Night Live is a collaborative arts project. Part musical act, part...
Alabama reconsiders immigration law after... →
fuckyeahfeminists:
shotgunsunday:
wheretheweedstakeroot:
bohemianarthouse:
firesandwords:
The law was supposed to catch THESE guys! The brown ones!
Outrage in Alabama!
On Nov. 16, a European businessman paying a visit to his company’s manufacturing plant near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was pulled over for driving a rental car without a tag.
The police officer asked the man for his...
Awesome demonstration on how Siri screws women... →
Infuriating!!!!! Looks like Apple’s new iphone assistabt app Siri can provide info on where to get condoms, beer, viagra, escort services (4 men), and “where to dump a body” but refuses to provide info on where to get birth control, emergency contraception, or an abortion. Instead it directs you to those fake/harmful “pregnancy centers” & when you ask for rape...
November 2011
28 posts
Washington Lobbyists Crafted $850,000 Secret Plan... →
Think Mexican: The Myths & Facts Framing Tucson's... →
thinkmexican:
Attacks on the Mexican American Studies program of Tucson, Arizona continues. State officials are following through on a campaign promise to close the program, but its meeting resistance from students, family, and teachers.
The teachers of the Mexican American Studies (MAS) program have…
Peruvian authorities reopen investigation into... →
Lima, Peru (CNN) — For the last 15 years, Victoria Vigo has been trying to find the truth about her infertility. After her third child was born dead, the 49-year-old leadership skills instructor who lives in Lima, the Peruvian capital, was never able to conceive again.
Three months after losing her child, a doctor confirmed her worst fears: her tubes had been tied without her knowledge or...
“The drug war is not a failure; rather it works perfectly for its intended...”
– Mike Stroup - Literally my favorite quote against the Drug “War” and vividly paints the reality of things (via cwnl)
Petition Against Internet Censorship →
citizenofspaceshipearth:
Right now, Congress is debating a law that would give them the power to censor the world’s Internet — creating a blacklist that could target YouTube, WikiLeaks and even groups like Avaaz! Under the new law, our government could force Internet providers to block any website on suspicion of violating copyright or trademark legislation, or even failing to sufficiently...
