December 2011
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"Once you don't trust the government, you're... →
November 2011
46 posts
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“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that’s wrong with the...”
– Paul Farmer (via freedomandjustice)
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“In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get...”
– Woody Allen
(via missfolly)
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“I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in...”
– Albert Einstein (via ersal)
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“[C]apital is always about growth. You see the newspapers, and what are they...”
– David Harvey @ Occupy London
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“Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit...”
– Audre Lorde (via andyouhavetogivethemhope)
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“Economic problems pass, but their health effects — cruelly visible in hospitals...”
– Paul Farmer’s Op-Ed on PEPFAR and health systems in The Washington Post
(via dailyro)
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“Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an...”
– Walter Benjamin
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“No one group possesses the theory or methodology that allows it to discover the...”
– patricia hill collins (via purgingmyguts)
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Why Chancellor Katehi Must Resign
“Yesterday was not a day that would make anyone on our campus proud.”
This is how the Chancellor began an email to the UC Davis community the day after non-violent student protesters were pepper-sprayed and arrested by the police.
Among the many reasons it is imperative that the Chancellor resign immediately, this sentence is indicative of the most important. Though it intends a...
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“In appointing LA Police Chief William Bratton to investigate UCPD police...”
– Rei Terada
It Does Take a Village by Melvin Konner →
Hrdy’s gracefully written, expert account of human behavior focuses on the positive, and its most important contribution is to give cooperation its rightful place in child care. Through a lifetime of pathbreaking work, she has repeatedly undermined our complacent, solipsistic, masculine notions of what women were meant “by nature” to be. Here as elsewhere she urges caution and compassion...
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“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)
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How Music Travels – The Evolution of Western Dance...
To make it easier to trace the threads of music history, we’ve created an interactive map detailing the evolution of western dance music over the last 100 years. The map shows the time and place where each of the music styles were born and which blend of genres influenced the next.
Click image to open interactive version (via Thomson Holidays).
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Open Letter to UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B....
18 November 2011
Linda P.B. Katehi,
I am a junior faculty member at UC Davis. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, and I teach in the Program in Critical Theory and in Science & Technology Studies. I have a strong record of research, teaching, and service. I am currently a Board Member of the Davis Faculty Association. I have also taken an active role in supporting...
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The cop group coordinating the Occupy crackdowns |... →
anonymissexpress:
11.18.11 - 11:23 am | Shawn Gaynor
As cities across America evict encampments of the Occupy Wall Street movement, similarities of timing, talking points and tactics among major metropolitan mayors and police chiefs have led critics to wonder: Is some sort of national coordination going on?
The White House says there’s no federal oversight. Speaking November 15 aboard Air...
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#AntiSec retaliates against police for Occupy Wall... →
anonymissexpress:
BOOM!!!
Friday, AntiSec continued their private war with law enforcement by releasing a staggering amount of information on law enforcement agencies across the country. AntiSec claims the recent leaks and dumps are made in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement and motivated by a desire to retaliate against police for perceived acts of police brutality.
Read more...
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Queer theory →
“what I saw in queer theory was this tremendous potential of de-centering what we understand as normal when it comes to sexuality, and applying that to the way that we’re dating as straight people, because I felt like that was the missing link. That all of this advice was hindering on the belief that all men act one way and all women act another way. These kind of stereotypes become that much more...
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“[N]o pesky democratic voting. Voting has the power to over-turn the bankers...”
– Golem XIV
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“What happened next was extraordinary. The belief that citizens had to pay for...”
– Iceland’s On-going Revolution
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“CRP is adamantly opposed to the use of the term “Occupy” but supports the...”
– Graffiti, Aerosol Writing and the Occupy Oakland
(via sexualassumptions)
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Deep Green Resistance Massachusetts: OCCUPY DENVER... →
gravewisdom:
In response to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s insistence that Occupy Denver choose leadership to deal with City and State officials, and drawing inspiration from the notion that corporations are people, Occupy Denver’s General Assembly has elected a leader: Shelby, a three year old Border Collie. “Shelby is closer to a person than any corporation: She can bleed, she can breed,...
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“In their book Snakes in Suits, Paul Babiak and Robert Hare point out that as the...”
– The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen
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“Financial crises serve to rationalise the irrationalities of capitalism.”
– David Harvey The Enigma of Capital : And the Crises of Capitalism (via )
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CLICO Investment Bank (CIB) - Synopsis of Ernst &...
As Prepared by Counsel to the Commission
1. Ernst & Young Services Limited (EYSL) were appointed by the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago on 11th March 2009. They produced their report on 24th June 2009.
2. In preparing their report, EYSL found a lack of transparency, and failings in what should have been the audit trail: -
· Financial record keeping was weak – appropriate...
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“The empirical facts of the world always already reflect a politics, and if there...”
– Richard Gilman-Opalsky
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Five years for a drop of water
Port-au-Prince, 4 November 2011 – Two-and-a-half million dollars (US$2.5 million) to supply water to several marginal neighborhoods in the capital. Approved in 2006. But, five years later, the water isn’t running yet. Children are still in the streets bearing bottles and buckets.
The project is almost finished. “The end of October,” according to the funder. But not yet.
Why? And why five...
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“First they came for Irish Democracy . The people of Europe did nothing to defend...”
– Greece – The collapse of Democracy.
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“According to Walter Benjamin (who himself is drawing from Georges Sorel), there...”
– http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/the-day-before-the-day-of-action/ 