March 2012
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Shut Down the Corporations: Report from F29... →
solitaryforager:
from Earth First! Newswire
really though? just stop buying stuff, then they won’t have any power.
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“The following day, I attended a workshop about preventing gender violence,...”
– Why I Am A Male Feminist (via newwavefeminism)
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“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In...”
– Lao Tzu
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Democracy, Republic, or Oligarchy?
In so-called ‘first world’ countries, and particularly in the U.S, we use the word democracy like the nouveau riche name drop at dinner parties; proud of our connection to an idealogy so full of potential, but often not fully understanding what it is that we are supporting so proudly.
Any country that currently calls itself a democracy, if it is a true democracy then it is also a...
February 2012
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ALEC ensures that corporations really do rule the...
The American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, is a lobby group which is used by corporations to sneak changes to laws written by them (corporations) into legislature. Responsible for such changes as making civil disobedience “terrorism”, and so ultimately leading to tighter control of the state over citizens. All the while, state lawmakers may be unaware that these proposals were...
Extreme poverty in US has more than doubled since... →
anticapitalist:
A policy brief recently issued by the National Poverty Center (NPC) reveals that the number of households in the US living on less than $2 a day per person has increased by 130 percent since 1996, from 636,000 to some 1.46 million today.
This means that some 4 million people in “the richest country on earth” (according to US capitalism’s apologists) are surviving on less than...
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Big Fat Gypsy Myth
As Channel 4 has decided to run the 2nd season of its inflammatory ‘documentary’ about Irish Travellers (yes, Big Fat Gypsy Weddings doesn’t actually have any Gypsies in it), just months after the eviction of Traveller site Dale Farm, I feel the need to balance some of Channel 4’s lies with the much less glamorous truth.
My Big Fat Gypsy Weddings is supposed to be a...
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you are god
Jesus said, “If those who lead you say to you, ‘See, the kingdom is in the sky,’ then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, ‘It is in the sea,’ then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the...
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“The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence,...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via nirvikalpa)