February 2012
26 posts
“One day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr And this is what really got Dr. MLK killed. (via black-culture)
THIS
(via killthemass)
…anti-poverty, anti-war, pro-Black and Brown unity agenda (re: “beyond vietnam”)
Now this is truth.
(via somepolitics)
“According to Miss Representation, the organization that launched the...”
– Twitter Talks Back to Sexist Super Bowl Ads | Mother Jones
This is largely what confuses me about sexist advertising. When you want someone’s money why would you silence or ignore them?
Also read: Ten Lady Innovators Best Buy Could’ve Put in Its Super Bowl Ad
(via meganwest)
“There is a country where the leading cause of death of pregnant women is murder...”
– Jessica Valenti, in “Equality begins at home: U.S. lags pathetically behind other nations in some basic rights for women.” (via azelie)
Also: “For all of our rhetoric about respecting mothers and parenthood, the United States is the only industrialized nation without paid maternity leave, putting...
“Look at what’s happened just in our tolerance for abortion. Fifty years ago…60...”
– Rick Santorum, reminiscing about the days when thousands of women died each year in the US from unsafe abortions
Because if we aren’t popping out a baby at least every other year, we might as well die. Right, ladies?
(via greaterthanlapsed)
ATTENTION ALL GIRLS AND LADIES: if you walk from...
mevalee:
justjaane:
whenitraeens:
wow, what are we coming to?
omgwut
That’s crazy.
"The bill would also cut the Safe Routes to School... →
motherjones:
In which House Republicans attempt to literally throw kids under the bus in the new transportation bill.
January 2012
23 posts
As I waited in line to be processed and... →
motherjones:
MoJo’s Gavin Aronsen writes about being arrested by the Oakland PD on Saturday night while covering an Occupy protest—despite making clear to officers that he was a credentialed reporter. Unfortunately for the Oakland PD, reporters who are arrested for reporting things have an unusually high recidivism rate.
“We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’: we...”
– Republican governor MITCH “I really said that” DANIELS, in delivering the GOP response to the State of the Union Tuesday night.
Continuing the Republican theme of “I deny that this nation has poor people, impoverished people, and what other civilized societies might otherwise term ‘the...
"You can call this 'class warfare' all you want. ...
— President BARACK OBAMA
“You lit yourself on fire on December 17, 2010, exactly nine months before Occupy...”
– In light of the 1-year anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, read Rebecca Solnit’s letter to Mohammed Bouazizi. (via motherjones)
Sometimes all I need is a good place to sit and...
First week of classes went pretty well. I still can’t decide whether I want my second major to be Gender and Women Studies or American Studies; therefore, I don’t know which class I should drop.
Tuesday: I went to my first GA of the second semester. It was held on Sproul Hall and it was freezing outside. I want to be a medic but I am going to need to get street training first. It was...
“I get speaker’s fees from time to time, but not very much.”
– Mitt Romney humbly referencing the $374,327.62 in speaker’s fees he earned last year, an average of $41,592 per speech. (via officialssay)
December 2011
52 posts
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