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Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:48:37 -0400

adailyriot:lifeoncinnabarisland: If you were touched or...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:29:27 -0400

If you were touched or outraged by the Troy Davis case, don’t allow the same thing to happen to another man. This is Rodney Reed and like Troy Davis there is no physical evidence tying Rodney to the crime that he was accused of committing. In fact, there is very real evidence leading to another suspect all together. Rodney was tried by an all white jury in southern Texas and sentenced to death. Let’s show the murderers that took the life of Troy Davis that we are not going anywhere anytime soon. This is a movement, not a moment.

Here is a link to the free, streaming documentary regarding Rodney and his story.

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Democracy Now!: Killed at Home: White Plains, NY Police Called...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:24:41 -0400

Democracy Now!: Killed at Home: White Plains, NY Police Called Out on Medical Alert Shoot Dead Black Veteran, 68

“As the Trayvon Martin case draws national attention, we look at another fatal shooting of an African-American male that has received far less scrutiny. Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., a 68-year-old African-American Marine veteran, was fatally shot in November by White Plains, NY, police who responded to a false alarm from his medical alert pendant. The officers broke down Chamberlain’s door, tasered him, and then shot him dead. Audio of the entire incident was recorded by the medical alert device in Chamberlain’s apartment. We’re joined by family attorneys and Chamberlain’s son, Kenneth Chamberlain, Jr., who struggles through tears to recount his father’s final moments, including the way police officers mocked his father’s past as a marine. “For them to look at my father that way, (with) no regard for his life, every morning I think about it,” he says.”

911 caller arrested after cops gun down unarmed black teen

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:17:39 -0400

911 caller arrested after cops gun down unarmed black teen: At a press conference Wednesday in...

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Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:43:58 -0400

occupyallstreets: Whistleblowing Wednesday: Children As Young...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:22:27 -0400

occupyallstreets:

Whistleblowing Wednesday: Children As Young As Six Harvest 25 Percent of U.S. Crops

Knowing the farmer who grows your food has become an important tenet of the modern food movement, but precious little attention is paid to the people who actually pick the crops or “process” the chickens or fillet the fish. U Roberto Romano’s poignant film, The Harvest/La Cosecha (2011), being screened across the country for Farmworker Awareness Week (March 24-29), informs us that nearly 500,000 children as young as six harvest up to 25 percent of all crops in the United States.

What’s illegal in most countries is permitted here. Child migrant labor has been documented in the 48 contiguous states. Seasonal work originates in the southernmost states in late winter where it is warm and migrates north as the weather changes. Every few weeks as families move, children leave school and friends behind. If you’ve had onions (Texas), cucumbers (Ohio or Michigan), peppers (Tennessee), grapes (California), mushrooms (Pennsylvania), beets (Minnesota), or cherries (Washington), you’ve probably eaten food harvested by children.

This isn’t a slavery issue, or an immigration issue per se. What’s remarkable is that most of the migrant child farmworkers are American citizens trying to help their families. This is a poverty issue and it gets to the heart of what we, as consumers, see as the “right price” to pay for food.

Children earn about $1,000 per year for working an average of 30 hours a week, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. When you consider that the average annual pay for a migrant family of four is $12,500-$14,500, it’s apparent why some families feel they have no choice but to bring their children into the fields with them. Half of these kids will not graduate from high school because they’re always moving around, perpetuating the cycle of poverty that caused them to be day laborers in the first place.

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Israel to hold off attacking Iran until next year at the earliest

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:15:41 -0400

Israel to hold off attacking Iran until next year at the earliest

materialpossibilities: orangemuses: uniteordie: To everyone...

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:41:59 -0400

materialpossibilities:

orangemuses:

uniteordie:

To everyone so outraged about Trayvon Martin, please meet Abdul al-Awlaki. Notice his birth certificate, he’s an American, born in Colorado.

Abdul was a 16 year old American citizen that was murdered on orders of our very own President. His crime? That his father was a suspected Al Qaida member.

Unlike the Trayvon Martin situation there is no grey area here. This teenager was specifically targeted and killed because of his religious and ethnic background and who his family was.

He committed no crime, he was guilty of nothing yet he was murdered by a drone strike.

WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU PEOPLE WHEN THIS TEENAGER WAS MURDERED?

WHERE WERE YOU PEOPLE WHEN THE SAME PRESIDENT WHO SCORED POLITICAL POINTS COMMENTING ON ONE TEENAGERS DEATH ORDERED THE DEATH OF ANOTHER AMERICAN TEEN?

You look foolish. You look uniformed, you look ignorant because you are. In one situation we have what appears to be an extremely unfortunate, tragic mistake and we have Congressmen on the house floor wearing hoodies and thousands protesting and screaming for justice.

On the other hand you have a child who was intentionally targeted and assassinated on the orders of the President yet you turn a blind eye. This country makes my stomach turn.

so do you have any facts to back this up, OP, or….

Oh my god, Mina, do a fucking google search and stop with your disgusting Obama worship.

March to demand Mayor Bloomberg end marijuana arrests now!

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:02:11 -0400

March to demand Mayor Bloomberg end marijuana arrests now!: ssdpnyu: Public Event · By Drug Policy...

Protesters Speak Out Against NYPD Tactics At OWS Rally - NY1.com

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:10:41 -0400

Protesters Speak Out Against NYPD Tactics At OWS Rally - NY1.com: That is me at 1:28

the-enhampment: Spring is on it’s way and so is a revolution!

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:26:30 -0400

the-enhampment:

Spring is on it’s way and so is a revolution!

"Not only does abstinence-only education completely erase and forget about people who become pregnant..."

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:43:32 -0400

“Not only does abstinence-only education completely erase and forget about people who become...

"In all history, there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone,..."

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:36:16 -0400

“In all history, there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments...

Spring Training. My girlfriend and I are in this video.

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:52:42 -0400

Spring Training.

My girlfriend and I are in this video.

"Ask for work. If they do not give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread,..."

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:46:32 -0400

“Ask for work. If they do not give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or...

This is a picture of me from #M24 #OWS #OCCUPY

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:36:10 -0400

Pic of arrest today at #occupywallstreet #ows twitter.com/nyclu/status/1… — NYCLU (@nyclu) March...

"An NYPD sergeant who complained his precinct was fudging crime statistics taped a conversation with..."

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:58:06 -0400

“An NYPD sergeant who complained his precinct was fudging crime statistics taped a...

Occupiers march for Trayvon Martin at “Million Hoodie March”

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:39:46 -0400

Occupiers march for Trayvon Martin at “Million Hoodie March”

thepoliticalnotebook: Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi woman...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:16:16 -0400

thepoliticalnotebook:

Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi woman living in Southern California, was taken off life support today, succumbing to injuries sustained in a brutal tire iron beating on Wednesday. Shaima was found in her living room, and according to her daughter Fatima and the police investigating, a note was found near her saying “Go back to your country, you terrorist.”

Shaima was a mother of five who has been in the US with her family since the mid-1990s. She was described by her friend Sura Alzaidy as “respectful modest muhajiba.” Her daughter tearfully addressed her mother’s attackers during a media interview, saying “You took my mother away from me. You took my best friend away from me. Why? Why did you do it?”

[Daily Mail; AFP]

[H/T: thatsassyarab]

doodlepoop: Sometimes in America, if you’re not a white...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:09:49 -0400

doodlepoop:

Sometimes in America, if you’re not a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant Straight Male, you deserve all the human rights violations you experience.

EDIT: So you know, one of my goals in this comic was to bring to the forefront an issue a lot of White Americans are ignoring. Get involved ASAP.

Also, read this is you were upset about my lack of WOC/QPOC.