almondskeyes:

Tikrit officials took down a statue honoring the protestor that had thrown shoes at then-President Bush.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/shoe-monument-iraq-booted-day-unveiled-article-1.365216#ixzz2NUUnH2Sn

HAHAHAHAHAHAH I LOVE MY PEOPLE.

omg yes

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•  14 March 2013  •  399 notes

homesteaddreams:

apoplecticskeptic:

davidkendall:

datcrackacaw:

The United States DHS has declared that areas 100 miles in from the US border are zones in which the 4th Amendment does not apply.

Major cities like New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and even Houston have been declared by the Department of Homeland Security to be within the official 100 mile ‘border’ of the United States, subjecting 197 million citizens to electronic belonging searches without any suspicion.

Important stuff, people

ew i am in this

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•  11 March 2013  •  13,520 notes

lovenerdeen:

racetobitchmountain:

America’s failed foreign policy summarized in 2 pictures.

An extremely simple concept that American narcissists fail to realize.

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•  6 March 2013  •  28,983 notes

The first blast of the trumpet against the monstruous regiment of women

Sixteenth-century Christian propaganda against women in government, or 2012 GOP information pamphlet?

•  27 September 2012  •  12 notes

chicken-snack:

jaraconnell:

caffeinatedfeminist:

This basically means all clinics that deal with reproductive health and abortions in the state of Virginia will be shut down.

Fuck my state.

Seriously, fuck VA. So many anti-choice douchebags at that protest too. While waiting in line to get into the building I was told by a particularly pleasant woman that I have no sense of right and wrong because I’m not a Christian. Seriously. Fuck those people.

they ain’t seen nothin yet

OH MY FUCKING GOD

•  14 September 2012  •  27 notes

What is my favorite part about doula work and why I’m becoming a doula. Sorry for the shaky camera/it’s the middle of the night and I’m lookin’ sleepy.

•  24 August 2012  •  10 notes

nessfraserloves:

Imprisoning midwives is just another part of the anti-choices system that doesn’t trust women to make their own reproductive choices, and cares more about “unborn babies” than it does about the well being of the people who are carrying them. Birth is a feminist issue — and birthing how, when, and where we feel most comfortable needs to be seen as a basic human right.

One World Birth has started an indiegogo campaign called “Freedom for Birth” to help fund their film about the imprisonment of Agnes Gareb — a Hungarian obstetrician and midwife who is being criminally punished for attending and supporting homebirths — and are hoping to raise enough funds to be able to distribute their movie for free.

(Source: doulaness)

•  10 June 2012  •  31 notes

alittlemorehope:

negationparty:

angrybrownpeople:

Black woman tears up Oakland City Council

(in response to May Day repression of Occupy Oakland and a newly proposed law that would make it illegal for revolutionaries to carry shields and barricades during marches)

“You’re asking why we need our shields for self defense? After a grenade went off behind my head at 12 in the afternoon and gave me something [PTSD] that soldiers coming back from Iraq have? …The policy don’t need to be changed. We’ve got reform crammed so far up our ass it’s clouding our judgement. The police need to be held accountable… and I’m not a nihilist, but I wish I could BURN EVERY FUCKING THING DOWN, except for the houses, so that people could begin to understand that we don’t need this system to survive… There are people being arrested for trying to start farms…!

DON’T SILENCE ME, don’t you fucking DARE. I am SO TIRED… and if you cut off this mic, I’ll still have a mouth… what you’re dealing with is more than rage…

As a black woman, I’m telling you… you’re not serving the people! You’re only serving capitalism. And if you take our shields, the only thing we have left is our second amendment rights— SO IF WE SHOOT BACK…!

YOU DON’T HAVE THE RIGHT TO ARREST ME!”

ahh she is sooooooo amazing and rocks it the fuck out every time she gets on the mic/megaphone

holy fuck.

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•  29 May 2012  •  1,083 notes

cunthulhu:

outlawmidwives:

i want us to be more than just the internet

i want us to be move out into the world, and make change, and that is change, in how people think about birth

i want us to to influence our own neighborhoods

i want us to be our own healers

i want us to share own ways of getting through labor

through birth, through the pain, and also through the pain of having to deal with hospital personnel and protocals

i want us to share the joy of bringing forth another life

and the pain of not doing so, or refusing to do so, or not being able to do so, or doing so in a way that goes against the script that is handed to us

talk openly about abortion, miscarriage, still borns, live births, adoptions, keeping the kidness, and letting go of who we thought we were

 i want us to talk about being mamas, warriors, lovers, wives, travelers, home makers, grandmothers, sisters, doulas, midwives, the forgotten and the everlasting

to talk about defying boundaries, and why we stayed within the borders laid out for us

nursing, milk, healing, forgiveness, but also anger, energy, gender, sexuality, asking for help, helping, building community, witnessing, forgetting, foraging, and forestry

and can we talk about gender and sexuality?  race and class?  nationality and anarchism?  can we talk about art and anger?  the practical and the poetic?  the questions and the answers?

in other words: i want to talk about unassisted birth and economics.  i want to talk about physiological birth and western medical hegemony.  i want to talk about poetry and the ululations during second stage pushing.  i want to talk about life.  and death.  and violence.  and bliss.  heaven and apocalypse. 

submission deadline: july 31st, 2012

omg yes

So full of love for this.

•  26 April 2012  •  118 notes

“

The basic plot, which cannot be ignored even in the films, is that Harry, Hermione and Ron give up everything for their political struggle. They drop out of high school, they go illegal, defy the government, belong to an underground organization [The Order of the Phoenix], operate out of safe houses and forests and even raid offices of the government and banking offices. This is all done in principled opposition to the Dark Wizard Voldemort and a corrupt bureaucratized government that has been heavily infiltrated with his evil minions. This is revolutionary activity. But the movie version does not present it as such or emphasize these radical aspects of the plot, thereby entirely missing the dramatic sweep and action present in the first half of the last novel.

The novels recognize the importance of alternative media for political struggle. The mainstream press [The Daily Prophet] is shown as unreliable and unprincipled, eventually deteriorating into a fear-mongering propaganda machine for the Voldemort-controlled bureaucracy. For a while the alternative but above ground media [The Quibbler] publishes the real news, but it ceases to print after the daughter of the publisher is kidnapped. In the book, friends of Harry [Lee Jordan, with Fred and George Weasley as frequent guests] start broadcasting the real news from an underground radio station, encrypted with a password. This radio station becomes a critical link for the resistance, which is scattered and weak. Although we are treated to some radio broadcast updates in the movie, they are delivered by a disembodied and professional sounding voice, not our friends the Weasleys. This undermines the important message - a guiding principle behind the media coop - that in a serious situation it becomes necessary to produce your own media and not to rely on ‘professionals’.

The novel makes it clear that in this phase of the struggle the characters romantic lives take a backseat to their political activity, as Harry breaks up with the love of his life [Ginny Weasley] so as to avoid making her a target for Voldemort’s forces, who are known to use torture and kidnapping as tactics. The ‘love triangle’ that becomes the focus of the movie isn’t even really present in the books. In the books, the relationship between Harry and Hermione is totally platonic - Ron is shown as jealous, but the feeling is entirely without foundation. In the book Harry says to Ron: “I love her like a sister and I reckon she feels the same way about me. It’s always been like that. I thought you knew” (pg 378, DH US Hardback). This conveys that men and women can be close comrades and friends without being involved romantically. But in the film, Harry and Hermione are shown dancing romantically, and Harry’s line to Ron about his brotherly feeling towards Hermione does not even make it into the film. This completely undermines the important message that jealousy is counter-productive and has toxic effects, which is an important feminist message for young people.

”

— How Hollywood Defanged Potter’s Radical Politics 

(Source: girl-germs)

•  6 April 2012  •  36 notes

anonymissexpress:

In a bold and unprecedented move, representatives of the Lakota Freedom Delegation recently declared the Lakota Nation is formally and unilaterally withdrawing from all agreements and treaties with the government of the United States.

“We are no longer citizens of the United States,” said longtime indigenous rights activist Russell Means at a press conference at Plymouth Congregational Church in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 19. “We offer citizenship to anyone provided they renounce their U.S. citizenship,” said Mr. Means.

he Lakota delegation delivered signed documents to the U.S. State Department informing officials of the decision to formally declare sovereignty from the United States as a result of its genocidal assault on the political, cultural and economic freedom of the Lakota Nation. The geographic area making up what will be called the Republic of Lakota covers portions of northern Nebraska, half of South Dakota, one-quarter of North Dakota, 20 percent of Montana and 20 percent of Wyoming. Mr. Means used the term “apartheid” to describe the dire conditions facing the Lakota Nation.

The life expectancy of Lakota men is less than 44 years; 97 percent of the Lakota people live below the poverty line. The Lakota infant mortality rate is 300 percent higher than the national average. The tuberculosis rate on Lakota reservations is 800 percent higher than the national average; cervical cancer is 500 percent higher than the national average; the rate of diabetes is 800 percent higher than the national average

The unemployment rate on reservations is over 85 percent with the median income between $2,600 to $3,500 per year. One-third of the homes on reservations lack clean water and 40 percent of the homes lack electricity. In addition, alcoholism affects 8 in 10 Lakota families with rates of drug abuse and suicide increasing.

Naomi Archer, communications liaison for the Lakota Freedom Delegation, said many other indigenous nations and political independence movements in North America, South America, Europe and Africa have reached out in solidarity and support. A portion of the document delivered to the State Department read, “Should the United States and its subordinate governments choose not to act in good faith concerning the rebirth of our nation, we hereby advise the United States Government that Lakota will begin to administer liens against real estate transactions” within the five state area of what will be called the Republic of Lakota.

A history of broken treaties

The first contacts between the Lakota and the United States began after what is commonly known as the “Louisiana Purchase” in 1803. It is estimated that the United States bought 530 million acres of land from France for $15 million. Part of this sale included land already inhabited by the Lakota. They never consented to the sale of any of their land.

[…]

Lakota Indians cancel treaties with U.S. gov’t.

Note Anonymiss Express: This tells me it is time! All Together Now! Walk away from the machine! Walk away from the arrogation and appropriation! YAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

(via hunger-painsss)

•  9 March 2012  •  904 notes

borninflames82:

what’s with all that riot gear??  we don’t have no riot here!!

video by kontra

Proud of Richmond folks, super duper ashamed of Richmond police. 

(via hunger-painsss)

•  5 March 2012  •  121 notes