March 17, 2012:
to celebrate Occupy Wall Street’s 6 months anniversary, comrades of Occupy Los Angeles got together for a street festival. we celebrated in the rain, peacefully, with bowls of chili, music, dancing, and informative zines.
then the fucking pigs came in, escalated an innocent situation, beat us, and violently arrested 4 of our comrades.
the rest of us remained, never ceasing to speak truth to power, and told LAPD our collective sentiment:
You have NO authority over us. your presence is NEVER welcomed here.
we chased them away, took the streets, shut down a police department entrance, and took the streets again, had a mini dance party on the intersection of Olympic and Figueroa, while the helpless piggies huffed and puffed to control the situation.
FUCK THE POLICE.
This is the American Spring. it’s time to wake up and smell the bacon. SPRING into REVOLT. never stop speaking truth to power. we are unstoppable. let’s take the streets and never give it back. the REVOLUTION IS NOW.
Well, I guess it’s time to…
Ugh gross. But, for the record it wouldn’t change my mind because in all seriousness if I do not want a child —— I do not want a motherfucking child.
The amazing moment when the people who want this law HAVE NEVER SEEN AN ABORTION THEMSELVES.
So what, people who want an abortion have to watch a person take two pills and sit on the toilet?
Why not do that with every medical procedure? No one would get surgery ever. Also, show a video of a 12-hour birth to all those thinking of having children. Complete with tearing and pooping.
They tried to make us watch an abortion video in religion class in 10th grade and I walked out. Your propaganda has fuck all to do with my uterus.
I believe an Alaskan representative suggested this as well. Of course, they could always show these images of what an early abortion looks like — but since there’s not a mutilated fetus in there (surprise!) it probably wouldn’t serve their purposes.
-Jess
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Racism. That’s what this is. Using marijuana does NOT make it justifiable to be murdered in cold blood by a racist vigilante. This is disgusting. My stomach is churning at how awful America still it.
-Jess
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tampon dress
now i know what to do with all those tampons i don’t use anymore. #keeper
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David Frum, noted conservative writer and former George W economic speech writer summing up the current situation of the GOP after the rise of the Tea Party. (via oceanicsteam)
You know things are getting out of control when David Frum is starting to sound reasonable relative to current GOP political rhetoric.
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“Hoodies and Hijabs: Uncovering Injustice”
Wake Forest and Salem Students, organized by Muslim peers, came together to show solidarity with Trayvon Martin and Shaima Al Awadhi. Students are calling on our community leaders to condemn hate crimes and make sure our community is a safe place for everyone.
Please re-post this picture to raise awareness about these atrocities! Let’s encourage other Universities & schools to create photographs such as this one!*This is not meant to compare both tragedies, but to recognize them both for injustice and discrimination being carried out.
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ATLANTA - A distraught mother says that all she wants is justice for her teenage son, who was shot and killed by security guards just minutes away from his home in metro Atlanta on Saturday night.
Candy Grimes, who insists her son was unarmed, wants police to arrest and prosecute the men who killed 18-year-old Ervin Jefferson. Officers have said that the killers are two private security guards.
Jefferson’s family and friends claim that all he just trying to protect his family late Saturday night, before he was killed in cold blood.
Jefferson’s mother alleges that he ran outside their home on Pleasant Wood Drive, Dekalb County, Georgia, towards a crowd of people who had driven up in at least two cars, and were threatening his sister.
“We heard gunshots,” Candy Grimes said in an emotionally charged interview with WXIA, theNBC-affiliate in Atlanta, “I seen the dude in the green shirt shoot my son. I seen the guy, he had two hands, and he shot my son.”
Grimes said that, as soon as her son was shot, someone else drove a car into him. “By the time I got down there, the car was on top of my son. He was literally under the car.”
Jefferson suffered a gunshot wound to his chest and was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Jefferson was the father of a baby girl.
Police have confirmed he was gunned down by security guards from the Village at Wesley Chapel Apartments, located just down the road from Jefferson’s home. The shooters told police they left the apartment complex to check out a suspicious car at about 10:30 p.m, when they heard gunshot fire.
If, indeed, police confirm Jefferson was unarmed, then some may say the case has parallels to the tragic death of Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed by self-appointed neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman.
There are still many unanswered questions regarding the Jefferson case, and DeKalb County Police Department said the investigation is on-going.
Authorities have released the following statement:
DeKalb Police responded to a Person Shot at the incident location. The responding officers located the victim suffering a gunshot wound to the torso. The victim was transported to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The on scene investigation revealed the victim was shot by security guards who were checking out a suspicious vehicle. The investigation is on-going at this time.
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We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands…searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living…for the integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences…Fear is always with us, but we just don’t have time for it.
-Commencement Speech, Wellesley 1969
― Hillary Rodham ClintonThe ironic thing about the quote at the top is how gorgeous Hillary actually is, minus the clown pants and the ridiculous glasses.
actually, the ironic thing is that, as secretary of state and imperialist, she lives the complete opposite life that she advocates in her commencement speech. where’s the communal trust in bombing people?
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