March 2012
16 posts
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The criminalisation of Squatting in England and...
Squatting is criminalised in England in Wales. It was brought in late at night on the 28th of March after being passed through both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, and the government made an effort so that part 136 of
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill was discussed late at night when most of them were not at work. It affects squatted residential homes. We at the...
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The Educated Field Negro: I hate the phrase... →
ladyatheist:
Whenever a white person kills a PoC, the murder always gets labelled an “isolated incident”. Trayvon Martin’s murder? Isolated incident. Shaima Alawadi? Isolated incident. Sean Bell? Isolated incident. Ramarley Graham? Isolated incident. Dwight Person? Isolated incident….
Each time an ethnic minority is shot we are lead to believe that it is an “isolated...
“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the...”
– Stephen Biko
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mejma:
the fact that women’s rights are an election issue in the year 2012 AD
Make NO mistake about it; women’s rights are Human Rights. Keep politics out of my uterus; keep politics out of the utereuses of the masses. Men in power seek to control the most private urges and acts in ways that are unimaginable. Regardless of your religious or moral position, contraception is right and...
“9 years ago today the US invaded Iraq. Over 2 million slaughtered, 5 million...”
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What I have learned about French intellectual...
jahanzebjz:
If, in X country of the Middle East, women wear or are forced to wear hijab/niqab, everything is wrong. If, in X country of the Middle East, women don’t or are not forced to wear hijab/niqab, everything is fine. In the meantime, let’s not mention how the French government supports some of the worst Arab regimes.
Et Voila
This is a hugely important point to consider when it comes...
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mehreenkasana:
Here’s the comment posted by Azhar Ahmed, a Yorkshire teenager, on Facebook:
Richard Seymour adds his comments:
Why are the police behaving like this? The blog of the Index on Censorship website suggests that suspicion of Muslims voicing opposition to the troops is rooted in fear and suspicion resulting from 7/7. To be honest, I think this is [wrong]. The police and the crown...
words of fire, deeds of blood.: naomi-dunbar: The... →
naomi-dunbar:
The Male Privilege Checklist
storkankles:
My odds of being hired for a job, when competing against female applicants, are probably skewed in my favor. The more prestigious the job, the larger the odds are skewed.
I can be confident that my co-workers won’t think I…
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Where the Civil Rights Movement Failed
daughterofzami:
“What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.”
- bell hooks
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Anonymous asked: The pictures are well and fine showing the huge gap in wealth. But who of the 2,799 people who 'like' the post are actually doing a fucking thing about it?
Anonymous asked: Did you go to Long Island City University?
“Sometimes it takes a small act of human kindness and emotion to stir even the...”
