January 2012
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Massachusetts gov. signs historic trans rights... →
gaywrites:
Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick signed a bill Thursday banning a number of types of discrimination against transgender people in the state.
The law includes anti-discrimination measures that protect trans people in “employment, housing, insurance and credit” as well as hate crimes laws. Activists have pointed out that this isn’t the end of the road, though - more work is to be...
“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
– Chinese Proverb (via cavesoflilith)
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“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks...”
– Carl Jung (via cavesoflilith)
a brand new website to change the world
grrrlvirus:
Liberate Yourself is the brand new feminist queer-positive all-encompassing website from the University of Manchester Students’ Union in the UK, aiming to remove the stigma from liberation groups and answer people’s questions (no question too embarrassing!). We’ve already got loads of fascinating stories from people from all walks of life. There’s a section for women, with stories...
“While the precise form which might be assumed by the scapegoating involved in a...”
– Pacifism As Pathology, by Ward Churchill
Note: Non-violence can be used effectively, as Tim DeChristopher has shown. However, we need to move beyond symbolic protests if we wish to build a successful resistance movement.
(via cultureofresistance, cuntymint) Hearing reports back from my friends in...
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http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/sopa.txt
INTERNETS, 18th of January 2012.
PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.
Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would "do for the eye what the phonograph does for
the ear". He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person
to own the copyright to a motion picture.
Because of Edisons patents for the motion...
Culture Of Resistance: Biggest. Online. Protest.... →
readyokaygo:
Tomorrow, January 18th, 2012, will be the largest internet protest in history. Thousands of sites across the internet, including some of the biggest in the world, will be blacking out and directing people to contact Congress to kill the web censorship bill, SOPA and PIPA. We…
“I am convinced, that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution,...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via rooftopsedge)
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Interesting article. Very anarchist in its...
The Myth of the State As Savior and Elections as Confession of Faith
November 8, 2011 Andy Alexis-Baker
fuckyeahitchywitch: Times to Perform Spells →
fuckyeahitchywitch:
Sunrise: Day begins as light stretches out from the eastern horizon. This is an excellent time to perform rituals involving purification, business success, study, employment, breaking addictions of all kinds, travel, releasing guilt and jealousy, healing diseases, and the conscious mind.
Noon:…
“The mythology of “state-as-savior” and democratic control do not line up with...”
– Andy Alexis-Baker (‘The Myth of the State As Savior and Elections as Confession of Faith’)
