May 2013
3 tags
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
2 tags
“To speak with an incarcerated loved one for just an hour a week would cost $240...”
– Step Up FCC: Lower the Cost of Prison Phone Rates, Free Press. (via futurejournalismproject)
A typical 15-minute call can cost more than $15. To speak with an incarcerated loved one for just an hour a week would cost $240 a month — and that’s on top of the regular phone bill.
Given that...
3 tags
“[The rate that student debtors will have to pay on their loans] is nine times...”
– Sen. Elizabeth Warren (via bostonreview)
2 tags
1 tag
3 tags
Suffering With a Smile by KPunk99
Here are few of the last paragraphs from an article on the contemporary state of work. Well worth reading the entire piece if you work for a living and give a shit about where we are headed as a society.
From Mark Fishers “Suffering with a smile”.
;The subjugatory libidinal forces that draw enjoyment from the current cult of work don’t want us to entirely conceal our misery. For...
1 tag
3 tags
3 tags
2 tags
2 tags
1 tag
2 tags
4 tags
Teaser Trailer for Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left... →
IMDB:
A story centered on two vampires who have been in love for centuries.
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Writer: Jim Jarmusch (screenplay)
Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska | See full cast and crew
1 tag
3 tags
1 tag
“The twenty-first century class war is engulfing the natural world on which...”
– Rebecca Solnit, 2013 as Year Zero for Us — and Our Planet | TomDispatch (via nickturse)
2 tags
1 tag
Going Back to Class: Why We Need to Make...
An article by Samir Sonti, University of California, Santa Barbara
At Nonsite.Org
In 1969, celebrated management theorist Peter Drucker wrote, with respect to the GI Bill of Rights, the passage of which he would years later characterize as perhaps the most significant event of the twentieth century, “We need acceptance of the principle that higher education for every youngster is paid for...
1 tag
2 tags
Detroit’s emergency manager outlines slash and... →
If you weren’t aware, Detroit has lost its elected leaders and is now run by an “Emergency Manager” (an official appointed by the Governor to take control of a local government under a financial emergency).
Kevyn Orr, a former Washington, DC bankruptcy attorney is the said manager. His former law firm, Jones Day, represents some of the same Wall Street banks—including Bank of...
2 tags
1 tag
3 tags
2 tags
3 tags
2 tags
3 tags
2 tags
2 tags
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
3 tags
1 tag
4 tags
3 tags
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
3 tags
2 tags
