April 2011
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David Harvey - Nice Day for a Revolution →
Why May Day should be a date to stand up and change the system
May Day is the occasion we celebrate the grand achievements of the workers of the world in making our world a far, far better place to live in. There is, unfortunately, not too much to celebrate these days. The past 30 years are littered with battles and skirmishes that have resulted in defeat after defeat for organised labour.
A...
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Stream Prefuse 73 New LP "The Only She Chapters" →
Via: Free Association
And Read Guillermo Scott Herren’s track by track commentary.
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“The fight isn’t over. The fight moved from main street to the dark alleys. So...”
– Elizabeth Warren on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart tonight (via kateoplis)
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seanfindley:
leonard cohen - [the...
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The S&P debt warning: Wall Street extortionists... →
Via: iCite - Jodi Dean
Five days after the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a voluminous report detailing the criminal activities of the banks and credit rating firms that precipitated the 2008 Wall Street crash and global recession, one of the named culprits, Standard & Poor’s Credit Ratings Services, issued an ultimatum to the White House and Congress...
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Study estimates that illegal immigrants paid... →
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In Muslim community, Baca wins support through... →
Via: LA Times
The L.A. County sheriff, a Republican with a strong reputation as a crime fighter, believes in building trust within minority communities. He reads the Koran and shuns hard-line tactics.
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raw like sugar: psychology today →
rawlikesugar:
Clinical depression often persists for months on end, and a friendly word of support is simply not enough to loosen its suffocating grip. That’s where the tragic confusion ensues. For when those suffering from depression confide their diagnosis to friends and family, they’re often met with…
My experience verifies this. Thank you RLS
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“In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of...”
– Susan Sontag from In Plato’s Cave On Photography
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solitude standing: dust teaser
subterminal:
ONLY AVAILABLE FOR LISTENING DURING THIS WEEKEND
Dust by l|r
A Beautiful Organic/Electronic Soundscape
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Why We Kiss →
Via The Stranger
An Explanation
by Charles Mudede
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"She has a great attraction for simple people who... →
claytoncubitt:
-Gore Vidal on Ayn Rand
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Crime Politics and the Economic Crisis
Gretchen Morgenson has done an outstanding job reporting on the economic crisis since the crash of 2008. Once again she covers the lack of accountability, the crony capitalism and financial malfeasance that has not been prosecuted, the reason? Well thats debatable but the guilt brush would tar too many so they won’t pick it up. The actions of the financiers were so immoral and corrupt that...
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Watch Stephen Colbert’s Defense of Planned... →
frangry:
So so so good.
Thank God for Comedy (Central)
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from Avaaz.org: petition to stop torture of... →
numol:
if you cannot do this, passing it around is also very helpful. thank you.
if you don’t want to participate in this specific campaign, but can and do want to contact President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates about this, their direct contact info is under the quote below.
text of petition:
We call on you to immediately end the torture,...
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FREE 45 MIX: MADLIB'S TRASH IS ANOTHER MAN'S... →
The story, via LA Weekly, goes that someone comes across Madlib throwing out a box of 45s. The guy says, you don’t want these? Madlib says, fuck it, done with them. So the guy takes the box out of the trash and gives them to his boy DJ EGROEG, who made this mix.
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