The Game Is Rigged

politics-war: A demonstrator’s clothes catch fire during...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:51:20 -0700

A demonstrator’s clothes catch fire during clashes with riot police in Taksim Square, on June 11, 2013

lolawasthecat: “When the multitudes run riotingleaving behind...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:09:46 -0700

“When the multitudes run rioting
leaving behind ashes of burned injustices,
and with the torch of the seven virtues,
the multitudes run after the seven sins,
against you and against everything unjust and inhuman,
I will be in their midst with the torch in my hand.”

Julia de Burgos

makavelliscolonel: DEFINITION OF THUG LIFE.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:18:50 -0700

makavelliscolonel:

DEFINITION OF THUG LIFE.

"How can anyone think that it’s remotely healthy in a democracy to have the NSA building a massive..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:28:03 -0700

“How can anyone think that it’s remotely healthy in a democracy to have the NSA building a massive spying apparatus about which even members of Congress, including Senators on the Homeland Security Committee, are totally ignorant and find “astounding” when they learn of them? How can anyone claim with a straight face that there is robust oversight when even members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are so constrained in their ability to act that they are reduced to issuing vague, impotent warnings to the public about what they call radical “secret law” enabling domestic spying that would “stun” Americans to learn about it, but are barred to disclose what it is they’re so alarmed by? Put another way, how can anyone contest the value and justifiability of the stories that we were able to publish as a result of Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing: stories that informed the American public - including even the US Congress - about these incredibly consequential programs? What kind of person would think that it would be preferable to remain in the dark - totally ignorant - about them?”

- Glenn Greenwald (via jayaprada)

Colleges Soak Poor Students to Funnel Aid to Rich

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:37:30 -0700

Colleges Soak Poor Students to Funnel Aid to Rich:

art-is-the-word:

U.S. colleges such as Boston University are using financial aid to lure rich students while shortchanging the poor, forcing those most in need to take on heavy debt, a report found.

Doesn’t surprise me BUT IT STILL MAKES ME ANGRY AS FUCK

"There can be no discourse of decolonization, no theory of decolonization, without a decolonizing..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:47:21 -0700

“There can be no discourse of decolonization, no theory of decolonization, without a decolonizing practice. The discourse of multiculturalism and the discourse of hybridity are essentialist and historicist interpretations of the indigenous question. They do not address the fundamental issues of decolonization but instead obscure and renew the effective practices of colonization and subalternization. Their function is to supplant the indigenous populations as historical subjects and to turn their struggles and demands into elements of a cultural reengineering and a state apparatus in order to subjugate them and neutralize their will.”

- Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, “Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: A Reflection on the Practices of Decolonization.” (via nepantlastrategies)

"There are 1.5 billion Muslims in the world. It is unquestionably the most diverse, the most eclectic..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:56:05 -0700

“There are 1.5 billion Muslims in the world. It is unquestionably the most diverse, the most eclectic religion in the history of the world. This concept of just using this word “they” to describe one-and-a-half billion people is actually the definition of bigotry.”

- Reza Aslan (via ma-riam)

"she is hemorrhging and you her son steps over her showers puts on a suit and tells everyone..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:04:54 -0700

“she is hemorrhging
and
you
her son
steps over her
showers
puts on a suit
and
tells everyone
that
she stabbed herself.”

- the short knife, nayyirah waheed

in response to president obamas address on africa:

“I think part of what’s hampered advancement in Africa is that for many years we’ve made excuses about corruption or poor governance, that this was somehow the consequence of neo-colonialism, or the West has been oppressive, or racism – I’m not a big – I’m not a believer in excuses.

“The West and the United States has not been responsible for what’s happened to Zimbabwe’s economy over the last 15 or 20 years.”

the drones.

this.

i am heartbroken.

(via nayyirahwaheed)

"Before going back to college, I knew I didn’t want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:14:14 -0700

“Before going back to college, I knew I didn’t want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.”

- Assata Shakur (via thepeacefulterrorist)

Gezi Park Evacuated, Istanbul and Turkey Explode

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:23:27 -0700

Gezi Park Evacuated, Istanbul and Turkey Explode:

amodernmanifesto:

After days of hesitation and negotiation, the government has finally decided to evacuate the Taksim Commune, where thousands camped in Gezi Park and which tens of thousands visited every night. Police attacked Gezi Park yesterday evening (June 15) and after evacuating it using tear gas and, as a novelty, water cannon apparently supplemented with a special kind of chemical since it burnt the skin of everyone it touched, razed the tents, the infirmary, the kitchens and the library established there to the ground.

One focus of resistance crushed meant a thousand flourished. Immediately, in a series of neighbourhoods of Istanbul and in many cities around the country, people came out in their thousands and sometimes in their tens of thousands spontaneously and started to chant the common slogans of the already fifteen-day old rebellion. The most relevant to the occasion was, of course, the widely chanted “Everywhere’s Taksim, everywhere resistance!” Other significant ones were “Shoulder to shoulder against fascism!” (Turkish left-wing tradition calls all kinds of repressive regimes “fascist”) and “Government resign!” Moving from working-class neighbourhoods, tens of thousands occupied circular roads in opposite edges of Istanbul on the Asian and European sides. A group close to one thousand marchers crossed the main bridge over the Bosphorus that connects Asia and Europe. Istanbul has now become an arc of struggle and resistance that extends over 80 kilometres in a city of an estimated population that is 14 million-strong. In the centre of the city, even very posh quarters were the scene of cacerolazos (pots and pans concerts) and marches

ragemovement: Subvertising in California! “Protecting the rich...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:32:48 -0700

ragemovement:

Subvertising in California!

“Protecting the rich is this officer’s top priority.

Don’t be caught being poor.”

thisiswhiteprivilege: History textbooks should all be titled “White Fanfiction.”

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:41:53 -0700

thisiswhiteprivilege:

History textbooks should all be titled “White Fanfiction.”

katara: “u can be racist against white ppl its in webster” is why i ignore some of you in any...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:51:25 -0700

katara:

“u can be racist against white ppl its in webster” is why i ignore some of you in any political, social, pretty much any realm outside tumblr humor lets be real

maggotmaster: in-unitatespiritussanctiregnat: call everything fascism, feel good about yourself,...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:56:32 -0700

maggotmaster:

in-unitatespiritussanctiregnat:

call everything fascism, feel good about yourself, eat popcorn while syria burns. Marxist Praxis

complain about how liberals don’t show enough sympathy for nazi infantrymen, support vladimir putin while thousands of Chechens struggle with poverty and racism thanks to him, get mad about japanese cartoons, write whiny “sarcastic post” that implies people who dont sympathize with wehrmacht troops support US imperialism. tank club dot com.

joshisonlinesometimes: that embarrassing moment for whites who buy into their alleged historical...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:09:42 -0700

joshisonlinesometimes:

that embarrassing moment for whites who buy into their alleged historical supremacy when the earliest descriptions of northern European towns in a pre-pubescent Germany were written in Arabic by incredibly sophisticated Muslim travelers and merchants

killafornia-life: Happy Birthday Tupac Amaru Shakur June 16,...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:51:58 -0700

killafornia-life:

Happy Birthday Tupac Amaru Shakur

June 16, 1971 - ∞

fuldagap: Tribute to Salvador Allende and victims of the 1973...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:30:26 -0700

fuldagap:

Tribute to Salvador Allende and victims of the 1973 Chilean coup d’état in Santiago.

phleps: survey: do you regret following me yet

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:29:54 -0700

phleps:

survey: do you regret following me yet

grrlyman: grrlyman: Shout out to everyone who had to be their own mother/parent. Just because your...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:20:17 -0700

grrlyman:

grrlyman:

Shout out to everyone who had to be their own mother/parent.

Just because your parents weren’t capable doesn’t mean you didn’t deserve love and security.

I’m proud of us, of the amazing humans we’ve raised.

Thinking of you/us today.

Syrian rebels used Sarin nerve gas, not Assad’s regime: U.N. official

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:18:47 -0700

Syrian rebels used Sarin nerve gas, not Assad’s regime: U.N. official:

Testimony from victims strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian government, that used Sarin nerve gas during a recent incident in the revolution-wracked nation, a senior U.N. diplomat said Monday.