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Noam Chomsky: America is accelerating the apocalypse
Noam Chomsky: America is accelerating the apocalypse “For the first time in the history of the human species, we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves. That’s been true since 1945....
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Why do White Guys Hate my Hijab?
Why do White Guys Hate my Hijab? “’So that’s why these white guys hate my hijab – the way I look interrupts their ‘cruises for chicks.’” More specifically, the way I dress denies them their privileged...
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[VIDEO] Moving reproductive rights forward
Filed under: Feminism, Politics, Public Health, Reproductive Rights, Videos, Women's Rights Tagged: abortion, moving forward, politics, President Obama, Reproductive rights, Stanley Tucci, Whitney...
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What is Democracy? (68): The Expression and Aggregation of Bullshit?
Reblogged from P.a.p.-Blog // Human Rights Etc.: (source) Here's a piece of news that's both disconcerting and inspiring. We already knew that electorates in democracies are heavily polarized...
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Angelos Tzortzinis’s Photos of Growing Desperation in Greece
Angelos Tzortzinis’s Photos of Growing Desperation in Greece “With the country heading into the fifth year of economic depression, and unemployment near 60 percent for young people, greater numbers of...
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Welfare for the Wealthy
Welfare for the Wealthy “Among them is Congressman Stephen Fincher, Republican of Tennessee, who justifies SNAP cuts by quoting 2 Thessalonians 3:10: ’For even when we were with you, we gave you this...
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I Was Almost a Victim of the Student-to-Prison-Pipeline
I Was Almost a Victim of the Student-to-Prison-Pipeline “How are students to trust schools have student safety or education in their best interest when schools are facilitating student criminalization?...
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Daily Show NSA wiretapping video
Daily Show NSA wiretapping video Filed under: NSA Wiretapping, Videos Tagged: 2nd Amendment, convenience, intelligence, John McCain, liberty, NSA wiretapping, Rand Paul, The Daily Show, US Constitution
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Opinion: Speaking Spanish - or being Latino - does not make you less "American"
Reblogged from NBC Latino: I am done with the ignorant haters. Once people start slamming an 11-year-old boy for singing the national anthem at the NBA Finals, the gloves are off. Ignorance about...
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[Video] Familia es Familia PSA
“Marriage matters for the same reasons to all people, gay or straight. And it’s our responsibility to support inclusion of our gay and lesbian friends and family members in the important institution of...
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[Video] How the NSA gives private contractors control of the surveillance state
[Video] How the NSA gives private contractors control of the surveillance state Democracy NOW! interview with Amy Goodman, Julian Assange, Tim Shorrock and Aaron Mate. Filed under: Democracy, NSA...
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Senate confirms first openly gay Latina judge to federal court
Reblogged from NBC Latino: The U.S. Senate confirmed on Thursday the first ever openly gay Latina to the federal judiciary. Nitza Quiñones Alejandro was nominated by President Obama to the United...
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Dear Right-Wing Woman
http://chicksontheleft.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/dear-right-wing-woman/ “Discussion initiated by liberal women with conservative women has been replaced with a rigid & sharp response of “THERE IS...
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When Black Kids Want to Learn and the World Tells Them ‘No’
When Black Kids Want to Learn and the World Tells Them ‘No’ “In light of the recent news out of Chicago, I think we should take another look at first lady Michelle Obama’s remarks from her commencement...
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The Lead Vaccine Developer Comes Clean So She Can “Sleep At Night”: Gardasil...
The Lead Vaccine Developer Comes Clean So She Can “Sleep At Night”: Gardasil and Cervarix Don’t Work, Are Dangerous, and Weren’t Tested “Dr. Harper explained in her presentation that the cervical...
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On Virginity.
I hate the term virginity as much as I hate misogyny, racism and tomatoes. The fact that for centuries it has been used and continues to be used as a tool for controlling women’s sexuality makes me...
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Schools and the New Jim Crow: An Interview With Michelle Alexander
Schools and the New Jim Crow: An Interview With Michelle Alexander “I think this mythology—that of course we’re all beyond race, of course our police officers aren’t racist, of course our politicians...
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Egypt, de-democratized
Egypt, de-democratized “In the case of Egypt, it is not yet clear to what extent the internal and external actors converged to enact her de-democratisation. However, this much is clear that if a less...
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[Video] Kiera Knightley against domestic violence
Filed under: Hollywood, Videos, Women Tagged: domestic violence, Kiera Knightley, UK, US, video, Violence, violence against women, women, Women's Aid
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Author of book about mass Mexican deportation in the 1930s dies, but legacy...
Reblogged from NBC Latino: Jorge-Mario Cabrera remembers reading about the estimated 1 million Mexicans and Mexican-Americans deported or scared into leaving their homes in the U.S. by government...
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