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micdotcom:

Activists call for a nationwide general strike on February 17

  • In a column for the Guardian on Monday, American writer Francine Prose called for a “nonviolent national general strike” to demonstrate “how many of us there are, how strong and committed we are, how much we can accomplish.”
  • She wrote: “Let’s designate a day on which no one (that is, anyone who can do so without being fired) goes to work, a day when no one shops or spends money, a day on which we truly make our economic and political power felt.”
  • Calls to do just that have been circulating online recently, with activists setting Feb. 17 — the Friday before President’s Day — as the day for a #nationalstrike against the presidency of Donald Trump. Read more

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Pastor says bottled water donations slowing to trickle in Flint

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losttoy:

A pastor says donations of bottled water to his Flint church have dried up in the past month.

Donations poured in from across the nation in the weeks and months after it was learned that Flint’s drinking water was contaminated with lead. At times, the response nearly overwhelmed the effort to distribute water to Flint residents.  

Bishop Roger Lee Jones’ north side church parking lot used to be filled with pallets of water, but now the flood of donations has slowed to a trickle.

Please donate! http://www.helpforflint.com/action

Just reblog it if you can or can’t donate, maybe someone else can donate if they see this

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weavemama: “ ya’ll please support Ibtihaj Muhammad, the Olympic’s very first Muslim-American woman fence while wearing her hijab!! she’s scheudled to play on the 8th and 13th and she needs as much support as possible considering all of the backlash...

weavemama:

ya’ll please support Ibtihaj Muhammad, the Olympic’s very first Muslim-American woman fence while wearing her hijab!! she’s scheudled to play on the 8th and 13th and she needs as much support as possible considering all of the backlash she’s gonna get for making such a brave move

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unrequited-rage: “ Messages to the Public Spectacolor electronic sign 20 x 40 ft. Text: Truisms, 1977–79 Times Square, New York © Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY ”

unrequited-rage:

Messages to the Public
Spectacolor electronic sign
20 x 40 ft.
Text: Truisms, 1977–79
Times Square, New York
© Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY 

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phazma:

There is truly no shortage of indigenous storytellers. There’s no shortage of NDN writers, artists, poets, and creators. There is no singular “Native American” community, legend, or culture; there is no excuse for an indigenous narrative bastardized by a white British author, and there is no excuse for sidelining native voices.

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socialjusticeinamerica: “patrickat: “bigangry: “spyderqueen: “ valeroyeaux: “ everkings: “ kid-communism: “ combatbooty: “ 1) they expensive bruh 2) none of us kno the dif btwn a fucking diamond and some fancy ass glass ur capitalist rock hierarchy...

socialjusticeinamerica:

patrickat:

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spyderqueen:

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kid-communism:

combatbooty:

1) they expensive bruh 2) none of us kno the dif btwn a fucking diamond and some fancy ass glass ur capitalist rock hierarchy has no control over us

3) mostly mined with slave labor

4) we get excited when our date buys us an appetizer, we don’t even comprehend people buying us rocks that would force us into debt for ten years

5) there are prettier, cheaper rocks

6) The entire industry is based on false scarcity and we don’t have time for DeBeers’ bullshit.

7) CRUSHING STUDENT LOAN DEBT

8) They aren’t getting married, hello, didn’t you read the wank your Boomer columnist just posted last week?

They can’t afford them because they have crappy minimum wage jobs and no guts to form unions. They don’t even have healthcare and don’t know it’s not how it is supposed to be. The entire millennial and hipster generation will be the poorest and saddest ever in a few years.

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oiltipped: “brownandsad: “This is Abinta, Tarishi and Faraaz. They were slaughtered last night during the Dhaka attacks. Please remember their names Remember that Tarishi went to UC Berkeley and started an amazing clothing line called EthiCAL...

oiltipped:

brownandsad:

This is Abinta, Tarishi and Faraaz. They were slaughtered last night during the Dhaka attacks. Please remember their names

Remember that Tarishi went to UC Berkeley and started an amazing clothing line called EthiCAL Apparel, which aimed to eradicate poverty.

Remember that Abinta and Faraaz went to Emory and were extremely hardworking students and radiated nothing but positivity everywhere they went.

Faraaz is a hero that was murdered for trying to protect his friends. The terrorist group leaked photos of them, dead, lying in pools of blood - holding on to each other.

These three were senselessly murdered in their home country and I will not rest until they are memorialised. Please stop turning this into a political debate, please stop trying to bash our amazing country. Just remember that these are real people, they had real lives and friends and ambitions. Remember them.

#among the other victims i have read about was ishrat akhond#she was a muslim who refused to prove she was muslim and was killed for it#she died for her principles#i doubt i would be so brave#nine italians and seven japanese people also died#i havent seen any full writeup of the victims#and who they were#i feel like no one cares

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thatadult:

Jesse: Black people specifically experience this. Black people have this specific navigation through white supremacy. Black women specifically do the footwork and don’t get credit for it but keep doing it. White people steal the fun parts of our culture and profit from it while we’re left behind and dying

Justin Timberlake: Great speech. I like the part where he said we’re all one race the human race and race doesn’t matter. That’s all I got out of it even though no one said that. That was good. I’m so misunderstood

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throughkaleidscopeeyes:

rareselenaylosdinosblog:

“It was cool of her brother the other day, cause her family and I are still very tight, and we were just talking and he was like ‘dude I just wanna thank you man,’ and I was like ‘for what?’ He goes ‘for being there for my sister, and I know even though she’s not with us anymore at least she got to feel that love and be in love with someone.’ And that meant everything to me.” -Chris Perez

<3 <3 <3

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