October 2011
85 posts
September 2011
69 posts
“Has anybody been watching the debates lately? You’ve got a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change. It’s true. You’ve got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don’t have healthcare and booing a service member in Iraq because they’re gay. That’s not reflective of who we are.”
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President Barack Obama • tugging on some low-hanging fruit from the GOP debates. Good timing, bro. (via zainyk)
Reasons I love Obama number 394.
(via passiveaggressivepositivity)
Hahahaha…get ‘em Mr. President.
(via thedeeface)
He’s certainly not perfect, but I love Obama.
(via nessfraserloves)
A Message From Occupied Wall Street (Day Eight) →
occupywallst.org
This is the eighth communiqué from the 99 percent. We are occupying Wall Street.
On September 24th, 2011, the lie revealed itself. We live in a world where only 1 percent of us are protected and served.
Click through to see videos and pictures
We demand that Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly resigns.
We demand that this man is charged for maliciously spraying protesters and blue-collar police.
We demand jail time - for this man and others like him.
We demand that no blue-collar police is charged for the crimes of their supervisor. We demand that Mayor Bloomberg address our General Assembly and apologize for what has occurred. A message to blue-collar police:
Do not do what you are told. We are peaceful and you know this. We offer you coffee in the morning and water in the day. You always refuse and we know that’s because they told you to.
Speak of the crimes of your supervisors. We will help you. We are expressing the same frustration that you feel. You are the 99 percent. Join us. Join our conversation.
A few petitions:
Petition for the Obama Administration to recognize #occupywallstreet.
Petition to end corporate personhood.
Petition to recognize contributions by corporations as bribery.
Petition to recognize the decisions of the People’s General Assembly as Democratic Law.
Some of these petitions are obviously more realistic than others. For the first three you have to make a WH.gov account but it does come in handy occasionally.
To send supplies:
UPS Store 118A
Fulton st #205
New York, NY, 10038Non perishable goods, no checks (money orders okay) , any size package okay.
CLICK THIS LINK TO DONATE TO THE NYC PEOPLE’S GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
It takes seconds to create an account on WH.gov. It asks for your first name, last name, and e-mail address.
I don’t have a lot of faith in these We the People petitions, but it only takes a few seconds and it can’t hurt. I created one to End the Death Penalty. Add your name to this one too, please.
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Elizabeth Warren has had a remarkable first week in her Senate campaign:
1. She has taken the lead on Republican Scott Brown, erasing a 15-point deficit from June.
2. She has stormed ahead the Democratic primary for MA-Sen by a cavernous 46 percent.
3. She is closing in on 25,000 donors on Act Blue, and several thousand more directly through her website.
4. Not one, but two videos of Warren have gone viral. The first was her rebuke against Republican charges of class warfare, and the second was her stunning appearance on Morning Joe from Wednesday morning (the second one actually has 50 percent more views on Daily Kos than the first).
Scared by Warren’s rapid rise, the forces of Wall Street have suddenly made her a top target.
” —Elizabeth Warren becomes a target of right-wing media (via ryking)Wikileaks Takes Down the Head of Al Jazeera
Wadaj Khanfar, the director of Al Jazeera, announced his resignation today after Wikileaks released documents that could prove embarassing to the news organization, the New York Times has reported.
According to the documents, Khanfar held particularly close ties with the U.S. government, to whom he promised the network would provide less critical coverage. He steps down today after running the network for eight years.
The documents allege that Khanfar censored some of Al Jazeera’s coverage of the conflict in Iraq under American pressure to sanitize its coverage, presumably to minimize anti-U.S. sentiment in the Arab world. The coverage in question was to include images of injured civilians, which were allegedly removed by Khanfar.
Alexander Ryking: White House petition for Leonard Peltier →
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A petition in favor of granting clemency to Leonard Peltier is now on the We the People portion of the White House Web site. We have 30 days (until October 22) to get 5,000 signatures in order for our petition to be reviewed by the White House. This petition may only allow US…
I am ashamed of my state and my country.
They’re going to murder him.
lusciouschaos replied to your post: GOT A STAY!!!!
everything I’m seeing says this is unconfirmed. source?
Confusing. Seems like no one really knows right now.
Confusing. Stay or no stay?
Watch live at http://www.democracynow.org/
danielholter replied to your post: GOT A STAY!!!!
wha?!!!!!!
Watch live at http://www.democracynow.org.
GOT A STAY!!!!
From Troy Davis -- these words were written this afternoon
To All:
I want to thank all of you for your efforts and dedication to Human Rights and Human Kindness, in the past year I have experienced such emotion, joy, sadness and never ending faith. It is because of all of you that I am alive today, as I look at my sister Martina I am marveled by the love she has for me and of course I worry about her and her health, but as she tells me she is the eldest and she will not back down from this fight to save my life and prove to the world that I am innocent of this terrible crime.
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As I look at my mail from across the globe, from places I have never ever dreamed I would know about and people speaking languages and expressing cultures and religions I could only hope to one day see first hand. I am humbled by the emotion that fills my heart with overwhelming, overflowing Joy. I can’t even explain the insurgence of emotion I feel when I try to express the strength I draw from you all, it compounds my faith and it shows me yet again that this is not a case about the death penalty, this is not a case about Troy Davis, this is a case about Justice and the Human Spirit to see Justice prevail.
I cannot answer all of your letters but I do read them all, I cannot see you all but I can imagine your faces, I cannot hear you speak but your letters take me to the far reaches of the world, I cannot touch you physically but I feel your warmth everyday I exist.
So Thank you and remember I am in a place where execution can only destroy your physical form but because of my faith in God, my family and all of you I have been spiritually free for some time and no matter what happens in the days, weeks to come, this Movement to end the death penalty, to seek true justice, to expose a system that fails to protect the innocent must be accelerated. There are so many more Troy Davis’. This fight to end the death penalty is not won or lost through me but through our strength to move forward and save every innocent person in captivity around the globe. We need to dismantle this Unjust system city by city, state by state and country by country.
I can’t wait to Stand with you, no matter if that is in physical or spiritual form, I will one day be announcing,
“I AM TROY DAVIS, and I AM FREE!”
Never Stop Fighting for Justice and We will Win!
Former warden of prison where Troy Davis is to be killed urges staff not to participate. →
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I’m hanging on to a tiny shred of hope that Troy’s life will be spared.
I'm asking for a favor, Tumblr →
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In repsonse to aatombomb’s and approachingsignificance’s post about Troy Davis, I propose we DO SOMETHING about it that takes 30 seconds.
We’ve all seen Tumblr do some amazing things ranging from donating thousands of dollars to friends in need, raising tens of thousands for countries who faced disaster to finding a place for friends to live, finding them a job or just giving moral support everyday. I’m not asking for money, but how about signing a petition that may save an innocent man from the death penalty?
From the Innocence Project:
Davis was convicted almost exclusively on the basis of eyewitness identification testimony, which has been shown through DNA exonerations and thousands of academic studies to be unreliable. Seven of the nine witnesses who testified at his trial have since recanted and strong evidence points to another person as the real perpetrator in the case.
The only man that can stop the execution scheduled for tonight, September 21 at 7pm, is GA District Attorney Chisolm and he needs to hear from us asap. And so does Mr. Davis.
Sign here. Reblog. Thanks.
Please, y’all, call District Attorney Chisolm at (912) 652-7308. Please.
So sad about the upcoming murder of Troy Davis. I really can’t believe it’s going to happen. The State of Georgia is going to murder a man in less than two hours, despite the fact that there is no physical evidence he committed the crime, despite the fact that seven of nine witnesses have recanted their testimony, despite the fact someone else allegedly admitted committing the crime.
It’s just sickening. I feel like his blood will be on my hands, on all our hands. And it feels like we’re helpless to do anything to save him at this point.
Life of DNE: Stand for Something: Take Action Now Troy Davis Case →
lifeofdne.com
WE TOOK ACTION today by signing a petition to stop the execution of an innocent man. Troy Davis was convicted of the August 19, 1989, murder of Savannah, Georgia, police officer Mark MacPhail.
No physical evidence have been connected to the crime, Davis was convicted on the basis of…
“These days conservative (white) Americans fancy themselves more civilized than their bloodthirsty ancestors, but I submit that the state sanctioned murder of Black men based on dubious, trumped up, and coerced evidence is just lynching remixed for a new generation. Lest we forget, the state (i.e. police officers and sheriffs deputies who were present at many lynchings) frequently sanctioned mob killings as well. This go around, the willfully naive can self-sooth with narratives of “justice being served.” Let me be clear. Mark MacPhail’s family deserves justice. But no one deserves justice at the expense of a potentially innocent man.”
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Lynching Remixed: The Execution of Troy Davis - The Crunk Feminist Collective, 9/19/11
- This article from the Crunk Feminist Collective provides strong analysis on the impending state execution of Troy Anthony Davis.
(via harmreduction)URGENT: What is needed right now!
We need people to bring the following items to ZUCCOTTI PARK in NYC immediately:
electric generator
tents
large water jugs
extension cords
myfi cards ( to make 3g or 4g wireless hotspots)
Car to move food from stores to the park
amwelles replied to your post: amwelles replied to your post: The thing I miss…
Oh, what I meant was that you would go to *their* ask box and reply that way. So if you asked me a question, I answered, but you still wanted to reply, you’d go to my ask box. Make sense?
Yes, gotcha. Wish tumblr would implement what Missing E offered so that we could reply to answers right from our dashboard. Maybe one day…
amwelles replied to your post: The thing I miss most about Missing E is that I…
If that person has an ask box, you can always use that! I’ll scour around for an email if I’m feeling particularly determined and they (for whatever reason) lack an ask box. (:
That’s strange. It won’t work for me. I can reply to replies, but not to answers.
The thing I miss most about Missing E is that I can’t respond to answers. Tumblr - this should be an option.
I was just reading about how you should clean dust from your laptop every so often. I’ve had my Macbook for about four years now and it’s never been opened up. I’m thinking I’ll take it to PeachMac and ask them to do it. Hoping it will cool things down a bit.
Any Macbook owners ever done this themselves?
Most folks are suggesting I not upgrade to Lion. But I have heard some positive things about Snow Leopard. Maybe that’s what I should get?
Does anyone know if I can use an html table in a tumblr post?
“The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.”
—Che Guevara (via lifeisliterallylimited)
