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Monday, June 15th, 2009
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2:21 pm
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| Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
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8:13 pm - guilty pleasure
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| Monday, April 13th, 2009
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11:30 am
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Okay I have to spread the good news.
I bought a diva cup and have been using it for three months, and it was the best damn investment (I think) I have ever made.
Its a menstral cup. Basically thats pretty self explanatory, you insert the cup into your vagina and wham! it can stay in for 12hours (over night too). Not only is it super comfortable but your saving money by not buying tampons/pads, but your protecting yourself from the shitty chemicals in those products. Not to mention keeping waste to a minimum.
so here the link to diva cups website. theres a couple other brands our there too. I bought mine from southtown health food store (in chicago)
http://www.divacup.com/
and a tampactivist pdf with facts about tampons, pad and alternatives.
http://www.campusactivism.org/server-new/uploads/brochure.pdf
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| Monday, March 30th, 2009
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10:25 pm
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sigh. in love. so in love right now. with songs.
saw wingnut dishwashers union
its ridiculous that someone can sing something that you are feeling...exactly!
edit-----sings something you were feeling but couldn't verbalize
this isn't the song I'm talking about, but this one makes me feel pretty damn happy.
everyone should attempt to see him tomo in chicago.
House Show @ 2502 n ridgeway Chicago, IL. 7 PM with the drinking lincolns
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| Sunday, January 25th, 2009
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4:50 pm
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I'm getting a ukulele
and i'm taking it everywhere with me this summer.
I've already started writing songs.
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| Monday, January 19th, 2009
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1:05 pm - This is a really good write up
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The news of the riots that followed the shooting of 22-year-old Oscar Grant has sensationally occupied the headlines of Bay Area newspapers and television programs over the last week. These reports have focused almost exclusively on the vandalism of local businesses and cars and have remained chillingly silent on the topic of the police violence that occurred that evening. The troubling assumption made throughout all of the reportage is that the destruction of storefront facades and car windows somehow equates to the horrific execution of Oscar, and that it justified the police violence against demonstrators that night.
As anarchists who were involved in the demonstrations, we fully reject the notion that the vandalizing of private property could ever be weighed against the violence committed against not only Oscar Grant, but against youth of color every day by police and the prison system. This way of thinking, that gives property more value than people, is what allows the violence of the police to become dangerously normalized and unquestioned.
At the time of this writing, the police officer that executed Oscar Grant in cold blood still walks the streets without criminal charges, while some of those arrested during the demonstration are locked away in prison awaiting trial and will likely face harsh sentences. The violent system that so quickly punishes those who demonstrated while simultaneously protecting the murderer of Oscar Grant should be the target of our collective criticism and condemnation, not the angry youth who reacted to the shooting in the streets that night. While Bay Area journalists have presented themselves as being objective reporters of the aforementioned events, their reports and broadcasts repeatedly reveal their bias in favor of the police when recounting the evening of the demonstrations. The endless images of smashed windows and burned cars, and the litany of condemnations of "lawlessness" and "destruction" serve to obscure the most violent events of the night, and indeed the only violence perpetrated against human beings: the brutal police beatings of protesters. One witness described a police officer beating a protester on the head so severely his bike helmet was split in two. Another described how police made over 70 protesters lie down on their stomachs in positions that eerily echoed Oscar Grant's pose as he was shot. A visibly pregnant woman was screaming in pain after being attacked by police. It is clear to us that the police were protecting private property and not human beings that night. We are disgusted by this, and we condemn Bay Area journalists for being complicit with police violence by attempting to justify their actions.
A very distorted and troubling view of what constitutes violence in our society is perpetuated by the current coverage. A car does not scream in agony when it burns, and similarly a storefront facade does not sob when its plate glass window shatters to the sidewalk below. It is true that the cost of replacing cars and windows may be a burden for the working-class people who were affected, and that is certainly regrettable. However, there is simply no comparison between those costs and the brutal consequences of police violence. The youth who were brutalized by police the night of the demonstration will have to live with their injuries and traumas for years to come, and Oscar Grant cannot be replaced. We call on the public to recognize the real violence in our society – the violence of the police, the prisons and the politicians. As long as police and corrupt politicians protect the cop that killed Oscar, as long as youth of color are continuously attacked and criminalized by the police and court system, as long as property is valued over people - we will not grieve over the property vandalized on Wednesday night.
Signed,
Bay Area Anarchists
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| Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
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10:13 pm
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| Friday, July 25th, 2008
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4:24 pm
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watch a couple min of this please. It's a talk about the greenscare and the realities of calling people "eco-terrorists" and the implications it has for activists.
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| Friday, April 25th, 2008
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10:34 am
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| Thursday, April 17th, 2008
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4:13 pm
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| Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
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5:45 pm
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To those of you in Chicago:
I'm thinking about starting a critical mass in beverly, beginning at beverly park just a good place to start.
Probably in June. Do people thinks thats a cool idea? I mean, it will probably be a one time thing...unless others want to keep doing it.
(and people don't have to wait till june, they could start one this month.....)
FYI about Critical Mass
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| Friday, March 28th, 2008
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9:48 am
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Due to a friends suggestion of making a summer reading list I decided to make one. I know it's rather nerdy but whatever. I'm only picking 10 because that's a decent number, and in honor of the song "10 things" by Paul Baribeau. So without further ado heres my summer reading list/10 books I want to read before I die:
1) In the time of the Butterflies- Julia Alvarez
2) Anarchy in the time of Dinosaurs- Crimethinc workers collective
3) Getting OFF: Pornography and the end of Masculinity- Robert Jensen
4) Quiet Rumours: An Anarcha-Feminist Reader- Dark Star Collective (editor)
5) In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women- Alice Walker (possibly read The Color Purple again because its such a good book), or anything written by Alice Walker for that matter.
6) Doris: an anthology 1991-2001-Cindy Gretchen Ovenrack Crabb
7) Freedom, Equity, and Solidarity-Lucy Parsons
8) Our Enemies in BLUE-Kristian Williams
9) As the World Burns: 50 simple things you can do to stay in Denial (a graphic novel)-Derrick Jensen & Stephanie McMillian
10)Please Don't Feed the Bears (A vegan Cookbook)- A collection of zine's turned book. There are also a lot of little blibs in it about veganism too.
Wow this is quite a list :D
and here is a youtube video of Paul Baribeau (sorry that the quality isn't very good)
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| Sunday, March 16th, 2008
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6:54 am
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So I've gotten tired of drinking/smoking up. I mean I don't mind doing it when the opportunity presents itself, but in terms of planning to get drunk or doing it all the time, ick.
What I mean is I really hate it when kids or people do nothing but drink as a leisure activity, and then thats ALL they talk about.
it just gets REALLY annoying after a while.
I guess I'm sick of dealing with rich/mostly white/preppy people from school, and thats all they do.
It just seems like they're wasting time.
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| Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
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10:07 am
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So my mom and I went downtown yesterday, and we drive by a bus stop that has an advertisement of a girl with a shirt that says "Stop and Think"
H&M is selling shirts where 25% of the profit goes to HIV/AIDS "prevention projects"
ON the web site it says "SHOPPING HAS NEVER BEEN MORE IMPORTANT!"
seriously? shopping doesn't do shit, besides make you feel better that some money went to foundations instead of the cheaply paid worker. And sure H&M has this little blip on their web site about trying to make sure there factories have safe working conditions, but ahh yes, thats probably just a PR ploy. Because they want you to shop MORE!
Stopping sweatshop labor, and the spread of HIV/AIDS is not going to end by shopping
So what I'm trying to say is wearing a shirt that says "stop and think" made by H&M makes you look like a fucking dumbass.
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| Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
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11:59 pm
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| Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
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10:40 am
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| Sunday, February 24th, 2008
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7:59 am
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| Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
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10:28 pm - MY home my get a new member of the household!!
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| Monday, February 11th, 2008
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5:10 pm
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| Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
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10:37 pm - everyone should go :) click on the picture
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