February 2012
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This woman pushed, PUSHED, me and Abe on the subway platform. The subway platform!! I need to say it twice BC I can’t believe it. Then she sits down so that only Abe can squeeze in the spot left over, which is fine, but then she proceeds to pull out a book that has a huge picture of Ayan Hirsi Ali on the cover. And it all makes sense.
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Half of Aden polling booths seized, Yemeni... →
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Me: Please, go to sleep.
Abe: You can't make me, because you're not me.
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NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast →
A spy went on a rafting trip of City College in 2008, where “he recorded students’ names and noted in police intelligence files how many times they prayed”.
ETA: The link to the actual AP report
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“So far, 2012 has proven no better. Already, six NYPD officers have already been...”
– Kristen Gwynne, “Is NYPD Running Wild? Patterns of Brutality Raise Questions About Mayor’s Control of Police” (x)
2011 was a banner year for Stop and Frisk, with nearly 700,000 stops - an increase of 600% since the Bloomberg became mayor.
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“You know, we live in this strange, bizarre age where the Nobel peace laureate...”
– Mirza Waheed, “The Literature of Conflicted Lands” (x)
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I just got out of the first baragining meeting for our newly formed union and I have never felt so fucking empowered in this place the whole time I’ve been here.
We’ve come a long way from management seeing as as a bunch of kids “playing union”.
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Why did the White House just increase the budget... →
Facts matter, and numbers don’t lie. The White House insists that the budget imposes a quota for deportations. If that were true, we would expect the President to defund programs like Secure Communities that are destroying public trust in law enforcement. The President cannot both acknowledge the ‘system is broken’ and still continue to fund it to the gills.”
Statement...
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“i had heart-leather like walruses got blubber.”
– Junot Díaz, Drown (112)
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US Ambassador: 11 in charge of overseeing GCC deal →
That is 11 countries. What are the Yemenis in charge of?
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abudai replied to your photo: I’ve been cleaning out my desk (this is my last…
AWESOME. From where?
I got it as a gift, but you can buy it here. It’s $12 ($5 for prisoners).
The calendar is a joint fundraising and educational project between The Certain Days Collective (organizers in Montreal and Toronto) and three political prisoners being held in maximum-security prisons in New...
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At Least 11 Somalis Perish in Gulf of Aden Boat... →
At least 11 people have drowned and another 34 are missing in the latest boat tragedy in the Gulf of Aden, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.
[…] In 2011, more than 103,000 refugees and asylum-seekers from the Horn of Africa made the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden to reach Yemen, fleeing violence, human rights abuses and poverty, according to UNHCR.
Among those...
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i really fucked up tonight when i didn’t get a burger.
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There’s people at the Khader Adnan protest in Harlem.
S/O al awdany for bringing people out even tho it’s snowing, soft of.
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NYC to Pay $15mil in Damages for Illegal Loitering...
Yesterday a federal court in Manhattan approved a class action settlement requiring New York City to pay $15 Million Dollars to approximately 22,000 New Yorkers who were illegally charged by the New York City Police Department under unconstitutional “loitering” statutes between 1983 and this year.
The NYPD continued to enforce these void statutes for decades after New York state and federal...
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“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”
– Oscar Wilde (via libraryland)
i used to teach slam poetry to high schoolers.
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“(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me...”
– e.e. cummings [x] (via danceyrself)
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“This video is definitely beautiful, but all that glitters is not gold. What at...”
– -Global/globe-trotting DJ/Arabic music expert/G Filastine on MIA’s new vid, which I too have complex feelings about tho they are not as informed as this. Obviously it looks fucking awesome, and I love MIA, and this song, I cannot stop bumping it. BUT, HERE ARE SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT....