December 2010
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The Big (Military) Taboo - NYTimes.com →
We face wrenching budget cutting in the years ahead, but there’s one huge area of government spending that Democrats and Republicans alike have so far treated as sacrosanct.
It’s the military/security world, and it’s time to bust that taboo. A few facts:
• The United States spends nearly as much on military power as every other country in the world combined, according to the Stockholm...
All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the...
– Emma Goldman, My Further Disillusionment in Russia (via elitc)
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35W Bridge, Minneapolis
Four am; breathtaking city lights.
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Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
“Take Me Nauman!”
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boycott Target →
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The spectacle is the moment when the commodity has attained the total occupation...
– Guy Debord (via fuckyeahanarchopunk)
Report Finds 1 in 3 Working Families Near Poverty →
redguard:
Almost a third of America’s working families are now considered low-income, earning less than twice the official poverty threshold, according to a report released Tuesday by the Working Poor Families Project. The recession, which has incited layoffs and wage cuts, reversed a period of improvement: Between 2007 and 2009, as the recession set in, the percentage of U.S. working families...
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The term boy is reserved for young males, bellhops, and car attendants, and as a...
– FuckYeahRadicalQuotes!:
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Digital Free Speech →
Care about your rights?
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Gay Artist Stands Up To Smithsonian Censorship →
pansexualpride:
The Smithsonian might want to consider adding a tagline to its name: “When it rains, it pours.” That’s because the Smithsonian is catching a boatload of flak for its decision to cave in to anti-gay activists and remove a piece of artwork by artist David Wojnarowicz from a show at the National Portrait Gallery.
The Wojnarowicz piece, A Fire in My Belly, was part of a show called...
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The Kanye song I’m listening to references Basquiat and lesbians. It’s all over my finals studying, yo.
I don’t sign my work. I think that would diminish its effectiveness because then...
– Jenny Holzer (via berardicurti)