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I forgot to share this on the right day but still important anniversary.
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I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham City Jail, 1963
(via carton-rouge) Boom. Indifferent, “colorblind,” privileged white liberals roasted.
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First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
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real talk, superheroes can be so focused on stupid shit sometimes…arms dealers this, drug dealers that… take down the fucking government already you stupid bitches!!
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“It’s my civic duty, and my right … honestly I feel like have a right to cover [erase] these kinds of things. Since I’m doing a public form of art, I have to take care of my city and … it’s like my own art gallery. How do you explain a swastika to a child? How do you do it? It’s impossible. It’s a racist message. And it’s not okay .”
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Comrade Archie Andrews
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Exceptional service from FedEx
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DIRECT ACTION GETS RESULTS
Picture of flowers, overlaid with all caps text reading, “FUCK CIVILITY”
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be the change you want to see in the world
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His name is Onur Albayrak! Here’s the story.
Hurriyet Daily News reports that Albayrak had been hired to photograph the July 5th wedding at Turgut Özal Nature Park in the eastern Turkish province of Malatya. On the day of, when he noticed that the bride-to-be didn’t look like an adult, he asked the groom her age and learned that she was only 15.
“The groom had come to my studio some two weeks ago and was alone,” Albayrak tells the Daily News. “I saw the bride for the first time at the wedding. She’s a child, and I felt her fear because she was trembling.”
Albayrak then reportedly refused to continue as the wedding photographer and attempted to stop the wedding.
The argument soon turned physical when the groom attacked him as he was attempting to leave, Albayrak says. The photographer ended up breaking the client’s nose in the fight, according to local reports.
Albayrak confirmed the reports in a Facebook post, which has been met with widespread approval, attracting thousands of Likes and hundreds of overwhelmingly positive comments.
“I wish this had never happened, but it did,” Albayrak writes. “And if you were to ask me if I’d do the same thing again, I’d say ‘yes.’ Child brides are [victims] of child abuse and no power on earth can make me photograph a child in a wedding gown.”
The legal minimum age for marriage in Turkey is 18-years-old for both sexes, and child marriage is punishable by imprisonment for men who marry underage girls. Despite being outlawed, however, child marriage is still prevalent in the country and remains a controversial political issue.
[Source] – go read the rest!
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Legends only blog
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god bless.
direct action.
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Nice
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can i just say it is peak capitalist to order 80$ of sushi and then throw it away after getting insulted
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Exactly WHO are the Snowflakes?
My initial thought was, “imagine for a moment if they experienced institutional racism (like their Muslim ban for just one example) and think about how upsetting theyd find an entire country’s policy confirmed against them to be. ” I doubt it would stop them but the irony is not lost.
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So I was doing some research on common medications for a pharmacology class at school, and realized that Wikipedia is calling out the outrageous practices of pharmacological sales in the US. Right up there in the main intro to the medication they’re showing how much the drug costs to produce, versus how much a typical course of treatment costs in the USA.
Epinephrine/adrenaline, AKA an epipen, given to people having a type of severe allergic reaction called anaphylaxis, where their airways swell and close up. A person in anaphylaxis will die without epinephrine/adrenaline. Costs at most $0.95 to produce, and they’re sold for $70 at the absolute cheapest for a single vial.
Naloxone/Narcan, used to stop an opioid overdose. $5.30, at most, to produce. $4500 to buy.
Bisoprolol/Zebeta, given for high blood pressure, angina (chest pain), and heart failure, sold at over 1000% it costs to produce.
Also, just so you’re aware, as of late Mat 2018, 1.80 GBP is 2.40 USD. For a three month supply of the pill. The same amount could cost you 150 USD in the United States.
Casual reminder that the for-pay medical system is vicious and morally bankrupt.
Emtricitabine/tenofovir is PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis), the daily pill you can take to protect yourself from HIV. But the people in the US who need it most struggle to access it because of price gouging by its manufacturer, Gilead Sciences.
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citizen felipe de borbón (known to some as the king of spain) is in Catalonia because of the inauguration of the Mediterranean Games
he’s going to have lunch in a farmhouse restaurant in the countryside, and all the farmers of the area have agreed to fertilize the fields today
bon appétite and I hope you like the smell of how much those you call your “subjects” love you
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That last tweet
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Every day, this administration threatens the very future of our communities. We hope to see thousands of people in the streets and at the border on June 30th demanding this policy end! All New Yorkers are encouraged to attend. This will be a permitted event. Details are currently being finalized, so please be patient with the organizing team. Tentatively: We will be meeting at Foley Square and marching across the Brooklyn Bridge to Cadman Plaza. To join the NYC organizing efforts for this action, please fill out this form: http://bit.ly/SupportJune30NYC CO-SPONSORS: 1199SEIU, 32BJ SEIU, Amnesty International USA, Arab American Association of New York, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Atlas DIY, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Caring for Us Indivisible, Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, Empire State Indivisible, Faith In New York, FPWA, FWD.us, Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition, Indivisible Nation BK, Judson Memorial Church, Make the Road NY, March For Our Lives NYC, March for Truth, MinKwon Center of Community Action, Neighbors link, New Immigrant Community Empowerment, New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, Inc., New York Civil Liberties Union, New York Immigration Coalition, OCA-NY, One Spirit Learning Alliance, Rise and Resist NYC, Upper West Side MoveOn/Indivisible Action Group, The Workmen’s Circle