February 2012
34 posts
jalwhite:
Jaime Lynn Butler is an 11-year old Navajo Artist from Northern Arizona. Follow her story as she tells about the ways climate change is affecting her and her family, and her fight to be heard. Watch and share Jaime’s story, help us spread the word!
Jaime Lynn Butler sued Janice Brewer, the Governor of Arizona, for failure to combat climate change.
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Visualizing Palestine →
Intersection of communication, social sciences, technology, design and urban studies for social justice on Palestine
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Virginia votes to refuse NDAA | RT →
anonymissexpress:
22 February, 2012, via @AdamfromNorway
Although Congress approved this year’s National Defense Authorization Act, lawmakers on another level continue to find faults with its nasty detainment provisions. Virginia is now the latest state to consider laws that nix some of the NDAA.
When US President Barack Obama signed his name to the National Defense Authorization Act for...
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The latest on Khader Adnan:
lifeisliterallylimited:
Palestinian minister says #KhaderAdnan has ended hunger strike, will be released April 17, no change to release date. #KhaderAdnan announced that he is ending his hunger strike.
Activists around the world for Palestine
Be careful…Israel has a history of reneging on deals like this.
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Israel to 'free' Palestinian hunger striker →
arabstateofmind:
Israel has agreed to free Khader Adnan, a Palestinian detained without charge, who has been on hunger strike for more than nine weeks, one of his lawyers has said.
The revelation came hours before the supreme court was to hear an urgent appeal on Tuesday for Adnan’s release.
The lawyer said that a settlement had been reached for ending his detention.
The continued...
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76% of donations to Ron Paul's SuperPAC was from... →
Silicon Valley renaissance man Peter Thiel donated another $1.7 million in January to a super PAC that backs Ron Paul, according to disclosure documents filed Monday.
The PayPal co-founder donated $1 million on January 3, and followed that up 10 days later with an additional $700,000 gift.
The donations, disclosed in Federal Election Commission filings, account for almost 75% of the $2.3...
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When Oakland Is Under Attack, What Do We Do? →
punkpedagogy:
Grammys Eliminated 31 Mostly Ethnic & World Music Categories This Year
– grammywatch.org
zikrayat:
Ok so some fool walked into my job today picked up a pair of 270 dollar jeans and peed on them
Honey what
NYPD Murders (Another) Unarmed 18 Year-Old Black... →
The Washington Post‘s David Ignatius yesterday reported that Leon Pantta...
– Iran is the root of all evil - Salon.com
I love how Glenn Greenwald can make me laugh even when he’s writing about the most worrisome issues. My favorite from above: referring to Luke Russert as “the Face of American Meritocracy.”
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