January 2012
One hundred Brooklyn community members and... →
domesticterrorism:
Today’s action is part of a growing national movement committed to stopping foreclosures and keeping all Americans in their homes. Last month over 50 actions were carried out across the country, including foreclosure disruptions, eviction defense actions, and home reoccupations. Occupy Wall Street participants and other occupations across the country have been highly involved...
“President Obama is announcing Friday morning a new proposal to limit federal...”
– Obama to Announce Proposal to Push Colleges to Lower Tuition (via kileyrae)
No More Résumés, Say Some Firms →
ghoulmann:
Instead of asking for résumés, the New York venture-capital firm—which has invested in Twitter, Foursquare, Zynga and other technology companies—asked applicants to send links representing their “Web presence,” such as a Twitter account or Tumblr blog.
One misrepresentation exchanged for compound misrepresentations
“The only difference between Somali pirates and investment bankers is that...”
– Andy Borowitz via twitter (via theyoungradical)
“Newt Gingrich’s ex-wife went on nightline and said that he wanted to have an...”
– Bill Maher (via sf-reloaded)
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“I felt a little bit threatened, if you will, in the attitude that he had,...”
– Jan Brewer ‘felt a little threatened’ by President Obama … really?
Get outta town. The crazy middle-aged white woman with a problem with brown people felt intimidated? NO WAI.
All American Entrepreneur | Hullabaloo →
So which is worse, being a closet racist or exploiting racism for money? It’s hard to tell the difference, frankly. I’d guess it’s possible that some slave ship owners were nice family men and had no personal beef with Africans —- but they profited handsomely from their misery nonetheless. Is there a moral difference? I’m talking about this article in the...
By the Numbers: Life and Death at Foxconn -... →
Here’s a quick look at what we know about Foxconn. (The company disputes workers’ accounts [5] of abusive conditions. In a 2010 company report [6], Foxconn said it promotes “employee respect, an atmosphere of trust, and personal dignity.”)
Working for Foxconn
1.2 million: number of workers employed by Foxconn [7] in China, according to the New York Times.
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“And he countered the typical GOP retort: ‘You can call this class warfare all...”
– Obama’s SOTU: Winning the Next 9 Months (via motherjones)
Not All Slave Owners Were Rapine Beasts: Ron... →
Perhaps, most troubling for a two dimensional version of American (and Atlantic) slavery is that plantations were run like factories. Of course, there were yeoman whites who owned one or two slaves, and lived in close intimacy with them, as privations were shared, and struggles (if not successes) were experienced in common across the colorline. But the plantations that occupy American memory,...
“Most people would still be really disturbed if they saw where their iPhone comes...”
– Former Apple executive (via liberalsarecool)
Palestinian leader: Talks with Israel over →
mohandasgandhi:
verbalresistance:
RAMALLAH — A low-level dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians about a future border has ended without any breakthrough, the Palestinian presidentsaid Wednesday, reflecting the impasse plaguing the negotiations for at least three years.
President Mahmoud Abbas said he would consult with Arab allies next week to figure out how to proceed now. While...
“I cannot recall such an obvious example of a member of Congress allocating money...”
– Barney Keller from the Club of Growth on the subject of a former Representative that gave an earmark to a small company who then hired him to lobby for them after he left Congress. Read more in the New York Times. (via govtoversight)