May
22
All the buses full of cops blared “Chicago is - My kind of town.” So. Many. Cops.Get home safe, everybody.
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All the buses full of cops blared “Chicago is - My kind of town.” So. Many. Cops.Get home safe, everybody.
This is good. I will show this to friends who are still in the middle of NATO organizing when I get to our convergence space tonight—after I pack my stuff for bike ride and storage! But this is really good. I always enjoyed seeing people dancing in regalia at the park by my old apartment, with May Day protesters, and in general. Keep rocking it.“Alejandra Cruz, who is defending her family’s home from eviction, closes her bank account in full Aztec dancer regalia at Wells Fargo as part of a mass day of action against the banks!”
hhhawkward
(via crunkfeministcollective)
freaking out. sleeping less. biking longer distances. cargoin’ it up. hauling more. thinking of packing. forgetting paperwork. cooking for myself less. eating more. drinking more coffee. going to healers at the last minute. losing friendships. bleeding from my uterus. thoracic compression of my dominant arm. (fitter? happier? more productive?)
Tar Sands Pipelines Don’t Just Leak Oil!
“When Enbridge’s Line 6B burst open near Marshall, Michigan in July 2010 spewing over a million gallons of tar sands sludge into the Kalamazoo river watershed, funds were quickly released from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to mobilize Environmental Protection Agency staff and other federal employees to assist and monitor clean up. But the tar sands companies that produced the oil that is still polluting Talmadge Creek nearly two years later have never paid a penny into the fund. Why? Because when payments into the fund were reinstated by the 2005 Energy Policy Act following a hiatus, someone convinced the IRS that tar sands crude was not crude oil, and therefore did not need to pay.”
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I need help translating “Planet Over Profit” (the idea that the planet is more valuable, superior to, should come before, etc, profit) into some more languages. Italian and Japanese especially! Polish if ya got it. The translation needs to be as short and simple as possible, and I need this in less than a week. Serious help needed! Thanks!
17 “Anarchists” According to Stock Photos
Tumblr replies to my previous “commentary.”
How did Amazon know I wanted to rid myself of the textbooks from my Deleuze class?! My original plan was to engage in a digestive-labor-intensive performance in which I eat my books.
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What Does a Radical Look Like?
A week after the attempted comeback of the most significant political movement of the new century, a triptych by photographer Richard Avedon now on display in New York gets a person thinking about the clues radicals have used over the years to signal their political beliefs. The ”photo mural” in question, part of an exhibit that opened over the weekend at the Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea, features the Chicago Seven—the activists, Abbie Hoffman among them, charged with conspiracy after protesting the Vietnam War at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Though taken in 1969, as the Seven were awaiting trial, the three-part image looks as though it could have been shot in today’s Williamsburg. Many of the men are wearing high-waisted jeans; a couple are in whimsically striped shirts; two wear funky glasses; one has a woven belt, tied in a big knot. There’s also plenty of facial hair to go around. As a group, they come off as more goofily disdainful than revolutionary.
At the same time, they look quite different from their bourgeois contemporaries pictured on the other side of the gallery: the members of Allen Ginsberg’s extended family. Those photos feature men in crisp suits and requisite ties, ladies in polite cocktail dresses and kitten heels. No one would’ve mistaken the Ginsbergs for Yippies—members of the countercultural 60’s youth movement that Hoffman helped to found—just as no one would’ve mistaken Hoffman for a banker or any other kind of office worker. […]
But these days, differentiating the activists from the bourgeoisie on the basis of their attire can be much harder than it was in the past—perhaps in part because of the speed with which the fashion world is able to transfer looks from city trendsetters to malls across America.
Read more. [Image: The Richard Avedon Foundation]
A single setence pointing out the obvious predominance of masculine animals identified as radicals.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3ras0ULTC1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
A single setence pointing out the obvious predominance of masculine animals identified as radicals.What Does a Radical Look Like?
A week after the attempted comeback of the most significant political movement of the new century, a triptych by photographer Richard Avedon now on display in New York gets a person thinking about the clues radicals have used over the years to signal their political beliefs. The ”photo mural” in question, part of an exhibit that opened over the weekend at the Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea, features the Chicago Seven—the activists, Abbie Hoffman among them, charged with conspiracy after protesting the Vietnam War at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Though taken in 1969, as the Seven were awaiting trial, the three-part image looks as though it could have been shot in today’s Williamsburg. Many of the men are wearing high-waisted jeans; a couple are in whimsically striped shirts; two wear funky glasses; one has a woven belt, tied in a big knot. There’s also plenty of facial hair to go around. As a group, they come off as more goofily disdainful than revolutionary.
At the same time, they look quite different from their bourgeois contemporaries pictured on the other side of the gallery: the members of Allen Ginsberg’s extended family. Those photos feature men in crisp suits and requisite ties, ladies in polite cocktail dresses and kitten heels. No one would’ve mistaken the Ginsbergs for Yippies—members of the countercultural 60’s youth movement that Hoffman helped to found—just as no one would’ve mistaken Hoffman for a banker or any other kind of office worker. […]
But these days, differentiating the activists from the bourgeoisie on the basis of their attire can be much harder than it was in the past—perhaps in part because of the speed with which the fashion world is able to transfer looks from city trendsetters to malls across America.
Read more. [Image: The Richard Avedon Foundation]
Oh what the fuck ever. Born and raised Floridian. Midwestern thunderstorms are weak compared to tropical storms and hurricanes. Have you ever seen a water spout surrounded by lightning? What about a ten-minute storm that cracked healthy trees in half, and toppled 70-foot tall long leaf pines? Chicago’s thunderstorms are underwhelming.There’s something so beautiful and powerful about thunderstorms in Chicago. Plus, they’re SUPER LOUD.
No one can tell me thunderstorms in this city aren’t awesome. Your car might be crushed by a branch because Chicago loves its sidewalk trees, but still cool
(via neighborhoodr-chicago)
And let’s not forget to add these billboards were in the city of Chicago near main highways. This wasn’t some bumblefuck Indiana shit.A group skeptical of mainstream climate science on Friday pulled down its billboard campaign comparing climate experts to “madmen” after complaints not only by scientists but the group’s own supporters.
“We know that our billboard angered and disappointed many of Heartland’s friends and supporters, but we hope they understand what we were trying to do with this experiment,” Heartland Institute Joseph Bast said in a statement. “We do not apologize for running the ad, and we will continue to experiment with ways to communicate the ‘realist’ message on the climate.”
The funding behind the heartland group has been well documented and they have been extremely successful in spewing misinformation and protecting their big oil & coal interests. Notice in the reference to this billboard as an ‘experiment’.
