June 2012
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May 2012
32 posts
The wrong Carlos: how Texas sent an innocent man... →
A few years ago, Antonin Scalia, one of the nine justices on the US supreme court, made a bold statement. There has not been, he said, “a single case – not one – in which it is clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit. If such an event had occurred … the innocent’s name would be shouted from the rooftops.”
Scalia may have to eat his words. It is now clear that a person was...
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May Day Dharma Reflections from Oakland
Dawn and Katie of Buddhist Peace Fellowship and Turning Wheel Media reflect on what they saw at Oakland’s May Day March for Dignity and Resistance / Marcha por la Dignidad y Resistencia
“Drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not...”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via letriagedesbois)
1 may 2012, Saint Petersburg, Russia →
conquestofbread:
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My photos. Anarchist/antifascist bloc, green bloc (eco-anarchists, animal rights activists), anti-authoritarian socialists, labor unions, students action and a little bit LGBT.
Sorry for the social network site. I’ll upload photos to Flickr later.
Also I’ve see the black bloc by the national “anarchists”, anti-authoritarian national socialists and anti-authoritarian...
April 2012
53 posts
“Republican or Democrat, this nation’s affluent urban and suburban classes...”
– Joe Bageant, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War (via thecamprobber)
One of the best books I’ve read in ages!
“Whenever someone asks me whether I believe in God, I simply have no idea what...”
– Stephen Batchelor (in Confession of a Buddhist Atheist)
… top of my pile of ‘books to read’…. just got to finish my current book, maybe I should get off of tumblr?
“How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake...”
– Stephen Batchelor (via untouchedurchin)
“A libertarian is just a Republican who takes drugs.”
– Bob Black (via supertask)