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This is a real photograph, from the days before retouching and...

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:36:28 -0700

This is a real photograph, from the days before retouching and all those wonderful things that make celebrities look like sticks nowadays. It was taken by Philippe Halsman in 1948. It was done to make surrealism “real.” And it did it amazingly.

pretty occupiers

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:22:50 -0700

pretty occupiers

#RickSantorum made out of #gayporn and gay porn made out of Rick...

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:18:00 -0700

#RickSantorum made out of #gayporn and gay porn made out of Rick Santorum

lifegoesonbrah: from left to right; I am afraid to hold my...

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:11:49 -0700

lifegoesonbrah:

from left to right;

I am afraid to hold my boyfriend’s hand.

My friend’s parents sent her away.

I found death threats in my locker.

I submitted to electroshock therapy.

I lost half my friends after coming out.

My grandmother sends me hate mail.

My school won’t let me take my date to prom.

I am not here anymore.

My dad tried to beat it out of me.

No one is proud of me.

#jimihendrix rock god?

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:59:22 -0700

#jimihendrix rock god?

AIRE, iPhone Charging Device That Creates Energy By Breathing...

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:52:18 -0800

AIRE, iPhone Charging Device That Creates Energy By Breathing Into It

guardiancomment: To celebrate International Women’s Day, we...

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:46:42 -0800

guardiancomment:

To celebrate International Women’s Day, we asked 11 women from different countries to choose one reason we should celebrate this year.

• From the US: Jessica Valenti - let’s celebrate the backlash against sexism

• From Egypt: Adhaf Souef - let’s celebrate the women of Egypt’s revolution

• From India: Mari Marcel Thekaekara - let’s celebrate Indian women being more visible than ever

• From Sudan: Lubna Hussein - let’s celebrate the women of Sudan’s Nuba mountains

• From China: Lijia Zhan - let’s celebrate China leading the world in wealthy self-made women

• From Afghanistan: Orzala Ashraf Nemat - let’s celebrate Afghanistan’s grassroots activists

• From Norway: Maria Reinertsen - let’s celebrate more dad time for kids in Norway

• From Chile: Catalina May - let’s celebrate a belated discission about women’s rights in Chile

• From the UK: Anna Bird - let’s celebrate a new energy among UK feminist activists

• From Russia: Natalia Antonova - let’s celebrate women taking on the government

• From Saudi Arabia: Eman Al Nafjan - let’s celebrate the Saudi women’s driving campaign

Photographs: Reuters; Phil Moore for the Guardian; Manish Swarup/AP; AP; Janine Wiedel/Alam; AFP/Getty Images; David Wong/AP; AP

"I had my first child when I was only 15 years old, a ninth grader in junior high. I wasn’t on birth..."

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:39:45 -0800

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I had my first child when I was only 15 years old, a ninth grader in junior high. I wasn’t on birth control and knew nothing much of it at that time, due not only to my parents not talking about it but also the school I went to did not teach sex education as an informative class but more as an abstinence promoter. I finished high school barely by having to enroll in a home school program which allowed me to take care of my daughter and finish my classes. When I was 20 I had my second child, he was a planned pregnancy with my now partner. After my son was born I decided that I was going to go on full time birth control and started with the pills which I could barely afford to begin with. 2 months after he was born I found out, yet again I was pregnant.

I couldn’t fathom how this could happen simply because I was taking the pill correctly. I had just went back to work, working 12 hour shifts at a local hospital. I was worried about the future of my children and in that worry I decided to have an abortion.

I knew little of access to this in my state, I later found out there was only 2 clinics that offered abortion in Arkansas. I called them and scheduled the appointment for my next off day and arranged for my sister, who had had an abortion there years before, to take me.

When we arrived we were bombarded by Pro-lifers, they thought since I was dressed in my scrubs for work that I worked there and my sister was a patient. They called me a “baby-killer” and my sister “a murderer”. They stood across the street from us screaming other profane things and begging us to turn back to “the right path” that we were going to “hell”. I was clearly upset before I even got to the clinic but to have other women yelling at me and condemning my decision was horrific. The doctor I saw confirmed my pregnancy and asked if this was what I still wanted to do. I broke down in that moment and cried to her that I had done the right thing, was on Birth Control, already had two small children. She quickly calmed me down by telling me that she too had a similar experience as me, in terms of becoming pregnant on the pill, and had an abortion. She hugged me and told me, it was my CHOICE to decide what was best.

Needless to say I had the abortion. I thought before I had went that I would be overcome by grief but it was the opposite. I was relieved. I no longer worried about the future of my children or mine. Today in Arkansas there is only 1 clinic in the center of the state. This clinic now is under fire from many pro-life campaigners that want to shut it down and block their services indefinitely.

I am pro-choice because I believe every woman has the right to decide, the right to their health care, and a right to birth control. No one should tell a woman what is right and make her decisions for her. I plan to continue to fight in my state to keep my Planned Parenthood clinic open, and fight to allow more clinics to be opened up soon. So every woman can have a choice like I did.

”

- Lela, 24.

NARAL Pro-Choice America: Women’s Voices

(via pantslessprogressive)

Joseph Kony 2012: growing outrage in Uganda over film

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:36:32 -0800

Joseph Kony 2012: growing outrage in Uganda over film:

This is why you should stop mindlessly re-blogging that fucking Kony video

solitaryforager:

The 30-minute video, Kony2012, was produced by three American videographers campaigning for greater efforts to capture Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).

But Kony and his diminishing troops, many of them kidnapped child soldiers, fled northern Uganda six years ago and are now spread across the jungles of neighbouring countries.

“What that video says is totally wrong, and it can cause us more problems than help us,” said Dr Beatrice Mpora, director of Kairos, a community health organisation in Gulu, a town that was once the centre of the rebels’ activities.

“There has not been a single soul from the LRA here since 2006. Now we have peace, people are back in their homes, they are planting their fields, they are starting their businesses. That is what people should help us with.”

Joseph Kony, a former church altarboy, has spread terror through eastern and central Africa for almost three decades, as he has pursued an aimless war that has killed thousands of people and at one point forced hundreds of thousands from their homes.

The video, from Invisible Children Inc, an activism organisation, was posted to YouTube and Vimeo, a film-sharing site, on Monday night and by late on Thursday it had been viewed 32,600,000 times.

It aims to make Kony “famous” by encouraging supporters to plaster US cities with posters, in order to make the fight against the Lord’s Resistance Army an issue of “national interest” to Washington.

That, the video’s makers claim, will ensure funding for 100 US military advisors sent to train African armies to find Kony will continue.

“Suggesting that the answer is more military action is just wrong,” said Javie Ssozi, an influential Ugandan blogger.

“Have they thought of the consequences? Making Kony ‘famous’ could make him stronger. Arguing for more US troops could make him scared, and make him abduct more children, or go on the offensive.”

Rosebell Kagumire, a Ugandan journalist specialising in peace and conflict reporting, said: “This paints a picture of Uganda six or seven years ago, that is totally not how it is today. It’s highly irresponsible”.

HA! #RickSantorum

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:33:24 -0800

HA! #RickSantorum

1962 Seattle World’s Fair.

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:13:35 -0800

1962 Seattle World’s Fair.

Dictator #Cakes Campaign for Amnesty International

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:06:50 -0800

Dictator #Cakes Campaign for Amnesty International

pantslessprogressive: Eight female state senators in Georgia...

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:03:16 -0800

pantslessprogressive:

Eight female state senators in Georgia walked out of the Senate chambers on Thursday to protest two bills that hinder access to abortion and contraceptives. All eight female democratic senators left the chambers together after two bills they oppose passed the Republican-led Senate. From Atlanta’s WXIA, the legislation:

Prohibits state employees from using state health benefits to pay for abortions

Does not allow employees of private religious institutions to demand that their insurance policies pay for contraceptives

“We stood together to protest what we feel is absolutely a war on women here in Georgia and we want to sound the alert to Georgians,” said Sen. Nan Orrick.

Republican state senator Joshua McKoon said of the legislation, “What I would say is the war that’s being waged is on a relative minority in this country that has strong beliefs that are protected by the First Amendment.”

The bills now heads to the House, whereboth are expected to pass.

The senators who walked out: Sen. Gloria Butler, Sen. Gale Davenport, Sen. Nan Orrock, Sen. Freddie Powell Sims, Sen. Donzella James, Sen. Miriam Paris, Sen. Valencia Seay and Sen. Horacena Tate. Looks like I’ll be spending my Friday night emailing these senators to thank them for taking a stance on an incredibly important issue.

Ah #jonstewart you are a breath of fresh air!

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:10:46 -0800

Ah #jonstewart you are a breath of fresh air!

I’m reblogging this for the Angry Black Lady commentary,...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:02:46 -0800

I’m reblogging this for the Angry Black Lady commentary, it’s priceless. Read on..

pantslessprogressive:

This extraordinarily offensive political cartoon by Mike Lester is making the rounds today. In the cartoon, President Obama, dressed as a pimp, says of Sandra Fluke, “She just wants to have recreational sex and you to pay for it. It’s not exactly a new concept.”

Best commentary of the day comes from Angry Black Lady:

You’ve got the African-American President is a 70′s pimp angle, the Sandra Fluke is a whore angle, the “evil light-skinned brother” angle, the white girl subservient to the black man angle, a complete misrepresentation of Ms. Fluke’s statements to boot and it’s all rolled up into one big insulting awful package of pure hatred for black people, women, and human beings with working souls. It’s actually impressive, in the same way ebola-tipped bullets fired into crowds of baby sloths is impressive: just overwhelmingly, unremittingly awful on multiple levels.

A Brief History of Corporate Whining. Don’t forget: May 1st...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:57:36 -0800

A Brief History of Corporate Whining. Don’t forget: May 1st General Strike!

Wow! #Obama #Protesting at Harvard in 1990

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:55:39 -0800

Wow! #Obama #Protesting at Harvard in 1990

"I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to..."

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:53:26 -0800

“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.”

- J.R.R. #Tolkien, The Hobbit (via bookmania)

Ready for the American Spring, Wall Street!?

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:52:30 -0800

Ready for the American Spring, Wall Street!?

Twitter turns over Occupy user's data to police

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:49:33 -0800

Twitter turns over Occupy user's data to police