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Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:58:47 +0100

(and Irish and working class english miners)

astrangerdanger: politicaldove: Here, at the University of...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:48:11 +0000

politicaldove:

Here, at the University of Leeds in the UK, these are just some of the posters we have made for 8TH Annual “Israeli Apartheid Week.”

Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an annual international series of events held in cities and campuses across the globe. The aim of IAW is to educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system and to build Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns as part of a growing global BDS movement.

Lectures, films, and actions will highlight some of the successes of the BDS movement and build / support ongoing campaigns. Speakers and full programme for each city will be available on this website. Join us in making this a year of struggle against apartheid and for justice, equality, and peace.

Learn more about Israeli Apartheid Week here.

I’m going to be printing these out and posting them up around campus next week

‘It’s time for you to quit the Catholic Church’

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:32:41 +0000

‘It’s time for you to quit the Catholic Church’:

Annie Laurie Gaylor
Co-President
Freedom From Religion Foundation

Dear ‘Liberal’ Catholic:

It’s time to quit the Roman Catholic Church.

It’s your moment of truth. Will it be reproductive freedom, or back to the Dark Ages? Do you choose women and their rights, or Bishops and their wrongs? Whose side are you on, anyway?

It is time to make known your dissent from the Catholic Church, in light of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops’ ruthless campaign endangering the right to contraception. If you’re part of the Catholic Church, you’re part of the problem.

Why are you propping up the pillars of a tyrannical and autocratic, woman-hating, sex-perverting, antediluvian Old Boys Club? Why are you aiding and abetting a church that has repeatedly and publicly announced a crusade to ban contraception, abortion and sterilization, and to deny the right of all women everywhere, Catholic or not, to decide whether and when to become mothers? When it comes to reproductive freedom, the Roman Catholic Church is Public Enemy Number One. Think of the acute misery, poverty, needless suffering, unwanted pregnancies, social evils and deaths that can be laid directly at the door of the Church’s antiquated doctrine that birth control is a sin and must be outlawed.

More…

anticapitalist: woah. this got 2000 notes!

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:10:11 +0000

anticapitalist:

woah. this got 2000 notes!

thepalestineyoudontknow: Bi’lin demonstration in support of...

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:14:04 +0000

thepalestineyoudontknow:

Bi’lin demonstration in support of Khader Adnan, Feb. 17, 2012

Weekly demonstration against the wall on February 17, 2012 in Bi’lin, in the West Bank.

Photos by Abir Kopty, activestills, Haitham Al Khatib

racismschool: This picture gave me chills and …look which side...

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:11:58 +0000

racismschool:

This picture gave me chills

and

…look which side is so filled with cowardice that every single one of their faces are covered.

socialismartnature: (Photo) “People who dismiss the unemployed...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:30:49 +0000

socialismartnature:

(Photo) “People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host, one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such is the ruling class in capitalist society.” - Jason Read

nonplussedbyreligion: Tumblr: The Internet’s Biggest Game of...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:26:28 +0000

nonplussedbyreligion:

Tumblr: The Internet’s Biggest Game of Telephone

I posted this a while back with this comment:

I don’t fully agree with this. I was able to ask all the questions I wanted when I was a believer. The problems arose when I challenged the answers. We’re taught to look to our spiritual leaders for guidance. As non-ordained congregants, we are usually encouraged to study scripture and seek help when we get stuck or need clarification. I just never got the answers I was looking for. Unlike most I took the expensive route of enrolling in Seminary to be able to answer not only my questions, but the questions of others. Unfortunately, or rather fortunately, it led to me leaving religion more equipped and in possession of the answers I had always sought. There was no God, and I was being deluded by the writing and teaching of men.

Not a single word of the Bible was penned by God. Not a single word in red in the New Testament was written by Jesus. The fact of this is evident in the inconsistencies found in the gospels. So while I was encouraged to ask questions, I was expected to accept that the Bible was the inspired word of God, to turn to it for my answers, and believe it to be true. Is that making anyone else dizzy? Walking that circle, can tend to throw you off balance. But once I found a spot to focus on, restoring my equilibrium, I was able to realized that I’d been spinning in circles for far too many years.

As often happens here, my comments were lost somewhere along the reblog trail causing people to be upset about the message that appears in the image, one I don’t even agree with. The only reason I even looked at this again is because the cosmic order vs. cosmic purpose comment added by the last blogger showed up on my dash with the reblog. I won’t even address the incongruent nature of that statement, this is about reblogging. When something comes across my dash that’s particuarly offensive or if I believe it to be wrong, I usually go to the source and see what the original poster had to say. Doing so has stopped me from shooting off some pretty nasty replies. It’s amazing what gets added and subtracted in this game of blogging telephone that we play here on tumblr. Not trying to change anything with this one, just an observation. What a curious place this tumblrverse is. ~ Kim

shadowsong123:

xoxozanna:

poco-loca:

Not to stir up shit or anything, but I’ve never been told to shut up or not question my faith. In fact, every leader I’ve had has encouraged me to openly ask any questions I’ve had - not only that, but has volunteered to help me find the answers. Just so you all are aware… we’re not all like that.

#i can’t fucking stand generalizations #spiritual is not synonymous with ignorant #just FYI

Omg this! Reblogging for the commentary and the tags!!!

Me too. My religious teachers and mentors have never, ever, ever, told me not to ask questions or challenge my faith. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose. We need them both. Let’s stop forcing them against each other, mmkay?

Photo

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:13:40 +0000

Great Trotskyist satire of Stalin by American trotskyists

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:11:27 +0000

Great Trotskyist satire of Stalin by American trotskyists

US Armed Forces Support Nazi Symbols?

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:05:58 +0000

Just a month after a disgusting video which featured US Marines urinating on dead Taliban soldiers another shocking image has surfaced showing an American unit posing with the infamous SS symbol. The SS under the command of Heinrich Himmler were responsible for many crimes against humanity during the second world war. The Nazis concentration camp system was under complete control of the SS. The soldiers of the SS committed mass acts of genocide within these camps. A Marine Corps showing its endorsement for such an atrocious act is confirming rumors about the US armed forces seeking out and hiring white supremacists and religious bigots to make the core of its army. The US is currently engaged in multiple conflicts around the globe particularly in the middle-east where the majority of the people living in this region are Muslim and not white, supramicists in theory should have no qualms with killing another human being for the sole reason that they are not of the same skin colour as them.

The US worlds image is rapidly coming to mimic that of Nazi Germany with these blatant and quite frankly disgraceful acts on foreign soil. Just as Hitler had his concentration camps for the Jewish people so to does the US have its Guantanamo Bay for the Arabic people. Now I’m sure many of you know the location of Guantanamo Bay, which in case you do not it is on Cuban Territory. Fidel Castro has openly protested to this and has not cashed a rent check in since 1959 unfortunatelyshort of invading it and constituting a war against the US he his unable to act. Imperialist America is ceasing to be a hidden image and is exactly the correct term to describe what this once great republic has become.

thepalestineyoudontknow: Birds die in Galilee by Mahmoud...

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:29:56 +0000

thepalestineyoudontknow:

Birds die in Galilee by Mahmoud Darwish / Translated by: Denys Johnson-Davies .

-We shall meet awhile
After a year
After two years
And generation…
And she threw into the camera
Twenty gardens
And the birds of Galilee
And continued searching beyond the sea
For a new meaning to truth.
-My homeland is clothes-lines
For the handkerchiefs of blood
Shed every minute.
And I stretched out on the shore
As sands and palm trees.

She does not know…
O Rita! Death and I granted you
The secret of joy wilting at the customs gate
And we were rejuvenated, Death and I,
In your first front
And in window of your house.
Death and I are two faces-
Why now do you flee from my face,
Why now do you flee?
Why now do you flee from
What makes wheat the earth’s eyelashes, from
What makes the volcano another face to jasmine?
Why now do you flee?
Nothing used to tire me at night but her silence
When it was stretching out before the door
Like the street, like the old quarter.
Let it be what you want, Rita:
The silence an axe
Or frame for stars
Or a climate for the tree’s labour pains.
I sip kisses
From the blade of knives.
Come, let’s join the massacre!

Like unwanted leaves
The flocks of birds fell
Into the wells of time.
And I pick up the blue wings.
Rita,
I am he in whose skin
The shackles etch
A likeness of the homeland.

kateoplis: This is what bravery looks like.

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:22:24 +0000

kateoplis:

This is what bravery looks like.

marxmaterialized: proudtobegodfree: atheistme: Stalin vs....

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:04:14 +0000

marxmaterialized:

proudtobegodfree:

atheistme:

Stalin vs. Biblical God.

but Stalin loves you.

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mohandasgandhi: “We came, We saw, We destroyed, We forgot” by...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:47:16 +0000

mohandasgandhi:

“We came, We saw, We destroyed, We forgot” by William Blum

An updated summary of the charming record of US foreign policy. Since the end of the Second World War, the United States of America has …

1. Attempted to overthrow more than 50 governments, most of which were democratically-elected.
2. Attempted to suppress a populist or nationalist movement in 20 countries.
3. Grossly interfered in democratic elections in at least 30 countries.
4. Dropped bombs on the people of more than 30 countries.
5. Attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders.

In total: Since 1945, the United States has carried out one or more of the above actions, on one or more occasions, in the following 69 countries (more than one-third of the countries of the world):

Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

Angola

Australia

Bolivia

Bosnia

Brazil

British Guiana (now Guyana)

Bulgaria

Cambodia

Chad

Chile

China

Colombia

Congo (also as Zaire)

Costa Rica

Cuba

Dominican Republic

East Timor

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

Fiji

France

Germany (plus East Germany)

Ghana

Greece

Grenada

Guatemala

Honduras

India

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Italy

Jamaica

Japan

Kuwait

Laos

Lebanon

Libya

Mongolia

Morocco

Nepal

Nicaragua

North Korea

Pakistan

Palestine

Panama

Peru

Philippines

Portugal

Russia

Seychelles

Slovakia

Somalia

South Africa

Soviet Union

Sudan

Suriname

Syria

Thailand

Uruguay

Venezuela

Vietnam (plus North Vietnam)

Yemen (plus South Yemen)

Yugoslavia

The first democratically elected government the CIA overthrew was actually Iran’s in 1953 through Operation Ajax. Democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadiq and his National Front Party planned on nationalizing the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now known as BP). To protect British interests, the CIA and MI6 overthrew Mossadiq, reinstalled the Shah, and set up a secret police known as SAVAK. Until the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the Shah and SAVAK killed over 20,000 Iranians.

China and Russia Veto Action On Syria

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:25:00 +0000

Western and Arab states have expressed their outrage and disgust at the decsion of China and Russia to veto a U.N resolution that would have backed an Arab plan to insisting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to give up power. Russia stated that the resolution was biased against President Bashar al-Assad and would have meant taking sides in a civil war which is not UN policy. The Russian Government have not ruled out the possibility of military intervention in Syria but only to protect the people of Syria from further bloodshed. The current proposal suggested by the UN is clearly another example of the US using the UN as an excuse to invade countries which will not subject to their will.

According to the Egyptian daily Al-Masry-Al-Youm, the al-Assad family recently attempted to flee the country, but was ambushed en route to the airport by the Free Syrian Army. The wife of the Syrian leader, Asma Assad, attempted to leave with her children when the Free Syrian Army fired a salvo at the convoy. Earlier this month it was reported that MI6, the CIA, and British SAS are in Syria working with the Free Syrian Army and the Syrian National Council to overthrow the al-Assad regime. The Free Syrian Army is widely recognized as a creation of NATO.

By no means is the Syrian President a friend of the people, he is a Dictator and therefore anti-proletariat. This however does not give the US sanction to interfere in a countries internal affairs. This war is a war that the Syrian people must resolve themselves any foreign force will simpily heighten the violience and we may see a repeat of the Taliban incident. China and Russia wish to resolve the conflict using diplomacy and all cost want to avoid another NATO bloodbath as seen in the Iraq conflict.

The Red Flag Sung By Pól Mac Adaim

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:26:20 +0000

The Red Flag Sung By Pól Mac Adaim

Donald Trump Backs Mitt Romney

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:05:33 +0000

Mr. Trump an extremely wealthy individual has announced his endorsement for Republican hopeful Mitt Romney. This endorsement reveals not only the outright corruption of the course of democracy that those with accumulated capital play in politics but also the intention of Mr. Trump. Mr Trump wants to restore US competitiveness on the world market no doubt by lowering minimum wage and increasing working hours in order to lower the price of commodities produced. This is an outright declaration of war against the working class and should at the very least be treated with caution. For this alliance is not one for the masses

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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:52:42 +0000

"First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Communist; Then..."

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:48:00 +0000

“First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Communist;
Then they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Socialist;
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Trade Unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for the Catholics, and I did not speak out- because I was a Protastant;
Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.”

- Martin Niemoller