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jessij (40)in #news • 7 years ago
Stop deportations! Stop tearing families apart!
Stop criminalizing workers and tearing families apart. Stop the deportations. Stop detaining children. Stop the inhumane profiteering of privately owned immigrant detention…
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jessij (40)in #philosophy • 7 years ago
Dangerous Ideas: MLK a year before his death
Years after formal de-segregation, Dr. King had come to argue that civil rights were not enough, and in many ways the situation for Black Americans had actually gotten worse.…
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jessij (40)in #news • 7 years ago
Did you miss this New York Times article in the late 90s?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was not killed by James Earl Ray, a Memphis Jury found in 1998... but the history books haven't changed, have they? From the New York Times: "After…
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jessij (40)in #history • 7 years ago
How the Irish became White: Part One
The images below remind us that Irish immigrants were racialized in the U.S. in the 1800s. They were dehumanized and depicted as apelike, as the blog Sociological Images points…
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jessij (40)in #history • 7 years ago
Slavery's role in building the American economy
"... in 1860, 80% of the nation's Gross National Product was tied to slavery." -from Carol Anderson's White Rage
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jessij (40)in #philosophy • 7 years ago
Jokes about Capitalism: What do you want to be when you grow up?
I love jokes-- as a way of showing how ridiculous something like capitalism really is. Capitalism is a historically specific type of political/ social/ economic system…
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fatkat (71)in #freedom • 7 years ago
Drug War Stories: Raison D'Etre of RTT: Realizing Tommorrow TODAY!!!!!!
I'm mad as hell, I will continue to take it but like Rod Parsley's ramblings I will be SILENT NO MORE on the wicked empire of Babylon and how the satanist statists that want to…
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jessij (40)in #philosophy • 7 years ago
Capitalism vs. Socialism Debate
A provocative discussion we do not have often enough. Here is the video (1 hour and 20 minutes long) on C-Span: Capitalism is a system driven by profit. Is that…
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jessij (40)in #politics • 7 years ago
The "Privacy" of Gendered Violence
We live in a modern state obsessed with law and order and marked by unprecedented levels of mass incarceration. Yet some crimes are ignored or dismissed-- or at least enjoy a…
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johnvibes (75)in #inspiration • 7 years ago
Inmates Raise $100,000 to Purchase Educational Computers
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Inmates in Allegheny County Jail raised over $100,000, which will be used to buy dozens of tablet computers that can be used in the prison. The…
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jessij (40)in #science • 7 years ago
Images of Gender in Media Advertising
Until the 1970s, it was lawful for a man to force sex on his wife even if she did not want it. Activists in the 1970s demanded the recognition of forced sex within marriage as…
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jessij (40)in #sociology • 7 years ago
Sociology and the modern obsession with the "individual"
photo: sfsafehouse.org It is sometimes difficult for people to think outside of the lens of individualism. The notion of the "individual" may appear as common sense to…
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