Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker:
“Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today—perhaps the fundamental fact, as slavery was the fundamental fact of 1850. In truth, there are more black men in the grip of the criminal-justice system—in prison, on probation, or on parole—than were in slavery then. Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America—more than six million—than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height. That city of the confined and the controlled, Lockuptown, is now the second largest in the United States.”
The Caging of America
Golshifteh Farahani (b. 1983) is an Iranian actress, pianist, and model. She has appeared in numerous highly-acclaimed films, including Rasool Mollagholipoor’s M for Mother, which was Iran’s nominee for the 2008 Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Language Film category.
In January 2012, she was banned from returning to Iran after visiting France to pose nude for Madame Le Figaro magazine.
Stop SOPA & PIPA.
One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963). “Letter From A Birmingham Jail.”
The National Defense Authorization Act was signed into law by President Obama on December 31, 2011.
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Time Magazine’s 2011 Person of the Year is The Protester. Cover art by Shepard Fairey.
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Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing In The Name” as performed by the George Mason University Green Machine (by tomcblock).
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Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen (May 2009)
Aldous Huxley (Author: “Brave New World”) vs. George Orwell (Author: Nineteen Eighty-Four)
posted this before, but this is laid out really nice for tumblr.
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Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq
From Mother Jones: Mushroom clouds, duct tape, Judy Miller, and Curveball in a reminiscence of how Americans were sold a bogus case for invasion.
"Marked." Photographs by Claire Felicie.
Stark, haunting, revealing portrait triptychs of U.S. Marines before, during, and after fighting in Afghanistan.
Image reblogged from Golden-notebook.
Wisdom from Steven Biko. Image reblogged from Kris+Zen+Sufi.
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An entire generation of young people have been swindled by fake for-profit colleges to take on insupportable debt from predatory for-profit banks to pursue low-quality education resulting in questionable degrees for non-existent jobs. It was inevitable that this generation would be the one to decide to shake off its chains and seek just vengeance against these evildoers.
Image reblogged from Kris+Zen+Sufi via Owsposters.
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