Occupy Long Island

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ellydwerewolf: selchieproductions: In today’s good news - the Brazilian Supreme Court has - after months of fierce legal battles - ruled that the Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãe community have the right to live undisturbed on their ancestral lands and that any and all ranchers, garimpeiros and other incomers have to leave the area or face prison sentences. brazil, you on a roll.

ellydwerewolf:

selchieproductions:

In today’s good news - the Brazilian Supreme Court has - after months of fierce legal battles - ruled that the Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãe community have the right to live undisturbed on their ancestral lands and that any and all ranchers, garimpeiros and other incomers have to leave the area or face prison sentences.

brazil, you on a roll.

(via ancientbruises)

thedailywhat: Street Art of the Day: A new Banksy has surfaced on the wall of a Poundland shop in London, and it depicts a child of Asian origin hard at work sewing Union Jack bunting. (Embiggen) Chances are, the location of the work is significant: In 2010, Poundland launched an investigation after it was discovered that a 7-year-old boy was working 100 hours a week in an Indian sweatshop, producing items for the store. A spokeswoman said at the time: “Poundland does not tolerate child labor under any circumstances and will not work with companies that employ children.” [highsnobriety]

thedailywhat:

Street Art of the Day: A new Banksy has surfaced on the wall of a Poundland shop in London, and it depicts a child of Asian origin hard at work sewing Union Jack bunting. (Embiggen)

Chances are, the location of the work is significant: In 2010, Poundland launched an investigation after it was discovered that a 7-year-old boy was working 100 hours a week in an Indian sweatshop, producing items for the store. A spokeswoman said at the time: “Poundland does not tolerate child labor under any circumstances and will not work with companies that employ children.”

[highsnobriety]

(via stfuconservatives)

nparts: With Heroes, Willie Nelson is still a rebel rebel“We had a couple of pots over there at the Bulldog and then at The Grey Area and then hit two or three good spots after that,” Nelson says, adding, “you probably wouldn’t remember it,” when asked what a night on the town is like in Amsterdam with him and Snoop Dogg. However, Nelson takes his advocacy seriously and is not only the president of the 26-year-old Farm Aid, which has raised US$39-million to help the American family farmer, but is outspoken on everything from the war in Afghanistan to ending the marijuana laws that have imprisoned about 20 million Americans since 1965.“Most people who know anything at all know that marijuana is a good medicine for stress and a nice recreational drug for responsible adults and it should not be criminalized,” he says. “If we legalize it and bring our folks home from around the world fighting wars over oil, we’d all be a lot better off.” (Illustration by Kagan McLeod/National Post)

nparts:

With Heroes, Willie Nelson is still a rebel rebel
“We had a couple of pots over there at the Bulldog and then at The Grey Area and then hit two or three good spots after that,” Nelson says, adding, “you probably wouldn’t remember it,” when asked what a night on the town is like in Amsterdam with him and Snoop Dogg. However, Nelson takes his advocacy seriously and is not only the president of the 26-year-old Farm Aid, which has raised US$39-million to help the American family farmer, but is outspoken on everything from the war in Afghanistan to ending the marijuana laws that have imprisoned about 20 million Americans since 1965.

“Most people who know anything at all know that marijuana is a good medicine for stress and a nice recreational drug for responsible adults and it should not be criminalized,” he says. “If we legalize it and bring our folks home from around the world fighting wars over oil, we’d all be a lot better off.” (Illustration by Kagan McLeod/National Post)

(via nationalpost)

Do You Hear the People Sing?: 10 Worst Things Arizona's Racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio Has Done

C’mon- really? 
And every one is supposed to look at that and not be offended? 
And the nice nurse has to go and clean up the mess?

And this already [possibly hurt] person has to get ANOTHER degradation from an authority figure? Good job, that’s not going piss people off.   

political-linguaphile:

  1. Forcing Women To Sleep In Their Own Menstrual Blood: In Arpaio’s jails, “female Latino LEP prisoners have been denied basic sanitary items. In some instances, female Latino LEP prisoners have been forced to remain with sheets or pants soiled from menstruation…

(Source: alternet.org, via plotting-a-revolution)