San Francisco Doll

"We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does..."

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:52:36 -0400

““We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I’m going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.””

- Stephen Fry (via bookshavepores)

darthnickels: Doug Grant, 65 from San Francisco, CA, says,...

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:52:17 -0400

darthnickels:

Doug Grant, 65 from San Francisco, CA, says, “Having worked for years for Exxon, I know how enticing it is to want to develop the Alberta Tar Sands, but it’s just wrong; wrong for the folks who live near the surface mines and toxic ponds, wrong for the landowners who are coerced under duress into contracts or taken to court to have their homes stolen from them, and just wrong for the climate.”

More protests against racist subway ads after activist arrested

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:50:30 -0400

More protests against racist subway ads after activist arrested:

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Newly posted subway station ads that have incited city-wide anger over what many are calling a “racist” message, continue to stir controversy as a protest is called for tomorrow’s MTA meeting.

Writer and political activist Mona Eltahawy, an Egyptian-born U.S. citizen, was arrested yesterday in the Times Square station after attempting to spray-paint over one of 10 ads that refer to jihad as “savage.”

Armed with a video camera, Pamela Hall, a Manhattan woman, put herself between Eltahawy and the ad in an attempt to prevent her from defacing it. Undeterred, Eltahawy warned Hall to get out of the way or get sprayed. She then sprayed paint at Hall when she refused to move. After the heated confrontation continued, Eltahawy was handcuffed by two police officers who stayed quiet when she demanded to know why she was under arrest.

Eltahawy was in court this morning on a misdemeanor charge of criminal mischief, according to her Twitter account. Meanwhile, Hall uploaded her video of the confrontation to YouTube.

The International Action Center, an anti-war group, is planning to stage a protest against the ads, which remain in 10 Manhattan subway stations, at tomorrow’s MTA board meeting.

“This week the MTA issued another slap in the face to its riders,” the IAC said in a statement. “As if the new round of fare hikes weren’t enough, it carried racist, anti-Muslim ads in ten NY subway stations.”

thepeoplesrecord: Protesters climb trees to halt XL pipeline...

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:10:26 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

Protesters climb trees to halt XL pipeline construction
September 25, 2012

A group standing on tree platforms and branches attempted on Monday to head off work in northeast Texas for the southern portion of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

Stationed as high as 80 feet above the ground on land near Winnsboro, eight protesters held a banner reading “You Shall Not Pass” as they waited in the path of contractors for TransCanada, which is building the pipeline.

Protesters did not disrupt any work Monday, but they were in the planned route of crews clearing foliage and trees for the pipeline, TransCanada spokesmanDavid Dodson said.

What TransCanada calls the Gulf Coast Project is the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline proposed to carry crude from Canadian oil sands to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

The federal government has not approved the northern leg from Alberta into the United States, which requires a State Department OK because it would cross an international border. In rejecting a permit earlier this year, the government said the plan needed more study.

Dodson said easements similar to ones for water and electric lines allow TransCanada to build on private property.

Ron Seifert, a spokesman for activist group Tar Sands Blockade, said the protesters were in position on the easement.

“Those participating strongly believe that at this point doing nothing is a much greater risk than taking action,” Seifert said. “They believe that stopping this pipeline is a necessary condition for a viable future on planet Earth.”

Monday evening, Tar Sands Blockade reported on its website that the tree-clearing work finished for the day before reaching what the group called its “tree village.”

Demonstrators argue that TransCanada’s pipeline will boost an especially energy-intensive and environmentally damaging form of oil production in Canada, Seifert said. The pipeline also will bring more fossil fuels to the market, increasing greenhouse gas emissions from cars and other users, he said.

“It will unleash the floodgates to the largest carbon bomb in North America,” Seifert said.

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1930’s Teen Delinquents

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:07:52 -0400

1930’s Teen Delinquents

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يا عمال العالم اتحدوا: Former CIA Official: Drone War Kills Innocents, Creates Terrorist Safe Havens

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:21:47 -0400

يا عمال العالم اتحدوا: Former CIA Official: Drone War Kills Innocents, Creates Terrorist Safe Havens:

arielnietzsche:

Making the rounds today is a piece up at the Guardian in which a former top CIA terrorism official admits the obvious: that the drone war if overly broad, kills too many civilians, provokes anti-American hatred, and could inadvertently create terrorist safe havens.

Now Robert Grenier, who…

occupyallstreets: During Bush’s entire presidency, there are...

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:20:45 -0400

occupyallstreets:

During Bush’s entire presidency, there are approximately 45 Drone strikes in Pakistan.

In the first year of Obama’s presidency (2009), there were 53. Since then, Obama has ordered 202 additional air strikes in Pakistan.

On Wednesday, the pentagon chief admitted that we are at war with Pakistan.

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l0nes0me: hahamagartconnect: WORDS IN THE CITY London-based...

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:20:14 -0400

l0nes0me:

hahamagartconnect:

WORDS IN THE CITY

London-based Artist/Rogue urban poet, Robert Montgomery hijacks advertising space to put up these often thought-provoking statements. I love how his bio explains the intent…” they are intended to be encountered by commuters that don’t know they are art, and an attempt to describe in public space what it feels like to live now”.

…very Samo-esque.

Perfection.

mohandasgandhi: guardiancomment: America is almost unique in...

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:17:40 -0400

mohandasgandhi:

guardiancomment:

America is almost unique in the civilised world for forcing pregnant prisoners to undergo childbirth cuffed and shackled

In 2007, a 17-year-old girl called Cora Fletcher was charged with retail theft. Over a year later, after she missed a court date, she was sent to the Cook County jail, in Illinois. She was eight months pregnant at the time.

During a pre-natal check-up at the facility, her baby appeared to have no heartbeat, so she was sent to the county hospital. As the medical team tried to induce her, Fletcher claims that both her hands and both her feet were shackled to either side of the bed. Only when she finally went into labor, three days later, was one hand and one foot released. It’s hard to imagine a more crucifying way to force a woman to try to give birth.

Sadly for Fletcher, there was no payoff for the trauma and humiliation she was forced to endure, as her baby was born dead.

Read the rest here

The “civilized world.”

thesexualintellectual: owsposters: Wait Staff Wages Have Not...

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:39:34 -0400

thesexualintellectual:

owsposters:

Wait Staff Wages Have Not Gone Up In Twenty Years

Download the poster pack

As someone studying Literature/Theatre (and therefore bound for the service industry), this is greatly troubling.

"Has there ever been a point since America’s inception when someone, somewhere, wasn’t plotting our..."

Thu, 31 May 2012 09:19:15 -0400

“Has there ever been a point since America’s inception when someone, somewhere, wasn’t plotting our downfall? I have great difficulty perceiving a time when this won’t be true. And so drone strategy comes to self-replicate. We bomb your village. You declare war on us for the bombing. We deem you a terrorist and bomb again. Rinse. Repeat.”

- Ta-Nehisi Coates, on Obama’s “kill list” and drone attacks. (via theatlantic)

setty-lepida: More than 400 of the permanent sculptures have...

Thu, 31 May 2012 09:11:23 -0400

setty-lepida:

More than 400 of the permanent sculptures have been installed in recent months in the National Marine Park of Cancún, Isla Mujeres, and Punta Nizuc as part of a major artwork called “The Silent Evolution.” The installation is the first endeavor of a new underwater museum called MUSA, or Museo Subacuático de Arte.

read the whole article at http://legazpifabmoda.blogspot.com/2011/03/bodies-fill-underwater-sculpture-park.html

This is fucking beautiful.

“You might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits...

Thu, 31 May 2012 09:10:40 -0400

“You might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physically or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”

- Bruce Lee

"We are no longer a newspaper company."

Thu, 31 May 2012 09:09:33 -0400

“We are no longer a newspaper company.”

- Jim Kirk, Editor-in-chief, Chicago Sun-Times Media Holdings, in a memo to staff. Crains. Sun-Times shuffles newsroom, stresses digital moves.

The ever important pivot that every traditional newspaper publisher is realizing: “We are a technology company that happens to publish a newspaper. We deliver content. And we will deliver content on many platforms and in ways that we haven’t yet fully considered.”

(via futurejournalismproject)

tylercoates: Her songs are still extremely autobiographical,...

Thu, 31 May 2012 09:08:28 -0400

tylercoates:

Her songs are still extremely autobiographical, which is perhaps their charm. Following in the footsteps of other singer-songwriters, especially women who emerged in the early ’90s and expressed their emotions in particularly vulnerable ways, Apple’s openness has always had an empowering appeal. Her songs seem to suggest that feeling a variety of emotions—sadness, glee, despair, insanity—is not only normal, but, like those self-reflective musicians before her, she also gives permission to her listeners to feel the same way.

Even for Apple, her older songs are relics of another time, and she now makes them applicable to her life in the present. “They all kind of become poems after a while,” she says. “You can take your own meaning out of them. It’s been a very long time [since my first albums], and I can apply those songs to other situations that are more current in my life.” She admits she has changed greatly since she started writing songs in her late teenage years, especially when it comes to how she portrays herself. “I don’t feel comfortable singing the songs that I wrote. I used to blame other people and not take responsibility. I thought I was a total victim trying to look strong.”

And she is much harder on herself in the songs on The Idler Wheel than she ever was before. Sure, she admitted to being “careless with a delicate man” in “Criminal,” arguably her most famous song, and in When the Pawn’s“Mistake” she sang, “Do I wanna do right, of course but / Do I really wanna feel I’m forced to / Answer you, hell no.” On The Idler Wheel, Apple examines her own solitude and neuroses as well as their effect on her relationships with others. “I can love the same man, in the same bed, in the same city,” she sings on “Left Alone,” “But not in the same room, it’s a pity.” On “Jonathan,” a somber love song layered with robotic, mechanical sounds that’s presumably about her ex-boyfriend, author and Bored to Death creator Jonathan Ames, she urges, “Don’t make me explain / Just tolerate my little fist / Tugging at your forest-chest / I don’t want to talk about anything.”

Read more of my profile of Fiona Apple right here! I’m really proud of this one.

visual-poetry: “conceptual poetry is poetry pregnant with...

Thu, 31 May 2012 09:08:01 -0400

visual-poetry:

“conceptual poetry is poetry pregnant with thought” by charles bernstein

source: http://poetrycenter.arizona.edu/conceptualpoetry/cp_media/misc/bernstein.ppt

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"This, perhaps, is what is so unsettling about today’s China: the suspicion that its authoritarian..."

Thu, 31 May 2012 08:19:02 -0400

“This, perhaps, is what is so unsettling about today’s China: the suspicion that its authoritarian capitalism is not merely a reminder of our past - a repetition of the process of capitalist accumulation which took place in Europe between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries - but a sign of the future? What if “the vicious combination of the Asian knout and the European stock market” proves to be economically more efficient than liberal capitalism? What if this signals that democracy as we understand it, is no longer the condition and motor of economic development, but its obstacle?”

- Slavoj Žižek, Living in the end times

(via antisocial-socialist)

San Francisco Doll

"We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does..."

darthnickels: Doug Grant, 65 from San Francisco, CA, says,...

More protests against racist subway ads after activist arrested

thepeoplesrecord: Protesters climb trees to halt XL pipeline...

1930’s Teen Delinquents

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يا عمال العالم اتحدوا: Former CIA Official: Drone War Kills Innocents, Creates Terrorist Safe Havens

occupyallstreets: During Bush’s entire presidency, there are...

l0nes0me: hahamagartconnect: WORDS IN THE CITY London-based...

mohandasgandhi: guardiancomment: America is almost unique in...

thesexualintellectual: owsposters: Wait Staff Wages Have Not...

"Has there ever been a point since America’s inception when someone, somewhere, wasn’t plotting our..."

setty-lepida: More than 400 of the permanent sculptures have...

“You might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits...

"We are no longer a newspaper company."

tylercoates: Her songs are still extremely autobiographical,...

visual-poetry: “conceptual poetry is poetry pregnant with...

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"This, perhaps, is what is so unsettling about today’s China: the suspicion that its authoritarian..."

Slavoj Žižek, Living in the end times