Sunday, June 16, 2013

Hey Radicals: Veganism is Much More Than an “Option”



Racism
Sexism
Homophobia
Trans-phobia
Able-ism
Ageism
Anti-Semitism
Patriarchy
Speciesism
The list goes on…

All of the above are heinous and insidiously intertwined manifestations of a dominant culture constructed on the foundation of privilege and hierarchy…but only one of them is directly responsible for the murder of 53 billion land animals per year.

Only one of them is directly and indirectly responsible for deforestation, topsoil depletion, overfishing, water pollution, corporate control of the food chain, and so much more.

Only one of them consumes and destroys one-third of the planet’s land surface.

Only one of them is the number one source of human-created greenhouse gases.

This most prevalent and dangerous of all privileges is, of course, speciesism.

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Zuccotti Park: June 15, 2013

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Friday, June 14, 2013

Keep Calm and Trust the Police? (Lessons from the Santa Monica Shootings)

"What we accept, we teach."

While scanning corporate media reportage (sic) of the early June shooting spree in Santa Monica, California, I was struck by some of the comments attributed to witnesses. For example, as one person who crossed paths with the shooter told the LA Times: “I thought he was police. He looked like he was wearing SWAT gear but with nothing written on it.”

A second witness added: “I saw a guy wearing all black, holding a big gun. He looked very calm. I stared at him. I’m thinking maybe he’s [in the] police force.”

CNN told of another woman who said she saw “a dark-haired man in black combat boots who she initially thought was a police officer, but quickly realized was the shooter.”

Both of the above cited stories came accompanied by photos of law enforcement officers looking “calm” and holding “big guns.”

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We stand with Snowden

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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Daniel Ellsberg Blazed the Path for Manning & Snowden

“The Pentagon Papers are mesmerizing, not as documentation of the history of the U.S. war in Indochina, but as insight into the minds of the men who planned and executed it.”
- Arundhati Roy

June 13, 2013 marks 42 years since the New York Times published an article by Neil Sheehan called, “Vietnam Archive: Pentagon Study Traces 3 Decades of Growing U.S. Involvement.”

It was the first installment of a 7000-page document that came to be known as the “Pentagon Papers.” How important was the public airing of a secret government study of decision-making about the Vietnam War? None other than Henry Kissinger labeled the man who leaked that study—Daniel Ellsberg—“the most dangerous man in America.”

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Unity at Zuccotti Park: June 8, 2013

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