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thanks - mike adams
thicker than water, NYC
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Francis Alÿs
The Nightwatch
Surveillance cameras observe a fox exploring the Tudor and Georgian rooms of the National...
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Subvert - Landon Sheely
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Primitive man would have been a week fashioning a rude resemblance to the article with his clumsy tools, where the modern worker has occupied an hour. The finished article is of far more real value than the rude one made long ago, and yet the primitive man toiled the longest and hardest. Who can determine with exact justice what is each one’s due? There must come a time when we will cease trying. The earth is so bountiful, so generous; man’s brain is so active, his hands so restless, that wealth will spring like magic, ready for the use of the world’s inhabitants. We will become as much ashamed to quarrel over its possession as we are now to squabble over the food spread before us on a loaded table.
The grandest works of the past were never performed for the sake of money. Who can measure the worth of a Shakespeare, an Angelo or Beethoven in dollars and cents? Agassiz said, “he had no time to make money,” there were higher and better objects in life than that. And so will it be when humanity is once relieved from the pressing fear of starvation, want, and slavery, it will be concerned, less and less, about the ownership of vast accumulations of wealth. Such possessions would be but an annoyance and trouble. When two or three or four hours a day of easy, of healthful labor will produce all the comforts and luxuries one can use, and the opportunity to labor is never denied, people will become indifferent as to who owns the wealth they do not need. Wealth will be below par, and it will be found that men and women will not accept it for pay, or be bribed by it to do what they would not willingly and naturally do without it. Some higher incentive must, and will, supersede the greed for gold. The involuntary aspiration born in man to make the most of one’s self, to be loved and appreciated by one’s fellow-beings, to “make the world better for having lived in it,” will urge him on the nobler deeds than ever the sordid and selfish incentive of material gain has done.
I know folks in this country like to say things like, “war is not murder,” and, “not all killing is murder,” while defending horrendous acts like capital punishment and war, but what is happening tonight with Troy Davis is very simply murder, no matter how hard you try to bend it. This act is not in my name. I ask that the police and government stop “protecting,” and “serving” me. I want nothing to do with you, I know I have made that clear before, but I will continue to do so to bring attention to your crimes. Government is theft, violence, and murder. Not in my name.
Don’t even ask.
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When they hit the brakes, we’ll keep truckin’ on
with the boys and the girls who are singin’ this song
and when their boys and their girls start singing along
maybe someone will see where it was they went wrong.
And when we hit the streets with our flags in the air
our voices will be heard and our vision will be shared
all those who are blind, their eyes will open up
and those who are deaf, will ask us to shut up
but we won’t, ‘cause we got too much to say.
And when you finally can’t stand to see the broken lives
asking you for help and checkin’ if you’ll spare a dime,
will you call a cop or stop and think about what’s right,
‘cause right isn’t a law, no right is trying to save a life
and we will ‘cause we got too much anyway,
and we will ‘cause we got too much anyway,
and we will ‘cause we got too much anyway.
The question is not whether the right or left is correct about “illegal” aliens or immigration.
The idea of a human being in any way being “illegal” or illegally walking to another plot of land for whatever reason is the problem.
Immigration is not a problem, human beings are not a problem, they may be a problem to your profits for some reason or another, but I don’t care about your profits when a human is suffering for any reason.
As long as there is suffering in the world, your profits are nothing.
The problem is not in “illegal” aliens or immigration. The problem is in you thinking your economics or politics somehow match up in any way to the value of a human life.
people > politics
people > economics
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If you’re not producing please don’t complain,
‘cause fighting for justice is not the same
as going to war in somebody’s name.
If we’re simply preparing to storm the gates,
we are the same as the system we hate,
and I’m still alone ‘cause I can’t relate.
Don’t give them a reason, give them no place,
‘cause they do not fear what they can lock away.
They fear a life in which they have no say.
If we keep throwing bricks we will never have time to build.
If we keep causing wounds we will never have time to heal.
The fire in our hearts will not spill into streets.
A productive resistance that they can not beat.
Our voice will be louder when spoken in peace.
We must build a home in which we can grow.
We must live a life so that people will know.
We must be a light that in darkness will show.
If we keep throwing bricks we will never have time to build.
If we keep causing wounds we will never have time to heal.
If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold, who suffer want and persecution rather than desert principle, who can bravely walk to the scaffold for the good they can do humanity, what may we expect from men when freed from the grinding necessity of selling the better part of themselves for bread?
Lucy Parsons
you can get this awesome shirt from black powder press
I thought about this earlier today and wanted to throw together a mock-up. An ultra “offensive” shirt that says only nice things. I giggled at the design and it’s simplicity, even though it is fully sincere.
Maybe I will actually screen some sometime if people dig ‘em.
