February 2012
The Lorax: Blowing Smogulous Smoke →
Fans of The Lorax have raised concerns that the new big-screen version is neglecting the environmental message of the beloved Dr. Seuss book. The movie doesn’t come out until March 2, but the initial trailer and promotional materials ignited a round of complaints on the web.
Now people are having a (rather justified) heart attack about the fact that The Lorax is now being used to...
“Do not discount the author and the artist, for they are the catalysts of...”
– Karl Marx (via storkankles)
Beyond Environment: Falling Back in Love with... →
ourascension:
Change is possible only if there is a recognition that people and planet are ultimately one and the same.
“You carry Mother Earth within you,” says Thay. “She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.
“In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer. In that kind of...
“See the really hardcore people will tell you life begins at fertilization....”
– George Carlin (via solitaryforager)
“I’m not a Democrat, I’m not a Republican, and I don’t even consider myself an...”
– Malcolm X, May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965 (via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
“Unlike the Earth, we’re intelligent, and we can actually manage things.”
– Rick Santorum, during a campaign stop in Ohio, criticizing liberals and environmentalists that he believes are putting “Earth above man.”
Santorum made similiar comments during a recent campaign stop in Colorado, in early February, where the candidate was quoted as saying, “we were put on this...
“Lower tuition fees helped cities bag a spot in the top ten, as Paris, Vienna,...”
– Berlin named a top world city for students (via sociolab)
“I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority,...”
– Noam Chomsky (via 0versite)
thinkmexican:
Understanding the Root Causes of...
This Is The Right One: A Brief Defense for the Way... →
pieceinthepuzzlehumanity:
“But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is… To tell the truth.”
- Howard Zinn
You are not free.
Specifically, you are not free in the context of our political existence.
To begin to understand that we are not free in the arena of our political existence, we must first come…
“For anarchists who do know something about anthropology, the arguments are all...”
– David Graeber (via slamdanceonyourgrave)
I actually consider David Graeber one of the foremost contemporary anarchist theorists, which is weird because he is primarily and unapologetically an anthropologist. This quotation is from “Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology” (pdf), which is short and...
Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan 'near... →
stay-human:
16th February, 2012
Medical report warns Israeli court Khader Adnan is in immediate danger after 61 days of protest at his ‘administrative detention’
A Palestinian prisoner on his 61st day of hunger strike while shackled to a bed in an Israeli hospital is in immediate danger of death, according to a medical report submitted to the supreme court in an effort to secure his...
Willie Nelson and 300,000 Other Activists Sue... →
occupyonline:
Little did Willie Nelson know when he recorded “Crazy” years ago just how crazy it would become for our cherished family farmers in America. Nelson, President of Farm Aid, has recently called for the national Occupy movement to declare an “Occupy the Food System” action.
Nelson states, “Corporate control of our food system has led to the loss of millions of family farmers,...
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“In our dreams, people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding...”
– John D. Rockefeller, General Education Board (1906)
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“The secret of American schooling is that it doesn’t teach the way children...”
– John Taylor Gatto in a speech to the Vermont Homeschooling Conference
“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
– Einstein (via meiaro)
“Corporations are totalitarian institutions. Board of directors at the top of...”
– Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
Tumblr users launch petition to have fellow... →
leftist-linguaphile:
occupyallstreets:
mohandasgandhi:
producermatthew:
Tumblr users are asking 1,000 bloggers to sign an online petition that calls for a controversial publisher to be removed as an editor of an enhanced tag on the site.
The petition targets user “Ryking,” with the claim that the blogger has defended “rapists, calling women who disagree with him ‘feminazis,’ using...
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via nefffy)
I’ve gotta start doing creative stuff more. I should make myself deadlines, or something. I will. I think.
(via thismakesmeanxious)
-I encourage any and all people to make a form of art. From painting to music, through literature or sculpting. Any artistic creation,...
“Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience...”
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R. Buckminster Fuller, American engineer, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, futurist and second president of Mensa International (1895-1983)
