Why Alex Jones Hasnt Been Killed (by DANIGGAWITDATATTOOS)
Edward Snowden: From contractor to leaker
Plenty is now known about the National Security Agency programs that Snowden helped exposed last week in a series of leaks to the Guardian and Washington Post, and now his past is slowly being unearthed.
Snowden started life in Elizabeth City, a river port along North Carolina’s coast. His family soon moved to a gray clapboard home in Ellicott City, a Baltimore suburb near the NSA’s vast headquarters at Ft. Meade. He told the Guardian that he struggled in high school and eventually dropped out. A neighbor, Joyce Kinsey, recalled him as a quiet boy who often was on his computer.
Meanwhile, Snowden’s current location is unknown after he checked out of a ritzy Hong Kong hotel earlier this week, and his former employer Booz Allen Hamilton formally fired him today.
Read more on his past here.
Photos: Guardian / EPA, Mario Tama / Getty Images,
They don’t just complain. They have an entire industry built on discrimination during immigration and deportations.
I recommend the book Manifest Destinies by Laura Gomez.
Jews & Muslims ‘dialoguing’ has nothing to do with Palestine. The problem is settler colonialism, apartheid & occupation, not religion.
—Remi Kanazi (via gazingthroughthefog)
YES.
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10 Nefarious Conspiracies Proven True - Listverse
Conspiracy theorists believe in a lot of crackpot ideas and deserve their reputation as an amusing distraction, but once in awhile, they get one right, and
Racist War On Weed - New ACLU Report (by TheYoungTurks)
Is the FBI trying to ,'X' out Malcolm X's bloodline?
The untimely death of Malcolm Shabazz on May 9, 2013 comes as a haunting shock to many, however the young revolutionary and grandson to Malcolm X and Betty Shab
Now, I don’t know who the fuck Andy Dicker is, and I’ve never heard of The Blue Street Journal, but this little post there have here reminds me a lot of something I said about a week ago.
http://dionthesocialist.tumblr.com/post/51400396002/you-love-a-teacher-when-theyre-hiding-your
Plagiarism.
Complete and total plagiarism.
They don’t just complain. They have an entire industry built on discrimination during immigration and deportations.
I recommend the book Manifest Destinies by Laura Gomez.
[A] person convicted of a crime today might lose his right to vote as well as the right to serve on a jury. He might become ineligible for health and welfare benefits, food stamps, public housing, student loans, and certain types of employment. These restrictions exact a terrible toll. Given that most offenders already come from backgrounds of tremendous disadvantage, we heap additional disabilities upon existing disadvantage. By barring the felon from public housing, we make it more likely that he will become homeless and lose custody of his children. Once he is homeless, he is less likely to find a job. Without a job he is, in turn, less likely to find housing on the private market—his only remaining option. Without student loans, he cannot go back to school to try to create a better life for himself and his family. Like a black person living under the Old Jim Crow, a convicted criminal today becomes a member of a stigmatized caste, condemned to a lifetime of second-class citizenship.
—James Forman, Jr., Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow, 87 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 21, 28–31 (2012). (via letterstomycountry)
I’m disliking this whole ‘like a Black person living under Old Jim Crow’ line as if Black people today aren’t still suffering in a type of caste system.
I’m not denying the fact that convicted felons are suffering under this system.
But when a white person with a felony can get a callback at a higher rate than a Black person with a squeaky clean record, and when law abiding Black people are systematically harassed and assaulted and killed by police with little to no recompense, that is indicative of a second class citizenship, IMO.
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New Jim Crow refers more to the new kinds of caste/segregation systems that are used since the desegregation of schools and voting rights act. Jim Crow never ended its just now in a ‘new’ form or stage
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