84-year-old Occupy Seattle participant Dorli Rainey, pictured above after being pepper sprayed by Seattle Police on November 15th.
She later wrote about the incident:
“Something funny happened on my way to a transportation meeting in Northgate. As I got off the bus at 3rd and Pine I heard helicopters above. Knowing that the problems of New York would certainly precipitate action by Occupy Seattle, I thought I better check it out. Especially since only yesterday the City Government made a grandiose gesture to protect free speech. Well free speech does have its limits as I found out as the cops shoved their bicycles into the crowd and simultaneously pepper sprayed the so captured protesters. If it had not been for my Hero (Iraq Vet Caleb) I would have been down on the ground and trampled. This is what democracy looks like. It certainly left an impression on the people who rode the No. 1 bus home with me. In the women’s movement there were signs which said: “Screw us and we multiply.’”
What a heroic woman, and a severely disappointing action by the Seattle Police.
ACAB. ACAB. All Fucking Cops Are Fucking Bastards - eat them.
do not hurt old people - that is To FUCKING FAR capitalism.
Brian Nguyen, photographer for UC Davis’s student newspaper The Aggie, captured the events of yesterday’s protests from beginning to end, and was kind enough to submit them for publication here at The Political Notebook. Above are a selection of photos capturing the police in riot gear, arresting and pepper spraying the student protesters. What an intense group of shots.
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A Câmara dos Deputados decidirá hoje o futuro de milhões de hectares de florestas. Se aprovadas, as propostas de alteração do Código Florestal irão gerar uma cadeia irreversível de devastação ambiental no Brasil. As próximas 12 horas são críticas, vamos gerar uma mobilização massiva para salvar nossas florestas.
O nobre desempregado José Serra (PSDB) em seríssimas dificuldades ao vestir uma popular capa de chuva. Reparem: todos riem e no fundo torcem para que ele não consiga sair ileso.
This is a diagram of star fusion cells-basically the layers of a star and what elements are formed there through nuclear fusion. To cut a long story short, every single one of the elements were originally formed in a star. All the atoms in the world started in a star. We are litterally made of stars! Think about that next time you look at the night sky, those twinkly things aren’t just balls of burning gas billions of miles away, they are much, much more than that.
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A Peoples History of American Empire by Howard Zinn
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This is a series of maps charting the shrinkage of Native American lands over time, from 1784 to the present day. Made because I was having trouble visualizing the sheer scale of the land loss, and reading numbers like “blah blah million acres” wasn’t really doing it for me. The gif is based on a collection of maps by Sam B. Hilliard of Louisiana State University. You can see the original map here.
For those who do prefer dealing in numbers, here are some:
By 1881, Indian landholdings in the United States had plummeted to 156 million acres. By 1934, only about 50 million acres remained (an area the size of Idaho and Washington) as a result of the General Allotment Act* of 1887. During World War II, the government took 500,000 more acres for military use. Over one hundred tribes, bands, and Rancherias relinquished their lands under various acts of Congress during the termination era of the 1950s.
By 1955, the indigenous land base had shrunk to just 2.3 percent of its original size.
—In the Courts of the Conqueror by Walter Echo-Hawk
* The General Allotment Act is also known as the Dawes Act.
The largest genocide in the history of humankind.
Interesting because I’m actually studying American history now.
