PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR

ikaythegod: “Prisons are big business in the United States, and...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:06:06 -0600

“Prisons are big business in the United States, and the building, running, and supplying of prisons has become the fastest growing industry in the country. Factories are being moved into the prisons and prisoners are being forced to work for slave wages. This super-exploitation of human beings has meant the institutionalization of a new form of slavery. Those who cannot find work on the streets are forced to work in prison.

Not only are the prisons used as instruments of economic exploitation, they also serve as instruments of political repression. There are more than 100 political prisoners in the United States. They are African Americans, Puerto Ricans, Chicanos, Native Americans, Asians, and progressive white people who oppose the policies of the United States government. Many of those targeted by theCOINTELPRO program have been in prison since the early 1970s.
Although the situation in the prisons is an indication of human rights violations inside the United States, there are other, more deadly indicators.

There are currently 3,365 people now on death row, and more than 50 percent of those awaiting death are people of color. Black people make up only 13 percent of the population, but we make up 41.01 percent of persons who have received the death penalty. The number of state assassinations has increased drastically. In 1997 alone, 71 people were executed.

A special rapporteur appointed by the United Nations organization found serious human rights violations in the United States, especially those related to the death penalty. According to his findings, people who were mentally ill were sentenced to death, people with severe mental and learning disabilities, as well as minors under 18. Serious racial bias was found on the part of judges and prosecutors. Specifically mentioned in the report was the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the only political prisoner on death row, who was sentenced to death because of his political beliefs and because of his work as a journalist, exposing police brutality in the city of Philadelphia.”

— Assata Shakur

Head of Fort Campbell Harassment Program Arrested - ABC News

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:02:25 -0600

Head of Fort Campbell Harassment Program Arrested - ABC News: Army officials say the manager of the...

Andy Kaufman on HBO (1977)

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:33:03 -0600

Andy Kaufman on HBO (1977)

"Sometimes the Left scolds them… ‘You’re going too far; we won’t support you any more.’ The natives..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:11:25 -0600

“Sometimes the Left scolds them… ‘You’re going too far; we won’t support you any more.’ The...

Michiel Hendryckx

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:49:20 -0600

Michiel Hendryckx

Ng Han Guan / AP A North Korean traffic coordinator stands...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:27:51 -0600

Ng Han Guan / AP

A North Korean traffic coordinator stands on a roadside near portraits of late leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il during a foggy morning on Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, on Dec. 17.

Shannon Stapleton / Reuters

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:05:46 -0600

Shannon Stapleton / Reuters

Charles Eisenstein's book Sacred Economics

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:01:53 -0600

is one of the best books I have ever read.

1913 Massacre | Woody Guthrie

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:44:15 -0600

1913 Massacre | Woody Guthrie

fernandopessoa-is-not-for-you: In today’s life, the world...

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:22:15 -0600

fernandopessoa-is-not-for-you:

In today’s life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.

The Book of Disquiet

deadsymmetry: Eric White

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:38:42 -0600

deadsymmetry:

Eric White

isluma: The sons of Clovis II, 1880, Evariste Luminais

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:16:50 -0600

isluma:

The sons of Clovis II, 1880, Evariste Luminais

Mohammad Sajjad / AP A wounded man receives treatment at a...

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:55:05 -0600

Mohammad Sajjad / AP

A wounded man receives treatment at a local hospital after being injured in a bomb blast in the Pakistani tribal area of Khyber on Dec. 17.

"Whether or not this has been formulated in written policy, it seems clear that the way the Obama..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:35:17 -0600

“Whether or not this has been formulated in written policy, it seems clear that the way the...

Le Fils du Roi

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:33:12 -0600

Le Fils du Roi

Kevin Frayer / AP Protesters shield themselves as Indian...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:33:01 -0600

Kevin Frayer / AP

Protesters shield themselves as Indian police beat them with sticks during a violent demonstration near the India Gate against a gang rape and brutal beating of a 23-year-old student on a bus last week, in New Delhi, India, Dec. 23.

mohandasgandhi: mochente: Bill Maher is taken apart by Glenn...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:16:20 -0600

mohandasgandhi:

mochente:

Bill Maher is taken apart by Glenn Greenwald for trying to absolve the US from any responsibility for the mass slaughter and destruction in Muslim countries, blaming it on Islamic fundamentalism, as if the Afghanistan and Iraq wars never happened, as if the US wasn’t pushing for more war in Iran, as if it isn’t intervening in Somalia and Yemen.

Wow, what a great week. Bill Maher is being humiliated left and right. Maybe there is some justice in the world…

Eyes in the Sky | Immortal Technique Ft. Mojo of Dujeous

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:13:00 -0600

Eyes in the Sky | Immortal Technique Ft. Mojo of Dujeous

"It may be that DMT makes us able to perceive what the physicist call “dark matter” - the..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:12:53 -0600

“It may be that DMT makes us able to perceive what the physicist call “dark...

Photo

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:09:44 -0600