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inthemovie: Quote From The Italian Job (inspiraday)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 23:17:40 -0400

Quote From The Italian Job (inspiraday)

"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day."

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 23:16:37 -0400

“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald (via thesearchforsanctuary)

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Thu, 20 Sep 2012 23:15:11 -0400

queernonymoose: thepeoplesrecord: Lakota activists...

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 09:04:13 -0400

queernonymoose:

thepeoplesrecord:

Lakota activists pepper-sprayed in protest against predatory liquor stores
August 27, 2012

Women of the Oglala Lakota nation along with activists from Deep Green Resistance, AIM Grassroots, Native Youth Movement, Un-Occupy Albuquerque, Occupy Lincoln, and Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center took part in a march from Billy Mills Hall in Pine Ridge into White Clay to protest against the predatory liquor industry present there.

White Clay has a population of 14, yet 4 liquor stores in the town sell 12,500 cans of beer each day. The stores have been documented repeatedly selling to bootleggers, intoxicated people, minors, and trading beer for sexual favors.

“For over 100 years the women of the Oglala Lakota nation have been dealing with an attack on the mind body and spirit of their relatives”, says Olowan Martinez who is a main organizer of the event and resident of Pine Ridge. “The Oglala have been silenced through chemical warfare waged by the corporations who are out to exploit and make a profit off of the suffering and misery of our people. The time has come to end this suffering by any means necessary.”

Debra White Plume, a Lakota activist and resident of Pine Ridge who spoke at the event proclaimed, “A sober Indian is a dangerous Indian. We have to send a message to Nebraska and its citizens that we are not going to tolerate business as usual. This is the Women’s Day of Peace but that peace will soon be over”.

After the march and speeches members of Deep Green Resistance locked down and blockaded the road into White Clay.

Less than a half hour after the lockdown began a police officer rolled down their window and indiscriminately pepper sprayed into a crowd. Up to 12 people were pepper sprayed including the 10 year old son of a Lakota woman who helped organize the march. Also, an elder Lakota woman, Helen Red Feather, reported having her leg hit by a police car in motion. Medics with the protest treated pepper spray injuries.

At 7:39, the five activists who participated in the lock down were hauled off in a horse trailer to the Sheridan County jail in Rushville. They have since been released on their own recognizance.

Today, justice is far from complete, since White Clay continues to enable and enact the destruction of the Oglala Lakota and the people of Pine Ridge. The continued subjugation of the Oglala Lakota of the Pine Ridge Reservation will not end as long as the liquor stores in White Clay continue to operate.

Chants of “As long as it takes!” began by those locked down and the people standing with them in the crowd at the beginning of the lockdown. The struggle continues.

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When white college kids get peppersprayed it’d like a bajillion notes and a meme of casual pepperspray officer.

ande9567: meowremix: ermahgerdberks: reblogging again because...

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 09:02:26 -0400

ande9567:

meowremix:

ermahgerdberks:

reblogging again because it needs to be said

why are people even voting for romney

If you can’t afford as much education as you’d like to, just pull a Paul Ryan and pay with your Social Security survivor’s benefits so you can get the degree you need to start dismantling that very same kind of safety net. Y’know, bootstraps and all that bullshit.

alecshao: Bahk Seon Ghi - Panorama: Existence Staircase (2007),...

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 09:01:24 -0400

alecshao:

Bahk Seon Ghi - Panorama: Existence Staircase (2007), charcoal suspended on nylon thread

GM

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:56:48 -0400

Zant Bachyoo

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Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:54:40 -0400

skeetbucket: Beautiful.

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:54:21 -0400

skeetbucket:

Beautiful.

glowpinkstah: ygfamilyy: PSY with Kevin Hart @ 120906 MTV...

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:54:10 -0400

glowpinkstah:

ygfamilyy:

PSY with Kevin Hart @ 120906 MTV VMA!

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Aw I missed this!

ilikejoaquin: WHY I AM VOTING FOR BARACK OBAMA 2012

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:53:56 -0400

ilikejoaquin:

WHY I AM VOTING FOR BARACK OBAMA 2012

himeyuka: lochtness: cosmictuesdays: Everyone needs a tiny...

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:52:12 -0400

himeyuka:

lochtness:

cosmictuesdays:

Everyone needs a tiny superhero fashionista.

NO CAPES

You’re the best Edna.

designerpussymyshitcomeinflavors: ily

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:50:19 -0400

designerpussymyshitcomeinflavors:

ily

anngla: city-folks: andasfortakingitinstride: isla-fisher: Ho...

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:50:04 -0400

anngla:

city-folks:

andasfortakingitinstride:

isla-fisher:

How do you hope to spend your 20th anniversary on Oct. 3?

The President: Well, I don’t think we can get too wild because our 20th anniversary is a month before the election.
Mrs. Obama: Do you want me to dream? Okay. I’d want to retrace our honeymoon. We started in San Francisco and spent a week driving through some of the prettiest-
The President: Napa and Big Sur and Carmel-
Mrs. Obama: We would stop, go to a nice dinner. I really loved that trip.

And reality check: Since California’s not a swing state, what do you think you’re really going to get?

The President: We will get dinner.
Mrs. Obama: That would be heaven. If we’re in the same place. Hear that, schedulers, Oct. 3!

BEST SHIP EVER.

aha my birthday!

can you two just stop being so goddamn adorable

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Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:49:50 -0400

logotv: “I’m a black, gay woman. I think the only way for the...

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:49:40 -0400

logotv:

“I’m a black, gay woman. I think the only way for the GOP to hate me more is if I sent them a video of me rolling around on a pile of welfare checks.” - Wanda Sykes

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Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:49:17 -0400

I grew up in the era where you had to go to channel 3 to play video games

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:48:35 -0400

lostboiwonder: oh i wanna try that lol

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:48:29 -0400

lostboiwonder:

oh i wanna try that lol

lastrealindians: Hau Mitakuyepi Lila iyomakpi PeSla sina...

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:47:07 -0400

lastrealindians:

Hau Mitakuyepi Lila iyomakpi PeSla sina wacipi wastektelo! Blanket dance raised 336$ it’s humbling and we take this role we have as part of the movement very seriously.