September 2011
4 posts
kalel asked: What do you think of getting rid of the filibuster in the Senate or even just changing the number of senators required to break a filibuster?
Small world: that GW College Republican who got... →
Haha.
UCLA Student Fights with Libyian Rebels →
If I had a badass of the moth award, it would go to Chris Jeon:
“And the next thing [Jeon’s roommate] knew, he was looking at a picture of Jeon surrounded by Libyan rebels, with an AK-47 in hand and garbed in a very familiar blue Lakers jersey.”
“’It is the end of my summer vacation, so I thought it would be cool to join the rebels,’ Jeon told The National. He...
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WatchJon Stewart on “not defending DOMA” as opposed to “still enforcing DOMA.” :I
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
18 posts
UPDATE: Citgo Petroleum Corp. interested in...
fightprejudice:
FIGHTprejudice Executive Director Shawn Meerkamper received a call this morning from CITGO Petroleum Corporation’s Public Relations division. The CITGO representative was eager to work with FIGHTprejudice to identify specific CITGO locations that sell the Confederate flag so that CITGO Corporate can contact those stores directly. As FIGHTprejudice continues to work on this...
Open letter to CITGO CEO Alejandro Granado RE...
fightprejudice:
FROM: Shawn Meerkamper, Founder, Executive Director, FIGHTprejudice, Inc.
TO: Alejandro Granado, Chairman, President, and CEO, CITGO Petroleum Corporation
CC: CITGO Board of Directors; Gustavo Velásquez, Vice President for Supply and Marketing; Daniel Cortez, Vice President for Government and Public Affairs
DATE: Monday, July 25, 2011
RE: Open letter concerning Chevron’s...
Open Letter to Michael DelGiorno of Supertalk 99-7...
fightprejudice:
Mr. DelGiorno:
I am writing you from the East Nashville offices of a newly formed nonprofit community organization, FIGHTprejudice, Inc. I personally listen to 99.7 every time I’m in the car, and I hear your show often. Today I was extremely interested by your “Obama voice.” The thing is, it doesn’t sound anything like him. If you recall, earlier in his term the President was...
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WatchSteven Colbert had formed a “Super PAC,” it seems, in order to ridicule and expose the terrible Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FCC.
This conversation is ripe with classism, as the SCOTUS decision makes it even harder for the voices of the poor to be heard in US politics, that is, the politics of a democracy.
<3[FIGHT(!)classism]
Herman Cain: Tear down this mosque! - Salon →
Dear Mr. Cain,
Step one: look up “freedom of religion” in a book.
Step two: speak intelligently about freedom of religion!
Sincerely,
<3[FIGHT(!)prejudice]
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“For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and...”
– Facebook, in a an attempt to dispel what they call a “false rumor that Facebook owns anything you post.” So, this makes things less creepy, but not by a whole lot. Facebook does not own your digital stuff, but they can use it for anything they want, “subject to your privacy and application...
leah: hahaha, I just remembered you burning the rebel flag last night and something about you dipping it in liquid at a gas station because you thought it was gas but it was water and so then it just wouldn't burn did that all happen? or was that a drunk dream?
me: hahahahahahahah! no, all that happened! I ended up buying two vodka shots, shooting 1.5 of them, then using the rest to douse the flag and burn it fo realz. Then I threw it in the street, and cars ran over it till it didn't exist any more.
leah: hahahaha! AWESOME
I. My dream for a future career in law is to be an attorney, activist, teacher, and detective all in one.
A. As a lawyer I will represent marginalized groups (and members of those groups) in impact litigation with the goal of creating case law that is proactively anti-prejudice and that diffuses power in our society.
Oral argument was one of the defining moments of my first year of law school,...
“I’m not arguing, I’m discussing firmly. :)”
– Friend of a friend.
FIGHT(!)Pre-Judice: Protest for Mercedes Gonzales,... →
fightprejudice:
Demonstration organized together by TIRRC, the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition.
The Tennessean: Crowd protests Mexican teen’s potential deportation: Protesters fight for Mexican teen caught speeding.
Nashville Public Radio: TIRRC Challenges Teenager’s Deportation and…
Watchfightprejudice:
Nashville City Councilperson calls fellow councilpeople bigots after they defeated his resolution to recognize high school students who protested TN’s “Don’t say gay” bill.
““I can’t help thinking since we just celebrated the Fourth of July and we’re...”
– “Bill Clinton likens GOP effort to Jim Crow laws,” Darren Samuelsohn, Politico.
Wahhhh!
notracistbut:
I’m sure your inability to get a scholarship has everything to do with race and nothing to do with how you can’t be arsed to learn the difference between their and they’re.
Location: USA (Oops, one with the old watermark got in here. Whatever.)
notracistbut is my new favorite tumblr.
June 2011
50 posts
WatchNashville’s Fox 17.
troglodyte: unacquainted with worldly affairs:... →
jay-bee-aych:
“Everyone: We know you mean well, but stop giving these idiots your money. Stop putting that equal sticker on your car. Stop going to their lame galas. And for the love of Judy Garland’s Ghost and Robert Mapplethorpe’s Zombie Bones, stop saying ‘It Gets Better’ and hoping for a miracle from up on from up on high. We don’t expect you to riot (although we swear you’ll love it once...
WatchDownload a copy of the lawsuit (i.e. complaint filed in the Middle District of Tennessee) here!
ACLU-TN press release: ACLU of Tennessee Files Lawsuit Against City of Brentwood for Freedom of Press Violations - The Contributor restricted from selling newspaper
WatchThe Contributor: ACLU Defends The Contributor and First Amendment
AP: Homeless newspaper sues city over right to sell
The Tennessean: Homeless paper sues Brentwood
News Channel 5: ‘Contributor’ Files Federal Lawsuit Against Brentwood
Nashville Public Radio: ACLU and The Contributor Sue City of Brentwood
The Nashville Scene: The Contributor Files Civil Rights Lawsuit Against...
HEY, GEORGIA, YOU'RE REALLY FUCKING DUMB: "Georgia... →
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal’s program to replace fleeing migrant farmworkers with probationers backfired when some of the convicted criminals started walking off their jobs because field work was too strenuous, it was reported Wednesday.
And the state’s farms could lose up to $1 billion if crops continue to go unpicked and rot, the president of the Georgia Agribusiness Council warned.
In...
I want to eat my breakfast with a Giraffe! :D
Saw this documentary once. So cool.
giraffalex:
I also wish this was me.. :)
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Politicalprof: Alabama, the Police State, and... →
rbmm:
I’ve never been a fan of Alabama. What I don’t get is how this is in any way considered legitimate legislation in this country. I get increasingly convinced that some people really want a police state to protect ‘their’ way of life. Be careful what you wish for.
politicalprof:
So Alabama, a state I lived in for two years (and found generally quite pleasant, at least in Huntsville),...
“God could not be reached for comment by press time, because, a spokesman says,...”
– God Caught Backing Multiple GOP Candidates for President
(via chrischoi)
HILAR.
