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flanneryogonner

Found from various places online:

The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Angela Y. Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis - Race, Women, and Class

The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (link updated 1/14)

newyorker

Where’s Better Birth Control?

Current research in contraception is potentially revolutionary. Why the delay in development? Madeleine Schwartz explains:

Even when new research appears promising, fear of litigation costs may cause pharmaceutical companies not to pursue it. Lawsuits are particularly common with birth control in part because, unlike other medication users, women who take contraception do not necessarily have a health problem.

Photograph by Philippe Huguen / AFP / Getty Images

beatnicbeatnic

historicaltimes

Babies are strapped into airplane seats enroute to LAX during “Operation Babylift” with airlifted orphans from Vietnam to the US. April 12, 1975.

themoonisfree

This looks dangerous as fuck 😒

intheindigo

ikr? I was thinking how they would not have been secure if the plane crashed only to find out that one of the planes in the operation did crash.

saturnineaqua

what?!

freedominwickedness

Most of the babies taken to the United States by “Operation Babylift” were not orphans in the first place; they were children from refugee camps who were fraudulently designated as orphans by American relief workers — most of them with religious affiliations — who believed they’d be “better off” being raised by white Americans.

Operation Reunite is an amazing nonprofit run by Babylift victims which seeks to use DNA testing to find and reconnect with their real families back home in Vietnam.

fatbodypolitics

So basically look at this photo of kidnapped babies.

shaolinshadowboxing

This is absolutely insane, why have I never heard of Operation Babylift?

jakovu

We all know why.

timelord-and-fishcustard

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feywildwest

The fact that we all know what this means really says something about our social lives

teamfreesexuality

you should all go to your blogs and hover over them

captainkappa

You should

theartofgooglebooks

The haloes of removed leaves.

Throughout Travels Into the Inland Parts of Africa: Containing a Description of the Several Nations for the Space of Six Hundred Miles Up the River Gambia (1738). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized May 4, 2010.

thisisprsnl

Survivors of sexual assault have enough things to contend with - preventing an unintended pregnancy shouldn’t have to be one of them. Thanks to Senator Patty Murray who recently introduced a bill to make sure that emergency room staff provide education to survivors about emergency contraception and make it available to them.

advice-animal

I Can Do This All Day!

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frumpyboyjuicebar-deactivated20

TUESDAY 8/19: Ferguson PD presented a table full of fabricated evidence at this morning’s press conference - allegedly seized from protestors and stopped cars. The Colt 45 Molotov with a white bandana was the crowning glory, turns out you can’t even buy glass 40’s in Missouri. Stay classy, FPD

thisiswhiteprivilege

I seriously think white supremacist are coming in the area to frame the protesters, but it could just be the cops

stair-diving-with-hayes-deactiv

Ladies and Gentleman, the man that will be in history books. He was throwing the burning tear gas. Not to the cops but away from the children protesting. In his American Shirt and bag of chips. Check his twitter.