Free Thinkers Revolt

A group of free thinking individuals who are awake and committed to stirring as many minds as possible.

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On June 30th, Cuba became the first country to earn WHO (World Health Organization) seal for ending mother-baby HIV transmission! #FreeThinkersRevolt #MadIssues #Cuba #WHO #WorldHealthOrganization #Health #HIV #Mother #Baby

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California now has more Latinos than whites for the first time since it was part of Mexico! The latest figures from the Census Bureau show that there're approximately 70,000 more Latinos than whites in California, with 14.92 million whites and 14.99 million Latinos in total. #FreeThinkersRevolt #MadIssues #California #Latino #Mexico #CensusBureau #Population

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The Ku Klux Klan has reserved SC statehouse grounds on July 18 for a Confederate flag rally, one month after Dylann Roof shot to death nine African-Americans during bible study in Charleston's historic church, Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. #FreeThinkersRevolt #MadIssues #KKK #Ku Klux Klan #South Carolina #Confederate #Confederate Flag #Dylann Roof #Rally #Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church #Racism Racist

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Supreme Court Rejects Attempt to Make Voter Registration Harder the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 to uphold the right of states to set up independent, non-partisan committees to draw the district maps that determine seats in Congress. http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/06/29/3675076/two-major-voting-rights-victories-supreme-courts-last #FreeThinkersRevolt #MadIssues #Voter Registration #Vote #Voting Rights #Supreme Court

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The law, "bed mandate", requires the U.S. to keep at least 34,000 immigrants imprisoned every day. http://mic.com/articles/121633/here-s-the-real-immigration-problem-that-donald-trump-isn-t-talking-about?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social #FreeThinkersRevolt #MadIssues #Immigration #Immigrants #Laws #Prison #Imprison

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First Line of Dolls With Disabilities: Makies, a toy company, just launched the world's first line of dolls with disabilities thanks to a Facebook campaign using the hashtag #ToyLikeMe created by parents who wanted the toy industry to acknowledge their children as well. #FreeThinkersRevolt #MadIssues #Disability #Children #Dolls #Toys

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#Repost @el_tigrenegro with @repostapp. ・・・ It is a lie that American women have been able to vote since 1920. White women have been able to vote since 1920. All Native American women couldn’t vote until 1924. All Asian women couldn’t vote until 1952. All Black women couldn’t vote until 1964. In five years there is probably going to be some big centennial celebration of women’s suffrage. But that will be a whitewashing of history. It will be an event that erases the struggles of non-white women. It will be an event that will try to hide the fact that white feminists heros like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton actively argued against the rights of people of color in order to advance their own goals. Susan B. Anthony, 1820-1906, in response to being asked to join forces with blacks,“Mr. Douglass talks about the wrongs of the Negro; but with all the outrages that he today suffers, he would not exchange his sex and take the place of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.” Speaking of Mrs. Stanton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815-1902, also had a response for the question of joining women's suffrage to the Civil Rights movement, “What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?" ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃ #feminism #negritude #panafricanism #Blackunity ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃

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#FreeThinkersRevolt #MadIssues #CharlestonShooting

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#Repost @donotbelievethelies. Wake up! #FreeThinkersRevolt #MadIssues #WakeUp

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The #NYDailyNews apology: "On Monday, our coverage of the #NationalPuertoRicanDayParade — an event that the #DailyNews has proudly co-sponsored for 25 years — included a photo, shot from behind, of two topless women dressed in G-string bikinis, carrying a #PuertoRican flag. Due to #misleading information provided to our editors by a wire photo service, we described these women as paradegoers. They were not. They were, in fact, “performers” trying to make a buck from tourists in #TimesSquare. As a result, we negatively mischaracterized what the Puerto Rican #community represents. Its nearly 1 million members have been, and will continue to be, one of the cornerstones of #NewYork and an irreplaceable thread in its unique fabric. With the help of honest feedback of our #readers, we recognize that publishing the photo was a misstep. Each day, we take seriously the task of presenting the #bold, #honest and sometimes risqué personality of this city as we cover the stories that affect people’s lives. We like to believe that most of the time we get it right. This time we did not." #FreeThinkersRevolt #MadIssues

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Researchers who analyzed #meteorite fragments in search of micro-bacterial data found the presence of #Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) which is found in a variety of #plants, but most famously in the #cannabis plant. ​#​Astrophysicist (specialized in ​#​astrobiology) ​#​JamesHun, head of the research team said: ​"​The discovery of ​#​THC on meteorite fragments will have huge impact on the ​#​science of astrobiology. If chemical substances, that change ​#​brain functions and result in alterations in perception, mood, or consciousness in humans, find their origin in outer space, what role then has cometary impacts played on the ​#​human ​#​species? Or on ​#​life on the ​#​planet as whole? This ​#​discovery ultimately leaves us with more ​#​questions than answers​. ​It gives a whole new meaning to the term getting ​"​high” he told local reporters, with a pinch of humor." Tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV) were also found in a meteorite fragment in 2009 by a ​#​research team from the University of Mexico but the findings were ​#​dismissed at the time because of the “​#​controversial nature of the discovery”. Currently #scientists and researchers are further #analyzing the sample and so they could shed some more light on this latest finding.​ #FreeThinkersRevolt #MadIssues

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From 2005 to March of this year, approximately 4,392 #children have been held in #Canadian #immigration #detention #centers. However, this number could be two or three times higher because the #government does not keep count of children who are not #detained officially, including Canadian #citizens, who are seen as "#accompanying" their parents. Canadian #border #officials can detain asylum seekers and permanent residents if their identity is in question, when they are suspected of not showing up to their next #hearing, or if they are deemed a #safety #threat. According to its website, the CBSA detains children under 18 "only as a last report" and their best #interests will be "carefully considered." #CBSA has said it does not comment on third-party studies. Most detained migrants, including all families with children, are held in one of Canada's three designated immigration holding centers, located in #Toronto (195 beds), #Laval (150 beds), and #Vancouver (24 beds for a maximum of 72 hours). Detained #migrants without children may be held in #provincial #jails across the #country. #freethinkersrevolt #immigration #canada #detentioncenters #vicenews

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Twenty-two #people were #killed or #found #dead last weekend in Nuevo Leon, #Mexico, raising #concerns over another #uptick of #violence in the wealthy northern state and posing an early challenge to its independent governor-elect, Jaime "#ElBronco" Rodriguez. On the other side of the country, in the #troubled #southern state of #Guerrero, 21 people were killed or found in clandestine #graves between Friday and Monday, centered mostly around the coastal resort city of #Acapulco. The violent weekend in Nuevo Leon began on June 19, when gunmen stormed a beer depot in the suburb of Garcia, near the state capital of Monterrey, leaving 10 people dead. State prosecutor Javier Flores Saldivar called the shooting a #dispute between #organized #crime groups for drug-selling territory, since the depot is thought to be a distribution center for former members of the #Zeta #drugcartel. Weapons and 15 pounds of marijuana were found inside. But the #victims' #relatives #disagreed with the prosecutor's version, and told local news outlets the #victims were #mostly #customers and #employees of the depot. Twelve other people were killed or found dead in and around Monterrey during the weekend. #freethinkersrevolt #corruption #vicenews

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#Boats from #Norway and #Denmark have #rescued 992 #migrants #off the #coast of #Libya in the last 24 hours. On Monday, the #Norwegian #Siem #Pilot #vessel took aboard #671 #strandedpeople from two #wooden #boats in the Mediterranean Sea, floating just #north of #Libyan capital #Tripoli. Later the same day the ship took a further 99 #moremigrants previously #aided by a #Russian #tanker. Captain Svein Kvalavaag told the Norwegian website maritime.no that of the 770 migrants 45 are children and 140 are women, three of whom were pregnant. The #rescued #migrants were taken to the Italian island of #Sicily. Then a Danish ship, a commercial vessel belonging to the Torm company, responded to a call from Italian coast guards on Monday after more boats carrying migrants were spotted in distress off the Libyan coast. Company spokesman Jesper Jensen said that this ship, Torm Arawa, picked up 222 people and #provided them with #food and #water before being taken to a port in the southern Italian region of Calabria. Unlike the commercial, Singapore-flagged Danish vessel, the Norwegian ship recently joined the fleet of the European Union's border protection and coordination force Frontex. #freethinkersrevolt #immigrationaroundtheworld #vicenews

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@therealswizzz has organized a #free concert in #Haiti this weekend, bringing #LilWayne and #ChrisBrown. Shout out to those who have learned, know and appreciate the #history of #MightyHaiti! ✊🏽 #FreeThinkersRevolt #MadIssues

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#Repost @beginningkisses with @repostapp. ・・・ #fashionillustration #paymewhatyouoweme

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#Repost @vrawriguez with @repostapp. ・・・ #StL #message #blacklivesmatter