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4 Legal Ways To Get Free Textbooks.

1. Open Culture: Not a large a selection, but high quality texts. If you just want to skim a book to brush up on a course you took in ninth grade, download one of these. I have yet to be disappointed.

2. Book Boon: Provides free college-level textbooks in a PDF format. Probably the widest range of subjects on the web. The site is also pretty.

3. Flat World Knowledge: The worlds largest publisher of free and open college textbooks. Humanitie texts are particularly difficult to come by, this site has a great selection in all disciplines.

4. Textbook Revolution: Some of the books are PDF files, others are viewable online as e-books, or some are simply web sites containing course or multimedia content.

5. Library Pirate: I’ve always had an addiction to torrent based pirating. When this site opened a few months ago, I went a little overboard. After dropping two hundred on a paperback spanish textbook, I downloaded the ebook version illegally. I also got a great Psyc text i’m obsessed with. It will be interesting to see how this site grows- they already have a great selection.

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College bookstores completely rip off their students, so ALWAYS reblog free textbooks!

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This woman in a now-famous photo in the photo-essay by Christer Stromholm about trans women living in 1950s Paris has a name.

She is Jacque Sarduy.

Sarduy starting transitioning as soon as she could get her hands on hormones after she heard about Christine Jorgansen when she was 16. When she was called up for the French army for the Algerian uprising, she went in and flirted with the officers, getting a life-exemption from conscription.

She did sex-work and “female impersonation” shows around Paris throughout the 1950s. She endured a term in a male prison where she had to hide from assassins during a prison riot.

When she got out she went full-time again and got jobs at cabarets around Europe, jet-setting with the rich and famous.

She acted in underground films and played at Le Carrousel for 15 years until it closed in 1985, upon which she started a flea-market stall.

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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.

Adyashanti (via hollygonowhere)

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Damn..

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“Wow…” He said, posting it to social media.

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In order to increase Tunisian fishermen’s capacity to carry out rescues at sea, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has carried out a six-day training course with 116 local fishermen in the town of Zarzis. MSF is also training the Tunisian and Libyan Red Crescents, the Tunisian Civil Protection Service, and the Tunisian National Guard in the management of dead bodies and how to receive people who are rescued and brought to shore.

Risking their livelihoods, local fishermen volunteer to be trained in all aspects of rescue operations. Their reasoning? The people fleeing dangerous countries and face distress on the Mediterranean “are human beings and we have an obligation to help them.”

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To be an anarchist, in a place and time that is like any part of the world in the twentieth century, is to deny legitimacy of almost every feature of that world: its nation states, its religions, its pretense of representational government, its organization of production and consumption, its patriarchal customs, its warped ideals etc. .… there is almost no end to the things one is “against,” to the point that one continually risks slipping into an entirely negative and reactive self-definition (anti-capitalist, anti sexist…). When an “entire society,” i.e., almost everything around you, seemingly to the smallest detail, reflects assumptions contrary to your most deeply held convictions about what the world is and can be — namely, the assumption that hierarchy, domination, violence and injustice are the natural, necessary and permanent characters of existence — than merely to persevere in imagining and acting on the assumption of the possibility of another kind of world is, in itself, a monumental and continual effort of resistance.

Jesse Cohn | Underground Passages: Anarchist Resistance Culture, 1848–2011 (via liminal-loss)

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"We don't need any tear gas, we're already crying"

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ॐ free your mind ॐ

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Behind the horror stories about the treatment of migrants trying to reach Europe is the imperialist system of exploitation of their countries of origin, the policies exacerbating this exploitation and the imperialist wars that made their home countries unlivable for them and their children.

Recently, these horror stories in the corporate media have focused on how migrant human beings are suffering during their journey through the Balkan peninsula. Most of these recent migrants are from Syria, Iraq and other countries of Southwest and Central Asia. The intention of most of these suffering people is not to stay in the Balkan countries that are themselves impoverished colonies of either Western Europe or the United States. The migrants want asylum in Germany or Britain where jobs are still available.

Some who reached Germany wound up besieged by Nazis on the Aug. 20-21 weekend in the small city of Heidenau in Saxony in the East. “Nazis” is not just name calling. The so-called National Democratic Party of Germany, which organized the anti-immigrant riot and attempted pogrom, is the actual continuation of the Nazi Party. During that weekend the NDP mobilized its storm troopers, who nearly burned down the migrants’ temporary housing.

As some working-class organizations in Germany have pointed out, the so-called democratic politicians in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government and party, as well as many Social Democratic Party politicians, have made the Nazis’ work easier. They’ve done this with their own vicious anti-migrant statements — similar to what politicians here say regarding migrants from Mexico and Central America. Think Donald Trump, who is only the worst of a reactionary pack in the United States.

Now some of these government leaders in Germany are condemning the Nazi violence. But they created the atmosphere that allowed the Nazis to mobilize.

The corporate media’s coverage omits the back story. Why? Because this story exposes the role of imperialism and the major imperialist countries.

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Senja, Norway

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I was riding the NYC subway on Saturday. Pretty loud, it was a commuter train. We made a stop at 168th street.

Two police officers got on the train.

The entire atmosphere changed. Suddenly, everyone’s quiet. I notice that a Black guy sitting across from me, shifted seats away from the officers and deliberately turned his head away from them. His hands were shaking. Most of the people in the car nervously darted eyes at each other. A Hispanic woman widened her eyes at me when she saw that one of the police officers had his hand on his gun. We all held our breath.

Finally they got off at 59th street.

This is the reality of the relationship between NYC police and ethnic minorities. They see all of us as immediately suspicious. We don’t see them as enforcers of anything but fear.

You know what said the most? The only people who weren’t nervous were a white mother and child, who were happily singing and playing while the rest of us squirmed in discomfort.

The disparity in the experiences of New Yorkers riding the subway based on skin color and facial features amazes me.

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cartoonpolitics

“Consumerism is the religion of the 21st-century, shopping malls are its cathedrals, and ad-men are its priests. It’s the shiny, happy face of capitalism.” .. (more here)

(cartoon by Clay Butler)