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ethecofem

English - Politics, Economics, Feminism
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ethecofem · 1w ago

Clearing Up Some Misconceptions About Occupy

On Friday, May 11, Occupy Minneapolis joined a march and day of action coordinated by Minnesotans for a Fair Economy, and other organizations fighting social and economic injustice.  The rally and subsequent march highlighted struggles of homeowners facing foreclosure, as well as Wells Fargo’s recen
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ethecofem · 2W ago

Police-Fishing with Donuts

I laughed… and laughed, and laughed… A lot of the reaction to this was pretty negative.  ”Why taunt the police?  You’re just asking for confrontation!” “The police are not our enemy!” Okay, all of that is true, but it’s still funny as hell.  And you know, regardless of all that, the NYPD have been a
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ethecofem · 3W ago

Large But Not Quite in Charge: 5/19

Okay I know you’re used to seeing mostly political stuff here but I’m to play “Exception” on this one.     Large But Not Quite In Charge: 5/19 Are you a man or boy that has had or is currently having body image issues? Are you a man that has had such issues since long [...]
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ethecofem · 4W ago

Racial Justice in North Carolina

From the LA Times:  In a landmark ruling, a North Carolina judge on Friday vacated the death penalty of a black man convicted of murder, saying prosecutors across the state had engaged in deliberate and systematic racial discrimination when striking black potential jurors in death penalty cases. On
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ethecofem · 1M ago

Sympathy: Ur Doing It Rong

  I want to prove my sympathy, attraction, and feminism to you by blatantly insulting all thin women in order to make larger women feel better.  This means I totally feel your pain and think that society is stupid.  Doesn’t that make you happy?  Why are you mad?  I don’t get it.  Crazy bitches, nice
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ethecofem · 1M ago

Unleashing Rage on the Undeserved

You know how, when you call your bank to see why you have an overdraft fee and ask if you can get it reversed, and they tell you no, and you try and convince them to change their minds, until the call center rep finally admits that they have no control over any of that, [...]
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ethecofem · 1M ago

Did Michele Bachmann make a racist remark?

From Politico: “This is just about waving a tar baby in the air and saying that something else is a problem. I have never seen a more irresponsible president who is infantile in the way that he continually blames everybody else for his failure to first diagnose the problem, and second, to address th
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ethecofem · 1M ago

Minneapolis City Council President Attempts Vote on Anti-Occupy Ordinance; Occupy Minneapolis Helps It Fail

Late Thursday evening, members of Occupy Minneapolis found out that Minneapolis City Council president Barb Johnson intended to add an agenda item to the following day’s meeting.  Council member Cam Gordon, the city’s lone Green party member (the other 12 being DFL), alerted us via his blog of the f
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ethecofem · 1M ago

Did you recently move? Are you registered to vote in your new location?

A few weeks ago I moved to a different place in North Carolina. Same state but different county, district, and city. That means I have to change my voter registration in order to be able to vote in the various elections that are coming up this year. I’m saying something now because because a lot [..
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ethecofem · 1M ago

An Occupier’s Thoughts On Leadership and Authority

We’ve all heard it a million times since mid-September: “Occupy is a leaderless movement.”  But what does that mean, really?  According to our friend Wikipedia, a “leaderless movement” means: Leaderless resistance, or phantom cell structure, is a political resistance strategy in which small, indepen
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