adoseofrevolution:

CBC NEWS REPORTED : Lebanese protesters in Tripoli carry mock dead bodies during a demonstration against last week’s massacre of more than 100 villagers in Syria. (Hussein Malla/Associated Press)

lifeisliterallylimited:

A non-government school teacher shouts slogans during a protest in Dhaka May 15, 2012. Bangladeshi police on Tuesday used water cannon and batons to disperse hundreds of non-government school teachers who were taking part in the protest while detaining at least fifteen. The protesters were demanding for the nationalization of their jobs and a pay rise in line with government primary school teachers, according to the Non-Government Primary Teachers’ Association. 
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paxmachina:

Original Youtube

Protesters throw fire bombs at police in Athens 12.feb.2012 

A total of 100,000 Greeks took to the streets to demonstrate against the government’s planned sparepakke Sunday. Several buildings were burned in the capital Athens.

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afternoonsnoozebutton:

I’ll be blacking out my blog tomorrow in protest of SOPA/PIPA legislation. To learn more about what I’m protesting or the internet blackout, keep reading:

“What is SOPA?

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA, H.R. 3261) is on the surface a bill that attempts to curb online piracy. Sadly, the proposed way it goes about doing this would devastate the online economy and the overall freedom of the web. It would particularly affect sites with heavy user generated content. Sites like Youtube, Reddit, Twitter, and others may cease to exist in their current form if this bill is passed.

What is PIPA?

The Protect IP Act (PIPA, S. 968) is SOPA’s twin in the Senate. Under current DMCA law, if a user uploads a copyrighted movie to sites like Youtube, the site isn’t held accountable so long as they provide a way to report user infringement. The user who uploaded the movie is held accountable for their actions, not the site. PIPA would change that - it would place the blame on the site itself, and would also provide a way for copyright holders to seize the site’s domain in extreme circumstances.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation laid out four excellent points as to why the bills are not only dangerous, but are also not effective for what they are trying to accomplish:

• The blacklist bills are expensive. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that PIPA alone would cost the taxpayers at least $47 million over 5 years, and could cost the private sector many times more. Those costs would be carried mostly by the tech industry, hampering growth and innovation.
• The blacklist bills silence legitimate speech. Rightsholders, ISPs, or the government could shut down sites with accusations of infringement, and without real due process.
• The blacklist bills are bad for the architecture of the Internet. But don’t take our word for it: see the open letters that dozens of the Internet’s concerned creators have submitted to Congress about the impact the bills would have on the security of the web.
• The blacklist bills won’t stop online piracy. The tools these bills would grant rightsholders are like chainsaws in an operating room: they do a lot of damage, and they aren’t very effective in the first place. The filtering methods might dissuade casual users, but they would be trivial for dedicated and technically savvy users to circumvent.”

(from sopablackout.org/Yes, readers, you’ll still be able to access the site/content. You’ll just have to click through the blackout screen first.)

It’s midnight here in St. Louis. I’m going dark. See you guys on Thursday. 

Phamista.com will be on blackout tomorrow, as well, in protest of SOPA/PIPA. 

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Day of shame in the Middle East: Female protesters beaten with metal poles as vicious soldiers drag girls through streets ›

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zombieslutfromhell:

sirmitchell:

Ok seriously, what the fucking hell. Watch the first 30 or so seconds and tell me you are ok with this.

From UC Davis earlier today. 

ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS.

I AM FUCKING DONE WITH THIS GODDAMN SHIT. FUCK EVERYTHING. 

I can’t.

I AM LIVID RIGHT NOW.

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#OccupyOakland Camp Destroyed, Protesters Attacked By Police With Rubber Bullets, Flash Grenades, and Smoke Bombs ›

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