I’m growing increasingly hopeless. 

Watching the performance from Les Miserables last night, it really ground into me that the rich always have and always will find ways to not only make more money that the “have nots” but they also design the system of government, taxation, banking, housing, food supply, etc, etc to keep people apathetic and hopeless. 

I want to fight. I yearn for something I can hold onto that will help keep my faith in humanity alive.This hop  elessness is permeating my life. The only thing I know to do is to keep people informed via social media. I read and read and find ways to summarize in 140 characters or less. Or, I make sure there is a good photo to visually represent the issue. I provide ways to make the situation better. 

I have to accept that the majority of people dont want that. If they are content in their own lives, why would they lift a finger to help anyone else? The jobless and homeless should go get a job themselves… Why ask for “hand outs” or demand “entitlements”?? WHY?? Because people need help and its not that fucking easy.

Government says middle class is someone earing $250, 000 PER YEAR??? Holy WHAT?? What does that make me, at $35, 000?? Some people make $12k!!! What the hell is going on and WHY IS NO ONE DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT??

The super rich are too powerful? Take away that power. They have too much influence? Why is anyone listening? For personal gain? Im really, really tired of the fact that we just accept the idea that our politicians are corrupt and take money from lobbyists in order to sway their votes / decisions. WHY IS THAT ACCEPTABLE?  

I wish there was just an area some of us could go to in order to grow our own food… Raise a family / community farm without any government involvement. OR, here’s a novel idea… a government that actually wants to help its people. What. An. Idea. 

jviolini:

JP Russell (artist/painter), West Hollywood - California, January 2013

You can see some of JP’s work here: http://jprswim.tumblr.com

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blackfoxx:

sonofbaldwin:

Don’t you dare tell me that the children don’t know from the beginning that they fabulous.

OMG CUTEST SHIT EVER!!!!!

blackgirldangerous:

November 20, 2012

by Mia McKenzie

On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, I am taking a lot of time to think about my trans sisters and brothers who have lost their lives in the struggle to be seen, to be valued, to be free. As a cis woman who was born into a body I feel at home in, I do not…

onresistance:

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. - CAMUS

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The first twenty minutes we’ll be introducing the ORRC and why we resist, followed by a twenty minute ‘stacked’…

Voter suppression tactics are stupid. Keep the playing field level and shut the hell up. Are you THAT insecure about you candidate that you need to cheat in order to win? How about you place a candidate that actually cares about people? Someone that has some interest in helping this nation, not just a talking head. 

The only thing that keeps me from completely attacking Romney is seeing that he chose Ryan against the wishes of his party. Despite vocal opposition from some of his major financiers, he kept his campaign manager at a time they wanted to oust him. That loyalty means something to me. 

It also means something that the GOP feels it a legitimate course of action to silence a particular group of people. This is dirty politics and it makes me ashamed to be part of this political process. The Dept of Justice is allowing it?? Even worse. 

THIS From Salon.com July 27, 2012

Florida’s disgraced former GOP chairman, Jim Greer, says the party had meetings about “keeping blacks from voting”

In the deposition, released to the press yesterday, Greer mentioned a December 2009 meeting with party officials. “I was upset because the political consultants and staff were talking about voter suppression and keeping blacks from voting,” he said, according to the Tampa Bay Times. He also said party officials discussed how “minority outreach programs were not fit for the Republican Party,” according to the AP.

I hope the ACLU tracks how many votes will be recorded as “provisional” when people show up to vote without the required forms of ID, as in Virginia: 

Daily Press.com TODAY

The law expands the forms of acceptable ID used at the polls in Virginia to include a drivers license, employer issued photo ID, voter registration card, social security card, student ID from one of the state’s four-year universities, a paycheck or government-issued check, or a utility bill.

Failure to bring an acceptable ID on Election Day means a voter will have to cast a provisional ballot and will then have until noon on the Friday following an election to present valid ID to the local electoral board to get the vote counted. Voters do not need to go to the local election office to submit their ID but can submit it via fax, email or regular mail.

What is happening to this country. (Intentionally used a period instead of a question mark… Its more of a statement than a rhetorical question. 

AWESOME.  

uhavenothin2losebuturchains:

kaiamar:

My new bumper sticker.

This is an awesome bumper sticker. Wish I had one.

This entire situation confuses me. Why is this info coming out 3 years after his death? How will it affect what he has done for in the organizing community? Will those that revered him feel slighted? Does this mean the FBI was behind arming the Black Panthers? If so, does this mean the government was inciting violence through an organizer? Was Aoki playing both sides? Or, was he keeping the govt close in order to (mis)inform them when appropriate?  When will the FBI release his info? Should they?

“Farrell spoke of how the sisters have historically been committed to serving the poor and marginalized as well as to pushing boundaries within the church. That sometimes led to suppression by the hierarchy, she said, but also to sainthood for many nuns, and to far reaching changes that have benefited Catholics as a whole.”

Awesome. I want to buy a Lenovo computer now…