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unnni: Golden Gai in Shinjuku by Takeshi Garcia on Flickr.

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:39:31 +0100

Golden Gai in Shinjuku by Takeshi Garcia on Flickr.

"Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment,..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:07:54 +0100

“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages”

- Angela Davis (via socialjusticewarriorgirl)

"One of the greatest threats we face is, simply put, bullshit. We are drowning it. We are drowning in..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:07:22 +0100

“One of the greatest threats we face is, simply put, bullshit. We are drowning it. We are drowning in partisan rhetoric that is just true enough not to be a lie; in industry-sponsored research; in social media’s imitation of human connection; in legalese and corporate double-speak. It infects every facet of public life, corrupting our discourse, wrecking our trust in major institutions, lowering our standards for the truth, making it harder to achieve anything.”

- Jon Lovett’s commencement address to Pitzer College. (via theatlantic)

"Two of the families have fled domestic violence in circumstances where they were financially reliant..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 07:50:41 +0100

“Two of the families have fled domestic violence in circumstances where they were financially reliant upon their abusive partners, and they now face a stark choice between descending further into poverty and risking losing their homes, or returning to their abusers in order to escape the imposition of the cap.”

- The Guardian, 23 May, talking about a court challenge to the £500 a week cap on benefits