nwkarchivist: RFK Assassinated 45 Years Ago- A Shocking...
RFK Assassinated 45 Years Ago- A Shocking Contrast In Covers One Month Apart
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mollycrabapple: Sketch based on photo @paulmasonnews sent me...
Sketch based on photo @paulmasonnews sent me from #OccupyGezi. Will try and do lots more
This week's cover story—Kill Zone—says gun control...
This week's cover story—Kill Zone—says gun control isn't about rights in America's cities. It's about survival.
A preview:
SUMMER IS the killing season in American cities. The temperature rises and, yes, tempers do, too. And many young men who might have been in school are out in the streets taunting, hunting, and shooting at each other. Collateral carnage like the slaughter of Tyquran's mother is inevitable, and for many innocents it's inescapable in neighborhoods where young guys spray bullets. In Los Angeles County, with an estimated 450 gangs that have 45,000 members, about half the murders are gang related. Young men get shot again and again, and those who survive show a calm pride when they're wheeled into the trauma units. As a wide-eyed British correspondent reported last week, the doctors call them "frequent fliers." In Chicago, gang and gun violence is endemic, with 12 shootings last weekend and one death. And in New York, although the murder rate is much lower than the other cities, in the rougher parts of town that's no guarantee of immunity. Between Friday and Sunday the first weekend in June, 26 people were shot and seven of them killed.
Over the last few months I've spent time with the New York Police Department and alone in parts of the city where guns are a way of life, but not in the way that pro-gun-rights partisans usually mean. I met kids like Tyquran and cops like Deputy Chief Theresa Shortell, head of the department's fast-growing gangs division. And something that ought to be obvious kept hitting me. The embattled streets of the city and the gunland of the heartland are wildly different places, and the failure to understand that difference, and overcome it, is the great American tragedy of our time.
Read Christopher Dickey's cover story (and take a look at his tumblr while you're at it!).
Dear conscientious people all around the world,
something so brutal is happening in Istanbul, Turkey. Police is attacking innocent people violently and continuously.
It all started when Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, current Prime Minister of Turkey announced that Gezi Parkı in Taksim, Istanbul will be demolished and on its place the 94th shopping mall will be built.
Our conscientious and environment-friendly public got together at Gezi Parkı the next day and started protesting.
Well, you might get the idea that they were violent and causing trouble; but no, that's not what happened. They grabbed their books and baskets… They sat on the grass, read their books, had picnics, … They just spend some nice time there and because of the fact that so many people where at the area, the attemps of demolishment did not occur.
Then, as if the public were causing trouble, police started attacking. -I mean why is the police even there? Were there any danger? No! Were there any angry anarchist people? No!- The attack from the police resulted with a person with an operation need and many other injured people.
Because the police jumped right in to the public's peaceful and harmless protest, people got angry and then it all started…
Public was at the park the next day. And the police was there also. It all got so big so fast. Police attacked the public with tear gas and water cannons. Public was being attacked unjustly. And the whole country, except for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's proponents became one! There were protests all around the country.
May 29 was the beginning of all of these… It's June 4 now, it's the 7th day and it's still going on.
There are over 3000 injured people and it's believed that the number of dead people is 3.
The whole world is supporting us except for our 'beloved' Prime Minister.
And what's worse is that the media channels are being censored! In order to not to display the news!
Please help me share this news! And help us and inform as many people as you can and let's make an end of Erdoğan's brutal acts!
You can search this hashtag to get more and fresh news: #direngeziparki and #occupygezi .
Please,
-forward this to everyone you know
-reblog
-let your local and national media channels know
Curious as to what’s going on in Turkey? Here’s one tumblr’s letter to you all on the state of the protests. [ed note: we’ve only seen reports confirming two deaths, not three, as of this moment.]
Previously, our reporter Mike Giglio’s account of the protests.
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GOP Senator Saxby Chambliss blames the military sexual assault epidemic on "hormones." (via mediaite)
Ugh.
Previously.
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[Artist unknown…if you know who made this, tell us! h/t Meg & Mike]
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[Bradley Manning Is My Hero, The Daily Beast]
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[h/t nick]
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First off, GAME OF THRONES SPOILER ALERT!!!!11!!! Watch this...
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