"The short-sighted notion that we should always protect ourselves endangered us more in the long term." Washington Post
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"Perhaps the most famous self-mailer is Henry “Box” Brown, an escaped Virginia slave who mailed himself to Pennsylvania, a free state, in 1849. Brown severely burned his hand to get out of work one day, then, in collusion with abolitionists in Philadelphia, had himself packaged into a box equipped with a bottle of water, a few biscuits, and a rough blanket, and shipped via the Adams Express Company, now an investment firm that in the 19th century was a shipping and freighting company known for its privacy. The shipping cost Brown $86, just over $2,500 in today’s dollars, and took an extremely uncomfortable 27 hours. But he was delivered successfully, and became a well-known abolitionist speaker and entertainer later in life. " Atlas Obscura
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"Ecstasy, so it happens, was the drug people turned to over the last period of Tory rule. "At the height of the 80s' go-for-it, go-it-alone, enterprise boom, ecstasy catalysed an explosion of suppressed social energies," wrote the music journalist Simon Reynolds in 1998. "Rave's values – collectivity, spirituality, the joy of losing yourself in the crowd – were literally counter to the dominant culture. Ecstasy's empathy and intimacy-inducing effects didn't just offer a timely corrective to Thatcher-sponsored social atomisation; the drug was also the remedy for the English diseases of class-consciousness and emotional reserve."" Vice
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A very important read [CN for rape]
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"This spring, a Greek Web site speculated that Jarvis Cocker, the former lead singer of Pulp, was referring to [Danae] Stratou [wife of Yanis Varoufakis] in “Common People,” the band’s much-loved 1995 single. The autobiographical song starts, “She came from Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge / She studied sculpture at St. Martin’s College.” It goes on to quote her: “I want to live like common people / I want to do whatever common people do.” Varoufakis later told me that Stratou was the only Greek sculpture student at St. Martin’s at the time." New Yorker
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"Fred said: “I have never been this scared in all my life”. He says he knows no one in Sierra Leone, and has lived in the UK since he was 11. He is being deported solely on the basis of intelligence supplied by the Metropolitan Police to immigration officials under Operation Nexus. That’s a joint police and Home Office scheme that puts Border Agency staff into police custody suites and permits the deportation of people only suspected of crime, without any judicial process." Open Democracy
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"Until recently, psychologists and historians have agreed that ordinary people commit evil when, under the influence of leaders and groups, they become blind to the consequences of their actions. This consensus has become so strong that it is repeated, almost as a mantra, in psychology textbooks and in society at large. However critical scrutiny of both historical and psychological evidence ... has produced a radically different picture. People do great wrong, not because they are unaware of what they are doing but because they consider it to be right. This is possible because they actively identify with groups whose ideology justifies and condones the oppression and destruction of others." The Psychologist
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"Across practices, across cultures, and throughout historical periods, when people support and engage in violence, their primary motivations are moral. By ‘moral’, I mean that people are violent because they feel they must be; because they feel that their violence is obligatory. They know that they are harming fully human beings. Nonetheless, they believe they should. Violence does not stem from a psychopathic lack of morality. Quite the reverse: it comes from the exercise of perceived moral rights and obligations." Aeon
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“The roots of Afrikaans can be traced back to Cape Town, where it started as a pidgin language … Everyone should know where they come from. We want these kids to be proud of their heritage,” Daily Maverick
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"Many new studies compare neighborhoods, cities, or counties to assess the relationship between local concentrations of immigrants (or of Latinos) and rates of crime or violence. The general conclusion is that the higher these concentrations in a community, the lower the rates. A couple of studies find that the connection depends on the local context. In more impoverished neighborhoods or in cities with historically larger numbers of immigrants or with immigrant political power, additional immigration seems to push crime down yet more." Society Pages
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This is why we need a basic income
"Even more disturbing from the point of view of the capitalists was that government, or at least its recently expanded social safety net, was actually subsidizing the working-class rebellion.
A nationwide strike against GE in 1969 helped crystallize the issue. Strikers were not only receiving strike funds from their union — tens of thousands of them were also drawing welfare checks." Jacobin
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"Heese writes that while the slaveowners could rise above the "temporary financial setbacks" that resulted from the emancipation of their human property, the same cannot be said for the descendants of slaves.
"These farm labourers were unable to escape from the master-servant relationship which had existed for so many years. The British government and subsequent governments — including the present government — are partly responsible for this unfortunate situation," Heese says.
He is aghast at the erasure of the history of slavery in SA. In political discourse, apartheid and colonialism occupy the top spots, with scant bandwidth afforded to slavery." BD Live
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Hurray for science!
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6 women arrested for "brothel-keeping" in Ireland, all of whom were selling sex from a single venue. These laws do not target management (even supposing that was a good idea), but only punish sex workers who want to work together for safety.
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"Perhaps the most famous self-mailer is Henry “Box” Brown, an escaped Virginia slave who mailed himself to Pennsylvania, a free state, in 1849. Brown severely burned his hand to get out of work one day, then, in collusion with abolitionists in Philadelphia, had himself packaged into a box equipped with a bottle of water, a few biscuits, and a rough blanket, and shipped via the Adams Express Company, now an investment firm that in the 19th century was a shipping and freighting company known for its privacy. The shipping cost Brown $86, just over $2,500 in today’s dollars, and took an extremely uncomfortable 27 hours. But he was delivered successfully, and became a well-known abolitionist speaker and entertainer later in life. " Atlas Obscura
>>><<<
"Ecstasy, so it happens, was the drug people turned to over the last period of Tory rule. "At the height of the 80s' go-for-it, go-it-alone, enterprise boom, ecstasy catalysed an explosion of suppressed social energies," wrote the music journalist Simon Reynolds in 1998. "Rave's values – collectivity, spirituality, the joy of losing yourself in the crowd – were literally counter to the dominant culture. Ecstasy's empathy and intimacy-inducing effects didn't just offer a timely corrective to Thatcher-sponsored social atomisation; the drug was also the remedy for the English diseases of class-consciousness and emotional reserve."" Vice
>>><<<
A very important read [CN for rape]
>>><<<
"This spring, a Greek Web site speculated that Jarvis Cocker, the former lead singer of Pulp, was referring to [Danae] Stratou [wife of Yanis Varoufakis] in “Common People,” the band’s much-loved 1995 single. The autobiographical song starts, “She came from Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge / She studied sculpture at St. Martin’s College.” It goes on to quote her: “I want to live like common people / I want to do whatever common people do.” Varoufakis later told me that Stratou was the only Greek sculpture student at St. Martin’s at the time." New Yorker
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"Fred said: “I have never been this scared in all my life”. He says he knows no one in Sierra Leone, and has lived in the UK since he was 11. He is being deported solely on the basis of intelligence supplied by the Metropolitan Police to immigration officials under Operation Nexus. That’s a joint police and Home Office scheme that puts Border Agency staff into police custody suites and permits the deportation of people only suspected of crime, without any judicial process." Open Democracy
>>><<<
"Until recently, psychologists and historians have agreed that ordinary people commit evil when, under the influence of leaders and groups, they become blind to the consequences of their actions. This consensus has become so strong that it is repeated, almost as a mantra, in psychology textbooks and in society at large. However critical scrutiny of both historical and psychological evidence ... has produced a radically different picture. People do great wrong, not because they are unaware of what they are doing but because they consider it to be right. This is possible because they actively identify with groups whose ideology justifies and condones the oppression and destruction of others." The Psychologist
>>><<<
"Across practices, across cultures, and throughout historical periods, when people support and engage in violence, their primary motivations are moral. By ‘moral’, I mean that people are violent because they feel they must be; because they feel that their violence is obligatory. They know that they are harming fully human beings. Nonetheless, they believe they should. Violence does not stem from a psychopathic lack of morality. Quite the reverse: it comes from the exercise of perceived moral rights and obligations." Aeon
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“The roots of Afrikaans can be traced back to Cape Town, where it started as a pidgin language … Everyone should know where they come from. We want these kids to be proud of their heritage,” Daily Maverick
>>><<<
"Many new studies compare neighborhoods, cities, or counties to assess the relationship between local concentrations of immigrants (or of Latinos) and rates of crime or violence. The general conclusion is that the higher these concentrations in a community, the lower the rates. A couple of studies find that the connection depends on the local context. In more impoverished neighborhoods or in cities with historically larger numbers of immigrants or with immigrant political power, additional immigration seems to push crime down yet more." Society Pages
>>><<<
This is why we need a basic income
"Even more disturbing from the point of view of the capitalists was that government, or at least its recently expanded social safety net, was actually subsidizing the working-class rebellion.
A nationwide strike against GE in 1969 helped crystallize the issue. Strikers were not only receiving strike funds from their union — tens of thousands of them were also drawing welfare checks." Jacobin
>>><<<
"Heese writes that while the slaveowners could rise above the "temporary financial setbacks" that resulted from the emancipation of their human property, the same cannot be said for the descendants of slaves.
"These farm labourers were unable to escape from the master-servant relationship which had existed for so many years. The British government and subsequent governments — including the present government — are partly responsible for this unfortunate situation," Heese says.
He is aghast at the erasure of the history of slavery in SA. In political discourse, apartheid and colonialism occupy the top spots, with scant bandwidth afforded to slavery." BD Live
>>><<<
Hurray for science!
>>><<<
6 women arrested for "brothel-keeping" in Ireland, all of whom were selling sex from a single venue. These laws do not target management (even supposing that was a good idea), but only punish sex workers who want to work together for safety.
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