February 2012
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Single Mother in Milwaukee Raped by Cop – Then... →
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anticapitalist:
Crime victims who call 911 often discover that while the police can’t offer help, they can always make the situation significantly worse – as a single mother from Milwaukee learned when she was raped by one of the cops who responded to her call, then arrested for “assaulting an officer.”
Police Officer Ladmarald Cates was one of two Milwaukee cops who...
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The Susan G. Komen foundation is ending its grants... →
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Ideas, Opinions, Rants, and Cool Shit.: Don't call... →
entarteten:
It’s important to remember that, in the words of L. Carey Unkelbach, legal counsel to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado, “Law enforcement generally does not have a federal constitutional duty to protect one private person from another. For example, if a drunk…
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'At the Snap of a Finger' →
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER, 10:08AM, WED. FEB. 1
Occupy Austin volunteers held places for Eastside parents who wanted to speak to AISD in December: Now they return to give a voice to the silenced
PHOTO BY JOHN ANDERSON
Think the fight over IDEA Public Schools is over? Think again. At Monday night’s Austin ISD board meeting, speakers fromOccupy Austin – many of them reading anonymous letters...
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STFU, Conservatives: 19 Things That School... →
ethiopienne:
lost-and-searching-in-america:
19 Things That School Children Are Being Arrested For In America
#1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume.
#2 A 13-year-old student…
January 2012
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Leftish: In the United States, an MRI scan is... →
leftish:
In Britain it’s $187.00.
In the United States, bypass surgery costs over $59,000, in Britain just shy of $14,000.
Why do we pay so much, more than any other country in the world, and have relatively so little to show for it?
We outspend the rest of the world but in a country like…
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“They may claim to be crusaders on behalf of unborn children, but there is more...”
– author Sara Paretsky in: Our bodies, our fertility, Chicago Tribune yesterday
Really worth reading the whole thing.
(via stoppatriarchy)
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