ideas from the underground

MORE THAN A DOZEN COPS CHARGED WITH RAPE OF CHILDREN AND CHILD PORNOGRAPHY STILL WORKING ON FORCE

‘A disturbing report has surfaced according to which a police department in New Orleans has not fired more than a dozen officers who have been charged with rape and child pornography.

The charges have occurred within the last year, but it appears that the officers who were charged are still patrolling neighborhoods with loaded guns and are not being convicted.

It is appalling that we are told these people exist to “protect us,” even though they are the same ones being charged with such sickening crimes…

…One particularly egregious example involves Officer Bradley Wax, who was charged with 38 counts of possessing child pornography.

The crime was so serious that if Wax had not been a police officer, he would have faced more than 500 years in prison upon conviction.

Officer Wax isn’t the only one.

Officer Michael Thommassie was charged with aggravated rape and reports indicated that the victim was a child under the age of 10.

Just like Officer Wax, Officer Thomassie was placed on “emergency suspension,” but he was never actually fired or placed in prison.

Instead, investigators found him working behind a desk in the police departments fourth district…’       /source/

Cop badges today are just fancy ornaments for licensed criminals.

Goddamnit! Motherfuckers ain’t got nothing to fear! The bastards must be in a jail! Patrolling the streets, they and thousands like them, every day threaten our safety and the safety of your children! See? This is a real horror! Piece of shit, which, by law, must rot in jail, is now patrolling the streets armed. He just does not see the boundaries of his power, and after he got away with the crime, his sense of responsibility is lost completely.

Dis shit happens only in a police state.

Hormonal birth control for men has been a solved problem since the 1970s, and the current iterations of the technology are actually substantially superior to equivalent treatments for women, demonstrating higher effectiveness, less dangerous side effects, and lower prevalence of side effects in virtually all modern trials. At this point, some forty years on, such treatments continue to be refused certification on the ostensible basis of concerns over the purely hypothetical effects of long-term use.

Meanwhile, a hormonal birth control treatment for women whose known and documented side effects include “sudden death” can go from the laboratory to the pharmacy shelf in under five years.

Rape Escape

Easy and very effective

Requires nothing but your body

I don’t think I made it very clear but last month I was sexually assaulted by someone who I thought was my friend (I don’t want to talk about it don’t ask), and it’s… really fucked with my head. 

Had I known this a month ago I would have been able to get away. 

So, essentially, I’m really pleading with you to reblog this so everyone who follows you doesn’t get stuck in the same position I was with no way out. 

Powerful video shows the harrowing talk parents often have with black kids 

Shortly after a Staten Island grand jury voted not to indict the officer who killed Eric Garner in a chokehold, Mayor Bill de Blasio told ABC News, “What parents have done for decades who have children of color, especially young men of color, is train them to be very careful when they have … an encounter with a police officer.”

Black parents and young people alike are doing just that in a new video that offers 10 rules of survival. The 2-minute PSA-style video from the SALT Project walks through some basic, but potentially life-saving tips for handling any police stop.

The Subtly Offensive Phrases We Need To Stop Saying

In a video created by

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Rape Escape

Easy and very effective

Requires nothing but your body

I don’t think I made it very clear but last month I was sexually assaulted by someone who I thought was my friend (I don’t want to talk about it don’t ask), and it’s… really fucked with my head. 

Had I known this a month ago I would have been able to get away. 

So, essentially, I’m really pleading with you to reblog this so everyone who follows you doesn’t get stuck in the same position I was with no way out. 

Being in a loving relationship.

BDSM.

Being submissive.

Wearing makeup.

Being a housewife.

Wearing dresses.

High heels.

sazziscooler

The above quote though. My gut reaction is to cringe at the phrase “online activism” but when you really think about it everything these online communities provide — free information/literature sharing, community building, consciousness raising, and the free exchange of ideas and critiques are all (more within the self, more passive) forms of activism.

One of my favorite rebuttals of some asshat saying the usual “SJ blogs don’t even do anything because it’s not in real life” was when someone said "If it wasn’t for online activism, I’d still be calling women sluts and whores."

Early on in high school, I would slut shame, make racist jokes, etc. And now I’m a sociology major and I go to a women’s college and constantly read/think/write about intersectional feminism. So fuck anyone who thinks online social justice conversations and blogs don’t “do anything.”

(via beyonced)

Thank you.  I’ve been waging war on trashtalking women and anything to do with women for years, and my main arena has been social media.  Nowhere can I make myself heard better than here.

This is Kolinda Grabar Kitarović, the first female Croatian president ever. She has just won the presidential election. She is Croatia’s fourth president, since the decision of independence in 1991.

Do not look at her and think she’s pretty. Look at her and remember that she comes from an extremely right political party.

Don’t look at her and think she will do a lot for women with her election. Look at her and remember her political party wants to ban ALL abortions and even artificial insemination in Croatia!

Don’t look at her and think she looks gentle. Look at her and remember her party and her supporters are, in most cases, extremely homophobic and have a huge support from the church here, which dictates a lot of unwritten laws in Croatia, even though the country is secular.

Don’t look at her and think she seems fair. Look at her and remember she misused her power when she worked as an ambassador in the USA.

Don’t look at her and think she can be a good president and she can lead Croatia out of the national crisis. Look at her and remember her party was found guilty of stealing 40 million kunas (Croatian currency) and were still allowed to continue existing.