Armyman25 posted:

Soviet Commubot posted:

No mention of the 1.5 million person pro-independence protest in Barcelona yesterday?

Armyman25 posted:

Armyman25 posted:

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Dr Raines,

Our university and our higher education system, like all out public services, should be a bedrock community institution displaying the best democratic values. It should be a place where workers are treated with dignity and respect that is due human beings. Our university should be a place where students can get an affordable and sufficient education.

According to its mission and values, the University of Memphis is committed to the social and economic advancement of the community. But these are just empty words if the administration disregards the university's own research on poverty and living wages, and simply goes on paying hundreds of campus workers less than the cost of a minimally decent life.

We are students who have learned our history, so we are deeply aware of the university's inception as a school for white students maintained by Black workers. The policies of the University of Memphis and out higher education system to pay poverty wages, defund public education, and restrict scholarships, disproportionately affect people of color because they are shaped by this history.

We want to be proud of our Tigers, but it is impossible to have pride in a university that disregards its history, squanders our tuition dollars, and locks out workers in poverty. Dozens of campuses across the country have passed living wage resolutions. The University of Memphis should be just as worthy of our pride as any of these peer institutions.

Hundreds of workers on campus--people who keep our campus clean, safe, and running--are struggling to survive. In the words of one custodian on campus, "With the money we make, it's impossible to make a living. I really do not want to work a second job, but as a single parent I have to. You have to juggle bills. It is really hard. It has to change."

For these reasons we urge you, Dr. Raines, to:

1. Immediately make a commitment to pay all campus workers at the University of Memphis a living wage. In 2010 this was $11.62/hr. this number should be adjusted upward for two years of inflation.

2. Immediately make a public demand on the Tennessee Board of Regents and the Tennessee Governor for the restoration of all public education funds that have been cut over the last 10 years (several hundred million dollars) and expand scholarships offered by University of Memphis

Yours,
Progressive Student Alliance
(Name omitted)
(Name omitted)

Sword of Chomsky posted:

Thanks Libyans.


and of course I am beaten.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:

Dont worry man it's all good.



No you're right they weren't attacking embassies they were too busy blowing up airliners over Scottish towns, Donny.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:

Aatrek posted:

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:

Dont worry man it's all good.



No you're right they weren't attacking embassies they were too busy blowing up airliners over Scottish towns, Donny.

Ras Het posted:

To be fair, the Lockerbie trial was a farce. The case against these guys and Iran was much stronger:

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:

Trudat (but it wouldn't be as funny).

Meanwhile after the US embassy attacks, Julian Assange wants everyone to know it's really all about him, and it's Britain's fault.

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Police opened fire in an attempt to hold back the crowds, but failed to prevent them gaining access to the compound and setting fire to vehicles.

Aatrek posted:

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On Tuesday, Sean Smith, a Foreign Service Information Management Officer assigned to the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, typed a message to the director of his online gaming guild: ”Assuming we don’t die tonight. We saw one of our ‘police’ that guard the compound taking pictures.” The consulate was under siege, and within hours, a mob would attack, killing Smith along with three others, including the U.S. ambassador.

In his professional and personal life, Smith was a husband and father of two, an Air Force veteran, and a 10-year veteran of the Foreign Service who had served in Baghdad, Pretoria, Montreal and The Hague. But when gaming with EVE Online guild Goonswarm, he was a popular figure known as “Vile Rat,” and alternately as “Vilerat” while volunteering as a moderator at the internet community Something Awful. Smith’s death was confirmed on Wednesday morning by the State Department and reported widely in the news media. But the first people to report Smith’s death were his friends. Their reaction was shock and mourning.

“My people, I have greivous [sic] news. Vile Rat has been confirmed to be KIA in Benghazi; his family has been informed and the news is likely to break out on the wire services soon,” wrote Goonswarm director Alex Gianturco in a message mirrored to Something Awful at 11:21 EST. “Needless to say, we are in shock, have no words, and have nothing but sympathy for his family and children.

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British producer arrested over play about gay man

By AFP

Posted Thursday, September 13 2012 at 18:18
Uganda on Thursday arrested a British theatre producer for staging a play in Kampala about a gay man despite a temporary ban by the country's media authorities, a police spokesman said.

Producer David Cecil was sent to prison until a bail hearing on Monday after being charged in a Kampala court, an AFP reporter said.

"There are two charges preferred against him, one of disobeying lawful orders contrary to the penal code and another of staging the play which was still under review," Ibin Ssenkumbi, a spokesman for the Kampala police, told AFP.

The groundbreaking play -- titled "The River and The Mountain" -- was performed at several venues around Kampala last month despite an injunction by Uganda's media council, the government media authority, which had placed a temporary ban on the play pending review of the script.

The play examines the plight of a man who comes out as homosexual and the motivations of Uganda's vociferous anti-gay lobby.

Written by British playwright Beau Hopkins, it was directed and performed by Ugandans.

Homosexuality is already a crime in Uganda but proposed legislation currently before parliament would see the death penalty introduced for certain homosexual acts.

Although legislators have said the bill could be changed, in its current form, anyone caught engaging in homosexual acts for the second time, or engaging in gay sex where one partner is a minor or has HIV, would be sentenced to death.

Public discussion of homosexuality -- including by rights groups -- would be punished by up to seven years in jail.

duTrieux. posted:

FadingChord posted:

Most Republican platforms have included the full text of the Pledge of Allegiance, so that's one mention ("one nation, under God") for free.

FRINGE posted:

loving poo poo. I thought you guys were joking.

Mach 30 posted:

Saw this on campus today. Question Consumption, buy Apple. Good Lord my state is full of idiots.

Apple gives satanists hell posted:

Evil logo Gilmore added spookily: "It is also amusing to us that this company uses as a corporate logo an apple with a bite taken from it, which certainly appears to be a reference to that other famous apple. We have not forgotten that forbidden fruit, which would impart knowledge of Good and Evil, offered to Eve in that mythical garden by none other than the serpent, an avatar of Satan himself. Is it not then strange that they seem to fear the admiration of the Church of Satan? As Anton LaVey himself would have said, 'They want to dance, but their feet won’t let them' ."

JerkyBunion posted:

David Edwards Cecil, a British National, gesturing inside the court cells of Makindye Court on Thursday September 13, where he was summoned for plea. David was charged with two counts of Disobedience of Lawful Orders by the Uganda Media Council contrary to section 117 of penal code act. The court heard that he staged a controversial play “The river and the mountain” at Tilapia Cultural center on August 17 and at Mish Mash Cultural center on August 26 in Kampala. He was remanded to Luzira prison until Monday September 17 after his bail application was denied. Photo by Isaac Kasamani.


These sentiments, legislation, are being fostered, promoted, and bankrolled by the US Evangelical community, by the way.

Mach 30 posted:

Saw this on campus today. Question Consumption, buy Apple. Good Lord my state is full of idiots.

T.Worth posted:

Only since 1954. Your pledge used to be a little different back in the day. Kids taking the pledge in 1942.

Georgia Peach posted:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/u-embassy-calls-muslim-brotherhood-conflicting-tweets-190521793.html

anonumos posted:

As much as I respect the guy, Julian just needs to get over himself.