April 13, 2013
thepoliticalnotebook: West Belfast, Northern Ireland . A clever bit of graffiti marks the passing of former British PM Margaret Thatcher, whose relationship with Northern Ireland (most particularly the Catholic population) was, well, tense. Peter Muhly/AFP/Getty. Via The Guardian

thepoliticalnotebook:

West Belfast, Northern Ireland . A clever bit of graffiti marks the passing of former British PM Margaret Thatcher, whose relationship with Northern Ireland (most particularly the Catholic population) was, well, tense. Peter Muhly/AFP/Getty.

Via The Guardian

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Filed under: Thatcher Ireland Street Art 
March 16, 2013
fuckyeahmarxismleninism: One of these photos was taken in 1965 and the other last night. Not much has changed: #BrooklynProtest Via Occupy Wall Street

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

One of these photos was taken in 1965 and the other last night. Not much has changed: #BrooklynProtest

Via Occupy Wall Street

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Filed under: Flatbush Brooklyn Protests New York City NYC Occupy Wall Street Everything Anti Racist Racism Capitalist Police 
March 11, 2013
Wall Street bonuses rise 8% for 2012 but industry warns of looming layoffs

This headline says it all.

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Filed under: Capitalism United States of America Wall Street Corruption Classism layoff 
March 10, 2013
tranqualizer: [photo: stenciled into concreate is text that reads, “compañer@, i know that you are hurting but you are still alive. you will survive and together we will dismantle the systems that broke our hearts.” next to the text is a fist coming out of a broken heart that has on it, “racism, poverty, rape, war, homophobia, sexism, borders, STDs”] andyouhavetogivethemhope: THIS

tranqualizer:

[photo: stenciled into concreate is text that reads, “compañer@, i know that you are hurting but you are still alive. you will survive and together we will dismantle the systems that broke our hearts.” next to the text is a fist coming out of a broken heart that has on it, “racism, poverty, rape, war, homophobia, sexism, borders, STDs”]

andyouhavetogivethemhope:

THIS

(Source: apaxicana, via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)

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Filed under: Progress Street Art Resistance Homophobia Sexism Rape War 
March 1, 2013
Ghost Towns of the Recession: Where Capital goes to die.

Rio Vista CA

Rio Vista, CA

Once envisioned as an 855-home suburbwith families populating the grid of freshly paved streets and sidewalks, now the only life you’ll see in this desert development are cows and eucalyptus shrubs. Thirteen abandoned model homes lie clustered in the center of the development, and streets like “Serenity Drive” stretch on past empty dirt lots into the barren distance. Construction was halted in November 2008 when developer Shea Homes abandoned the project.

Phoenix AZ

Downtown Phoenix, AZ

Before the housing market crash, an acre in downtown Phoenix was selling for about $90 a square foot. Today, it sells for $9 a square foot. Empty dirt lots checker the area, where developers once dreamed of high-rise condos and office buildings, and many businesses have closed their doors. Residents hope building will happen again once the market recovers, but in the meantime neighborhood organizers push for temporary fixes to the eyesore, like planting sunflowers and projecting movies onto the side of existing buildings.
Victorville CA

Victorville, CA

When a bank couldn’t sell 16 new homes in San Bernardino County, Calif., they decided to bulldoze them instead. Four of the homes were completed and another dozen were under construction, but the bank figured that razing the homes would be cheaper than paying fines to the city. As the brand new homes came tumbling down, nearby residents took video and watched the rubble pile up. Now, a few scraps of the homes remain in the dusty lots.
…..

Miami High-Rises, FL

One of the worst-hit real estate markets in the country, Miami is overflowing with empty condo units. For example, the Tao Sawgrass condos, have 26 floors of empty apartments. Property records show that 36 of the 396 units sold, but most of them were to investors. The owner maintains the property, security guards stand at the entrance, and employees shuffle through the lobby, making it look like people live there, but marketing director Carolyn Van Gorder for the company selling Tao’s units told the Broward/Palm Beach New Times that she “could not confirm or deny the presence of residents.”
Fort Myers FL, Skyscrapers

Fort Myers Condos, FL

One condo owner is the loneliest number, especially when you’re the last remaining resident in a 32-story tower. Victor Vangelakos paid $430,000 for his downtown Fort Myers condo in 2008, but when the building couldn’t sell the rest of the units, they hashed out deals with the buyers, except for Vangelakos, who says his lenders wouldn’t agree to a swap. He now uses the apartment as a vacation home, but he says it’s eerie at night and birds have built nests in nearby apartments. The lone light in the building pictured here belongs to Vangelakos.
California City

California City, CA

Perhaps an example of what will happen to America’s recession ghost towns, California City is one of the first real estate boom developments to become one. In 1958, a developer sectioned off lots and paved culs-de-sacs for a dream city 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles. But the buyers and families never came. Today, the ghostly grid is used for skydivers and test flights by the nearby air force base and a prison lies to the north.

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Filed under: Capitalism Communism Socialism Resistance United States of America American USA development economics real estate recession repression depression occupy wall street everything OWS homes 
February 24, 2013
Klimt in Syria by Tammam Azzam

Klimt in Syria by Tammam Azzam

(Source: the-semblance, via jayaprada)

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Filed under: Street ARt War Damage Syria Middle East Muslim Arab World Travel WAnderlust Backpacking 
February 23, 2013
thecalmb4dawn: Freedom is never given by the oppressor it must be demanded.

thecalmb4dawn:

Freedom is never given by the oppressor it must be demanded.

(via anarcho-queer)

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Filed under: Palestine Israel Occupation Genocide Oppression Middle East Arab Muslim World Street Art Protest Resistance 
January 25, 2013
Still.  Fucking.  Relevant. fuckyeahmarxismleninism: New York City: Striking school bus drivers and supporters picket outside Board of Education office in lower Manhattan, January 25, 2013. Photo by Jenna Pope

Still.  Fucking.  Relevant.

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

New York City: Striking school bus drivers and supporters picket outside Board of Education office in lower Manhattan, January 25, 2013.

Photo by Jenna Pope

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Filed under: Occupy Wall Street OWS New York City NYC United States of America USA Capitalism Resistance 
January 25, 2013
fuckyeahmarxismleninism: New York City: On the picket line with the striking school bus drivers fighting to save jobs, stop privatization and keep school buses safe for special-needs kids, January 25, 2013. Photo by Jenna Pope

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

New York City: On the picket line with the striking school bus drivers fighting to save jobs, stop privatization and keep school buses safe for special-needs kids, January 25, 2013.

Photo by Jenna Pope

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Filed under: New York City Union Unions Anti Capitalism Imperialism Communism SOcialism Occupy OWS Wall Street 
January 22, 2013
"FBI documents just obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) pursuant to the PCJF’s Freedom of Information Act demands reveal that from its inception, the FBI treated the Occupy movement as a potential criminal and terrorist threat even though the agency acknowledges in documents that organizers explicitly called for peaceful protest and did “not condone the use of violence” at occupy protests."

— http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/news/fbi-documents-reveal-secret-occupy-monitoring.html

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Filed under: Occupy Wall Street FBI monitoring repression 
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