Governments and right-wing propaganda intentionally confuse the categories of helping and trafficking migrants. This article is especially relevant right now in light of the Scot Warren and Pia Klemp cases making the news.
This is a brief history of Tenkara in the USA. I've caught a single bluegill on my rod so far.
How to fish with Senko-style stickbaits.
Basics of quiche.
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Mustard Plug on the PBS Backstage Pass show in 2014.
banksy's website.
An episode of the ACLU's podcast about the criminalization of homelessness.
Folks from Denver Homeless Out Loud talk about the criminalization of homelessness on the Brew Theology podcast.
"My friend, anarchist Jerry Koch, is the latest grand jury resistor to be jailed and freed because of his silence"
Langdon's "Wordplay" is one of the only art books I own.
Happy to have recently discovered this website. "Christians for the Abolition of Prisons is an organization dedicated to prison abolitionist education and advocacy within the progressive church."
"Office Space" is 'the Matrix' portion of "The Matrix" with every trace of the uncanny evacuated.
"In order to understand the nature of the Syrian conflict, it is essential that we remember the first years of the uprising, and, through remembering what took place between 2011 and 2014, dispel the myth that Syria has always been a proxy war or has always been a struggle between a secular government and jihadis. To ignore the years which lead Syria from a democratic uprising to a bloody proxy war is to read history backwards."
On how BIDs push for the criminalization of homelessness using Denver's urban camping ban and Downtown Denver Partnership as its primary example.
For a book-length treatment of this and similar issues, I recommend Randall Amster's Lost In Space: The Criminalization, Globalization, and Urban Ecology of Homelessness (2008) which examines the role BIDs play in criminalizing homelessness using the struggles over the sit-lie ordinances in Tempe, AZ, as a case study.
"for the more lonely children of the revolution, who like their politics with a healthy dose of nihilism that alternately destroys and loves itself and the world."