Hybrid: Hunger strike, meet Consumerism.

Some may call it boycott: You don't buy goods from a certain store to show your disapproval of their style of business.

I have been "boycotting" Wal-Mart for about three years now.

My friends find it as a running joke "HEY ANGELA! YOU CAN FIND THAT CHEAPER AT WAL-MART!! LET'S GO!."

it's ALMOST as funny as the poorly-constructed vegetarian jokes that have been coming at me for about 7 years now.

JUST ALMOST!!

(Wondering why I boycott Wal-Mart? Read previous post entitled "Blame game, Blame game, who is to blame?" OR watch this amazing documentary to get the fuller version. and PLEASE enjoy all the other videos in the side columns.)

i disgress... Here we go.... Back to my point.... what were we talking about??? Snookie on the cover of Rolling Stone??

OH RIGHT!! I forgot.. I don't give a FUCK! (but apparently it's more important than the rolling waves of revolution that might end up changing history as we know it.)

Right. so.....

1. HUNGER STRIKES

This dame: Alice Paul
Who:
leader of the National Woman's Party (NWP)
What:
1. DEMANDED (not pleaded) for women's right to vote
2. Led first nonviolent civil disobedience campaign in front of white house that lasted 18months with 1,000 women.


October 20, 1917- ALICE PAUL ARRESTED AND SENTENCED TO 7 MONTHS IN PRISON
Her reaction? Hunger strike!! Lasted 22 days

THEY'RE REACTION?



Force fed Alice and other women 3 times a day for 3 weeks straight
details: tube through nose and mouth, pumping food into their stomachs.

AMERICA'S REACTION?
LIVID!! newspapers couldn't get enough of it.



END RESULT:

1.November 17- Suffragist released because of public pressure
2.President Wilson FINALLY announces his support for the suffrage movement
3.June 4, 1917- Senate Passes 19th Amendment, women's right to vote


Conclusion: SUCCESS

Information: Woman in History

2. BOYCOTT

These guys: Ezell A Blair, Jr, Franklin E. McCain, Joseph A. McNeil, David L. Richmond

Who:
Four BLACK college students at Greensboro, North Carolina AT&T college (not the phone service! Agricultural and Technical College)

what:


1.Performed a nonviolent sit-in at an all-white cafe named Woolworth on February 1, 1960
2. Inspired by this, people in other Southern states started to perform the same form of protest, overcrowding some places so much that NOBODY COULD PURCHASE GOODS FROM THE STORE.
a. not only sit-ins, but boycotts

THEY'RE REACTION:


whites reacted poorly, blacks maintained civility. Often, the students would sit quietly and read for their next day's schooling.

(stay with me here)
END RESULT:
-Woolworth breaks down and starts to serve the blacks. Many more city cafes followed suit.
-This sparked a civil rights movement that eventually led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, desegregating public facilities.

CONCLUSION: SUCCESS

Information and photos: Smithsonian National Museum of American History

ok uummm i think that's enough... digest this for now.

Coming soon: My very own hybrid of the two. It will probably look something like this...


ok ok it will not look ANYTHING like that... however, that IS a real animal!!
Here is the story


Now You Know. well, half.

SLIGHT mishap... SLIGHT!!

Woops! oh MAN!! SOOOOO embarrassing!!




Click here for full article

Summary:
-NATO is hunting down insurgents and end up killing 9 boys, ranging from age 7 to 9. SEVEN TO NINE!!! Collecting wood for their family....


-NOT THE FIRST TIME! "tribal elders there claimed NATO forces killed more than 50 civilians in recent air and ground strikes."


Solution???????
Gen. David. Petraeus, the top commander of U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan, ordered a debrief of attack helicopters on who to and NOT to shoot....

Where are we? Is anyone else reading this feeling a little weird about the procedures here?

Switched roles:
NATO flies over the US and "accidentally" kills 9 American boys in Minnesota, gathering wood for their family......
and then they say "OHHHH SNAP!! SORRY ABOUT THAT!!"
and the problem is solved......
RIGHT??
that's how it would work, RIGHT?!?!

Know You Know.

Youtube, please let me keep this here!

Ok I'm going to try to post this here.

Backgroung: Jon Stewart gets invited onto the CNN show crossfire to, assumedly, BE FUNNY! Unfortunately (fortunately for us!!), the presenters completely misjudge Jon and end up looking like EVEN BIGGER idiots than they did before.




This is amazing. I cannot be happier with how this turned out!! Jon Stewart, my hat goes off to you.


Know You Know.

Um this is cool...

Website Click Here

So this guy (or girl. i dont know) put together this map, showing where protests and revolutions are happening. And each one has a news article to go with it. This is amazing!!
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Hey, it happens. More than we'd like to admit.

It's a natural process. Sometimes you just gotta say,

"HEY! I'M SICK OF YOU BENDING ME OVER AND SPANKING ME BARE ASS, GOVERNMENT!! WE'RE THROUGH!"

Just the way the tallest tree will fall and make resourceful soil for new coming trees, just as the governments will fall and create an infrastructure for how the next one should and should NOT be.

Now You Know. Liberty's Expensive.

That'll TEACH 'em.

Full article here

Sum up:

-Detroit closes half its schools in an effort to pay off the deficit of $327 million.

- This raises class sizes to SIXTY students per classroom!!

On the other side:

COMING TO A STORE NEAR YOU!

F-22 Raptor: only the 2nd most expensive fighter jet at $350 million.

If only DETROIT had one of these! They could just sell it to Isreal and be MMOONNEEYY

What is the most expensive, do you ask???? I never thought you would!!!

Get 'em while they're hot, boys and girls!! With just 3 easy payments of 8 million dollars, you can have your very ownnnnn

for the very very low price of $2.4 billion

it's the B-2 SPIRIT!!

However, due to funding, the American military ONLY made 21 of them. So supplies are limited.

Thanks for playing!

Now You Know. Liberty's expensive.

Blame game, Blame game, Who is to Blame?

Full article here.

So here we have Chipotle firing illegal immigrants because of the crackdown we've been having on the poor "untouchables." I can say that. I am Mexican. My entire family worked their way through this system my being the "untouchables" of society: the cooks, the dishwashers, the maids, the fast food workers, etc. Ok so fine. We can SAY that they are taking jobs away from the 9%+ of people unemployed that are LEGALLY here.

BUT if we are going to start playing the blame game, there's PLENTY more we can talk about that makes illegal immigrants look like chump change in comparison.

Wal-Mart:

So far, more than 70% of the commodities sold in Wal-Mart are Made in China.

Last year, the firm bought $15 billion products from China, half from direct purchasing, the other from the firm's suppliers in China.

More than 5,000 Chinese enterprises have established steady supply alliances with Wal-Mart

SOURCE: Wal-Mart's China Inventory 2004

"Photo Op!! Say Cheese! Pretend like we're friends! No one will notice!"

OUR OWN GOVERNMENT:

the White House announced $45 billion in new trade deals with China, including

a $19 billion deal with Boeing and a package with GE expected to generate more $2 billion in U.S. exports.

Some economists say the deals will hurt U.S. efforts to end the jobless Great Recession.

Source: Democracy Now 2011

BLAME THE RIGHT PEOPLE! That's all I'm saying.

No really. I can't say anymore. I have to get out of this house and on to class!

Now You Know

If you do ONE productive thing this week......

Please watch this documentary. It pretty much breaks down our dependence on oil.

I think that's all I got right now. It's on instant Netflix.

Now You Know