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"BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. WEST SIXTH TODAY, EAST FOURTH TOMORROW…OHIO CITY AND COVENTRY THE DAY..."

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:50:59 -0400

“BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. WEST SIXTH TODAY, EAST FOURTH TOMORROW…OHIO CITY AND COVENTRY THE DAY AFTER THAT.
Where does it end? Lakewood? Shaker? The thin blue line is all that is stopping this from happening, but it’s probably too late. Cleveland…the domino theory at work.”

- grizzster commening on Reported beating of a Morehouse graduate by off-duty officer adds to controversy in Cleveland’s Warehouse District

Seriously, (almost) every single comment on this article is intensely racist. Thank god the plain dealer comments are here to make sure everyone knows that Cleveland is serious about keeping black people in their place (as the commenter says, keeping them from ‘ruining’ certain neighborhoods) and cracking down on black troublemakers BAMN.

from the original article:

The men said they had gone out that night with white co-workers from a downtown bank, members of the same executive training program. The two were in the lobby near the door, preparing to leave, when a security guard pointedly told them it was time to go.

Ruiz, who recently moved here from Charlotte, N.C., said they responded that they were waiting for friends to come down from upstairs. He said the security guard shoved them out the door and onto the sidewalk.

Ruiz said that when he objected, another security guard grabbed him and slammed him onto the roof of a parked car and began punching him.

The street was busy with people and police, and Ruiz said he assumed police would come to his aid. Soon, he said, he realized he was dealing with a police officer.

In a police report, Officer Anthony J. Sauto said he was working off-duty and in plain clothes for Velvet Dog when he saw Ruiz and Parilla refusing to leave and he intervened. He said Ruiz became “verbally and physically aggressive,” then resisted arrest and tried to hit him.

I hear a lot of people from the northern part of the United States talk about how racist the southern part of this country is, but honestly I am not sure I have been anywhere in this country where serious racism and open/outward support of segregation is more a part of public/private discussion than cleveland. And I know you obviously can’t judge a whole city by the people who comment on newspaper webpages, but its a bizarrely frequent part of normal conversation.

Ohio has a complicated white supremacist history, and it seems like we might fare better in the future if we really seriously got down to business and dealt with our white supremacist present.

These Machines kill Facists [via]

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:28:00 -0400

These Machines kill Facists [via]

Cats are free to good homes today and Saturday at the Cleveland APL; 560 cats and kittens need homes

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:14:57 -0400

Cats are free to good homes today and Saturday at the Cleveland APL; 560 cats and kittens need homes:

The Cleveland Animal Protective League’s shelter is full of cats and kittens, so the nonprofit group is offering cats for free.
There will be no adoption fee Friday and Saturday at 1729 Willey Ave. in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood. And cats and kittens not yet a year old can be adopted for $10. Get a second cat or kitten for $20.
“This issue is so critical, we are willing to do something drastic to raise awareness,” director Sharon Harvey said, “and this is pretty drastic as it costs us an average of $200 to care for a cat at the APL, and we bring in hundreds each week.”

omg.

"For months, the Bureau of Motor Vehicles has quietly refused to accept most Puerto Rican birth..."

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:00:45 -0400

“For months, the Bureau of Motor Vehicles has quietly refused to accept most Puerto Rican birth certificates, the primary document for people applying for a driver’s license or for a state identification card.
State officials say they judge the document to be untrustworthy and note the prohibition is temporary.
By Sept. 30, all Puerto Ricans born on the island are expected to have newly issued birth certificates with enhanced security features. The Ohio BMV is ready to accept those documents, said spokeswoman Lindsay Komlanc.”

- Ohio BMV policy leaves people from Puerto Rico with identity crisis

Cleveland is in the midst of a puerto-ricans-are-not-to-be-trusted-and-probably-aren’t-u.s.-citizens-anyway freakout (and, you know, maybe they should just go home instead of Cleveland going to all the trouble of making ballots in more languages than just English).

More Centralia. I love a good handmade sign addressing public...

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:16:54 -0400

More Centralia. I love a good handmade sign addressing public officials.

Stopped by Centralia, PA this morning

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:11:46 -0400

Stopped by Centralia, PA this morning

street art & graffiti Paris : Suriani (by _KrieBeL_ __)

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:01:48 -0400

street art & graffiti Paris : Suriani (by _KrieBeL_ __)

(by Cake)

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:08:44 -0400

(by Cake)

PRIEST - Downtown Mobile, AL (by dingler1109)

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:05:46 -0400

PRIEST - Downtown Mobile, AL (by dingler1109)

backsplash (by Nancy)

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:53:45 -0400

backsplash (by Nancy)

"It never dies, because it is at the heart of the beast that is US capitalism and imperialism. To mix..."

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:52:41 -0400

“It never dies, because it is at the heart of the beast that is US capitalism and imperialism. To mix a monster metaphor; it is well past time that a stake be driven into the heart of this demon. To destroy white supremacy it will be necessary to ‘expropriate the expropriators’. Comrades, look at the horizon! Arm yourselves! The zombies are coming and they want blood!”

- The Summer of Zombie White Supremacy

(by Punk Poeta)

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:02:43 -0400

(by Punk Poeta)

Getting Into Med School Without Hard Sciences

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:49:00 -0400

Getting Into Med School Without Hard Sciences:

The study found that, by some measures, the humanities students made more sensitive doctors: they were more than twice as likely to train as psychiatrists (14 percent compared with 5.6 percent of their classmates) and somewhat more likely — though less so than Dr. Kase had expected — to go into primary care fields, like pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology (49 percent compared with 39 percent). Conversely, they avoid some fields, like surgical subspecialties and anesthesiology.

This is a really interesting idea. I think that there are several things (including the intense focus on the natural sciences and reification of ‘science’—as an ultimate source of all truth and logic devoid of cultural or moral influence—w/o much focus on the philosophy/history of science) about med school pedagogy that do not produce very thoughtful doctors. but, i wonder if thoughtful doctors are really the doctors that biomedicine requires.

also i hate the term ‘hard sciences’ because of the implication of ‘soft sciences.’ generally i use ‘natural sciences’ versus ‘social(/behavioral) sciences,’ but that implies a dichotomy between the natural and the social as though they don’t include each other. so i give up.

4 Humours [via]

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:00:00 -0400

4 Humours [via]

"This hospital has a c-section rate that is well above what the World Health Organization deems a..."

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:47:15 -0400

“This hospital has a c-section rate that is well above what the World Health Organization deems a safe c-section rate; if women are consenting to a c-section right off the bat (not to mention fetal heart-rate monitoring, antibiotics, episiotomies, and epidurals!) regardless of whether one is actually medically indicated, it’s certainly blurring the lines between what’s medically necessary and the power of suggestion from a medical “authority.” Where does an individual’s right to make an informed choice begin and hospital legal policy end?”

- Does Refusing a C-Section = Child Abuse? [via]

“You’re so Pretty!” by the Matadors of Shame i...

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:34:42 -0400

“You’re so Pretty!” by the Matadors of Shame

i would repeat it but i think its overkill.

"The ward where I lived constituted 10% of the land area of the entire city, but it was not possible..."

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:27:23 -0400

“The ward where I lived constituted 10% of the land area of the entire city, but it was not possible to buy a tomato except at the one-day-a-week farmer’s market in the summer.
Last spring, I bought my first car. Because I had walked and bused everywhere but I didn’t formally exercise, I assumed I would gain weight rapidly upon switching to car transportation. Not so—I lost about 15 pounds really quickly. Before long, I had to buy new pants. I still wasn’t exercising, but being able to reach beyond the North City food desert for food access caused me to lose weight without trying. Scary.
I live in Detroit now. Food access is varied here. There are no major chain big box groceries inside the city, but we have a number of medium box stores ranging from horrible to good, as well as a number of smaller ethnic and specialty stores. We also have one of the largest, oldest farmer’s markets in the country, where at 2am I watched friends buy bushels of beautiful raspberry-red heirloom tomatoes for canning. It really runs the gamut. I say Detroit is not a food desert, but in the likely event that my very broken car quits in the next month or two…. Ask me what I think about Detroit food access then. And then help me look for my old, bigger pants.”

- rustbelt commenting on The Hierarchy Of Food Needs

it bothers me how few people are listening to the matadors of...

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:51:00 -0400

it bothers me how few people are listening to the matadors of shame. i mean, i might listen to them too much, but people are spend a lot of time listening to lessor pop punk bands.

plz download and listen:

Colonialism, Soap, and the Cleansing Metaphor The first step...

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:13:38 -0400

Colonialism, Soap, and the Cleansing Metaphor
The first step towards lightening The White Man’s Burden is through teaching the virtues of cleanliness. Pears’ Soap is a potent factor in brightening the dark corners of the earth as civilization advances while amongst the cultured of all nations it holds the highest place — it is the ideal toilet soap.

"Bruce Alexander is best known - though deserves to be much better known - for the ‘Rat..."

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:44:00 -0400

“Bruce Alexander is best known - though deserves to be much better known - for the ‘Rat Park’ experiments he conducted in 1981. As an addiction psychologist, much of the data with which he worked was drawn from laboratory trials with rats and monkeys: the ‘addictiveness’ of drugs such as opiates and cocaine was established by observing how frequently caged animals would push levers to obtain doses. But Alexander’s observations of addicts at the clinic where he worked in Vancouver suggested powerfully to him that the root cause of addiction was not so much the pharmacology of these particular drugs as the environmental stressors with which his addicts were trying to cope.
To test his hunch he designed Rat Park, an alternative laboratory environment constructed around the need of the subjects rather than the experimenters. A colony of rats, who are naturally gregarious, were allowed to roam together in a large vivarium enriched with wheels, balls and other playthings, on a deep bed of aromatic cedar shavings and with plenty of space for breeding and private interactions. Pleasant woodland vistas were even painted on the surrounding walls. In this situation, the rats’ responses to drugs such as opiates were transformed. They no longer showed interest in pressing levers for rewards of morphine: even if forcibly addicted, they would suffer withdrawals rather than maintaining their dependence. Even a sugar solution could not tempt them to the morphine water (though they would choose this if naloxone was added to block the opiate effects). It seemed that the standard experiments were measuring not the addictiveness of opiates but the cruelty of the stresses inflicted on lab rats caged in solitary confinement, shaved, catheterised and with probes inserted into their median forebrain bundles.”

- The globalisation of addiction