“Work is, after all not just a means to sustenance, it is also a form of social control: It occupies our time, structures our lives and channels passions. When work disappears, social organization breaks down.” From, “Lockdown America” Tweet
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You Know NYC Has A Serious Drug Problem When…
The City has invested in a widespread marketing campaign, not imploring people not to use drugs, period; but to advertise that people should do drugs “safely.” Last week, I got on a train that was wallpapered with advertisements in English and Spanish, bearing the NYC logo, that told people: “Every 6 hours a New Yorker […]
Read the rest of this entry »Does Privacy Even Exist?: The Gap In America’s Privacy Law
According to a ZDNet article entitled: “U.S. Cell Carriers Are Selling Access To Your Real-Time Phone Location Data,” written by Zack Whittaker, America’s top cellphone providers (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint) are selling their customers’ location data to privately-owned companies. These private companies have reportedly, in turn, provided the acquired data to the government. The […]
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• More than 2.5 trillion images are shared or stored on the internet annually. • By 2020, it is estimated that 6.1 billion people will have phones with cameras. • In a single year, approximately 106 million new surveillance cameras are sold. • Worldwide, more than 3 million ATMs have cameras that watch its users. […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Collateral Damage Of Police Terrorism: Erica Garner
Erica Garner is reportedly on life support in a Brooklyn hospital. Erica Garner became a very vocal advocate against police terrorism after her father, Eric Garner, was killed by a NYPD officer who had inexplicably placed him in an illegal chokehold while he helplessly gasped, “I can’t breathe.” After her father’s death, Erica Garner courageously […]
Read the rest of this entry »This Country Was Built By Whom? Who Are The Biggest Victims Of Crime?
“For 246 years our uncompensated labor launched wealthy institutions and private corporate fortunes in America such as Brown University and Fleet Bank, both founded by the Brown brothers, who got their start in American business building slave ships and investing in the slave trade. Cotton made everyone associated with it wealthy- the plantation owners, the […]
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