December 2008
289 posts
• • • • Granny Peace Brigade • • • • » Blog... →
Ritalin: The Government Drug →
5-year-old chef starts Portland TV cooking show -... →
“By age 3, Julian Kreusser was making “secret potions” out of food. He woke up early to scramble eggs while his parents slept. He invented “toasted olives” (green ones) for a neighborhood snack. For the record, they were a success.
At age 4, he saw a cooking show on Oregon Public Broadcasting and thought, “I should be doing that.”
He can’t reach...
Diggers & Dreamers – The Guide to Communal Living... →
“We adults destroy most of the intellectual and creative capacity of children by...”
– John Holt
Intersting quotes from interesting people!
BBC NEWS | UK | UK playwright Harold Pinter dies →
“Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by...”
– Seymour Papert
“The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural...”
– John Updike
“My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but...”
– George Bernard Shaw
Roma Rights Quiz | Roma Rights Network →
Renegade Evolution: Screw it, I don't give fuck... →
Hundreds of Brazil's eco-warriors at risk of... →
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer (via ebb-andflow, srsly, bon-bon) (via beenthinking) (via butterflyeffect)
“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that...”
– Kahlil Gibran (via kari-shma) (via erickd) (via seashelllz)
SAFETY FIRST: To Decriminalise Sex Work And... →
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“Alone, we’re just prostitutes on the corner and no one respects us,” she said....”
– Sex Workers Criticize Law Enforcement - washingtonpost.com (link via melissa) (via spreadmagazine) (via un-cool)
Because there's more at stake than just the... →
SAVE SANTA!
Women | Initiative | Active | Agents | Gender... →
Germany to honour 500,000 murdered Roma in WWII |... →
“When taxes are too high, people go hungry. When government is too intrustive,...”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching. c.500BC
Making it up » Bailiffs get power to use force on... →
I’m bloody sick of the poor being victimised and criminalised in this country.
