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February 2012
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Microfinance debt causes suicides →
First they were stripped of their utensils, furniture, mobile phones, televisions, ration cards and heirloom gold jewelry. Then, some of them drank pesticide. One woman threw herself in a pond. Another jumped into a well with her children.
Sometimes, the debt collectors watched nearby.
More than 200 poor, debt-ridden residents of Andhra Pradesh killed themselves in late 2010, according to...
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Ramarley Graham, 18, was shot and killed by a NYPD officer yesterday. It’s the...
– NYPD Officers Shoot and Kill Three Black Men in One Week
…and nobody cares. It’s just another day. I wish I could say I was surprised at how many people are justifying the killings in the comment section. Disgusting.
(via racismschool)
All white women in this nation know that their status is different from that of...
– bell hooks (via partypropagandaprofessional)