The Prison Cortyard by Vincent van Gogh
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Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
WANTED for wanting Freedom.
Chile education protests continue to rage on for the third day as 110,000 students & supporters marched throughout Santiago demanding education reform. Encapuchados (“hooded ones”) threw molotov cocktails & rocks at riot police as violence ensued.
40 people were arrested included a number of human rights observers. Protests took place around the country today resulting in 227 arrests.
Following the march, Carabineros, Chile’s uniformed police, entered into the central campus of Universidad de Chile which — alongside 25 other university buildings — has been occupied by students sympathetic to the march’s demands. The police intrusion — captured here in an eyewitnesses video— drew fierce condemnation from university chancellor Víctor Pérez.
“Carabineros entered into the central campus without permission, dispersed tear gas inside and hit students with batons. More than 20 students are injured,” said Pérez. “This is unacceptable and we condemn it and call on authorities to put an end to the aggression suffered [here].”Student leaders rejected recent promises made in this week’s presidential debates, after many left-leaning candidates promised to reform education and address the inequality which protesters allege is rife in the current system.
FECH Andrés Fielbaum said rhetoric of change is completely undermined by a lack of action on the part of the left-leaning Concertación opposition coalition.
“Now we see that all the [presidential] candidates are adopting our plans and copying our position without this having any correlation to what they do in parliament or what the political parties propose,” Fielbaum told The Santiago Times. “On one hand, the Concertación is promising free education and an end to profit, while at the same time they are discussing policies which allow profit making in education.”
MESUP spokesman Manuel Erazo was equally unimpressed by the recent promises of Concertación candidates.
“We don’t believe any presidential candidates, no one responds to the needs of the people,” said Erazo.Power to the students!
Diego Rivera, Indian Warrior, 1931
![Ray Milland was so convincing in the role as alcoholic Don Birnam in Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend [1945], that he was actually picked up by cops on the street while filming.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/69ad21e3fc45fdf562a9f85fbffd12e0/tumblr_mnodyeVrTQ1qcs4zto1_500.jpg)
Ray Milland was so convincing in the role as alcoholic Don Birnam in Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend [1945], that he was actually picked up by cops on the street while filming.
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Huffington Post more defiant than usual - even the progressive wing of liberals seem to be tired of the parade of bullshit coming out of this administration.
I didn’t believe they really posted this until I checked it out myself:: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Philadelphia adopting ‘doomsday’ school-slashing plan despite $400 million prison project
June 6, 2013Days after Philadelphia officials pushed the city one step closer to a so-called “doomsday” education plan that would see two dozen schools close, construction began on a $400-million prison said to be the second-most expensive state project ever.
Pennsylvania’s School Reform Commission voted on June 1 to approve a $2.4 billion budget, ignoring hours of pleas from students, parents, educators and community members who warned the budget would cripple city schools.
The plan would close 23 public schools, roughly 10 per cent of the city’s total. Commissioners rejected a proposal that would have only closed four of the 27 schools that were on the block for closure.
Without the means to cover a $304 million debt, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, students can expect to go back to school in September without new books, paper, counselors, clubs, librarians, assistant principals or secretaries. All athletics, art and music programs would be eliminated and as many as 3,000 people could lose their jobs.
Only one of five state commissioners voted against the proposal, warning that Republican Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett’s administration had not looked hard enough elsewhere for proper funds.
That $304 million windfall is unlikely to be filled because the Republican-controlled Pennsylvania House of Representatives recently passed a tax break for corporations that will cost Pennsylvania residents an estimated $600 million to $800 million annually.
Newly unemployed teachers might consider submitting their resumes to the Department of Corrections, though, with the news that the supposedly cash-strapped government is digging deep to spend $400 million for the construction of State Correctional Institutions Phoenix I and II.
The penitentiary, which is technically two facilities, will supplement at least two existing jails, the Western Penitentiary at Pittsburgh and Fayette County Jail. Pittsburgh’s Western Penitentiary was built in 2003 with the original intention of replacing Fayette County Jail, but the prison has struggled with lawsuits claiming widespread physical and sexual abuse of prisoners.
Scheduled to be completed in 2015, the new prison’s cell blocks and classroom will be capable of housing almost 5,000 inmates. Officials said there will be buildings for female inmates, the mentally ill and a death row population.
Journalist Rhania Khalek noted that the racial disparities in the education system and prison complex, where 60 per cent of all people are of color, have created a literal “school-to-prison-pipeline.”
“In Philadelphia, black students comprise 81 per cent of those who will be impacted by the closings despite accounting for just 58 per cent of the overall student population,” she wrote. “In stark contrast, just 4 per cent of those affected are white kids who make up 14 per cent of Philly students. And though they make up 81 per cent of Philadelphia students, 93 per cent of kids affected by the closings are low-income.”
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Photo: Decarcerate PA marching through Harrisburg on the way to protest school closures at the Capitol.
Ku Klux Klan poster from the 1930s.
Via Prison CultureIt all makes sense now. Seeing this poster reinforces why “communism” and socialism” are so threatening to them. You hear those words tossed around all the time by the angry types. And most of the time I’m thinking: you have no clue what those things are…
But just look to this poster for context.
All these years. All these wars. All of this death.
They’re afraid of communism? No. They’re afraid of equal footing. They always have been.
Oh look, the Ku Klux Klan using Republican talking points.
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