The countries that are doing very well in Europe are the Scandinavian countries. Denmark is different from Sweden, Sweden is different from Norway – but they all have strong social protection and they are all growing. The argument that the response to the current crisis has to be a lessening of social protection is really an argument by the 1% to say: “We have to grab a bigger share of the pie.” But if the majority of people don’t benefit from the economic pie, the system is a failure.
Teaching our boys to treat ladies with deference, we choose not to place them in an athletic competition where proper boundaries can only be respected with difficulty … Our school aims to instill in our boys a profound respect for women and girls.
— A statement from Our Lady Of Sorrows Academy • Explaining their baseball’s team’s forfeiture of an Arizona state championship game, due to the participation of a female player. Paige Sultzbach, a high school freshman, plays second base for Mesa Preparatory Academy. When the two teams played throughout their regular season, Sultzbach went the way of self-sacrifice, willingly sitting out in respect of the school’s religious convictions. With a championship on the line, however, she was unwilling to sit on the sidelines to appease her opponent’s orthodoxy. As a result, Our Lady Of Sorrows straight-up forfeited the game. Said Sultzbach’s father, John: “Instead of changing their position, they decided to not play the game. Both teams worked hard to get to where they are and to have it come down to that is unfortunate.” source (via • follow)
Against Me! - The Ocean
New Wave: my summer of 2008 - driving the van.
Þetta er svo frábær mynd af Tom Gabel / Laura Jane Grace.
mad respect to laura jane grace. i never actively listened to much against me! but they’ve played warped tour enough that i know what a legit band they are. this is a big step for the rock scene and she has incredible courage for doing this so publicly. it’ll be interesting to see how this progresses but rock on.
also props to her wife, who sounds like an incredible person.
and to all the people posting “omg nooo but he’s such an attractive man:” fuck you, you superficial little girls. if you had any respect for her as an artist and a person you’d have something much deeper to say about this.
Behind-the-scenes footage of Adam Yauch playing basketball with Michael Beasley from Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot
In light of MCA/Adam Yauch’s career, this weekend make sure to not only fight for your right to party, but also responsibly fight for peace, independent cinema, and the current state of the New York Knicks.
(via waxandmilk)
Alan Light, author of Skills to Pay the Bills, a book on the Beastie Boys, remembers MCA: “If you look at the way the band evolved and transformed and think about the unbelievably surprising ways they were able to transform from what they started as, nobody really embodied that more than Yauch. In the beginning, he was the most obnoxious, and then he became the conscience of the band and was one of the leading political activists of his musical generation. He changed more than any of them.”
PEACE OUT ADAM YAUCH. Keep on the fight for the right to party, wherever you are.
