Queer Bookworm

sexuallysmart:

Why This Is Important

A 15-year-old teenager was caught on video being severely beaten in his high school class room for being gay. The attack occurred at Union-Scioto High School in Chillicothe, Ohio, and was caught on camera as fellow class members watched one teen wait for the victim to enter the room, push him to the ground, and continually punch him in the face. The victim suffered broken teeth and a possible concussion. The perpetrator was suspended for just 3 days.

Union-Scioto has no policy in place that specifically protects students from being bullied or attacked based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The Union-Scioto Local School District does have a policy that prohibits harassment based on sex, race, color, national origin, religion, disability, among others, but it does not specifically protect against harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Tell the Union-Scioto School District to protect LGBT students by prohibiting harassment based on sexual orientation and gender identity and to send a message that this beating was unconscionable by expelling the perpetrator!

I ask you all to please sign and pass this along. Currently it sits at around 86,000 signatures, but the goal is 150,000. Bullying is a very serious issue and one I take very much to heart, especially as a victim myself. And I encourage any of you out there to take action if you school does not have a policy regarding bullying. Remember that all forms of bullying, even cyber, are harassment and harassment is against the law. Please report any instances to your local police department. Never give up. Never think you are alone. And never, EVER, let anyone make you think your life is anything less than important!

lord-kitschener:

brosephstalin:

evilteabagger:

The government, in its narcissistic obsession in displaying its monopolization of force, will begin to criminalize voluntary charity in order to force more people into government assistance.

Members of the organization Food Not Bombs were in good spirits as they passed out corn on the cob, rice, beans and other vegetarian dishes to the homeless and hungry in an Orlando park. This cheer was interrupted when police officers on bicycles arrived and arrested five of the volunteers.

This is not the first time this scene has played out for members of Food Not Bombs.

Since June 1, a dozen members of the group have been arrested for violating a new Orlando city ordinance that prohibits sharing food with large groups in downtown parks more than twice a year.

The mayor of Orlando even branded them “food terrorists.”

Food Not Bombs is an international political organization that protests war, poverty and the destruction of the environment, according to their website. The group meets to distribute food twice a week in downtown Orlando’s Lake Eola Park.

They won a district court case to prevent the enforcement of the new ordinance , but the decision was overturned in the appellate court.

From 5 months ago, but still equally bullshit

…”Food Terrorists?”

reagan-was-a-horrible-president:

newcityinthefuture:

nebraska-admiral:

So an awful News Corp dude (Brian McMullen) said (Duh) awful stuff about why they were perfectly in the right to hack people’s bullshit. Anyway, his defense was this: “In 21 years of invading people’s privacy I’ve never actually come across anyone who’s been doing any good. Privacy is the space bad people need to do bad things in. Privacy is evil; it brings out the worst qualities in people. Privacy is for pedos; fundamentally nobody else needs it.”

This NPR piece, my first tip-off about it, was what set me off. It also includes him blackmailing a woman whose child had recently died.

Class act, Brian McMullen.

Class. Act.

“News of the World” is owned by Rupert Murdoch. And of course Murdoch also owns Fox “News.” Sleaze is the only thing these people know.