Showing posts with label violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label violence. Show all posts

Saturday, October 14, 2017

"vast wasteland"


On May 9th, 1961, 

the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, 

Newton Minow, shocked Americans 

by declaring commercial television programming to be a 

"vast wasteland."

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Sunday, May 24, 2015

just look at us


"Just look at us. 

Everything is backwards, 

everything is upside down. 

Doctors destroy health, 

lawyers destroy justice, 

psychiatrists destroy minds, 

scientists destroy truth, 

major media destroys information, 

religions destroy spirituality 

and governments destroy freedom."

Michael Ellner

Monday, May 4, 2015

45 Years ago today: Kent State massacre


The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre) occurred at Kent State University in the US city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.

Some of the students who were shot had been protesting the Cambodian Campaign, which President Richard Nixon announced during a television address on April 30. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.

There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of four million students, and the event further affected public opinion—at an already socially contentious time—over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War. (read more)