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logiccontroldeck:

On Sunday, May 13th, Zoey Peterson and her partner Aurora Holmgren went out for dinner and never returned. Sporadic text contact with Lavenderpanda occurred Monday and Tuesday, though it can not be confirmed that Zoey or Aurora was the author of the texts. 

There had been a fight in the house before their departure and it may be that they are staying with friends to avoid conflict. If you know ANYTHING please contact me or Lavenderpanda (http://lavenderpanda.tumblr.com/). We are filing a police report today since it has been 48 hours since they were last seen.


Zoey is on the left and Aurora on the right in this photo

This photo shows Zoey’s current glasses, and both her obvious tattoos. She also has a design on her back and a trans* tattoo on her hip
Thanks, and please signal boost!

Reblogging so all her followers can see that she is missing. Please contact Logiccontroldeck or Lavenderpanda.

nilecrocodile:

gnimaerd:

nilecrocodile:

golden-zephyr:

In a February 12 interview on Canal Plus TV, François Hollande, Socialist Party candidate for president in the upcoming elections, proposed as a “solution” to the presence in France of Roma European Union (EU) citizens “the creation of camps … to accommodate them”.

The association of a “solution” in relation to specific racial groups with special camps can only bring to mind the period of Nazi rule in Europe, during which not only Jews and homosexuals, but also Roma and gypsies were rounded up and sent to extermination camps. This was not lost on many French people.

Hollande called for the establishment of “European rules to avoid our experiencing this constant to and fro [of the Roma]. Let there be camps that we can decide on, that is, to avoid these people settling just anywhere … [to] enable these people to go back to Romania … and not then return to France”.

Put more concretely, the Roma would be rounded up, and after their improvised encampments were broken up, they would be sent back to Romania, the same policy the present right-wing government of President Nicolas Sarkozy is pursuing.

The “Socialist” Hollande’s innovation is to suggest the building of internment camps and then preventing the Roma from returning by some sort of frontier control. Hollande is here attacking the free movement within the EU of these European citizens, one of the few progressive measures European capitalism temporarily conceded in the Schengen agreement in 1985.

Ruling UMP (Union for a Popular Majority) deputies pounced on Hollande’s statement to justify the brutality of the governments’ current policy. On RTL radio, minister for apprenticeship Nadine Morano, a rabid racist, claimed that she was “profoundly shocked” by this “outlandish proposal … We [the government] were the ones who organised the dismantling of the Roma camps with legal procedures, in accordance with French law”, while “Mr. Hollande is proposing the creation of camps for Roma in France.”

An estimated 12,000 to 15,000 Roma, citizens of Romania and Bulgaria, have legally come to France since their countries joined the European Union in 2007. According to the BBC, ten other EU countries, including Germany, Italy, Denmark and Sweden, which also welcomed Roma, are likewise introducing deportation policies. Measures adopted by a number of European states, including France, limit access to work and residence rights for Romanian and Bulgarian migrants until December 12, 2013, when the restrictions will end. It is clear that Hollande would not want to end these restrictions but, rather, extend and reinforce them.

It is difficult to distinguish Hollande’s statements from Sarkozy’s infamous Grenoble speech of June 30, 2010: “We’ll examine the rights and welfare entitlements, currently available to foreigners living in suspiciously irregular circumstances.… The general rule is clear: illegals must be directed back to their own countries”, said Sarkozy. He had already asked the interior minister “to put an end to unauthorized gypsy settlements. These are lawless zones not to be tolerated in France”.

EU commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Viviane Reding accused the Sarkozy government of “discrimination on the basis of ethnic origin or race” and of calling into question “the common values and laws of our European Union”. She described the French policy as a “disgrace”. She implicitly compared the actions of the French government with those of the fascists during the Second World War. In the event, she backed down and Sarkozy has been able to continue with this “disgrace”.

Hollande is currently justifying Socialist Party-dominated town councils’ current practice in relation to Roma settlements. Essonne Info reported that on February 13, his campaign manager Manuel Valls, mayor of Evry, “by a mayoral municipal decree … called on the préfet [police chief] to clear by force the children and their parents and bulldoze their encampment”. There is no report that the mayor offered them alternative accomodation.

Discussion about the closing of frontiers between EU countries flared up in 2011, when Tunisian refugees fleeing state repression and devastated living conditions through Italy were prevented by the French government from crossing the Italian border, where they were legal, into France where many had family and friends.

The announcement of Hollande’s Roma “solution” came only days after the controversy created by Martinique deputy Serge Latchimi, who said that minister of the interior Claude Guéant’s comment that some civilisations were superior to others was close to Nazism. Hollande refused to support Latchimi’s position.

Hollande is appealing to the most backward elements in French society and distancing himself from wide layers of the population deeply opposed to the brutality of the state’s attacks on fundamental human rights.

When accused of being “soft” on illegal immigrants, Hollande likes to cite his election programme: “I will conduct an implacable struggle against illegal immigration … Legal residence will be granted case-by-case on objective criteria”.

The Socialist Party candidate did not offer any criticism of minister of the interior Guéant’s proud achievement of expelling 32,912 undocumented immigrants in 2011, up from 28,026 in 2010, a 17.5 percent increase.

In response to a remark by Sarkozy suggesting that Hollande favoured mass legalisation of undocumented immigrants, the Socialist Party’s Mireille Le Corre, in charge of “immigration-integration” policy, insisted: “François Hollande … is not for carrying out mass legalisations, but for re-establishing a fair and transparent procedure. Foreigners whose circumstances do not comply with a possible legalisation will go through an expulsion procedure, under conditions which respect their rights and their dignity”.

Hollande’s anti-immigrant positions are reinforced by the fact that the entire bourgeois and petty-bourgeois “left”—the Socialist Party, Communist Party, Left Party and New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA)—worked actively with Sarkozy in Islamophobic campaigns to ban the burqa and, before that, the Muslim veil in schools. They are now all mobilising behind Hollande in the presidential elections in April-May to enable the French bourgeoisie to ride out the economic crisis by destroying the rights and living standards of the working class as is now under way in Greece.

holy

shit

I’m becoming increasingly convinced that another European genocide on par with the Holocaust is a real possibility given the current political climate on the continent (and increasingly in parts of the UK as well). It’s going to be Roma and Muslim people who are hit, followed by any other inconveniently brown ethnic group or religious minority.

Anyone who has studied the run up to the second world war knows that a great deal of what is currently flaring up (the economic hardship, the laws prohibiting certain kinds of religious expression, the increasing presence of bigoted racist nut jobs on the political scene who no one takes seriously until OOPS THEY’RE IN POWER) is eerily reminiscent of what happened in the run up to the Nazis implementing their ‘final solution’ in Germany.

People seem so fucking sure that because it happened once so recently it can’t possibly happen again - that attitude is making us complacent. The holocaust isn’t some distant nightmare. It isn’t a symbol or a point of collective catharsis. It isn’t something that just happened in films and on the history channel - it was REAL, millions of people ACTUALLY suffered and died, there are people still alive who remember the concentration camps. If it happened once, it can happen again, and I don’t understand why the prevalence of this kind of hateful xenophobic rhetoric in Europe isn’t setting off more alarm bells. This is how it started the last time. 

EXACTLY

that is EXACTLY what the “never again” means. It doesn’t mean that it’s not ever going to happen again. It’s a reminder that it can and will happen again if we let it (there was a really good post about this a while back but idk how to find it since I didn’t tag it properly). And, uh, it looks like we’re letting it.

I mean, look at this post. It’s got like…10 notes. 10.

(Source: wsws.org)

mybelovedcheshire:

astudyinlestrade:

WARNING: FLASHING LIGHTS, BRIGHT AND CONTRASTING COLORS, LOUD NOISES.

My results: You have quite a high view of your own worth and tend to respond immediately and quite negatively to any perceived criticism. There is a distinct limit to the amount and degree of empathy that you can bring to bear in any situation, however your above average intelligence will under some circumstances allow you to modulate your incipient narcissism in order to better interact with those around you. This in fact is your only hope.

 An unsatisfying relationship is troubling you, due in all likelihood to a perceived lack of appreciation, or acknowledgement from superiors or loved ones.  Questioning this judgement has lead to a modicum of introversion. You feel that you need assistance from others to repair the situation but are afraid that too much compromise will be seen as weakness. If this situation continues, you may feel the need to break away and redefine your own individuality.

So true. Every word of it.

You feel that you are not receiving the proper amount of respect or satisfaction from life and this is causing you to become ever more irritable. Sudden anger is likely and it will often be unrelated to the matter at hand. There is a feeling that your friends and lovers should be more sympathetic to your problems, which can leave you feeling that your emotions are backing up and causing long term unhappiness.

 A sense of hopelessness is making you unreasonable and disagreeable. Fears of losing status or security are causing anxiety and stress. You have a sense of loss that you do not want to get any worse, and this is expressing itself as a negative attitude and a general unwillingness to relinquish control.

…holy shit.

Your anxiety levels are not caused by an inability to form long term relationships or to find satisfaction through physicality. However, a tendency to avoid conflict can become pathological, especially if you are introverted. Fear of unpleasantness inevitably leads you to create problems where they do not need to exist, and this of course creates more problems.

Pressure and stress have left you feeling that the best course of action is immediate freeing escape. You are frustrated and have begun to weaken from the effort of facing your day to day problems. Sometimes the problems of the day can seem to come from deliberate antipathy of those around you, although this is often imagined. 

(Source: astudyinlaufeyson)