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iamonlyamaid:

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Glorious.

Things I dislike about John Green: nothing.

(Source: privilegetoloveyou)

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Hanni el Khatib at Ameoba Records, LA

I love his album but didn’t know what to make of the guy behind it. Cool dude.

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The Jezabels - City Girl

“I get out on the streets late at night and I walk
Let it hurl, unfurl on the world, go beserk
Yeah, get on your own turf
And someone will hand you a sweet proposition one day
And you’ll say, say
‘G’day, how you doin’, Fortune?’”

I could quote this whole song.

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randominternet:

I have a dream

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capitalnewyork:

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York on April 18, 1967. After leading more than 125,000 peace marchers from Central Park to the U.N., he called for an end to the U.S.’s bombing campaign against North Vietnam. (Photo: John Littlewood/The Christian Science Monitor)

Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam

These are revolutionary times. All over the globe men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression, and out of the wombs of a frail world, new systems of justice and equality are being born. The shirtless and barefoot people of the lan d are rising up as never before. “The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light.” We in the West must support these revolutions. It is a sad fact that, because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to ad just to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch anti-revolutionaries. This has driven many to feel that only Marxism has the revolutionary spirit. Therefore, communism is a judgment against our failure to make democracy real and follow through on the revolutions that we initiated. Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.

We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and justice throughout the developing world—a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.

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“Now in order to do this, we must answer and deal with one or two myths that are still disseminated and often block powerful social action in order to grapple with the evils of society. One argument is the myth of time. This myth says in substance that only time can solve problems that we face in the area of human relations. So there are those who say to individuals struggling to make justice a reality. Why don’t you wait and stop pushing so hard. If you will just be patient and wait 100 or 200 years the problem will work itself out. Well this argument still goes around. The only answer that one can give to this myth is that time is neutral. It can be used either constructively or destructively. I’m convinced that the people of ill-will in our nation have often used time much more effectively that the people of good will. It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and violent actions of the bad people who will bomb a church in Birmingham, Alabama but for the appalling silence of the good people who sit idly by and say wait on time. Somewhere along the way we must see that time will never solve the problem alone but that we must help time. Somewhere we must see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels on inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God. Without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the insurgent and primitive forces of irrational emotionalism and social stagnation. We must always help time and realize that the time is always right to do right.”

Dr. Martin Luther King, 1963 speech at WMU

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The dormitories are cement cubes, 12’ by 12’, and in that space there are 13 beds, 14 beds I count, 15 beds. They’re stacked up like Jenga puzzle pieces all the way up to the ceiling, the spaces between them is so narrow, none of us would actually fit in them. They have to slide into them like coffins.

There are cameras in the rooms. There are cameras in the hallways. There are cameras everywhere. And why wouldn’t there be?

You know, when we dream of a future where the regulations are washed away and the corporations are finally able to sail free above us, you don’t have to dream about some sci-fi dystopian Blade Runner 1984 bullshit. You can go to Shenzhen tomorrow. They’re making your crap that way today.

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Mike Daisey, describing the living conditions of Chinese employees of Foxconn in Shenzhen. Excerpted from http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory (via foulmouthedliberty)

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I became a feminist the day that my father first told me the story of how angry he was when I was born because I was a girl.

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farhaha:

Found these little gems at the front of Pittsburgh’s Barnes & Noble’s children’s section. Here’s the first page of each.

I think I speak for all women when I say we are THRILLED that society is finally starting to take floristry seriously!

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jardineria:

por Danny Perez

This bird is my kindred spirit.

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