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one of the most beautiful and honest collaborative pieces of artwork i have ever seen that sends such a serious yet beautiful message
so beautiful
Because its being done to poor black/hispanic kids.
Why isn’t closing 40 Philadelphia public schools national news?
In what should be the biggest story of the week, the city of Philadelphia’s school system announced Tuesday that it expects to close 40 public schools next year and 64 by 2017. The school district expects to lose 40% of current enrollment to charter schools, the streets or wherever, and put thousands of experienced, well qualified teachers, often grounded in the communities where they teach, on the street.
Ominously, the shredding of Philadelphia’s public schools isn’t even news outside Philly. This correspondent would never have known about it save for a friend’s Facebook posting early this week. Corporate media in other cities don’t mention massive school closings, whether in Chicago, Atlanta, NYC, or in this case Philadelphia, perhaps so people won’t have given the issue much deep thought before the same crisis is manufactured in their town. Even inside Philadelphia the voices of actual parents, communities, students and teachers are shut out of most newspaper and broadcast accounts.
america…..
i’m moving.
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George W. Bush: Now a convicted war criminal
In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were yesterday (Fri) found guilty of war crimes.
Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia.
The trial held in Kuala Lumpur heard harrowing witness accounts from victims of torture who suffered at the hands of US soldiers and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.
They included testimony from British man Moazzam Begg, an ex-Guantanamo detainee and Iraqi woman Jameelah Abbas Hameedi who was tortured in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison.
At the end of the week-long hearing, the five-panel tribunal unanimously delivered guilty verdicts against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their key legal advisors who were all convicted as war criminals for torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.
Malaysia I love you for this.
Perfect; let’s start by trialing every single president post-World War II or else it would become a catastrophe on the convicted crimes we caused.
Now to seize them, along with all their assets, and place them in prison.
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Yo no sabré leer ni escribir ni escribir pero nunca me he burlado de nadie.Y si lo que ustedes saben, lo que ustedes aprendieron sirve para lastimar la dignidad de un hombre, que por circunstancias de la vida no pudo cultivarse, prefiero mejor seguir siendo ignorante, deslustrado, pero sin maldad y de buena fe, así quiero seguir siendo, como soy, y no quiero cambiar en la forma que son ustedes”
-Cantinflas (El analfabeto)
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Children seen in an anti-drones protest in Pakistan.
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“I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho,and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s brilliant monologue on the most astounding fact about the universe has been adapted into a comic, a fine addition to the best graphic nonfiction.
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in the top picture is what happens when you stereotype a people, for those of you that feel the need to portray our culture in this way, STOP!
The pattern looks like this:
- Racist and sexist stereotypes deny the dignity and worth of Indigenous women, encouraging some men to feel they can get away with acts of hatred against them.
- Decades of government policy have impoverished and broken apart Indigenous families and communities, leaving many Indigenous women and girls extremely vulnerable to exploitation and attack.
- Many police forces have failed to institute necessary measures – such as training, protocols and accountability mechanisms – to ensure that officers understand and respect the Indigenous communities they serve. Without such measures, police too often fail to do all they can to ensure the safety of Indigenous women and girls whose lives are in danger.
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Lover, You Should Have Come Over - Jeff Buckley.
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