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dayofthebaphomets: Meet Omari. Two days ago he returned from the hospital after being hacked in the face by a machete defending an orphanage of 35 children by himself.      This man dedicates his life to take care of 35 orphaned children from the ages of 2-17 in Kenya. A couple of days ago a group of thugs raided the orphanage to pilage anything they could find, after beating and slashing Omari’s face for defending the children and himself from a previous attempted attack.      The only thing the children are living off of right now are things growing from their small garden, and eggs from a couple of chickens in their coup. Reddit looked to aim to raise $2,000 a couple of hours ago to help build a concrete wall around the orphanage with a 3 layered barbed-wire coil set on top.       In 3 hours, over $11,000 has been donated - and all the extra money is going to feeding them, giving them an education, keeping these children (and many more) safe, and building a new facility.       Please feel free to donate here: http://www.longonoteducation.org/      Remember, anything counts!! Lets see what we can do in 24 hours! :))

dayofthebaphomets:

Meet Omari. Two days ago he returned from the hospital after being hacked in the face by a machete defending an orphanage of 35 children by himself. 

    This man dedicates his life to take care of 35 orphaned children from the ages of 2-17 in Kenya. A couple of days ago a group of thugs raided the orphanage to pilage anything they could find, after beating and slashing Omari’s face for defending the children and himself from a previous attempted attack.

     The only thing the children are living off of right now are things growing from their small garden, and eggs from a couple of chickens in their coup. Reddit looked to aim to raise $2,000 a couple of hours ago to help build a concrete wall around the orphanage with a 3 layered barbed-wire coil set on top. 

     In 3 hours, over $11,000 has been donated - and all the extra money is going to feeding them, giving them an education, keeping these children (and many more) safe, and building a new facility. 

     Please feel free to donate here:

http://www.longonoteducation.org/

     Remember, anything counts!! Lets see what we can do in 24 hours! :))

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“Although the Obama Administration is entitled to enforce federal marijuana laws, the Tenth Amendment forbids it from using coercive tactics to commandeer the law-making functions of the State,” said ASA Chief Counsel Joe Elford, who filed the lawsuit today in San Francisco’s federal District Court. “This case is aimed at restoring California’s sovereign and constitutional right to establish its own public health laws based on this country’s federalist principles.”
ASA : Patient Advocates Sue Obama Justice Department Over Medical Marijuana Crackdown (via sylviac)
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Band claims it costs $100,000 to make it in indie rock, finally rendering the term "indie rock" meaningless

abloodymess:

purepopfornowpeople:

Look at these assholes! Bunch of talentless, spoiled brats. I fucking hate them and their ilk.

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magnolius:

Head On installation by the renowned Cai Guo-Qiang , consisting of 99 life-sized replicas of wolves.

With few wolves scattered in the front gallery, all ninety-nine wolves run, gallop, and jump toward the far end of the exhibition hall, where a wall stands. The bravery of the wolves is met head on by the unyielding wall. As the leading wolves go down, many more follow with force and determination. As those in the front fall and pile up, those behind take up their positions.

 

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Punk without pussy power can’t even be called punk.

Q: Do you feel that “Chicana Punk” or punk with feminist attributes is a completely different punk scene?

Alice: No way, I refuse to be a faction. I want in on the big action. Punk without pussy power, punk without ethnic diversity just supports the status quo, it doesn’t subvert or challenge it, therefore it can’t even be called punk.

-Interview with Alice Bag 1/23/12

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Women are told, over and over again, that it is their responsibility to keep themselves safe. And in the event that you fail, rape culture will ensure that people will blame you for dropping your vigilance, while directing little, if any attention to the person who actually acted without consent. And this is why we started shifting the conversation to speak to men directly.

Because all the words aimed at us still aren’t keeping us safe.

”

Latoya Peterson, in one of the most clear, precise pieces I’ve ever read on rape culture.  Read it, in its entirety.  

I also learned that Cosmo, while having more content about rape culture than I’d presumed, sends a mixed message.  If you look at the cover that Latoya uses in the article, one of the glaring things to me was the headline “What To Do When Your Guy Gets All Quiet.”  On the surface, and maybe to you, there is no connection between that and rape culture.

I feel there is a connection.  The constant message that women are given is to put oneself in the position of “justifier.”  We are exhorted day in and day out to attempt to untangle the meanings and motivations of men’s behaviors, no matter what the situation is, thereby determining our responsibility for their actions.

What Latoya wrote above, about shifting the conversation to speak to men directly, could not be more critical.  The question must stop being “what did I/you/one do to get raped?”  It.  Is.  Not.  Valid.  And is doing nothing to keep us safe.

(via someauthorgirl)
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thepoliticalnotebook: According to a video posted to YouTube, the Free Syrian Army now has its own all-female brigade of fighters, named Khawla Bent Azour (alternatively spelled Bint Al-Azwar) after a famous female warrior poet of the 7th century. The brigade has been formed in the city of Deraa and the women in the video declare that they will patrol the south in support of the anti-regime protesters and to keep their country safe where the Arab League and the international community have been unable to do so. [YouTube; France24]

thepoliticalnotebook:

According to a video posted to YouTube, the Free Syrian Army now has its own all-female brigade of fighters, named Khawla Bent Azour (alternatively spelled Bint Al-Azwar) after a famous female warrior poet of the 7th century. The brigade has been formed in the city of Deraa and the women in the video declare that they will patrol the south in support of the anti-regime protesters and to keep their country safe where the Arab League and the international community have been unable to do so.

[YouTube; France24]

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oxalaoxala: wakeupdiana: Janine Antoni, Lick and Lather. 1993. Two self-portrait busts: one chocolate and one soap that have been either licked or lathered by the artist. “I wanted to work with the tradition of self-portraiture but also with the classical bust…I had the idea that I would make a replica of myself in chocolate and in soap, and I would feed myself with my self, and wash myself with my self. Both the licking and the bathing are quite gentle and loving acts, but what’s interesting is that I’m slowly erasing myself through the process. So for me it’s about that conflict, that love/hate relationship we have with our physical appearance, and the problem I have with looking in the mirror and thinking, ‘Is that who I am?’” I’m struggling with the idea of producing a self portrait right now, so I’ve been looking at all sorts of different artists’ interpretations. I love this; the erasing and the nourishing and the self-care (literally…?). So interesting.

oxalaoxala:

wakeupdiana:

Janine Antoni, Lick and Lather. 1993.

Two self-portrait busts: one chocolate and one soap that have been either licked or lathered by the artist.

“I wanted to work with the tradition of self-portraiture but also with the classical bust…I had the idea that I would make a replica of myself in chocolate and in soap, and I would feed myself with my self, and wash myself with my self. Both the licking and the bathing are quite gentle and loving acts, but what’s interesting is that I’m slowly erasing myself through the process. So for me it’s about that conflict, that love/hate relationship we have with our physical appearance, and the problem I have with looking in the mirror and thinking, ‘Is that who I am?’”

I’m struggling with the idea of producing a self portrait right now, so I’ve been looking at all sorts of different artists’ interpretations. I love this; the erasing and the nourishing and the self-care (literally…?). So interesting.

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fuckyeahmarxismleninism: Egyptian protesters hold up an obelisk with the names of those killed during last year’s uprising, at a huge rally in Tahrir Square on January 25, 2012, marking the first anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Egyptian protesters hold up an obelisk with the names of those killed during last year’s uprising, at a huge rally in Tahrir Square on January 25, 2012, marking the first anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

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