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i am blessed: I had a thought tonight. I was thinking about love and how foolish it...
I had a thought tonight. I was thinking about love and how foolish it is to allow most of your happiness to depend on its presence or lack. I’m sure it’s wonderful. I understand the ache for it, I do. But how can you let your personal happiness depend so much on someone else’s actions? This is…
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A DREAMer's Life: Why Texans Should Support In State Tuition for Undocumented Students
There is a misconception that legislation signed in 2001 that made college education accessible for all Texas residents, and provided a chance for undocumented students to make use of the money that they pay into the public fund in taxes as financial aid, is an issue about immigration….
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Recontres de Bamako 2011 - Permanent Error (2009-2010) by © Pieter Hugo
“This is a series on the Ghanaian slum Agbogbloshie. People and cattle live on mountains of motherboards, monitors and discarded hard drives. The UN Environment Program has stated that Western countries produce around 50 million tons of digital waste every year. In Europe, only 25% of this type of waste is recycled. Much of the rest is shipped to developing countries, supposedly to reduce the digital divide and to create jobs. In reality, the inhabitants survive largely by burning the electronic devices to extract copper and other metals used in their manufacture.”
Pieter Hugo is from South Africa, seen via LaLettre
this is important.
I had no idea. Sad.
The Queer Desi: GOP lawmaker cleared to subpoena immigration documents
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith will subpoena Homeland Security for immigration documents next week. (Getty Images)By JUAN GASTELUM
Channel: ImmigrationRepublicans on a House subcommittee voted on Wednesday to subpoena the Department of Homeland…
What a sad, narrow-minded little man. I hope he finds out just how awesome DREAMers are and his how backwards partisan politics has prevented economic growth; not to mention doing what’s morally right.
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“For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.”
— from “Poetry is Not a Luxury” by Audre Lorde (via buoyantcherub)
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“If you were to assess the state of the union in 2011, you might sum it up this way: rather than being subjected to the rule of law, the nation’s most powerful oligarchs control the law and are so exempt from it; and increasing numbers of Americans understand that and are outraged. At exactly the same time that the nation’s elites enjoy legal immunity even for egregious crimes, ordinary Americans are being subjected to the world’s largest and one of its harshest penal states, under which they are unable to secure competent legal counsel and are harshly punished with lengthy prison terms for even trivial infractions.”
— Glenn Greenwald (via azspot)
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