February 2012
14 posts
Falling Apart Together: A Guy You Should Date →
whatifitallcomesaparttogether:
Date a guy who reads. You will save yourself a lot of strife. A guy who reads will be attuned to your wants and needs because, to him, you will be the conflation of all the literary characters he’s fallen in love with from book to book. He will constantly adore you and watch you live your daily…
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BC students rally against Barstool!
knockoutbarstoolsports:
Some Boston College students have started a petition against Barstool Sports and their Barstool Blackout Tour, which is scheduled to take place for BC students on the same evening as their Take Back the Night event.
You can check out their facebook group here.
The petition is online here.
It’s awesome to see students at other schools rallying back against Barstool!...
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January 2012
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Watchdynamicafrica:
Africa’s Daughters
In a country where a high school education is generally reserved for boys, Hoctavia is one of 31 children, most of whom dropped out of school. Ruth lives in a tiny apartment in one of Kampala’s poorest neighborhoods with her mother and three siblings. Graduating from high school is the only way they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty. Like...
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“Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, — in prison...”
– legal scholar Michelle Alexander. On Monday’s Fresh Air, Alexander talks about how the mass incarceration of African-Americans in the War on Drugs has undermined many of the gains of the Civil Rights movement. (via nprfreshair)
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Africa Not Fit For Print; The 'Light' Side Of The... →
dynamicafrica:
A Chinese, Latin American, and North American student are sitting in a classroom. The teacher pulls out a map of Africa, and asks ‘tell me what you see”.
The Chinese student speaks of opportunity and business; South African steel, Congolese minerals, and Angolan oil to power his country’s growth, and an endless list of future contracts for Chinese-built roads, bridges, and...
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December 2011
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Urban Ubuntu: "You strike a child, You strike me."... →
from Rosie, one of the most wonderful, caring, insightful women I know urbanubuntu:
This is the most difficult day of the program for students and staff alike. When I was a student on this trip, today’s learnings broke me. Every time I visit a place like this that has the same notion of tragedy and beauty my heart fills up until it’s really full and I lose track of what to…
November 2011
7 posts
“I’m grateful for anything that reminds me of what’s possible in this life. Books...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via thatkindofwoman)
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Nov 12 No Mil Trials Solidarity →
Excerpted from a statement by the Egyptian activist group No Mil Trials
“The bullets they kill us with are made in America. The tear gas that burns from Oakland to Palestine is made in Wyoming. David Cameron’s first visit to post-revolutionary Egypt was to close a weapons deal,”
They’re calling for an international day of solidarity on Nov 12. The Egyptian people have shown solidarity...
October 2011
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Yahoo! News: Thousands of Hispanic students still... →
yahoonews:
Even more Hispanic students were absent from schools Monday following a federal judge’s decision to let the state’s tough new immigration law go into effect on Thursday.
Malissa Valdes, a spokeswoman for Alabama’s education department, told The Lookout that total absences among Hispanic…
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5 reasons why the Occupy Wall Street Protests are...
think-progress:
1. The original Boston Tea Party was a civil disobedience action against a private corporation.
2. The original Boston Tea Party feared that corporate greed would destroy America.
3. The original Boston Tea Party believed government necessary to protect against corporate excess.
4. The original Boston Tea Party was sparked by a corporate tax cut for a British...
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What's Wrong With Awlaki's Killing? →
50statepress:
This is a thoughtful, well-reasoned - and largely non-political - piece by Stephen L. Carter, a professor at Yale Law School.
He considers two questions:
(i) What is the source of the President’s authority to order drone killings; and
(ii) What about reciprocity - by using tools of warfare against terror groups, are we somehow giving them license to reciprocate in kind.
To be...
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How unequal we are: Top five facts about the top...
think-progress:
1. The top 1 percent of Americans owns 40 percent of the nation’s wealth
2. The top 1 percent of Americans take home 24 percent of national income
3. The top 1 percent of Americans own half of the country’s stocks, bonds, and mutual funds
4. The top 1 percent of Americans have only 5 percent of the nation’s personal debt
5. The top 1 percent are taking in more of the nation’s...
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Some thoughts on occupy wall street
do i support it? of course. are protests being portrayed as violent, disorganized, disgruntled and young? no shit.
i’m really proud that americans one again feel moved. for too long we’ve disagreed quietly, politely, from our armchairs while watching the evening news. we’ve wished our country simply wouldn’t behave that way, or we’ve discussed it with friends...