JUNE 23 2013
ED, I’M COMING FOR YOU. <3
(via the-ed-sheeran-fandom)
An abandoned Atlanta school’s bathroom is slowly reclaimed by ivy and kudzu.
When humans leave, plants take over.
(via sircle)
Title:
She Needs Me
Artist:
Jamie Lidell
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Jamie Lidell. She Needs Me.
It’s interesting how many Americans view time as a commodity not to be “wasted” instead of concept to create a fulfilling life.
Commenter in response to a photo taken by Humans of New York
Warren 2016!
Bangladesh: Time for global brands to say they will take no clothes from companies that do not meet basic standards
Tragedy Shows Urgency of Worker Protections
The collapse of an eight-story factory building near Dhaka shows the urgent need to improve Bangladesh’s protections for worker health and safety. Reforms should include a drastic overhaul of the government’s system of labor inspections and an end to government efforts to thwart the right of workers to unionize.
“Given the long record of worker deaths in factories, this tragedy was sadly predictable,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “The government, local factory owners, and the international garment industry pay workers among the world’s lowest wages, but didn’t have the decency to ensure safe conditions for the people who put clothes on the backs of people all over the world.”
The Rana building collapse is the latest in a long list of factory building tragedies in Bangladesh, Human Rights Watch said. In April 2005, 73 garment workers died in a factory collapse in Savar. In February 2006, 18 workers were killed in a garment factory collapse in Dhaka. In June 2010, 25 people were killed in a building collapse in Dhaka. In November 2012, more than 100 workers died in a fire at a factory in Dhaka.
Photo: Relatives cry for loved ones trapped in the collapsed Rana Plaza building outside Dhaka on April 24, 2013. (c) 2013 Reuters
Why is this still going on?! These factory tragedies and the horrific deaths keep piling up and still no justice is served!!
“Have you ever noticed that the only metaphor we have in our public discourse for solving problems is to declare war on it? We have the war on crime, the war on cancer, the war on drugs. But did you ever notice that we have no war on homelessness? You know why? Because there’s no money in that problem. No money to be made off of the homeless. If you can find a solution to homelessness where the corporations and politicians can make a few million dollars each, you will see the streets of America begin to clear up pretty damn quick!”
—George Carlin
It’s harder for us to see politicians, with the exception of Nelson Mandela and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, as courageous these days. Perhaps we have seen too much, grown too cynical about the inevitable compromises of power. There are no Gandhis, no Lincolns anymore. One man’s hero (Hugo Chávez, Fidel Castro) is another’s villain. We no longer easily agree on what it means to be good, or principled, or brave. When political leaders do take courageous steps—as France’s Nicolas Sarkozy, then president, did in Libya by intervening militarily to support the uprising against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi—there are as many who doubt as approve. Political courage, nowadays, is almost always ambiguous. Even more strangely, we have become suspicious of those who take a stand against the abuses of power or dogma. It was not always so.
Jose was a top math scholar and dreamt of being a mechanical engineer.
He was awarded a full scholarship to Arizona State University. When Jose graduated in 2011, there was a shortage of mechanical engineers in his state, but he could not apply for the jobs his other classmates were seeking because he is undocumented.
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Jonny Lang. Walking Away.
You can’t lie your way back in
Back into my heart,
I won’t let it be broken again
