September 2011
You know what would be awesome?
Is if people got as pissed off about new bank debit-card fees (and overdraft fees, and ATM fees, and transaction fees, and credit card fees) as they did about a Netflix price hike.
“rant. possible unfollow bait. whatever.
I understand the need for occupy wall street (even if it is the brainchild of fucking adbusters). Yet every time I read an article or see another white person holding a piece of paper bemoaning the cost of education or the cost of living and breathing in America I can’t help but think now you see how the other 30+% of us live. Sorry no one prepared your privileged ass for reality. Unemployment crisis? What about the fucking life crisis that’s been happening in your own backyard?” —
I understand the need for occupy wall street (even if it is the brainchild of fucking adbusters). Yet every time I read an article or see another white person holding a piece of paper bemoaning the cost of education or the cost of living and breathing in America I can’t help but think now you see how the other 30+% of us live. Sorry no one prepared your privileged ass for reality. Unemployment crisis? What about the fucking life crisis that’s been happening in your own backyard?” —
(via novamatic)
Omfg, YES! There’s this new blog that’s popped up and it’s filled with pictures of mostly white people holding up signs describe their personal and financial sufferings due to the economic and “unemployment crisis”. When I first came across the site, my immediate first thought was that unemployment is suddenly this gigantic problem because white college grads can’t get the jobs they expected to get and other more qualified people now know what it’s like to live in the face if unemployment & poverty - something people of colour have been dealing in their communities for decades.
(via comingonstrong)
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
—Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum)
Listen
Remembering Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai in her words
Wangari Maathai passed away on September 25 at the age of 71, after a year-long battle with cancer. She was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and the first person to win for environmental activism.
Maathai had been first in a lot of things. She was the first woman in central Africa to hold a PhD and the first woman head of a university department in Kenya. In later years, Maathai was elected to the Kenyan Parliament and served as a cabinet minister.
Maathai published a memoir, “Unbowed,” in 2007 where she recounts starting the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, which is responsible for planting more than 10 million trees to provide firewood and combat soil erosion — the project was carried out primarily by women.
In a 2007 interview with Steve Paulson on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Maathai shared insights from her memoir and talked about how she triumphed over discrimination and tribalism in her native land and became an environmental activist.
This is the only thing that ever needs to be said about cupcakes again. →
forbes.com
“When you are saddled with non-preferred characteristics – breasts, dark skin, accents associated with foreign countries – it’s insulting to be told by members of the privileged class that your efforts to make the society a more equitable one are costing them the advantage they continue to enjoy.”
