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LOOKS LIKE IM GONNA BECOME A CHEES PROG HAUS POP CRAP PRODUCER NAO CUZ I RLY GUD AT IT #fools

Thom’s responses are great

Mashup with Feed Me and Kill the Noise’ “Thumbs Up” and Skullee’s “Funkmonstah”

anarchyagogo:

How Oliberté, the Anti-TOMS, Makes Shoes and Jobs in Africa

… “At Oliberté, we believe Africa can compete on a global scale,” he says, “but it needs a chance. It doesn’t need handouts or a hand up. It needs people to start shaking hands and companies to start making deals to work in these countries.”

… Oliberté—the name melds “liberty” with the “O” from the anthem of Dehtiar’s home country—employs workers at factories selected because they pay relatively high wages, provide employee benefits like subsidized lunches, and employ women as about half of their workforces. The company plans to open its own factory in Addis Ababa in March while maintaining production at its existing third-party plants. It distributes across North America and Europe and sells online.

…The best-known footwear brand with a humanitarian bent is TOMS Shoes, the Santa Monica, California-based company that gives a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair it sells. From Nicaragua to New Orleans to Niger, TOMS has distributed shoes to more than a million children through “shoe drops,” when staff and contest winners travel the globe to hand out shoes. In addition to helping prevent soil-borne diseases, the donations help recipients attend schools that in many places forbid bare feet.

“With TOMS,” Dehtiar says, “the best thing is the awareness they’ve created.” But he’s skeptical of the company’s one-for-one model because he believes the donations can pressure local shoemakers and vendors, in addition to reinforcing stereotypes about the developing world.

…“TOMS Shoes is a good marketing tool, but it’s not good aid,” agrees Saundra Schimmelpfennig, an international aid expert who blogs at Good Intentions Are Not Enough, where she aims to educate nonprofit donors about effective charity. She’s criticized TOMS for competing with local producers by handing out free goods and for being “quintessential Whites in Shining Armor.” “The idea of creating jobs that pay a fair wage and provide necessary benefits,” she says, “can have far more impact than aid.”

separationbymitosis:

HOLY FUCK WHAT IS THIS

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theuppitynegras:

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fussybabybitch:

A literal argument from The New York Times about why capping the executive pay of CEOs accepting bailouts is mean and unfair

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Doing Thanksgiving right hollaaaaa

STILL WAITING ON THEM TO LET OUT CLOVIS’ TWIN…

thepeoplesrecord:

Obama’s reelection marks the 899th day of detention without charge for Pfc. Manning.

Here’s to four more years of drone strikes, the war on whistleblowers, indefinite detention of Americans in military camps without trial or charge, more Guantanamo renovations, the expansion of the prison industrial complex, billions in funding for the Israeli apartheid, public education cuts, the ever-expanding targeted kill/capture list, the failed War on Drugs, etc. etc. etc.!

Now, let’s organize. 

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israelfacts:

The different legal systems under which Israelis and Palestinians are tried apply to children as well. As +972 has consistently documented, Palestinian children arrested by the Israeli army are treated by the military court system as “potential terrorists.” The visual below demonstrates what would happen should two 12-year-old boys, one Israeli and one Palestinian, get arrested for fighting. One would swiftly be brought before a judge, given access to a lawyer, tried and spared jail time. The other could face two years in jail without trial. 

By Michal Vexler, with the cooperation of Caabu – The Council for Arab-British Understanding

Visualizing Occupation: Children under Israel’s legal regime

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Decided to make a drumstep rechop of Skrillex and Nero’s masterful remix of MONSTA’s Holdin’ On to play out in DJ sets.

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