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Reblogged from This is MY Soapbox: Are all men pedophiles? Of course not! But this is the recent subject of a documentary. I’ll let you watch the trailer. The trailer isn’t bringing up any facts that would change my mind. Just because models start off their careers at the age of 16 doesn’t imply that all [...]

Reblogged from the jazzmonger: Esperanza Spalding! I have made my admiration for this beautiful, talented lady a recurrent theme here on thejazzmonger blog. Now, I am pleased to report that she is the subject of an excellent article in Newsweek and it’s affiliate The Daily Beast. Abigail Pesta’s piece begins, as most Spalding features do, with [...]

Reblogged from myownstormypetrelwords: I’ve written about a few of these subjects before: the obscene incarceration rate in America http://www.myownstormypetrelwords.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/georgia-another-proud-moment/; Doug Blackmon’s ground-breaking book, Slavery by Another Name, in which he describes the forced labor system in place for more than a century after the end of the Civil War. http://www.myownstormypetrelwords.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/slavery-by-another-name/ But now, Michelle Alexander has [...]

Reblogged from Limeisbetter: The dog is blind and hiding in the corner of a dirty lot in South Los Angeles when these people rescue it. And a happy ending for everybody especially Fiona the dog. As we watched this story we couldn’t stop crying. Crying as if someone very dear had suddenly died. Perhaps, it [...]

Reblogged from The Bedroom Door.: Whilst the majority of us get up each day, get dressed and go to work to earn a living, Women all over Ireland are waking up each day to face another day of torture, another day of being degraded, another day of being ‘Raped for a Living’. These are the [...]

Reblogged from DJ Academe: See the full film at http://video.pbs.org/video/2176766758 SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME is a 90 minute documentary that challenges one of America’s most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Premiering February 13 on PBS. We have chosen to reblog this post because [...]

Reblogged from Danielberhane's Blog: A discussion on the possibility of a third consecutive year of drought in the Horn of Africa was held this week in Kigali, Rwanda. The three day Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum included Government representatives from the region, climatologists, agricultural experts and disaster risk managers. The meeting was hosted [...]

Reblogged from National Post | News: By Yoko Kubota OFUNATO, Japan – With a minute of silence, tolling bells and prayers, Japan will on Sunday mark the first anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis that shattered public trust in atomic power and the nation’s leaders. A [...]

Reblogged from National Post | News: A documentary film aimed at exposing the heinous acts of Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony exploded over the Internet Wednesday, drawing praise and condemnation from the millions who viewed it. The half-hour film Kony 2012, made by the U.S. organization Invisible Children, tells the story of a child soldier named Jacob [...]