If Ebola becomes a pandemic, it will be in no small part because millions of people now view public health measures as oppression rather than the most basic infrastructure of a functioning and sustainable civilization.
@StateDept@SecRubio I demand you act now to ensure the safety of captured @gbsumudflotilla humanitarians, work for their immediate unconditional release and condemn their kidnapping.
Free Jonathan Victor Lee, free Rudy Martínez, free Amrou Ibrahim, free Noa Avishag Schnall
The full consequences of agent orange haven’t been actualized in the Lao PDR because of how difficult it is to survey remote communities
There are entire “leper villages” full of Lao people with birth defects that are only traversable a few weeks during dry season
A long, meditative movie about Tony Leung becoming quietly obsessed with an old gingko tree in a German botanical garden might sound slow and challenging. But ‘Silent Friend’ is mesmerizing, and one of the best films of the year. https://t.co/gHY0XowukU
@saintgumi omg that’s totally fair! i live in london and my instagram is thisisnotdaniela if you ever want to chat more. gems do exist in all corners but the feeling is more bare overall. it’s hard to describe but there’s a certain sincerity in cafes i found in japan, particularly the rural
Robin DG Kelley on student activism under the thumb of today’s surveillance state: “The value of keeping things to ourselves has been lost…too many people are thinking in neo-liberal terms, as a “brand,” that’s not a movement…you don’t need credit. It’s the ideas that matter.”
Poor people in the margins of society being creative or forced by absolute need to be creative. Then their creativity and beauty gets shunned and devalued. Only to later be stolen by middle to upper classes?