
Mother tending to her son. Goree Island, Senegal
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Saturday Jan 1 @ 12:16pm with 223 notes
I just saw this madness now…
18 December, 2011: The blogosphere is boiling at the cruel beating of a female protester by Egyptian military police, who continued battling protesters in Tahrir Square on Sunday. The clashes, into their fourth day now, have left 10 people dead and hundreds injured.The video uploaded on YouTube Sunday reveals the extreme cruelty of the country’s law enforcers during the crackdown on Qasr Al-Ainy Street just off Tahrir Square.
The army soldiers in full riot gear have been savagely beating a seemingly unconscious female protester with big sticks, kicking her and stomping on her chest.
Moments earlier she has been struck countless times in the head and body with batons, while being dragged by the soldiers. She tried to cover her head from the blows with her hands.
Blue bra’ girl brutally beaten by Egypt military video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnFVYewkWEY&skipcontrinter=1It is things like this that need to be spread. May the people see this and be angry! Let them be outraged! And may that outrage and anger lead to the people standing up and putting a stop to these injustices.
Get angry.
I’m so angry that I’m going to reblog this in protest because I’m like, really totally mad.
We can’t like, hold an egyptian american ambassador hostage or something?
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Friday Dec 12 @ 08:27pm with 1,674 notes
Borders are the gallows Of our collective national egos Subjective, lines in sand In the water, separating everything Fear is the cause of separation Backed with illicit conversations Procured by constant condemnations National blood-painted persuasions Here's my song for the free No, it's not about praise and publicity Corprotocracy, what a hypocrisy Aristocracy versus democracyBorders Are, Serj Tankian
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Monday Dec 12 @ 07:06pm with 4,932 notes
Jean Cocteau (self-portrait, 1954)
“Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort, the trifling feeling of escape experienced at a masked ball. He distances himself from that which he feels and sees. He invents. He transfigures. He mythifies…
Journalists know this, or at least sense it. The inaccuracies of the press, and the banner headlines by which they are trumpeted, are soothing draughts to this thirst for the unreal. Accuracy is vexing to a crowd of would-be fantasizers. Hasn’t our age coined the term ‘escapism’, when in fact the only way to escape oneself is to allow oneself to be invaded?”
-excerpted from “On Invisibility,” Diary of an Unknown (1953)
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Saturday Dec 12 @ 04:40am with 1,002 notes
Incredible sculpture made entirely out of drinking straws - by Korean artist Sang Sik Hong. The sculptures focus on human desires, namely: power and sex.
Thursday Dec 12 @ 06:29pm with 175 notes
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Sunday Dec 12 @ 11:46am with 283 notes