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"When someone works for less pay than she can live on - when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently - then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life. The “working poor,” as there are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high. To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone else."
Barbara Ehrenreich, “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America”
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Today In History
‘Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, author, and engineer of the Underground Railroad, led Union Army guerillas into South Carolina and freed nearly 800 slaves on this date June 2 1863. Tubman was the first woman in U.S. history to command an armed military raid.’
“I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” - Harriet Tubman
(photo: Harriet Tubman)
- CARTER Magazine
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Ways to Die: Gangrene of the Foot
On Jan 8, 1687, Jean-Baptiste Lully was conducting a Te Deum, in honor of Louis XIV’s recovery from illness, and became so impassioned with the music that he struck his staff (a precursor to the baton used today) against the front of his foot.
An abscess developed that night, and despite treatment, Lully developed gangrene in his foot. Several court physicians strongly recommended amputation at the initial stage of gangrene, and again when it spread to his leg, but Lully would have none of it; he was much too interested in being able to conduct his own compositions, and having only one foot would not allow that.
Jean-Baptiste Lully died on March 22, 1687, due to gangrene of the foot, caused by enthusiastic conducting of his orchestra.
[image: army medical center, gangrene from war abscess, 1865.]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4wvmcLcH01qk931ho1_400.jpg)
Ways to Die: Gangrene of the Foot
On Jan 8, 1687, Jean-Baptiste Lully was conducting a Te Deum, in honor of Louis XIV’s recovery from illness, and became so impassioned with the music that he struck his staff (a precursor to the baton used today) against the front of his foot.
An abscess developed that night, and despite treatment, Lully developed gangrene in his foot. Several court physicians strongly recommended amputation at the initial stage of gangrene, and again when it spread to his leg, but Lully would have none of it; he was much too interested in being able to conduct his own compositions, and having only one foot would not allow that.
Jean-Baptiste Lully died on March 22, 1687, due to gangrene of the foot, caused by enthusiastic conducting of his orchestra.
[image: army medical center, gangrene from war abscess, 1865.]
A 13-year-old girl stands in the yard of the women’s prison at Pétionville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Behind her stands a concrete wall, topped with barbed wire. Arrests of minors are frequently gang-related, with alleged offences ranging from petty crime to gun possession and assault. Children are often forcibly inducted into gangs, where they face violence from older gang members, rival gangs and the authorities. Many girls have been sexually abused, and some are HIV-positive. Once in prison, they can be held indefinitely without being charged or tried. UNICEF provides sanitation kits and educational and art supplies to this prison
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"I seldom raised my voice in protest [while my friends sexually harassed women] because I didn’t want to be uncool, to be perceived as ‘less of a man’ or challenged on why I found it necessary to defend women. This is what sociologist Michael Kimmel identifies as a deep form of homophobia: the fear that other men would challenge me, question my manhood, or even call me gay. This very fear led me to silently harass women and allow the others to vocally harass. I now realize that my worries of being pushed out my peer group could be tied to multiple forms of violence against women - when we create conditions where young men are constantly fighting other men to prove their manhood, what they will do to get props or accepted can escalate to dangerous levels. Ending gender-based violence is not about telling our sisters and daughters how to protect themselves, it should be about talking to our boys and men about we say to each other, what we allow to be said, and why we don’t stop when someone is being put in harm’s way."
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We are citizens of the world.
This is a pretty impressive rant from Penn Jillette about Obama’s hypocritical drug war policies.
He quotes this statistic a few times: 1 in 6 people in prison are there for charges related to marijuana. He also calls for the release of people in prison for crimes related to marijuana. Go Penn.
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor there see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
- John Steinbeck
One of the greatest cons ever pulled off.
