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McCrae Parker would like to connect on LinkedIn. How would you like to respond? McCrae Parker Senior Program Manager at ZeroDivide San Francisco Bay Area This is a reminder that on 5/9/13 6:57 AM, McCrae Parker sent you an invitation to become part of their professional network at LinkedIn. Reminder emails for pending invitations. © 2012 LinkedIn Corporation. 2029 Stierlin Ct, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

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McCrae Parker's invitation is awaiting your response

McCrae Parker would like to connect on LinkedIn. How would you like to respond? McCrae Parker Senior Program Manager at ZeroDivide San Francisco Bay Area This is a reminder that on 5/9/13 6:57 AM, McCrae Parker sent you an invitation to become part of their professional network at LinkedIn. Reminder emails for pending invitations. © 2012 LinkedIn Corporation. 2029 Stierlin Ct, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

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Live from Maui: Youth Get Their MoJo on in Hawaii http://t.co/08iThqbU about @AkakuTV by @McParker #btop #youthmedia #philanthropy

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Born to be Brave... on the Yard...Harvard Yard that is...

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Wired In is a series of daily reflections from Richmond Pulse reporter Edgardo Cervano-Soto on his participation in Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation launch at Harvard University and The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities campaign.

February, 27, 2012-Day 1: Downtown Los...

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BULLY (Official Trailer) In Select Theaters March 30th (by TheWeinsteinCompany)

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To understand is to perceive patterns by Jason Silva and NotThisBody. “Networks are everywhere. The brain is a network of nerve cells connected by axons, and cells themselves are networks of molecules connected by biochemical reactions. Societies, too, are networks of people linked by friendships, familial relationships and professional ties. On a larger scale, food webs and ecosystems can be represented as networks of species. And networks pervade technology: the Internet, power grids and transportation systems are but a few examples. Even the language we are using to convey these thoughts to you is a network, made up of words connected by syntactic relationships.” - Albert-László Barabási, author of LINKED

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Are My Hands Clean?

Are My Hands Clean?

Are My Hands Clean? Every once in a while I have to check…the recent iEnonomy series article on China and Apple (Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China: http://nyti.ms/AubPof) got me thinking and reminded me…Usually, I’m trying not to smudge the gleaming surfaces of my iPhone and iPad, but now I’m wondering about the if and how I have been smudged… once again, ruminating on the idea of “complicity”…

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Are My Hands Clean?

Lyrics and music by Bernice Johnson Reagon. Songtalk Publishing Co. 1985 

Performed by Sweet Honey in the Rock. Sweet Honey in the Rock, Live at Carnegie Hall

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I wear garments touched by hands from all over the world 35% cotton, 65% polyester, the journey begins in Central America In the cotton fields of El Salvador In a province soaked in blood, Pesticide-sprayed workers toil in a broiling sun Pulling cotton for two dollars a day.

Then we move on up to another rung—Cargill A top-forty trading conglomerate, takes the cotton through the Panama Canal Up the Eastern seaboard, coming to the US of A for the first time In South Carolina At the Burlington mills Joins a shipment of polyester filament courtesy of the New Jersey petro-chemical mills of Dupont

Dupont strands of filament begin in the South American country of Venezuela Where oil riggers bring up oil from the earth for six dollars a day Then Exxon, largest oil company in the world, Upgrades the product in the country of Trinidad and Tobago

Then back into the Caribbean and Atlantic Seas To the factories of Dupont On the way to the Burlington mills In South Carolina

To meet the cotton from the blood-soaked fields of El Salvador

In South Carolina Burlington factories hum with the business of weaving oil and cotton into miles of fabric for Sears Who takes this bounty back into the Caribbean Sea Headed for Haiti this time—May she be one day soon free— Far from the Port-au-Prince palace Third world women toil doing piece work to Sears specifications For three dollars a day my sisters make my blouse

It leaves the third world for the last time Coming back into the sea to be sealed in plastic for me This third world sister And I go to the Sears department store where I buy my blouse On sale for 20% discount

Are my hands clean? 

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Video Letter to the President Test

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Preparing for snow, but thinking about strawberries...

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WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?

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Rumination: public spaces and private encounters

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