Elizabeth Ford

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Banksy

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🚨This is a Red Alert for net neutrality 🚨

Last December, the FCC voted to to kill net neutrality. If we do not take action, this will kill the free and open internet as we know it. The internet needs you—all of you—to make sure your voices are heard NOW.

We need all hands on deck for this one. It may be our last chance. If you’re feeling under-informed and overwhelmed about why net neutrality is so incredibly important, we have this handy guide just for you.

Here’s what you can do to save the internet:

In mid-May, the Senate will vote on a resolution to overrule the FCC using the Congressional Review Act (CRA). We only need one more vote in the Senate to win. Write or call your Senators or Representatives. You can also text BATTLE to 384-387 to get more information on how to write to your reps. You can do this, Tumblr.

Join us and dozens of your other favorite companies like Etsy, Vimeo, Reddit, and GitHub to raise awareness with the Red Alert campaign being run by Battle for the Net. Just add this small widget to your Tumblr to let your followers know how they can contact their reps. It’s as easy as copying and pasting the small line of code right into the customize theme page on the web.

This is important. This matters. It’s up to you to help. 

[staff]

The FCC has announced that they will end net neutrality on June 11. 

You can help stop them.  

The Senate is voting on a resolution to maintain a safe and open internet. Contact your reps—let them know you support net neutrality. This is it, Tumblr. Now is the time to act. Go, go, go! 

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What are your rights at a protest?

Animation by KAPWA Studioworks

Citizen activism is as American as apple pie. Whether you call it a protest, a parade, a tea party, a town hall, a march, a sit-in, a patriotic rally, a picket line, a free speech event, or a nonviolent demonstration, your right to stand up peacefully for what you believe in is protected by the US Constitution. Read the  First Amendment:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

To learn how to turn protest into powerful change, watch this TED-Ed Lesson.

Ready to exercise your constitutionally protected right to protest? Before you go, know your rights. Below, read an excerpt from the American Civil Liberties Union guidelines for protestors. [For a pdf of the full ACLU ‘Know Your Rights’ guidelines for protestors, click here.]

Keep reading

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If you have Apple Music you can watch a new video (“Life With Dignity”) about three brave people fighting cancer here. Thank you Apple for supporting the creation of this project. Proceeds from The Greatest Gift mixtape will go towards Cancer Support Community, which you can learn about and support here. Thank you. Happy Holidays and peace to the world!

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Meowy Christmas 🎄 #cat #santaclaws .... My niece’s son is adorbs!

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#rocks #water #life #naturelove #outdoors

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Jimmy Kimmel makes an emotional and tearful plea for Obamacare after near death of newborn son

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This is circulating like mad on my colleagues’ facebooks and for good reason. If people opposed to universal healthcare are having a tough time grasping abstract numbers and statistics, I hope these individual stories and experiences like the only described above can offer a better explanation. This isn’t a unique story, and it’s not just a Los Angeles story. Children get access to care when care is available, when science and technology can develop and flourish to save their lives, when their parents do not have to decide between life-saving interventions or the roof over their heads. America, get your fucking shit together, healthcare access belongs to all.

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Found this ticket today. Exactly two months before he died, Prince played the State Theater in Sydney. It was absolutely epic. We played the same room two days later, still reveling in his glory, not knowing anything about the future. Life is mysterious. Life is strange. Life is good! May perpetual light shine upon you!

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“The world is abundant.” — Sufjan Stevens

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Watch: Bill Nye uses science to defend women’s reproductive rights

Follow @the-future-now

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This!!!

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My man bill never disappoints me

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Doing my civic duty

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Friendly reminder of the definition of refugee:

a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

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Insightful Mike Wallace interview with Rod Serling (from 1959) who speaks openly about false information, creative control, censorship and the “lunatic fringe of letter writers…” We are living in The Twilight Zone. The world is abundant.

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Michigan seems like a bad dream to me now. — Sufjan Stevens