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Itâs just too little
âWhen I was 26, I went to Indonesia and the Philippines to do research for my first book, No Logo. I had a simple goal: to meet the workers making the clothes and electronics that my friends and I purchased. And I did. I spent evenings on concrete floors in squalid dorm rooms where teenage girlsâsweet and gigglyâspent their scarce nonworking hours. Eight or even 10 to a room. They told me stories about not being able to leave their machines to pee. About bosses who hit. About not having enough money to buy dried fish to go with their rice.
They knew they were being badly exploitedâthat the garments they were making were being sold for more than they would make in a month. One 17-year-old said to me: âWe make computers, but we donât know how to use them.â
So one thing I found slightly jarring was that some of these same workers wore clothing festooned with knockoff trademarks of the very multinationals that were responsible for these conditions: Disney characters or Nike check marks. At one point, I asked a local labor organizer about this. Wasnât it strangeâa contradiction?
It took a very long time for him to understand the question. When he finally did, he looked at me like I was nuts. You see, for him and his colleagues, individual consumption wasnât considered to be in the realm of politics at all. Power rested not in what you did as one person, but what you did as many people, as one part of a large, organized, and focused movement. For him, this meant organizing workers to go on strike for better conditions, and eventually it meant winning the right to unionize. What you ate for lunch or happened to be wearing was of absolutely no concern whatsoever.
This was striking to me, because it was the mirror opposite of my culture back home in Canada. Where I came from, you expressed your political beliefsâfirstly and very often lastlyâthrough personal lifestyle choices. By loudly proclaiming your vegetarianism. By shopping fair trade and local and boycotting big, evil brands.
These very different understandings of social change came up again and again a couple of years later, once my book came out. I would give talks about the need for international protections for the right to unionize. About the need to change our global trading system so it didnât encourage a race to the bottom. And yet at the end of those talks, the first question from the audience was: âWhat kind of sneakers are OK to buy?â âWhat brands are ethical?â âWhere do you buy your clothes?â âWhat can I do, as an individual, to change the world?â
Fifteen years after I published No Logo, I still find myself facing very similar questions. These days, I give talks about how the same economic model that superpowered multinationals to seek out cheap labor in Indonesia and China also supercharged global greenhouse-gas emissions. And, invariably, the hand goes up: âTell me what I can do as an individual.â Or maybe âas a business owner.â
The hard truth is that the answer to the question âWhat can I, as an individual, do to stop climate change?â is: nothing. You canât do anything. In fact, the very idea that weâas atomized individuals, even lots of atomized individualsâcould play a significant part in stabilizing the planetâs climate system, or changing the global economy, is objectively nuts. We can only meet this tremendous challenge together. As part of a massive and organized global movement.
The irony is that people with relatively little power tend to understand this far better than those with a great deal more power. The workers I met in Indonesia and the Philippines knew all too well that governments and corporations did not value their voice or even their lives as individuals. And because of this, they were driven to act not only together, but to act on a rather large political canvas. To try to change the policies in factories that employ thousands of workers, or in export zones that employ tens of thousands. Or the labor laws in an entire country of millions. Their sense of individual powerlessness pushed them to be politically ambitious, to demand structural changes.
In contrast, here in wealthy countries, we are told how powerful we are as individuals all the time. As consumers. Even individual activists. And the result is that, despite our power and privilege, we often end up acting on canvases that are unnecessarily smallâthe canvas of our own lifestyle, or maybe our neighborhood or town. Meanwhile, we abandon the structural changesâthe policy and legal workâ to others.â
- Naomi Klein
This is why the media keeps pumping out articles about plastic straws and avocados that focuses on what we, individually, are doing to destroy the environment, when really the most pollution comes from multinational corporations and the only thing that will save us is global collective action.
âUpload your resumĂŠ in PDF formatâ
âNow type out your work experience, even though you just fucking uploaded your resumĂŠâ
âWhile youâre at it, type out your education too, even though itâs on the fucking resumĂŠ as wellâ
âGreat, now fill out this questionnaire too. Itâll only take 20-30 minutes! If we decide not to hire you, we wonât even give you the courtesy of an automated email telling you youâre not the right fit!â
I SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO EMOTIONALLY IDENTIFY WITH A FLOSS CONTAINER
RIP Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna
From @tarastevens2
[Video: far off shot of a crane lifting a blue Porta-Potty through the air.
Audio: Doctor Who theme song.]
can john mulaney do another netflix special i need new reaction images
Hell world
capitalism ruined art and entertainment
Keep reblogging this itâs shaming them into prolonging shows
there are two types of dadsÂ
Two very different types of dads
RDJ: This is my sweet, sweet child. My angel, who must be protected at all costs.
Chris: HONEY LOOK I CAUGHT A FISH
it is unhealthy that i have been laughing at this for over three minutes
no bro
you really donât
not at fucking
all
It appears absolutely no one realizes this character (assuming this story takes places during the time in which it was filmed) grew up during The Troubles of Northern Ireland.
You donât if heâs Northern Irish. You donât know if heâs Catholic. You donât know if he grew up watching his people get murdered by Loyalist Protestants and British soldiers who carried heavy racial prejudice against Irish Catholics (hellooo, Bloody Sunday anyone?), who had for centuries been characterized as barbaric, racially inferior, lowly people who needed to be wiped out or converted. Attacks by the IRA, and therefore retaliation by the British, didnât completely cease until 1998, I believe? This film came out in 2002.
You donât know if he was an Irishman who grew up in England. Bomb attacks carried out by the IRA in England kindled misplaced aggression toward innocent Irish civilians living among the English population and Irish people were verbally and physically attacked and their businesses targeted. Perhaps similar to how ordinary Muslims bear the brunt of aggression after attacks by Muslim extremistsâŚ
You can still find yourself threatened and demeaned if youâre a Catholic in Northern Ireland or if youâre a Protestant in Ireland and some older dude in a pub in a smaller town straight up asks you if youâre Catholic or not and youâre afraid whatâll happen if you donât lie about who you are.
You can still hear casual racism toward Irish people in everyday life and in publicly broadcast media in the UK.
You can still see and hear âKill All Irishâ and other pretty heavy anti-Irish sentiment among Loyalists in Northern Ireland who donât consider themselves Irish at all.
Just because it now appears that the island of Ireland has been allowed to move on from war and their appearance and culture generally allows them to blend into and reap the benefits of the White European demographic doesnât mean that this character does not have the background suitable to fully empathize with her. Maybe he does, maybe he doesnât, we just donât know his story.
But I guess youâve never been demeaned as a Paddy or a Taig so you wouldnât understand what it feels like, would you?
donât worry dude itâs tumblr the mentality here is basically âif youâre lighter than a coconut youâre not allowed to have any feelings and your life is automatically perfect but thatâs not racist at all bc your skin is lighter than someone elseâs and that means itâs okâ
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not enough upward pointies in the world
plot twist: being Irish actually sucks, seriously
I normally donât comment on posts like these but the ignorance of this makes me so fucking angry because absolutely no one in the world seems to give a shit about the Irish because we all just seem to be so happy and drunk all the time. Because theyâre white, right? So obviously they have no idea what hardship means.
*bursts in* *breathes heavily* Did someone mention the Northern Irish Troubles
First of all, pretty much yes to everything about Ireland up there. Growing up in Northern Ireland, I saw the violence from all sides - my father is a British Protestant and my mother is a Catholic, so I basically couldnât win because according to one side I was a dirty taig and according to the other I was a filthy hun. Luckily I managed to make friends with a mix of both Catholics and Protestants who all thought this attitude was just as stupid as I did, but between all of us, we saw our fair share of sectarian violence, and the Catholics, without a doubt, got it worse.
Irish Catholics were robbed of their country by Protestant invaders centuries ago. They fought and fought and eventually got the Irish Free State (now the Republic of Ireland), however, thanks to the deliberate plantation of Protestants to eradicate the Catholic majority in the North, it was left under British rule. Since then, Catholics have been murdered, arrested, terrorised, tortured and driven out of their houses just for being Irish Catholics.Â
I moved from Northern Ireland in 2010 and to the day I left, the violence was not over. I couldnât wear certain colours in certain areas because I would be beaten. I had fake names depending on where I was stopped, as attackers can determine what religion you are from your name alone (and this is a trick I learned, too, for defence). I can recite my rights if Iâm arrested because if I was stopped in certain areas I could be, on the assumption I could be Catholic. I know the subtle sectarian geography of the city of Belfast because if I cross the road in the wrong place Iâm in enemy territory. I have been chased by a group of forty people, throwing fireworks at me, because they assumed I was a Catholic. Police were parked on nearby streets and didnât acknowledge the commotion. My friends and I walk past graffiti screamed âKill All Taigsâ. A fifteen year old boy who lived half an hour from me was beaten to death by a group of adults for being Catholic. For fifty years, people have been detained without trial, tortured, beaten and wrongly imprisoned just for being Catholic, because apparently, being Catholic means you must be in the IRA.Â
Even now, I canât escape it. I have a noticeable Northern Irish accent, which is stronger when Iâm around people from there and is noticeable as a strong accent whenever Iâm not in the country. At airports, Iâm always the one stopped and frisked if they hear my accent. At ferry ports, itâs alway my car (which has Northern Irish registration plates) thatâs ârandomly selectedâ for a search. All of this just happened to me, a person who got off lightly.
If you think that Irish people havenât faced oppression and abuse, youâre wrong. If you think that Northern Ireland is past its troubles, youâre wrong. It sickens me that this happens only a few hundred miles away from England and no one acknowledges it exists, because hey, theyâre just some terrorist Catholics, right?
Contrary to popular belief, racism isnât America centric. Just ask the Serbians and Croatians.
REBLOGGING FOR THE LAST ONE JFC THANK YOU.
Hell, ask Rwanda. Plot twist: ethnic genocide involving no white people at all!
Ask China about Japan. Ask Tibet about China. Ask Kuwait about Iraq. Ask Ukraine about Russia.
Xenophobia is not just the purview of white people. Any other can be an enemy. They can be the same colour. They can share a religion. They can live right next door right up until the moment the blade or gun or bomb is in your hand.
Racism and Xenophobia is a very Human or Primate response to our fellow man, Chimps display it, so do Gorillas and any other primate living today.
To say someone canât experience this because [x] is a way of dehumanizing them, making them the other you claim them of making you.
Itâs the most Tribal and simplistic way of viewing things, itâs a view that lacks empathy to say that someone canât experience something because of the colour of their skin, itâs also Extremely Racist.
But hey i donât know why I go on when most people will view my lighter than coal skin and say that invalidates my opinion.
This has many new additions since I last (maybe) reblogged it three years go.
It continues to be a good lesson for all of tumblr to learn
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Ask the Spanish Jews and the Moors about the Spanish Inquisition
Ask the Armenians about the genocide carried out against them by the Turkish Ottomans.
Ask the black people who are being bought and sold in the Libyan slave trade by Muslim Arabs. And the millions of white Europeans who have been kidnapped from their homes and sold into slavery by Barbary pirates. Oh, and letâs not forget the hundreds of thousands of young white British girls who have been/are being abducted, groomed, raped, abused and trafficked by Arab Muslim gangs in Rotherham, England as we speak, and the girls are mostly white and British because theyâre being targeted specifically for their race and nationality, which makes them easy targets.
The only people who think racism is exclusive to white Americans are ignorant, sheltered, overly-privileged American urbanites (most of whom are also white) who are so woke, theyâre falling back asleep.
Also, @someoneintheshadow456, I hear Indians are racist as fuck to other Indians from different parts of the country. Is that true?
India isnât even one country itâs 29 countries haphazardly fused together and forced to get along. Nobody hates Indians more than other Indians and anyone who says otherwise is a liar.
Wow now I really know why the Irish hate the Brits.
On Thursday, Judge Kim Cooks ruled Texas father Jeffrey Younger has a say in his seven-year-old sonâs gender âtransition,â which is being facilitated by the boyâs mother and Youngerâs ex-wife, Dr. Anne Georgulas. Younger is attempting to halt the boyâs transition. Cooks, of the 255th district, ruled that âthe parents will have joint conservatorship over [âŚ]
Thank god this nightmare is over
Oh my heavens, thank god. This poor kid, heâs either dodged a bullet or at a minimum when the time comes will be able to make the call himself instead of being used like a pawn by his mother.
The end of this article mentions the state is looking into whether or not the mothers conduct equates to abuse and I think that is the absolute right thing to do.
This woman denied her child affection because he was a boy, told him he was a bad person if he was a boy, and even said there was a monster that would come and eat him BECAUSE he was a boy! Ignoring all the unethical bullshit that went with the transitioning crap, this ALONE would constitute abuse!
Its monsters like this that ultimately harm the real trans community.
And they need to yank her license. All of this constitutes abuse of power and no one should trust her around their children ever again.
Oh sheâs beyond screwed up and hopefully after the dad recovers a bit from this battle he can start the net one to get sole custody. For now, as I said, Iâm just glad this kid isnât getting castrated at age 7, chemically or otherwise.
Article posted today, 10/24/19!
Oh thank god oh my god this is so good for this kid fbsjsjabd
This story had me so fucked up every single time I heard something new about it jesus fUCK
@nunyabizni @stop-stalin-and-suck-my-dick @rainbowloliofjustice @goatyellsateverything
so, Iâm REALLY sick of this lie getting spread, I fell for the Conservative christian outrage machine just like you all did. just like so many didâŚ.
Lunaâs mom stayâs quiet, she doesnât make an uproar/corrects people/ about her ââââpolitical pawnââââ trans daughter.
HIS DAD ADMITS TO NOT LETTING LUNA WEAR GIRLS CLOTHES!
CPS DID LOOK INTO LUNAâS MOM AND FOUND NOTHING.
TWO DIFFERENT DOCTORS DIAGNOSED LUNA, THE FIRST BEING FATHER APPROVEDÂ
LUNAâS TWIN BROTHER SAYS LUNAâS TRANS AND WANTS HER TO BE HAPPY
LUNA ALREADY HAS OLDER SISTERS
because so many people didnât look in a little bit more, this mother suffers constant abuse online, she just wants to be a good mom.
Actually, no. I DID look into this more. Iâve been following the story of James since the beginning.
JAMESâ mother literally told him that he was bad because he was a boy. He told him a monster would come to eat him for bing a boy.
There is video evidence of this.
And the 2 doctors that âdiagnosedâ him? They have been exposed as âany means necessaryâ types when it comes to recognizing trans TODDLERS and getting hormones therapy passed for TODDLERS.
Dont fall for the progressive reach here. This boy isnt trans. His mother, another pediatrician who wants to push hormone therapy on small children, is using him for her cause.
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Scotland is not boring
When I say I love bagpipes, this is what I mean
Absolute banger
WHEREâS THE SOURCE, OP??????
This is Clanadonia
What the video doesnât quite capture is that when youâre this close, their drumming feels kind of like being punched in the chest. When theyâre playing on the street like this, every other busker in a 500m radius just goes and has a tea break, because thereâs no point in trying to be heard over Clanadonia.
Girlâs Costume Warehouse (X)
ITS BACK
and frog
every few months I show this to someone new.
Ah yes, time to bring this back for the season. Here y'all go again.
Happy 2019, Girlsâs Costume Warehouse.
The sweetest granddaughter