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The 75 year old man is a lifelong peace protestor. The cops had dropped a riot helmet, and he attempted to return it to them. For that he was shoved to the ground where he suffered significant injury to the back of his head and probably his neck based on what a nurse I was reading said.

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“Safety and security don’t just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.” - Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa

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On October 23, 1915, twenty-thousand suffragists marched on Fifth Avenue in New York City demanding the right to vote.

In the photo there is Komako Kimura (1887-1980), a prominent Japanese suffragist, who arrived from Japan to help out her sisters in America and joined in the parade.

Kimura came from a traditional Japanese family, who had arranged a marriage for her when she was 14 years old to a man she had never seen. Like many women in Japan during that time, she was expected to obey the traditional customs. She was expected to be obedient, she was expected to follow the same traditions that generations of her forebears had followed before her.

But, on the way to the marriage ceremony, Kimura had other thoughts. She would slip out of the carriage and go into hiding. She sold her wedding finery and bought a ticket to another city. There, she would make a name for herself as a dancer.

She then again defied Japanese convention by eloping with a young doctor. She would become a writer, publishing a novel, then edited a woman's magazine in Tokyo, called Shin Shin Fujin, the first publication in Japan of its kind asserting women's rights. It would be so controversial that the magazine would be suppressed.

The conservative government of Japan then started watching her and would refuse her to hold suffrage meetings in the streets of Tokyo.

She would also become a well-known actress in her country who would take on daring roles. Again, the government would step in, telling her that she needed to stick with nice and mild roles befitting of women at that time.

She responded to that edict by opening her theater to the public without fee. She would be arrested and put on trial. The government, however, never knew what they were truly dealing with: Kimura would defend herself, providing arguments that were so well thought out that her trial would receive much publicity. Because of her, the word "suffrage", previously unspoken before in Japan, would be carried into the remotest districts of the empire.

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please watch this john mulaney bit from snl of him complaining about how computers ask us if we are robots it is hilarious 10/10 would recommend

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Bits and pieces of my journey.

In the most recent a quarter century, video and film have turned into the prevalent types of modern storytelling. But before video, there was photography. And for the last one hundred years photography and storytelling went as one.

Presently like never before, the power of storytelling ought to be harnessed. However, telling a story with photographs takes more than only a skillful photographer. An affecting photo story can only be developed by skillful photographers who understand the emotions and concepts behind ever-great story.

The form of such a story is called the photo essay.

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When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

Elizabeth Gilbert (via purplebuddhaquotes)

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Who gave us this crazy idea that we should know how to live? Does a tree know how to grow? Does a cloud know how to float? Does the wind know where it is blowing? Does a road know it is going somewhere? Don’t know how to live, just recognise that you are life and life just Is.

~ Mooji

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My paradise is books, stationery, cups of tea, and alone time.

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Why can’t sheer beauty kill this century the way it kills me?

Sandra Simonds, from “Further Problems with Pleasure,” Further Problems with Pleasure (via lifeinpoetry)

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1. rub honey into the night’s back. 2. make sure the moon is fed. 3. bathe the ocean. 4. warm sing the trees.

Tend by Nayyirah Waheed (via hush-syrup)

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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (via europeanheart)

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The question of Eurocentricism is now entirely blase. Of course Europeans are Eurocentric and see the world from their vantage point, and why should they not? They are the inheritors of multiple defunct empires and they still carry within them the phantom hubris of those empires and they think their particular philosophy is “philosophy’"and their particular thinking is “thinking"

Hamid Dabashi. Professor of literature, Columbia University. (via pachatata)