Ziablog

Just some stuff I'm posting now. At the moment, that stuff is mostly related to unions, employment, unemployment, work environment, etc. That may change. Reblogs and links often mean agreement, but not always. Complaints and odd thoughts can be sent to ziatroyano [at] gmail [dot] com.

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una canción

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Cliff House and Seal Rocks by Moonlight, San Francisco, c 1900.

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Workers are seen in a garment factory in Mirpur area, Dhaka, in Bangladesh, on March 15th 2016. The factory employs 1200 workers, who mostly produce jeans and jackets.

Image and caption by Jošt Franko. Bangladesh, 2016.

For more of Jošt’s reporting, visit his project, “Cotton: The Story Behind the Garment Industry.”

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this is the 2016 apology post. reblog in 45 seconds and 2016 will apologize to you in the form of money.

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Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (1887 – 1986, American), Pink Camellia, 1945 Watercolor. Private collection

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This laundromat on wheels lets Australia’s homeless wash their clothes for free

Two millennials from Brisbane, Nicholas Marchesi and Lucas Patchett, launched the Orange Sky Laundry project, Australia’s first free laundry-on-wheels operation, in October 2014.

Homeless people face a number of barriers, but one of the most important challenges they face is hygiene. Many homeless shelters and charities don’t have showers or laundry machines, and people living on the streets often can’t afford to do their laundry at laundromats. Without access to public showers, bathrooms, or laundry services, homeless people often shy away from seeking out jobs or going to appointments out of fear of being judged for wearing dirty clothes or smelling.

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Hear the interview with Toni Morrison.

Her new novel is God Help the Child.

Photo: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

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Witness music superstars Sheryl Crow, Jack White, and Reba McEntire all pay tribute to Loretta Lynn Official’s uncanny songwriting ability.

See the full documentary airing TONIGHT at 9/8c on PBS. http://to.pbs.org/1RLaxJH

[ziatroyano]

I happened to catch last night, and I was surprised at how engrossing it was. Loretta Lynn, and all of her family, were so open about their lives. The doc wasn’t just a review of greatest hits.

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David Bowie: “Why are there practically no blacks on the network?” Mark Goodman: “We seem to be doing music that fits into what we want to play on MTV. The company is thinking in terms of narrowcasting.” David Bowie: “There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I’m surprised aren’t being used on MTV.” Mark Goodman: “We have to try and do what we think not only New York and Los Angeles will appreciate, but also Poughkeepsie or the Midwest. Pick some town in the Midwest which would be scared to death by… a string of other black faces, or black music. We have to play music we think an entire country is going to like, and certainly we’re a rock and roll station.” David Bowie: “Don’t you think it’s a frightening predicament to be in?” Mark Goodman:“Yeah, but no less so here than in radio.” David Bowie: “Don’t say, ‘Well, it’s not me, it’s them.’ Is it not possible it should be a conviction of the station and of the radio stations to be fair… to make the media more integrated?”

- David Bowie in 1982, challenging MTV host Mark Goodman on their refusal to play black musicians on their channel (via lacienegasmiled)

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Official unemployment rates around the world.

More maps about unemployment >>

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The great Lena Horne was born 98 years ago today in Brooklyn, New York. This photo (Magnum Photos) was taken by Philippe Halsman in 1954.

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“My goal is to become the first African-American principal dancer with A.B.T.,” Misty Copeland told Rivka Galchen in 2014. Today, she reached that goal.

Photograph by Pari Dukovic

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I want to thank the people who brought me 2/3 the way to finishing my little goal of getting another kicking bag for the house. Woo! So close! Your generosity has put such a smile on my face. May your kindness return to you threefold.

In this series of fotos I am highlighting how much Taekwondo became part of the family culture once I brought Luna in–who was extremely shy and wanted to quit at first, only staying on the sidelines (foto 2) for a full month. When she began, she was too shy to walk to the front and receive her Yellow belt after testing. After working hard for over 2 years, she reached Green Instructor.  She went from a little kid who burst into tears when ceremonies put her on the spot, to a self confident martial artist who didn’t flinch at sparring with kids almost always bigger than herself in that time. She made herself and me so proud for not giving up.

In foto 6, you see her younger sister, Paloma, watching from the sidelines. She watched for at least a year before she was old enough to join. She would put on my sparring gear when she was only a toddler. Once she finally got out on that mat, she took to it like it was natural, bringing an intensity that was all her own. I fotos of her practicing at home, looking at her reflection in the turned-off TV screen as she did so. She brought tkd moves into her dance style, even.

If you have a few bucks, please consider helping us get the kicking bag back in the house. You will be part of an important chapter in our lives, and bring a lot of joy to all of us. Reblogs greatly appreciated in any case. Thank you!

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Everyone’s always like, “Be your best self!” And that drives me bananas, because when you’re not, it makes you feel really bad. And so someone asked me the other day, “When are you your best self?” and I said, “When I make space for my worst self.” Like if you ask yourself, “How long will it take to do this particular thing?” and you’re freaking out like, “I don’t know! It’s going to take me so long! I don’t know! Ten years?!” Well … what if you give yourself ten years? “Oh. Okay.” And then somehow, the thing you thought would take ten years only takes a week. Give yourself permission to actually let something take as long as it takes. My standard of perfection often paralyzes me, or makes me terrified, or makes me feel ashamed. Instead, if I can make space for the idea that the goal is not to be perfect, but the goal is to be me, then I get to revel in the mixed bag of what it is to be a human. Some moments are good, some are bad. Some days are good, some days are bad. We live in a culture where people are constantly telling us how to get what we want, and within that message is, You need to be something other than you are. So my antidote to that has been, What if the goal is not to get what I want, but to discover who I am, be who I am, and accept that? Because strangely, that takes courage!

Tracee Ellis Ross (via arabellesicardi)

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Happy Birthday Gwendolyn Brooks! (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) 

American poet and teacher. She was the first black person (the term she preferred to African-American) to win a Pulitzer prize when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 for her second collection, Annie Allen. Throughout her career she received many more honors. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968, a position she held until her death, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985. (Wikipedia)

View of poet Gwendolyn Brooks reading from book into microphone. Unidentified man is seated across table.

Courtesy of the E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

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Brooks reads.