essence of humanity

I believe that everything and everyone is connected. You can't solve world hunger without solving poverty, homelessness, political corruptness, global warming, etc. Likewise, humanity should be viewed as just that--humanity--and not as individual people. Your rights are my rights. And I will fight for them. We are all in this together. We are all connected, all one. THAT is the essence of humanity.

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A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
— J.R.R. Tolkien  (via sirens-lament)

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poptech: The Ocean Conservancy, which organizes an annual International Coastal Clean-Up, has published its results in the 2012 Trash Index. You’re not imagining it: as the global population swells, tankers continue to leak oil, and plastic water bottles continue to be our favorite way to drink tap water, the world’s beaches are getting dirtier. Nearly 600,000 volunteers worked in multiple countries to pick up and record the over nine million pounds of trash listed in this report. Check out their trashy findings, download a helpful pocket guide to recycling and if you’re inclined, donate to help their efforts. And for the love of all things oceanic, if you smoke, find a better place than the ocean or ground to throw your cigarette butts (the number one piece of trash found on beaches)! Image: Ocean Conservancy View high resolution

poptech:

The Ocean Conservancy, which organizes an annual International Coastal Clean-Up, has published its results in the 2012 Trash Index. You’re not imagining it: as the global population swells, tankers continue to leak oil, and plastic water bottles continue to be our favorite way to drink tap water, the world’s beaches are getting dirtier.

Nearly 600,000 volunteers worked in multiple countries to pick up and record the over nine million pounds of trash listed in this report. Check out their trashy findings, download a helpful pocket guide to recycling and if you’re inclined, donate to help their efforts. And for the love of all things oceanic, if you smoke, find a better place than the ocean or ground to throw your cigarette butts (the number one piece of trash found on beaches)!

Image: Ocean Conservancy

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I know that some vocal Americans believe the federal government should do just about nothing except arm our young people and send them out to kill. I know there are people who cry “socialism!” whenever the government tries to make people’s lives better. Fortunately, most Americans disagree with such extremists. And yet there are honest differences between conservatives and progressives as to how the common good is best served. Mr. Romney, if you have ways of serving the common good that you think are more effective than Mr. Obama’s ways, please tell us about them. Don’t worry about your supposedly stiff persona; it doesn’t bother us nearly as much as it bothers the press. And don’t try to scare us with lies and negative ads. That just turns us off. If you convince us that you care about us when we need help, and if you offer us solutions that will help us survive and thrive, we will listen. Otherwise, we’ll vote for the candidate who does.
— Lively Dust: Dear Mr. Romney: Don’t lie. Care. (via azspot)

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souls-of-my-shoes: Vietnam! (by tungtong)

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Vietnam! (by tungtong)

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foreverpalestine: Geordy Austin-Justice4Gaza by Syracuse Peace Council on Flickr.

foreverpalestine:

Geordy Austin-Justice4Gaza by Syracuse Peace Council on Flickr.

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thelifeguardlibrarian: National Library Week View high resolution

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National Library Week

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This socialism is the declaration of the permanence of the revolution, the class dictatorship of the proletariat as the necessary transit point to the abolition of class distinctions generally, to the abolition of all the relations of production on which they rest, to the abolition of all the social relations that correspond to these relations of production, to the revolutionizing of all the ideas that result from these social relations.
— Karl Marx, The Class Struggles in France (1850)

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The issue we raise is, it’s not enough to treat people who already have this virus. To really win the fight against the epidemic, you need to prevent the next million, the next 10 million infections from happening.
— Craig Timberg, co-author of “Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome it” (via newshour)

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a-rritmia: “If there were more music schools than soldiers in the streets, there’d be more guitars than guns and more artists than murderers” Monterrey, Nuevo León; Mexico. 

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“If there were more music schools than soldiers in the streets, there’d be more guitars than guns and more artists than murderers”

Monterrey, Nuevo León; Mexico. 

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