December 2010
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I didn’t break up the Beatles. The Beatles were a group made up of four very...
– YOKO ONO, in an interview with the Daily Mail, in which she also says John Lennon would love the Internet, Twitter, Facebook and Lady Gaga. (via inothernews)
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Gap, Wrangler, Abercrombie, etc: Compensate... →
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“Last week, a massive blaze in a multi-story factory in Bangladesh killed more than two dozen people. The workers were burned alive when an easily preventable fire broke out in an unsafe sweatshop. Several of the exits were locked.
Most of the victims were young women who earned less than $2 per day making clothes for the well-known American brands that many in the developed...
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australia-based charity donations
It is very nearly Christmas! I celebrate Christmas, and whilst I very much love presents, I also don’t really usually need things, so I like making donations on behalf of other people, or having people make donations on my behalf, in lieu of a physical present for my own gratification. Apparently 73% of Australians would be happy to receive a charity gift. I am pretty skeptical about...
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potluck: carnival of food intersectionality
Do you like food, and talking about it, on an intersectionality kind of level? Well, do WE have the CARNIVAL for YOU.
Potluck is intended to be a carnival for multicultural and intersectional discussions of food. There are no real limits on theme; however, the focus of the carnival is on thoughts and experiences around food through various topics that you might see around the social justice...
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Hangul, the World's Most Logical Language Writing...
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nezua:
The Korean language is classified as a member of the Ural-Altaic family (other members of this family include the Mongolian, Finnish, and Hungarian languages.) Until the early 1400s, most documents were written in classical Chinese characters (known in Korean as Hanja). As the idiographs are difficult to learn, only the educated people could read and write. King Sejong,...
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Some key dates in Australia's history of race &... →
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caitlinate:
The first mosque in Australia was established in Adelaide in 1889!
1886: Chinese population of Cairns is approximately 18%.
I feel like there’s this weird idea floating around in vaguely liberal progressive circles that Australia was pretty much universally white from shortly after invasion till around the 1970s, gradually becoming less white as immigration...
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