ThePrettiestOne

descentintotyranny:

Malala Yousafzai gives $50,000 to reconstruction of Gaza schools

Nobel peace prize winner says money will go through UN agency and help rebuild 65 schools in Palestinian territory

Oct. 29 2014

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education campaigner shot by the Taliban, has donated $50,000 (nearly £31,000) towards the reconstruction of schools in Gaza.

The Nobel peace prize winner, speaking after receiving the World Children’s Prize for the rights of the child in Marienfred, Sweden, on Wednesday, said the money would be channelled through the United Nations relief agency UNRWA to help rebuild 65 schools in the Palestinian territory.

Malala, who now lives in the UK and has her own fund to help small-scale organisations in a number of countries, including Pakistan, told journalists that children in Gaza had suffered from conflicts and war. The money would help children get “quality education” and continue their life, knowing they were not alone and that people were supporting them, she said.

She is the first person to receive the children’s prize and the Nobel in the same year. The Sweden-based organisers of the children’s prize said millions of children around the world had voted for Malala.

The children’s prize also announced two honorary laureates. John Wood, who quit his job as a Microsoft manager, has spent 15 years working for books, school libraries, and schools for millions of children, through his Room to Read organisation, while Indira Ranamagar from Nepal has fought for 20 years for the rights of the children of convicts to education and to live outside of prisons.

In remarks published on the UNRWA website, Malala said the organisation was performing “heroic work” to serve children in Gaza.

She added: “The needs are overwhelming – more than half of Gaza’s population is under 18 years of age. They want and deserve quality education, hope and real opportunities to build a future.

“This funding will help rebuild the 65 schools damaged during the recent conflict. Innocent Palestinian children have suffered terribly and for too long.”

Pierre Krähenbühl, UNRWA’s commissioner general, said the organisation was “deeply touched” by the gesture. It would “lift the spirits of a quarter of a million UNRWA students in Gaza and boost the morale of our more than 9,000 teaching staff there”, he said.

“Their suffering during the fighting was devastating and your kindness will do much to ease the pain of recent months.”

He said Malala had “become a symbol of the boundless potential that lies within each and every child on Earth”, and she was “an aspirational figure to the next generation in Palestine and beyond” as well as an inspiration to all.

serlorastyrel:

why is no one talking about the #feministprincessbride hashtag

#ViolenceWillNotBeTolerated (11/12/14): Twitter had a special message to Gov. Jay Nixon, who had the audacity to tell protesters “violence will not be tolerated” and “the world is watching.” Seems he forgot that the world watched the violence of his state’s corrupt cops throughout the protest. #staywoke #farfromover

autasha:

buckycamehome:

autasha:

steve rogers was an irish-american with disabilities growing up in 30s new york in a gay neighborhood and some people actually believe he would be conservative

It’s pretty telling that so many people equate patriotism with conservatism.    

THERE IT IS, FOLKS

alwaysatrombonist:

[Image: Comic panels. Women superheroes performing breast self-exams. They are Wonder Woman, Catwoman, She-Hulk, and Storm. Each is captioned, “Nobody’s immune to breast cancer. When we talk about breast cancer, there’s no women or superwomen. Everybody has to do the self-examination monthly. Fight with us against the enemy and, when in doubt, talk with your doctor.]

wocinsolidarity:

prismatic-bell:

choicetenders:

bossuspain:

russianpyro:

mutantsandaliens:

zen-mode:

reubydoomsday:

Nobody’s immune to breast cancer.

Best. Ever.
Get that on your blogs. NOW.

putting this on my blog for reasons.

Reblogging for similar reasons.

[This is fucking awesome.]

OOC: Very good idea!!

still my fav

OKAY LISTEN UP BECAUSE THERE IS SOMETHING SUPER IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS CAMPAIGN AND MOST OF YOU PROBABLY DON’T KNOW

It’s the inclusion of Storm. (Storm? Pretty sure that’s Storm.) And in a way where, yes, representation saves lives.

See, here’s a weird medical fact: black women are more likely to get breast cancer and nobody knows why. It’s a medical mystery. Now, I want you to do a fun exercise: tell me the last time you saw a breast cancer awareness campaign that included black women. Go on, I’ll wait. Speaking as someone active with the cause whose aunt is even more active with the cause, here’s my answer: In eight years of working for awareness across four states, I have never seen a single black woman in any breast cancer campaign. Ever.

Black women are also more likely to die of breast cancer because they’re less likely to catch it early. That’s not genetics, that’s math. The sooner you begin treatment, the better your prognosis. Black women are less likely to know how to do self-exams and because of the socioeconomic divide, less likely to see an OB/GYN annually. And they’re ignored by awareness campaigns.

Tell your black friends. And spread this like wildfire. Because they are more at risk than you are.

!

neversaysdie:

theguilteaparty:

rhrealitycheck:

Politicians pretend to value life while voting to take away funds for food from struggling families and children. 

I’ve known people where their families didn’t have a lot of money, or even a little. Their school lunches where their only meals in the day. Think about that. They voted to take away their only meal.

I have gone to a grocery store with my roommate and bought tons of pasta, peanut butter, bread, and ‘box meals’ the night before major school breaks, divided them into bags and boxes and then ‘casually’ asked kids throughout the day if they would mind taking them off my hands because I was going home for break and wanted to clean out my pantry.

Because I know that my babies LITERALLY depend on school for steady meals. One of the richest countries in the goddamn world and I’m sending peanut butter home with my students so they won’t go to bed hungry over Christmas break.

Fuck you, GOP.

invisiblelad:

abbiehollowdays:

mollywobbles867:

mysharona1987:

akersnabihah:

mysharona1987:

So, um, you’d think people would be a bit more bothered about the fact St Louis is essentially a police state right now.

This is scary, why isn’t anybody upset about this? What the hell is wrong with people, when will yall wake up?

Maybe someone on vine did something funny, I don’t know.

I’m fucking terrified.

The media has carefully cultivated the idea that predominantly black areas are like a different country (think of the news calling Katrina survivors “refugees”) and white supremacy has always held that black and brown people (even citizens) are dangerous “aliens” just waiting to harm good white folk.

People are watching this with the same detachment as they would a war thousands of miles away. They feel no connection to the people of Ferguson. Ferguson is not part of “their America”.

That last post has so much truth in it it hurts. The public can detach itself from feeling any connection to its fellow citizens because the media has successfully coded them as “other”. Either through the concept that because some may have looted, they all did and therefore give up any right to be justifiably upset at their police state. Truthfully, its breathtaking how badly people wanted off the hook for not caring about these atrocities. 

spookycha0s:

donotcryout:

The Sexy Lie, Caroline Heldman at TEDxYouth@SanDiego

Every single word of this.

This is honestly such real shit. Every word of it. Second to last frame hits a lot (I really hardly ever considered the possibility that there was such thing as not-spectatoring).

emilywk:

matociquala:

damngruchy:

supermassiveasshole:

i was teaching my grandma to use computer so we can talk on skype and such but today she went kinda mad at me because “i didnt show her the knitting programme” and i was like what

and it comes out she accidentally opened ms excel and found out its a great way to create knitting patterns

my grandma is 82

The street finds its own uses.

Hey make sure you tell her to make the height of the cells not the same as the width. Knitting is wider than it is tall and she’s gonna smush her patterns.

“Women are socialized to make men feel good. We’re socialized to “let you down easy.” We’re not socialized to say a clear and direct “no.” We’re socialized to speak in hints and boost egos and let people save face. People who don’t respect the social contract (rapists, predators, assholes, pickup artists) are good at taking advantage of this. “No” is something we have to learn. “No” is something we have to earn. In fact, I’d argue that the ability to just say “no” to something, without further comment, apology, explanation, guilt, or thinking about it is one of the great rites of passage in growing up, and when you start saying it and saying it regularly the world often pushes back. And calls you names.”

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The art of “no.” « CaptainAwkward.com (via professorpinka)

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“For example, a study by the Central Florida Commission on Homelessness recently found that it costs the state $31,065 each year for each chronically homeless person living on the street in medical and incarceration costs. But it also found that it would take just $10,051 to give that person permanent housing with services like job training and health care. That’s just a third of the cost of doing nothing for those without shelter. Other smaller scale examples show the same thing: A newly opened shelter in Fort Lyon, Colorado will cost under $17,000 per person, compared to the estimated $43,240 it costs to leave them outside. An apartment complex intended for homeless people in Charlotte, North Carolina has already saved $1.8 million. Even the Bipartisan Policy Center proposal notes that its own cost estimates “do not take into account any potential savings resulting from fewer families becoming homeless or reduced health care costs.””

- It Would Actually Be Very Simple To End Homelessness Forever | ThinkProgress (via jadegordon)

Black Female Superintendent Makes Bold Move: Minneapolis Schools Now Need Permission to Suspend Black Students - Atlanta Blackstar:

godinthabuidling:

multigalacticblackgirl:

In an effort to understand why students of color in the Minneapolis school system are 10 times more likely to receive a suspension than white students, school superintendent Bernadeia Johnson enacted a new policy where every non-violent suspension of a Black, Hispanic, or American Indian student will now be reviewed by her office before they …

YES!!! This needs to happen in every school system right now.

Bless this woman for protecting our children.

medievalpoc:

[censored racial slur]

friendlylunk:

dontjudgemeimscared:

medievalpoc:

babaloo55555:

infinitemachine:

thebrayton:

medievalpoc:

via Saladin Ahmed

So tokenism is fine?

If that’s as high as your imagination will allow you to set the bar, I suppose it’ll have to do.

It’s fantasy, folks. The genre practically begs you to think bigger.

thebrayton why not just say “I’m not capable of creating/can’t imagine a complex and realistic character of color.” Because that’s the only line of thought I can think of that would result in your response to these tweets.

"So tokenism is fine" like, are you for real?

Even if you take the “fantasy” out of it and just go with biopics and historical fiction…

These stories are worth telling.

So why should our historical and/or medieval-inspired fantasy worlds be more limited and less diverse than history?

Even the elder scrolls can pull it off, and they have elves and orcs to include.

No one wants to read a story about medieval magic and n****rs. Instead of bitching about other people not including your favorite color, write your own story.

I censored the racial slur myself on this post, but I’m going to go ahead and reblog it because I think some people are still pretending this is about anything but overt, vile, specifically anti-Black racism.

lionsandshadows:

ponchopeligroso:

every single person you know has something in their life and past that is probably worth collapsing to the ground in an uncontrollably sobbing heap over, so be nice to each other and tell good jokes

this is really important.

catandaguin:

familiaralien:

missingkitsune:

eatfithappiness:

vegan-vulcan:

I didn’t know there were twenty thousand vegans on tumblr!!!

You can be against animal cruelty and not be a vegan

You can be against animal cruelty and not be a vegan

Also given the fact some vegans wilfully neglect their pet’s diet for personal belief reasons you can in fact be a vegan and be ok with animal cruelty when its convenient for you.

^^^^ Reblogging especially for that last comment.

dualchainz:

lmao at people saying “wow i can’t believe eminem said he’d punch lana del rey i’ve lost all respect for him”

you’ve JUST lost respect for him now?

not after he made a song pretty much explaining step by step how he would murder his wife?

or the countless other times he talked about beating women or was homophobic or transmisogynistic

fuckyeahmelissafabello:

Pro tip: If you’re the oppressor, stfu. Stop dominating conversations.

echoes-of-the-fall:

lady-redrum:

wasthatnotsideblog:

just gonna say this: if someone has social anxiety and they ask you something akin to ‘are you mad at me’ or ‘do you hate me’, it isn’t because they don’t trust you, it’s because their brain literally tells them that all the time

it’s not a personal slight, it’s insecurity caused by mental illness

thanks

TAKE NOTE.

yes this

Today in Solidarity (11/11/14): Micheal Brown’s parents, Lesley McSpadden and Mike Brown, Sr, spoke the the UN today about the loss of their child and police brutality in Ferguson. No parent should be put in this position, but I continue to be in awe of their courage and strength throughout this journey. #staywoke #farfromover

belleandwhistle:

breyanarae:

elegantlytasteless:

Underwater sculpture, in Grenada, in honor of our African ancestors thrown overboard.

I couldnt not reblog this, it’s so powerful to me.

oh my god.

“Until we, as a society, are able to get over our discomfort and anxieties around producing young people who are sexually healthy adults, we’re going to continue to have the all too prevalent problems of sexual assault and rape.”

- Want to End Campus Sexual Assault? Tackle the Primary Issue Being Ignored | Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright (via consentawarenessproject)

[sarahseeandersen]

mikedawwwson:

The Underdog Myth

jessehimself:

thinksquad:

In Gretna, Florida, Juanita Donald called the police to come assist her and get her 24 year old son to take his medication, as she had done in the past.

On Tuesday morning, around 9:30 am, she called the police to help her with her son Kaldrick Donald and one officer showed up, Sergeant Charles Brown.

Charles Brown ended up tasing Kaldrick Donald repeatedly, and then took him into the isolated bathroom in the family’s house and shot him multiple times, killing him.

Brown murdered Donald in the presence his pregnant sister and mother, and no one can even say why. He was completely unarmed, and somehow not completely sane.

His mother said “I heard my baby say, I want my mama after he shot him, and then I didn’t hear anything else.”

His mother said she was “expecting them to take him to the Apalachee Center like before”, but instead a single officer came and escalated the situation, murdering him in front of his family.

Juanita continued to say “It wasn’t but one officer. Instead of him calling for backup, he took things in his own hands and he goes in the house and he rush him and shoot him.”

She continued to say he “didn’t want to be bothered”, and that he simply walked away from the officer.

She says Sergeant Charles Brown “Just grabbed him and he tased him. Then when he grabbed him and tased him, he rushed my son off in the bathroom and I heard three shots. I was like, you shot my son and he was like, I had to. I said, no, you didn’t have to.”

Charles Brown is now on ‘administrative leave’, or paid vacation, and if this story doesn’t blow up then this officer surely will see no charges.

http://organichealth.co/mother-calls-police-to-help-her-son-take-his-medicine-cop-shows-up-and-shoots-him/

jamaicanamazon:

more-equal:

moreleftthannot:

http://filmingcops.com/cop-ties-bag-over-mans-head-calls-him-ngger-and-tases-his-genitals-gets-to-keep-pension/

what the actual fuck

Smfh man

ethiopienne:

but…what…about…physics…?

“Frames of Mind” is a comic that illustrates different moods by orthodontist and cartoonist Grant Snider (previously) of Incidental Comics.

image via Incidental Comics

zanabism:

being called “racist” isn’t an insult or something mean that people are saying to you because they want to bring you down. if you’re being called racist you shouldn’t be brushing it off because you “can’t see the haters” you should be assessing your behaviour, your language, and mindset for signs of prejudice, discrimination, and sympathy/support for unfair and violent treatment towards racially persecuted people in your country