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The Elephant’s Foot of the Chernobyl disaster, 1986 (x)

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Did you know that there was a successful peaceful revolution in Iceland? It’s true. But you wouldn’t know from watching TV.

In 2008, the people of Iceland forced their prime minister and his whole government to resign. Next, they nationalized the banks & opted not to pay back the fake debt created by foreign bankers. Next, they created a public assembly to rewrite their constitution. And all of this in a peaceful way.

The people of Iceland have proven to the world that there is a way to dismantle the system while preserving peace & democracy.

Learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Icelandic_financial_crisis_protests

http://youtu.be/8-SiYQ8s_6I

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Marines at Camp Evans display their pinup girls.

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I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how it is with us. It’s a shame….because we’ve loved each other… But in the end, we can’t stay together forever.

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

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a visual representation of stripping away culture & white washing

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What shape are you?

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“It can’t be my good looks,” he wrote to a Choate friend, “Because I’m not much handsomer than anyone else. It must be my personality.”

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America 1968 2015

TIME’s Baltimore Cover With Aspiring Photographer Devin Allen

Source: TIME

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Canada, 1950-61, photographed by Chris Lund (Part. 1)

(via Library and Archives Canada)

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God bless Congressman John Lewis.

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Let’s not forget to acknowledge Alexandre Dumas this Black History Month

The writer of two of the most well known stories worldwide, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo was a black man. 

That’s excellence.

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Heartwarming photo of a Muslim girl and Jewish boy fighting for the same rights along with their fathers.

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Political Points by Paula Gillen

Alfred Harris and Bonnie B pose in Paula Gillen’s studio at School 33, Baltimore, MD, circa 1979

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