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Quick Illustration for the New Year.

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Suburban Night Walks

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What to boycott NOW to help stop Israel’s unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

Reminder that boycotting DOES work, there is historic proof! Don't let anyone discourage you otherwise!

The BDS movement uses the historically successful method of targeted boycotts inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, the US Civil Rights movement, the Indian anti-colonial struggle, among others worldwide.

We must strategically focus on a relatively smaller number of carefully selected companies and products for maximum impact. Companies that play a clear and direct role in Israel’s crimes and where there is real potential for winning, as was the case with, among others, G4S, Veolia, Orange, Ben & Jerry’s and Pillsbury. Compelling such huge, complicit companies, through strategic and context-sensitive boycott and divestment campaigns, to end their complicity in Israeli apartheid and war crimes against Palestinians sends a very powerful message to hundreds of other complicit companies that “your time will come, so get out before it’s too late!”

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You will never be this cool. Bo Diddley

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Mississippi John Hurt is an American treasure.

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How shall we greet the sun

THANA FAROQ 

“Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement.” ― Edward W. Said

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How can you help? Resources curated here by It's Nice that.

Design by Leila Frijat

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names not numbers

The Palestinian Ministry of Health released a report on Thursday, including the names of more than seven thousand Palestinians who were martyred in the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip.

Red color highlights 0-4 years old age group

Green color highlights age group 5-17

White color highlights the age group between 18 and 59 years old

Gray color highlights the age group over 60

These are not just names, but people killed in the midst of a brutal war. Remember their names.

(Designed by @georgedeebstudios on insta)

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Los Angeles in the 70s

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Mike Lohrman, Lucero, Thrasher Feb 1989.

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Totally digging on this lost WFL logo. 

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Starvation Army, Orange Walk

Cleveland Punk. Thinking a lot about my buddy Tony Urso who passed away long ago. Cleveland Legend. Miss you buddy.

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Mario Rubalcaba, LInda Vista Skatepark in San Diego. Fingerflip lein to tail. 1990 maybe? or ‘89? Photo Waters.

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You know that old trees just grow stronger And old rivers grow wilder every day Old people just grow lonesome Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello"

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Nick Drake