Simply the most amazing short video I may have ever seen. I certainly never have seen an advertisement that made me want to cheer and cry at the same time. This isn’t a longing for nostalgia or rejection of innovation but simply recognizing what ails our society. The great flaw here is the idea that farmers have the power to restructure our food system. They don’t and Agri-buisness won’t be doing what you see in this video. This leaves the onus on us, the consumer who with every food dollar can vote for a more humane, sustainable and equitable food system.
A few people I follow blogged this commercial for Chipotle yesterday — finally watched it and now I see why. Excellent.
The Geography of Government Benefits - Interactive Map - NYTimes.com
Oh look. The areas of the country that get the most government benefits are full of Republicans and Tea Partiers. Quelle surprise.
The share of Americans’ income that comes from government benefit programs, like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, more than doubled over the last four decades, rising from 8 percent in 1969 to 18 percent in 2009.
(Source: peterwknox)
Planned Parenthood Saved Me
These are some amazing stories. I donate to Planned Parenthood regularly, and am a strong supporter. While I don’t have any lifesaving stories of my own, I’ve been going to PP for the past ten+ years for exams, testing, and affordable birth control. I don’t know where I’d be without it.
A few years ago someone told me what the term “Riot Girl” meant, and it’s always stuck with me. It comes from the fact that if the male population were ever treated the way the female population is regularly, there’d be a riot.
Lets all donate a few bucks in suport of affordable women’s healthcare, and show the Komen Foundation that we don’t fucking need them anyway.
Phase three of Let’s Move! — addressing food deserts across America. The goal is to reduce the childhood obesity rate to 5% in one generation (by 2030). She may end up making a more lasting impact on the country than her husband.
Michelle Obama promotes healthy eating at Inglewood store site: The market, set to open in April, is part of a statewide push to reduce obesity by attracting grocers to low-income neighborhoods and making healthy food more accessible.
Photo: First Lady Michelle Obama, flanked by Inglewood Mayor James Butts, left, and L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, told residents and leaders gathered at the future market site: “I’m here today because I believe every family in our country should have access to healthy food.” Credit: Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
![I’ve thought about this article many times since the uprising began in Syria. Even when it came out last February — months before people took the streets and Assad went on the attack — I wondered who Vogue was trying to please or appease in whitewashing an already controversial regime. I still wonder what went on behind the scenes (why scratch a dictator’s back?). As their web-scrubbing proves, their timing and perspective could not have been more tasteless.
The Only Remaining Online Copy of Vogue’s Asma al-Assad Profile
Max Fisher for the Atlantic:
In February, Vogue magazine published, for the benefit of its 11.7 million readers, an article titled “A Rose in the Desert” about the first lady of Syria. Asma al-Assad has British roots, wears designer fashion, worked for years in banking, and is married to the dictator Bashar al-Assad, whose regime has killed over 5,000 civilians and hundreds of children this year. The glowing article praised the Assads as a “wildly democratic” family-focused couple who vacation in Europe, foster Christianity, are at ease with American celebrities, made theirs the “safest country in the Middle East,” and want to give Syria a “brand essence.”Vogue’s editors defended the controversial article as “a way of opening a window into this world a little bit,” conceding only that Assad’s Syria is “not as secular as we might like.” A senior editor responsible for the story told me the magazine stood by it. A few weeks later, the article and all references to it were removed from Vogue’s website without explanation. In August, The Hill reported that U.S. lobbying firm Brown Lloyd James had been paid $5,000 per month by the Syrian government to arrange for and manage the Vogue article. […]
Sadly, Vogue’s piece of the Syrian puzzle has been almost entirely scrubbed from the internet. But, somehow, the text can still be found at a website called PresidentAssad.net, a gif-filled but meticulously updated fan page to the Syrian dictator. The site is registered to a Syrian man living in Rome named Mohamed Abdo al-Ibrahim. A personal site for Ibrahim lists him as an employee of the Syrian state-run news agency.
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I’ve thought about this article many times since the uprising began in Syria. Even when it came out last February — months before people took the streets and Assad went on the attack — I wondered who Vogue was trying to please or appease in whitewashing an already controversial regime. I still wonder what went on behind the scenes (why scratch a dictator’s back?). As their web-scrubbing proves, their timing and perspective could not have been more tasteless.
The Only Remaining Online Copy of Vogue’s Asma al-Assad Profile
Max Fisher for the Atlantic:
In February, Vogue magazine published, for the benefit of its 11.7 million readers, an article titled “A Rose in the Desert” about the first lady of Syria. Asma al-Assad has British roots, wears designer fashion, worked for years in banking, and is married to the dictator Bashar al-Assad, whose regime has killed over 5,000 civilians and hundreds of children this year. The glowing article praised the Assads as a “wildly democratic” family-focused couple who vacation in Europe, foster Christianity, are at ease with American celebrities, made theirs the “safest country in the Middle East,” and want to give Syria a “brand essence.”Vogue’s editors defended the controversial article as “a way of opening a window into this world a little bit,” conceding only that Assad’s Syria is “not as secular as we might like.” A senior editor responsible for the story told me the magazine stood by it. A few weeks later, the article and all references to it were removed from Vogue’s website without explanation. In August, The Hill reported that U.S. lobbying firm Brown Lloyd James had been paid $5,000 per month by the Syrian government to arrange for and manage the Vogue article. […]
Sadly, Vogue’s piece of the Syrian puzzle has been almost entirely scrubbed from the internet. But, somehow, the text can still be found at a website called PresidentAssad.net, a gif-filled but meticulously updated fan page to the Syrian dictator. The site is registered to a Syrian man living in Rome named Mohamed Abdo al-Ibrahim. A personal site for Ibrahim lists him as an employee of the Syrian state-run news agency.
(via kateoplis)
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