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Yet another sad thing about what’s going on in Ferguson right now is the fact that if you took the same exact events and put it in a dystopian movie with an all white cast… People would be talking about how corrupt governments and police forces can be. The whitewashed Mike Brown character would get all the sympathy the world could produce.

But for **some reason** the very real events going on in Ferguson, Missouri and around the country and the world really is sparking very little attention and sympathy and humanization from mainstream avenues. Sad.

wocinsolidarity (via houch)

when it hit above 43 degrees celsius in Sydney, weird things started happening. And by weird, I mean that bats. Just. Die. They can’t regulate their heat anymore. They just fall down and die. Loads of them. Birds stop singing, because it’s too hot to sing. 

The world just goes quiet.

And there’s me, standing there, thinking: well, more people need to know about this. There’s the abstract effect of climate change, but there’s that back of the neck chill, that absolute atavistic *fear* that something has gone terribly, terribly wrong when *the birds don’t sing anymore*.

That’s what climate change is. Yes, yes, sea levels rising, increased instability due to food security and everything else.

But it’s going to get too hot for the birds to sing.

That should scare the fuck out of you. 

Dan Hon (via worsethandetroit)

afrikanwomen:

Waris Dirie is a Somali model, author, actress and human rights activist.

At the age of thirteen, she fled her family in order to escape an arranged marriage to a much older man. By chance, she was discovered by photographer Terence Donovan, who helped secure for her the cover of the 1987 Pirelli Calendar. From there, her modeling career took off, appearing in advertisements for top designers such as Chanel, Levi’s, L’Oréal and Revlon.

In 1997, at the height of her modeling career, Waris spoke for the first time with Laura Ziv of the women’s magazine Marie Claire about the female genital mutilation (FGM) that she had undergone as a child, an interview which received worldwide media coverage. That same year, she became a UN ambassador for the abolition of FGM.

In 1998, Waris authored her first book, Desert Flower, an autobiography which went on to become an international bestseller. She later released other successful books including Desert Dawn, Letter To My Mother, and Desert Children, the latter of which was launched in tandem with a European campaign against FGM. In 2009, a feature-length film based on Waris’ book Desert Flower was released, with the Ethiopian supermodel Liya Kebede playing her.

In January 2009, she established the PPR Foundation for Women’s Dignity and Rights’, an organization she founded along with François-Henri Pinault and his wife  Salma Hayek. Waris has also started the Desert Dawn Foundation, which raises money for schools and clinics in her native Somalia, and supports the Zeitz Foundation, an organization focused on sustainable development and conservation.

In 2010, Waris was appointed Peace Ambassador for the Year of Peace and Security by the African Union.

Waris has received many prizes and awards for her humanitarian work and books.

“Africa has to stop destroying itself. The pointless fights between families, clans or rebel groups have to stop. Without peace, there will be no future for Africa. Africa has to recognise its own potential. The people of Africa have to recognise the beauty of their continent and understand how they can benefit from the incredible resources their continent has to offer. The people of Africa have to stop waiting for help. Only the men and women of Africa can save their continent.”

theholyfoot:

If you want to help secure the rights of women all over the world go here.
If you want to help people from north korea go here.
If you want to help stop child labor go here. 
If you want to help people escape from their current situation go here. 
If you want to help refugees reunite with their families go here. 

If you want to permanently help the people who are still living in inhumane conditions all over the globe, that grow up experiencing war, violence and discrimination, be political! Go vote, write articles, educate every single person you meet, never shut your mouth, make people aware of the fact that we are still far away from global equality, freedom and peace.  

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