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Paris in the Twenties
I did not eat much the winter of my last year in high school. I read compulsively and rarely slept. I didn’t know what I felt when my classmate Ginger Graham died three months after coming to school one day with a bump on the underside of her chin, several months before we were to hear which of the Seven Sisters had accepted or rejected us, and two days after my father hurled a heavy crystal glass across the living room of our penthouse over East 73rd Street, shattering the windowpane in a thousand pieces, and marking one of his last nights in what had been, for all these years,…
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One small construction innovation could drastically reduce global carbon emissions.
Outside the realm of old-school mafia murder, cement doesn’t strike most people as dangerous. But it is. The chemical process of making cement—a key ingredient in concrete—emits 8% of the world’s carbon dioxide. “If the cement industry were a country,” says BBC News, “it would be the third largest emitter in the world – behind China and the US.” That may mean the most toxic car you can think of—let’s say the black-exhaust-belching 1970s Dodge your granddad refuses to let go—is less deleterious to the environment than the street upon which it sputters. In order to meet the requirements of the Paris Agreement on climate change, annual emission from cement…
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‘The Last Guardians’ Film: indigenous people’s fight in Ecuador
Manari Ushigua, political and spiritual leader of the Sapara community in Pastaza province. Photo: Punzano/Tucker Archive. All rights reserved.After experiencing first-hand the pressures put upon the indigenous people in the Ecuadorian Amazon during 2015, as two documentary filmmakers, we set about making ‘The Last Guardians'. Three years later after pre-production, two rounds of fundraising, filming with the incredible communities of Sarayaku and Sapara, and taking the film through post-production, ‘The Last Guardians’ has just been released on VOD, and is now available to audiences worldwide! Watch the trailer and full film on VOD here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thelastguardians In making the film, our aim was to raise international awareness around the key challenges…
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The Occupy Movement Reemerges As Anti-ICE Protests Grow Across The Country
While the Trump administration slowly dials back its cruel “zero-tolerance” immigration policy, a growing movement looks to strike back against Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On June 17, a group of protestors gathered around the federal prison in Portland, Oregon, where immigrants are being detained under the banner #OccupyICEPDX. By the next day, the group grew to over 70 protestors. It soon became an all-night vigil with protesters standing together, arm-in-arm, to block any vehicles from leaving the facility. The protests inspired the newly-formed #OccupyICEPDX to put out a call to action to people across the country to establish their own occupations to abolish ICE. Occupy ICE protests have since sprung…
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Juggernaut
The whole thing was so fantastic, so beautiful, so unbelievable, so nice. Roscoe Hammond was moving his big, two-story house. I was there the night the truckers came with their big wheels and listened as Roscoe phoned three dozen pals. “Arnie,” Roscoe cried, “what are you doing at midnight? We’re trucking the damned house two miles uphill. Going to paint it all kinds of Hindu Bombay colors. You ever see those juggernaut films? The big icons? They roll through the streets, all different colors, and the wheels, Jesus, 5 feet round, like circular rainbows, with legs and feet and big mascara eyes. “So what we got here is a juggernaut…
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Estonia’s populist and radical right: how radical are they?
Police launch tear gas at right-wing and far-right protesters rallying against the Global Compact for Migration in front of EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Dec. 16, 2018. Ye Pingfan/ Press Association. All rights reserved. The Estonian Conservative People’s Party (EKRE) polled as the third most popular party throughout 2017 and 2018. Chairman Mart Helme and his son and Vice-Chairman Martin Helme have been reiterating that EKRE is a party with a purely civic profile in its political engagement, without links to militant grass-roots groupings. How close are these allegations to the truth? Radical right-wing parties and militant groupings: three types of connection There is a sub-category of radical right-wing parties…
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This Genderless Barbershop Builds Community One Haircut At A Time
When Kim Goulbourne learned her barber would be leaving soon, she realized she needed to do something. And she needed to do it quickly. As anyone who regularly visits a salon knows, it’s often difficult to find one person who gives you the perfect haircut each time. That journey gets even more challenging when it comes to women and nonbinary people with short hair who want a trim or a scalp design at a barbershop. Goulbourne knew she wasn’t alone, so she created a barbershop pop-up geared directly toward women and LGBTQ people. For its first pop-up event, You and Sundry existed for two days at New Women Space in…
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Gaza’s “Great March of Return”: an international rallying call for peace and justice
Picture by Ashraf Amra/apaimages. All rights reserved.In 2015, a Guardian editorial said that “The right of assembly in a public place is truly one of the cornerstones of liberty – a right to bear witness and bring peaceful pressure to bear on rulers and the public in support of a cause”. Now, consider the carnage at Gaza’s border with Israel where, on 30 March, tens of thousands of men, women and children joined the ‘Great March of Return’, a six-week protest to culminate with the anniversary of the Nakba (Catastrophe), the ethnic cleansing of 700,000 Palestinians in 1948. The ‘Great March of Return’ began on the anniversary of ‘Land Day’…
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Country singer Brandon Stansell movingly tells his coming out story in powerful new music video.
The face of country music is changing as LGBTQ country fans are finding representation in the genre. Singer Brandon Stansell is leading that change by being open and honest about his sexuality. “10 years ago there was no way you could be LGBTQ and in country music,” Stansell said in an interview with GOOD, adding he felt like “an island” growing up as an LGBTQ country music fan in Tennessee. “There was never a question that I was going to not talk about who I was.” Stansell got personal with his new single “Hometown.” In the video for the song, Stansell is depicted coming out to his mother played by…
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Worth
I could never get warm enough in the winter. Not with the fireplace going, not keeping the heat at the 68 degrees recommended by Georgia Power, and especially not since I had turned it down to 64 figuring that we could save that extra bit of money. The cold wouldn’t bother my husband, Steven, though; his body ran hotter than mine. And though I didn’t like the cold, I’d had long practice putting up with it, with making do. Momma said that as long as we didn’t freeze, cranking up the heat any higher than necessary was just a waste. I pushed the needle into the quilt on my lap…