Hashmi’s tweet went viral, with over 25,000 likes. Hashmi also made the list available to all via a google spreadsheet. The sheet lists what was condemned, who condemned it and a link to evidence of this. It took her about three weeks to complete.
Well, i guess they’re ordered to kill the protesters.
First they put their life in danger, shoot at them with rubber bullets, they use
tear gas,
concussion grenades and water cannons and then they don’t let them have a medical treatment.
75 (!!!) law enforcement agencies were sent there from 10 states
to police the PEACEFUL protesters. That’s insane. People are trying to protect their land and someone is trying so hard to get money from the pipeline that he/ she is ready to kill people for it.
Just some background on the Nat’l Guard Unit. This Unit has members that served in Iraq, Gitmo Bay, and now are on stand by to go to Afghanistan. Exactly what you do not need to face this situation.
This is a photo my friend posted of what their little
brother wants for Christmas. And I love it, I want to help make this happen..
The people of Standing Rock Indian reservation have been
protesting and fighting against the multi-billion dollar oil pipeline that
would pass through four states. This pipeline would pass through both the Mississippi
and Missouri rivers, and would be half a mile from the Standing Rock Indian
reservation. This means that any possible oil spill could have devastating effects
upon the local’s water supply. The residents are also worried that the pipeline
might also destroy their sacred suit tribal sites.
The protesters have been gathering for about a year in
hopes to preserve and save the land. And of course, police are involved. There has
been a series of upsetting allegations, such as a woman’s arm being blown off, mass
arrests, and even police armed with teargas and bean bag rounds to evict
protesters which resulted in over 140 arrests. Though I understand some force
had to be taken when a few protesters trespassed on private property, resisted
arrest and refused to leave the site after being asked too, I also believe that
these locals have the right to their freedom of speech and I understand them
wanting to protect the land. But this isn’t about my thoughts. This is about
helping the people of Standing Rock Indian reservations and a making a little
kids Christmas wish comes true.
SOOOOO here are 10 ways we can help Standing Rock Indian
Reservation.
1. Call North Dakota governor Jack Dalrymple at
701-328-2200. When leaving a message stating your thoughts about this subject
please be professional.
5. Call the White House at (202) 456-1111 or (202)
456-1414. Tell President Obama to rescind the Army Corps of Engineers’ Permit
for the Dakota Access Pipeline.
8. Call the Army Corps of Engineers and demand that they
reverse the permit: (202) 761-5903
9. Sign other petitions asking President Obama to stop
the Dakota Access Pipeline. Here’s the latest to cross my desk – https://act.credoaction.com/sign/NoDAPL
10. Call the executives of the companies that are
building the pipeline:
a. Lee Hanse Executive Vice President Energy Transfer
Partners, L.P. 800 E Sonterra Blvd #400 San Antonio, Texas 78258 Telephone:
(210) 403-6455 Lee.Hanse@energytransfer.com
b. Glenn Emery Vice President Energy Transfer Partners,
L.P. 800 E Sonterra Blvd #400 San Antonio, Texas 78258 Telephone: (210)
403-6762 Glenn.Emery@energytransfer.com
c. Michael (Cliff) Waters Lead Analyst Energy Transfer
Partners, L.P. 1300 Main St. Houston, Texas 77002 Telephone: (713) 989-2404 Michael.Waters@energytransfer.com
there’s nothing wrong with drawing naked women but it’s a little odd that so many people and by people i mean men draw naked women and only naked women and spend years of their life experimenting with new art forms and finding thousands of new ways to create images of naked women
and by naked women i mean young, beautiful naked women. usually white, usually skinny.
like it’s cool that you spent years compiling this 3D crayon sculpture with only your feet but surely you could give her a dress or something. maybe you could have made an image of a man instead. or a child. or a nice tree.
man i want this to hit the tens of thousands so badly because it’s barely 1k and there’s already people missing the point and swearing at me in the notes imagine how much worse it’ll get it’ll be hilarious
Tangential but the men drawing naked women thing always reminds me of that John Berger quote, “You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
I was six the first time I went to disney world. It was also the first time I met my step family in florida. See, my grandfather had three wives in his lifetime, and the third wife was the only one I ever met. She had five kids when they married, and moved to Hawaii from the Phillipines. Now jump forward, my dad’s step siblings have families of their own, including my uncle Jett, who married a native hawaiian woman, and had two beautiful daughters.
Back to that first trip to disney. I was six, my sister was ten, and our smack in the middle of that age difference was my cousin Malia at age eight. She, and her younger sister Bella, both took hula classes, because their mother wanted them to stay close to their roots, despite the distance of having moved to florida. We were all pretty young, but we knew enough that the princesses at disney world were actresses in costume.
“How cool would it be to play a princess at one of these parks?” I had said after a long day in the magic kingdom. “I wanna do that one day.”
“Who would you play?” Bella had asked.
“I don’t know. Belle maybe. She’s the only one with brown hair other than snow white, and mulan, and I could never play either of them.”
“Yeah, but you don’t really look like Belle either. Your noses are to different.” Malia had cut in, and I shrugged it off, knowing It’d never happen anyway.
“What about you guys? Who would you play?” I asked them, unaware that there was no answer to that.
“We don’t look like any of them either. There are no princesses from where we’re from.” So we all settled on the sad belief that none of us would ever get to be disney princesses.
Years pass, and I decide that one day I would help write a movie for a princess from either the phillipines, or the polynesian islands, so my cousins could become princesses. Because they held on to that dream. It might have been harder for them to let go of it, because they lived so close to disney.
Now it’s 2014, and Malia has just been hired as a dancer, at the polynesian resort at disney. She started as a swing, and in two years worked her way up to a featured dancer. It helped that she was of polynesian decent.
About a year ago it was announced that disney would be releasing a movie featuring their first polynesian princess, and my cousins & I were all excited, but none of us had high hopes. We all figured they’d make her look more like Rapunzel, the way Anna and Elsa had.
Fast forward a few months. They have just released the first look at moana.
I text my cousin as soon as I see it.
“Did you see Moana?”
“No, why?” I send her the picture above, and a minute later I get a call. “SHE LOOKS LIKE ME! I LOOK LIKE HER!” Malia is screaming into the phone with unabashed enthusiasm. She couldn’t believe that a disney princess bore such a resemblance to her.
Yesterday, 11/16/16, my cousin began her new job at disney world, and I couldn’t be happier that her dream of ten years had been realized.
This is why representation matters. This is one of many reasons why Moana is so important.
Congratulations Malia. I can’t wait to come down and say Mahalo
“The decision to cancel a season is serious and consequential, and reflects Harvard’s view that both the team’s behavior…run[s] counter to the mutual respect that is a core value of our community,” Harvard President Drew Faust wrote in a statement. Faust also said that there have been initial discussions looking into whether this behavior occurs on other sports teams.
It’s nice to see Harvard live up to the standard of conduct Elle Woods set.
“You recognized and dealt with misogyny at Harvard?”
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