4.02.2011

From GOOD: Radishes in Suburbia: Documenting Urban Growth and the End of a Family Farm

In honor of summer - it'll be here someday! - 101 fast (vegan) recipes for inspired picnics


The Financial Hurdles Gay Couples Face: Same-sex couples must spend extra time and money to recreate the many benefits that heterosexual married couples receive automatically.

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"Over at The Atlantic, Julianne Hing writes about some tragic immigration stories, from the Border Patrol officer who was charged with giving shelter to an undocumented immigrant (his father) to a kid from Oregon who didn’t even know he was undocumented until ICE agents arrested him. Read the whole thing." source.

"I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based." - Vandana Shiva

1 comment:

allison said...

I look forward to reading your posts so much. The links have been topics of discussion during breakfasts with my fiance!