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palmofmyhands: Ermias Ekube Ermias Ekube was born in 1970, in...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:54:15 -0500

Ermias Ekube

Ermias Ekube was born in 1970, in Addis Ababa , Ethiopia. He co-founded the Asmara School of Fine Arts in 1994, the first of its kind after liberation, where he taught painting for one year. He enrolled for four years at the Addis Ababa College of Fine Arts and Design, studied painting, drawing, sculpture and graphics art, majoring painting (DFA in 1990). Besides giving short art work-shops and art courses, Ermias exhibitsregularly with 2D and 3D mediums in different techniques, in Asmara, which inspires many contemporary young artists in the city.

Ermias currently lives and works in Nairobi.

See more of his artwork here.

thesmithian: Three years ago, Alex Minksy was a Marine in...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:02:55 -0500

thesmithian:

Three years ago, Alex Minksy was a Marine in Afghanistan when a roadside bomb exploded. He lost consciousness—and…his leg. After being in a coma for 47 days…he started the…journey towards recovery…when a photographer spotted him at the gym and asked him to pose, he stumbled into a new career…

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tranqualizer: [photo: centered in the photo is a Black woman...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:57:52 -0500

tranqualizer:

[photo: centered in the photo is a Black woman carrying a child in one arm with her other arm and fist raised. she is in the middle of chanting. there are others around her. a protest sign from the fast food strike in the background reads, “we are worth more. strike for 15. D15”

thepeoplesrecord:

Fast food strike wave spreads to Detroit, St. Louis
May 10, 2013

St. Louis, and last month’s in New York and Chicago, today’s work stoppage is backed by a local coalition including the Service Employees International Union, and the participants are demanding a raise to $15 an hour and the chance to form a union without intimidation.

Organizers say that over a hundred workers joined the St. Louis strike between Wednesday and Thursday. That included a group of Jimmy John’s workers who alleged that management humiliated them by requiring them to hold up signs in public with messages including “I made 3 wrong sandwiches today” and “I was more than 13 seconds in the drive thru.”

“Sometimes I walk for more than an hour just to save my train fare so I can spend it on Ramen noodles,” St. Louis Chipotle worker Patrick Leeper said in an e-mailed statement Thursday. “I can’t even think about groceries.”

A spokesperson for Jimmy John’s declined to comment on Thursday’s strike; McDonald’s and Wendy’s did not respond to inquiries last night.

As I’ve written elsewhere, the fate of the fast food strike wave carries far-reaching implications: Fast food jobs are a growing portion of our economy, and fast food-like conditions are proliferating in other sectors as well. Organizers say the fast food industry now employs twice as many Detroit-area workers as the city’s iconic auto industry. These strikes also come at a moment of existential crisis for the labor movement, a sobering reality that was brought into sharp relief in December when Michigan, arguably the birthplace of modern US private sector unionism, became the country’s latest “Right to Work” state.

Along with a shared significant supporter—SEIU—the campaigns in New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit have apparent strategies in common. Rather than waiting until they’ve built support from a majority of a store’s or company’s workers, they stage actions by a minority of the workforce designed to inspire their co-workers. Rather than publicly identifying the campaign and its organizers with a single international union, these union-funded efforts turn to allied community groups to spearhead organizing. Rather than training all their resources on a single company, they organize against all of the industry’s players at once. And—faced with legal and economic assaults that have weakened the strike weapon—these campaigns mount one-day work stoppages that are carefully tailored to maximize attention and minimize, but not eliminate, the risk that workers will lose their jobs.

Whether these strategies can ever compel a fast food giant to negotiate with its employees remains to be seen.

“After what I would consider well over three decades of wage suppression, workers in this particular industry—and then I think it’ll go to others—are realizing that their only way up the wage ladder is through their own organizations,” CUNY labor studies lecturer Ed Ott said Wednesday. Ott, a board member of the community organizing group that spearheaded the New York fast food strike, added, “The only way these workers are going to be able to advance these jobs is through unionization. And I think that idea has finally gotten traction.”

Update (9:15 AM Friday): According to the campaign, a walkout by twenty workers at Detroit’s 10400 Gratiot Avenue McDonald’s prevented the store from operating. Some workers brought in as strikebreakers to replace those striking workers chose to join the strike instead.

Organizers say that by day’s end, today’s strike could be the largest fast food work stoppage yet, topping last month’s 400-strong strike in New York.

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urhajos: Pejac in Spain

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:51:56 -0500

urhajos:

Pejac in Spain

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leighving: This picture of my friend brushing his daughter’s...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:08:15 -0500

leighving:

This picture of my friend brushing his daughter’s hair made me melt.

Love it!!

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ebonybanks: castill-o: punctured—wings: geschlossenheit: youn...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:03:52 -0500

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castill-o:

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youngblackandvegan:

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naturallycurlyworld:

Father’s Day is in a couple of days!!!

Gotta admit — we don’t give you dads enough credit. Even though your methods can be less than conventional, you always find a way to get the job done, making us giggle in the process.

This is for all the dads out there who can detangle, braid, and twist with the best of ‘em! We love & appreciate you. ♥ - NaturallyCurly.com

omg this is so cute!

So cute! I remember my Father attempting to do my hair for school once.

I remember when my dad tried to do my hair because my mom was out of town. My God. He did a terrible job. So I took it down and did it myself. When he found out, I got my first whooping from my dad.

awww this is too cute!

this is precious i love my dad

this has happened to every mixed or black girl at least once haha

Oh my god I remember when my dad did my hair like that

…And don’t forget, not only do black fathers go through this, white and other fathers do as well (as I can attest).

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads who’ve shown their kids unconditional love - even if their children didn’t quite appreciate their efforts. ;-)