February 2012
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Really interesting, Official Response from Burning...
TICKET UPDATE: RADICAL INCLUSION, MEET THE OTHER NINE This post by Andie Grace, Burning Man’s Communications Manager, is also available on the Burning Blog, here: http://bit.ly/wuXalo. We encourage you to share it with your friends, family and campmates, and we welcome your feedback in the blog’s comments section. She writes: First things first: For all the frustration, anxiety,...
Who said temporary tats were just for kiddies? →
January 2012
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City Silhouettes, Portraits Made Using Reflections... →
Gorgeous
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December 2011
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Inpsiring Friends...
I just caught up on two blogs of friends on global adventures. One is Claire Sloan, a fellow doula/aspiring nurse-midwife who did a clinical/public health quarter abroad in Oaxca Mexico. Another is Ali Von Striver who’s assisting a research project on monkeys in Ethiopia. I remember it was tough for these ladies to leave, but of course they are having incredible times. Very inspiring! Check...
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November 2011
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UCD pepper spray incident mentioned in the Daily Show
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Militarization of Campus Police →
I was present at the police altercation last Friday where police pepper sprayed non violent protestors, many of them my friends, sitting on the ground defending their right to protest. I’ve sifted through hours of media coverage on this, from NPR to Al Jeezera, trying to understand how/why and what could be done.
This interview with a student summarizes the entire 72 hours quite well:...
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Protect The Internet →
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School vs. School o' Life >__
When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical...
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Our Nature-Deficit Disorder →
“The more ‘modern’ a society’s way of life, the higher its rate of depression. It may seem baffling, but the explanation is simple: the human body was never designed for the modern postindustrial environment.”
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Justice Training
This summer I had the lucky opportunity to attend a “Reproductive Justice in Action” training with Access who’s mission statement is:
“ACCESS removes barriers to sexual and reproductive health care and builds the power of California women and girls to demand health, justice and dignity.”
They have 3 components for their volunteer network which consists of people...
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October 2011
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