Illustrations and comics by Saskia Keultjes (On Tumblr):
ASS-KICKING SONG
If we don’t watch out, agriculture could destroy our planet. Here’s how to grow all the food we need with fewer chemicals.
Like factory farming (which is not only destructive to our planet but cruel to our fellow species), popular agricultural methods are a huge danger to Earth. To learn more, I recommend reading this article.
Also, National Geographic is a fantastic and vital magazine.
ONE man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a month ago.
I’ve been on a hunger strike since Feb. 10 and have lost well over 30 pounds. I will not eat until they restore my dignity.
I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial.
Envisioning Spring, on this rainy day. Winter needs to go away.
(who doesn’t like seasonal rhyming?)
So far I’ve loved the movies of 2013 that I’ve seen (all two! I don’t go to the movies much) and so far I’ve been [insert whatever word you use to describe the simultaneous intake of disturbance and beauty].
Amos Chapple is a travel photographer who made the following pictures over the course of three visits to the Islamic Republic of Iran between December 2011 and January 2013. The New Zealand freelancer said he “was amazed by the difference in western perceptions of the country, and what I saw on the ground… I think because access for journalists is so difficult, people have a skewed image of what Iran is — the regime actually want to portray the country as a cauldron of anti-western sentiment so they syndicate news footage of chanting nutcases which is happily picked up by overseas networks. For ordinary Iranians though, the government is a constant embarrassment. In the time I spent there I never received anything but goodwill and decency, which stands in clear contrast to my experience in other middle eastern countries. I met an American special forces soldier in Kyrgyzstan last year who said when it comes to the Middle East, America has the wrong friends and the wrong enemies.” Below is a selection of Chapple’s recent photographs of Iran, captions provided by the photographer.
Read more. [Images: Amos Chapple]
(via storyboard)
I guess I like taking photos of photos. Here’s one of a Donald Woodman print at the New Mexico History Museum.
An American who was taken hostage and imprisoned in Iran, compares his experience in solitary confinement with those of prisoners in California. If you don’t know a lot about America’s prison system, I urge you to read this article. It will affect your thoughts on our legal system, prisons, and how we punish and “rehabilitate” criminals in this country. And for those of you like myself, who are already concerned with our prisons, I still recommend that you read this article—it’s a sad but necessary reminder that we’re taking away people’s freedom, in the same way non-democratic countries do, without actually caring about the humanity of prisoners/criminals or their rights to justice and rehabilitation.
- Shane Bauer’s article about solitary confinement: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/solitary-confinement-shane-bauer?page=1
- And because the article reminded me of her theories, here’s the amazing Angela Davis talking about America’s prison industrial complex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Yh8ZrGhzJIM
