GOOD * IS * LOVE

fairtrademarkus:

This little piece of paper is important. When a farmer delivers his/her coffee to the co-op, they receive a receipt and the co-op keeps a copy. At the end of the season the farmer collects his/her pay along with an extra bonus if the co-op made more on the sales of their coffee and the co-op receives the Fairtrade Premium on top of that. Co-op members decide democratically how best to use that for their community.

(Source: fairtradeinternationalusa)

fairtrade:

It’s coffee harvest time in much of the world. Here a farmer drops coffee cherries into his basket in in Yirgalem, Ethiopia. Photo from the Fairtrade certified Fero Cooperative, a member of the Sidama Coffee Cooperative.

Just really great. Oh dollar moms.

afternoonsnoozebutton:

“Dear Internet” by Tina Fey

From PerezHilton.com/Posted by jerkstore on Wednesday, 1/21/2009, 11:21 P.M.

“In my opinion Tina Fey completely ruined SNL. The only reason she’s celebrated is because she’s a woman and an outspoken liberal. She has not a single funny bone in her body.”

“Dear jerkstore,

Huzzah for the Truth Teller! Women in this country have been over-celebrated for too long. Just last night there was a story on my local news about a “missing girl,” and they must have dedicated seven or eight minutes to “where she was last seen” and “how she might have been abducted by a close family friend,” and I thought, “What is this, the News for Chicks?” Then there was some story about Hillary Clinton flying to some country because she’s secretary of state. Why do we keep talking about these dumdums? We are a society that constantly celebrates no one but women and it must stop! I want to hear what the men of the world have been up to. What fun new guns have they invented? What are they raping these days? What’s Michael Bay’s next film going to be?

When I first set out to ruin SNL, I didn’t think anyone would notice, but I persevered because—like you trying to do a nine-piece jigsaw puzzle—it was a labor of love.

I’m not one to toot my own horn, but I feel safe with you, jerkstore, so I’ll say it. Everything you ever hated on SNL was by me, and anything you ever liked was by someone else who did it against my will.

Sincerely,

Tina Fey

P.S. You know who does have a funny bone in her body? Your mom every night for a dollar.”

(source)

Another from Ethiopia

Soft focus, who cares. Ethiopia time.

themindislimitless:

whatgodzillasaidtogod:

talldarkbishoujo:

wretchedoftheearth:

I’ve never seen a GIF of this.

I was just reading about this during a wiki binge on Olympics incidents and did a little research on it. I never knew how deep the message was that Smith and Carlos were trying to send. Just about everything they wore and how they wore it had symbolism attached to it. (unzipped tracksuits for solidarity with blue collar workers, necklace of beads for lynching victims, etc) Calling it a “black power salute” is really reductive and it’s a shame (and predictable) that if it’s taught at all, that’s what it’s boiled down to.

Another thing I didn’t know: the Australian guy who came in second wore a patch for solidarity with them, he was protesting racist Australian immigration policies. When he passed away, Smith and Carlos were pallbearers at his funeral.

Don’t know what this is referring to? Here you go.

On a note: both athletes were expelled from the Olympics for this, but no objection had been made by the president of the games years before about a Nazi gesture in the Berlin Olympics. Racism times two.

(Source: bloggingisnotwriting, via yaaruin)

Bialowieza borderlands, Poland

patagonia:

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