Troy, Michigan couldn’t afford to keep its library open, so it scheduled a vote for a 0.07 tax increase. The Tea Party waged strong anti-tax group waged a “Vote No” campaign against the increase. The city worked with Leo Burnett Detroit to run a counter campaign in the name of the Book Burning Party. Signs appeared around Troy with the message, “Vote to close Troy library Aug 2, book burning party Aug 5.” The campaign’s Facebook page became the hub for the new campaign, with Twitter, Foursquare, want ads, flyers and more to drive engagement. The campaign became international news as outcry over the idea of burning the library’s books drowned out the opposition and galvanized support for the library – which won by a landslide. The campaign won a Gold award for Government/Political at the International ANDY Awards 2012, and was recognized with the Facebook Integrated Media Award at the 2012 Clio Awards this week.
(via Troy Public Library Book Burning | The Inspiration Room)
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“You can’t get rid of evil. We can’t, and I feel that so intensely. All the idiots that keep coming into the world and wrecking people’s lives. And it is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage, okay? That you lose hope — I don’t want to lose hope.” — (Interview: Maurice Sendak, NOW with Bill Moyers, 2004)
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Infographic of the Day: In which gay rights in the U.S. — marriage, adoption, employment discrimination protection, hate crime laws, and whether schools have regulations to ban harassment based on gender and sexual orientation — are broken down state by state (using rainbow colors, of course).
And it’s interactive!
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Infographic of the Day: In which gay rights in the U.S. — marriage, adoption, employment discrimination protection, hate crime laws, and whether schools have regulations to ban harassment based on gender and sexual orientation — are broken down state by state (using rainbow colors, of course).
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The only time I get asked to go on dates is when the asker is a seven year old boy
I think that’s a good plan. My professor suggested that I not let it become a task but rather an exploration. I can be critical but it’s more about letting it do what I would like movies to do for me
“And for you I keep my legs apart
And forget about my tainted heart”
— Little Bit- Lykke Li
“I like it salt
I like it wet
Like my makeup in a mess
So I cry hard
Let it fall
And I won’t stop until my tears are all shed”
— Let it Fall-Lykke Li
woodingtonsworld asked: Josie, I would like to say that I truly enjoy your tumblr. I hope I get to see you soon. (:
aww that means so much!!! I love yours too. you make me want to step my music game up. How was your birthday? and btw I WILL visit this summer!!!
I was discussing George Zimmerman with a middle aged caucasian woman. She considered herself enlightened while she described how she believed Zimmerman was guilty of a hate crime. She then went on to say that race does not matter in terms of someone’s identity. And then went even further to say that if she was walking down the street and saw multiple young black men, that were dressed all “hip hop” she would have been afraid.
Can’t even begin on how wrong so much of this is.
“Ever since puberty, ever since I was 11 or 12, I’ve had cyclical depression. That’s something that has been a defining feature of my life as an adult. It’s manageable. But it’s real. And it doesn’t take away from my joy or my work or my energy, but coping with depression is something that is part of the everyday way that I live and have lived for as long as I can remember. … Depression for me, you can’t distract your way out of it. … When you are depressed, it’s like the rest of the world is the mother ship, and you’re out there on a little pod and your line gets cut and you don’t connect with anything. You sort of disappear. And so it’s not something you can talk-therapy out of. It’s really a chemical thing. You get adrenaline from work, but adrenaline is not a cure.” — Rachel Maddow on depression (via nprfreshair)
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“You make movies for that guy. The one that sits in the corner in the theater and notices that one detail you agonized over for months, that no one else really paid attention to. That guy’s the reason you make films” — Heliodoro San Miguel-one of my favorite intrsuctors at The New School
when tumblr was my best friend. Though I have found new relationships and have rededicated myself to my passions-I have to remember that not all friends deserve to be left behind
In October of 1947, Mohandas Gandhi gave a piece of paper to his visiting grandson, Arun Gandhi, upon which was written the following list — a list he said contained “the seven blunders that human society commits, and that cause all the violence.” The next day, Arun returned home to South Africa, never to see his grandfather again. Gandhi was assassinated three months later.
Note: The same list was originally published by Gandhi in his journal, Young India, in 1925. It was titled, “Seven Social Sins.”
(Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, & Marriott; Image: Gandhi, via Wikimedia.)Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principles.
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