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rootandrock: “ welcomedmachine: “ alhazredshound: “ prayforprada: “ im…………………… ” >-> Okay to say a thing? Park service jobs in national parks offer cheap room and board. You could be a cashier, or do work at the park, or some such. Live IN the park...

rootandrock:

welcomedmachine:

alhazredshound:

prayforprada:

im……………………

>-> Okay to say a thing? Park service jobs in national parks offer cheap room and board. You could be a cashier, or do work at the park, or some such. Live IN the park during the season and save up cash and yeah (no seriously I think renting a cabin/tent with a bed was 7 a month at Yosemite.)  In case… idk… anyone.. wants.. a way out? <_< ???

There’s also WWOOF, or the Worldwide Organization Of Organic Farm(er?)s. Membership is about thirty bucks a year, which I know can be steep, but most GOOD places provide not only room and board but a small stipend. Plus you can learn anything from permaculture farming to llama husbandry to wattle-and-daub construction, for free.

And to get in with parks services all over the USA, try governmentjobs.com!

If you can take the crippling isolation and responsibility fire lookouts are always needed and well-paid.

I love this post because it’s useful and good advice and also because ‘if you can take the crippling isolation and responsibility’ describes most labor in late capitalist colonialism. 

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Jul 14, 2016

jillianholtsmann:

“The day that we wrapped we cried the entire day and our makeup artists were pretty upset with us because there was a lot of running mascara. Just to realize how close we’ve grown in that span of time…and I didn’t think that I could, as an adult, develop that kind of friendship with new people, and it just really took me by surprise and it was a beautful moment to look at each other and just bawl our eyes out ‘cause we were so sad to be leaving each other.” - Kate McKinnon

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Jul 14, 2016

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lennybaby2:

lanie-love09:

micdotcom:

This white woman’s shocking account of police brutality reveals the importance of the #BlackLivesMatter movement

Molly Suzanna shared a story on Facebook that she had never told before: when she was 19, she ran a red light while crying, then was pulled over and forcefully removed and beaten by a police officer. She explains in the letter that she believes her situation would have been even worse had she been black — and she ends the letter with an important call to action.

The public needs to hear more stories like this as well.

Wow. This is horrifying.

Cops are drunk on power. Add any ism to that, you have a bunch of abusive, gun wielding, trained to kill, non empathetic, killers running around.

This woman got hauled out of a window, beaten, stripped, tortured, and humiliated, and she still is able to understand how white privilege saved her life.

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Jul 13, 2016

If you’re outraged by the end of OITNB, let me recommend some charities for you…

malcolm-twrkd-with-ida-4-justice:

williamsockner:

Just Detention International, a non-profit fighting to end prison rape, provide resources to survivors, and improve human rights conditions in American prisons and globally.

Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a New York-based collective that provides resources and legal advocacy to transgender, gender non-conforming and intersex people of color or of low income. SRLP has been fighting to end the abusive use of ‘protective’ administrative segregation of transgender prisoners - the practice Sophia Bursett was a victim of in the show.

JusticeNow, a California-based non-profit which fights for the rights of female prisoners in California to receive adequate medical care. Recently, JusticeNow was key to the outlawing of forcibly sterilizing female prisoners in California.

Transgender, Gender Non-Confirming & Intersex Justice Project provides resources in California to LGBTQ people in poverty, including providing transitional housing for incarcerated people reentering society.

Prison Law Office, a law firm in California that fights against inhumane conditions of confinement. PLO was key in the lawsuit against California keeping their prisons at 200% population capacity – overcrowding similar to and worse than what we saw in S4 of OITNB.

Black & Pink, an organization that provides pen pals to LGBTQ+ prisoners. Pen palling is a low-cost way to support prisoners who may not have LGBTQ+ supportive people in their lives, or who have limited access to safe conversation.

I’ve linked to the donation pages for these organizations, but there are many ways to get involved that don’t require spending money. Don’t just get mad – get motivated. These are real lives we’re talking about.

I work for the first one, JDI, and we need all the help we can get.

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Jun 27, 2016
cosbyykidd: “ noglutesnoglory: “ Lettuce take a moment to appreciate that nothing beets a vegetable pun. Corny, I know. Peas, don’t tell me a tomato is a fruit because I simply do not carrot all. ” ” oprah is me.

cosbyykidd:

noglutesnoglory:

Lettuce take a moment to appreciate that nothing beets a vegetable pun. Corny, I know. Peas, don’t tell me a tomato is a fruit because I simply do not carrot all.

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oprah is me. 

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Jun 10, 2016
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Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’

What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!’ This is the matriarchal approach to learning.

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Barbara Alice Mann, Iroquois woman (via socialuprooting)

didn’t check the source so im a lil stressed, but THIS WHAT I BE SAYING

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yup

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Jun 06, 2016

avacadoo:

Reason POI fans aren’t super angry about the death of Root is becuase the show runners didn’t use an LGBTQ+ character to get views and ratings. They treated the fans with extreme respect and didn’t kill Root off for “shock value”. 

The POI cast and crew are wonderful people who never, for a single moment, used the fans or the characters for there own benefit.  

ummmmmmmmmm. many of us ARE super angry. or just disappointed. don’t speak on everybody’s behalf.

again, like layne morgan said. the response to the trope has become part of the trope itself. 

Jun 01, 2016

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