Why is it that the world will act immediately when one young man sets himself on fire in the Arab world - causing a complete power shift in multiple countries - but doesn’t even twitch when almost 40 people have done the same in Tibet? Tensions have been high in both the Arab world and Chinese-controlled Tibet, yet due to a greater amount of media censoring, the rest of the world knows fairly little about the goings-on in Tibet. If one were to use over-simplified logic upon this, one would come to the conclusion that the road to peace is guarded by a gate made of government censorship, meant to keep anything and everything that disagrees with them out of the public eye. You see, the world acted - or at the very least re-acted - when the now famous Burning Man picture entered global media. But in Tibet, they have no way of getting those pictures into the mainstream media’s hands. They’re on an isolated plateau in the Himalayas which is crawling with Chinese soldiers. Has the world really lost so much compassion that they require grotesque pictures of burning humans in order for them to even care?
Hope can be a cruel, cruel thing. Hope overrides logic and leaves you curled in a corner, sobbing. Hope takes as much as it gives.
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No one, and I mean no one deserves this.
don’t care if your a bieber, hipster, one direction, kardashian, janoskian blog. you all need to watch this and reblog it
this video deserves a billion notes so please stop scrolling, watch and reblog !
This should be on every blog. No one deserves this. I seriously cried, breaks my heart this goes on
If you don’t reblog this, you have no heart. NO ONE should have to go through extreme bullying
Forever reblog
): what the FUCK is wrong with the world. every single one of my followers should reblog this.
This hits so close to home. That boy was only 11 when he took his life. I can’t imagine losing my 11-year-old brother that way. It’s just so awful.
i watched this movie yesterday and it was about the saddest thing my eyes have ever witnessed. i was bawling the whole entire time. bullying NEEDS to stop.
forever reblog <3
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What are the top ten most censored countries? According to new analysis by the Committe to Protect Journalists, they are:
- Eritrea
- North Korea
- Syria
- Iran
- Equatorial Guinea
- Uzbekistan
- Burma
- Saudi Arabia
- Cuba
- Belarus
Happy World Press Freedom Day….
Bollywood Superstar detained at US airport
Bollywood superstar, Shah Rukh Khan, was detained for 2 hours at a New York airport after landing in his private plane to speak at Yale University (Rory Gilmore’s safety school). The delay made him late for his lecture - it had to be rescheduled - and led to outrage across India for what has…
Prince Harry Disguises Himself as Prince WilliamSorry I can’t hear you over the sound of how epic England is.
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junkie generation by captured m0ments on Flickr.
We know enough to know we know nothing.
Every girl wants to be kissed in the rain.
Just watch it all the way through, please. It’s not that long.
One cannot condemn a religion if one does not know what it’s beliefs are. Therefore, educate yourself, if only so that you can condemn intelligently.
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MAKE A CHANGE, BE THE DIFFERENCE.
One question for everyone? Do you think you can change anything?
I’ve gone on countless rants via social networks and conversations and I know the looks I get every time I speak. ‘She is crazy. We can’t change anything.’
For a moment, put aside snide remarks, frustration and pure lack of compassion and watch this video.
We are a generation who has sat back and watched as life has evolved around us and we have hoped for some change.
We can’t hope for change, change is something we can’t watch on the television or read about on facebook. Change is something we have the power to make. We have been divided by corporations and media outlets that have told us how to live our entire lives but the only reason they are able to do that is because we listen. Because we believe it.
What if one time we believed that we could change something? What if for once we believed that we are a democracy with the real power laying in the voice the of citizens?
If generations before us had the power of reaching someone across the world in just one click, their causes would have been known. If the Freedom Riders had the power to infiltrate the minds of others with one click, maybe innocent lives wouldn’t have been taken. Maybe if the Jewish did in Germany, maybe if the victims of Rwanda did, maybe if those in Darfur did, maybe if they all had this advantage, history books would be written differently.
ATTENTION EVERYONE:
We have an advantage that no other generation has had. We fear the idea of being powerless because we lack the resources or pocket change but this is a free place where words can reach millions. Where images can be uploaded in one minute, shared across the world in one day and reaching major headlines in nearly one week. We believe we can do absolutely nothing because we have been told that. We believe we can’t create change because we have yet to see change happen. Let’s be the change other generations see. Let’s correct every ignorant mind that says we are a lazy generation. Let’s show the powerful, the famous, the dictators, the leaders, everybody, that power and change still comes in numbers. Let’s show the world that this cannot happen anywhere. Let us all work together and re-establish our natural power. Most importantly, LET’S MAKE KONY FAMOUS.
STOP KONY
KONY 2012
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Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and guess what then? Diaphragms are on me.
Jon Stewart
