heure de coucher.
goodnight beautiful people.
i love you all.
peace.
July 2010
“Injustice is a huge issue that is often misunderstood and applied to incorrect situations. Injustice in not when the person ahead of you in the 10 item or less line has 11 items. It is when life, liberty, and dignity are at stake.”
—Larry Martin, International Justice Mission (via irresistiblerevolution)
hi.
Group Show: Contemporary Art from the MoMA Collection [NY, USA] →
imaginepeace.com
Across from Walker’s installation in the Marron Atrium, Yoko Ono’s Voice Piece for Soprano (1961/2010) is also on view through November 29, 2010. A microphone stands near a set of instructions silkscreened onto the atrium wall: “Scream: against the wind, against the wall, against the sky.” Throughout the run of the installation, MoMA visitors are invited to follow the instructions, and, in addressing both the public and the institution, become participants in the work. Additional interventions by Ono are also on view, including Wish Tree (1996/2010), installed within the Sculpture Garden. For this piece, visitors are provided with a pen and paper; after writing a “wish,” they then attach the paper tag to the tree. The “wish tags” are removed from the tree intermittently and collected all together in a large box displayed within the second-floor galleries.
If you’re in NYC, don’t miss the opportunity to perform Voice Piece for Soprano!
i’ll be there next weekend!!! and when i went for a weekend last summer, it was during the “john lennon: the nyc years” exhibit at the rock and roll hall of fame annex in nyc.
i always pick a good time to go! can’t wait!!! :)
Iceland PM weds partner as gay marriage legalized →
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Iceland’s prime minister has married her partner under a new law legalizing same-sex marriage in the country.
One of her advisers, Hrannar B. Arnarsson, said Monday Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir and writer Jonina Leosdottir were officially married Sunday, the day the law came into force.
The pair has been in a registered partnership since 2002 and had applied to have it converted into a marriage under the new law. No ceremony was held.
The law was passed without a dissenting vote in Iceland’s parliament June 11.
Social Democrat Sigurdardottir, 68, became Iceland’s prime minister last year, after the previous center-right government was ousted by a wave of protest triggered by the country’s economic crisis.
Let’s just file this under reason #49809524305 the Scandinavians are better than everyone.
Ten Suggestions for Effective Activism By Paul Rogat Loe
Got this from my sociology professor, who is one of the coolest professors, let alone people, that i know. they emailed it to me and thought that i’d enjoy it. they clearly know my peaceful/activist-self too well…
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Suggestion #1: Start where you are. You don’t need to know everything, and you certainly don’t need to be perfect.
Suggestion #2: Take things step by step. You set the pace of your engagement. Don’t worry about being swallowed up, because you’ll determine how much you get involved.
Suggestion #3: Build supportive community. You can accomplish far more with even a small group of good people than you can alone.
Suggestion #4: Be strategic. Ask what you’re trying to accomplish, where you can find allies, and how to best communicate the urgencies you feel.
Suggestion #5: Enlist the uninvolved. They have their own fears and doubts, so they won’t participate automatically; you have to work actively to engage them. If you do, there’s no telling what they’ll go on to achieve.
Suggestion #6: Seek out unlikely allies. The more you widen the circle, the more you’ll have a chance of breaking through the entrenched barriers to change.
Suggestion #7: Persevere. Change most often takes time. The longer you continue working, the more you’ll accomplish.
Suggestion #8: Savor the journey. Changing the world shouldn’t be grim work. Take time to enjoy nature, good music, good conversation, and whatever else lifts your soul. Savor the company of good people working for change
Suggestion #9: Think large. Don’t be afraid to tackle the deepest-rooted injustices, and to tackle them on a national or global scale. Remember that many small actions can shift the course of history.
Suggestion #10: Listen to your heart. It’s why you’re involved to begin with. It’s what will keep you going.
June 2010
awkward.
if any of you have noticed, when i post daily photos of myself, i never smile. this is because i feel awkward smiling at a computer screen. sorry if you no like, but tis what you’ll continue to get. :)
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
—John Lennon (via gwenmccartney) (via sesil) (via adriennemae)
@buckeyeballerina
i’m actually not from Ohio. i just said i consider it home more than buffalo, since my whole family lives there (my parents are originally from there, born and raised). but see, my passion for the state just convinced you that i would be from there! ;)
but i’d love to come to the osu and play. perhaps we’ll have to talk to Adrienne about making this happen the upcoming semester sometime for a weekend of fun. just think of the mayhem we’d cause: “buffalo and columbus collide: college style.” i can see it now…
:)
the remainder of june 29th.
i will continue to spend the next hours and 13 minutes uploading music and reading.
once the clock strikes 12, it’s bed time for this one.
