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When factory owners refused to let him in, progressive photographer Lewis Hine sometimes lied about who he was, posing as a fire inspector, industrial photographer, and even a Bible salesman to gain entry into workplaces.

What he found in these places was shocking.

Some children were too small to reach the machines; employers found ways to get them to work anyway: “This little girl like many others in this state [Tennessee] is so small she has to stand on a box to reach her machine.”

Eight-year-old, barefoot Leo “picks up bobbins at 15 cents a day:”

“Little Fannie,” age 7, had started work in a textile mill at 6:00 in the morning on the day this photo was taken:

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Riot spotted in St Petersburg, Florida

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i learned about Tim Wong who successfully and singlehandedly repopulated the rare California Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In the past few years, he’s cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (their only food source) and gives thousands of caterpillars to his local Botanical Garden (x)

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Your Daily Reminder to Click for Palestine!

And don't forget to click for the other causes if you have time as well!

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So You Want to be Solarpunk?

If your neighborhood has a vacant lot, get some neighbors together and turn it into a community garden.

Organize a block party.

Create a maker space enabling folks to repair, repurpose, and swap their old stuff.

Organize a bunch of plant-savvy neighbors to help folks convert their yards from resource hungry yuppie lawns into something sustainable that fits the local biome.

Get a few friends together and clean up the trash on the streets. Make sure to recycle.

Set up Little Free Libraries and Little Free Pantries.

Get tool-savvy neighbors together to help folks with needed household repairs and upgrades.

The punk in solarpunk is about resistance to the alienation and consumer culture that makes our communities unsustainable and our environments toxic.

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"Israel Targets Civilians"

Grafitti found in Boston, Massachusetts

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Another trans man dead. Tee Arnold, also known as ‘Lagend Billions’, was a 36 year old black trans man who was shot on April 3rd in Hallandale Beach, Florida.

Most news reports are using his legal/deadname when reporting his death.

https://www.pghlesbian.com/2024/04/black-trans-man-shot-to-death-in-miami/

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Palestinian activists get their message across on Londons iconic Tower Bridge landmark- one of the cities most historic buildings. We need a ceasefire now.

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Source

Israel’s aid worker murder rampage is breaking records

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"Capitalism Kills"

Seen on an abandoned taxi in Mumbai, India

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The thing is that getting Palestine free is both very difficult but not as difficult as getting South Africa free. South Africa had more resources than Israel does, it could hold out so much longer and still the apartheid was ended by people working tirelessly and boycotting and pushing for divestment and sanctions. These methods will work for freeing Palestine too.

I know it doesn't feel like there have been many successes, but all the politicians are feeling the pressure. Pressure that we are able to sustain and even increase as we come up with new initiatives and convince new people to join.

One of the reasons they're resisting our pressure so strongly is because they know that when we see gains we will push harder, we will continue to push until the stones falling becomes a rock fall and Palestine's freedom is secured. They know if we get a taste of the power we can wield we'll turn that onto freeing Congo too. They know we're unhappy and have been for a long time and their very secure system starts to look a lot less secure when we start mobilising to change things.

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Anti-colonial graffiti seen along the highway on the Nullabor plain, Western Australia

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Link

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Who here would like to join me in saying

"FUCK ISRAEL"?

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"Eat ass, it is the only ethical consumption under capitalism"

Heredia, Costa Rica