Final Embrace
Every time I look back to this photo, I feel uncomfortable — it haunts me. It’s as if they are saying to me, we are not a number — not only cheap labor and cheap lives. We are human beings like you. Our life is precious like yours, and our dreams are precious too. — Taslima Akhter.
Image: Two victims of a garment factory building collapse in Savar, Bangladesh by Taslima Akhter via Time Lightbox. Select to embiggen.
UPDATE: Via the New York Times, Clothing Is New Front in Movement for Fair Trade.
With fair-trade coffee and organic fruit now standard on grocery shelves, consumers concerned with working conditions, environmental issues and outsourcing are now demanding similar accountability for their T-shirts. And some retailers are doing what was once unthinkable, handing over information about exactly how, and where, their products were made.
The death toll from the Bangladesh factory collapse is now over 800.
The death toll has risen to well over 1,000 with another 2,500 injured. This photo is just heartbreaking.
Well I’m home for the summer. I don’t really know what I’m doing tomorrow or this week or this summer for sure yet, but I’m still happy and feeling comfortable here. I can deal with being a direction-less college student on break for awhile.
One of the many reasons I love Joakim Noah
Yeahhhhhhhhhh, buddies!
Haha this was great.
Chris Person fixed TIME’s new magazine cover. Now it’s accurate. (TIME version #1, Person edit #2)
Update: And here’s another stellar contribution from @direlog
EXCELLENT
From @EARNEST_CYBORG9
Much more accurate.
Chris Christie
I am no fan of the New Jersey governor, but I’m also pretty tired of people making fun of him for his weight. There is plenty to criticize from a substantive, policy-based perspective, and so to sink to that line of attack is not only lazy but also insidious, enforcing destructive societal body image standards. Please stop doing it.
(Source: theuppitynegras)
Freshman year is in the books! (in AU – Letts-Anderson Quad)
Mark Sanford voted for the Clinton impeachment following the Lewinsky scandal. Some people just don’t get irony.
(Source: kristinastewartcolbert)
Steve Kornacki on the substantive reasons to be wary of an Anthony Weiner comeback.
