I spent my Sunday afternoon/evening with Anakbayan Seattle, Pinay sa Seattle, Alay ng Kultura, and PUSO (Philippine-US Solidarity Organization) painting these murals together, eating together, drinking together and playing outside in the sun together.
It was a beautiful process to be apart of - and I can’t wait to see our murals come to life when they’ll be on display at the Gabriela-USA 2nd Assembly and Anakbayan-USA’s Founding Congress in Chicago, Illiniois this May 18th!
Has nothing to do with health and fitness, but how can you hate on this video?
60-Year-Old Man Got The Body Of A 20-Year-Old!
Nice fitspo commercial.
dare you to watch this and not be inspired - best commercial ever?
Stic.man feat NYM - Let It Burn
Here is a story about two photos taken around the same time at a pivotal moment in Philippine history.
The first photo, taken by internationally renowned photojournalist and Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas, was published in Aperture magazine (issue 108, Fall 1987). She spent five months in early 1986 in the Philippines documenting the last days of the Marcos dictatorship. The photo, taken during an anti-Marcos rally, looks down upon a mass of brown people raising the “L” (for Laban) signs with their hands. In the upper left, a huge effigy of Cory Aquino stands above the mass with a sign reading “Cory Power is People Power.” Brown and yellow, brown and yellow: the vivid colors scream hope, the contrast captures the political polarization of the moment. This is the kind of photo that good photojournalists always take of a big crowd.
The second photo was never published. It was taken by Uncle Dado Saturay, a former health worker and amateur photographer in the anti-Marcos movement before moving to Seattle in the late 80s. It was salvaged from a box of hundreds of slides that sat in the Filipino Workers Action Center in Seattle for a few years and was almost thrown away in 2006 when the center shut down. I’ve been slowly digitizing this big ass box of slides since. Here, the photographer is not aiming down at a crowd, but aiming upward from it. His gaze is fixed on a small group of people posed in a performance with their arms raised upward to the left. One holds a sickle. They stand in front of red banners with lots of long words. Unlike Meiselas’s photo, the colors are drab and faded. The word DRUG takes up more space than anything else. This is not a hopeful image, but a defiant one. It foreshadows the history that would soon follow after the colors from the first photo faded.
And just inside the far right edge of the frame of the second photo stands Susan Meiselas, camera in hand, looking away at something else.
Amazing.
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Affordability, of course, is another significant barrier to access. It is often cheaper to buy packaged foods than the raw ingredients to make similar foods; it is cheaper for me to pick up a box of Kraft than it is to buy macaroni, milk, and cheese. Fresh vegetables and fruits, in particular, are extremely expensive, and yet foodies sneer at poor folks who eat packaged foods and fast food, as though they are just lazy and useless. Not trying to make ends meet and eating what they can afford, even if they are not thrilled to be eating it. Shaming people makes it a personal problem; ‘you don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables,’ instead of a social problem, ‘we need to make fruits and vegetables more affordable.’Shocking News, Not All Ingredients Are Available To Everyone! (via thirdw0rld)
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I finally have the time to start using this how I originally intended, to log my health and fitness, and to also connect with others doing the same.
So this is a big hello to those who have followed me back, I’m not just some creep. And promise I will started updating more often. I’m a little shy but with time that should change.
