Be the change that you want to see

Gandhi's life expressed in 4:19 minutes.... impressive.

 

once upon a time not long ago / there was a boy who would grow and become a great soul /
he lived in India and his name was Gandhi / he believed in human rights and he felt so strongly/
that he made a vow to train himself / he realized first he’d have to change himself /
so he changed his clothes, and decided to walk / some days he practiced silence and refused to talk/
when he was young he studied to be a lawyer / and then he became a great spiritual warrior /
he read from the scriptures of every religion / came to the realization that we’re all God’s children
because he understood that we’re all equal / he became a spokesman for the people
a karma yogi devoted to service / to spread truth & peace was his purpose /

 

Be the change that you wanna see in the world, just like Gandhi

 

Gandhi dedicated his life to the cause / even when it meant breaking unjust laws /
he often faced prison and incarceration / but that only strengthened his determination /
he said he would make every sacrifice / but that he would never kill or take a life /
he used his heart instead of his fist / and he taught nonviolence as a way to resist /
a peaceful soldier who used his mind / to fight for the rights of human kind /
but not just people, animals too / his basic teaching “God is Truth” /
he joined Muslims, Seeks, & Hindus / Christians, Buddhists, Jains, and Jews /
all the many paths that lead into / the light that shines bright inside of me and you /

Be the change that you wanna see in the world, just like Gandhi

 

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” / and it takes more strength and faith to be kind /
with that in mind Gandhi took a stand / against the foreign occupation of his land /
when things got violent Gandhi would fast / not eating for days until the riots would pass /
but the biggest event that made the british halt / is when Gandhi G decided to harvest salt /
the British empire installed a salt tax / and stealing salt was an unlawful act /
so Gandhi and his peeps, took the streets / ten thousand deep they marched to the beach /
but when they arrived they were beaten with clubs / but they didn’t fight back instead they chose love /
the foreign military realized they were wrong / and eventually decided to go home /
you see Gandhi G was a very great leader / but before all that he was shy and meager /
as a young child he was just like you and me / before he became Mahatma Gandhi /
the word “Mahatma? it means great soul / and its inside of us just waiting to unfold /
if you follow your heart and act real bold / next time it’ll be your story that’s told!

 

Be the change that you wanna see in the world, just like Gandhi

 

Tamara Milic

Technologic

In this video by Daft Punk called Technologic, it shows the many uses of technology by naming what seems like a never ending list of verbs. Ghandi would not have been impressed with the new obsession of "upgrading" and "charging", which are just two verbs out of the song. 
Buy it, use it, break it, fix it,
Trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it,
Charge it, pawn it, zoom it, press it,
Snap it, work it, quick - erase it,
Write it, cut it, paste it, save it,
Load it, check it, quick - rewrite it,
Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it,
Drag and drop it, zip - unzip it,
Lock it, fill it, call it, find it,
View it, code it, jam - unlock it,
Surf it, scroll it, pause it, click it,
Cross it, crack it, switch - update it,
Name it, rate it, tune it, print it,
Scan it, send it, fax - rename it,
Touch it, bring it, Pay it, watch it,
Turn it, leave it, start - format it.

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it,
Trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it,
Charge it, pawn it, zoom it, press it,
Snap it, work it, quick - erase it,
Write it, cut it, paste it, save it,
Load it, check it, quick - rewrite it,
Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it,
Drag and drop it, zip - unzip it,
Lock it, fill it, call it, find it,
View it, code it, jam - unlock it,
Surf it, scroll it, pause it, click it,
Cross it, crack it, switch - update it,
Name it, rate it, tune it, print it,
Scan it, send it, fax - rename it
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it,
Turn it, leave it, start - format it.

Technologic [4x]

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it,
Trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it,
Charge it, pawn it, zoom it, press it,
Snap it, work it, quick - erase it,
Write it, cut it, paste it, save it,
Load it, check it, quick - rewrite it,
Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it,
Drag and drop it, zip - unzip it
Lock it, fill it, call it, find it,
View it, code it, jam - unlock it,
Surf it, scroll it, close it, click it,
Cross it, crack it, switch - update it
Name it, rate it, tune it, print it,
Scan it, send it, fax - rename it,
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it,
Turn it, leave it, start - format it.

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it,
Trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it,
Charge it, pawn it, zoom it, press it,
Snap it, work it, quick - erase it,
Write it, cut it, paste it, save it,
Load it, check it, quick - rewrite it,
Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it,
Drag and drop it, zip - unzip it,
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it,
Turn it, leave it, start - format it.

Touch it, scroll it, close it, click it,
Cross it, crack it, switch, update it.

Lock it, fill it, call it, find it,
View it, code it, jam, unlock it,
Buy it, use it, break it, fix it,
Trash it, change it, mail, upgrade it,
Charge it, porn it, zoom it, press it,
Snap it, work it, quick erase it,
Write it, cut it, paste it, save it,
Load it, check it, quick rewrite it,

Surf it, scroll it, pose it, click it,
Cross it, crack it, switch, update it,
Name it, read it, tune it, print it,
Scan it, send it, fax, rename it,
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it,
Turn it, leave it, start, format it,
Buy it, use it, break it, fix it,
Trash it, change it, mail, upgrade it,

Charge it, pawn it, zoom it, press it,
Snap it, work it, quick erase it,
Write it, cut it, paste it, save it,
Load it, check it, quick rewrite it,
Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it,
Drag it, drop it, zip, unzip it,
Surf it, scroll it, pose it, click it,
Cross it, crack it, switch, update it,
Name it, read it, tune it, print it,
Scan it, send it, fax, rename it,
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it,
Turn it, leave it, start, format it

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it,
Trash it, change it, mail, upgrade it,
Charge it, pawn it, zoom it, press it,
Snap it, work it, quick erase it,
Write it, cut it, paste it, save it,
Load it, check it, quick rewrite it,
Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it,
Drag it, drop it, zip, unzip it,
Surf it, scroll it, pose it, click it,
Cross it, crack it, switch, update it,
Name it, read it, tune it, print it,
Scan it, send it, fax, rename it.

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it,
Trash it, change it, mail, upgrade it,
Charge it, pawn it, zoom it, press it,
Snap it, work it, quick erase it,
Write it, cut it, paste it, save it,
Load it, check it, quick rewrite it,
Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it,
Drag it, drop it, zip, unzip it,

Lock it, fill it, call it, find it,
View it, code it, jam, unlock it,
Surf it, scroll it, pose it, click it,
Cross it, crack it, switch, update it,
Name it, read it, tune it, print it,
Scan it, send it, fax, rename it,
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it,
Turn it, leave it, start, format it

Modern Ag

(from Gil)
i found an article that can attribute to modernization of the united states agriculture. This connects to india's imperalism because the british modernized the salt industry and mining industries opening the country to a state of economy. the over use of the lands by the people have left the soils dead 
http://www.aolnews.com/earth-day/article/time-water-running-out-for-ogallala-americas-biggest-aquifer/19446923?icid=main|main|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolnews.com%2Fearth-day%2Farticle%2Ftime-water-running-out-for-ogallala-americas-biggest-aquifer%2F19446923

Protesters will petition Apple in 'ethical iPhone' campaign

Apple's Grand Central Terminal store in New York will be the site of a protest on Thursday from customers seeking reforms in how Apple's overseas suppliers, like Foxconn, treat their factory workers.

Apple's Grand Central Terminal store in New York will be the site of a protest on Thursday from customers seeking reforms in how Apple's overseas suppliers, like Foxconn, treat their factory workers.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Apple is facing demonstrations on Thursday at a half-dozen of its retail stores around the world from customers concerned about how Apple's suppliers treat their factory workers in China and other overseas locations.

The protests are the offline outgrowth of an online petition drive launched two weeks ago on social activism site Change.org. Created by Mark Shields, a self-described lifelong Apple customer who says he was "shocked to learn of the abusive working conditions in many of Apple's supplier factories," the petition has drawn almost 200,000 signatures since its launch.

A parallel petition effort, led by corporate accountability lobbying group SumOfUs.org, has drawn another 50,000 signatures.

Both groups are teaming on Thursday's protest. Supporters plan to hand-deliver copies of the petitions -- including all of the signatures -- to workers at a half-dozen Apple retail stores around the world.

The targeted stores include marquee locations in Washington, DC; New York City, San Francisco, London, Sydney and Bangalore.

"This is a really huge step for us, in combining all of the voices we've collected from people all over the world asking Apple to clean up their supply chain," Change.org human rights organizer Sarah Ryan told CNNMoney.

An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment on the planned action.

Ryan said she expects around 40 people to join the protest at one location, Apple's Grand Central Terminal store in Manhattan. The petition delivery is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. ET.

Change.org's petition asks Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) to develop a "worker protection strategy" around its major product releases to prevent the abuses that have reportedly occurred when major deadlines loom. It also asks Apple to be transparent about the findings of the Fair Labor Association, an independent watchdog group that Apple joined last month. The FLA plans to begin monitoring the facilities in Apple's supply chain and to publicly post its findings on its website.

SumOfUs's petition is less detailed and more sweeping. Calling for an "ethical iPhone," it asks Apple CEO Tim Cook to "overhaul the way [Apple's] suppliers treat their workers."

Horror stories have kicked around the tech industry for years about the conditions at the Chinese factories almost all major U.S. vendors rely on to manufacture their devices. The pressure has intensified recently on Apple -- the industry's most profitable and most popular gadget maker -- after a series of investigations drew attention to a set of particularly chilling alleged labor abuses.

An investigation by the New York Times shed light specifically on the harsh working conditions at Foxconn, a key Apple supplier. A story published late last month documented the human toll of a plant explosion that killed several workers.

In a recent CNN segment, a Foxconn employee spoke out about her working conditions.

"They use women as men and they use men as machines," the worker -- who asked to remain anonymous -- told CNN's Stan Grant. "I almost feel like an animal."

When asked why humans do machine-like work at Foxconn, she responded: "Well, humans are cheaper."

The Foxconn worker said that she made less than $1 an hour for her labors.

While Apple declined to talk about this week's protests, the company reaffirmed its commitment to fair labor practices.

"We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain," Apple said in a recent statement to CNN. "We insist that our suppliers provide safe working conditions, treat workers with dignity and respect, and use environmentally responsible manufacturing processes wherever Apple products are made."

Apple is one of many companies that outsources its electronics manufacturing to suppliers across the globe. Change.org organizer Ryan said she hopes that garnering attention around the petition will push Apple to set a precedent for other tech companies.

"What we want is for Apple to take their motto -- 'think differently' -- and extend that to the way they treat their workers," she said. "We want them to be a leader in the tech world in not just treating their workers in the United States fairly, but also treat the ones abroad fairly." To top of page

 

 

First Published: February 8, 2012: 6:33 PM ET
via money.cnn.com

Thanks to Kevin S.!

The Finger Points at Apple

Not to bore any more of you with my Fanboyism, but while I was browsing the Internet, I came across a video from my favorite online news show that had to do with Apple. Naturally I took a peek. This video was almost directly correlated to the Mike Daisey podcast. These people are finally trying to change the system for good.

-Cole Freedman
Period 8

Sent from my iPad (Seriously)

Video Here: 

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Here is David Pogue's response, "The Dilemma of Cheap Electronics". Pogue was a Mac fanboy when Cole was just a glimmer in his parents' eyes. He now is the tech writer for The New York Times.