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Help Restore Photos Damaged in the Oklahoma Tornado
- Adele Peters wrote in Design, Graphic Design and Photography

Whether you’re a professional graphic designer who edits photos of runway models, or just someone who happens to be obsessed with Photoshop, put your skills to use for the greater good: Volunteer to help restore family photos that were damaged in the devastating tornado in Moore, Oklahoma and other recent disasters. Add your name and contact information HERE. We’ll gather a list and connect you with an organization working directly with disaster victims.

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2headedsnake:

Tammam Azzam, Freedom graffiti

‘Kiss’ by Klimt painted on the remains of a building hit by bombs and bullets.

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falalamele:

truth

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sinidentidades:

On the Street: UndocuAsians Come Out

Asians are a driving force behind migration to the U.S. and the demographic shifts; 40 percent of all migrants to the U.S. hail from Asia, and 40 percent of Asian Americans were not born in the U.S. What’s more, 1.2 million of the country’s 18 million Asian Americans are undocumented, according to the Asian American Justice Center.

So who are the country’s undocumented Asian American youth? They’re students and granddaughters and big brothers. They’re all over the country. Sitting next to you in class. Riding the bus alongside you. Probably dating your cousins. And if the latest social media campaign from the undocumented youth contingent of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund is any indication, they’re a seriously hip crowd committed to social justice.

Raise Our Story, organized by the Asian-American undocumented youth group RAISE and launched this week, will collect and highlight stories of undocumented Asian-American youth to highlight the many faces of immigration. As the immigration reform bill heats up, RAISE youth organized the initiative to make sure that the immigration reform debate includes the stories and voices of Asian immigrants, “who are often overlooked in the narrative surrounding immigration reform,” they said in a statement. But organizers also hope the project empowers the Asian American immigrant community to speak their stories aloud.

Share yours on Facebook, at Twitter via @raiseourstory, and on Tumblr, where you can read the stories of the folks whose photos are included below.

petapixel:

Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York gave a TEDx talk at Columbia University about how our perception of the world is being affected by the media’s focus on “good” stories. Here’s our short summary of his points: 

http://petapixel.com/2013/05/16/brandon-stanton-how-our-worldview-is-negatively-affected-by-good-stories/

two of my favorite things: humans of new york and TEDx!

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humansofnewyork:

I was walking through Bryant Park when a girl ran up to me, tapped me on the shoulder, and asked if I could photograph her group of friends. I actually said “no,” which is my general rule for on-the-street requests, but then I turned around and saw twenty kids waving at me. 

They had just finished demonstrating on behalf of The Fair Elections Act. According to their explanation, the act lessens the influence of corporate money in political campaigns by magnifying the effect of individual donors. 

Every dollar donated to a campaign by a private citizen would be matched by $6 in public money. 

Anyway, they reassembled their demonstration for my benefit. They described it as a “visual representation of how our politicians are tied up by corporations.”