Documented madness
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The FBI are also looking for the man in the photo. Pass it around. The more eyes that see it, the more quickly he will be found. Reblog this post and encourage your friends and family to share it, too.
There has been a fund set up for the victims of the Oak Creek Temple Shooting.
Victims Memorial Fund
c/o Sikh Temple
7512 S. Howell Ave.
Oak Creek, WI 53154
Regardless of your faith, or lack of, being gunned down while praying is absolutely insane and an terrorist act.
Reblogging even if I do live on the other side of the world, ‘cause this mofo needs to be found.
(via glossylalia)
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The FBI are also looking for the man in the photo. Pass it around. The more eyes that see it, the more quickly he will be found. Reblog this post and encourage your friends and family to share it, too.
There has been a fund set up for the victims of the Oak Creek Temple Shooting.
Victims Memorial Fund
c/o Sikh Temple
7512 S. Howell Ave.
Oak Creek, WI 53154
Regardless of your faith, or lack of, being gunned down while praying is absolutely insane and an terrorist act.
Reblogging even if I do live on the other side of the world, ‘cause this mofo needs to be found.
(via glossylalia)
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Meet Afro-Creative: Nadia Faragaab
Born in Australia, Nadia became the first Somali person in Australia to exhibit a collection at the Blak Dot Gallery in Melbourne last year.
The exhibition titled ‘Kronologies’ was aimed at highlighting and debating the lack of representation of Somali people within the Australian culture. Nadia also wanted to empower the Somali community by showcasing its culture through a juxtaposition of the old and new.Her journey is so recognizable. The pieces are so familiar and literal and yet they evokes alot more. For me: what is home? What makes a culture when you’re away from the country that was the cradle of that culture? And how are young people who haven’t grown up there supposed to connect to that culture?
But also, it brings to mind the resilience of a people, the connections that go deep, the beauty in that connection. I’ll never be a nationalist, but somehow finding and recognizing myself in other young Somalis who are on the same journey of discovering heritage, identity and Soomaalinimo and who express themselves with such honesty and love, I feel connected. A rare sensation for a professional outsider like myself.
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Fatima Jibrell is a prominent Somali-American environmental activist. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Horn of Africa Relief, now known as ADESO(African Development Solutions), co-founder of Sun Fire Cooking, and was instrumental in the creation of the Women’s Coalition for Peace.
Jibrell was born in Somalia to a nomadic family. She attended a British boarding school until the age of 16, when she and her mother left the country to join her father in the United States. There, Fatima graduated from high school. In 1969, she returned to Somalia and worked for the government, whereafter she married her husband, Abdulrahman Mohamoud Ali, a diplomat.
Spurred on by the Somali Civil War that began in 1991, Jibrell along with her husband and family friends co-founded the Horn of Africa Relief and Development Organization, a NGO of which she is the Executive Director. The Horn Relief supports sustainable peace and development in Somalia through grassroots capacity building, youth development, promotion of human rights and women’s leadership, and protection of the environment.
Jibrell was instrumental in the creation of the Women’s Coalition for Peace to encourage more participation by women in politics and social issues. She also co-founded Sun Fire Cooking, which aims to introduce solar cookers to Somalia so as to reduce the reliance on charcoal as a fuel.
In 2008, Jibrell wrote and co-produced a short film entitled Charcoal Traffic, which employs a fictional storyline to educate the public about the charcoal crisis.
For her efforts against environmental degradation and desertification, Fatima was awarded in 2002 the Goldman Environmental Prize, the most prestigious grassroots environmental prize. In 2008, she also won the National Geographic Society/Buffett Foundation Award for Leadership in Conservation.
(via waxwalan)
