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Monday, 14 November 2016
“I hope you’re watching mainstream media” – actress shailene woodley arrested during peaceful pipeline protest
American-born actress Shailene Woodley was arrested on Monday for participating in a peaceful protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAP), a $3.7 billion project that intends to create a 1,172 mile pipeline spanning four states.
The arrest, which was made in Sioux County, North Dakota, involved Woodley and 26 others on charges of trespass and engaging in a riot, according to police.
Best known for her leading role in theDivergent series, the actress hoped her celebrity status would attract more attention toward this important event, and even documented the protest on Facebook live once the police were called in to handle the so-called riot.
The video spans two hours and ends with her arrest, after which Shailene followed up by saying, “I hope you’re watching, mainstream media.” (To see the full video, click HERE.)
The video has now amassed well over 3.5 million views, bringing this important matter to the masses in a raw format the mainstream media is unlikely to ever deliver.
Thankfully, several alternative media outlets have covered the pipeline project relentlessly, stressing how important it is that we put an end to it. Below are some of the most recent pieces that we at CE have released on the matter:
Shailene has since been released from jail after posting a $500 bond. Her publicist told E! News, “She appreciates the outpouring of support, not only for her, but more importantly, for the continued fight against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.”
By having the courage to not only stand with protestors but to also broadcast their struggle live on Facebook, Shailene has effectively tapped into a pocket of the collective that was unlikely to be made aware of this issue otherwise. Her celebrity status made the arrest a tabloid the mainstream media could not resist, even though it involved an event -the pipeline protest -they otherwise have fully avoided.
This isn’t the first time that Shailene has made a public statement to support a social issue she cares about. An avid supporter of once presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, she has spoken at a number of public events to promote him.
The caravan seen at several points during the Facebook live video is the same one that Shailene and a group of fellow Bernie supporters have been travelling across the country in. Much of their progress can be followed through any of her well-known social media accounts.
Whether you agree with Shailene’s actions or not, take the time to at least inform yourself of the issues at hand. Be sure to turn to several media outlets to ensure you get the full story and to identify the way in which you would like to help out.
**This was originally featured on collective-evolution.com
Sources:
Bbc.com
teenvogue.com
Thursday, 27 October 2016
Stunning Women Sing “Amazing Grace ” Their A Capella Voices Are Impossibly Beautiful
The a cappella music genre is getting more attention and popularity every year. Groups from all around aim to create instrumental music using only their vocals… It’s simply a fantastic art form. Brigham Young University’s women’s a cappella group,Noteworthy, has created a name for itself by perfecting this art form and sharing their music with the world.
An all-female group, Noteworthy covers everything from pop to rock. In the performance below, the 9 singers cover the famous hymn, “Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone),” with elegance and perfection. With a gorgeous arrangement and an stripped-down performance, the women create a truly captivating version of the song. The music video is equally chills-worthy as the beautiful young woman walk through a forest in white, looking angelic as they sing in perfect harmony.
In their moving yet peaceful cover, you can clearly hear the emotion and skill behind every note and word. The video has well over 13 million views on YouTube, and it’s easy to see (and hear) why Noteworthy’s beautiful song has touched so many.
Watch their amazing rendition below.
Share Noteworthy’s song to give new life to this classic hymn today!
Saturday, 1 October 2016
Europe’s Forgotten ‘Hitler’ Killed Over 10 Million Africans — But the West Erased it From History
Most people have no idea of who is pictured above, but you should. The sight of this man should cause a similar revulsion to that of seeing Mussolini, Mao, Stalin or Hitler, as he committed an African genocide that resulted in the killing of over 10 million people in the Congo.
His name is King Leopold II of Belgium.
Most of people never learned about him in school, and have also most likely never heard about him in the media either. This is because he’s not included in the popular narrative of oppression (which includes things like U.S. slavery and the Holocaust).
King Leopold II is part of an ongoing history of colonialism, imperialism, slavery, and genocide in Africa that would clash with the popular social narratives taught in our school system today. It doesn’t fit neatly into school curriculums where, paradoxically, it is looked down upon to make overtly racist statements. However, it’s quite fine not to talk about a genocide perpetrated by European capitalist monarchs that killed over 10 million Congolese.
Belgium’s King Leopold II ran a personal empire so vast and cruel, it rivaled – and even exceeded – the crimes of even some of the worst dictators of the 20th century.
When Leopold II ascended to the throne in 1865, he ruled with the kind of gentle hand that Belgians wanted from their king after the democratization of the country in the wake of the multiple revolutions and reforms. He had great ambitions of building an overseas empire, and was convinced, like most statesmen of his time, that a nation’s greatness was directly proportional to the resources it could extract from those colonies.
He disguised his business transactions as “philanthropic” and “scientific” efforts under the banner of the International African Society and used slave labor to extract Congolese resources and services. His reign was enforced through work camps, body mutilations, torture, executions, and his own private army.
The empire was known as the Congo Free State, and Leopold II stood as its undisputed slave master. For almost 30 years, rather than being a regular colony of a European government, Congo was administered as the property of Leopold II for his personal enrichment.
The world’s largest plantation, registering at 76 times the size of Belgium, possessed rich mineral and agricultural resources and lost nearly half of its population by the time the first census counted only 10 million people living there in 1924.
Interestingly, when we learn about Africa in the U.S., we learn about a caricatured Egypt, the HIV epidemic, the surface level effects of the slave trade, and if you went to a good school perhaps something about South African Apartheid. We also see lots of pictures of starving children on commercials, safaris on animal shows and we see pictures of vast savannahs and deserts in films and movies.
What we don’t learn about is the Great African War or Leopold’s Reign of Terror during the Congolese Genocide. Leopold II essentially turned Congo into his own personal part-plantation, part-concentration camp, part-Christian ministry, and yet history fails to retell the lessons of his tyrannical endeavor.
It seems that when you kill ten million Africans — you aren’t called ‘Hitler’, your name never comes to symbolize the living incarnation of evil, and your picture doesn’t produce fear, hatred, and sorrow — rather your crimes are simply swept under the historical rug and the victims of colonialism/imperialism remain forever voiceless.
Source:
walkingbutterfly.com
thefreethoughtproject.com
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
This Car Runs For 100 Years Without Refuelling – The Thorium Car
The element in question, is called thorium. It is radioactive, and if your car was powered by t, you would literally never need to refuel it. In fact, the thorium lasts so long, t will most likely outlive you too.
This is what inspired a company named Laser Power Systems to create the concept for a thorium-powered engine that.uses thorium to build a laserbeam that heats water, produces steam, and ultimately powers an energy-producing turbine.
Thorium is so powerful, that a small sample of it packs up to 20 million times more energy than a comparatively sized sample of coal, which makes it an ideal source of energy.
Before you get too excited though, Dr. Charles Stevens, the CEO of Laser Power Systems, told Mashable in an interview that thorium engines won’t be in cars anytime soon because the automobile industry doesn't want to buy into them because they prefer to profit rather than innovate;
“Cars are not our primary interest,” Stevens said. ”The automakers don’t want to buy them.”
He said too much of the automobile industry is focused on making money off of gas engines, and it will take at least a couple decades for thorium technology to be used enough in other industries that vehicle manufacturers will begin to consider revamping the way they think about engines.
“We’re building this to power the rest of the world,” Stevens said. He believes a thorium turbine about the size of an air conditioning unit could more provide cheap power for whole restaurants, hotels, office buildings, even small towns in areas of the world without electricity. At some point, thorium could power individual homes.
Stevens understands that people may be wary of Thorium because it is radioactive — but any such worry would be unfounded.
“The radiation that we develop off of one of these things can be shielded by a single sheet off of aluminum foil,” Stevens said. ”You will get more radiation from one of those dental X-rays than this.”
You can watch more in the video below;
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