Expedited death penalty in Florida.
Why is the government so shitty?
ihya:
El sheita elli fat
Amr Waked Winter of Discontent is set against the momentous backdrop of the whirlwind protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, beginning on 25 January 2011. Activist Amr, journalist Farah, and State Security officer Adel experience a shifting reality in the days and nights leading up to the resignation of President Mubarak. As the stories of these characters unfold, they are propelled headlong into the heady, often surreal atmosphere of terror, uncertainty, and mass euphoria that surrounded those days that shaped history.
Best Actor Award for Amr Waked at the Dubai Film Festival 2012
"consider this place.
consider this place.
as safe.
when you feel ready
to
take off your throat
lay your voice in the middle of the bed
unlace
your back for me."
consider this place.
as safe.
when you feel ready
to
take off your throat
lay your voice in the middle of the bed
unlace
your back for me."
your heart, nayyirah waheed
"We pay attention to one part of the concept of Halal meat: the way the animal is slaughtered. We make saying “bismillah” the object of a seal of approval without paying attention to the ethical treatment of animals that must come prior to this. Every one of us should be an ethical leader of our society."
Tariq Ramadan
How Urban Agriculture Is Revitalizing Local Economies
The rooftop at 810 Humboldt Street in Brooklyn is much different from other buildings; it is home to a 15,000 square-foot hydroponic greenhouse that produces over 100 tons of food per year. The greenhouse, built and operated by New York-based company, Gotham Greens, is supplying year-round ultra-local produce to nearby grocery stores and restaurants.
The greenhouse in Brooklyn epitomizes the rise of a new urban agriculture — farming that is taking place within cities rather than rural areas. Rooftop greenhouses, backyard farms, and community-managed garden plots are all examples of this growing movement. At my own house in Southern California, we are growing over 5,000 pounds of food per year on a plot of land the size of an NBA basketball court — enough food to feed my family of four all year.
The local food movement has its roots in a desire to eat honest, non-toxic, nutritious food. The emerging framework of urban agriculture, however, is having as significant of an effect on our economy as it is on our health.
As it is, about 20 percent of U.S. farmland is located near metropolitan areas, yet metropolitan areas are home to over 80 percent of our population. Over three-quarters of the U.S. population is sharing only 3 percent of U.S. land area. The same demographics are present in most Western countries, and most of the rest of the world is on a similar trajectory.
By shifting a share of food production away from the rural areas and into the urban areas themselves, urban farming is changing the food system. Changes in the food system have ripple effects through everything because food is a central part of all human activity. The growth of this new agriculture is reviving and stimulating local economies like never before.
Here are four ways this is happening.
Culture has made haram what isn’t haram and halal what isn’t halal and made it harder to navigate the vast grey area between those ends of the spectrum and that is the root of way too many problems in our ummah.
I hope to God that you love me unconditionally. At times I feel certain that you do, and at other times I’m doubtful. That makes me unbelievably scared, in a way that I can’t express through words.
"if
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with air."
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with air."
meditation, nayyirah waheed
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