January 2012
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“For Ms. Quan, 62, a longtime civil rights activist and former union organizer whose husband and 29-year-old daughter participated in Occupy protests, the possibility of being undone by youthful demonstrators poses a painful paradox.”
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In Oakland, Mayor Quan Struggles to Put Protest in the Past - NYTimes.com
Interesting perspective.
“American Apparel underwent its foolhardy, kudzu-like retail expansion in a calendar year when it did not, in fact, have a C.F.O.: junior staffers did the bookkeeping, because the last person to hold the position literally died of a heart attack. When a C.F.O. was eventually hired, Charney promptly told the Wall Street Journal that he was “a complete loser” and a real stickler for details.”
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Dov Charney Clings To Relevance, But For How Much Longer?
Youch,
“You can’t know how many people’s lives you’re saving just by living your own. I don’t know if anyone’s even meant to. But I do know that if you can squeeze your suffering so hard that the scars in your psyche become gemstone jewelry on your skin, if you can turn your sadness into anger and your anger into action and your action into compassion, then you will become something far more important than just another agent of change. You will become your own reason to live.”
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True this, May.
Photoset: tosaynothingtogether: http://t.co/2jubxSDQ
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Photo: guerrillamamamedicine: Santa Fe School, Oakland. http://t.co/gVqI0EGn
