motherjones:

polygonal:

Mother Jones takes the cake for this one.

Nothing to add.

schoollibraryjournal:

Get ready to #RocktheDrop!

In honor of Support Teen Literature Day! on April 18, readergirlz, an award-winning literacy and social media project for teens, and its partners (Figment, I Heart Daily, and Soho Teen) are encouraging literary types to “drop” a YA book somewhere for a lucky teen to find and/or make a YA book donation to 826NYC.

Need more info? Go here!

bookish:

Character: Paddington Bear
Career dream: World traveler. The bear was always interested in learning more about his Peruvian origins, and finding out just how he came to London’s Paddington station. Career reality: Purveyor of artisanal marmalade. World travel costs money, and Paddington…

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theatlantic:

How Teenagers Spend Money

[Image: Piper Jaffray, USDL]

mandigray:

This is beautiful and powerful and will leave you crying and feeling like you’ve been punched in the gut. 

Which is a lot to accomplish in a 1:20 second PSA. 
 

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shortformblog:

reportagebygettyimages:

Can you imagine A Day Without News?

One year ago, legendary correspondent Marie Colvin and photojournalist Remi Ochlik were killed in Homs, Syria. Evidence from eye witnesses suggests that the journalists were targeted by the Syrian regime in an attempt to limit exposure of the war’s atrocities. Their deaths struck an industry still reeling from a string of tragic losses, including the deaths of photojournalists Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington in Misrata, Libya, in April 2011.

Watch the U.N. Secretary General’s message of support

“It is unacceptable that those looking to report objectively from conflict zones around the world are deliberately singled out, targeted and murdered with impunity, with those responsible for their deaths not facing any repercussions. Without these journalists bearing witness, atrocities committed in war would go unremarked and it is an equal cruelty that their deaths go without justice. This is a situation that has to change. We are heading towards a day when it will be too dangerous for journalists to enter into or report from war zones.” - Aidan Sullivan, Vice President, Photo Assignments, Editorial Partnerships and Development for Getty Images and founder of A Day Without News?

A Day Without News?, launching today, will raise awareness of the risks faced by journalists and photojournalists in war zones, and lobby governments and tribunals to pursue and prosecute those who harm members of the news media. Many media professionals find themselves deliberately targeted when attempting to cover conflicts, and, while it is considered a war crime to do so, there has been little to no enforcement of this international humanitarianlaw.  Over the past decade, 945 photojournalists and correspondents have been killed while covering conflict zones, 583 of these without any resulting prosecutions as war crimes. Ninety journalists were killed in 2012 alone, the deadliest year on record.

Please visit A Day Without News? to learn more and to add your name in support.

The people who risked life and limb to tell you about the stories you care about. Learn more about them—along with the risks involved.

libraryjournal:

malindalo:

The Top 10 titles on the American Library Association’s 2013 Rainbow List, recognizing GLBT books for children and teens.

(Including my own Adaptation! Yay!)

(ETA: And The Letter Q, which I and many other writers are in!)

Yes! We here at LJ particularly loved The Song of Achilles.

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motherjones:

cjchivers:

A Reporter and a Hasty Mass Grave.

Anyone who has even loosely followed Syria’s civil war, or listened to Syrians, has heard variations on the same theme: The longer this war goes on, the worse it will get.  

Jari Lindholm on a grim discovery last week in Aleppo, and the sad mysteries of war.

On the At War blog.

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPH

After the fury. By Jari Lindholm. Aleppo. Last week. Those who set out to cover wars, or even to understand them more fully, often think things will be clear. So often they are as Jari found them, above.

People. Pay attention to Syria.

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