Children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi arrive by bus to take part in a peace march in Kolkata, India. (Photo: Rupat de Chowdhuri / Reuters via the Telegraph)
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On this day in 1948 Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu fanatic.
In a career spanning more than two decades, photographer Margaret Bourke-White fearlessly documented many facets of the human experience. Her astonishing portfolio ranged from trailblazing assignments in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s, to capturing the horrors of the Buchenwald concentration camp upon its liberation in 1945. And Bourke-White’s focus on humanitarian issues — showcased in these stunning images of Mohandas Gandhi in India — was equally renowned.
Pictured here in 1946, the leader sits next to a spinning wheel, a device used to make yarn or thread; the image came to symbolize Indian self sufficiency — and thus independence from British rule.
(see more — Gandhi: Glimpses of a Legend)
Facebook’s New… Newsrooms?
On Sunday, Facebook quietly registered a series of “Facebook Newsroom” domains—a move that seems to signal that Facebook’s entering the media content game in a new way. Three domains were registered, according to Fusible, facebook-newsroom.com, facebook-newsroom.org, and facebook-newsroom.net. Facebook is listed on Whois.com as the registrant, administrative contact, and technical contact for all three.
The Facebook Newsroom project looks like it could be similar to another Facebook project:Facebook Studio (facebook-studio.com) is a community for advertisers and marketers that already has more than 400,000 participants and observers.
continue reading at Fast Company
Foxconn Employees Threaten Mass Suicide
Foxconn, the world’s largest electronic component maker (think: Apple, Amazon, Nintendo, Dell, Panasonic… well, you get the point) is not a nice place to work. So rampant have the suicides been that last year the company made workers sign pledges not to kill themselves.
Via The Atlantic Wire:
As American consumers ogle over shiny new gadgets at this week’s Consumer Electronic’s Show, the workers that make those products are threatening mass suicide for the horrid working conditions at Foxconn. 300 employees who worked making the Xbox 360 stood at the edge of the factory building, about to jump, after their boss reneged on promised compensation, reports English news site Want China Times. It’s not like this is the first time working conditions at Foxconn have made news outside China. But iPhone and Xbox sales surely haven’t lagged in the wake of those revelations and neither Apple nor Microsoft has done much of anything to fix things.
As The Atlantic Wire points out, this week’s This American Life features a trip to a Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China where approximately 350,000 to 450,000 people are employed.
You can listen to the episode here.
Image: Workers at Foxconn via China Southern Weekly
“You wake up in your momma’s house and you smell the best bacon you’ve ever had. But more than anything you hear her footsteps. You hear her moving around. And you know that everything’s all right … as long as you can hear that sound.”
—Rick Bragg, author of ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTIN’
Via the Knight Foundation:
Today, students ages 14 to 22 who tweet creatively about the First Amendment – and use the hashtag #FreeToTweet – are eligible for a $5,000 scholarship.
The tweet-a-thon is a celebration of the 220th birthday of the Bill of Rights.
Learn more at FreeToTweet.org.
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