Category Archives: Rock on-Peace Out

VIDEO: Danish mums’ breastfeeding protest – The Local

Danish mothers in seven cities carried out a coordinated public ‘feed-in’ to protest against what they feel is society’s skewed view of breastfeeding.

Up to 200 women brought their babies to train stations in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense, Esbjerg, Aalborg and Herning on Thursday to breastfeed in public.

 

“I’m here because I think it is important for women to have the option of breastfeeding in public. The current debate is full of people who don’t seem to understand how often a baby needs to eat. Sometimes the tone in the debate is downright nasty,” Nanna Reffstrup, who was breastfeeding her son in Copenhagen Central Station, told DR.

via VIDEO: Danish mums’ breastfeeding protest – The Local.

RIP Elizabeth Peña, actress who defied stereotypes about race and gender

Elizabeth Peña, who died Tuesday night at the age of 55, was more than a prolific and exceptional actress. She was an exceptionally talented woman who changed the way Latina women are represented in film and challenged notions of race and gender.

Peña was born in New Jersey to parents who immigrated from Cuba. Her father was an actor, writer, and director and her mother was the executive director of The Latin American Theater Ensemble in New York. Peña and her family returned to Cuba when she was a baby but wound up moving to New York City, where she attended the prestigious High School of Performing Arts, of Fame fame and studied with Lee Strasberg.

Peña’s acting career, which spanned five decades, kicked off with the Spanish-langage film El Super (1979) and included roles in films like Tortilla Soup, La Bamba, TransAmerica, Batteries not included, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Jacob’s Ladder, as well as TV shows like Resurrection Blvd. Modern Family, and Matador.

via RIP Elizabeth Peña, actress who defied stereotypes about race and gender.

Electronic Village: The 2014 Elections: What’s at Stake for African Americans

The stakes are extraordinarily high for the nation. But for African Americans in particular, the outcome of the midterm elections next month may not only be a game changer, but also a game ender.

First off, Republicans consistently oppose civil rights legislation. A GOP majority in the Senate would also likely put in jeopardy measures that help moderate and low-income Americans, including one essential initiative: an increase in the national minimum wage.

via Electronic Village: The 2014 Elections: What’s at Stake for African Americans.

Suffering from Perfection Paralysis? Well then, F##k It. | Rebelle Society

Where the real problem comes in is when we allow that need for perfection to actually control us, stop us from trying, keep us in our safe zone and away from doing anything that might lead to us to look foolish or less than, in eyes of someone else. Then we are in Perfection Paralysis.

That was me for a very long time. I missed out because I was afraid, because of course you are never perfect the first time out of the gate, so better just to watch from the sidelines. “No, I’m good. You guys go ahead. l’ll just watch.” I became a really good cheerleader.

I still am a really good cheerleader, in fact I absolutely love celebrating other people’s success and accomplishments, but a few years back I realized something: I wanted to celebrate my own too!

I wanted to be engaged in life, I wanted to feel the exhilaration of extending myself, testing my limits and seeing what I was capable of and I wanted to be me, not a version of me that works for everyone else, but the real honest to goodness me, the one that had been lost somewhere along the way.

It’s not like one day I just completely stopped worrying about what other people think, in fact I consider myself a recovering perfectionist and probably always will.

I just realized that how I feel is far more important than what other people think.

Because really, what other people think about me is completely out of my control. But how I feel in my own skin, how I see myself through my own eyes, is a choice I get to make each and every day.

via Suffering from Perfection Paralysis? Well then, Fuck It. | Rebelle Society.

Why do people print such crap!?! Crash-dieting more effective that gradual weight loss, study suggests – Telegraph

The number of people who regained weight after three years was also the same in both groups, 71 per cent, suggesting that crash dieting is better than gradual weight loss in the short term and no worse in the long term.

via Crash-dieting more effective that gradual weight loss, study suggests – Telegraph.

Both approaches fail nearly 3/4 of the time. So, dieting alone is not worth the time and effort. Increasing your amount of exercise bit by bit without doing much else at first, shows you that exercise helps you lose weight bit by bit. Exercise and make adjustments to eating habits and increase both efforts a bit over time and within a year and a half – you have a new life – PERIOD! 255 lbs. to 150 in 16 months 12 years ago. Walked away from hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and high cholesterol.

Guerrilla Oracle –

What I point to you is only that you shouldn’t allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when you need to, without further hesitation or doubt.

People today can’t do this—what is their affliction? Their affliction is in their lack of self confidence.

If you do not spontaneously trust yourself sufficiently, you will be in a frantic state, pursuing all sorts of objects and being changed by those objects, unable to be independent.

Zen Master Linji, on self-confidence

via Guerrilla Oracle –.

After 22 Years in New York and Threats of Deportation, Citizenship – NYTimes.com

“Not being wanted in this country, and now working for the F.D.N.Y. and getting my citizenship — it’s amazing how it worked out,” he said last week, before reporting for another shift, responding by ambulance to 911 calls.

via After 22 Years in New York and Threats of Deportation, Citizenship – NYTimes.com.

How UNICEF Uses Mobile Phones to Help Stop Ebola | UNICEF USA

In response to the crisis, UNICEF and partners have deployed a mobile technology called mHero, which stands for mobile Health Worker Electronic Response & Outreach. The platform is designed to work in developing countries such as Liberia, where more than 80% of the population lives under $1.25 a day, yet 97% of health workers own a mobile phone. mHero allows the Ministry of Health & Social Welfare to communicate critical information to frontline health workers via SMS.

via How UNICEF Uses Mobile Phones to Help Stop Ebola | UNICEF USA.

Humans of New York

“I was tired of working retail, so I lied on my resume and said that I had bookkeeper experience. I learned as much as I could from Google before the job interview, and printed out balance sheets to practice on. After I got the job, I read as much as I could every morning on the train. It was nerve wracking at first, but I presented the numbers at the end of the month, and everything checked out. May not have been the best way to get a job, but hey— I’ve got a son to look out for.”

via Humans of New York.