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Molly de Aguiar
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President of Independence Public Media Foundation, supporting grassroots media and community internet in Philly.

Please stop naming your dogs Molly.
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Hope your birthday is Dynamite!
Dynamite Magazine cover featuring the actors from the 70s tv show Welcome Back Kotter. The cover says “Meet the Sweat Hogs.”
June 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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I see your Klutz Face Painting book and raise you a Steven Caney’s Kids America
Steven Caney’s Kids America activity book from the 1970s, featuring a young boy with brown hair and eyes wide open, with his face painted like a clown.
June 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Anti-Palestinian Racism in the Media: Manufacturing Consent for Genocide and Occupation from the good folks at Visualizing Palestine. The pervasive dehumanization of Palestinians in the media must end.
Infographic called Anti-Palestinian racism in media: manufacturing consent for genocide and occupation which was created and shared by the group Visualizing Palestine. This infographic highlights six major ways news media perpetuate anti-Palestinian racism, including silencing critical voices, censoring words like "ethnic cleansing" and "occupation," discrediting Palestine sources, hiding war crimes by using passive voice, not questioning dominant narratives, and selectively emphathizing with Israelis but not Palestinians. The infographic calls for people to protect Palestinian journalists and media workers, 195 of whom have been killed by Israeli occupying forces, and end the media blackout that bars foreign journalists from traveling to and reporting in Gaza.
February 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Alright Philly!
February 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Spiral Q helps communities tell stories about issues they care about, build power around those issues, and connect them to the larger struggle for liberation. They hold a "Peoplehood Parade" every fall to bring everyone together to share info, celebrate, and connect. It's amazing. spiralq.org
Photo of a large group of people at a park on a sunny, autumn day. People are holding large artistic creations and protest signs mostly made of cardboard and paint that symbolize community issues they care about, including bicycle safety and ending the genocide in Palestine. In this photo, two people are holding large cardboard puppets, one with an opossum riding a green bike, and one with a squirrel riding a red bike. There is also a green cardboard puppet shaped like a missile with Arms Embargo Now written on it in yellow letters. Photograph of a large group of people sitting all around the sides of a park on a sunny, autumn day waiting for a theatrical performance to begin in the center of the park.
November 19, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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And this metal sculpture mounted on light poles from the Philadelphia bicentennial celebration
Metal sculpture of the outline of the Liberty Bell with a red top and a blue bell celebrating the country’s bicentennial. The number 76 with a smaller 7 and a larger 6, both in gold, is incorporated in the blue bell at the middle of the bottom of the bell. These were mounted on city street light poles during the bicentennial.
November 17, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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A couple of favorite pieces from the Philadelphia Revealed: Unpacking the Attic exhibit at the PA Academy of Fine Arts

Industrial Philadelphia – The Workshop of the World, oil on canvas by Morris Berd (1914–2007), 1952
Large, horizontal and brightly colored painting of famous Philadelphia historical landmarks and buildings with modern buildings and a bridge in the background
November 17, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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November 4, 2023 at 7:17 PM
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Every sentence of this is devastating and a must read. Don’t look away. Keep telling the truth about this genocide and fighting back until Palestine is free. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
October 27, 2023 at 1:43 AM
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Imagine intending to invest in an apartment near Glasgow's city center, and mistakenly bidding on the wrong auction lot, and ending up with this house (and in fact, originally they only bought 1/4 of the house at the auction). What a story.

www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/r...
October 25, 2023 at 5:00 PM
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These are for you
October 21, 2023 at 1:04 PM