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A woman in her 40’s wrote Pann posts on being forced to prostitution with her sons. Like she says in the post, she held interviews with TV shows and even went to the police for investigation, but her “husband” is powerful enough to block them all. Pann netizens are currently trying to get this issue on the news by contacting journalists, TV shows, and etc.

Please help the woman and her sons by spreading her story and reporting it to news sites. Please use#HelpLeeJungHee hashtag on SNS because she revealed that her name is Lee Jung Hee (이정희)

[!!!] Please watch Lee Jung Hee and her sons video (in English): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMjOEi1Et30

Conversation between the mother and the police (in Korean): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHBd38I6qsk and a few more in their channel.

[!!!] How you can help them: http://helpleejunghee.weebly.com/how-you-can-help.html

Petitions: https://secure.avaaz.org/kr/petition/baggeunhye_daetongryeongnim_mic_jeon_segye_ingweon_dance_eomeoniwa_adeuleul_agyi_soguleseo_guhaejuseyo/?cWGYxjb  (you can find the instruction to sign the petition in their youtube video comments)  AND  https://www.change.org/p/south-korean-government-bring-to-justice-the-sexual-offenders-of-lee-jung-hee-and-her-sons-maximum-prison-time-for-all-sexual-domestic-abuse-and-rape-charges?lang=en-US  AND  https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/help-young-victimsamerican-citizens-sex-abuse-and-their-mother-south-korea

For full information here (including the posts wrote by the mother and sons): http://helpleejunghee.weebly.com/

Updates on this case: http://netizenbuzz.blogspot.com/2015/06/police-investigations-launched-into-lee.html

Please help share the awareness! Please help the mother and sons reveal the truth.

Retrieved from http://helpleejunghee.weebly.com/english-translation5.html Her son’s 3rd Post

Please listen and trust us. Even though we’re telling the truth and my father is lying, I’m very sad that the Seoul Sexual Assault Investigations officers and other won’t believe us, but I’m glad many people believe us now. If my brother and I didn’t get raped why would we be in such pain now? I want this whole thing to end quickly and go to school and be free, so I can go outside and see my friends and have a normal life. I don’t want to live with my father or be anything like him. Please help us live. Please help us three live happily.

-You don’t get better at drawing by avoiding drawing until you are better at drawing.

- You don’t have to make a new masterpiece every day it’s okay if all you drew is a doodle of a bug. You are now +1 bug doodle better at doodling bugs. 

- Also it’s okay if the thing you drew didn’t turn out very good. Everything you draw makes you one step closer to being able to draw good. You are still +1 step better at drawing whatever you drew no take backsies.

- You are the only person who knows if your art didn’t turn out as good as you wanted it to. You are the only person who can see the things in your art that weren’t what you imagined in your head. No one else will know unless you tell them.

- Comparing yourself to other artists just isn’t fair. You get to see all of your art, the best stuff and the worst stuff. You usually only get to see the best stuff other artists make. You don’t get to see that half drawn badly propotioned face they drew at 2 am and immediately scrapped. So don’t compare your badly drawn 2 am face to their best work.

This is video was made by the AKBAN Ninjutsu Academy.

They’re the biggest source of knowledge online for martial arts, and they’ve documented thousands of techniques in videos. Besides traditional techniques There’s also documentation of a lot of useful stuff, such as - knife self defence, working against multiple opponents, and a lot more!

Besides that, the founder of the academy, Yossi Sheriff, is also leading Detant, which is a consulting body that helps Solving confrontations emphatically using the minimal amount of force. 

They’re actually working with security organisations in order to help them resolve conflicts peacefully! How amazing is that?

pleasure, in the fun late-capitalism hellhole of present-day america, is treated like a luxury.  it’s expensive.  it’s frivolous.  it’s guilty.  if we want to eat ice cream out of the carton and be socially acceptable at the same time, we’d better have earned that ice cream.  maybe by like running a marathon or getting dumped by an asshole.  if we’re going to duck into the corner store and buy fresh flowers, it’s because we’ve had a hard week, not because flowers are nice.  we can take a day off work, but only if we’re sick.  we have to suffer before we’re allowed extra kindness.

in this equation pleasure is optional (irresponsible, even), except when it’s a balm for suffering.

however!  we need pleasure to live.  a life without nice feelings in it is like a diet with no vitamins in it.  it’ll make you sick and eventually it’ll kill you.  we know this because people with depression stop feeling pleasure, and they often kill themselves.  left untreated, depression is a fatal disease.

pleasure is not optional.  pleasure is not a luxury.  without it, we die.  that is literally the opposite of a luxury.

because pleasure is treated like a luxury, and priced accordingly, it is fucking hard to get.  it’s hard to take time to relax and see loved ones when corporations aren’t required to offer paid vacation.  it’s hard to buy that special face scrub or art print or pretty yarn when it costs $35 and student loans are breathing down your neck.  so pleasure gets saved up for when things are really bad.  pleasure gets budgeted.  pleasure, once again, becomes something we have to earn by abstaining and hurting and gritting our teeth.

do this to people long enough and pleasure becomes potently associated with guilt.  this thing we need desperately to stay alive is suddenly something we can’t seek out without looking over our shoulder and wondering if we’re allowed to have it.

that’s why it’s so important that we talk about self care, and tell ourselves and each other that it is okay to do things that feel good.  it is necessary to do things that feel good.  we have to uncouple suffering and pleasure, because the idea that we have to earn feeling good by first feeling bad is monstrous and wrong.

“What Teachers Make” - a poem by Taylor Mali, illustrated by Zen Pencils

Watch Taylor Mali perform it on YouTube

This is one of my favorite poems ever and I had shown a friend the video of Mali performing it, and recently she found this comic of it and shared it with me so I had to share. 

I am adding another note in continuation from this comic. The bird could be someone else but it can also be yourself. These words were never told to me by others, but I don’t feel bad about that. It’s wonderful to have someone next to you who becomes your anchor; however, not having one doesn’t mean anything worse.

It’s hard to allow yourself to feel better, but it’s the more reason to remember yourself as a vigorous fighter. There are ups and downs and things are not always great even with these reminders. The fight has been too long and it’s very tiresome, but I will not give up. There are things in this world that I still cherish. Like friends, cats, and rum raisin ice creams.

Fierce Love Friday :: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” - Assata Shakur Tag this FLYY Queen!

Admit you have talent

No, seriously, do it. Say it right now, aloud, in front of your computer. “I am a good writer/artist/musician/singer/whatever.” Just admit it to yourself. Because I swear when you do, your work will become better. You’d be amazed at what you can produce when you feel confident in your abilities.

Stop comparing yourself to other people

“I’ll never be as good of a writer as Hemmingway/Bronte/Rawling!”, “I’ll never sing like Adele/Florence Welch/Joan Jett!”, “I’ll never paint like Picasso/van Goh/O’Keefe!”, “I’ll never draw like Davis/McCracken/MacFarlane!”, “I’ll never play like Hendrix/King/Cooder!”

No. You won’t. You will never, ever be as good as them. And they will never be as good as you. Every artist is unique. You have your own voice just like they had their own voice. Don’t try to be someone else; be you.

Be proud of your work

Wrote a shitty poem? Song? Manuscript? Paint something you didn’t like? Drew something wrong? Who. The hell. Cares? At least you DID something! That’s more than most people can say! You finished a piece of work. Be proud of that accomplishment.

Realize that not everything you do will be great

This ties in with the previous tip. You’re going to do shitty things. It’s part of being an artist. Stop putting so much pressure on yourself to create something great every time. Strive for it, sure, it SHOULD be your goal. But realize that sometimes you’re just going to do something that sucks, and then get over it and try to do better the next time.

Be proud of your talent and enjoy it

And… those abuses are from white people. Maybe you don’t know it because you are used to hurt other people.

before today, i hadn’t heard of “rough rides,” and there’s a good chance you haven’t either. basically, a “rough ride” is a horrifying process in which ‘a handcuffed man or woman is put into the back of a police van or paddy wagon, without being buckled in or secured. The vehicle then drives recklessly, making sharp, dangerous turns and sudden movements in ways that throw the passenger violently around the vehicle.’

as of today, we now know that this is exactly what happened to Freddie Gray before he died. 

here’s the evidence: rather than take Freddie Gray the short 2 minute drive from the arrest site to the police station (see left), he was deliberately driven recklessly for over 40 minutes (see right) around Baltimore, handcuffed and in the back of a police van, with no seatbelt, until his spine broke.

the terrifying thing is that this seems to happen a lot. earlier today, two more people came forward to testify that they were put through rough rides at the hands of the Baltimore PD. a 43-year-old man was charged with ‘public urination’ and given a rough ride that resulted in a spine fracture that rendered him quadriplegic for the rest of his life. five years ago, a former Baltimore police officer admitted that rough rides are an “unsanctioned technique” in which police vans are driven to cause “injury or pain” to unbuckled, handcuffed detainees. rough rides are very much a Real Thing.

You need to watch this full video.