Handmade gifts trump a Hallmark greeting card any day. Continue reading
Author Archives: KALEY SWEENEY
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NOT (JUST) FOR PROFIT: AUTONOMIE PROJECT
Launched in 2007, Autonomie Project aims to bring consumers clothes they’ll feel good about – without feeling like they stand out. Continue reading
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NOT (JUST) FOR PROFIT: PROXY APPAREL
Proxy Apparel CEO and Founder Heatherjean MacNeil wants to change the way you think about fashion. Continue reading
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IN THE TUBES: #MAKEITCOUNT
If you don’t want to spontaneously buy a plane ticket after watching this, there must be something wrong with you. Continue reading
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KONY WHO?
Instead of the highly anticipated mass display of public, tangible advocacy, Bostonians awoke Saturday morning to a weak translation from online to physical campaigning riddled with litter and defacement of public monuments. Continue reading
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KONY 2012: WILL IT COVER THE NIGHT?
With over 180 million views in over 200 countries and counting, more than 3.5 million have pledged to take a stand tonight against a man who was virtually unknown to most of them before the global release of KONY 2012 just one month ago. According to Invisible Children, the website has sold out of its “action kits” for canvassing cities, making spectators wonder: just how big will tonight be? Continue reading
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NOT (JUST) FOR PROFIT: AJIRI TEA’S SARA HOLBY
Only three years later after 25-year-old founder Sara Holby started the company, Ajiri reaches over 400 stores in three countries, employs 63 women, and uses the profits to send 19 orphans to school. Continue reading
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IN THE TUBES: BITTERSWEET MELODIES
Simplistic and artistic with a tinge of melancholy: Fiest’s latest music video, Bittersweet Melody is bound to both evoke emotion and make you want to revisit your childhood memories. Continue reading
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NOT (JUST) FOR PROFIT: PROJECT REPAT
“Everyone has a connection to t-shirts,” Rothstein says. For those who don’t necessarily want to wear them or give them away, Lohr says they thought, “why not just do something with them here?”
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HIDDEN IN THE HUB: THE PRICE OF SEX
Dear John, buying sex? Your most recent purchase might just be recorded.
Photojournalist Mimi Chakarova takes viewers on an in-depth and intimate look at the sex industry across the whole of Europe and the Middle East in her documentary, The Price of Sex: An Investigation of Sex Trafficking, screening Wednesday, March 21 at Boston College. Continue reading
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LOOKING AT “INVISIBLE CHILDREN”
We wanted to call it “Making the Invisible Visible,” but that’s taken. Continue reading
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IN THE TUBES: KONY 2012
Yesterday, Invisible Children launched a 30-minute documentary aiming to make Joseph Kony a household name and put an end to his army’s atrocities. If you haven’t heard of the KONY 2012 Campaign yet, quite frankly, where have you been? Continue reading
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