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Guess what? rabble loves you. We really do!
Without all of you, we’d just be a bunch of people, sitting at computers, living in different areas, making fun of each other. Don’t get me wrong, we are that, but because of you, we’re so much more.
So! Since we’re feeling the love, we made this Feel Good Friday with some extra love.
Read on and have a lovely Friday. 
- “Shame on you!” Maureen Taylor, state chair of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, is so badass it hurts. I could watch this video a million times. This woman is amazing.
- Good news for the environment: White Pass and Yukon Route railway has cancelled the plan to spray herbicides along its tracks.
- We can’t all raise over $40,000 to make potato salad. How about if someone tries fundraising for some white privilege?
- Young, gifted, native and female: this video looks at the lives and artwork of five young Native American female artists and skateboarders.
- Closing the Morgentaler Clinic was not great for reproductive rights in Canada. But, Reproductive Justice New Brunswick is fundraising and fighting to keep access to abortion in New Brunswick.
- Yeah, yeah, #worldcup. But this video of WWF wrestling legend “J.R.” Jim Ross calling the Germany vs. Brazil game is hilarious. [note: this may only be funny to people who watched WWF wrestling in the 1990s.]
- Someone made a soundboard, sorry, soundboardt, for Beyoncé songs. Approved.
- Apparently being anti-homeless is all the rage across the world, what with people setting up spikes and modifying benches. Luckily, not everyone is the worst, especially these folks in Vancouver.
- A little justice in the air? Yep! Omar Khadr is one step closer to actual, full justice after courts unanimously ruled that he has been illegally and unlawfully held in a federal prison.
- Mocking entitled hipsters through Canadian rap? Uh, yea, I’m into that.
- Need a history lesson. How about a drunk history lesson? It’s Friday … what the hell right?
- Brad Pitt has been partnering with Fort Peck, Montana Sioux and Assiniboine nations to build green homes for residents whose income levels are at or below 60 per cent of the area’s mean income. Well that’s nice.
- Speaking of celebrities helping out, Beyoncé dropped some money to build a low-income housing project in Houston, Texas.
- Groundswell, an alternative to business school, seems like a pretty cool iniative.
- President Obama expressed his intent to issue an executive order that would extend employment protections to federal employees on the basis of gender identity. If it happens, it will be a pretty big deal.
- These three teens have got some big, bright futures.
- Protestors and activists are organizing to carry water from Windsor to Detroit.
- Laverne Cox continues to add to her list of amazing accomplishments. Next: first transgender actress ever to be nominated for an Emmy Award.
- Kwikwetlem First Nation has asserted ownership of Riverview lands in Coquitlam, B.C.
- #summerjamz. I dare you to find a musical genre better than 1990’s rap. Oh that’s right. YOU CAN’T.
Need more? Check out the rest of our Feel Good Fridays here.
Kaitlin McNabb is rabble’s news and books coordinator and she loves her cat Chandler, sharks, Canadian rap, movie trivia and making up words in scrabble and convincing people they are real. Follow her on twitter @kaitlinmcnabb
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