March 31, 2009
Posted by yaman
When the word help is used in a context where one person is assisting another person, it readily implies that the person who is doing the helping possessess a certain power, privilege, or advantage over the person receiving the help. This also institutes an (intended or unintended) hierarchical rela…
Danielle’s blog is awesome.
Source: trucduong.blogspot.com
March 25, 2009
Posted by yaman
In Theodor Herzl’s novel Altneuland, published in 1902, Rabbi Dr. Geyer ran in the elections on the platform of disenfranchising the Arab citizens. The mainstream Zionists, on the one hand, and the good Arab who welcomed the Zionists, on the other hand, rejected Geyer as a troublemaker and Geyer was…
Source: electronicintifada.n…
March 21, 2009
Posted by yaman
A young man struggles against the pressure to Twitter his life away.
This will end up on my Twitter.
Source: www.youtube.com
March 20, 2009
Posted by yaman
By town, I mean the Syrian blogosphere. Roused partly by Syrian bloggers who have taken to the vocal defense of sexual freedoms like Razan Ghazzawi, a small group has declared a week of blogging against homosexuality to resist what it sees as an ominous Gay Agenda on Syrian blogs. …
Once upon a time, Syrian bloggers [...]
Israel exercises one set of laws for Jewish settlers in the occupied territories and another for Palestinians. Israelis drive on modern, well-lit roads from which Palestinians are forbidden. Israelis come and go freely, while Palestinians are detained at hundreds of military checkpoints, often requi…
Here’s my op-ed about the importance of events that highlight Israeli apartheid [...]
March 13, 2009
Posted by yaman
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The United States is protesting to Israel over seemingly random restrictions on deliveries to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip of harmless goods such as soap and toilet paper, diplomats
It’s so frustrating that everybody always singles out Israel for blocking toilet-paper, soap, and chickpeas from countries under occupation. I mean, every other country in [...]
A young Filipina working in Bahrain is struggling for justice after her kidnap and rape by three local men was dismissed by a lawyer as an act of ‘fun’, according to the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR).
Fun?! Everytime you think the Gulf has reached a new low, you find out it’s still sinking.
Source: www.migrant-rights.org
“Every time they have been required to identify the parties, the DoD has been forced to retract their false IDs and their numbers.” He added, “They have counted people as ‘returning to the fight’ for their having written an Op-ed piece in the New York Times and for their having appeared in a documen…
Failure of [...]
March 10, 2009
Posted by yaman
The tactics of the Israel Lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency and include character assassination, selective misquotation, the willful distortion of the record, the fabrication of falsehoods, and an utter disregard for the truth. The aim of this Lobby is control of the policy process th…
Source: www.huffingtonpost.c…
March 9, 2009
Posted by yaman
The emerging landscape of “lawfare” allows military operations to remake international humanitarian law. Israel’s assault on Gaza both exposes the dangers and suggests the need for a response that subjects this law to critique, says Eyal Weizman.
Thanks for sharing Nadia.
Source: www.opendemocracy.ne…
Ibrahim Shikaki, a Visiting Scholar from Palestine, spoke in favor of the bill although he did not feel that it was written from the Palestinian perspective. Shikaki explained that “If this were a Palestinian bill it would have mentioned my grandfather’s land that was stolen from him, or my friend w…
Source: electronicintifada.net
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Israeli soldiers prevent students and others from crossing a checkpoint between their homes and schools on the edge of the West Bank city of Qalqiliya on 17
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For the first time in the University of California history, the UC Berkeley Student Senate has approved a bill to divest from two US companies in response to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and to Israel’s siege and bombardment of the Gaza Strip. The Senate bill directs both the UC…
Congratulations everyone!!
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The document shows that U.S. agents are logging on surreptitiously to exchange messages with suspects, identify a target’s friends or relatives and browse private information such as postings, personal photographs and video clips.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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U.S. troops opened fire on a car in western Baghdad, killing an Iraqi journalist and her husband, a police official said Thursday.
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OH, HELLO. Here’s some good news, after years and years of promoting the necessary destruction of Iraq and Iraqis, all for the purpose of a war that diverted the United States from pressing issues of national security, Tom Friedman has declared the Iraq misadventure to be a success and has officiall…
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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It’s time to rein in the way police and safety officers in New York public schools mistreat students.
Police the police.
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Produced by HuffPost’s Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit On March 4th, 2010, demonstrators in California and across the country took to the streets to protest massive cuts at all levels of education and government imposed austerity measures.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
(Discussion)Frederick Douglas tells us that power concedes nothing without a demand: Street rebellions force the establishment to yield to the demands of the movement or be faced with an ungovernable, rebellious populace. In short, stopping highway traffic in protest of the dismantling of public education was a…
Source: occupyca.wordpress.com
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