February 3, 2009
Posted by yaman
Note: I wrote this when I was in Syria last summer. I’ve decided to publish it in the hopes of starting a discussion on the nature of the freedoms we tend to discuss in political activism in different parts of the world. At the very heart of it, the question is, what kind of freedom [...]
May 30, 2008
Posted by yaman
On the Syrian outpost at the Syria-Israel armistice line in the Golan Heights, this reads “Peace is our target; the peace which retrieves our Occupied Syrian Golan.” Photo by Josh Hough.
Without the requisite insider knowledge, it might yet be too early to tell exactly what the story, purpose, and intent behind the secret Syria-Israel “peace [...]
July 2, 2007
Posted by yaman
Sasa has posted a link to a very interesting article about Syria’s disenfranchised and repressed Kurdish population. Besides my concern about the article’s failure to note that the Kurdish issue is a regional one and not one exclusive to Syria, I think it is a good opportunity to comment on the way the Syrian government, [...]
June 2, 2007
Posted by yaman
What is unique about elections in Syria? Much has been said by foreign advocates of the American project in the Middle East regarding recent presidential and parliamentary elections in Syria. Condemnations resound, as if they are original or perceptive, when in fact they are mere restatements of facts that are widely known and acknowledged by [...]
March 29, 2007
Posted by yaman
This post was prepared for a new blog tracking the right of migrants in the Middle East, Migrant-Rights.org. Migrant-Rights.org is an initiative spearheaded by Esra’a al-Shafei, a Bahraini activist who also founded MidEastYouth.com and FreeKareem.org.
Sushar Rosky, born 1987, hangs from the balcony of the apartment in which she worked as a maid for only 20 [...]
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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