January 2011
“Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the...”
– Elie Wiesel (via azspot)
He has all these great quotes and yet sides against the Palestinians. I don’t get it.
What's Happening in Egypt Explained. (UPDATED)
promotingpeace:
The basics: Egypt is a large, mostly Arab, mostly Muslim country. At around 80 million people, it has the largest population in the Middle East and the third-largest in Africa. Most of Egypt is in North Africa, although the part of the country that borders Israel, the Sinai peninsula, is in Asia. Its other neighbors are Sudan (to the South), Libya (to the West), and Saudi Arabia...
guerrillamamamedicine:
Egypt activists begin Tunisia-inspired ‘day of revolt’
fyeahafrica:
Anti-government protests have broken out in Egypt after an internet campaign inspired by recent political upheaval in Tunisia.
Hundreds of protesters are marching through Cairo chanting anti-government slogans, after activists called for a “day of revolt” in a web message.
Riot police...
URGENT: Egypt has shut off the internet →
I just received a call from a friend in Cairo (I won’t say who it is now because he’s a prominent activist) telling me neither his DSL nor his USB internet service is working. I’ve just checked with two other friends in different parts of Cairo and their internet is not working either.
This just happened 10 minutes ago — and perhaps not uncoincidentally just after AP TV posted a video of a...
SF Bay Area Folks:
Got this in my email today:
PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY Sat. Jan. 29, 12noon, Market & Montgomery Sts., SF Emergency Demonstration in Solidarity with Egyptian People
Down with Mubarak – Stop the Repression! End U.S. Aid to the Mubarak Regime! Victory to the Egyptian People!
Following the popular revolt that overthrew the U.S.-allied dictatorship in Tunisia, the Egyptian people have taken to...
Dear followers who use facebook.
jemimaaslana:
theuniverseworks:
As of today, the new Facebook Privacy setting called “Instant Personalization” goes into effect. The new setting shares your data with non-Facebook websites & it is BY DEFAULT set to “Enabled”! Go to Account>Privacy Settings>Apps & Websites (edit settings)>Instant Personalization> & uncheck “Enable”. Not only is your personal...
Want to help Kelley Williams-Bolar?
damekatharsis:
mizjenkins:
thecranium:
She is the black mother who was convicted of a felony and sentenced to jail time and probation for sending her two daughters to a school in a different district. As you have probably guessed, the school they attended is safer and whiter than the one in the girls’ neighborhood. The school hired a private detective to catch this woman.
She’s in need of...
“All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do. I don’t respect the idea that...”
– Johann Hari - full article available here: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-why-should-i-respect-these-oppressive-religions-1517789.html (via hatefulatheist)
This is BEYOND offensive. “Childhood” of our species!? This is absolutely a loaded term when applied...
ATTEMPTING TO RESURRECT FUCKYEAHTHAICUTIES
genderbitch:
haterina:
FUCK YEAH THAI CUTIES
It is pretty hard to find pictures of Thai people who aren’t young, thin, pinkywhite and with pointy noses. Not saying they are ugly or shouldn’t be seen, but there is so much more to us. We are dark, we are fat, our noses are broad — and we are wonderfully, gloriously Thai. We also deserve visibility. I would like submissions from everyone:
of...
