September 2010
25 posts
Oops! Arizona Ethnic Studies Ban Makes Courses... →
Turns out that Arizona’s ban on ethnic studies courses in public schools may be having the opposite effect than lawmakers anticipated—the field appears to be gaining, rather than losing appeal among students.
gracias miriam!
Most of [Dominican Republic's] foreign tourists... →
Gracias German!
Most nonresident tourists who visited the country from January to August are women, and 2.9 million arrived during the first fourth months, a 2.3% climb compared with the 2.8 million in the same 2009 period.
Of the total nonresident tourists who came to the country from January to August this year 54.5% are women, mostly young.
According to the profile of nonresident...
Iraqi prisoners escape U.S. custody →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
On July 15, as part of their ballyhooed “withdrawal” from Iraq, U.S. officials under the command of Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno handed over an infamous U.S. prison, Camp Cropper, to the Iraqi puppet…
‘Our pension funds to oppress Palestinians? No... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
The first U.S. petition campaign to divest workers’ pension funds from companies that supply Israel with equipment to oppress Palestinians was launched in Los Angeles on Sept. 8.
Activists demand release of Cuban 5 →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
The plight of the Cuban Five is never far from the minds of progressive people around the world. This Sept. 12, exactly 12 years since their arrest in the United States for defending Cuba from…
Dominican civic group again slams the Government...
WASHINGTON. - Citizen Participation (PC) again denounced Friday that Dominican Republic’s Government lacks the political will to fight corruption and “to date the agencies responsible for prosecuting and penalizing this crime show few results,”.
PC Council member Isidoro Santana slammed the government, this time in the U.S. capital, during the close of the Committee Meeting of ...
maia medicine: once we understand that birth is... →
guerrillamamamedicine:
once we understand that birth is sexual. then we can understand a good amount about birth in our culture.
we, in this culture, have a shared delusion about what birth is. we are taught that birth is a medical event, not a sexual one. and because we are taught it is a medical event, akin to…
Liberty and Freedom: Child Slavery Facts →
socialisimo:
Get the facts about child labor and how it affects impoverished children and their families.
One in six children 5 to 14 years old — about 16 percent of all children in this age group — is involved in child labor in developing countries.
In the least developed countries, 30 percent of…
“The moment women’s bodies—their reproductive abilities, their looks, their...”
– Why Body Talk still matters. (via glamaphonic)
E.N.C.A.N.T.O.: Educando Nuestra Comunidad: A...
It’s with great pleasure and excitement to announce that tickets for “E.N.C.A.N.T.O.: Educando Nuestra Comunidad: A Night of Teaching & Overcoming” are finally on sale! Please join the Alpha Beta NYC Alumnae Chapter of Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. in our efforts to educate our community about the issues of domestic violence. On October 16th, 2010, AB Chapter will host...
Que Lo Wat: Mexico: drug capos now surrendering... →
quelowat:
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s capture of two rival drug gang leaders in two weeks may mark a new trend in the country’s drug war, an official said Monday: drug lords surrendering without a fight when surrounded.
Drug lords — once notorious for dying in a blaze of bullets — have started surrendering,…
Film Screening: "Shadows of a Leader: Qaddafi's...
Using original and archival footage, “Shadows of A Leader” investigates the phenomenon of Qaddafi’s elite female bodyguard corps and the tensions these women embody — between Islam, modernization in a nomadic society, a militarist feminism and Qaddafi’s 40-year-old regime. Rania Ajami is an award-winning filmmaker based in London and New York. With...
