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Help protect freedom of expression in Zimbabwe
Beatings, jailings, intimidation,—the continued harassment of human rights defenders in Zimbabwe must end.
As violence spread throughout Zimbabwe following the initial round of Presidential elections, members of the women’s rights organization, Women of Zimbabwe Arise! (WOZA), appealed to regional authorities to help end the crisis. As WOZA members peacefully marched to the Zambian embassy to ask for assistance, police descended on the crowd arresting fourteen members.
WOZA leaders, Jenni Williams and Magadonga Mahlangu, were among those arrested, and consequently spent more than a month in jail after arbitrarily being denied bail.
The WMD That Really Should Be Worrying Us
Images show how the areas of Greenland that melt in summer (orange) have expanded in recent years. Source: Arctic Climate Impact AssessmentThe WMD That Really Should Be Worrying Us
If al-Qa’ida was unleashing this weather of mass destruction, we would do anything to stop them
by Johann Hari | August 4, 2008 |
The Independent/UK
Nas Takes Fox News To Task For What He Calls 'Racist Attacks,' At NYC Rally
Nas' Untiltled album was originally titled "Nigger"07.23.2008 8:42 PM EDT
Nas Takes Fox News To Task For What He Calls 'Racist Attacks,' At NYC Rally
'We already knew that Fox is not a news network; they are a propaganda machine,' rapper tells fellow protesters.
by Shaheem Reid
NEW YORK — Nas' very public disdain for Fox News continued Wednesday (July 23) when he teamed up with the Web site ColorOfChange.org to protest outside the network's Manhattan headquarters on Wednesday (July 23) and present a petition to the news organization. Color of Change gathered more than 600,000 signatures to try to curb what it considers biased reporting on Fox's part.
McKinney and Me
Cynthia McKinneyMcKinney and Me
by Saab Lofton
"In 2006, the United Nations Human Rights Commission noted its concern that while African Americans constitute just 12% of the population, they represent 50% of homeless people ... Myriad reports and studies that have been done all come up with the same basic conclusion: In order to resolve deep and persisting racial disparities in this country, a public policy initiative is urgently needed."
--Cynthia McKinney, A Discussion of Race Worth Having, March 18th, 2008
Care as Much About the Real World
Care as Much About the Real World
by Saab Lofton
I hate ARFs -- Anal-Retentive Fanboys, usually spoiled whites in the suburbs who're spending far too much time in front of a computer (I'm a professional author, what's their excuse?), they go off on everything from Ben Affleck's portrayal of Daredevil (which was just fine, by the way) to the casting of Halle Berry as Catwoman (even though Eartha Kitt, another woman of color, also played the character).
User Unfriendly Voting - The Diebold Failure
In 2004 the presidential election was a fiasco. This documentary investigates Diebolds part in that fiasco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvIBHqaKdKE
