February 2011
January 2011
“My feeling is that we are witnessing a second wave of the Arab liberation...”
– Dr. Basheer Nafi, Professor, Islamic Studies and Historian
“Egypt has a long and atrocious record of suppressing the media…that...”
– Middle East coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists
Al Jazeera Live Blog for 1/31/11 →
12pm: Military tanks are on the streets and helicopters are circling overhead as Egypt braces for another day of protests.
Our correspondent in the Zamalek neighbourhood of Cairo says he sees shops open and many citizens picking up the garbage that has been collecting on the streets in the last couple of days.
Women of Egypt →
“In the face of the great farce of the nuclear age, feminism ain’t about equality it’s about reprieve.”
- Ani DiFranco
Egypt is burning and most western pundits have no... →
androphilia:
By Parvez Sharma
January 28, 2011
Cairo is burning. So is Egypt. Twitter is exploding. Everyone seems to have an opinion—many who do have never even been to Egypt but feel a strong sense of solidarity with the most remarkable revolution in a generation, perhaps. A revolution which importantly is not really caused by Twitter or by Facebook—as much as the self congratulatory...
Tear Gas, Rocks, Rubber Bullets. Egypt? No, in... →
redguard:
This morning, with good reason, much of the news in the twittersphere is focused on the popular uprisings in Egypt and the government’s harsh response by shutting down the internet, allowing for a mass cover up of violations of human rights. While it is easy to ignore what is happening in Egypt and the state response by dismissing it as something happening in a foreign land, tear...
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Corrupt Politics: The House GOP's Plan to Redefine... →
corruptpolitics:
Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican majority as it now moves to change abortion law.
For years, federal laws restricting the use of government funds to pay for abortions have included exemptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. (Another…
Entitled misogynist assholes.
“Not being racist is not some default starting position. You don’t simply get to...”
– PostBourgie (via glamaphonic) (via monkeyknifefight) (via falulatonks) (via pikitis, meowsense) (via robot-heart-politics) (via aprilseye) (via feministindianmanifesto)
“You just can’t pull labor and full employment apart. It’s not a matter of...”
– The Virtue of Unions | Mother Jones (via ziatroyano)
PREACH.
Yale Alumni Magazine: Anonymous was a Woman... →
halifaxeten:
some classic quotes attributed to men were actually said by women.
“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the...”
– Eugene B. Debs (via stfuxenophobes)
The Cycle of Socioeconomic Oppression
The Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority has explicitly stated they do not intend to do anything about the blight of abandoned properties affecting West and North Philly unless they receive complaints from residents of the neighborhoods. This doesn’t sound too unreasonable until you look a little further (which our illustrious local media at the link above did not do and I was able to...
What Is Sputnik?
fakescience:
The Cycle of Socioeconomic Oppression →
The Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority has explicitly stated they do not intend to do anything about the blight of abandoned properties affecting West and North Philly unless they receive complaints from residents of the neighborhoods. This doesn’t sound too unreasonable until you look a little further (which our illustrious local media at the link above did not do and I was able to...
“Most of us, in our daily lives, do not think about rape at all. Women, however,...”
– Pornography, Lad Mags, Video Games and Boys: Reviving the Canary in the Cultural Coalmine Matthew B. Ezzell (via iwillnotshavemyvagina)
I always walk with my keys out after dark. I will gouge your eyes out.
(via robot-heart-politics)
See, my mom taught me to gauge out an attacker’s eyes with my...
Is Butter Good For You?
fakescience:
