January 2011
86 posts
"How Good People Turn Evil." →
pinoytumblr:
– Corruption in the Philippines by Maria Ressa
Sometimes doing the wrong thing seems to be the only way to get ahead. I’ve heard so many Filipinos say that – particularly the street-savvy operators who are trying to get you to do the wrong thing!
You have to find the courage to say no. You have to do what’s right – not just for your company, but for yourself. You have to find...
devil in the details: URGENT MESSAGE FROM ACTIVIST... →
felidiafeatherbottom:
roxanneritchi:[via]
“To all the people of world” Alicia Ali Marsden To all the people of world The people in Egypt are under governmental siege. Mubarak regime is banning Facebook, Twitter, and all other popular internet sites Now, the internet are…
We're Better off Than Egypt -- Right? Let's Take a... →
Imagine: A government run by and for the rich and powerful. Leaders who lecture others about “sacrifice” and deficits while cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy. A system so corrupt that rich executives can break the law without fear of being punished. Increasing poverty and hardship even as the stock market rises. And now, a nation caught between a broken political system and a...
Egypt: A Humble Request →
afghanipoppy:
Egypt: A Humble Request
thepoliticalnotebook:
Hey, I’m not trying to get all Edward Said on the readership here, but I do have one small request: can we all agree to stop using European historical analogies to describe what is taking place in Egypt? It’s not Europe in 1848 or Eastern Europe in 1989 or France in 1789: it’s Egypt in 2011.
What is taking place in Egypt today is...
Roommate: Do... you... have some kind of... thing... ancient... something... from your culture... or something... I don't know... for bad cramps?
Me: Uhh
Me: I'm Asian, not magic.
Derailing For Dummies →
“The current popular unrest in the Arab world has a lot of lessons for...”
– Michael Hirsh for the National Journal: The WikiLeaks Revolt (via kateoplis)
The Universe Works: Dear followers who use... →
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…
“We don’t expect anything from Obama, whom we regard as a great hypocrite. But we...”
– Egyptian blogger and activist Hossam el-Hamalawy talks to U.C. Irvine history professor Mark LeVine at Al Jazeera.
(“We Don’t Expect Any Help From America, Just To Leave Us Alone.” | The Awl)
This means telling our own government off, folks. This means standing against the USA on our own soil so...
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...
“Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.”
– Terence McKenna (via nathanielstuart)
Like the beat beat beat of the tom-tom: What's... →
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…
I missed tumblr too much: Cairo →
imissedtumblr:
I received this via email from a friend of mine who lives in Cairo. I’m not sure entirely how safe it is for her, so I have edited her information out of it, but I am posting it with her permission. She also emailed me recently to tell me that SMS is now shut down in Egypt.
Message begins:
Hey,…
weird experience of the day:
As usual, we had to introduce ourselves during Italian class. Since I go to the whitest white school this side of the US, I stuck out like a sore thumb.
So I say the usual—I’m from the Philippines, etc etc etc
My teacher asks me if I ever lived in the US; I say no, I’m only here to study
And he was all, really? You’ll go back home afterward?
And I said, yeah, unless I...
Like the beat beat beat of the tom-tom: Black... →
cuntymint:
battleoftrafalgar-1805:
sheresists:
firesandwords:
Black Mother Jailed For Sending Kids to White School District
An Ohio mother of two was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on three years probation after sending her kids to a school district in…
“A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes...”
– http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/articles/nightmare.html (via alullaby)
That sums it up
(via erikawithac)
This reminds me of a discussion we had in school, and one girl was talking about living in fear of her safety because she is a girl, and this guy chimed in and was all “It’s hard for guys...
“In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.”
– Banksy (via superfluidity)
Genderbitch Lite: Now With More Rambling!:... →
malefeminist:
Just a few things…
research-and-destroy:
If you’re brown and you shoot a politician, it’s terrorism and ‘the problem with these people’; if you’re white, it’s ‘strange’. If you’re brown and you wipe your nose in public, it’s because you’re ‘dirty’; if you’re white it’s…
“If Sarah Palin were black, her daughter’s out of wedlock, “baby daddy drama”...”
– If Sarah Palin Were Black (via azspot)
Just goes to show how far Palin’s whiteness can take her. Zero intellect, two high school drop-outs, an unwed teen mother, a quitter of the one major job she had. Master of hateful coded language targeting opponents as not “real Americans”. Belongs to a church...
“Political Correctness” is a reactionary term... →
feministlibrarian:
stfuconservatives:
Laurence Berg, Canada Research Chair for Human Rights, Diversity and Identity, disagrees with the idea that PC language and policies are oppressive. Why? Because he doesn’t really believe that PC policies existed in the first place.
“What [they]’re calling the ‘PC movement’ I would call a social movement by marginalised people and the people who support...
“Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with...”
– Sylvia Plath (via monsieurmademoiselle)
Pantsless Progressive: Along with his civil rights... →
pantslessprogressive:
Along with his civil rights achievements, Martin Luther King, Jr:
wanted a ‘massive government jobs program’;
called for ‘radical changes in the structure of our society’ to redistribute wealth and power;
complained about ‘capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa…
“Se sei un giovane tra i 18 ed i 35 anni e sei ancora indeciso se scappare o meno...”
– Un amico (saggio) su Facebook (via tommaso)
