Humanism is the only, and I would go so far as to say, the final resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history. We are today abetted by the enormously encouraging democratic field of cyberspace, open to all users in ways undreamed of in earlier generations either of tyrants or of orthodoxies (Said, Orientalism, 2003 edition: xxix).
Al Jazeera English - WITNESS - Migrant Dreams
Migrant Dreams
Each year, tens of thousands of migrant workers travel to Singapore hoping for a better life.
Most of them pay large fees to agents who promise them work as labourers in the construction and shipping industries.
When the economy was booming, those promises were largely fulfilled. But as a global recession takes hold, horror stories are emerging.
Source: english.aljazeera.net
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![Capitalism in question - Al Jazeera English
Even though the US economy grew in the last quarter of 2009, one million families lost their homes during that same period [GALLO/GETTY]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3aqugCcTx1qafi7mo1_100.jpg)
Capitalism in question - Al Jazeera English
Even though the US economy grew in the last quarter of 2009, one million families lost their homes during that same period [GALLO/GETTY]
Source: english.aljazeera.net
Feminist porn is out there. In my opinion, feminist porn represents a diverse cross-section of people and is woman-friendly, queer-friendly, open to many interpretations of beauty, and is, at best, political and woman-owned. I’ve listed some sites that I really admire to stimulate thought and discussion.
Source: feministe.us
Stop making me feel like my body is my burden. Do I, or any other girls, find you to be attractive? Helllllll no. But we don’t stare at your bodies and then whisper to our friends! We are polite! I don’t know if this is because girls are told to keep quiet, or because we are totally over bullying,…
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Of course we bought all sorts of curios before sailing, embroidered turbans, sarongs, jabuls, handsome krises, chow-covers of beautifully coloured straw, and hats of every variety, while one day, as an experiment in shopping, I bargained for a Moro slave, a handsome, black-eyed boy, but as he could not be purchased for less than ten dollars gold, I informed his owner that he was too expensive.
- Florence Kimball Russel, A Woman’s Journey through the Philippines, On a cable ship that linked together the strange lands seen en route (1907) [full text]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzwrjtWR7F1qamjklo1_500.gif)
Of course we bought all sorts of curios before sailing, embroidered turbans, sarongs, jabuls, handsome krises, chow-covers of beautifully coloured straw, and hats of every variety, while one day, as an experiment in shopping, I bargained for a Moro slave, a handsome, black-eyed boy, but as he could not be purchased for less than ten dollars gold, I informed his owner that he was too expensive.
- Florence Kimball Russel, A Woman’s Journey through the Philippines, On a cable ship that linked together the strange lands seen en route (1907) [full text]
Source: projectgutenberg
Yellow was a landmark film that helped define the emergent change in Swedish film of the 1960s. Like a French New Wave film, the movie uses jump cuts and its story is not structured in a conventional Hollywood way. It also contains documentary elements; for example, it features a brief appearance by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who is interviewed by Sjöman about his views on civil disobedience. This interview was filmed in March 1966, when Dr. King and Harry Belafonte were in Stockholm to start a new initiative for Swedish support of African Americans.[2]
A protester in Houston, Texas lobbed a molotov cocktail into the Heights Theater on opening night; forty years later, the historic building is still damaged.
Angela Sterritt: A grassroots organizer, artist and writer who belongs to the Gitxsan Nation of the Gitanmaax band. She critiques the oppression inherent in colonial capitalist society and works to chronicle the struggles and resistances of her people back home and in the city through art and writing. With formal and traditional training, she applies her skills to impart messages in prints, drawings, paintings, and carvings.
The Yo-Yo Gang is a thirty minute movie about girl gangs released in 1992 that has become a cult film.
Directed by G.B. Jones, the movie follows the exploits of two girl gangs, the “Yo-Yo Gang” and the “Skateboard Bitches”. The tag line for the film reads: “Gang girls frequently out-curse, out-fight and out-sex every boys’ gang around”. The film was shot on Super 8. Posters and stills from the film are featured in the book named after the director, G.B. Jones.
The theme song, “Yo-Yo” is performed by Fifth Column and the film also features songs by Human Ashtrays and by Anti-Scrunti Faction, seen performing their song “Frat Boy”.
