Tuesday, August 17, 2010

"Pakistan Floods Are Worst Disaster I've Ever Seen" -- UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon

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photograph of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon What appears below this paragraph is from the Huffington Post . Click on title below to li...

Dr. Vandana Shiva on how the World Bank and the IMF MASS PRODUCE WORLD HUNGER

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The video above and what follows was found *here* , or you can get there by clicking on the title just below. What is touched on is ...
Monday, August 16, 2010

The Politics of Offensive Speech (and when publicly stating "I'm Sorry" isn't what's called for)

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image of Don Imus is from here Remember back when Don Imus made his disgustingly racist-misogynist comment ? And Michael Richards went on...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

Rufus and Martha Wainwright in Chicago: Hallelujah!

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                This is a lovely photograph of Rufus and Martha Wainwright on either side of their mother,  Kate McGarrigle, who sadly pas...

2010 August Archives: Revisiting September of 2008: on whiteness and racism, manhood and sexism, heterosexism and radical social change

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This image/poster is from here In the autumn of 2008, I began to lay out some of the major themes of this blog: challenging profeminists...

The Beatles At Shea Stadium, 15 August 1965 (45 years ago)

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I could have been there: in diapers (nappies)!

Obnoxious White Man Scott D. Pierce Goes on a Cutting Attack in His "Editorial" Against Yoko Ono

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"Cut Piece"  Performance by Yoko Ono (1965) In Cut Piece , the powdered up Yoko Ono knelt down in a traditional Japan...