Same Sex Marriage – the opposition line up
An excellent article by Gary Younge in which he traces the struggles for marriage equality through first race and now through sexual orientation. Younge rightly emphasises that to compare the two struggles is not to equate them but there are parallels…
The Hypocrisy of the UN and US on human rights & social justice
Ugandan LGBTI activist, Kasha Jacqueline speaks at the “UN Summit on Discrimination and Persecution”. – Through her own personal experience as an activist in Uganda, Kasha speaks about the war against the LGBTI community in her country and the hypocrisy…
African migrant workers: trafficked, trapped & left to die on the high seas
I wrote this post in July 2006 but the thousands of African migrant workers who have been displaced and left to die on the high seas after fleeing Libya, reminded me that this is not a new story. I read…
http://www-tc.pbs.org/video/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf Freedom Riders
http://www-tc.pbs.org/video/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf Freedom Riders
Before the revolution there was creative – feminist – dissidence
Nawal El Saadawi Before: And After! Writers in Revolution: Nawal El Saadawi Interview via The Root
Death of a Jazz Singer: Abbey Lincoln
Just found this and felt it deserved more than a Tweet to be lost forever in Twitter-spheres short term memory. Abbey Lincoln, Jazz Singer and Writer, Dies at 80 Abbey Lincoln, a singer whose dramatic vocal command and tersely poetic songs made…
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