Posts Tagged ‘labor’
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
These are my links for April 6th through April 7th:
Tags: anarchism, apartheid, AUC, BDSmovement, education, graffiti, Israel, labor, ManifestDestiny, racism, transportation, WestBank, WWII, الجدار
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009
These are my links for April 3rd through April 5th:
Tags: apartheid, bikes, cars, design, Egypt, G20, humor, Israel, Judaism, jury, labor, Lieberman, Ni`lin, PeaceProcess, police, security, strikes, transportation, UltraOrthodox, violence, WardChurchill, WestBank, Zionism
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
These are my links for March 23rd through April 3rd:
- ZNet – Cowardice Pays: Reflections on Academic Abdication and a Paul Krugman Lecture in Iowa City – Excellent piece criticizing the defeatist attitudes of even the most “lefty” of mainstream academic pundits and their professorial minions Annotated link
- NDP admits involvement in anti-Bahai’s sectarian arson at 3arabawy
- Op-Ed Columnist – Learning How to Think – NYTimes.com – I usually detest Kristof, but this was actually quite good. A scientific study skewering experts and pundits (like Kristof).
- Settlers Attack Israeli Police Disguised as Arabs – Kfar Sava Magistrates Court, a local court, criticized the police for putting officers’ lives in danger.
- Gays sentenced to death in Iraq, executions to begin next week – “According to Ali Hili of Iraqi-LGBT, the Iraqi authorities plan to start executing them in batches of 20 from this week.”
- Arundhati Roy: This is not a war on terror. It is a racist war on all Tamils
- Officer, dog square off against Modesto mob of 60 – I’ve spent most of my life trying to undermine the logic of “law and order”, but as much as I hate cops, I’m no fan of armed thugs, no matter what uniform they wear. As the state begins to lose its grip on its traditional monopoly on the use of violence, I think it behooves us to consider what we will put in its place.
- not harmless he: Robbing the rich to give to the incredibly rich – “Madoff is just one in a thousand sketchy-ass rich dudes, who take people’s money. the big difference here is that he stole from other rich people.”
- French workers detain four Caterpillar executives – Europe, World – The Independent – “Locking up managers is becoming a common practice in France when mass lay offs are announced, with police apparently reluctant to intervene to avoid violence.”
- Daily News Egypt – Bloggers speak of time in detention
- Five held over suspected plot to disrupt G20 summit with explosives stunt | World news | guardian.co.uk – “It’s political, it relates to political organisations, it’s not extreme but it’s a different political view. It leads to motives and things like that.” Scottland Yard is clearly populated by morons.
- «المصرى اليوم» تكشف: الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة تعاقدت مع «البنتاجون» لتقديم معلومات سرية عن مصر – Arabic version of the Al-Masry Al-Youm article detailing yet another of the many public secrets that bureaucrats the Obama administration are making less secret these days: that the US military is funding defense-related research through its educational institutions abroad.
- London cops reach new heights of anti-terror poster stupidity – Boing Boing – Essentially, this redefines “suspicious” as anything outside of the direct experience of the most frightened, ignorant and foolish people in any neighborhood.
- American University in Cairo Signed Contract with the Pentagon to Provide Confidential Information about Egypt-Almasry Alyoum – Evidence of what everyone already know
- We predict a riot: Meet the anarchists plotting to overthrow capitalism – Home News, UK – The Independent – For a sensationalist piece about anarchist direct-action activists, it could be worse.
- Teacher Dude’s Grill and BBQ: What on (Google) earth is Teacher Dude doing? – Teacher Dude blogs (on Google-owned Blogspot) about photographing the Google Maps Street View Car photographing him
- Daily News Egypt – Egyptian blogger released after 49 days without charge
- Jami Tarn: Smearing Tristan Anderson – Debra Saunders’ piece of tripe trashing Tristan Anderson has been circulating across the blogosphere and has apparently been reprinted in every small-town POS daily with an editorial board that has an axe to grind with direct-action activists (“tree-huggers” in idiot parlance). “Jami Tarn” delivers a good retort. Annotated link
- Ward Churchill v. “The Good Americans”: How Churchill’s Critics Made His Case « OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY –
- Homesteaders in the Hood – I doubt that there will be much success in legislating squatter’s rights or homesteading laws, nor do I think there’s much use in using our energies to work towards this. The State and the market created this problem, so why should we wait for them to legitimate our means of coping with it?
- Anti-teenager “pink lights to show up acne” :: Dan Lockton – Why does Britain hate it’s youth so much?
- The Big Takeover : Rolling Stone – A long but very informative piece about the “global economic crisis.”
- Dissident Voice : Turkey’s Fallout with Israel Deals Blow to Settlers – Turkey agrees to allow Palestinian families access to Ottoman archives that show that Jesish land deeds were forged
- Rod Dreher: Food safety shouldn’t kill farmers markets | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Columnists: Rod Dreher – USDA is seeking to mandate electronic tracking of livestock through chip implants for producers of all sizes as a “food safety” measure. Unfortunately, the large agri-business firms who have created the food safety problems in the first place are the only ones who can afford to comply with the mandate, while small farmers will be pushed out of business.
- What Big Agra firm owns your favorite Nature-y brand?
- Parents of injured American peace activist demand justice from Israel | World news | guardian.co.uk – Aside from the obligatory reiteration of the IOF line at the end of the article and the lack of any mention of the violence going on in the immediate vicinity of the press conference (see previous bookmark), this is a decent article
- Israeli police violently prevent cultural festival in occupied East Jerusalem, several arested | International Solidarity Movement Palestine
- Israeli troops shut down press conference with injured American’s parents
- As projects grind to a halt, home sites turn to wasteland – Los Angeles Times – We’ve got this kind of theft and squatting in the desert community where I’m living, but it’s an active construction site. I don’t find the bonfires particularly scary, but the acrid smoke from the plastic they burn for fuel makes me ill.
Tags: academy, AgriBusiness, agriculture, anarchism, anarchists, apartheid, AUC, Bahai, blogging, cars, Catepillar, detainees, douchebags, education, Egypt, executions, experts, FarmersMarkets, food, France, G20, genocide, Google, India, InformalEconomy, interstices, Iraq, Israel, labor, Madoff, maps, media, Ni`lin, Palestine, police, psychogeography, queer, racism, SanFrancisco, security, settlements, squatting, SriLanka, Tamil, theDepression, theEconomy, thuggery, torture, TristanAnderson, Turkey, UK, war, WestBank, witchHunt, youth, Zionism, القدس
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
These are my links for March 4th through March 8th:
- March 3 1979 in Iran: Stop the Bomb – “Already in 1978 the Iranian woman, Atoussa H., wrote to Michel Foucault, a fan of Khomeini: ‘It seems that for the leftist movement in the West, which lacks humanism, Islam is desirable… for other peoples.’” Annotated link
- Police Officer Who Shoved a Bicyclist Is Off the Job – NYTimes.com –
- On the Greek Riots › My Kuneva – A poetic expression of the roots of class rage
- the veil of normalization « tabulagaza – “I realized today that i too had forgotten Gaza. In these past days in the elation of freedom i forgot why i had marched, i forgot why i am- to live for the other. That other is still as is, kept from life and the gatekeeper retains her position at the gate and the world looks on.” Annotated link
- For many, doomed ferry symbolizes Egypt’s corruption – Los Angeles Times – “The ferry case is a grim glimpse into Egypt’s starkly different worlds: one of migrants who work in Saudi Arabia and return home on rickety boats with money for their families, the other of elusive millionaires and billionaires with ties to the judicial system and ruling National Democratic Party, which sit atop a nation racked by inflation, labor unrest and poor healthcare and education.” Annotated link
Tags: activism, bikes, blockade, Critical_Mass, detainees, Egypt, feminism, ferry, Gaza, Greece, Iran, Khomeini, Konstantina_Kuneva, labor, Mamdouh_Ismail, NDP, NYC, police, Rizk, security, Talat_Mustafa, فساد
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
These are my links for February 23rd from 12:22 to 13:45:
- Reform in Saudi Arabia | Tiptoeing towards reform | The Economist – The Economist on changes afoot in the kingdom of the two holy shrines, and an Ikea outlet (thanks to Angry Arab for the jab)
- Faculty shortages leads to registration nightmares | AUC Caravan – AUC spends all this money to move out to the desert, ostensibly so that it will have more space for an expanding student body, but now it has no money to pay enough teachers to instruct the students. That's AUC for you.
- Janitors dine on litter, while thousands for student free food went unused | AUC Caravan – The AUC Caravan keeps up its solid reporting
- Khan al-Khalili: Neo-Terrorism and the Gaza Effect? – "I'd also guess that the bombing came in response to the Egyptian government's tacit support for the Israeli campaign against Hamas in Gaza in December and January. The radicals had been repressed, penetrated, tapped, imprisoned, watched. They had made deals. There hadn't been a bombing in Cairo for some time. But my guess is that for a few of them, Gaza was a deal breaker." I like Juan Cole better when he doesn't guess.
- Daily News Egypt – STUDENT PROTEST DEMANDS END TO SECURITY PRESENCE ON CAMPUS – Sarah Carr reports: “For the first time the Muslim Brotherhood has taken part in a protest where demonstrators were holding up pictures of Gamal Abdel Nasser — who imprisoned and killed MB members — and called for the removal of [President] Hosni Mubarak and his government,” the commentator said. “This was previously a red line for the MB — it’s the first time it happens.”
- Can Egypt bring Cleopatra’s palace back to life? – "The water down there isn't just difficult to see through, it's poisonous. And the designs put forward at the moment are for an underwater Disneyland, not a place where people will learn about heritage. If these corporate sponsors want to build a sunken theme park then fine, but don't try and pass it off as a serious archaeological endeavour."
Tags: antiquities, AUC, education, Egypt, El-HusseinExplosion, Gaza, labor, MiddleEast, SaudiArabia, students, terrorism, theEconomy, tourism
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
These are my links for February 17th through February 21st:
Tags: agriculture, apartheid, CIA, Economy, Egypt, GlobalWarming, internet, Israel, labor, Mexico, Obama, Palestine, PeaceProcess, ResourceWars, shoes, SocialNetworking, solidarity, the, theDepression, theEconomy, urbanGardening, YisraelBeiteinu, Zionism
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
These are my links for February 14th through February 17th:
Tags: anarchism, anarchists, education, fascism, Gaza, Israel, labor, Lieberman, love, NOLA, photos, racism, relationships, space, SpaceJunk, theEconomy, violence, YisraelBeiteinu, Zionism
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
These are my links for January 29th:
Tags: borders, Egypt, Gaza, Israel, labor, Mexico, MiddleEast, Obama, Palestine, solidarity, statistics, trains, transience, tunnels, war, Zionism
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
These are my links for January 21st through January 22nd:
- Vacation To Israel Canceled Due To History Of Israel | The Onion – May the boycotting begin
- Alternative history – How would the history read if Germany had won WWII
- DutchNews.nl – Wilders should be prosecuted, says court – Ugh! This is ridiculous. I saw "Fitna" and it was a monumental piece of crap that isn't worthy of this amount of attention. And the timing couldn't be worse. Public opinion in Europe, especially in Scandanavia, appears to be shifting ever more toward sympathy with Palestine and Muslim immigrants and this will do nothing but mobilize the right-wing nut-jobs. Legislating against hate is always a bad idea in my opinion. If you're so keen on legislating something, impose sanctions on Israel. That might make a difference.
- Israel’s bigger battle ahead: its national identity | csmonitor.com – Hamas and other Palestinian resistance groups are often criticized for not "recognizing" Israel. This article makes it clear why such groups refer to Israel as "the Zionist entity" rather than a state: it refuses to delineate its geographic boundaries (not mentioned here), refuses to accept Arabs as equal citizens and doesn't even have a constitution. I'm no fan of states, but seriously, you can't have your cake and eat it, too.
- ei: Up to 200 still missing under Gaza’s rubble – "I don't have any feelings any more," said Mohamed Hindi. "The Israelis have managed to destroy everything. Even our emotions."
- Bloomberg.com: Gaza Tunnel Owners Renew Smuggling Under Egypt Border – If they were ever closed down in the first place, the smuggling tunnels are up and running again. They are unlikely to have the capacity to feed and fuel the entire 1.4 million-strong population of Gaza, but it puts the lie to Israel's claims to have aimed to shut down the tunnels and stop the rockets, having either failed in their goals or deliberately mislead the public about their true aims.
- Barack Obama’s inauguration speech … crafted by 27-year-old in Starbucks | World news | The Guardian –
- YouTube – Students occupy LSE – speech to 10.000 in Trafalgar square – London School of Economics students have staged an occupation in support of Gaza and in support of the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanction campaign against Israel
- Train drivers demand promised pay raise, threaten to strike – Daily News Egypt – Sarah Carr reports on one of many labor struggles in Egypt right now
- ei: Israel’s "Dahiya Doctrine" comes to Gaza – Jonathan Cook addresses Israel's goal to "turn back the clock 20 years" in Gaza through the leveling of civilian infrastructure. Learning lessons from the 2006 assault on southern Lebanon, they'll also be impeding reconstruction efforts.
Tags: boycott, Egypt, Gaza, GeertWilders, history, Israel, labor, Netherlands, Obama, occupations, reconstruction, speeches, states, students, trains, tunnels, Zionism
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