Syria: Stop Arrests for Online Comments (Human Rights Watch, 8-10-2007)

Syria: Stop Arrests for Online Comments (Human Rights Watch, 8-10-2007): "(New York, October 8, 2007) – Syria should immediately release writers and activists detained solely for expressing their opinions or reporting information online, Human Rights Watch said today. Syrian authorities have held two men in incommunicado detention since June for expressing online views that are critical of the Syrian government. Authorities have refused to disclose the whereabouts of the detained men to their families. On September 23, the Supreme State Security Court sentenced a third man to two years in prison for posting online comments that displeased the authorities."

pudgyindian2: "...lost..." Chris pt. 2

pudgyindian2: "...lost..." Chris pt. 2: "I don't like using the term, 'lost,' when it comes to Indians. Example: Indians 'lost' their languages. Truth is, we didn't lose shit. When we or others say that Indians 'lost' something that implies a certain level of simplicity to an otherwise complex issue. 'I lost $5 at the casno.' 'I lost my luggage when it fell off of my car.' 'I lost my nose ring. I swear I set it right here.' Our languages, our culture, our lands were not 'lost.' They were STOLEN. It took a whole lot of horrific brutalization, the same style of brutalization that the U.S. is passing on to Iraq, Afghanistan, and soon Iran, in order to FORCE folks to give up to the empire that which DOESN'T BELONG TO THE EMPIRE."

Making the Links Radio - Email from Burmese Monk: Some Facts from Yangoon

Making the Links Radio - Email from Burmese Monk: Some Facts from Yangoon: "We just got phone call with our sister living in Yangon about a few hours ago. We saw on BBC world, saying that 200 monks were arrested. The true picture is far worse! For one instance, the monastery at an obscure neighborhood of Yangon, called Ngwe Kyar Yan (on Wei-za-yan-tar Road, Yangon) had been raided early this morning. A troop of lone-tein (riot police comprised of paid thugs) protected by the military trucks, raided the monastery with 200 studying monks. They systematically ordered all the monks to line up and banged and crushed each one's head against the brick wall of the monastery. One by one, the peaceful, non resisting monks, fell to the ground, screaming in pain. Then, they tore off the red robes and threw them all in the military trucks (like rice bags) and took the bodies away."

Tamika Huston 1979-2004 - A Tribute

Government crackdown on Bushman hunters | News from Survival International

Government crackdown on Bushman hunters | News from Survival International: "Six Bushmen have been arrested for hunting in New Xade resettlement camp, according to First People of the Kalahari, a Bushman human rights organisation. The latest arrests bring the total number of Bushmen arrested for hunting since last year’s landmark court ruling to at least forty-eight, with most being arrested since June this year."

Latoyia Figueroa - A Philadelphia Tragedy

Missing - Baby Come Home

links for 10-8-2007

Here are a bunch of links for 10-08-2007:

Please read the article via Ann's website regarding the rape and abuse of Congolese women. Click here.

Breaks my heart reading the article. Black women around the world are expendable. Very few people cared in contrast to the buzz given to one missing girl in Portugal. Blatant double standards on the value of womens' lives are fatal!

Ann on John Cougar Mellankamp and the omission of Black women when it comes to tributes.

Terrence Ariel and Friends Memorial Tribute. In memory of the Newark Schoolyard Shooting. Very moving and touching. As always, may they rest in peace.

More on the W.V. Hate Crime:

Rachel's Tavern: What Do I Think About The W.V. Hate Crime Coverage?

Does Domestic Violence Lessens The Severity of Racial/Sexual Violence? From Anxious Black Woman. No Way!

The W.V. Torture victim will always be on my mind and will never be forgotten.

Don’t mention the war

New Zealand, world, sport, business & entertainment news on Stuff.co.nz: "So the war in Iraq is finally over. Thank God for that. I’m sure Iraqis will be delighted. They can emerge from their homes where they have been hiding for four years now from the bombs and the bloodshed. The Americans will be pretty pleased, too, given they’ve sent 768 soldiers home in body bags since February alone. Surprising British Prime Minister Gordon Brown didn’t have anything to say about this momentous day at Number 10 when he thrust Prime Minister Helen Clark out into the rain last night, but perhaps he just didn’t want to share the limelight with a small country that opposed the war in the first place. OK, I’ll release the facetious button on my computer now. I know what National leader John Key meant to say on Morning Report this morning when he explained that the reason National hadn’t mentioned Iraq in its foreign policy discussion document was because “frankly the war in Iraq is over”."

Police: Black student marked with 'KKK' at deaf school - CNN.com

Police: Black student marked with 'KKK' at deaf school - CNN.com: "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A weekend incident with racial overtones at a high school for deaf students could result in criminal charges with 'enhanced penalties for a hate crime,' Metro Police Chief Cathy Lanier said Wednesday. A black student was held against his will and then released with 'KKK' and swastikas drawn on him in marker at the Model Secondary School for the Deaf on Sunday, she said. No charges have been filed, and no names have been released, Lanier said. The incident began when a group of black students and a group of white students were in a dorm. 'My understanding is the two groups engaged in friendly horseplay,' she said. But, she said, the groups got 'angry with each other.' The two groups separated, she said, but later, six white students and one black student -- all between the ages of 15 and 19 -- took one of the black students into a dorm room and 'held him there against his will.' 'They used markers to write 'KKK' and draw swastikas on the student,' Lanier said. The student was released after about 45 minutes. He notified dorm and school authorities, who called police. Lanier said police have identified and interviewed the students involved and the 'investigation is ongoing.'"

Anita Hill Stands By Her 1991 Accusations

Anita Hill Defends Herself Against Clarence Thomas Smears Against Her

Anita Hill Stands By Accusations

Here's Clarence Thomas, who smeared so many Black women on his ascent to the Supreme Court, voted against the interests of the people in general, women in general, people of Color, especially Black women and children, all to satisfy a conservative, corporate segment of society.

Chicago cop in murder-for-hire case will remain in custody -- chicagotribune.com

Chicago cop in murder-for-hire case will remain in custody -- chicagotribune.com: "The Chicago police officer charged last week in a murder-for-hire plot will remain in custody after his lawyers chose not to challenge his detention at a bail hearing this morning. Suspended officer Jerome Finnigan, 44—already at the center of a widening probe of corruption, kidnapping and robbery in the Police Department's Special Operations Section—appeared briefly at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, shackled and in an orange jumpsuit. Assistant U.S. Atty. John Blakey told U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cole that the government and Finnigan's lawyers had agreed on Finnigan's detention."