In Arizona a bill has been approved in congress (the governor still has to pass or veto it) that would make it legal to stop any person for whom there is “reasonable suspicion” that they may be an undocumented immigrant. Â If that person does not have papers on them, even if they are a[...]
Archive for the ‘Imperialism’ Category
The News Today…
Once again independent citizens do a better job reporting than the major news corporations with their billions of dollars needed to grant access. Â Wikileaks has footage of a US bombing that killed over a dozen people including two Reuters news staff and children. (Reuters has been trying to acces[...]
Don’t Worry, No Reparations
The Australian government offered an apology to Aboriginal Australians for the genocide that occurred there.  (Here is the BBC article).  However, there is no talk about any sort of reparations for this group of people (much like we wont offer them to African American communities or Nat[...]
Spielberg Takes a Stand
The following is an article about Speilberg, indicating that he decided to boycott his position with the Beijing Olympics because of China’s support of the Sudanese government as it continues the genocide against people in the Darfur region. Â The articles doesn’t go into depth about C[...]
1-800-GENOCIDE
Last week I went with this blogger to an event about the genocide in Darfur.  At the event there was a screening of the film The Devil Came on Horseback and an information panel featuring members of the city government and people who worked on anti-genocide campaigns.    One of[...]
Hospital Mixup Four Years Later
Reuters published an article in their ‘oddly enough’ section about a recent discovery. A hospital in Saudi Arabia had mixed up to children, giving them to the wrong parents. Because the parents were off the wrong skin tone the fathers became angry and had DNA tests done to test their pat[...]