To pick up on a theme I alluded to last time, let's start with an excerpt from Part 2. But perhaps the trickiest aspect to prove out of all of the aspects listed up there is "reasonable fear." American legal requirements are fraught with these ideas and concepts of what a …
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Virginia Tech has established a Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund. You can also offer condolences, thoughts, and prayers to the victims here. View the homepage of Virginia Tech for more information about campus events and organizing.
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In recommending legal remedies, you may note that I said a blogger has the building blocks of a case if they receive a bothersome threat.
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So I guess you all have heard about the Kathy Sierra situation and the public outcry for ending online abuse because of her case, right? If not, take a look at Sierra's account and the horribly misogynistic threats left by anonymous and psuedonymous commenters and the resulting e …
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Another great in-depth analysis of hip-hop and its relationship to popular culture, misogyny, and race.
Liza Sabater of Culture Kitchen speaks candidly about her experiences with violence and sexual abuse, how her experiences frame her perspective on rape and sexual violence, and how a more realistic approach to sexual violence needs to be taken by American society -- whether it be …
I don't care if it offends you, either. Where's all this violent backlash at the media and Nifong? Why is it only isolated to the rape victim? Aren't Nifong's behaviors and the media's behaviors more damaging to reporting rape?
Flicks away the faulty argument by Imus and other talking heads that mainstream rap music is the single most influential medium in black culture and that hip-hop's misogyny is unique in the total scheme of the racism and misogyny in pop culture. Uses pictures.
A well-reasoned look into the true sources of violence and misogyny in U.S. culture and media, sparked from the recent events involving Don Imus and the Rutgers women's basketball team.
Consider this post the result of my taking a good idea and running with it.
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*plays X-Men cartoon theme song* The social outcry may reflect the inadequate explanations of the research. And the fact it sounds kinda freaky. Government plans to ban the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos could potentially harm UK science, say MPs.
This post discusses the ideological implications of christening potential terrorists with the label "clean skin" -- claiming that the term means "a person whose documents are completely legitimate, are not forged." However, with racial and ethnic tensions mounting against Arabs …
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The World Bank has approved financing worth $164.5 million for Kenya, Burundi and Madagascar for high-speed internet connections, the bank said on Tuesday.
Red meat's really getting the short end of the stick lately. Wasn't there another recent article about how eating red meat during pregnancy lowers a male child's sperm count?
The incarceration of Father Nguyen Van Ly by the Vietnamese government has important repercussions on the future of internet activism.
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I found this Washington Post article through Malik at Solar Souls. Here's an excerpt.
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Israel is closely monitoring preparations by Syria, Iran and Hezbollah for a U.S.-led war this summer, Military Intelligence chief Major-General Amos Yadlin said during a cabinet session on Sunday.
Articles like these keep me slightly optimistic that the U.S. government does hold value for human life.
How do we code acceptance of cultural differences and broadening awareness as something distasteful and abhorrent to the monolithic populace? Equate it with racially coded poverty, of course! Gingrich remarks that supporting bilingual education and providing resources in langua …
Detroit youth are staging boycotts and support marches to protest the treatment of a community leader who was mistreated in a local restaurant.
A well-written editorial encouraging people to turn a critical eye to experts and to their receptions of news stories, specifically about the War on Terror and generally in many different areas.
A hilarious take on a recent New York Times article proposing a vague link between length of time in day care and poor behavior. THANK HEAVENS for the media. How else would we make sense of our lives?
A press release from the Fair Immigration Reform Movement that is setting the tone for activist responses in DC to the recent immigration raids in various locations, including New Bedford, San Rafael, and Glen Burnie.
It was about 15 years ago, recalled Yoshiaki Yoshimi, a mild-mannered historian, that he grew fed up with the Japanese government's denials that the military had set up and run brothels throughout Asia during World War II.
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