- Israel: Children Facing Deportation Find Friends — Global Issues
- …many of the undocumented workers lost their legal status simply by giving birth, as Israeli policy formerly stipulated that migrant workers who give birth must either send their babies back to their home countries, or keep their children and lose their work visas.
- In April this year the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that this law was unconstitutional. …
- Since it isn’t being implemented retroactively, migrant workers who gave birth prior to the Supreme Court’s ruling are still scheduled for deportation with their children.
- Womanist Musings: Peter Pan and What Makes The Red Man Red
- Even though I have a major beef with Disney, I quickly learned that there is no way to really avoid it and so I have sought to talk to my children about each movie critically. The kids recently watched Disney’s Peter Pan for the first time. I decided to remain quiet throughout the movie to see what they would come up with on their own. [Pseudonymous child] squirmed as he watched, and I could tell he was uncomfortable, but he did not say anything until the end. As the credits rolled, he looked at me and said, “that’s an awful lot of racism for one cartoon. What were they thinking?” …
- It takes a [conscious] effort to learn how racism manifests differently by group.
- The Digital Divide Has Real-World Impact | Tolerance.org – by Brenda Anfinson
- …a student pulled me aside to ask for help with a job application. As a teacher working with adult immigrants and refugees, I hear this request fairly often. After class, we discussed the job she wanted –housekeeping for one of the large hotel chains in the area. Paper applications were no longer accepted.
- Tired of Hateful Jokes? Here Are Five Comedians of Color to Watch | Colorlines • by Mónica Novoa
- …Wanda Sykes, Margaret Cho, Hari Kondabolu, Elon James White and W. Kamau Bell.
- Kelley Williams-Bolar, Mom Charged with Stealing Kids’ Education, Denied Pardon | Colorlines • by Julianne Hing
- …an Ohio mother who was charged with larceny and record tampering earlier this year when she falsified her home address to get her daughters into a better public school, has been denied a request for pardon by an Ohio parole board…
- Luis J. Rodriguez: Why We Need a Deeper Dialogue on Black-and-Brown Relations
- The main catalyst for the Mexican war was the refusal of Mexico to return black slaves–believed to be more than 10,000–who had taken the southern-route of the “underground railroad,” crossing the border to a free Mexico. In Mexico’s governing assembly heavy debates on the issue ended up with the majority supporting these slaves, allowing them to own land, to farm, to become part of the Mexican social fabric.
- Mexicans were willing to die so blacks could be free.
- 40 Amazing and Beautiful Pictures of Flowers | Boost Inspiration
- [I like the tulip best. That fact alone is stunning, because I don't even like tulips. -L]
- Unrealistic Scenes | Behance Network Featured Projects – Nathan Spotts
- Photorealistic composite images.
- Wait for Me!! | Daily Squee – Cute Baby Animals
- It’s okay, wee lil’ elephant! Once you get close enough to your big brother, you can just grab hold of his tail with your trunk, and then you’ll never get left behind again!
- Netflix and Starz Break Up, Netflix Loses a Lot of Content
- Starz has announced that it will not renew its deal with Netflix which provides Netflix subscribers with streaming content from the Starz and Encore brands, which will take effect starting February 2012. Starz not only wanted Netflix to pay a premium price for its content, but it wanted Netflix users to pay more as well, and even though Netflix offered Starz over $300 million, Starz decided to end the deal.
- Romanian Salt Mine Looks Awesome, Might Actually Be Batcave | The Mary Sue • by Susana Polo
- What follows are some arresting pictures of what is actually the Turda Salt mine, a mine since about one thousand years ago, but a tourist attraction since 1992.
- If your website’s full of assholes, it’s your fault – Anil Dash
- As it turns out, we have a way to prevent gangs of humans from acting like savage packs of animals.
- Undermining the law in the Senate – The Plum Line – The Washington Post
- Go ahead, right now, and read an important op-ed by Barney Frank [link] about how Republican obstruction is preventing implementation of Dodd-Frank. Which is, you know, a law, duly passed by Congress and signed by the president of the United States.
- But as Frank explains, some provisions can’t start working until the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has a director. And that’s not happening, because Republicans have decided to filibuster Richard Cordray, the president’s nominee, and anyone else whom Barack Obama chooses.
- …these are not normal times in the Senate. There’s nothing normal about a minority using the filibuster against essentially every single piece of legislation and every single nominee, forcing a true 60-vote Senate that never existed before January 2009.
[My bookmarks live at delicious.com/camryl. In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Also, signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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