Human Rights – Postcards

How to Talk about Autism Respectfully – Field Guide

May 27, 2022 No Comments

This is a good guide, and very informative: If you take away nothing else from this essay I’d like you to take this: one of the core mottos of our community comes from South African disability rights activism: “Nothing About Us Without Us.” If you can keep those five words in your mind when writing […]

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Freedoms Human Rights

Quote of the Day

May 5, 2021 No Comments

“Arguing that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” Edward snowden

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Human Rights Society Trumperica

“The officers responsible are rarely prosecuted.”

June 4, 2020 No Comments

Protests over the murder of an unarmed black man at the hands of a white police officer have reached every single US state, in a level of nationwide demonstration not seen since the 1968 assassination of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Curfews are in place across dozens of cities and National Guard troops have been deployed […]

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The Power of Art

June 4, 2020 No Comments

Power granted must be limited, if not, it will destroy that which it draws power from.

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Fuck the patriarchy Human Rights

Iranian Women’s Rights

October 21, 2019 No Comments

An improvement: Iranian women will be able to officially enter a soccer stadium on Thursday for the first time in nearly 40 years to watch Iran’s 2022 World Cup qualifier against Cambodia, a historic feat after FIFA threatened to suspend the country over its controversial male-only policy. Still, only 5% of tickets were allocated to […]

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Desegregation in Iran (just a bit)

July 5, 2018 No Comments

For the first time since 1979, women in Iran are allowed to attend a men’s game in a stadium with a mixed crowd. For nearly 40 years, half of Iran’s population was not allowed to go to a stadium to watch soccer, the country’s single most popular sport. The defacto ban, instilled by religious clerics […]

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Catholic Adoption

July 5, 2018 No Comments

In the news, more adoption issues in a case that further illustrates the attitudes and social mores of catholic Ireland as detailed in The God Squad. The fudged adoption papers, un-vetted placement, obfuscation and misdirection of the supposed Sisters of Charity is sadly unsurprising yet still awful to read: His client became pregnant shortly before her […]

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Read: The God Squad

July 3, 2018 No Comments

The God Squad is the remarkable true story of a survivor, told with an extraordinary lack of bitterness for one so shockingly and shamefully treated. In Paddy Doyle’s own words: ‘It is about a society’s abdication of responsibility to a child. The fact that I was that child, and that the book is about my […]

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The Chain of Destruction

October 3, 2017October 3, 2017 No Comments

I’ve just finished the excellent documentary “The House I Live In” (thanks to D for recommending). It’s a fascinating look at the consequences of the so-called ‘War on Drugs’, which is really just a proxy war against an entire class of humanity with no end in sight. It’s created a criminal problem from a public […]

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Surviving Autocracy

March 12, 2017March 12, 2017 No Comments

Marsha Gessen wrote a set of six rules for surviving an autocracy back in November 2016 ( http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/ ). Well worth a revisit in light of recent events, they’ve stood the test of the last few months anyway. Sample: I have lived in autocracies most of my life, and have spent much of my career writing about […]

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How to Talk about Autism Respectfully – Field Guide

Quote of the Day

“The officers responsible are rarely prosecuted.”

The Power of Art

Iranian Women’s Rights

Desegregation in Iran (just a bit)

Catholic Adoption

Read: The God Squad

The Chain of Destruction

Surviving Autocracy

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