sexgenderbody

The latest issue of TIME Magazine proclaims marriage equality “already won”, regardless of the Supreme Court’s imminent rulings. “The Supreme Court hasn’t made up its mind - but America has” reads the cover.

lakotapeopleslawproject:

NPR BREAKING NEWS ON NPR! In a strong showing of solidarity, the Coalition of Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) Directors in South Dakota voted 6-0 to submit a report to Congress confirming S.D.’s systematic violations of ICWA. The directors demanded that the Bureau of Indian Affairs live up to its months-old promise of hosting a summit on Native American foster care in S.D. LISTEN TO THE NPR REPORT HERE: http://n.pr/TyfUfb

guardiancomment:

The Western media has chosen not to run the graphic pictures of the children killed in Gaza this weekend (nota bene: this is not the picture above, which shows members of the Daloo family during the children’s funeral yesterday).

Priest Giles Fraser asks: do pictures of children killed in Gaza force us to face a gruesome reality?

Let’s start slowly, carefully, with what can be said. Photographs show four small children dead on the cold aluminium surface of the morgue.

They are positioned in such a way that they look like they might be sleeping together. Are these pictures real? Are they staged? That already feels too suspicious a question to be asking so early on. And one’s emotional instincts will rail against the premature engagement of critical faculties. But one needs to bracket out the feelings just for a moment.

Earlier photographs have come in from multiple reputable agencies showing these children being pulled out of the rubble. Other images show numerous film crews witnessing the same event. The children’s bodies are accompanied by the press to the morgue. Those who are trained to spot discrepancies in this sort of story believe that it hangs together. The pictures are real, so it is concluded. And once that is accepted, one immediately feels more than a little uncomfortable that their provenance was ever questioned. Like disbelieving a rape victim when she first tells you her story.

So they are real. Dead children, killed by an Israeli missile while still in their pyjamas and the sort of clothes suited to playing in the street. The western media has chosen not to show them.

Read the rest here.

Photograph: Bernat Armangue/AP

nbcnews:

BP to pay $4.5 billion, plead guilty to criminal charges in Gulf of Mexico oil spill

(Photo: Lee Celano / Reuters, file)

BP will pay approximately $4.5 billion and plead guilty to criminal charges as part of a settlement with the U.S. government over the deadly Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the London-based oil giant said Thursday.

Read the complete story.

motherjones:

The David Petraeus Scandal, Explained

Who knew what and when? Is there a connection to Libya? Why is Paula Broadwell getting straight-up slut-shamed? And what was up with that uncanny NYT advice column? We’ve got answers.

globalvoices:

In this image Kyrgyz women protest an oil refinery being built by a Chinese company, Jundi. 

“[The Chinese company] aren’t just expanding, they are poisoning people. None of this is legal. No kind of sanitary norms are being observed.”

Physically bordered, but culturally distant, China’s growing economic presence in Kyrgyzstan continues to be a topic for heated discussion in Kyrgyz society. In the country’s regions, this discourse is reflected in acrimonious standoffs between Chinese companies and locals, confrontations the mainstream media often fails to report on. Recently, a series of photo and news reports from the ground by youth media organization Kloop.kg have shed light on some of these conflicts, as well as an apparent spike in antipathy towards Chinese investments in the Central Asian republic.

Read ‘Kyrgyzstan: China Inc. Under Attack’ on Global Voices. 

pakistank2:

Shahid Khan: The New Face Of The NFL And The American Dream

This story appears in the September 24, 2012 issue of Forbes.

With sweat and smarts, Pakistan-born Shahid Khan built a $3.4 billion manufacturing juggernaut from the ruins of an Illinois auto parts maker. To celebrate, he just bought one of the worst teams in the NFL, with the pledge of a similar turnaround. Only in America, folks.

Driving down a dusty back road in Danville, Ill., Shahid Khan narrates the fall of American manufacturing. “The Allith-Prouty plant closed there. That was 1,400 jobs,” he says, pointing out boarded-up buildings on our left. Some 300 people used to work at the welding plant next door. “Gone,” he shrugs. Another 7,000 or so were lost when Hyster trucks closed shop.

As we pass more dilapidated warehouses and bulldozed dreams—800 jobs lost at the mill around the corner, 1,200 across the way—we seem like tourists in an industrial wasteland, the ruins of a manufacturing golden age, with crumbling Danville playing the role of Pompeii or Luxor, although those ruins might be better preserved, Khan notes with a rueful smile. “Around you, right now, I can count 30,000 jobs that just disappeared,” he says, shaking his head.

With flowing black hair and the thick handlebar mustache of a man used to leaving a lasting impression, the 62-year-old Khan, driving a shiny white Grand Cherokee, is a swashbuckling contrast to the desolation around him. While Danville and the rest of the Rust Belt were deteriorating over the last 40 years, Khan was moving in exactly the opposite direction. The sole owner and CEO of Flex-N-Gate, he built one of the biggest automotive parts suppliers in North America almost from scratch from his headquarters just 35 miles away and now employs more than 13,000 people at 52 factories around the globe. Sales reached $3.4 billion in 2011. FORBES estimates his net worth at $2.5 billion, placing him in the top half of the soon-to-be-released 2012 Forbes 400.

An enormous accomplishment for anyone, it’s more like a Mars landing for a middle-class kid from Pakistan who flew into Illinois for an engineering degree at 16 and never left. Khan’s is the kind of only-in-America success story that has filled boats and planes with dreamers for the past 150 years, one that gives a face to an ironclad fact: Skilled, motivated immigrants are proven job creators, not job takers.

Khan’s American Dream continued this January, when he purchased the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars for $770 million. In so doing, he became the first ethnic-minority owner in a league synonymous with cheerleaders and tailgate parties, Thanksgiving grudge matches and that most secular of U.S. holidays, Super Bowl Sunday. Buying into the NFL, he says, was a statement about the opportunity America offers. 

mehreenkasana:

Gina Rinehart, the world’s richest woman, says people who are jealous of the wealthy should work harder.

“If you’re jealous of those with more money, don’t just sit there and complain,” she said in a magazine piece. “Do something to make more money yourself — spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working.”

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Best part? Rinehart inherited her wealth. The sheer nerve…

autohistoriamestiza:

dionthesocialist:

ikeyser:

Jaqueline Trade is subject for 10 hours to some major experiments practiced on animals in laboratories worldwide.

All this behind a shop window in one of the most famous streets of London.

The electrodes on the head … eyes … irritating liquid toxic injections … the obligation to swallow food …

Jaqueline has tested all of these practices in her own skin.

All this in an attempt to make people understand what thousands of animals are forced to endure each day, to test almost all consumer products.

Jaqueline shows the brutality of animal testing, the only difference is that after all this she can go home, unlike these animals who are simply killed.

source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4278437/Womans-shocking-animal-testing-protest-in-shop-winDow.html

Why am I tagged in this?

you know what, maybe we can talk bout povery in brown people of color that happens without films crews filming it 24/7? Can we do that? Can we? Can we talk about people of color as test subjects without their knowledge? Can we talk about that? Can we talk about what we endure? fuck ya’ll