Powerful aurora puts on spectacular display in Tasmania

Tasmania’s aurora watchers are treated to an extraordinary Christmas lightshow with spectacular photos captured even from Hobart suburbs.

UN Discovery of secret detention centre, reopens all nightmares

Details of a secret detention center, where serious human rights abuses took place, deep inside the sprawling Tricomalee Naval base in the east of Sri Lanka are slowly emerging. The site is nothing new to those who were held there. In June this year the South Africa-based International Truth and Justice Project, Sri Lanka (ITJPSL) […]

Minority Sheet Metal Workers in New York Get Back Pay After Decades of Bias – The New York Times

The union’s white members have received more work and larger pensions, data show. In contrast, minority members, who have lagged for decades, often struggle to find steady jobs and to earn enough credit to retire on time with full pensions.Continue reading the main storyRelated Coverage Settlement in Bias Suit That Stalled for 37 YearsJAN. 16, 2008Last month, the union began paying the first installments of $12.7 million in back pay to hundreds of black and Hispanic members in a partial settlement of a bias lawsuit decades old — the oldest such case in the hands of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Source: Minority Sheet Metal Workers in New York Get Back Pay After Decades of Bias – The New York Times

Erdogan says Kurdish militants will be ‘annihilated’ – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East – Armenian Genocide Deja Vu – The Turkish Caliphate Sticks Again!

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Kurdish militants Dec. 15 that “you will be annihilated,” and pledged that Turkish security forces will continue their massive military assault on Kurdish towns in southeastern Turkey until they are “completely cleansed and a peaceful atmosphere established.”Metin Gurcan reports that the escalation in military operations in towns where Kurdish militants associated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have taken hold has increased the possibility of a civil war.

Source: Erdogan says Kurdish militants will be ‘annihilated’ – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Egyptian Aak 2015 – Week 51 ( Dec 14-20)

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Top Headlines

  • Egypt to appoint international firm to review airport security. Monday
  • UK report recommends no ban of Muslim Brotherhood, but warns of possible extremist links. Thursday
  • Major general Moahmed Sharway will be replacing Major general Salah Hegazy as new head for National Security. Saturday
  • Egyptian court releases amateur photographer Israa al-Taweel for her health conditions. Saturday

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Ladies Not So Free

Feminist Conversations on Caribbean Life

A young woman was recently refused free entry at a Trinidad and Tobago nightclub because she was “dressed like a man,” according to the person working the door, and therefore did not meet the criteria of hyperfeminine gender presentation required for “ladies free”.

Nightclubs that advertise “ladies free” are actually using women as part of the experience they are selling to (heterosexual) men whom they perceive as their legitimate customers.  This is the reason men are expected to pay and “ladies” are admitted “free”. It is neither an act of feminist benevolence nor discrimination against men that club owners have such policies.  Such policies aid in heterosexualizing public spaces and reinforcing the notion that ALL women should be sexually available to men. These clubs with their dress codes, including the requirement that women wear heels, seek to reinforce a heterosexualised femininity, regulating gender and sexuality and often discriminating based on class, colour and…

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Description: http://bitly.com/1QDYobo | [Xavier Martinez (forefront, facing camera) and fellow art students at Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco, Calif., ca. 1898] | Repository: California Historical Society Collection: Photographs from Isabel Porter Collins collection Photographer: Collins, Isabel Porter, 1875-1954 Date: circa 1895-1906 Call number: MSP 422 Digital object number: MSP 422.001.jpg Preferred citation: [Xavier Martinez (forefront, facing camera) and fellow art stude…
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