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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Planned Parenthood Leader Defends Group as Senate Blocks Bill to End Its Funding

Democrats resisted backlash against the organization, set off by videos about fees for tissue from fetuses. Cecile Richards, the group’s president, said the videos proved that employees did nothing wrong.

via Planned Parenthood Leader Defends Group as Senate Blocks Bill to End Its Funding.

“I’m studying overseas at a small college in Minnesota. I’m just…

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“I’m studying overseas at a small college in Minnesota. I’m just home for the summer. There’s definitely more outward freedom in the states to wear what I want and do what I want. But I never feel completely at ease because there are only three Pakistanis at my school, and I feel that everything I do reflects on my family, my religion, and my country. I feel pressured to always be exceedingly polite and well behaved, even when I don’t feel like it. But in Pakistan I can relax more, even though the electricity sometimes goes out and I’ve already been mugged twice since I’ve been back. Because here I feel like my actions only reflect on me.”

(Hunza Valley, Pakistan)

via “I’m studying overseas at a small college in Minnesota. I’m just….

British landlords ordered to evict illegal migrants under a new measure | News | DW.COM | 03.08.2015

{Election is over Bozo! Time to pay back your backbench racists?} Morgan Johansson, Sweden’s justice and immigration minister, accused Cameron and his government of “playing politics” in the wake of the Calais crisis.

People fleeing war and poverty in North Africa and the Middle East are seeking refuge in European countries, with most of the people turning up on the shores of Italy and Greece or being rescued at sea. Some 40,000 Syrian and Eritrean asylum seekers are currently camped in Italy and Greece, whereas another 20,000 are outside the EU.

via British landlords ordered to evict illegal migrants under a new measure | News | DW.COM | 03.08.2015.

Israel approves jailing Jewish militants without trial

{Doesn’t this more or less prove, they know who has been acting out terror against Palestinians and moderate Israelis?}

Israel’s security cabinet approved on Sunday the detention of citizens suspected of waging violence against Palestinians without trial in a crackdown aimed at capturing the perpetrators of a lethal West Bank arson attack blamed on Jewish militants.

via Israel approves jailing Jewish militants without trial.

Palestinian Vigilante Effort Marks Stark Change in West Bank – The New York Times

“Can we explode against the occupation, without exploding against the authority?” asked Mohammad Dawabsheh, 32 (most residents of the hamlet share the same family name). “No. You don’t fix your garden before fixing the house,” he said.

But this shift to lashing out, to vigilante patrols, to vociferously condemning Palestinian governance, it is a shift that is bleeding out across the West Bank amid rising frustration. Weary of conflict after the violence of their second intifada, Palestinians speak of deep unease over the future, and despair with their present.

Peace talks have been stalled for years, and Palestinian efforts to hold Israel to account in international forums — particularly the International Criminal Court — are unlikely to bring results in the near future. The Palestinian government, led by Mr. Abbas, 10 years into what was supposed to be a five-year term, is increasingly seen as neglectful and corrupt.

via Palestinian Vigilante Effort Marks Stark Change in West Bank – The New York Times.

Bra-clad activists march through Hong Kong streets to protest ‘breast assault’ ruling

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Hundreds of protestors dressed in bras took to the streets of Hong Kong yesterday to protest the conviction of a woman who was jailed for assaulting a senior police officer with her breast.

via Bra-clad activists march through Hong Kong streets to protest ‘breast assault’ ruling.