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More on the Andijon massacre

Sarah Kendzior

I have an op-ed about the Andijon massacre in the New York Times:

On May 13, 2005, military forces dispatched by the government of Uzbekistan fired on a massive protest in the city of Andijon, killing hundreds of Uzbek citizens. The day before, thousands had gathered in Andijon’s Bobur Square to protest the imprisonment of 23 businessmen and, more broadly, to protest the deteriorating social, political and economic conditions of Uzbekistan.

The next day the crowd grew to over 10,000, some drawn by an expectation that President Islam Karimov would come to address the protest. Instead, demonstrators were greeted by gunfire. According to eyewitness accounts, the military fired indiscriminately, killing innocent bystanders. Human rights activists put the death toll at more than 700.

This is one narrative of what has come to be known as the Andijon massacre. It is the narrative that the Uzbek authorities do not want you to…

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Buffy Sainte-Marie: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee : Video-Lyrics

Indian legislation on the desk of a do-right Congressman

Now, he don’t know much about the issue

so he picks up the phone and he asks advice from the

Senator out in Indian country

A darling of the energy companies who are

ripping off what’s left of the reservations. Huh.

1.

I learned a safety rule

I don’t know who to thank

Don’t stand between the reservation and the

corporate bank

They send in federal tanks

It isn’t nice but it’s reality

chorus:

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee

Deep in the Earth

Cover me with pretty lies

bury my heart at Wounded Knee. Huh.

2.

They got these energy companies that want the land

and they’ve got churches by the dozen who want to

guide our hands

and sign Mother Earth over to pollution, war and

greed

Get rich… get rich quick.

chorus…

3. We got the federal marshals

We got the covert spies

We got the liars by the fire

We got the FBIs

They lie in court and get nailed

and still Peltier goes off to jail

chorus…

4.

My girlfriend Annie Mae talked about uranium

Her head was filled with bullets and her body dumped

The FBI cut off her hands and told us she’d died of

exposure

Loo loo loo loo loo

chorus…

We had the Goldrush Wars

Aw, didn’t we learn to crawl and still our history gets

written in a liar’s scrawl

They tell ‘ya “Honey, you can still be an Indian

d-d-down at the ‘Y’

on Saturday nights”

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee

Deep in the Earth

Cover me with pretty lies

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. Huh!

via Buffy Sainte-Marie: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee : Video-Lyrics.

Measles may compromise immune systems for three years | Vaccine News Daily

“We already knew that measles attacks immune memory, and that it was immunosuppressive for a short amount of time. But this paper suggests that immune suppression lasts much longer than previously suspected,” C. Jessica Metcalf, co-author and assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs at Princeton, said. “In other words, if you get measles, three years down the road, you could die from something that you would not die from had you not been infected with measles.”

via Measles may compromise immune systems for three years | Vaccine News Daily.

Baja California, Mexico: At Least 70 Injured After Clash Between Farmworkers and Police in San Quintín

San Quintin people deserve better than this!

dorset chiapas solidarity

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Baja California, Mexico: At Least 70 Injured After Clash Between Farmworkers and Police in San Quintín

Aristegui Noticias (With information from La Jornada)

Marcha_Jornaleros_San_Quintin-2-600x274About 70 people were injured, seven of them seriously, after the police entered the neighbourhood New San Juan Copala in the borough of Vicente Guerrero, in the municipality of Ensenada, Baja California, reported La Jornada. The neighbourhood of Nuevo San Juan Copala is located some 180 kilometres from the city of Ensenada.

Justino Herrera, leader of the Triqui indigenous community in San Quintín, told La Jornada Baja California that there are no deaths, but several day labourers were seriously injured.

The version given by the labourers is that it all started this morning when, at the gates of Rancho Seco, one of the largest producers of tomatoes in the region, a group of labourers from their Alliance appeared to ask their colleagues not to…

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Egyptian Aak 2015 – Week 19 ( May 4 – 10) and

Nervana

Mubarak birthday

A Hosni Mubarak supporter performs a traditional Sufi folk dance during his birthday- via Al-Monitor

Main Headlines

 Monday

Tuesday

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The power of stupid ideas: ‘three generations that have never worked’

Working-Class Perspectives

This month I ran a workshop with a group of first year undergraduate sociology students at Teesside University (in the North East of England). Our students tend to be from working-class or lower-middle class backgrounds and often the first in their families to go to university. I’d been invited to give an insight into a ‘real life’ research project, and I began by asking for responses and thoughts about some quotations:

‘Behind the statistics lie households where three generations have never had a job’ (ex-British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, 1997).

‘…on some deprived estates…often three generations of the same family have never worked’ (Iain Duncan Smith, 2009; now British government Minister for Work and Pensions).

‘To reintroduce the culture of work in households where it may have been absent for generations’ (Universal Credit, Department of Work and Pensions, 2010; this is a document that introduces a very major…

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Music With a Message: Native Americans Foster Change Through Song | TakePart

Reaching a wide audience through their platform as performers, a group of Native American rappers and singers have created music with a message. MTV profiled four performers raising awareness about land degradation, violence against Native American women, and suicide rates for Thursday’s episode of Rebel Music, titled “Native America: 7th Generation Rises.”

“Rather than just talking to each other and telling each other about stuff, I mean, it sounds so much better in a rap,” says rapper Mike “Witko” Cliff. His tune, “Mutiny,” sheds light on police brutality in the Native American community.

via Music With a Message: Native Americans Foster Change Through Song | TakePart.