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

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Cincinnati Pre-framing in the warehouse 5/18/13 – YouTube

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Cincinnati Pre-framing in the warehouse 5/18/13 – YouTube.

How you can support the domestic workers movement

Domestic work is gendered and waaay undervalued. This we know. We know this because it’s been established over and over again on feminist blogs and in academia. But more importantly we know this because so many of us have seen it happen before our very eyes. We’ve watched our mothers cook and clean each day after working at her full time job, while Dad watches TV. We’ve seen this happen to our sisters, our friends, maybe it’s even happened to you. So many women aren’t properly compensated for that “second shift” they take on, and this extends to women who do domestic work professionally.

via How you can support the domestic workers movement.

Latinos Hardest Hit By Community College Class Shortages | Fronteras Desk

Since 2007, San Diego Community Colleges have cut more than 2,600 class sections, Grossmont-Cuyamaca Colleges lost 1,600 classes and Palomar College halved its summer offerings.

A new report commissioned by Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit company that runs private colleges, projects the lack of access to community college programs could cost California Latinos $17.8 billion in potential earnings by 2022.

via Latinos Hardest Hit By Community College Class Shortages | Fronteras Desk.

We’re looking for volunteer writers, reporters, investigative journalists

We’re interested in exposes, Investigative reports, news articles, interviews and op-eds concerning:

Human Rights emergencies including assassinations, evictions and kidnappings

Threats to Indigenous Peoples/rights from governments, corporations and NGOs

Protests, blockades and related campaign efforts that focus on protecting Indigenous rights, culture, knowledge/history, the environment, etc.

Reclamation projects including the development of authentic Indigenous economies, permaculture/food sovereignty and securing Indigenous languages

Health issues

Victories, successes and inspiration stories

via We’re looking for volunteer writers, reporters, investigative journalists.

A Rape Attempt in Hamra

A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares

A 20 year old girl recently suffered through a rape attempt while going back to her apartment in Hamra. The man followed her to her apartment where he attacked her and ordered her not to scream. But she did scream. So he beat her up and she kept on screaming until the neighbors and people on the street ran towards her.

The man was given to authorities. The man was a married man with children and who worked with our army, an entity theoretically tasked with making sure our women and children are protected from the travesties that living in Lebanon entail.

I salute that woman’s courage. Not only for standing up to her rapist and shouting her lungs out despite him threatening her life, but for having the courage to stand up to him when he was taken into custody and tell her story for the world to hear.

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Egyptian Aak: Week 20

Not the best of weeks for the new Egypt

Nervana

Morsi:Wheat

(Photo via the Brotherhood’s website, Ikhwanweb)

Main Headlines

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The Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) / The evolving Taleban: Changes in the insurgency’s DNA

Ahmad, Clandestine Organiser

 

Ahmad is 27 years old, a Pashtun from Loya Paktia who finished his madrassa education in the late 1990s, when the Taleban were ruling Kabul and most of the country. The completion of his early education coincided with the aftermath of the fall of the Emirate, when the remnants of the Taleban regime were re-organizing across the Pakistani-Afghan border. In late 2001, his family, who had earlier spent time in Pakistan and had returned to Afghanistan during the Taleban regime, once again escaped across the border to flee the advancing Northern Alliance.

 

In 2003, he proceeded to a Pakistani madrassa, in Hangu, to further his religious education. During the two years he spent there, he was deemed promising enough by his teachers to be selected for a para-military training course held in _town, in Punjab (3); there, Ahmad’s studies radically shifted focus and he found himself being groomed, by nonuniformed men he described as para-military instructors, to be an operative deployed in the field. In Punjab, he received a fully-fledged military education, studied basic English and IT and most importantly, was trained to operate undercover while maintaining a public persona that allowed him to live an ostensibly normal life once back in Afghanistan.

 

Ahmad was trained to become not a field commander in charge of a combat unit, but an officer tasked with organising military operations at district or province level and as a member of an underground structure active far and wide throughout Afghan civil society. Once his training had been completed, and now in his early 20s, Ahmad travelled back to Afghanistan, as a dual citizen. His Pakistani passport and the position of his family, who were now legalised as permanent residents and provided, in kind, with the basics of subsistence, served as reminders of the services he would have to render to those who trained him.

via The Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) / The evolving Taleban: Changes in the insurgency’s DNA.