Category Archives: Viva!

What if British Children Were Fleeing Their Homes to Find Refuge? — Egyptian Streets

Imagine fleeing London in the search of a new home after the outbreak of a devastating war. Two years after releasing the ‘Most Shocking Second a Day’ video, Save the Children UK has released a sequel depicting a British child fleeing with her family in a bid to find safety. Aimed at highlighting the harsh…

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The Lies Of Donald Trump – ‘The Hypocrisy Of Trump’s Refusal To Release His Tax Returns’ — The Last Of The Millenniums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blckpwk1voQ

‘Published January 18, 2012 FOX News’ TRUMP:”It’s going to be very close. I think Mitt was hurt really very badly by this whole thing with the income tax returns. I believe he should have given them April 1, but I didn’t think going into a little bit of detail without going into a lot of […]

via The Lies Of Donald Trump – ‘The Hypocrisy Of Trump’s Refusal To Release His Tax Returns’ — The Last Of The Millenniums

Women Artists Defy Stereotypes, Mainstream Music in Egypt Through Underground Bands — Egyptian Streets

Bint al-Masarwa music band. Photo credit: The band’s Facebook page By Rahma Diaa Egyptian women have the right to ride bicycles and wear dresses in Egypt’s streets. They have the right to work, travel and change society’s stereotype of what women are allowed to do, female underground music artists say, defying both mainstream music and Egyptian society’s perceptions of women.…

via Women Artists Defy Stereotypes, Mainstream Music in Egypt Through Underground Bands — Egyptian Streets

Listen in Sorrow #birds #poetry #loss — poetry penned in moon dust

happy you tend to the garden waking me daily with song bringing cheer never sorrow I find myself singing along * more work is there in the morrow gather and fashion a nest complaints never are filed rarely do you stop for a rest * little one out in the wet storm no jacket to […]

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Ahmad Manasra: A system of discrimination is a system that fosters future terror — nadiaharhash

Originally posted on nadiaharhash: Since yesterday, a video for the interrogation of Ahmad Manasra, 13 years old from Jerusalem has been leaked. I tried to avoid watching it. The looks on this boy’s eyes haunt me. The scenes of him bleeding on the ground with his legs spread in a paralyzed position while the mass…

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Moroccan Women Continue the Fight for Rights | wnn interviews global

As a result, over the past two decades, Moroccan women have fought for and won the right to divorce and the right to be the equals of men under the law. Morocco has women in top positions. They are ministers or Members of Parliament (MPs) and participate in major decisions. We managed to create a lobby of women MPs to support women’s rights, including the revision of discriminatory laws and the proposal of a quota to ensure women’s access to elected offices. Great progress has been made; and today, Morocco is hailed as one of the most progressive Muslim countries in the Middle East and North Africa on women’s issues. It is true that obstacles persist, including resistance from people whose mentality has not yet changed. Last month, for example, the women’s and human rights community was deeply disappointed when Morocco’s parliament passed a women’s rights bill that – despite years of demands from NGOs and activists — failed to criminalize marital rape, among other shortcomings. The social, political, and economic rights of Moroccan women still have not been fully realized. But we cannot give up and say that it’s over. We are and must continue to be vigilant. As an example, we are continuing to lobby parliament to bring amendments to the bill to fight against violence against women. As women, we do not have a day of rest, a moment of relief, in our struggle for equality; our fight for fairness and freedom goes on, day in and day out. Some battles are won, and some are lost, but we continue. I have made the fight for the rights of women my life. Every day, every moment, wherever I am, I fight for women to be free. And when a battered woman wins her case in court; when a woman who has come to you in the past in desperate straits calls to tell you that the judge has sentenced her abusive husband to prison—the rewards are worth the fight.

Source: Moroccan Women Continue the Fight for Rights | wnn interviews global

Re-reading Nakba

this must be read by many

نادية حرحش

Re-reading Nakba

As the social media is starting to flood with statuses and articles about the Nakba in these days, commemorating the 68th year of occupation. I feel for the first time in my life as an adult, that I am ready to re-read the Nakba.

It took me however years inside my adulthood to read about the Nakba. As if it has been part of a collective catastrophe (which it is) that I personally lived and endured, and some parts of my brain always insisted on blocking. It always felt like a deep injury that lived on your skin for so long and you are too vulnerable on touching it, for the fear of opening it and getting it infected.

I have dared, however, in the last years to dig more into the matter. It is impossible to get anything from my parents or my grandmother. There is…

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President Obama 2016 Howard University Graduation Speech – Hollywood Reporter

He cited low voter turnout in general and among younger voters in particular for control of Congress switching from Democratic to Republican during his presidency. “You don’t think that made a difference in terms of the Congress I had to deal with,” Obama said. “And then people wonder why Obama didn’t get this done or that done. “Just vote. It’s math.” Obama, 54, opened by telling the graduates that most of them were just starting high school when he was first elected in 2008. “I used to joke about being old. Now I realize I’m old. It’s not a joke anymore,” he said.

Source: President Obama 2016 Howard University Graduation Speech – Hollywood Reporter

Illma Gore: ‘If anyone is going to be threatened by a small penis, it’s Trump’ | US news | The Guardian

If the painting does sell, I will donate a portion of the payment to Safe Place for Youth, a homeless shelter for youth in Los Angeles. My face has been swollen all week. There is still bruising around my eye, and the red marks from the burst blood cell remain. But still, people wonder if I am making this up. Is being hit in the face a grand hoax or performance art? No. It is sad; it is a part of the painting as a whole; it is indicative of this election, how Trump is inciting violence and splitting America apart. As for what it means for me as an artist – nothing. I will continue to create art. Art is supposed to evoke an emotion. Art represents the time we live in. All I want to do is make better and better art, black eyes and all.

Source: Illma Gore: ‘If anyone is going to be threatened by a small penis, it’s Trump’ | US news | The Guardian