In khuza3a… All that destruction… All those unbelievable painful realities of on ground tragedies … But yet … Nature is preserved by those who can have a land next to their once was there house…
Gaza… The Resilience | nadiaharhash
Inside me an image of poverty and destruction overwhelmed with desperation and despair. And infront of me, an image of an interactive scenery of normality. A scene I can see on any shore in the world, with the addition of exclusivity for Arabs. Genuine existence. …Persistence … to be, to live.Not every city can reflect itself to you through its people. Gaza is among those. It is not the sea. It is not the beauty or the monuments. It is not the ugliness or the destruction. It is not the richness or poverty. It is not the facilities, the streets, and the services. It is the people. It is one place that makes you see what it means to be lived. It makes you feel life through it’s people … and yet, you cannot really get to them as you pass through them.You live them.With all there stories… told and untold.With their non-ending miseries, tragedies, traumas.With their continuous destined fate of displacement and disruption.With their never tired resilience despite exhaustion and blocked opportunities.
Gaza .. The resilience ( smiles despite desperation)khuza3a | nadiaharhash
Boycott Tel Aviv Pride 2016
Tel Aviv is known as a “top gay destination.” However, gay pride brochures fail to mention that it is also an hour away from the world’s largest open prison, Gaza, and that it is built on stolen land. They forget to mention that the gay soldiers you dance with in the pride parade check, arrest, and kill Palestinians on a daily basis. After your day of pride, some tour operators will take you to Bethlehem or the Dead Sea, without telling you that you will travel through the illegally Occupied Palestinian Territories, or that the wine you are drinking in the Golan Heights comes from businesses that have been declared illegal under International Law. So, why are you proud of Tel Aviv? Perhaps Tel Aviv has a vibrant nightlife, hot gay men, and beautiful beaches, but Israel also has an illegal occupation; restricts the mobility of any Palestinian just because they are Palestinian; and uses your tourism money for its next invasion of Gaza or home demolition in East Jerusalem, after which it will say “but look at us, we have gay rights!” Underneath the beautiful beaches lies a different truth: Israel does not respect human rights! Be aware of what you are proud of. Israel sponsors Tel Aviv Pride 2016 with over 4 million dollars! It even tries to attract you with arguably homophobic ad campaigns It aims to promote Israel as a prime gay tourist destination, because it thinks gay tourists don’t care about other human rights violations taking place in the country. Awesome right? Not only does Israel want to bring more money to Tel Aviv, it also wants your political support for its ongoing occupation of Palestinian Territories and its violation of Palestinian human rights. And if it can’t get your explicit political support, it will just use your presence as a cover up for its war crimes. Israel does not only want your gay tourism money, it also wants to turn “every foreign tourist into an ambassador” for Israel. They are like “look how cool we are with our gay rights!” which makes you forget sometimes that you are actually in a warzone, where freedom is a principle limited to Israelis and international gay tourists. There is nothing hot about cruising in a Warzone! There is nothing celebratory about gay rights when they do not include rights and equality for all people! There is no pride in being used by the Israeli State for its propaganda machine! #BoycottTLVpride until Israel: Ends its occupation of Palestinian land occupied in the 1967 war and dismantles its Apartheid wall Recognizes the rights of Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality Respects, protects and promotes the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194. Boycott TLV Pride!
Source: Boycott Tel Aviv Pride 2016
After Harambe’s Death, Rethinking Zoos – The New York Times
Captive apes don’t all die from a gunshot; but almost all die having never really experienced what it is to be a gorilla. Harambe was born in a zoo in Brownsville, Tex. There are signs that times are changing. Prominent circuses are retiring their elephants. The “Blackfish” film helped change norms for orcas, or killer whales. The focus of this shift so far has been on big-brained, highly social species (those most like us) — a distinction that’s rejected as elitist by some animal advocates. There’s much more to be done. This issue was compellingly explored in Scientific American this week by Marc Bekoff, who studies animals’ behavior and awareness and is a proponent of what he calls “compassionate conservation”: While some might say Harambe had a ‘good life’ in the zoo, it doesn’t come close to the life he would have had as a wild gorilla, with all its attendant risks. Indeed, one might argue that the animal people were seeing was not really a true western lowland gorilla, surely not an ambassador for his species. He calls for an end to captive breeding of gorillas and an eventual shift from zoos to sanctuaries, with money saved going to conservation of species in the wild.
Source: After Harambe’s Death, Rethinking Zoos – The New York Times
A New Web Browser for Our Friends
We are all absolutely unique and we want different things. Vivaldi web browser lets you do things your way by adapting to you and not the other way around. You prefer the browser tabs placed at the bottom or on the side of the window? – You prefer a different address bar location? Go ahead and customize your preferences be it your keyboard shortcuts, mouse gestures, appearance and so on.
3 E. coli cases linked to recalled flour reported in Chicago area – Chicago Tribune
The Chicago area has three reported cases of E. coli infection linked to a massive nationwide recall of General Mills flour, public health officials said Thursday.The illnesses occurred in Chicago, suburban Cook County and McHenry County, according to Melaney Arnold, a spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Public Health. A fourth Illinois case was reported in Brown County, in western Illinois.General Mills recalled several varieties of Gold Medal flour Tuesday after an investigation led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified 38 cases of E. coli infections in 20 states connected with the products. The cases were traced back to flour produced in November at the General Mills facility in Kansas City, Mo.People began getting sick in December, according to the CDC. Ten people have been hospitalized, and no deaths have been reported.
Source: 3 E. coli cases linked to recalled flour reported in Chicago area – Chicago Tribune
The Last Survivor of the Black Wall Street Oklahoma Disaster | 3CHICSPOLITICO
A local newspaper had printed a fabricated story that Rowland tried to rape Page. In an editorial, the same newspaper said a hanging was planned for that night. As groups of both Blacks and Whites converged on the Tulsa Courthouse, a White man in the crowd confronted an armed Black man, a war veteran, who had joined with other Blacks to protect Rowland. Eddie Faye Gates, a member of the Tulsa Race Riot Commission, formed several years ago to determine exactly what happened, told CNN what happened next. “This White man,” she said, asked the Black man, “What are you doing with this gun?” “I’m going to use it if I have to,” the Black man said, according to Gates, “and (the White man) said, ‘No, you’re not. Give it to me,’ and he tried to take it. The gun went off, the White man was dead, the riot was on.” Truckloads of Whites set fires and shot Blacks on sight. When the smoke lifted the next day, more than 1,400 homes and businesses in Tulsa’s Greenwood District, a prosperous area known as the “Black Wall Street,” lay in ruins. Today, only a single block of the original buildings remains standing in the area. Experts now estimate that at least 3,000 died. Dr. Olivia Hooker was one of the survivors of this racially motivated attack, which she refuses to call a riot.
Source: The Last Survivor of the Black Wall Street Oklahoma Disaster | 3CHICSPOLITICO
French court overturns “illegal” ban on BDS event | The Electronic Intifada
In recent months, three EU governments, Sweden, the Netherlands and Ireland, have publicly recognized the legitimacy of the BDS movement and defended boycott advocacy as free speech. Earlier this month the Ontario parliament handily defeated an anti-BDS bill that civil liberties groups warned would have had a disastrous impact on the democratic rights of people in Canada’s most populous province.
Source: French court overturns “illegal” ban on BDS event | The Electronic Intifada
Gloria Steinem On Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, & Beyonce’s Daring Feminism: Gothamist
Why do you think it’s important that we elect Hillary Clinton? Well, setting gender aside, because obviously I wouldn’t vote for Sarah Palin, she may be the most experienced and effective candidate we’ve ever had. I can’t think of another presidential candidate who has had the kind of experience she has. Also from her Wellesley graduation speech, to her struggle for health care, she’s always been out there. Neither she, nor you, nor I, agrees with everything that emerges from a democratic process. She knows how to go in there and make it better than it would have been without her.
Source: Gloria Steinem On Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, & Beyonce’s Daring Feminism: Gothamist




















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