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• Patriarchy & Power | Gender-Based Violence | Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence tags: patriarchy power violence My essays: Patriarchy explains the widespread nature of violence against women. Violence Against Women Is As Old As Patriarchy By Vandana Shiva Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• Egypt: Restrictions on campus protest could spark unrest - Index on Censorship | Index on Censorship tags: egypt campus protest restrictions unrest freedom speech Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• #BringBackOurDiscourse | Orchestrated Pulse Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• Engendering Peace? Reflections on militarized implementation of the women, peace and security agenda | Sustainable Security tags: peace security militarization UN1325 Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• Kristof: The journalist as tourist - Opinion - Al Jazeera English.
• Brothers in Arms - By Sophia Jones | Foreign Policy tags: syria Egypt revolution activism solidarity Cairo Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• Eltahawy's 'hate' fuels real war on 'us' - Opinion - Al Jazeera English tags: arab Egypt Women human rights revolution Islam islamists feminism Asking Tough Questions on US Military Aid to Egypt | Human Rights Now In Egypt, government security forces have repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to use small arms, light weapons, ammunition, armored personal vehicles, and internal security equipment (tear gas, rubber and plastic bullets, etc) in acts of excessive force that have resulted in the deaths of many Egyptians. Such acts may have been aided by the use of helicopter-based aerial surveillance during Egyptian protests in Tahrir Square and elsewhere. tags: SCAF army US foreign policy human rights 25+ Arab Authors Who Tweet | Arabic Literature (in English) tags: arab arabic literature Students experience traveling Apartheid Wall - The Poly Post : News tags: solidarity palestine israel apartheid protest How societal collapse begins with a broken heart | The Dark Mountain Project tags: civilization collapse self society religion Political inhumanity. « 365 days of Summer. A eulogy on the true meaning of solidarity. tags: human rights islamists morality resistance solidarity Egypt's extremist Islamists flex their muscles - Boston.com tags: propaganda Egypt islamists fear mongering Media Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• Zionist history: A short quiz - Opinion - Al Jazeera English tags: Zionism israel human rights history CSF conscripts on mutiny « 3arabawy Those new waves of conscripts are not just the sons of poor peasants and workers, who have no love for their officers, but also we are going through a revolution in case you forgot. tags: SCAF MOI army Egypt protest Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• altmuslimah.com - Women in the Middle East: Does radical feminism advance Arab women’s rights? tags: feminism arab middle east Women human rights Hosni Mubarak's unhappy birthday | FP Passport tags: Egypt Cairo protest SCAF democracy army Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• Origins of Abbasseya fighting unclear | Egypt Independent tags: political violence Egypt abbasiya SCAF MOD soldiers democracy protest Lines blurred at the Abbasseya front | Egypt Independent tags: egypt abbasiya Cairo protest SCAF Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• ~I Write Here For You ~: What's really going on in Abbaseya? tags: Cairo abbasiya jan25 revolution Islam islamists Media protest profiling Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• You call me an Islamophobe, but you’re Islamophiles! | the arabophile tags: SCAF jan25 tahrir protest Islam MB democracy liberals religion Egypt Why Is Tarek Mehanna Held to a Different Standard than the Hutaree Militia? | emptywheel tags: terrorism US foreign policy racism profiling neocolonialism imperialism intelligence rule of law Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• It will be wonderful... when women can walk freely - Opinion - Al Jazeera English tags: Women Egypt tahrir revolution pluralist art Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• The return of Tahrir? - Opinion - Al Jazeera English tags: Egypt jan25 tahrir MB SCAF How Not to Study Gender in the Middle East tags: middle east gender feminism study Women Islam Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• In her sloppy indictment of Arabs, Muslims, authoritarian rulers, and Islamists, El Tahawy has papered over some messy issues that complicate her underlying message: liberalism is the solution. Why is female genital mutilation practiced widely in Egypt? Because men hate women. Why can't women drive in Saudi Arabia? Because men hate women. Why are men and women against raising the age of consent in Yemen? Because men hate women. Hatred is a one size fits all answer. The use of hatred in this way is important. Hatred is irrational. It is a state or emotion. As Wendy Brown reminds us, such emotional or affective states are understood to be outside of, or unwelcome in, liberalism. via Let's Talk About Sex.
• Dear Mona Eltahawy: You do not represent “Us” | الشرقية في الغرب tags: Women Islam feminism protest Middle East arab Media representation Can Israel survive? - Opinion - Al Jazeera English tags: israel Palestine Zionism US foreign policy Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• Rebellion: Smashing stereotypes of Arab women - Opinion - Al Jazeera English tags: Women arab feminism revolution stereotyping Media View from the street « Shabab Libya tags: libya street NGO intervention UN rebuilding Let's Report on Shaima AlAwadi Without Saying Honor Killing or Hate Crime | BlogHer tags: violence Women hate crime muslims immigrants Media discussion vocabulary Ashley Judd Slaps Media in the Face for Speculation Over Her ‘Puffy’ Appearance - The Daily Beast tags: Women feminism gender body image patriarchy Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• Günter Grass, Israel and the crime of poetry - Opinion - Al Jazeera English. Given the history that culminated in the Jewish Holocaust, Jews around the globe, including Israel, have every right to get agitated with a prominent German public intellectual lecturing them about violence. But Zionism is chiefly responsible for having wasted the moral authority of the Jewish Holocaust - through what Norman Finkelstein has aptly called "the Holocaust Industry" - on establishing a racist apartheid state called "Israel" - a colonial settlement as a haven for the victims of a whole history of European anti-Semitism, on the broken back of a people who had nothing to do with that travesty.    
• IDF Colonel-rabbi implies: Rape is permitted in war tags: Israel women IDF human rights war Palestine morality Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• Liberals walk out of Egypt assembly selection - Middle East - Al Jazeera English tags: Egypt parliament MB Islam constitution society revolution liberals Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• Sexual harassment in Egypt after the revolution - Opinion - Ahram Online tags: Egypt egyptian women human rights constitution jan25 revolution harassment The myth of freedom in the land of the free - Opinion - Al Jazeera English Something like scales fell from their eyes, and when they arose anew, they had been baptised by the fire of political violence. tags: Occupy class political violence US Egypt’s Election Victors Seek Shift by Hamas to Press Israel - NYTimes.com tags: Egypt Palestine Hamas MB UN Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• If we are going to interfere in the lives of others, a little due diligence is a minimum requirement. via The White Savior Industrial Complex - Teju Cole - International - The Atlantic. The most well-thought out and comprehensive analysis I have read of this predicament of the white person who wants to change the world, and doesn't see that starting at home is the only way to do that that is not patronizing to that world... a subject that consumes my mind day and night. Thank you Teju Cole.
• 2 Lives:2 Miles Apart // Water - YouTube.
• Wajahat Ali: HuffJummah: The People of America: A Religious Sermon.
• Foreclosing on the commons - Opinion - Al Jazeera English For each of the United States' more than 635,000 homeless people, 28 residences are empty and ready to house them right now. tags: commons privatization Occupy foreclosure homeless bailout Preparing Israel for war - Opinion - Al Jazeera English tags: israel war Iran gaza crackdown apartheid no one will clean Gaza for us to liquidate all those responsible The time has come to make Gaza's passive residents suffer like [Israel's southern] residents demolish Gaza another objective was to show the Israeli public that Iran, by means of a proxy, had already begun attacking Israel. prevented casualties on the Israeli side and enabled Israel to come out of this cycle - I would say - with a sense of satisfactio Escalation in Gaza is good for Israel, meaning for those who support attacking Iran". "what looks like a preparation for war, acts like a preparation for war, and quacks like a preparation for war, is a preparation for war, and not just a 'bluff' or a diversion tactic". Resource Library: Democracy Promotion | Visit the Library | Online Activism Institute Needs deletions and additions, need to differentiate between links to websites and links to specific manuals or materials. Should be careful that the choices are balanced. Create Your Activism Plan | Our Courses | Online Activism Institute Great course, a lot of info, need to update for 2012. Assess Your Political Environment | Our Courses | Online Activism Institute Course needs updating for 2012, naive, links need updating Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• Mahgoub Omar, anti-Israel leftist, dies | Egypt Independent In his work, Omar was careful to distinguish between Zionism and Judaism, often writing that the Arab world could coexist peacefully with Jews, but not with a self-proclaimed Jewish state that has its origins in European colonialism. tags: Palestine Fatah PLO freedom fighter anti-colonialism Zionism Abbas Arafat leftist In his work, Omar was careful to distinguish between Zionism and Judaism, often writing that the Arab world could coexist peacefully with Jews, but not with a self-proclaimed Jewish state that has its origins in European colonialism. He was one of the writers of Arafat’s famous speech to the United Nations in 1974. The speech ended with the statement, “Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter’s gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat: do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.” Robert Fisk: Madness is not the reason for this massacre - Robert Fisk - Commentators - The Independent tags: reason Media US foreign policy Afghanistan occupation muslims massacre soldiers Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• This mild report by the NYTimes of what happened at a anniversary march by Occupy Wall Street last night sounds like it could be describing exactly what happened in Tahrir Square at the beginning of the Egyptian Revolution... Yes, it is the evidence of a police state on the rise, yes, everyone should be appalled whether you agree with the politics and tactics of Occupy or not! Our freedom can not be trampled on like this when we hold it in front of our troops like a banner as we invade and bomb other countries and sacrifice our young soldiers! Scores Arrested as the Police Clear Zuccotti Park - NYTimes.com.
• What made her go there? Samira Ibrahim and Egypt's virginity test trial - Opinion - Al Jazeera English tags: Egypt women human rights virginity tests SCAF society patriarchy Women at the heart of struggle | The Electronic Intifada tags: women Middle East orientalism Media stereotyping resistance An Emerging Memorial Space? In Praise of Mohammed Mahmud Street tags: street art Mohamed Mahmoud Egypt Cairo SCAF Hillary Clinton, Gaza and the right of civilians to self-defense | The Electronic Intifada tags: gaza UN US foreign policy self-defense Palestine Egypt clears 'virginity test' military doctor - Middle East - Al Jazeera English tags: egypt SCAF women human rights army tahrir Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
• Women at the heart of struggle | The Electronic Intifada.
• An Emerging Memorial Space? In Praise of Mohammed Mahmud Street.
• "And we reject any equivalence between premeditated murders by a government’s military machine and the actions of civilians under siege driven to self-defense" - Hillary Clinton But this of course doesn't apply to Palestine... only to hand-picked "chosen" states?  \\  Read it yourself via Hillary Clinton, Gaza and the right of civilians to self-defense | The Electronic Intifada.
• Sonny Singh: We Are All Muslims: A Sikh Response to Islamophobia in the NYPD and Beyond.