A guest blog post on stuff white people do notes the racist ways in which the death penalty is used in the United States; a compelling argument against it even for those who don’t find it inherently wrong. Yaman Salahi reviews The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, touching on the particularities of how pro-Palestinian organizations […]
Yesterday was “Blog for Choice Day 2010” but as I was on a train sans wi-fi for most of the day, I missed it. I did, however, read an incredible post by Sara Gwin of Silence is Betrayal: a Feminist Blog. Gwin presents a history of George Tiller (this year’s theme, in his honor, was […]
Earlier in the week, I tried checking out the TV for news about Haiti, but each time was confronted with pieces that disproportionately focused on white people, Wyclef Jean, and Israel. With regard to Israel in particular, the media seems to be focused on Israel’s highly effective field hospital in Port-au-Prince, which even Jewish papers […]