ei: Play shows that for Gaza women, everything is not fine
It is not commonplace for women to take center stage in Gaza, but 36-year-old Abu Seif tackles head on the thorny issue of their discrimination in the well-received play staged in Gaza City.
Texas in Africa: it's all about them
In the 21st century, the West can continue colonizing Africa via international debt, proxy wars, and stupid celebrities who love shedding crocodile tears for the "poor, oppressed African". Don't forget to check out the Mother Jones articles linked in the post.
ei: Sinan Antoon: "I think of myself as a global citizen"
"SA: Well, I try to be aware of the privileges I have. I don't live under dictatorship and thus, in theory, I can say and write whatever I want to, but we know that there are other institutions and powers here that also constrain what can be published. Here it's corporate hegemony. The role of the writer is to write well and to write beautifully, but also to be responsible and write what is relevant to his or her society and the world. I don't think my position has changed that much. I think of myself as a global citizen; wherever I happen to be I will try to be critical and maintain a distance, a critical distance, but to go back to writing well. Mahmoud Darwish, my favorite poet, said that "every beautiful poem is an act of resistance." So it's no use having the right politics, but not satisfying the aesthetic challenge."
Response to right-wing/Zionist attacks over the Berkeley divestment resolution.
Black pupils 'are routinely marked down by teachers' | Education | The Observer
"Black children are being systematically marked down by their teachers who are unconsciously stereotyping them, it has been revealed ... The study concludes that black pupils perform consistently better in external exams than in teacher assessment. The opposite is true for Indian and Chinese children, who tend to be "over-assessed" by teachers. It also finds that white children from very poor neighbourhoods were under-assessed when compared with their better-off peers."
The Life of Nagi Daifullah, an Arab Labor Leader | Arab American Union Members Council
"Twenty-nine years after his death at the hands of a local sheriff, labor organizer and farm worker Nagi Daifullah is being again memorialized by fellow Yemeni and Latino workers. Nagi was a farm worker who came from Yemen looking for a better life and arrived to the inhospitable grape fields in California's central valley where he rose to become a respected labor leader."
The Rules of the Game: A Fuller Thought on J. Hopper and Vampire Weekend - a grammar
Never heard of the band in question, but this is a really well-written critique of middle-class white folks calling other middle-class white folks "bourgeois."
U.S. military opens fire on civilians, killing 12 including two children and two Reuters employees. (Warning: contains very disturbing video). This is daily reality under occupation. The U.S. needs to get the hell out of Iraq and Afghanistan TODAY.
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