E.merging :::Voices on the New Diasporas::: Home is Elsewhere by Farah Ghniem
"Yet the more places I live in, the more I realize that what makes a home is something very elusive and difficult to define. Home is not in the curtains or the carpets. For home is not a fixed geography. Rather, it is a combination of sensory stimuli that inspire a vision of what we perceive as home. Sometimes it is the fragrance of a person, or the way that person makes us feel. Sometimes it is the taste of a certain dish, or the temperature on a given day. In fact, I now realize that home is not necessarily one place, or even a place at all. "
Boricua Poetry - Ode to the DiaspoRican
"What does it mean to live in between
What does it take to realize
that being Boricua
is a state of mind
a state of heart
a state of soul…
¡Mira!
No nací en Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico nacío en mi."AFP: US to deploy drones to shore up border with Mexico
The US can't seem to get enough of killing brown people, first on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, and now on the US-Mexico border.
Middle East Report Online: The Green Movement Awaits an Invisible Hand by Mohammad Maljoo
"Undeterred, Khamenei has dubbed the year 1389 “the year of doubling ambition and doubling work,” telling Iranians that, having moderated how much they consume, they must now outdo themselves in how much they produce. On the eve of May Day 2010, however, a group calling itself the Iranian Celebration Council of International Workers’ Day posted an online statement heralding a work force “pregnant with strikes” soon to be born. The Celebration Council was not widely known before this statement, but its words spread like wildfire through the network of websites sympathetic to the Green Movement. Is it possible that the Supreme Leader has badly misnamed the annum for the second time in a row? Could the current year of the Persian calendar turn out not to double work but to halve it, as Iranian workers walk off the job in support of the last year’s political ferment?"
Integrating Palestine into the Progressive Left | Al-Shabaka
"I suppose criticizing a targeted and minority community like the Arab-American one is a bit controversial but this is precisely emblematic of our condition. While we bemoan the lack of support for the Palestinian struggle for justice, we do too little to treat the racism in which our own communities engage, whether wittingly or not. If we want to achieve and benefit from genuine solidarity, then not only must we speak about Palestine to everyone, everywhere, as Edward Said advocated, but we must also speak to our own Arab and Palestinian communities about everyone else."
McChrystal’s Fate in Limbo as He Prepares to Meet Obama - NYTimes.com
The now infamous NYT article on the infighting between Obama and his commander in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal (the latter of whom has been fired and replaced by David Petraeus).
Hundreds in Oakland protest Gaza blockade - SFGate
Great act of solidarity in Oakland prevents an Israeli ship from unloading its cargo!
Swedish dockworkers boycott Israel - Europe - Al Jazeera English
"Bjoern Borg, the union's chairman, said they were calling for an international investigation into the May 31 raid and added Israel's recent easing of its Gaza blockade was insufficient.\n\n"We don't think it is far-reaching enough," he said. "We want them to lift the blockade"."
"ANN WRIGHT: Well, the military component of US involvement in Afghanistan is-it's just overwhelming. The State Department side, the diplomatic side, is minor, honestly, compared to what the military involvement is. As much as the State Department has tried to gear up for provincial reconstruction teams, it's still a very small element of it all. And if you look at really who the senior leadership of US policy in Afghanistan, even the US ambassador is a military person, a three-star general, retired, Karl Eikenberry. And, of course, there's the rivalry, really, between two military officers, one who now has the hat of a diplomat or the pinstripes of a diplomat, but essentially it's two military officers there in charge of US policies on the ground in Afghanistan."
Josh Mull: Fresh Talking Point: Poor Afghanistan, They're Rich!
On the Pentagon's latest propaganda war re: Afghanistan ("discovering" minerals - for exploitation, obviously.)
Exposure of European racism in soccer.
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