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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Various Announcements
I’ve been asked to announce the following: Sampsonia Way Magazine, sponsored by the nonprofit City of Asylum/Pittsburgh, is an online magazine dedicated to celebrating literary free expression and supporting persecuted poets and novelists worldwide. If you want to mark June … Continue reading
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The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (50): The Feminine Boy Project
(source) The ex-gay movement is a movement dedicated to “curing” gay people and helping them to escape their sinful non-hetero lives. One of the treatments is conversion therapy. Rather than accepting gay people as they are and give them equal … Continue reading
Human Rights Ads (49): Censorship
(source) More on censorship. More human rights ads.
Posted in freedom, human rights ads
Tagged ad, advert, advertising, censorship, free press, human rights ad
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Human Rights Maps (87): Nuclear Weapons, Ctd.
(source, click image to enlarge) This is an update for an older post. More on nuclear weapons here. More human rights maps here.
Posted in horror, human rights maps, international relations, war
Tagged atom bomb, atomic weapons, map, mapping, nuclear, nuclear weapons
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Why Do We Need Human Rights? (13): Why Do We Need Freedom of Expression?
(source) (You can read this post as part of a more general and older post on the reasons why we need human rights). Here’s a list of some of the traditional rationales for the right to free speech (Eric Barendt … Continue reading
The Causes of Wealth Inequality (7): Education and Demographics
First education. Many people believe that increasing income inequality in countries such as the U.S. should be blamed on immigration: low-skilled workers have to compete against low-wage immigrants with similar skills. However, immigration’s effect on wages is one of the … Continue reading
Posted in causes of income inequality, economics, education, equality, work
Tagged demography, immigration, income inequality, skills, wages
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Slavery, A Collection of Images
More on slavery here (and on modern slavery here). Other collections of human rights images are here. (source) (source) (source, more on human branding) (more on this series) (source, more on the origins and significance of this image) (source) (more … Continue reading
Posted in freedom, human rights images
Tagged commodification, dehumanization, image, modern slavery, slavery
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Human Rights Nonsense (17): The Homeless as Tamagotchi
(source) The homeless charity Depaul UK has launched an iPhone app called iHobo to raise awareness of youth homelessness and reach out to a new younger audience. The app downloads a young homeless person on to your phone and asks … Continue reading
Posted in activism, housing, human rights nonsense, poverty
Tagged app, homelessness, iphone, nonsense, shelter, Tamagotchi
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Political Graffiti (102): Gay Rights and Banksy
(source) More Banksy. More on gay rights. More political graffiti.
Posted in art, discrimination and hate, equality, political graffiti
Tagged banksy, gay rights, homophobia, homosexuality, political graffiti, same-sex marriage
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The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (49): Bring the SWAT, There’s Some Pot
SWAT team breaks into home, fires seven rounds at family’s pit bull and corgi (?!) as a seven-year-old looks on. They found a “small amount” of marijuana, enough for a misdemeanor charge. The parents were then charged with child endangerment. … Continue reading
Posted in law, most absurd human rights violations
Tagged absurd, drugs, fourth amendment, human rights, human rights violations, marijuana, police, swat, unlawful arrest, war on drugs
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