Category: Human Rights
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Lockdown protesters need to sit down – at home or in jail.
“Freedom!”, you cry. “Vrijheid!” Your right to personal freedom and movement shouldn’t trump everyone’s right to stay healthy and to not have to be in quarantine. I guess it’s escaped some people’s minds that when someone has to go into quarantine, that person has to give up their personal freedom and movement. If you get…
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Some Personal Thoughts on Human Rights and Space Travel
I’ve been reading astronomy all weekend. I’ve kind of missed it since I first took astronomy in university (and with all the changes in spaceflight going on – space tourism, woohoo! – I think I’d better brush up). Somehow I got an A in astronomy (no, not just staring at stars all year long) and…
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Occupy, 99 Percent, and Response to the 1 Percent
Saw this the other night – “We are the 1 percent: we stand with the 99 percent”. Huh. Nice sentiment, but how many on there would give up what they have and live with less than they have? It’s not that all 99 ‘percenters’ want fancy cars and super-sized homes for two to four that…
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SlutWalk and Its Critics (Media Is Important, but Don’t Let It Play You)
Okay, I’ve seen and read enough criticism of SlutWalk. I agree with other defenders of SlutWalk that a lot of the criticism seems to focus on either the word ‘Slut’ or that SlutWalk isn’t ‘feminist’ enough. Now flying about is a very invalid criticism that SlutWalk is “A Stroll Through White Supremacy”. From my perspective,…
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SlutWalk Loses One Feminist while Rabble.ca Loses a Reader
I’ve been following Rabble.ca’s newsfeed for almost a year now in my Google reader. I stumbled across that news site last summer when I was looking at some human rights issues. Aside from the G20 articles last summer and the random human rights articles, I haven’t found many articles on Rabble to be of any…
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How SlutWalk Can Help Future Interpersonal Relationships
From “SlutWalk Revisited”: It is a fact of my life, as a 25-year-old female who dresses like it (meaning: I perform my gender traditionally, with the odd twist), that I cannot go outside in fine weather without having my appearance, or attire, commented on by males. You might not believe me if I told you…
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SlutWalk Starts in Toronto and Keeps Running
It isn’t just the one-off comment (“women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized”) by one police constable that’s the issue, rather it’s the fact that society needs a big wake-up call. SlutWalk Toronto‘s issue wasn’t just with the police force, it’s with the fact that even in 2011, there are…
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Photos and Videos from the G20 Inquiry Rally on July 17, 2010
Here are some photos I took at the G20 Inquiry Rally on July 17. Just click on the slideshow to begin. If you don’t like slideshows, go to the main page for “G20 Inquiry Rally – July 17, 2010”. http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649 I also shot a few videos. First, bubbles! There was a bubble rally in response…
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Canadian Government Should Request Repatriation for Omar Khadr NOW!
I read about the Omar Khadr case a while back. Recently, he decided to fire his lawyers. Why? Read “Omar Khadr: In his own words”. Clearly, this seems to him to be the only thing he can do to protest the “kangaroo court” in which he is being tried. Amnesty International Canada has been trying…
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Amnesty International: Good News articles
Some good news from Amnesty International: An “Indonesian Prisoner of Conscience Jailed for Raising Flag is Released”. He received a presidential pardon last month. “Egypt Releases Bedouin Rights Activist”. Musaad Abu Fagr was detained for almost three years without trial. “Argentina Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage” making it the first Latin American country to do so. ~~~C
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