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more articles on Haiti
Dr. Evan Lyon, on Democracynow.org: “Earthquake Frees Haitian Prisoners from Port-Au-Prince Jail, 80% Never Charged With A Crime":
“The National Penitentiary held 4,000 prisoners. We know that 60 to 80 percent of them are not convicted of anything. They’re in prolonged pretrial detention. The average pretrial detention is a year. So, between time ( Read more... ) -
School
My eyes are in pain from all this class reading. IN PAIN cos I'm studying for a test on monday. and I JUST FINISHED all the required reading. and I have another test in two weeks w/ 9 more chapters of varying length... I can't imagine having a family to look after/ working AT ALL and doing this at the same time ( Read more... ) -
On crying
Disclaimer: I'm not asking for pity here or trying to control what other people do, I am just exploring my thoughts ( Read more... ) -
tumblrs & musics
Do any of you have tumblrs? I started one but just to keep track of all the tumblrs/posts that I like, it's dirtsky.tumblr.com. It's pretty empty right now. But these are people whose tumblrs I check regularly ( Read more... ) -
me and me and me.
mmnh I think I will fall in love with a guy who would say Have a blessed day. Peace!I love how strong my body is. No, it's not the poster body for strength & there are tonnes of people way stronger than me but- the other day I ran up the hill right outside my house with my dog and with surprise I realized I wasn't winded at all. About a year ago? A ( Read more... ) -
on the disappointment with Spock/Uhura
Well, on ontd_st people posted the most recent news of JJ Abrams & the rest of the writer/production crew talking about what we may expect from the sequel. One of the bits was that the Spock/Uhura relationship will be taken "to the next level," and tho that is really vague, we can take from it that S/U will continue onto the sequel, and tt we will ( Read more... ) -
(ya) booookkkksss!!!! & other recs
Hey lords and ladies. Here's an amazing post from ontd. 15 pages of YA book recs featuring female protagonists. Go ontd! Even though the comm is ripe for/with wank I love that there is also a (small?, persistent) strong presence of feminists on there willing to educate/debate, and we get posts like this that call out the misogyny in a book that ( Read more... )
