-
More ways to donate to support Pakistan flood survivors
Sorry I haven't been keeping up with my reading page but hope to do so over the weekend.
In the meantime I wanted to post some more ways in which those who are able to can donate to support relief efforts in Pakistan.
Shirkat Gah, a Pakistani women's rights organisation:
Shirkat Gah - Women’s Resource Centre (SG), Pakistan, is actively engaged in ( Read more... ) -
Pakistan floods
If you're wary of the big aid organisations and looking for a local organisation in Pakistan to donate money, the Enough blog has information about how to contact Hirrak. See this post: support for people impacted by disaster in Pakistan. x-posted from http://teej.dreamwidth.org/ -
Some links to some stuff
Good points made in relation to yesterday's announcement that the police officer who attacked Ian Tomlinson (who died at the G20 protests last year) will not be facing criminal charges:
Madam Miaow: No police charged in Ian Tomlinson demo death
Liberal Conspiracy: A jury should decide the cause of Ian Tomlinson's death
(If you haven't seen it and can ( Read more... ) -
no amnesty then, i guess
so i noticed something that the politicians and the media are suddenly not talking about post-election while before they couldn't stop talking about it: immigration.
predictably the Conservatives/Liberal Democrats coalition agreements have resulted in the LibDems already sacrificing their pre-election commitment for an amnesty for (some) ( Read more... ) -
white feminism part 3,859....
Newsweek takes on feminism on behalf of young white girls everywhere
I haven't read the original Newsweek article and didn't know anything about the ensuing discussion until now, but I found this blog post and discussion between Latoya Peterson and Thea Lim on Racialicious really worth reading. It's a really great dissection of the continuing harm ( Read more... ) -
good point concisely made
Nadine Moawad: On the emergence of feminist organising in the Middle East and North Africa.
(found this blog via Global Fund for Women)
x-posted from http://teej.dreamwidth.org/5019.html -
Women's Liberation Movement @40 conference thoughts
I wanted to write something about the Women's Liberation Movement @ 40 conference I attended in Oxford the weekend before last. These are really just some rough thoughts, but i've been meaning to write this for a week now and i'm forgetting more by the minute! This blogging business is so not my thing.
But anyway, the conference. The "@ 40" is a ( Read more... ) -
"Can we stop for a second ... I'd almost like to start completely from afresh"
Well this made for cringeworthy viewing: David Cameron gaffs in interview with Gay Times
Apparently the Conservative Party are on "a journey" towards accepting that gay people should have rights... or maybe not so much eh?
x-posted from http://teej.dreamwidth.org/4398.html -
On the off-chance...
Hello lj-ers,
Anyone still not got an invite code for dreamwidth and want one? lemme know, i got one.
