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Why isn't it hate speech if it's about women?
Reblogged from Emily L. Hauser – In My Head: I am famously Not On Facebook (well, “famously” among you folks, anyway), but not being on Facebook doesn’t mean that I’m entirely unaware of the phenomenon. And it strikes me that, much like Twitter, there are probably nearly as many “Facebooks” as there are users, all […]
Police tap social media in wake of London attack – Strategy – Business – News – iTnews.com.au
“There’s a lot of work we’re doing to analyse the language and how people are talking on Twitter,” Ertogral said. The department, which has been mobilised around other major events such as the G20 conference, London student riots and London Olympics, is using Radian 6 and RepKnight software to explore trends, sentiment and association of […]
INTERNATIONAL – Muslim religious leaders deliver emotional prayer at Auschwitz for Holocaust dead
The emotional visit was part of a Holocaust awareness and anti-genocide programme organised in part by the US State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom. Of the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II, a million were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau, mostly in its notorious gas chambers, along with tens of thousands […]
Tornadoes Have Devastated American Indian Families in Oklahoma NEED HELP
The Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference (OIMC) Disaster Relief Team – whose mission is to provide direct support, care, and assistance to American Indian victims of disasters – is serving as a focal point to coordinate Native relief efforts. Rev. David Wilson (Choctaw), dwilson@oimc.org, head of the OIMC Disaster Relief Team, has provided telephone numbers for […]
Sign reclaiming traditional name Pkols for Mount Douglas will stay for now – National – Times Colonist
Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard said Thursday that First Nations did not ask permission to erect the sign and no one has yet worked out the process for either changing the name or dealing with the sign. “It’s too soon to know what we’re going to do with it,” he said. “Our staff did ask them […]
Idle No More & Defenders of the Land “Sovereignty Summer” Call To Action
Reblogged from Earth First! Newswire: From Solidarity Spring To Sovereignty Summer: An International Callout To All Indigenous Peoples, Supporters, Allies Of Idle No More & Defenders Of The Land by Idle No More Over the past few months, Idle No More has ignited a spiritual fire in the hearts of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples to […]
Sarnia Pro-Tar Sands Conference Disrupted
Reblogged from Earth First! Newswire: Cross Posted From Toronto Media Co-Op The impacts of industrial development in the area now known as Chemical Valley are deep. The relationship between the 63 petrochemical industries and the occupied lands they are on is not a coincidence. The devastating affects corporations like Imperial Oil, Enbridge and Polysar have […]
video archive: Priests bless Golden Dawn's offices in Corinth
Reblogged from : Orthodox priests bless the new offices of Golden Dawn in the Greek city of Corinth. Present were four Golden Dawn MPs (Stathis Boukouras, Ilias Panagiotaros, Ilias Kasidaris and Michalis Arvanitis) and a few hundred party members, supporters and bystanders. The blessing took place on Ochi Day (October 28th), when Greeks remember the […]
European banks and pension funds fuel land grabbing in Uganda
Reblogged from Climate Connections: May 21, 2013. Source: Friends of the Earth International European banks and pension funds are funding palm oil giant Wilmar International, a company implicated in land grabbing in Uganda, according to new research released today (May 21). British, Dutch, French and German banks give over one billion euros of financial assistance […]
Tornado insured losses estimated at $2 billion-$5 billion
Reblogged from Newsdesk International's Blog: About 76 tornadoes struck across 10 states over a three-day period, said Eqecat, whose models are used by the insurance industry to forecast losses. The worst of it was in Moore, where the firm said about 13,000 structures were damaged. John Doak, Oklahoma’s insurance commissioner said earlier this week he […]
