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Urgent: DACA

mercredi 6 septembre 2017 à 02:00

US citizens: sign to ask Congress to defend DACA.

Antifascist activism

mercredi 6 septembre 2017 à 02:00

When you think of "Antifa", don't let black bloc hooligans swipe that name. And don't support violence against people who are not attacking people, whatever their views may be.

Consider, for instance, the cheerfully nonviolent antifascist activism of Rosa Antifa Wien.

Altering skin color

mardi 5 septembre 2017 à 02:00

The worldwide obsession with light skin color, considered to be beautiful, may have started because the nobles and the rich could afford to stay out of the sun. This developed into a form of racism when light-skinned Europeans started conquering peoples with darker skin.

Now millions of women spend absurd sums on skin-whitening treatments which in some cases are toxic.

Around the same time, ironically, rich Europeans and Americans started to get suntans from leisure and tourism, which launched the equally perverse idea that a suntan was beautiful. Now millions of whites expose themselves to skin cancer while making their skin into leather, in pursuit of a suntan.

North Korea sanctions

mardi 5 septembre 2017 à 02:00

Sanctions by China could crush North Korea's economy, but it has good reasons not to do that.

However, applying any of these sanctions only partially would be a real alternative. It would pressure North Korea almost as much, without causing a collapse.

Tunisian marriage and inheritance laws

mardi 5 septembre 2017 à 02:00

Tunisia is planning to remove the gender bias from its marriage and inheritance laws.