UK Riots : On Camera

Here this some pictures of UK Riots. I post it in order to remind us that Riots is only causes many losses, material, life, sense of security, etc. My Deep condolences for all the people in United Kingdom. Hopefully this incident will not ever happen again in the future, in any place in the world

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My Fellow American

A few days ago, I got an email who tell me about My Fellow American. My Fellow American is a film project in the United States devoted to recognizing that Muslims are their neighbors. I Feel so excited, because we are as a human being should respect each other, so we can live peacefully. 


Here this one of the story from the website

We Are Praying for "Those People"?

Shortly after 9/11, I went to our cathedral in Seattle to pray. Our cathedral has always been a place where interfaith dialogue is encouraged and interfaith worship is held from time to time. As I sat there I was struck by the banner hanging behind the pulpit. There, in a Roman Catholic Cathedral, were the symbols of three Abrahamic faiths: the star of David, the cross, and the star and crescent. At the time I was on staff at another Catholic church, and I went back and quickly made a similar banner to put up in our sanctuary. After Mass that Sunday, someone approached me with a question.

She said that she knew what the star of David was and what the cross was, but wanted to know about the “other thing.” I explained to her that this was the symbol of the Islamic faith. Her response was, “You mean we are praying for ‘those people’ too?” I assured her that, yes, in this place we pray for all people and we respect all those who seek to know God. We kept that banner up for many weeks following 9/11. It was a small gesture, but one that I hope made an impact. At the time, I can honestly say that I did not know much about Islam, nor did I know anyone who was a Muslim. Since then, I have taken it upon myself to learn more about this religion that shares many of the same stories and prophets as mine. I now live in Chicago, in one of the most ethnically diverse zip codes in the US. Everyday I see Jewish men with their prayer shawls, Muslim women with their head scarves, Hindu families with bindis on their foreheads, and Catholic children all living, working, and playing together. When I walk down my street, I wonder what some people are so afraid of? My life is richer because of these connections. In the words of Elie Weisel, “No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.”

and this is the video.. check this out 

I found a lot of video related to My Fellow American..




Please visit the website http://myfellowamerican.us/
Let's spread this spirit of tolerance.. ^^ 

World Hunger

The Horn of Africa encompasses Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Kenya. It’s one of the most food insecure regions in the world, characterised by frequent droughts and conflict. Concern about the impact of drought in the region escalated in June, when the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, FEWSNET, reported that this year was among the driest since 1950. source

Over 22,000 children die every day around the world.

That is equivalent to:

• 1 child dying every 4 seconds
• 15 children dying every minute
• A 2010 Haiti earthquake occurring almost every 10 days
• A 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring almost every 10 days
• An Iraq-scale death toll every 18–43 days
• Just under 8.1 million children dying every year
• Some 88 million children dying between 2000 and 2009

The silent killers are poverty, easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes. Despite the scale of this daily/ongoing catastrophe, it rarely manages to achieve, much less sustain, prime-time, headline coverage.

Unfortunately, it seems that the world still does not notice. It might be reasonable to expect that death and tragedy on this scale should be prime time headlines news. Yet, these issues only surface when there are global meetings or concerts (such as the various G8 summits, the Make Poverty History campaign in 2005, etc).

Images © UNICEF

Furthermore, year after year, we witness that when those campaigns end and the meetings conclude, so does the mainstream media coverage.

It feels as though even when there is some media attention, the ones who suffer are not the ones that compel the mainstream to report, but instead it is the movement of the celebrities and leaders of the wealthy countries that makes this issue newsworthy.

Even rarer in the mainstream media is any thought that wealthy countries may be part of the problem too. The effects of international policies, the current form of globalization, and the influence the wealthy countries have on these processes is rarely looked at.

Instead, promises and pledges from the wealthy, powerful countries, and the corruption of the poorer ones—who receive apparently abundant goodwill—make the headlines; the repeated broken promises, the low quality and quantity of aid, and conditions with unfair strings attached do not.

Accountability of the recipient countries is often mentioned when these issues touch the mainstream. Accountability of the roles that international institutions such as the World Bank and IMF, and their funders (the wealthy/powerful countries), rarely does. The risk is that citizens of these countries get a false sense of hope creating the misleading impression that appropriate action is taken in their names.

It may be harsh to say the mainstream media is one of the many causes of poverty, as such, but the point here is that their influence is enormous. Silence, as well as noise, can both have an effect.

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FAT is a RACE/CLASS ISSUE

by
Dr. Lili Pintea-Reed, PhD.

 

It is very possible that the type of self hatred women have had used against them for many years around body image is now being used to mask racist and class hated particularly in professional settings.

 

Some time ago there was a wonderful book written by  Susan Orbach  called   FAT IS A FEMINIST ISSUE . This was one of many feminist tracts to outline how most adult women's natural body contours are used by the dominant culture to make her feel bad about herself. Woman are made to feel inadequate about something natural ---their curvy shape --- in order to control and manipulate their behavior. On the surface, this is often seen as merely the ploy of "evil advertisers" to sell more and more "beauty" products by making women feel bad about their natural appearance. But I think it has deeper ramifications.

 

Women who come to hate the very sight of themselves can become prey to various depression based mental health problems. Depressed women are ineffective women. Depressed women are too tired, or too sad to fight back. Depressed women don't only spend tons of money to try to look like androgynous pre-adolescent children, but they are easily manipulated in other ways as they simply lack the mental energy to contend with much above the daily grind. They don't speak up. They aren't political. They don't demand equal work for equal pay. They are targets of abuse and violence.

 

Most rapes occur on female children aged 14  years or younger. Most rape is actually pedophilia (Greenfield, 1997; Craven, 1996; Ringel, 1996)

 

And our culture feeds this abuse and violence against very young women by agreeing that pre-adolescent female appearance is an acceptable focus of carnal attention -- or in a word lust. Instead of people being outraged that young girls are lust objects --women are told, and buy into the notion, that they should all try to look like they are 13 years old -- instead of grown women. This has becoome so pervasive a notion that eating disorders are a growing national problem. Perfectly healthy grown women diet themselves down to the point where like ballet dancers and gymnasts, they stop having menstrual periods as their fat/muscle ratio has gotten so low.