Five ways sexual assault is really about entitlment

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/24/5_ways_sexual_assault_is_really_about_entitlement/

White guy photography

White guy photography

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For our nations to live, capitalism must die

For our nations to live, capitalism must die

Students take up white poppy campaign for peace

Students take up white poppy campaign for peace

Forgive the Sun News source.

Celebrity Russell Brand on the need for revolution

Celebrity Russell Brand on the need for revolution

Actor-slash-comedian-slash-Messiah Russell Brand, in his capacity as guest editor of the New Statesman‘s just-published revolution-themed issue, was invited to explain to Jeremy Paxman why anyone should listen to a man who has never voted in his life.

“I don’t get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people,” Russell responded. “I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity.”

Tempered radicalism

Tempered radicalism

So-called tempered radicals find themselves in the tricky situation of trying to be a part of the dominant culture while at the same time trying to change the system. These are the heroes of Debra Meyerson’s Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work. Our excerpt looks at the power of small wins to create substantial change.

Olympic Athletes: Take a stand against Russia’s brutal anti-gay laws.

Olympic Athletes: Take a stand against Russia’s brutal anti-gay laws.

I’m asking athletes to show LGBT people in Russia that they are not alone, and that the world supports them, by wearing a rainbow pride pin on their uniform at the opening ceremonies.

Elsipogtog everywhere

Elsipogtog everywhere

The kind of stories I learned in Mi’gmagi will never make it into the mainstream media, and most Canadians will never hear them. Instead, Canadians will hear recycled propaganda as the mainstream media blindly goes about repeating the press releases sent to them by the RCMP designed to portray Mi’kmaw protestors as violent and unruly, in order to justify their own colonial violence. The only images most Canadians will see is of the three hunting rifles, a basket full of bullets and the burning police cars, and most will be happy to draw their own conclusions based on the news – that the Mi’kmaq are angry and violent, that they have no land rights, and that they deserved to be beaten, arrested, criminalized, jailed, shamed and erased.

Brown Body, White Wonderland

Brown Body, White Wonderland

Shale gas protesters clash with police in Rexton, N.B.

Shale gas protesters clash with police in Rexton, N.B.