Speak your mind even if your voice shakes
by Debra
This is a powerful and disturbing video, especially when the children are asked to choose between a white doll and a black doll and which one is the good doll.
Color is more than skin deep for young African-American women struggling to define themselves
Kiri Davis is a young filmmaker whose high school documentary has left audiences at film festivals across the country stunned — and has re-ignited a powerful debate over race.
by Debra
(AP) — Microsoft Corp. has landed in the Wikipedia doghouse after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopedia site.
While Wikipedia is known as the encyclopedia that anyone can tweak, founder Jimmy Wales and his cadre of volunteer editors, writers and moderators have blocked public-relations firms, campaign workers and anyone else perceived as having a conflict of interest from posting fluff or slanting entries. So paying for Wikipedia copy is considered a definite no-no.
“We were very disappointed to hear that Microsoft was taking that approach,” Wales said Tuesday.
Microsoft acknowledged it had approached the writer and offered to pay him for the time it would take to correct what the company was sure were inaccuracies in Wikipedia articles on an open-source document standard and a rival format put forward by Microsoft.
by Debra
Today is the 34th anniversary of Roe v Wade.
While this is predominately a celebration for American women, I believe that women worldwide can share in the celebration.
In the words of Virginia Woolf, “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”
The topic this year is a simple one, “why I am pro-choice.”
I am pro – choice because I believe children have a right to know they were wanted. That they weren’t born because of some imagined obligation to church or to god or because some law ruled their mother had to carry them to term.
I am pro – choice because I do not believe that my daughters have less right to decide their futures than my sons.
The simple answer is I am pro choice because I could not be anything else.
I have written to this subject before here, here,and here
to name a few.
I would say to sum up those posts that abortion is a woman’s right. A human right.
A society which would seek to suppress human rights is neither democratic nor just.
And human rights are not up for discussion or debate, they just inherently are.
technorati tags: Blog for Choice
by Debra
Yesterday over on Canada’s Debate I took the “Which science-fiction writer are you?” test.
My result,
John Brunner
His best known works are dystopias — vivid realizations of the futures we want to avoid.
So in keeping with that I present the following possible dystopic futures. [Read more…] about I always thought the future would be a lot more fun
by Debra
I’ve never been much for awards of any type. They seem more like popularity contests than indicative of anything in particular.
Some of the best and most informative posts I’ve read come from very small almost anonymous blogs.
That being said I thought I’d add my two cents to the continuing round of blog awards. [Read more…] about and the winner is…..
by Debra
That is the message that the Washington Post has for it’s readers.
The images are contained in thousands of pages of NCIS investigative documents obtained by The Washington Post. Post editors decided that most of the images are too graphic to publish…
The descriptions of some of the photos do indeed sound brutal. A brutality the people in the pictures had no choice to avoid.
The people of America have a right, indeed they have a duty, to see what transpires in their name. It is all too easy to think of war in the abstract when you do not hear the planes flying overhead. Do not feel the earth shake and the air cloud as your neighbours die. Do not wonder where you will get food and water for you family or if indeed any of you will live to need it.
Photos help to pierce through that cloud of complacency.
For more information read Media refuses to print grisly photos
Contact the Washington Post ombudsman:
Deborah Howell
202-334-7582
ombudsman@washpost.com
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