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The 405
March 17, 2018
The thundering drums of Dylan Teggart and Angela Phillips' syrupy bass make you want to pound your chest, while the screeching guitars of Rebecca Satellite give 'Cold Shoulder' its deliciously sharp edges. But ultimately it is the song's message -- one of one resentment toward the oppressive nature ofÃÂ ...
Montana Kaimin
March 16, 2018
On Wednesday, visitors have a final chance to experience the University of Montana's Tunnel of Oppression, a multi-room exhibit that aims to shine a light on the oppression that many groups experience everyday. The exhibit simulates situations of oppression to people who may not have experienced themÃÂ ...
OUPblog (blog)
March 15, 2018
Furthermore, music therapists must demonstrate knowledge of and skill in working with culturally diverse populations. Thus, whether intentionally acknowledged or not, dynamic systems of privilege and oppression play a role in the therapeutic process and client-therapist relationship. Because these facetsÃÂ ...
The Local Switzerland
March 14, 2018
Tibetans in Switzerland say Chinese spies have been photographing rallies organized by their community. They argue this is part of an ongoing crackdown by Beijing since Bern and China signed a free-trade agreement in 2013. Last Saturday, Tibetans in Switzerland, a group estimated to number someÃÂ ...
BCLocalNews
March 10, 2018
Summer Jobs attestation 'pure oppression'. They are discriminatory, but they are being told that if they do not agree they cannot get funding. Mar. 9, 2018 12:00 ... That is pure oppression. They are not “ridiculous” because they have a conviction that life begins at conception. They simply want the right toÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy Journal (blog)
March 9, 2018
This is why Ahed's slapping of the Israeli soldier resonated throughout Palestine, and among Palestinians across the world. It was a symbol of defiance that, despite the twofold oppression, Palestine's youth still have the power to articulate an identity, one that is, perhaps, captive but nonetheless resilient.
Church Times
March 9, 2018
WHEN I was growing up in South Africa, the conversations that I heard and participated in, both in and outside the Church, surrounding “mission” or “missionaries” generally took a harsh tone. Many people associated these words with white people from European countries, who came to Africa to tell them toÃÂ ...
Figthback Canada (blog)
March 8, 2018
All over the world the oppression of women is on the agenda. Today, International Women's Day, a strike has been called in several countries and demonstrations, marches and meetings are taking place in many more. In the last few years we have seen huge movements for women's rights, such as whenÃÂ ...
EFF
March 7, 2018
People in marginalized communities who are targets of persecution and violence—from the Rohingya in Burma to Native Americans in North Dakota—are using social media to tell their stories, but finding that their voices are being silenced online. This is the tragic and unjust consequence of contentÃÂ ...
IndieWire
March 6, 2018
And in trying to be progressive, he sometimes stumbles and reverts back to accepted societal behaviors that nevertheless continue to oppress and marginalize others. It's a problem that still exists today among people who want to be allies, but lack the knowledge of just how big and ongoing the obstaclesÃÂ ...
Himal Southasian
March 6, 2018
As dawn breaks over the horizon, Colombo rises from its slumber to the rude sound of traffic. Devika wakes up from another night spent in front of a shop in Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, a busy suburban area in the capital Colombo. Her day's work starts at 6 am at the outer boundary of a public school in theÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
February 28, 2018
UN human rights chief: 'Oppression is fashionable again'. On the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of ... Representatives from around the world have been addressing the abuse and oppression suffered by millions around the world. Al Jazeera's David Chater has more from the final day of talks.
The Boston Globe
December 31, 1999
Bessie Award-winning artist Okwui Okpokwasili is the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. With “Poor People's TV Room,” created with designer/director Peter Born and presented over the weekend by ICA/Boston, she mines Nigeria's sad history of gender oppression. The work proves to be an intense, messy,ÃÂ ...
Press Herald
December 31, 1999
But for many in a post-revolution generation that is more educated and tech-savvy, such restrictions are discriminatory and oppressive. “The compulsory veiling of women in public – be they religious or not – has been a hallmark of Iranian political and social life since 1979,” said Behnam Ben Taleblu,ÃÂ ...
People's World
December 31, 1999
The realities of oppression following slavery's end are clear, among them: exploitation of black farmers, convict leasing, lynching, Jim Crow, denial of political rights, and genocidal massacres. Southern elites did profit from the labor of black farmers and of rented-out convicts, as they did with slavery. But, soÃÂ ...
High Country News
December 31, 1999
Last weekend, I drove to the recreation center and found a “handicapped” parking spot. I hung my blue tag on the mirror, got out and walked a short distance over a smooth sidewalk to the front of the building. There, I pushed the big button at wheelchair height that automatically opens the doors and went in.
Digital Trends
December 31, 1999
Noble's Algorithms of Oppression makes the argument that many of the algorithms driving today's digital revolution (she focuses particularly on those created by Google) are helping to marginalize minorities through the way that they structure and encode the world around us. They are, quite literally, a partÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
February 19, 2018
Sixty refugees have arrived in Turkey after fleeing Afrin, northwestern Syrian due to the oppression of the PYD/PKK terrorist group. Eight families who decided to seek refuge in Turkey reached Reyhanli in Turkey's Hatay's district after a long journey on foot from the Syrian town of Jindires. "We sufferedÃÂ ...
STLtoday.com
February 19, 2018
To “drop the concept of race” is to drop the concept of generations of slavery and oppression imposed on people merely for the color of their skin. To “drop the concept of race” is to ignore countless obstacles that still limit people of color today due to centuries of systemic racism. To “drop the concept” of raceÃÂ ...
Kdminer
February 17, 2018
I am sorry to say there has been a constant oppression and discrimination against my extended family and about our numbers now living in Arizona, especially in Mohave County. We feel as if we have historically been used, abused and discarded like yesterday's trash that was kicked to the curb. NobodyÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
February 17, 2018
Movie critics have praised the film, but cultural critics argue Marvel Studios, and its parent company Disney, may be exploiting black political and cultural movements for their own financial gain. by Shihab Rattansi. 20 hours ago. Play Video. Play. Mute. Current Time 0:00. /. Duration Time 0:00. Loaded: 0%. 0:00. Progress: 0ÃÂ ...
Nyasa Times
February 13, 2018
New opposition party Democratic People's Congress (DEPECO) president Dr Chris Daza has warned that “corruption is the new oppression in Malawi” and accused the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP0 government of being similar to the dictatorship, saying his party is ready to rescue Malawians fromÃÂ ...
Asia Times
February 13, 2018
Frustrated by decades of persecution by the state, Pakistan's minority Pashtuns have taken to the streets in a protest movement sparked by the police shooting of Naqeebullah Mehsud in a staged gun battle. The 27-year-old, who was from the northwest Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), whichÃÂ ...
PJ Media
February 12, 2018
I've been looking at the insanity of the Democrats and self-styled progressives (there is so much of it on display) from the signs in front yards proclaiming they believe in science – as though science necessitated belief – to the signs in expensive neighborhoods proclaiming that they welcome illegals as theirÃÂ ...
Binghamton University Pipe Dream
February 12, 2018
Shanel Boyce is starting a conversation about the power and mechanics behind oppression in the United States. For Boyce, the community organizer for the Souther Tier chapter of Citizen Action of New York and a second-year graduate student studying social work, a crowd of students, parents, residents,ÃÂ ...
digitalBURG.com
February 6, 2018
Three new rooms were added to the Tunnel of Oppression this year, expanding visitors' educational experiences. The Tunnel of Oppression, hosted by The Spotlight, began Monday and runs through 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Elliott Student Union. Mental illness, LGBTQ+ rights, and domestic violence are theÃÂ ...
The Nation.
February 2, 2018
During this period, nuclear weapons had also arguably become more visible as a symbol of oppression and inequality in international relations. Rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union, which had resulted in conflict as well as economic and political inequality around the globe, had ended—butÃÂ ...
SIU News
January 30, 2018
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Experience is the best teacher, a Latin proverb claims, and Southern Illinois University is hosting an event which will give participants the chance to experience for themselves what discrimination and oppression really feel like. Free and open to the general public, the Tunnel ofÃÂ ...
Jacobin magazine
January 27, 2018
Many of those who made the first revolution practiced the most extreme form of economic exploitation and social oppression: they were slaveowners. The second American revolution, the Civil War, was an attempt to preserve slavery. It was partially successful. The institution was abolished, but the mind ofÃÂ ...
Belfast Telegraph
January 27, 2018
... work, recreational, political and, yes, spiritual - will aim to model and maintain an atmosphere in which we are considered to be all equal, all different, all together. Nothing less is surely intrinsic to Christ's message of God's coming kingdom, a new creation free from oppression, coercion and exclusion.
South China Morning Post
January 27, 2018
Despite its setting, a parochial German town (actually in the former Czechoslovakia), Woyzeck (1979), which also features Kinski, covers similar emotional terrain. The difference is that Woyzeck shows Kinski as one of the oppressed, rather than an oppressor – a working-class soldier who is forced intoÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
January 26, 2018
THE GOVERNMENT of Sudan (GoS) is reportedly preparing a fresh offensive against its own Muslim and Christians civilians in Blue Nile State who oppose its extremist Islamist agenda. 300,000 have already fled the country with 38,000 currently displaced within Blue Nile following decades of aerialÃÂ ...
ChristianToday
January 26, 2018
How do we face the reality of oppression? The Christian does not have the right to turn away from the suffering of the oppressed. The Bible emphasises it – high interest rates, corrupt weights and measures, and oppressive estate agents are all mentioned. In fact the Preacher feels it so much that he arguesÃÂ ...
Michigan State University Extension
December 31, 2017
When talking about racism, sexism, classism, ableism, heterosexism and other forms of oppression or “isms,” it may be difficult to see these issues as an interlocking system operating at the personal, interpersonal, institutional and cultural levels. Much of this may stem from the fact that many individuals onlyÃÂ ...
Scientific American (blog)
December 30, 2017
Another problem with the sexual-selection theory of male dominance is that it suggests women have been complicit in their own oppression. We live in a hyper-competitive, male-dominated culture because women prefer the “tough guy” to the “self-effacing” guy. Women are bullied into submission byÃÂ ...
TheBlaze.com
December 29, 2017
Professors claim farmers' markets are 'exclusionary' and contribute to minority oppression Professors say that farmers' markets contribute to the oppression of minorities. (Andreas Rentz/Getty Images). 0 Follow. Sarah Taylor Staff Writer. Political View: Christian Libertarian; Values: Faith, Family; Hero: JohnÃÂ ...
Gatestone Institute
December 29, 2017
Unfortunately, for most of women in the Middle East, veils are not an "exciting development", but an imposition by an obscurantist ideology. After the Islamic State was defeated in Raqqa, Syria, many women took to the streets to take off their veils and were filmed burning them. "The enemies of freedom areÃÂ ...
Inside Higher Ed
December 22, 2017
Rather than address systemic and structural oppression and discrimination, faculty are being asked to take “neutral” stances and just teach our disciplines, leaving politics to social media and in-person conversation. Yet for many scholars, this is our work. Many of us are trained to see and then speak onÃÂ ...
Reason (blog)
December 20, 2017
The club's Facebook page laments the anniversary of Fidel Castro's death, saying, "as internationalists, we must commemorate his fight against oppression in Cuba, and his contributions to anti-imperialism and international struggles against oppression." Fighting oppression around the globe is certainly aÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
December 17, 2017
An opinion piece in the UC Berkeley student newspaper is complaining of gender discrimination and male "toxicity" in the world of video gaming. “Video games, too, should be taken seriously for their influence on society in simultaneously combating and perpetuating structures of oppression,” studentÃÂ ...
News24
December 31, 1999
"Morgan Tsvangirai represented courage and determination in the face of oppression, and gave ordinary Zimbabweans faith to believe in the future, " tweeted British foreign minister Boris Johnson. "He was one of the bravest political leaders of his time and will be sadly missed". David Coltart, a fellowÃÂ ...
SFGate
December 31, 1999
Some people think the history of oppression can be erased. As if to ink through the painful record, destroy the monument to tyranny, you might somehow reset time. Undo the harm. Memory is a powerful weapon, and noxious memory is all the more potent. Destroy the evidence, though, and you blunt theÃÂ ...
digitalBURG.com
December 31, 1999
Three new rooms were added to the Tunnel of Oppression this year, expanding visitors' educational experiences. The Tunnel of Oppression, hosted by The Spotlight, began Monday and runs through 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Elliott Student Union. Mental illness, LGBTQ+ rights, and domestic violence are theÃÂ ...
Salt Lake Tribune
December 31, 1999
(Vincent Thian | The Associated Press) Protesters waves Palestine flags during a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Dec. 8, 2017. Malaysian Muslims, including members of the ruling party, hold protest outside U.S. Embassy over Washington's controversial move toÃÂ ...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
December 31, 1999
He told Pajhwok Afghan News Pakhtuns resident of the tribal belt had been victims of oppression for many years. “Pakhtuns in FATA in general and Waziristan in particular have been devastated by the armed conflict, but their suffering and agonies remained unnoticed.” Khattak claimed Islamabad's failureÃÂ ...
Seattle Times
December 31, 1999
I understand the hesitation to say them publicly, because it's unpleasant to be jeered at on the internet by self-righteous young people. But Roiphe, like the Trump rallygoers, makes a category error in conflating criticism — even harsh, ugly criticism — with oppression. The social-justice left is often accusedÃÂ ...
The Sun
December 31, 1999
BOSSES at the Foreign Office have sparked a row after inviting their workers to wear Islamic headscarves to recognise "liberation, respect and security". Civil servants ran the in-house World Hijab Day event while women in Iran burned theirs in protest at being forced to wear them or face the threat of jail.
San Francisco Chronicle
December 31, 1999
Artists consider monuments to oppression in Kadist exhibition. By Charles Desmarais. February 7, 2018 Updated: February 7, 2018 1:29pm. Milena Bonilla's “Stone Deaf” (2009); the second part of the video. Video still from Sriwhana Spong's “Beach Study” (2012), which presents the. Video still from “Aldona” (2013), whichÃÂ ...
whotv.com
December 31, 1999
DES MOINES, Iowa -- The U.S. just celebrated the service and sacrifice of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Monday was the federal holiday set aside in his honor, and next month is designated Black History Month. Iowa's fourth district Congressman Steve King's recent tweet further ignited tensionsÃÂ ...
CNN
December 31, 1999
Laura Coates is a CNN legal analyst. She is a former assistant US attorney for the District of Columbia and trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. She is the host of the daily "Laura Coates Show" on SiriusXM. Follow her @thelauracoates. The views expressed in thisÃÂ ...
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