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Mail & Guardian
March 24, 2018
Indeed, our liberators have become our oppressors. However ... But then I'm reminded of those who have been so mentally yoked by the oppressor that they can't even whimper in protest. They, too ... We don't want war because it only works for the oppressor to push us further into bondage and regression.
Radio New Zealand
March 22, 2018
He said Indonesia is not Melanesian and in fact is the oppressor of Melanesian peoples under its jurisdictions in West Papua. Mosese Bulitavu said his party leader Major General Sitiveni Rabuka was one of the founding leaders of the MSG and SODELPA is committed to the founding ideals and principlesÃÂ ...
Salt Lake Tribune
March 22, 2018
Written and directed by Andrew Hyatt, “Paul, Apostle of Christ” is no exception. A portrait of the titular Christian convert and leader of the early church as he faces imprisonment and martyrdom at the hands of Roman oppressors, this absorbing drama benefits from lush production values (it was filmed inÃÂ ...
tntribune.com
March 22, 2018
The oppressor realizes the power of the vote is the greatest of equalizers. Please make sure you are registered to vote. Everyone in your household 18 and older should be registered. Everyone on your street, your block and in your community should value their ability to have their voices to be heard. NextÃÂ ...
University at Buffalo Reporter
March 21, 2018
The Office of Inclusive Excellence will host a panel discussion on March 27 that will explore the success of the movie “Black Panther” to inform the question of whether “art…, in the words of Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer, “…is on the side of the oppressed” or the oppressor. The event, which will takeÃÂ ...
Irish Times
March 9, 2018
This is a tragedy. And the bigger tragedy is that the feminist movement is rejoicing at the verdict. Instead of being a movement of social justice, supporting the radical equality of all human beings, feminism has become an oppressor, rejoicing in the fact that the smaller, weaker human has virtually no rights inÃÂ ...
Haaretz
March 7, 2018
LGBTQ life in Gaza is arduous and dangerous. I would know: I grew up there. But only blaming Palestine's conservatism and Hamas, whitewashing Israel's siege and military assaults, is dishonest and exploitative. Dorgham Abusalim. Mar 07, 2018 3:40 PM. 0comments Print Zen Subscribe now ÷ Shareshare on facebookà...
XboxAchievements
March 6, 2018
There's also a free Tartan livery for the Pegassi Oppressor (below) rewarded just for logging in prior to 12th March, if that sounds like something you'd quite like. There's 35% off the Annis RE-7B (Super), 30% off the Dewbauchee Vagner (Super), Emperor ETR1 (Super) and 25% off the Benefactor StreiterÃÂ ...
The Nation Newspaper
March 3, 2018
There is no hiding place for oppressors of the nation because God will destroy them all, General Overseer of The Saint's Gospel Church of Christ (also known as Hand of Fire Ministries), Pastor Jacob Shodeinde, has declared. Renewing hope in Nigerians with the message that judgment of God wasÃÂ ...
Bulletin
February 9, 2018
By not speaking out against said system you have taken the side of the oppressor. Make every fight a personal one and in a time where it is so easy to not care about things, care. Higgins compels us to care, regardless if we are the group being affected, because all oppression is equal, and if it's easy forÃÂ ...
Myjoyonline.com
February 9, 2018
The opposition in Parliament have identified with the words of the national anthem to protest disrespectful treatment by an overwhelming Majority. While the House rose to sing the national anthem, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MPs got stuck at the stanza that said: "And help us to resistÃÂ ...
The Hechinger Report
February 7, 2018
... to be an oppressor. Teachers, ask yourself, what does it feel like to oppress? What emotional boost do you gain from tormenting black and brown youth with absurd “lessons” that scrutinize the enslaved and ignore the oppressors? And how has the institution of slavery affected attitudes of teachers today?
Music News
January 29, 2018
Lorde decorated her Grammy Awards dress with a feminist poem attacking "oppressors" after she was denied a performance slot at the ceremony on Sunday (28Jan18). The 21-year-old star was nominated for Album of the Year for Melodrama, but was controversially not given the chance to sing a track from the recordÃÂ ...
The New Arab
January 26, 2018
Palestinians have labeled Trump as an oppressor as he issues new threats to withdraw US funding to UNRWA. ... The Palestinians rejected US President Donald Trump's fresh threat to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in aid on Thursday, with a senior official labelling him an "oppressor". Trump saidÃÂ ...
Indianapolis Recorder
January 25, 2018
“It's about finding the underlying causes of crime and how that can be impacted by the police and the community.” - Chief Bryan Roach. Facebook ÷ Twitter ÷ Email; Print; Save. Local police have made a strong commitment to working with residents to fight crime using a team approach. The Indianapolisà...
NRT
January 17, 2018
SULAIMANI – In the wake of a U.S. leader's pun on Twitter to host “fake news” awards, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has recognized world leaders who have exceeded themselves in attacking the press and undermining freedom of speech. Last month, CPJ reported that the number ofÃÂ ...
Malaysiakini
January 15, 2018
“The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” ― Steve Biko. BOOK REVIEW | AB Sulaiman's book, 'Ketuanan Melayu: A Story of the Thinking Norm of the Malay Political Elite', cogently defines the agendas of the establishment hegemon and also the pervasiveÃÂ ...
WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale
January 14, 2018
On Twitter Saturday morning, Malema wrote: “We will never be told by any fool on how to fight against our oppression particularly those who have never been at the picket lines. There's no formula on how you should fight the oppressor, expect more action against all racists, individually and collectively thisÃÂ ...
The Good Men Project (blog)
January 14, 2018
It demanded that individuals tell their oppressors what they were doing was wrong. ... Agape, which was at the center of the movement he was building, was the moral imperative to engage with one's oppressor in a way that showed the oppressor the ways their actions dehumanize and detract from society.
MediaShift
January 11, 2018
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at a press conference in Istanbul on December 13, 2017. (YASIN AKGUL/AFP/Getty Images). A version of this post originally appeared on CPJ's website. Amid the public discourse of fake news and President Trump's announcement via Twitter about hisÃÂ ...
LifeZette
January 11, 2018
Believe it or not, President Donald Trump was deemed the winner of the “Overall Achievement in Undermining Global Press Freedom Award,” according to the Committee to Protect Journalists — as journalists are imprisoned and even killed in totalitarian regimes around the world for exposing the truth and bringing outsideÃÂ ...
Neos Kosmos
December 21, 2017
Our days on this earth are not many and what we do with our days matters, not only for us but for those around us and for those whom we leave behind. Trauma is a part of life, few are unscarred. However for far too many, trauma overwhelms them and subsumes their personality. Trauma becomes the coreÃÂ ...
The Siasat Daily
December 31, 1999
The Hindutva forces are constantly harping about assimilation of Dalits to build a larger Hindutva force and projecting Muslims as the real enemy of Dalits. But, when we speak in a greater historical context and the current political dispensation, it is clear that Muslims and Dalits are on same platform in termsÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
December 31, 1999
... Syria, and Russia have adopted Trump's 'fake news' epithet, and Erdogan has applauded at least one of his verbal attacks on journalists,” CJP said of Trump's inclusion on its list of “press oppressors.” Though the pro-journalism group regularly tracks press freedoms worldwide, its “oppressor” awards,ÃÂ ...
The Hill
December 31, 1999
... the winner of its “Overall Achievement in Undermining Global Press Freedom” award in its “Press Oppressors” awards Monday. The committee released a list of top global press oppressors on Monday in response to Trump's upcoming “fake news” awards, giving Trump the top honor. ADVERTISEMENT.
The Star, Kenya
December 14, 2017
Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya has said the people's determination to be free cannot be stopped by the brute force of the oppressor. “The people's fight for justice is unstoppable, no matter how long it takes or how brutal the oppressor is,” he said on Jamhuri Day at Bukhungu Stadium. MeanwhileÃÂ ...
Patch.com
December 14, 2017
The holiday celebrates the Jews defeating Syrian-Greek oppressors who had tried forcing them to abandon their religion and adopt Greek culture. The story has it that, led by Judah Maccabee, they recaptured the holy temple in Jerusalem. Arriving there, they found only enough olive oil to light candles forÃÂ ...
San Diego Free Press
December 14, 2017
As the narrator reads excerpts from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, images depicting the Civil Rights struggle are displayed. When I hear “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed.
Yakima Herald-Republic
December 12, 2017
A pious man who refuses to yield to the pagan commands of his oppressors. The man's sons and other freedom fighters who, while overwhelmingly outnumbered, take on their persecutors — and win. In a nutshell: That's Hanukkah. The annual Jewish holiday, starting at sundown Tuesday, observes theÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine
December 9, 2017
As African Americans announced to the world that they wanted to be literate, they found an odd collection of books in the libraries of their oppressors. Noah Webster created a book that renounced British conventions. Secessionist southerners declared their separateness from the rest of the nation withÃÂ ...
SBS
November 25, 2017
In terms of middle to high-income countries with relatively recent colonial oppressor histories, Australia has the biggest divide between its First Peoples and the rest of the population in all its measurable quality of social, health, financial and education indicators. The result of trauma and dispossession inÃÂ ...
The Straits Times
November 22, 2017
HARARE • When he came to power, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe was feted as an African liberation hero in a country that had endured nearly a century of white colonial rule. Nearly four decades later, after the country's independence from Britain in 1980, he is regarded by many as an autocrat, willing toÃÂ ...
Thomson Reuters Foundation
November 21, 2017
HARARE, Nov 21 (Reuters) - When he came to power, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe was feted as an African liberation hero in a nation that had endured nearly a century of white colonial rule. Nearly four decades after the country's independence from Britain in 1980, he was regarded by many as an autocratÃÂ ...
Patheos (blog)
November 19, 2017
The one really great thing about #metoo is that it has broken a dam (and a damn) that needed broken. When a bunch of women say, “That guy preyed on us” it is common sense to believe the women, not the predator. When a dozen people with nothing in common say, “That's the guy who robbed the bankÃÂ ...
The Stringer
November 17, 2017
Our days on this earth are not many and what we do with our days matters, not only for us but for those around us and for those whom we leave behind. Trauma is a part of life, few are unscarred. However for far too many, trauma overwhelms them and subsumes their personality. Trauma becomes the coreÃÂ ...
iNews
November 17, 2017
In the summer of 1983, at the height of the Cold War, a friend and I went behind the Iron Curtain on a mission of great importance. Well, that's what it felt like. It had been suggested to us by a university tutor, which seemed to our young minds to be as close to the glamour of spy recruitment as we were likelyÃÂ ...
Quartz
November 16, 2017
The oppressor. As his hold over Zimbabwe deepened, Mugabe sacrificed his country's economy to maintain power. After independence, Zimbabwe was the exemplar for post-colonial Africa. A landlocked country without the natural resources of some its neighbors, Mugabe's government built a self-sufficientÃÂ ...
Belleville News-Democrat
November 8, 2017
The Prop P referendum passed in St. Louis, meaning police and firefighters will get a pay increase, and the city's sales tax will increase by a ...
The Observer
November 8, 2017
... police) crave to know the identities and workings of the oppressors, ... journalist then has two options: silence or defense of the oppressor.
Newsweek
November 8, 2017
... lyrics appeal to white privilege and white anger and that her silence on racial and political matters constitutes "support for the oppressor.".
Willamette Week
November 8, 2017
Stand tall and meet these oppressors head on, girl. Their reign will come to an abrupt end soon enough." Sosthenes, via wweek.com: "Legacy ...
Gulf Today
November 8, 2017
Asked the extent to which writers can tolerate oppressors, he said, “It is a ... “However, true forgiveness requires confession from the oppressor,” ...
Pitchfork
November 7, 2017
... world—no matter what fan base she might lose, because in America 2017, silence in the face of injustice means support for the oppressor.”.
The Hindu
November 5, 2017
The national song is a powerful tool — India's oppressors discovered that many decades ago. The mayor might cry poetic injustice if it works ...
Topeka Capital Journal
November 5, 2017
When a group regards its political adversaries as hideous oppressors at the apex of the privilege pyramid, it probably won't be inclined to ...
Daily Post Nigeria
November 3, 2017
... they were invited to the villa and congratulated by the oppressor. ... imposed leaders who are agents of the Northern oppressors on one side ...
Newsweek
November 1, 2017
The United States should help North Koreans defeat their oppressor Kim Jong Un — but with words, not with bombs, a high-ranking North ...
VVdailypress.com
November 1, 2017
The necessary condition for victimizing whole classes of persons is the belief that they, unlike their oppressors, are not entitled to justice ...
Ottawa Citizen
October 31, 2017
This perception of reality deepens when the oppressor, apparently acting under the authority of the law, employs violence over the non-violent ...
The Nation
October 26, 2017
... any physical torture that an infant received from the oppressor or the ... the act of not reporting all sorts of child abuse is giving oppressors the ...
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