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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
By Dan Majors and Sadie Gurman, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteIn the first hours after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, while news reports of damage and death were still sketchy, three men huddled on the North Side last night to plan local relief efforts.
“The first thing you do is share the pain,” said […]
December 17th(today) is the international day to end violence against sex workers.
To check out gatherings today in/near your city, click here
Stopping the Terror: A Day to End Violence Against Prostitutes
by Annie Sprinkle
In 2003 “Green River Killer” Gary Ridgeway confessed to having strangled ninety women to death and having “sex” with their dead bodies.
He stated, […]
Access to Life is a collaboration between the Global Fund and Magnum Photos–eight photographers shoot 30 people in 9 different countries before & after antiretroviral treatment for AIDS.
Massaman Keïta, 31 and Fatoumata Camara, 20 (Farmers)
Read more about their story here
Igor Tereshenko, 24 (construction worker), St. Petersburg, Russia
Like many among the “lost generation” of young Russians […]
Salon.com has a section about combat stress, PTSD, and the army’s neglect. They list various personal accounts from Feb. to July of this year. Soldiers who come home but never really return–soldiers that do not receive the proper aftercare that they deserve after such traumatic exposure & experiences.
From their brief archives(I say brief because […]
via afp/salon.com…
Indian media hail court verdict ruling gay sex legal
NEW DELHI (AFP) — The Indian media hailed a court ruling to decriminalise gay sex and urged the government to respond by striking a colonial-era ban on homosexuality from the statute books.
“Gay and finally legal” ran the headline of the Mail Today paper which like other […]
from the salon.com broadsheet…
The baby’s a…we’re not telling!
A Swedish couple believe so strongly that gender is a social construction that they do not reveal whether their 2.5-year-old is a boy or a girl.
Only those who have changed the toddler’s diapers know if “Pop,” which is not the child’s real name, is male or female. […]
via al jazeera.net - i feel like more people should be talking about this…
US forces pull out of Iraq’s cities
Iraqi forces have assumed formal control of the capital, Baghdad, and other cities, six years after US-led coalition forces invaded Iraq.
US troops began withdrawing from the country’s major cities and towns as the midnight deadline […]
School of Americas graduate is coup leader
A military coup has taken place in Honduras this morning (Sunday, June 28), led by SOA graduate Romeo Vasquez. In the early hours of the day, members of the Honduran military surrounded the presidential palace and forced the democratically elected president, Manuel Zelaya, into custody. He was immediately flown […]
Honduras torn between ousted leader, replacementBy WILL WEISSERT and FREDDY CUEVAS
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - Honduras is now torn between two presidents: one legally recognized by world bodies after he was deposed and forced from the country by his own soldiers, and another supported by the Central American nation’s congress, courts and military.
Presidents from around Latin […]