Some stuff I saw today

Bystanders to genocide:Pres. Bill Clinton and Rwanda

Experience, Sen. Clinton? I don't think that word means what you think it means


Prisons and Priorities:States spend more than $44 billion on Incarceration

Rhetoric and how To Argue for Your Candidate

Burning the Midnight Oil for Energy Independence(Including a ridiculous amount of links)

AND From the "ISn't it Ironic?" Department...

That girl in Senator Clinton's 3am ad? She's voting for OBAMA!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

For Int'l Women's History Month

Modern Female Heads of State

Thinking outside the box

My uneducated opinion of what industrial complex is:

Industrial complex=a network of industries that are dependent upon capitalism for survival and work together in a ‘matrix’ like fashion to destroy the world for the benefit of capitalism.

Academic industrial complex=a network of academic industries that work together in the name of capitalism by using the ammunition of “knowledge”.

I don’t think as a term its going overboard at all, I think it’s a very political statement actually. Academics think of themselves as benign–that they don’t do damage because they are dealing almost exclusively with “knowledge,” and knowledge doesn’t ever hurt, right? Knowledge and the pursuit of it is noble and admirable, right?

By insisting that knowledge as it is gathered and used by academia is destructive and violent, dependent upon capitalism and/or a TOOL of capitalism, Professor Smith (and others who use the term) are giving face to the multiple histories of indigenous peoples who were brutally violated by ‘academic research”–as a very extreme example (although not rare, by any means)–there was an indigenous tribe in south america that was almost completly wiped out by warfare after academics infiltrated their tribe and caused problems through gift giving and the spreading of measles.



Also,

Specifically, who is the knowledge/research created by the university for? Who is it *supposed* to be for? Who is really ‘receiving’ the knowledge/research? Who is being studied?

Is there a tension between who is being studied and who is doing the studying? Does that tension have anything to do with who will finally have access to the research and who will not? Is community driven research (that is, community helps to drive what will be researched and will be the ones to control the research once it is completed) acceptable to academia and the whole process of doing ‘legitimate’ research in order to get tenure

Feminism and Human Rights in India

The Making of Mann ke Manjeeré documents the inception of the idea behind the album to raise awareness about women's human rights violations through music, as well as the idea behind the organization Breakthrough- to 'mainstream' human rights values through the use of pop culture

Breakthrough's video -Mann ke Manjeeré- winner of the Screen Awards 2001 in India and nominated for MTV's 'Best Indipop Music Video', reached 26 million households via six satellite music television channels, effectively mainstreaming discussions about domestic violence issues throughout South Asia and reaching as far as Tajikistan, Indonesia and the United States.

http://www.breakthrough.tv/

Via: WOC Ph.d

Trigger Warning

Not a happy birthday:Threatened, intimidated, bullied, violated: this is hospital birth as many mothers experience it. Amity Reed reports on the little-recognised crime of birth rape

Via feminist and olympiasepiriot.

Looks like our medical system needs a complete and utter overhaul.

Note to self, get this book:Born in the USA:How a broken Maternity System must be fixed to put Women and Children First

Also: Gentle Birth Choices

Does anyone have any other books on this subject to reccomend?

Wedding Dresses Part 27: Futuristic 50's, Gray, Black, Purple. And a Hat.And Matching Shoes

She made it herself!

My envy knows NO bounds...



Look her up:
Here and here

Wedding Dresses Part 28:Romantic Black and White

From St Valentino

Wedding Dresses Part 29:Navy with Orabge Piping

 

Awful pic, I agree. But its from a newspaper New Herald.com

Wedding Dresses Part 30:Orange and Black

This is an evening gown, but I would definitely rock this as a wedding dress. Gert Van de Merwe

Wedding Dresses Part 31: Dramatic Black

Red Hot Brides