SlutWalks are spreading around the globe. So too is the controversy around the name and the image it’s creating.
I was proud to be invited to address the inaugural SlutWalk in Toronto on April 3.
The idea is glorious and simple: grab onto one of the many epitaphs that get thrown at (some) women as [...]
Continue reading →Dear Sarah,
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. There was the busy schedule of high school, college and professional football and then basketball games: all those teams praying that I choose them to win takes an enormous amount of research time and personal energy. (A few months ago, a Viking’s [...]
Continue reading →Amnesty International has released one of its human rights lists. On it are China, Iran, North Korea, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Syria, Bangladesh, and Somalia. All are known for deep and ongoing abuses of human rights.
When it comes to human rights, it’s not a list that any right-thinking person (or country) would want to [...]
Continue reading →The catastrophe at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan speaks of many things. It speaks of corporate greed – its owner has been convicted of falsifying safety data in a singular pursuit of enriching itself even if its workers and perhaps countless others might die. It speaks of generations of Japanese governments that have pumped [...]
Continue reading →Two, three or even four opposing things can co-exist. It is possible that someone is, at the same time, a) a courageous, even heroic, advocate who says that citizens should know the truth and who is willing to take enormous personal risks to make that happen; b) an individual who may have committed a form [...]
Continue reading →A million women hit the streets in 230 Italian cities on February 13. 400,000, alone, marched in Rome. Media around the world played it up as a march against the sleezy, likely-Mafia-connected, Prime Minister Berlusconi who seems to have a thing for hair dye, plastic surgery, and buying sex from young women.
I [...]
Continue reading →Three young Egyptians have produced a wonderful music video, “The Sound of Freedom” (Sout al Horeya).
Here’s the video. But first, a partial translation from Al-Jazeera:
I went down and I said I am not going back, and I wrote on every street wall that I am not going back.
All barriers have been broken [...]
Continue reading →It has been captivating to watch the sudden and massive upheavals in Egypt sparked by the uprising in Tunisia and, in turn, speaking protest movements in Yemen, Jordan, Sudan and beyond.
I do not wish to speculate on outcomes. Perhaps countries will descend into bloodshed as those who desperately hope to preserve [...]
Continue reading →A terrific new documentary by Marc de Guerre starts with the dramatic drop of full-time employment for men in the United States.
Between December 2007 and March of 2010 the United States lost 8.2 million jobs. 80% of these jobs belonged to men. In 2008, the share of men in the United States with a [...]
Continue reading →There are a lot of strange things we now take for granted. On Tuesday night, I watched President Obama’s State of the Union address. From time-to-time he would illustrate a point by telling a short, heart-warming story about someone or other. Each time he did, the camera would dutifully shift to an person in the [...]
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