Mental-health patients dying young http://www.healthzone.ca/health/mindmood/mentalhealth/article/931141–mental-health-patients-dying-young?bn=1 Affordable housing advocate Linda Chamberlain knows eight people with mental illness who have died recently. But she’s convinced it wasn’t mental-health issues that killed them. “I can’t tell you how many people are dying at 40 from heart attacks due to diabetes and not proper Continue Reading
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Football and Resistance
Anyone who knows me well, would’ve heard me harp on and on about how awesome football (soccer) is, and how we’re going to have a social revolution come out of the stadiums … And while I tend to exaggerate, once again, we hear news of the connections between football as a Continue Reading
Egyptian workers form new union
New federation of independent labour unions being formed. General strike being organized! http://solidaritymagazine.org/2011/01/egyptian-workers-form-new-union/ Today, representatives of the Egyptian labor movement, made up of the independent Egyptian trade unions of workers in real estate tax collection, the retirees, the technical health professionals and representatives of the important industrial areas in Egypt: Continue Reading
octobersurpriserevolution: YouTube – Spoof on US State Departments Position on Egypt (Source: http://octobersurpriserevolution.tumblr.com/)
“To love in this way”
http://notthatkindofasiandoctor.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/to-love-in-this-way/ We are not that kind of Asian Daughter. And though we are trying to figure out how to be daughters on our own terms, we struggle daily under the weight of our prescribed daughterly duties. Our families haunt us. In every decision, every choice, every feeling. We wrestle with Continue Reading
Grimes – Heartbeats Saw her live last night. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Canadian woman denied entry to U.S. because of suicide attempt
And people wonder why a lot of times folks don’t get help for mental health issues …. http://www.thestar.com/news/article/930110–canadian-woman-denied-entry-to-u-s-because-of-suicide-attempt?bn=1 The 64 year-old Toronto woman was fingerprinted and photographed. She questioned the U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer about how he accessed her medical records. He said he didn’t. Instead, he knew Continue Reading
Alex Hundert: Out of Jail
Alex Hundert has been released! Upon release, he published his feelings surrounding the circumstances (see below). While I can’t even begin to compare our arrests, with the FF14 case, to the severity/conditions imposed on Alex, we too had similar debates, as to whether to continue fighting the case in courts Continue Reading
This is pretty ridicules. Poor neighbourhoods in Beijing gated so that people cannot leave at night in an effort to ‘stop crime’. The major inequalities we’re seeing grow in China can’t get anymore apparent than this… (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Choi Yuen (菜園村) Villagers Protest Eviction Plans, Continuing a Long History of HK Indigenous Resistance
Recently, there’s been news reports of confrontations between the police, security guards and demolition workers on one side, and villagers/outside solidarity activists on the other, in the village of Choi Yuen. A couple days ago, I posted an article on the loss of more rural villages in Hong Kong, as Continue Reading