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
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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/)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/26/egypt-protests?CMP=twt_gu Also, some pretty shocking audio recording by Jack Shenker of the Guardian, as him and others were arrested and taken away in a police van. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Radical Walking Tour of Toronto
http://www.labourcouncil.ca/labourhistorymap.pdf Via Ryan Hayes Cool labour history maps and walking tours of Toronto produced by David Kidd and Maureen Hynes. Also, check out http://www.blog.ryanhay.es/mapping-resistance/ Ryan’s post to see other examples of radical Toronto maps and history projects.
Spend hours cooking healthy food w/ awesome NOII people for 100 peeps … pick up a Burger King bun on the way home for dinner… :p 🙁
Prince The Dog Returns Home After 5 Years, Finds Owner Myrna Carillo’s New House
Prince The Dog Returns Home After 5 Years, Finds Owner Myrna Carillo’s New House If you move four times in five years, it’s hard enough for the mail to find you, let alone a dog. But that’s just what one smart Shih Tzu did this past week. According to NBC Continue Reading
Hong Kong’s Forgotten Villages
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/world/asia/19villages.html?src=me HONG KONG — Sitting on a wooden bench near his small concrete house, Cheung Cheung drew his hand across the overgrown fields before him and described what they were used for. “The villagers’ animals used to graze here,” he said. “People kept cows, chickens and pigs.” Pointing to the Continue Reading