PSA: You actually CAN ask your Autistic or otherwise Neurodivergent classmate to prom without inviting the news to cover it, or recording it and posting it on Facebook, fishing for people to call you “inspirational” or a “hero”.
That is all.
Yemeni bodega workers in New York rally around being American, Muslim and proud
An estimated 1,000 Yemeni-American-run businesses, restaurants and bodegas in New York’s five boroughs shut their doors at noon Thursday for eight hours in an act of protest against Trump’s recently imposed travel restrictions.
And as night fell on the rally at Brooklyn’s Borough Hall scheduled to take place in tandem with Thursday’s bodega closings, show up they did — by the thousands, waving American flags and bearing signs that declared “We need justice.” Read more
Unarmed Black Man Shot To Death By Police after Car Broke Down On Side of The Road
Yet another unarmed Man was fatally shot by trigger happy police Sunday night. Terence was on his way home from his community college night class and was trying to get some roadside assistance to get back home. Instead what he got was bullets in his lungs.
Officers en route to an unrelated call, saw his car on the side of the road and pulled over to investigate the vehicle around 7:40 p.m. According to police, when they spotted Terence they told him to put his hands up but he refused to comply so they shot him. However, the newly released dashcam video contradicts their story.…..surprise surprise. Terence can be seen in police dashcam video walking toward his SUV with his hands up and officers following behind him before he’s shocked with a stun gun and then fatally shot.
Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan announced Monday before the department released the shooting footage that 40-year-old Terence Crutcher had no weapon on him or in his SUV.
Terence Crutcher, 40, died at a Tulsa hospital on Friday night shortly after the violent confrontation, the Tulsa World reported.
Carlotta Cardana The Red Road: Picturing Modern Native American Indigenous Identity
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support an Indigenous photographer here, working hard to document the Great Sioux Nation’s protests in North Dakota.
Photo #2: Ula and Tim Tyler. This Eastern Shoshone couple have been married for 54 years and experienced reservation life before there was electricity or running water.
Photo #4: Ishkoten Dougi. Ishkoten is an artist from the Isleta Pueblo Indian Reservation in New Mexico. He is portrayed in his studio, surrounded by his artwork that represents some of the atrocities inflicted on Native Americans.
Photo #5: Evereta and her Mustang. When Evereta Thinn, 30, entered college as the only Native American in her English 101 class, it was at that moment she realized that she needed to speak up and not be that stereotypical “shy” Indian who keeps to herself. She works as an administrator at the school district on the Navajo Nation and aspires to start a language and cultural immersion school for the Diné (Navajo) people.
Photo #8: Fast Eddie (left), a pow wow dancer, is pictured with social media celebrity, Two Braids.
Photo #10: Jarrod after the rodeo. Jarrod Ferris, Eastern Shoshone and Arapaho from the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, has been bull riding since age 6. He hopes to one day win the title as world champion so that he can buy his mom a new house.
*Photo #13: Crisosto Apache, from the Mescalero Apache tribe of New Mexico, is an activist for LGBT rights in the Native community. He explains that there is no word for “gay” in any Native American language, but is referred to as being “two spirited.”
Photo #14: Maka in his classroom. After traveling the world and teaching English in Japan, Maka Clifford, from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, realized his calling was going back to the Reservation to teach his own people and inspire young kids to explore life off the reservation.
In 1968, Chicano students in Los Angeles peacefully protested to demand adequate education and an end to the racism that they encountered in textbooks, teachers, academic advisors, and administrators source
There’s nothing Muslim about the informal enslavement of south Asian/south east asian/east and north african men and women in Dubai and Qatar and all these other Khaleej/UAE countries boasting their luxurious lifestyle. I despise that these are the countries people look to as examples of ‘advanced’ Muslim countries. Their skyscrapers are built on the backs of entrapped, hardworking migrant workers subjected to inhumane, lethal conditions.
These people came here on their own will, they get paid for every second they have spent working, nobody forced them to do anything they didnt want to do… They can leave anytime they want to, the countries you are talking about are giving them a chance to choose a better lifestyle.
A large proportion of these migrant workers have their passports stolen from them upon landing so that they are unable to leave the migrant camps, are denied their pay for months, are denied water, food and other amenities, are lied to about what conditions they will be living in/live in squalid conditions, and are forced to work 12 hour days in life threatening conditions for pennies a day–and sometimes no pay at all. In Qatar for years Nepalese migrant workers died at a rate of 1 migrant worker per DAY while working under inhumane conditions. Before the first game of the 2022 FIFA world cup even kicks off 4000 migrant workers are expected to die living under these unlivable conditions.
The migrant workers you are claiming to have been given a chance at a “better life” themselves are protesting against the horrific way they are treated.
You can water this down, you can make it seem as if it’s any other job but you are actively enabling, supporting and advocating for a system that tortures these men and deprives them of their human rights.
These countries your defending have taken advantage of the intentions of these men to care for their families and have built skyscrapers on their backs without any regard to the condition of these migrant workers.
A 16 year old Nepalese boy whose wish was to pull his family out of an impoverished state died of cardiac arrest after only a few weeks of arriving on site as a migrant worker–think about for just a second what it takes to induce cardiac arrest in a 16 year old boy, think about the exertion this child must have faced to die of the causes that are being described, and think about how he is only one of MILLIONS of migrant workers faced with the reality that claimed his life.
"If I go back to Ethiopia maybe they will kill me. If not kill me, they will put me in prison. I have not decided yet, but maybe I will move to another country," he said.
When he crossed the Olympics marathon finish line, Feyisa Lilesa put his hands above his head in an “X.” Most of those who watched Lilesa’s spectacular silver medal performance didn’t know what that meant — or just how dangerous a protest they were watching.
Lilesa was protesting the Ethiopian government’s killing of hundreds of the country’s Oromo people — an ethnic majority that has long complained about being marginalized by the country’s government. The group has held protests this year over plans to reallocate Oromo land. Many of those protests ended in bloodshed. According to Human Rights Watch, more than 400 people have been killed since November.
For months, the Oromo have been using the same “X” gesture that Lilesa, 26, used at the finish line.
At a news conference following the race, he reiterated his defiant message.
“The Ethiopian government is killing my people, so I stand with all protests anywhere, as Oromo is my tribe,” Lilesa said. “My relatives are in prison and if they talk about democratic rights they are killed.”
It was a remarkable turn of events — within seconds, Lilesa had gone from a national hero to a man who might not be able to return to his home country. In addition to those killed, many Oromo protesters are currently languishing in prison.
In Ethiopia, the state broadcaster did not air a replay of the finish.
Lilesa was conscious of the danger. He immediately suggested that he might have to move somewhere else.
“If I go back to Ethiopia maybe they will kill me. If not kill me, they will put me in prison. I have not decided yet, but maybe I will move to another country,” he said.
It wasn’t the first time an Ethiopian athlete had considered defecting after competition. In 2014, four of the country’s runners applied for asylum in the United States after disappearing from the international junior track championships in Eugene, Ore.
The plight of the Oromo and the Ethiopian government’s use of force against civilians have received some attention recently, but nothing as prominent as Lilesa’s defiance. Earlier this month, the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa said that it was “deeply concerned” about the most recent killing of protesters. But likely because Ethiopia remains a U.S. ally in the fight against Somali Islamist group Al-Shabab, American officials have been reluctant to offer any further condemnation.
Oromo dissidents, particularly those outside Ethiopia, have been active on social media about their cause. As soon as Lilesa crossed the finish line, tweets and Facebook posts went up with pictures of their new folk hero. Ethiopia is one of Africa’s fastest growing nations, and it seen by many as a model of economic potential. The government has played down the protests, saying earlier this month that “the attempted demonstrations were orchestrated by foreign enemies from near and far in partnership with local forces.”
Lilesa has been racing internationally for Ethiopia for more than eight years, and holds one of the world’s fastest ever marathon times: 2:04:52.
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