Today the International Criminal Court indicted Sudan’s President Omar Al Bashir for genocide. He is charged with killing hundreds of thousands of people in Sudan and its Darfur region, and corralling the surviving women and girls into terrifying camps where they are being quietly and systematically raped until their peoples are destroyed.
The ICC made history [...]
Archive for July, 2008
ICC indicts Sudan’s President, Omar Al Bashir, for genocide
Posted in Advocacy, Development, Gender Issues, Globalization, International Politics, world news on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not allowed to buy any books, but if I was…
Posted in Books, Development, Globalization, International Politics on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I would get The Shape of the Beast by Arundhati Roy.
I read this little excerpt today:
We ought not to speak only about the economics of globalization, but also about the psychology of globalization. It’s like the psychology of a battered woman being faced with her husband again and being asked to trust him again. [...]
The Perks of Housesitting
Posted in good things on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am in cafe heaven. Ahhh…
The Riverdale Perk, Dark Horse and Mercury Espresso Bar, are all within a 20 minute walk from the place I’m housesitting. Planning to put some time in at these lovely gems this week. One element is missing tho from my little East end vacation: the docu-film shop on the Danforth [...]
