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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” ― James Baldwin

"FEMEN activist Amina Tyler [is] on trial on charges of 'desecration of a grave and carrying harmful weapons'. The charges can carry from six months to five year imprisonment.

In condemnation of her trial, three FEMEN activists protested topless at the Tunisian courthouse and were arrested for attacking public decency and immoral behaviour. The two French and one German citizens are now in jail and could face up to one year in jail."

http://freethoughtblogs.com/maryamnamazie/2013/06/02/release-amina-and-femen-activists-now/

"Attention! To all supporters and those who are not ignorant to fight between slavery and freedom! We inform you that tomorrow 3 FEMEN activists who did a first topless protest in muslim countries will face the trial in Tunis with wild charges in immoral behavior. The process for 2 french and 1 german activists of FEMEN will take place in Palais de justice, avenue Bab Bnet at 10.30. Tunisian FEMEN activist Amina will be convocated to the hearing tomorrow afternoon in the Trial of Kairouan. 

We strongly call everyone not to pass through the tomorrow's fight between patriarchy and women's liberation, between traditions of Middle Age and modern time. We ask you to be present at the trial and to follow the process, only with your attention we can save FEMEN from patriarchal Islamists trial." 

1) Support your local farmer! 

2) Grow your own food whenever possible.

3) F#ck Monsanto & their poisonous cronies!

#M25 #MAM

The World According to Monsanto - full length

An Open Letter from 'Muslim & Exmuslim Women for FEMEN'

Dear Western feminists in love with MuslimahPride, First of all, let me just thank you all for jumping to the conclusion that MuslimahPride represents all Muslim (practising and non-practising) women, for rejoicing with MuslimahPride about how they do not feel oppressed by the culture and have never faced any oppression what-so-ever. Thank you, also, for working along with them in trying to distract everyone from the main issue. Thank you for forgetting that there are women from Muslim cultures (Muslim and Exmuslim both) that actually felt relieved about the issues plaguing them being discussed on an international level. Thank you, thank you so much.  Thank you, also, for your double standards - and for your very selective choice of misogynist brands. You would not support republican parties, you would not support Sarah Palin, you would not support conservative parties, you would not support any-fucking-one in your country who believed in controlling women's bodies and their sexuality. However, you would support all of it *when* it is under the brand of #MuslimahPride. Because, obviously, the misogyny that plagues you cannot plague us - it's just the way we are, and we are used to it. Thank you for that assumption.  Thank you, also, for throwing questions and complains at me many times - and telling me that I am somehow doing it all wrong by highlighting the misogyny in my culture. Thank you for trying to teach me how my culture *actually* works and how I was wrong about it all along. Thank you for using your privilege to give voice to MuslimahPride, whilst overlooking women like me. Thank you.  Thank you for completely forgetting that the topless jihad had many women, and many "brown women", sending in their topless pics in solidarity with Amina Tyler. Thank you for completely forgetting about Amina Tyler and Aliaa Elmahdy and seeing Femen's protest as "racist" and "colonial". I can't thank you enough for sucking up to those who put the rights of religion and culture (non-living entities) over the rights of human beings.  Thank you, also, for making the movement about how "the West also has its set of problems so we shouldn't single out the East". Thank you for conveniently forgetting that even though the West has its problems, the 5 most dangerous countries in the world for women are not Western countries, 4 of the 5 are muslim-majority countries.  Thank you for forgetting about deaths committed in the name of honour, for forgetting about forced marriages and child marriages, about acid attacks, about FGM, forced covering, about victims of rape being punished for being raped. Thank you for forgetting about all this simply because none of this has plagued you - and because, the West, too has problems --- so these problems should be forgotten about and not discussed.  Thank you, above all, for making the fight for sexual autonomy and freedom an entirely "Western" thing that should not be *imposed* on Muslim women. Thank you for forgetting that we, too, have a clitoris that has as many nerve endings as yours (8000) - yes, sometimes, that clitoris get cuts off BUT we are all born with it. In fact, thank you so much for making secularism and some basic human rights an entirely Western thing that is not deserved or wanted by women from Muslim cultures. Thank you for making the discussion of problems plaguing us much, much harder than it already was by validating MuslimahPride's claims of racism, colonialism and Islamophobia. Thank you for betraying us all in the face, and choosing political correctness over compassion. Thank you for not overlooking some of Femen's flaws regarding this debate, and focusing on those flaws far more than focusing on the issue at hand. Thank you for forgetting that women like me exist, too. Thank you. Your siding with MuslimahPride has more repercussions for me and for women like me than you would ever know. But thank you for never once giving a thought to that - simply because you would never have to deal with any of it.  Thank you. ~Alala of Muslim & Exmuslim Women for FEMEN

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.” ― Alice Walker

Do animals, like humans, possess certain inalienable rights? A growing movement in America believes they do.

Cheers to our fierce feminist brothers and sisters in Iran, and around the globe!

"Hoping for the day that sexuality, gender will not be a way of evaluating humanity. Kurdish men in Iran have launched a Facebook campaign to send a message: being a woman is nothing to be ashamed of. The 'Kurd Men for Equality' campaign was started in response to a judge's ruling that forced a man convicted of domestic abuse to wear women's clothing as a form of public humiliation."

http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201304222317-0022695

"Women and men from other parts of Kurdistan, Europe and America expressed their solidarity and shared commitment to gender equality with their own photos."

by Zoe Leonard

It takes more than queerdom and abject poverty to create a fair politician, but we need more capable people in office who are NOT picture perfect cutouts of the bullshit capitalist success story that they've been peddling our people since our pre-K indoctrination began. 

To Boston. From Kabul. With Love.