Polyandry

Came across this word. Googled it. Realized i saw a doc. about it once. Thought it was interesting.

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The Indignant

"Demonstrations, marches, rallies. For months now hundreds of thousands of Europeans have been expressing their anger at government imposed austerity measures.

Recently those voices have been especially loud in Greece, where the administration is trying to implement a savage programme of spending cuts to avoid the country defaulting on its loans.

But it is in Spain that the protest movement has gained most traction. In mid-May demonstrations that started in the capital Madrid soon led to mass rallies in other major cities, in some cases occupying public squares for almost a month.

The "indignants" as they call themselves, dismantled their last camp in Madrid on June 12, but their commitment shows no sign of waning and many more marches and rallies are planned for the weeks ahead.

So what is driving them? And what do they hope to achieve? A team from Televisio de Catalunya filmed through the first weeks of the May protests in Madrid and Barcelona, and found people angry at their country's economic and political elites."



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Stranded: The stateless Haitians

"For many Haitians fleeing dictators and poverty at home and looking for work in the cane fields, the Dominican Republic has long been a refuge. However, possibly a million Haitians or people of Haitian ancestry are now being affected by the adoption of a new law concerning citizenship in the Dominican Republic. Many descendants of Haitian workers living in the Dominican Republic could face deportation to Haiti or be forced to live outside the law, with no legal status in the country.

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Sonia Pierre, a Dominican human rights activist, says the changes in Dominican citizenship laws have made hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent, in effect, stateless. She points to a landmark international court decision in 2005 calling on the Dominican government to end its discrimination against this population. But the government did the opposite - it hardened its policies and began retroactively withdrawing citizenship from Dominicans of Haitian descent.

Claiming that it is only trying to "clean up" its civil registry rolls, the government now systematically refuses to issue identity documents to Dominicans of Haitian descent. Officials often deny these documents because someone has a Haitian-sounding last name or "looks" Haitian.

Sonia Pierre's organisation, the Movement of Dominican-Haitian Women (MUDHA), has documented thousands of cases where the government is systematically denying rights to Dominicans of Haitian ancestry. Those affected come from all walks of life - schoolteachers, lawyers, community organisers, doctors, entertainers, caregivers, students, and military officers. Now these people are in danger of becoming stateless in the country of their birth and residency." Read More

Two studies show that drugs used to treat AIDS can be used to prevent HIV infection, too

"Two new studies done in three African countries have shown for the first time that AIDS drugs taken daily can cut by more than half a person’s chance of becoming infected with HIV through heterosexual intercourse.

The results, announced early Wednesday, provide more evidence that the drugs responsible for saving the lives of millions of HIV-infected people over the last 15 years may also be the most useful tool for preventing new infections."

i dont understand the purpose of saying "heterosexual intercourse", or why they thought that it would only work for gay ppl and not str8, but whatever.

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Black & White & Red All Over (1997)

I have no idea why my mother and aunt allowed me to watch this movie with them, but that openness is the type of stuff that I am grateful for.



"No, the six black friends hanging out together in a Boston apartment over a Thanksgiving weekend, watching television, drinking beer and smoking "blunts", are not waiting for Godot, although it sometimes feels that way. The characters in their 20's who inhabit ''Black and White and Red All Over'' are caught up in a wave of black-on-black violence that is receiving sporadic coverage on a local television station. Exactly how they are connected to these events is revealed only in bits and pieces as the story unfolds. Even by the end of the movie, much is still unexplained.

Set in the near future, the film, directed and written by DeMane Davis, Harry McCoy and Khari Streeter, has the style of a semi-improvised docudrama. Drenched in a mood of ominous claustrophobia, it evokes a black urban society so caught up in lethal turf wars that at times the apartment seems like a bunker. Most of the crucial events in the drama take place offscreen.


The movie has flashes of grim humor. One scene is photographed from the point of view of a "blunt" that the characters are passing around. When they talk back to the continuously playing television, their banter about the programming, particularly on the Black Entertainment Network, has a bitterly funny edge." Read More

Letter To My Son

Coming outta Memphis, Don Trip has a pretty distinct style and uses vivid word play to speak on his real life situations.

i dig this.

American household wealth nearly $8 trillion less than before crash

"Why has Wall Street recovered so nicely yet it's still like this for the rest? Even worse, why did Congress and the White House go along with it? The GOP may lead the way with apologies for Wall Street but the Democrats have hardly been wallflowers either. The system needed to be saved but that did not mean forgetting about the losses of the majority while ignoring the responsibilities of the minority who caused the crash. It's hard to believe this is not the direct result of our dysfunctional campaign finance laws where those with the deepest pockets dictate the rules." Read Here

Coonin' for Obama

these recent Obama tweets got me feeling like this:



smh. niggas.

Bad Bitches

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Black?

Dellusions of Grandeur. The funny part is the 1st girl's whole style is "black". I blame the parents tho.

Peace to the ones at the end tho.

Who Are You Now?

Lupe took it to his twitter to drop this unreleased record featuring his pal B.o.B. The track was intended to make the final version of Lasers but got scrapped off for reasons unknown. If the record was finished Lu says he would of liked Janelle Monae or Cee-Lo on the track, how awesome would that of been! Regardless, the track is still dope in it's unfinished state.

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Yankin'

It all goes wrong at the :12 mark, right when she opens her mouth. Seriously, 4 Loko is not a high-end anything, so there’s no need to have it on a server’s dish.

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i dont even know what to say...im ashamed to be black...female...and that i even like 4loko...she's...ugh.


hot fries and kool-aid tho? this has to be Illumanati. maybe thats why she looks so uncomfortable :/

Wretched, Pitiful, Blind....some other stuff...

Malice Book Interview SHHO from Malice of the Clipse on Vimeo.

this will be interesting.

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Black Chinese

this is interesting.


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i dont like his vibe during this doc. but i think the info is interesting.

Possible Message from Japan

if this is true this is absolutely horrible.




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Sup Son?!

"I was eating some breakfast in the break-room today. One of my Black coworkers, Tanya, walked past and said, “Hi.” In turn, I gave her a nod. A nod that was directed vertically, unlike the downward direction of the traditional nod. The Black Nod.



I didn’t even think twice about it, but apparently Tanya takes this code-switching thing to another level. She stopped abruptly when she saw the Black Nod, turned to look at me and said,

'Don’t be doing the Black Nod up in here.' " Read More

NY Oil

Truth.

'Corrective Rape': Fighting a South African Scourge

this is so crazy.

"It was around 11 p.m. on a Friday in Gugulethu — a township on the edge of Cape Town — and Millicent Gaika, 30, was almost home when a man she recognized stopped her and asked for a cigarette. Gaika obliged. The man then pushed her into a nearby shack and beat and raped her for five hours. Gaika later told police that throughout the assault, her attacker repeatedly said, "You think you're a man, but I'm going to show you you're a woman." Charged with rape, the 43-year-old man is scheduled to go to court on March 15.

Gaika is a rarity in South Africa, indeed in all of Africa, as an openly gay woman. And since her attack, which took place in 2009, she has become something of an icon in the battle against the South African phenomenon called "corrective rape." Virtually unknown to the rest of the world at the time of Gaika's ordeal, corrective rape has since become a hot issue. Through online campaigns, nearly a million people have joined local activists in demanding that the South African government recognize corrective rape as a hate crime. But with so few cases of homophobic violence resulting in trials — and of those, almost none ending in conviction — the activists have a long fight ahead of them."

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Fuck a Book

the song is funny but its also kinda offensive. #SouthernPride