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An Indian couple have had their children taken away by Norwegian social workers because they were feeding them with their hands and sleeping in the same bed as them.
Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya lost custody of their three-year-old son and one-year-old daughter eight months ago after authorities branded their behaviour inappropriate.
This is an absolute injustice and complete cultural ignorance.
Please sign this petition and spread this post around. Return these children to their parents.
As of the 10:30 pm on 22 January, this petition has fewer than 4,000 signatures. Take one minute to go sign in support of this family. What has happened is unconscionable.
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Police 'killed deaf cyclist with stun gun after he failed to obey instructions to stop' →
“A police officer killed an elderly, deaf and mentally disabled man riding his bicycle by shooting him with a Taser stun gun after he failed to obey instructions to stop.
Roger Anthony, 61, was killed as he made his way home in Scotland Neck, South Carolina, after officers responded to a 911 call about a man who had fallen off his bicycle in a car park.
The caller told dispatchers that the man appeared drunk and that it looked like he had hurt himself.
Officers said they repeatedly told Mr Anthony to get off his bike, but when he didn’t respond, they shocked him.
The state Office of the Medical Examiner hasn’t yet determined a cause of death.
Family members claim Mr Anthony had hearing problems and suffered from seizures. Now they’re considering whether to file a lawsuit against the town.
His brother Michael said: ‘What did they tase him for? It’s hurting me. It’s really hurting me.’”
I knew even before I clicked the link that Roger Anthony was a black man.
Fuck the police.
As soon as I saw that they’d been called to help him & wound up killing him I knew the deal.
Reblogging just because.
another fine example of police brutality.
(via indiangeek)
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I swear NBC
if Community is cancelled
and Whitney stays on air
we will have a PROBLEM
how can you bench Community, and KEEP Whitney on air?!
THIS.
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How To Write To Prisoner Bradley Manning →
Bradley Manning, a 23-year-old Army intelligence analyst, is accused of leaking a video showing the killing of civilians, including two Reuters journalists, by a US Apache helicopter crew in Iraq. He is also charged with sharing the documents known as the Afghan War Diary, the Iraq War Logs, and embarrassing US diplomatic cables, with the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. The video and documents have illuminated such issues as the true number and cause of civilian casualties in Iraq, human rights abuses by U.S.-funded contractors and foreign militaries, and the role that spying and bribes play in international diplomacy.
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I know you all like football. I know a lot of people like football. I know it’s fun and culturally important and for some reason people identify incredibly strongly with Their Team, many to unhealthy levels. But it’s football. It is just football. Feeling personally devastated because someone you trusted made a really terrible decision is one thing; being personally devastated because your identity is so wrapped up in your team that the idea of any member of that team being punished for covering up child rape strikes you as fundamentally unfair is another thing. It is something that should make you seriously reconsider your identity and your values. Being really good at coaching football doesn’t absolve you from looking the other way when you hear about child rape; it doesn’t absolve you from encouraging others not to report child rape to the police.
– Jill Filipovic on the student riots at Penn State (via jessicavalenti)(via realfakescientist)
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Earlier this week, Ms. Coulter set off a bit of a firestorm earlier this week when she claimed that claims of sexual harassment against Herman Cain were “high-tech lynching” and that “our [Conservative] Blacks are so much better than their [Liberal] blacks.” She then later defended her comments saying that “The only racism you hear in America is against conservative blacks.” Rush Limbaugh got in on the action later, saying that the real racists were liberals and decried the use of stereotypes used to attack Cain.What the fuck just happened here? Did I just really see news reports about Ann Coulter, the woman who defends the Council of Conservative Citizens (oh…the CCC…clever), an organization that was considered too racist to even be part of the Conservative PAC, call someone racist?
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Don’t Let Them Deport Ahmed Hossain(x)
Because of clerical errors, the U.S. is about to deport Ahmed Hossain—ripping his family apart and putting his health in danger, reports .
TANMOY HOSSAIN is the apple of his parents’ eye. The 7-year-old boy is in the Talented and Accelerated Program at his Queens elementary school. Bright as he is, Tanmoy keeps asking Ahmed and Salina Hossain the same question, because there is something he just can’t understand: Why is his father being punished for a lawyer’s mistake?
Ahmed Hossain arrived legally in the United States from his native Bangladesh 19 years ago. When he applied for asylum, his lawyer at the time mistakenly filed his case under the name “Akter Hossain.” For this reason, an immigration judge denied Ahmed’s bid for asylum on the grounds of fraud, even though it was Ahmed himself who revealed the mistake to the judge.
Later, in 2001, Ahmed won the lottery for a “diversity visa,” but his final interview was postponed due to the September 11 attacks. When he went for his rescheduled interview the following May, he was ruled to have come in too late due to a clerical error on the part of immigration officials.
This summer, President Obama announced that immigration officials would suspend deportations against people who “pose no threat to national security or public safety.” Obama’s decision was widely seen as an effort going into next year’s election to shore up the support of Latinos and other immigrant groups who have been bitterly disappointed thus far that Obama has actually doubled the rate of deportations from the Bush years.
If Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is serious about carrying out Obama’s new policy, then they have to explain why they plan to deport Ahmed to Bangladesh on November 8.
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AHMED HOSSAIN is a poster child for everything that’s wrong with America’s dysfunctional immigration politics. This man that ICE is determined to deport is a devoted father and husband, a taxpayer with no criminal record.
He has been an active member of the taxi drivers’ association, Shapla Welfare Associates, including serving a term as the general secretary. He has acted with and directed the Bangladesh Theater of America. Ahmed is such a pillar of his community that his deportation case has been widely covered by the Bangla press in New York and by television stations in Bangladesh.
The Hossain family is completely dependent on Ahmed’s income as a taxi driver. If he is deported, Salina, Tanmoy and 17-month-old Tamanna will quickly fall behind on their mortgage payments, and might end up on the street. As if all of this doesn’t make the case clear cut enough, Ahmed has had open-heart surgery and now takes daily medications that are not widely available in Bangladesh. If he is deported, his health is in danger.
The Bangladeshi-American Community Council is calling for supporters of the Hossain family to call their elected officials and rally outside Ahmed’s deportation hearing on the morning of November 8.
The rally will take place at the New York headquarters of ICE, about 10 blocks north of the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Liberty Park. If activists from the Occupy movement can come out and show ICE officials that support for Ahmed is growing across different communities in New York, it can make a real difference.
Last month, a similar campaign led by the New York State Youth Leadership Council successfully won a stay of deportation for Nazmin and Nadia Habib.
Immigrants are part of the 99 percent. Let’s all stand up for Ahmed Hossain.
- Call New York Sen. Kirstin Gillibrand at 212-909-0492 and Congressman Bob Turner at 718-520-9001 and ask them to stop Ahmed Hossain’s deportation by calling Christopher Shanahan, ICE Field Office Director, at 212-264-4213
- Sign a petition to stop Ahmed’s deportation and visit the Facebook page for information.
- Attend the rally outside of Ahmed’s deportation hearing on Tuesday, November 8 at 8 a.m. at 26 Federal Plaza in downtown Manhattan.
NY1 Interview with Ahmed.
(via nehrujackets)
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9/11ish? CASEY— KILL YOURSELF. Shut it down. NOW.
Wow. Racist much?
I would like to point out that the professor is Armenian-American…
But this fool probably doesn’t even know what continent Armenia is on.
(via wtfwhiteprivilege)
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As conscious beings, we exist only in response to other things, and we cannot know ourselves at all without knowing them. Moreover, there is nothing in theory, and certainly nothing in experience, to support the extraordinary judgment that it is the truth about himself that is the easiest for a person to know. Facts about ourselves are not peculiarly solid and resistant to skeptical dissolution. Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial — notoriously less stable and less inherent than the natures of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.
– Harry Frankfurts
