Immigration : 15 000 Africains morts en Méditerranée en 20 ans. En prélude de la Journée des migrants, célébrée le 18 décembre, le Président de l’association « Horizon sans frontières », Boubacar Seye a révélé que plus de 15.000 personnes de toutes nationalités confondues avaient perdu la vie, en tentant de traverser la Méditerranée.
(De notre correspondant) Le Président de l’association « Horizon sans frontières », Boubacar Seye a chiffré le nombre de victimes de l’immigration clandestine : « Entre 1989 et 2009, il y a eu plus de 15.000 morts en Méditerranée, en moyenne », a-t-il révélé, d’où la nécessité, selon lui de revoir le code de l’immigration. « Il y a une urgence de changer les lois et elle est aussi due aux pertes humaines enregistrées, parce qu’aujourd’hui, ce ne sont plus les pauvres qui migrent.
Nous sommes dans un contexte de globalisation, nous avons 850 millions de personnes qui franchissent les frontières. Le mois de novembre dernier, deux pirogues remplies de jeunes ont chaviré aux larges des côtes marocaines. 20 ways to not be a gentrifier in Oakland (Community Voices) By Dannette Lambert Gentrification is the word of the day in Oakland.
Everywhere you look people are asking, “Am I a gentrifier? Is it bad? To Body Mod Away From Brownness And Back. Des Papiers Pour TouTEs. MORTS AUX FRONTIÈRES DE L’EUROPE. J’ai lu un article très intéressant sur la guerre contre l’immigration, et les morts étrangers qui en découlent. Vous trouverez l’article complet ici . Ce billet est juste là pour en souligner quelques aspects, je vous conseille vivement de lire l’article complet. Vision globale du nombre de morts étrangers et leur localisation D’abord, voici une vision globale du nombre de morts étrangers entre janvier 93 et avril 2009 dans la défense des frontières européennes.
Ils ont recensé plus de 14 500 morts étrangers dues au contrôle des frontières.
Pinkwashing. An Industry of Propaganda, White Saviours, and Sexism. As I type, Iron Man I blares on TV in the background.
I’ve never seen Iron Man before and it’s a good thing I hadn’t, simply because, like every other hollywood produced movie, it glamourises the power of the US, hyper sexualises women and clumps them into a monolithic category, portrays racist/orientalist stereotypes of Black, South American, Russian, Chinese, Arab characters, as well as false ideas and expectations of romance. Now I should make it clear that I am not a film fanatic or celebrity fanatic for that matter, what I’ve seen of Hollywood is the films and dramas broadcasted on TV during long periods of holidays when my siblings cram into the living room and keep the TV on to amuse the silence in the house. “Militants”: media propaganda.
Was the London killing of a British soldier 'terrorism'? (updated below)
The argument then was, and has always been, that... - Exiledsoul. D’où vient le mythe selon lequel les Noirs africains et antillais seraient forcément toujours hétéros ? – Partie 1. "Je crois et j’espère que les nègres étaient exempts de cette maladie morale dans leur propre pays".
Channelling Efunsetan, Ahebi, Alaba Ida, Nzinga... - To illustrate, Kendall found that the notion of... Wouldn't you rather misbehave...my way?, lol that moment when people forget why homosexuality is punishable by death in Uganda is because of Christianity. Rethinking Columbus: Towards a True People's History. This past January, almost exactly 20 years after its publication, Tucson schools banned the book I co-edited with Bob Peterson, Rethinking Columbus.
Reconsider Columbus Day. Yūgen Dreams. UNDER AMERICA'S RUG. Loggers burned Amazon tribe girl alive to force Awá tribe off of their land. UNfair. United Nothings. LowKey: Defend the Muslim Community. Carlos Andrés Gómez - What's Genocide. Boycott Apartheid ft M1 (Dead Prez) and Lowkey. Syrte after NATO bombing. The Malalas You Don't See. The Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban has rightly captured the world’s attention.
But what about the invisible child victims of US drones? On October 24 in Northwest Pakistan, two children were injured in a drone strike authorized by the President of the United States. Teju Cole: Seven short stories about drones (with tweets) · joshbegley. Panjwayi Massacre. Defense spending. Casualties Iraq. 16-year-old Omar Khadr being interrogated in Guantanamo Bay.
By Hugo Gye Updated: 12:05 GMT, 6 October 2011 A new film shows a teenager breaking down during an interrogation at Guantanamo Bay.
The 16-year-old boy repeatedly sobs 'you don't care about me' as he complains about his medical treatment. Even after his interrogators leave the room, Omar Khadr is shown quietly weeping. DN! NERMEEN SHAIKH: More than a hundred detainees held in the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are reportedly entering their fifth week of a hunger strike against deteriorating conditions.
News of the unrest comes as U.S. military officials have confirmed a guard fired rubber bullets at detainees in January for the first time in the prison’s history. The incident took place on a soccer field for cooperative captives when, authorities say, a detainee sought the attention of a guard in a watchtower who controlled a gate leading to a pathway back to the prison. The detainee allegedly tried to scale the fence. Meanwhile, more information about the ongoing hunger strike has begun to trickle out in letters from detainees. Iran/USA. Top Things you Think You Know about Iran that are not True. Thursday is a fateful day for the world, as the US, other members of the United Nations Security Council, and Germany meet in Geneva with Iran in a bid to resolve outstanding issues.
Although Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had earlier attempted to put the nuclear issue off the bargaining table, this rhetorical flourish was a mere opening gambit and nuclear issues will certainly dominate the talks. Bahrain is bleeding by foreigner hand. The war against us all. Published Mar 30, 2005 10:42 AM The following commentary was played at March 19 anti-war rallies in the United States: The war against us all.
This war in Iraq isn’t the end; it’s the beginning of wars to come all around the world at the whim of the neo-cons in the White House. This is the Bush Doctrine come to life: war, war, and more war. War brought to you by the big corporate masters who run the show. And i believe in the people, “Once we believe in the inevitability of war, war... Teju Cole - Kony 2012. Howard Zinn on war. The Art of Infinite War - Ta-Nehisi Coates. I am sitting in Baltimore Washington Airport. I am waiting on my flight to back to Boston. While going through security I refused to go through the full body scanner, and asked for the pat-down. I generally do that as a rule these days.