Category: women
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“Live Working Or Die Fighting” – Paul Mason’s new book on the global labour movement
BBC Newsnight‘s indefatigable Paul Mason has a book out soon. [YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFDpQ634fmw] I’m waiting for an advance copy of this (hint, hint), but in the meantime, read more here, listen to an extract here, and order it here.
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Caught On Camera: Human Rights Video on GV [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online] It has been a bumper few weeks on GV for human rights video, so let’s get straight into it… Bandh of brothers… [via Neha] [YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvRLmupsVts] This footage, filmed by Dinesh Wagle, of United We Blog!, shows motorcycle riders being turned backed by members…
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Caught On Camera: Human Rights Videos on GV [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online] You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s been Saddam, Saddam, Saddam, in recent weeks, but GV has covered other human rights videos that deserve a bit of limelight – so, in this regular new feature, I’m going to round up the best of those…
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Leggy Couple in New Brazilian Beach-Shame Video
[YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8OHVMVhuZQ] [Thanks, Jose!]
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Egypt: Cairo’s women speak out against violence [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] In the run-up to the annual global campaign for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, Egypt’s First Lady, Suzanne Mubarak, addressing a meeting of the Arab Women’s Organisation, issued a heartfelt plea: What shall we do to face challenges of discrimination, extremism…
Sameer Padania 