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Saturday Morning Linkfest
April 1, 2006
It's Saturday AM, and it's probably too early for me to be awake, but I am. And the house is EMPTY, except for me. And...I'm reading blogs and news. Here's what's catching me:
Tiffany links up Rachel on the Duke LaCrosse rape case, and clarifies the origins of the term "wilding":
The cops ask “What were you doing in the park?†The kids — who are still working on their code-switching language skills — say, “â€We was wil’in’†or “We was wil’in’ out.â€Because adults are effin clueless about youth slang, wil’in’ not only grew a ‘D’ and a ‘G,’ but was translated by the (mostly white, all adult) cops and the (mostly white, all adult) media to mean “going out with the intent to beat and gang rape (white) women.†(Shout outs to my social studies teacher for pointing this out to us at the time. We didn’t recognize “wil’in’†with a ‘D’ and a ‘G’ in it … lol.)
I do think, however, that because they were black, and bad and from the hood, we believed that a word for “laying in wait to beat and gang rape (middle-class, white) women†was a part of the NYC colored kids lexicon.
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An FBI counterterrorism official showed the class, at the University of Texas in Austin, 35 slides listing militia, neo-Nazi and Islamist groups. Senior Special Agent Charles Rasner said one slide, labeled "Anarchism," was a federal analyst's list of groups that people intent on terrorism might associate with.The list included Food Not Bombs, which mainly serves vegetarian food to homeless people, and — with a question mark next to it — Indymedia, a collective that publishes what it calls radical journalism online. Both groups are among the numerous organizations affiliated with anarchists and anti-globalization protests, where there has been some violence.
Elizabeth Wagoner said she was one of the few students who objected to the groups' inclusion on the list. "My friends do Indymedia," she said. "My friends aren't terrorists."
Rasner said that he'd never heard of the two groups before and didn't mean to condemn them. But he added that it made sense to worry about violent people emerging from anarchist networks — "Any group can have somebody that goes south."
A personal note to the FBI: Keep up the awesome work, guys! However, if you are looking for a good vegetarian meal, I'd be happy to hook you up without, you know, wasting a ton of our resources and taxpayer dollars!
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(I just realized I haven't had any coffee yet. And I think I really need coffee if I'm going to read the fucking news.)
(and can I just say "Yay for sweet Einstein's bagel guys who end the consumer exchange with "You're AWESOME!")
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Dude, how many different ways can they find to say "Bush Lied, and, by the way, he's probably actually pretty evil" about this damn war?
The memo also shows that the president and the prime minister acknowledged that no unconventional weapons had been found inside Iraq. Faced with the possibility of not finding any before the planned invasion, Mr. Bush talked about several ways to provoke a confrontation, including a proposal to paint a United States surveillance plane in the colors of the United Nations in hopes of drawing fire, or assassinating Mr. Hussein.[...]
Mr. Bush agreed that the two countries should attempt to get a second resolution, but he added that time was running out. "The U.S. would put its full weight behind efforts to get another resolution and would twist arms and even threaten," Mr. Bush was paraphrased in the memo as saying.
The document added, "But he had to say that if we ultimately failed, military action would follow anyway."
And, oh by the way, he's also really fucking stupid:
The memo indicates the two leaders envisioned a quick victory and a transition to a new Iraqi government that would be complicated, but manageable. Mr. Bush predicted that it was "unlikely there would be internecine warfare between the different religious and ethnic groups." Mr. Blair agreed with that assessment.[...]
Summarizing statements by the president, the memo says: "The air campaign would probably last four days, during which some 1,500 targets would be hit. Great care would be taken to avoid hitting innocent civilians. Bush thought the impact of the air onslaught would ensure the early collapse of Saddam's regime. Given this military timetable, we needed to go for a second resolution as soon as possible. This probably meant after Blix's next report to the Security Council in mid-February."
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r@d@r links to amp, who links to Brownfemipower, who seems to have deleted her blog and come back (for which I say "Yay! I didn't know about you before, but I will definitely read you now") on the subject of abortion, American Indians, sexism, and (surprise!) racism with regard to access to and need for women's health services.
American Indian women will be impacted, if the law takes effect, in greater numbers than any other group. According to national statistics, American Indian women are sexually assaulted at a rate 3.5 times higher than all other racial groups. That means there are seven rapes per 1,000 American Indian women [that statistic is per year, I presume. –Amp].
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TX Feminist has a powerful post about believing rape victims, and "what she wants to hear."
This is not about what "we want to hear". I, for one, would like to stop hearing, day after day, about how many women are raped, beaten and murdered. I would like to stop hearing women called bitches who deserve it or what were they thinking or this is going to ruin those boys' future.What I want to hear is that men who are guilty of these acts stop committing them, and men who have knowledge of these acts turn in the men who did it, and men who blame women for the abuse perpetrated upon women by other men, stop blaming us.
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George has some post-sxsw thoughts here:
The one thing I feel compelled to say is I don't go to SXSW to be anybody's token. I go to meet my friends, make new ones in person and visit a city I learn new things about each time I return. I go so I can have a renewed sense of connection and ownership in the flood of ideas, products, services and partnerships on display. I go so I can talk about what I saw and learned to the super publics to whom I belong and with which I identify. I'm certain that's why Tiffany, Tony, Lynne and Jason go, and each of them knows to their bones that we are not there for our own personal glory and that we have to participate in what's going on in order to make a way for us and those we care about in what's to come.
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And, last, the anti-war blog links up this video from US soldiers returned from the Iraq war.
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