It’s a start. TOKYO (AP) – Japan’s parliament voted Friday to recognize the Ainu ethnic group as the country’s indigenous people for the first time and urged steps to reverse a century of discrimination and poverty. The votes in both… Read More ›
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The Inaugural Down Under Feminists Carnival
Hoyden About Town is proud to present the first edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival! I hope you enjoy this spectacular buffet of feminist writing. The Down Under Feminists Carnival is open to feminist submissions from any blog based… Read More ›
Journalwatch: Indigenous people with lung cancer receive less treatment, die sooner
The Indigenous Health 19 May 2008 issue of the Medical Journal of Australia has just gone live, and the table of contents is available here. [Free registration is required to read the full-text articles.] This research paper leapt out at… Read More ›
More complacent denigration
crossposted at LP Last year Paul Norton wrote with some sadness and much asperity “Is David Burchell brain-dead?” Referring to the particular column which prompted the post, Paul contrasted ex-communist Burchell’s stance with the positions taken by anti-communist Robert Manne… Read More ›
Quick link: no link between NT indigenous community permit system and child abuse
Andrew Bartlett writes: The previous federal government used the spectre of child sexual abuse as justification to scrap the permit system contained in the Land Rights Act, which required people wishing to visit Aboriginal freehold land in the Northern Territory… Read More ›
Update: Seal Press and Amanda Marcotte respond to racist artwork in Jungle quagmire
Update 27 Apr 2008: profbwoman at WOC PhD has an formidable series. Why Seal Press is OFF the Syllabus Don’t Mess With Feminist Press Why Seal Press is Off the Syllabus pt. 2 Celebrating Feminist and Multicultural Presses: Publishers that… Read More ›
Racist artwork from Marcotte’s Seal Press book “It’s a Jungle Out There”
Some artwork from Amanda Marcotte’s book “It’s A Jungle Out There”, published by Seal Press, is now online at Dear White Feminists. I wrote about Seal Press a short while ago, here, and y’all know about the current AM/appropriation conversation… Read More ›
Arizona legislature seeks to ban “race-based” clubs from campuses
Brooklynite’s new blog is live (Congratulations!). Check it out at studentactivism.net. The entry that leapt out at me: “Arizona Law Would Ban “Race-Based” Clubs” A bill passed by a committee of the Arizona state legislature would prohibit groups “based in… Read More ›
From Little Things, Big Things Grow: the GetUp Mob
Making pop songs from political speeches seems to be becoming a trend. The GetUp Mob has set the Apology to music. The song originates in Paul Kelly’s “From Little Things, Big Things Grow”, written in the 80s about the 1966… Read More ›
Stolen Generations experiments: Australia’s Tuskegee?
[image source: Turing Foundation] News.com.au: Aboriginal children ‘injected with leprosy’ Allegations have arisen that Aboriginal children from the Stolen Generation may have been infected with leprosy or injected with experimental medication while institutionalised. The issue was raised during a Senate… Read More ›
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