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In 2006, the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP) was signed into law by the Bush Administration, giving the U.S. Government the power to declare a “national emergency” for any infectious disease they claim is spreading and therefore require mandatory vaccinations for the entire population of the United States. In other words, U.S. citizens can now be denied their constitutional right of choice and be force-vaccinated or face jail time for being a “threat to national security,” all without trial, and without any legal representation. (http://www.infowars.com)

fotojournalismus:

Portraits of victims of the June 4,1989 bloodshed are displayed at the June 4 Memorial Museum run by pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the June 4th military crackdown on a pro-democracy student movement in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Tens of thousands of protesters take part in a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park June 4, 2012 to mark the 23rd anniversary of the military crackdown of the pro-democracy movement at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
[Credit : Vincent Yu / AP]

fotojournalismus:

Portraits of victims of the June 4,1989 bloodshed are displayed at the June 4 Memorial Museum run by pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the June 4th military crackdown on a pro-democracy student movement in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Tens of thousands of protesters take part in a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park June 4, 2012 to mark the 23rd anniversary of the military crackdown of the pro-democracy movement at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

[Credit : Vincent Yu / AP]

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anti-propaganda:

McCain and Israel’s Bombing of the U.S.S. Liberty (by votenader08)

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thepeoplesrecord:

African women have traditionally used their bodies as a form of protest for generations. Many have used the threat or actual act of nakedness/undress as a form of effective political protest for centuries. In Nigeria for instance, most believe that their mother’s bodies are to be revered. As such, it is taboo for a woman, and particularly a married or older woman, to choose to disrobe in reaction to a social/political situation. In the 1930s, members and supporters of the Abeokuta Women’s Union walked naked in protest of the Alake of Abeokuta’s political actions and forced him into exile. In 2001, a team of scientists abandoned their research after naked Kenyan women descended on their facility. Similarly, in 2006, female South African prisoners staged a setshwetla - naked protest - to prevent their relocation to another prison facility.

thepeoplesrecord:

African women have traditionally used their bodies as a form of protest for generations. Many have used the threat or actual act of nakedness/undress as a form of effective political protest for centuries. In Nigeria for instance, most believe that their mother’s bodies are to be revered. As such, it is taboo for a woman, and particularly a married or older woman, to choose to disrobe in reaction to a social/political situation. In the 1930s, members and supporters of the Abeokuta Women’s Union walked naked in protest of the Alake of Abeokuta’s political actions and forced him into exile. In 2001, a team of scientists abandoned their research after naked Kenyan women descended on their facility. Similarly, in 2006, female South African prisoners staged a setshwetla - naked protest - to prevent their relocation to another prison facility.

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What’s that, article?

http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1234&context=jgspl

You say Iranian women are forced into submission by oppressive Muslim rule? You hold an Orientalist view that Middle Eastern women are forced to live in the home, being oppressed by wearing the veil/hijab/burka while churning out babies and being beaten by their husbands or honor killed by their male family?

I’m sorry, I didn’t hear you over our massive Iranian female police force armed with sub-machine guns, scaling walls, wielding swords, and shooting out of car windows. 

but of course, some will overlook these expressions of agency, still pointing to the covering using it as the end all evidence of suppression. :/