The morning coffee, reading the newspapers online, one cannot help but be struck by how filtered the US media is. Three women win the Nobel Peace prize but no mention in my old town rag, the Boston Globe. The OccupyWallStreet protests, which is a huge international story with many references to it being the equivalent of the recent "Arab Spring"... no mention of the hundreds of protest actions across the country... no mention at all.
Here and elsewhere, there has been notice paid to the situation resulting from Alabama's draconian new immigration law. Students have stopped going to school out of fear and crops are rotting in the fields. This is progress?
Ah well, I guess all I am saying is get your news from as many sources as possible while at the same time remembering that they, the media, are all part of the problem.
Santo Domingo
The view from Corazon del Pueblo
The hereafter re me
- Christopher Stowens
- Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
- Musician, photographer, videographer, reporter, ex-officio teacher, now attempting to be a world traveler
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Women to Aspire and Admire
YES!!!!!
1) President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of
Liberia.
2) Leymah Gbowee the first women in
history to bring Christin and
Muslim women together for peace.
3) Tawakul Karman 32 years old,
mother of 3. Journalist, imprisoned
for advocting peace.
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