I can’t help but say “I told you so” : Diamond Mines and Appropriated Feminism

Red Technopolitics
May 26, 2008
Diamond Mines and Appropriated Feminism
M Murphy
Here’s a new disturbing twist on reproduction/Production and the entanglements of feminisms in global capital. The International Women’s Health Coalition, the New York based transnational feminist NGO that was so influential in reappropriating international policy language towards feminist projects of “reproductive health and “reproductive rights” have [...]

The Manifesto Turns 33

On the eve of my 33rd year of life I have nothing profound to say other than I think that this is going to be a good year. Or, to embrace the wisdom of my cousin Sunita, all is good now.
I have come through some sort of trial by fire in the [...]

The manifesto goes audio

I went to India at the end of April and somewhere between Mumbai and rural Jharkand I fell pretty ill. Luckily, I was in Delhi with my good friends when I figured out what it was that I was sick with. And, lying on their couch, my friend Sanjay says “you’ve been getting lazy with [...]

The import of democracy: marginalization and conflict

On Monday I’ll be in Nepal attending the Institute for Rights and Development hosted by CREA. I’m looking forward to this though it will take a lot of traveling to get there. (I leave on Saturday morning to go to Albany to snoop on Spitzer, just kidding. Gotta do a speaking gig [...]

Khmer Rouge trials rolling out… scapegoat?

After living in Cambodia from 2003-2005, I’m not sure how I feel about this and then again, I think it doesn’t matter at all what I think but rather what friends from and in Cambodia think. It was just 2+ years of my life. I couldn’t figure it out and my attempts to [...]

broadway had to stop to address puerto rico’s aids crisis…

BIG UPS GINA AND EDDIE!!!
Acting Up on Broadway
 
By: PAUL SCHINDLER
11/15/2007
With roughly 75 activists and a larger lunchtime crowd looking on, a dozen demonstrators protesting what they say is the federal government’s “neglect” in stepping in to end a crisis in the delivery of AIDS services in Puerto Rico laid down across Lower [...]

Pakistan: Musharaf is losing his marbles…

I got this email today from my friend, Rahal Saeed, at Aahung. I have worked with Asma Jahangir but have yet to meet the fabulous woman. Here is an inside account of what’s happening with detentions of human rights activists…

Subject: FROM ASMA JAHANGIR

Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 10:56:39 +0500

Dear Friends,

The situation in [...]

Kohlapur Awakening

I was blessed to spend several days last week with my friend, my hero, my colleague and fellow comrade, Meena Seshu in her home in Kohlapur, surrounded by glorious family by blood or by love. The drive from Pune to Kohlapur through the Deccan Plateau was kissed with a tea time sunset.

For more on the [...]

Thinking of Myanmar

At the moment, I have taken some time to hole away at a generous friend’s home in Jamestown, Rhode Island. She has given me a room that feels right on the water. I am listening to the waves splash over rocks and the stirrings of bell-like sounds as boats sway in the harbor. I watched [...]

Dhaka, Bangladesh August 2007

When in Dhaka, one waits and waits and waits. In traffic. I sat next to this bus for about an hour. There was a moment when I felt hope as this man next to me noticed a clearing. But, then all hope was dashed. We sat side by side in exhaust and fumes and humidity [...]