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| United States - Mumia Abu-Jamal : “I am an outlaw journalist” |
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Reporters without borders On August 29th, 2010, Reporters Without Borders Washington DC representative, Clothilde Le Coz, visited Mumia Abu-Jamal, prisoner on death row for nearly three decades. Ms. Le Coz was accompanied by Abu-Jamal's lead attorney, Robert R. Bryan, and his legal assistant, Nicole Bryan. The meeting took place in room 17 of the State Correctional Institution (SCI) in Waynesburg, Greene county, Pennsylvania. Reporters Without Borders: As a journalist who continues to work in prison, what are your (...)
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| Canada. Public sector employment down |
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Public sector employment on a seasonally adjusted basis declined 0.2% from the first quarter to 3.6 million in the second quarter. This decline offset a slight gain in the previous quarter.
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| Hindus applaud Vatican for speaking against Roma crackdown in France |
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Hindus have applauded Vatican and other Catholic leaders for reportedly speaking against the Roma (Gypsy) crackdown in France. “It is a step in the right direction”, Hindu statesman Rajan Zed said in a statement in Nevada (USA) today and added that other religious elite of Europe should also come out openly against the reported maltreatment of Roma communities in France, which smelled of xenophobia, racism, and intolerance.
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| Honour killing, polygamy and child bride have great ties with anti-women culture |
By Homa Arjomand |
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The reality is that honour killing, polygamy, child bride, forced marriage and arranged marriage and stoning have great ties with the growth of the anti-women culture and religious movement, in particular Islamic movements in the West. As soon as the advocators of this movement find the tiniest room to penetrate into legal system, more women will be subjected to violence and brutally slaughtered for refusing to follow the traditions of their families’ culture. It is hurtful to say that Canada under the policy of multiculturalism and cultural relativism has legally provided political Islam and all other organized religious sects, lots of ground to grow.
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| I live in San Francisco and am a gypsy and it's a terrible problem here... |
| By Ramona Mayon |
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I live in San Francisco and am a gypsy (not a Roma but an American-bred nomad) and it's a terrible problem here, the violent midnight raids, the confiscation of our property, our children nearly taken because of our "nomadic propensities" & put under legal (though thank God, not physical) custody of CPS, the constant threats of arrest (it is a "crime" and every street has signs posted "Habitation of a Vehicle Prohibited - punishable by fines/arrest").
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| Julian Assange: Whistleblower |
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Internet activist Julian Assange serves as spokesperson for WikiLeaks, a controversial, volunteer-driven website that publishes and comments on leaked documents alleging government and corporate misconduct.
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| What is Tolerance ? | |
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Everybody talks about tolerance. Why ? What is so important about tolerance ? Do you have an opinion you would like to share on tolerance ? Why should we be tolerant ? Let us know your opinion. Write your answer directly...
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New Approaches to Tolerance
By Victor Teboul, Ph.D.
Editor, Tolerance.ca® |
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Algerian-born Albert Camus once said that his homeland was the French language:« Ma patrie, c’est la langue française ». In a certain way, we belong to a language more than we do to a country. While writing La Lente Découverte de...
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