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décembre 03, 2009

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Interactive Guardian map of the detained in Iran

From The Guardian , 29 July 2009: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2009/jun/29/iran-election-dead-detained A month ago today, the Guardian began an attempt to record the names and faces of those killed or imprisoned in Iran since the 12 June election – and we asked you to help, locating the blogs, Facebook profiles and news stories connected with those in the protests against what was claimed as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's victory. Iran's official figures for the six weeks since the election include 2,500 arrests in Tehran alone, with as many as 150 still in jail and 30 dead. The true figures are believed to be much higher – the death toll could be in the hundreds . Our figures come from human rights groups and campaigners inside and outside Iran, news reports and our users. They are: 80 dead, around 750 still detained, just under 100 released and 10 missing or not heard of since the mid-June protests. Iran yesterday announced the release of 140 people from Evin prison ...

My Postcolonial / Cultural Analysis Of Yoga.

Someone asked me the other day why I sport a "Fuck Yoga" T-shirt. That I designed and silkscreened myself. So: Thoughts for the day: On Yoga. WHEREAS: This is a blog, and hence these comments are somewhat unsolicited; I am not a lecturer on all things postcolonial; Opening up a 'dialogue' on this blog is pretty, shall we say, limited, if not unilateral; AND WHEREAS I am brown and from once-(thrice-,actually) colonised: THUS: The Essential notes. Stemming from Postcolonial theory [my own compacted paraphrasing] : The analysis of the Mess left in countries whose peoples and resources have been colonised and/or appropriated ; The examination of resistance ; The emergent "reconstitutive"forces after the pullout of the colonisers -- the replay of oppression and control amongst the oppressed ; the coloniser's exotification of the colonised in attempt to concretise the idea of non-colonial practise ; the reaction of the colonised to said exoti...

planning for december:

so for those of you who may not be in the Know: my silkscreen's back from the slack. so: inspired (and you know who you are!) by ideas for said Shirts: please let me know what y'all prefer. and for some reason i can only post these shown here . . . even so: For the happy: Or for those who'd like to be: Pour les français : And for those who're thinking Other thoughts: enjoy! and here's to december first. ~a.

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