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• “India’s Daughter”
  4 March 2015, by siawi3

  A Delhi court has banned a documentary film, Leslee Udwin’s India’s Daughter, about the December 2012 fatal gang rape of a woman in the Capital over concerns that derogatory comments made by one of the rapists could create an atmosphere of fear and tension but its filmmaker has said it will be released as planned.

• How Paul Robeson Found His Political Voice in the Welsh Valleys
  11 July 2017, by siawi3

  Paul Robeson - African American singer, movie star, Broadway actor, freedom fighter and socialist -built his singing career in the teeth of racism in the early 1900s. But his radicalism was spurred on in Britain - by a chance meeting with a group of Welsh miners.

• UN: UNESCO selects France’s Azoulay as new chief
  14 October 2017, by siawi3

  Azoulay edged Qatar’s Hamad bin Abdulaziz al-Kawari after the fifth round of voting and the decision will now be put forward for approval to UNESCO’s 195 members on Nov. 10.

• Remembering Anita Brenner’s role in art and politics
  10 August 2017, by siawi3

  The Revolutionary Mexican-Born, Jewish-American Woman Who Exposed Rivera, Kahlo, and Siqueiros to the World

• France : Mein Kampf retiré de la vente
  2 juillet 2013, par siawi3

  Alors que le livre de Hitler tombera dans le domaine public le premier janvier 2016, cette affaire de Berck-sur-Mer pourrait bien relancer le débat sur la publication et la vente de Mein Kampf.
  Sous la pression du PCF et du Front de gauche, une librairie du Pas-de-Calais a retiré de ses rayons le livre programme du nazisme écrit par Hitler en 1924 et 1925. De quoi relancer le débat sur la légalité, bien réelle aujourd’hui en France, de la commercialisation de cet ouvrage.
  Est-ce légal de vendre Mein Kampf en librairie dans la France d’aujourd’hui ?

• USA: Anti-Intellectualism and the “Dumbing Down” of America
  25 March 2017, by siawi3

  There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It’s the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberate gullibility. The current trend of increasing anti-intellectualism now establishing itself in politics and business leadership, and supported by a declining education system should be a cause for concern for leaders and the general population,one that needs to be addressed now.

• Insane new uniform for girls in Afghanistan
  21 March 2017, by siawi3

  Schools are constantly under attack and closed around the country. Perhaps securing our schools is more important than controlling how school girls’ dress, no?

• Afghan women in pursuit of justice
  18 March 2017, by siawi3

  An angry mob attacked the police station in Nuristan and shot a couple that had eloped to marry without the consent of their families and communities.

• India: Will Never Quit Singing, Says Assam Teen Nahid Afrin After Fatwa By Muslim Clerics
  15 March 2017, by siawi3

  A Muslim teen singer in Assam has been guaranteed protection by the government after nearly 50 Muslim clerics in the state issued a fatwa against her. Nahid Afrin, who, two years ago, placed high on Indian Idol Junior, the famous talent search show, has been asked to stop singing in public by the clerics. While there is little doubt that Afrin has been at the receiving end of bigotry more than once as a result of her singing, was there actually a fatwa?

• Daesh and music
  17 March 2017, by siawi3

  Apart from its military activities on the ground and hard attempts for state building, Daesh has another face: its various cultural activities. An important part of Daesh’s cultural power is propaganda as a form psychological warfare. War for Daesh includes cultural war. Is it possible for a Salafi-Takfiri group such as Daesh to use music in their activities?

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