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The notice, initiated by the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC) - the advocacy arm of the Reform Movement in Israel - hoped to inform passengers at Ben-Gurion Airport of their rights during the Passover travel season.
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The notice, initiated by the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC) - the advocacy arm of the Reform Movement in Israel - hoped to inform passengers at Ben-Gurion Airport of their rights during the Passover travel season.
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Central American migrants board a bus before they continue their journey to the US
Central American migrants board a bus before they continue their journey to the US
Over the past two days, Trump has been bombarding his Twitter followers with messages urging Congress to use the 'nuclear option' if necessary, in order to pass a law that would curb the flight of illegal immigration to the United States. The messages blaming Latin American countries for taking advantage of US immigration laws intensified on Monday.
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In this Feb. 5, 2016 file photo provided by the Tarrant County Sheriff's Department, Ethan Couch, 18, appears in a booking photo, in Fort Worth, Texas
In this Feb. 5, 2016 file photo provided by the Tarrant County Sheriff's Department, Ethan Couch, 18, appears in a booking photo, in Fort Worth, Texas
Tarrant County sheriff's spokesman David McClelland says Ethan Couch was released Monday from the county jail near Dallas after serving nearly two years for a revoked probation.
Couch was 16 in June 2013 when he struck and killed four pedestrians. A psychologist at his manslaughter trial blamed his irresponsibility on family wealth, dubbing it "affluenza." A juvenile court sentenced him to 10 years of probation.
The US just passed a $1.3 trillion budget with $700bn for the military and the projected deficit of $800bn
US Congress passed a $1.3 trillion budget for the fiscal 2018 last week that allocates $700 billion to Pentagon. For fiscal 2019 the military has been promised $716 billion.
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Jesus: the great oppressor
Jesus: the great oppressor
According to an event description, students in a 90-minute training session will learn about ways American Christians receive things they don't deserve and are not worthy of getting: "How do we...acknowledge that Christians receive unmerited perks from institutions and systems all across our country?"
The Multicultural Student Services Center (MSSC) at GWU is hosting "Christian Privilege: But Our Founding Fathers Were All Christian, Right?!" Thursday as part of its "Excellence in Leadership Seminar," as first reported by The Christian Post.
According to the website, MSSC Associate Director and LGBTQ Resources Director Timothy Kane will discuss how American Christians have "easier" lives and get "built-in advantages over non-Christians" as well as making "room for all religious and secular identities on an equal playing field."
But the Christian privilege seminar doesn't just focus on one religion, it also singles out a race: white people.
Students will learn about "white privilege specifically" and the "role of denial when it comes to white privilege," the event description says, adding they will be able to list examples of Christian privilege and learn three ways to be an ally with non-Christians.
Other seminars offered by GWU's MSSC include: heterosexual privilege, cisgender privilege, abled-body privilege, socio-economic privilege, LGBTQIA diversity and inclusion, unconscious bias, and transgender diversity and inclusion.
Each of the privilege seminars states that they focus more specifically on white privilege.
The gender binary refers to the traditional classification of human gender into two distinct categories, masculine and feminine. Some professors at Temple University are looking to erase this "outdated" classification altogether.
Heath Fogg Davis, a professor of political science at Temple, argues in his new book that he wants to live in a world in which everyone uses a "gender-neutral pronoun."
"My argument in the book is not that we try to live beyond gender, but [to minimize] the formal use of gender and gender policies because of the ways it infringes on people's individual autonomy," Davis said. "In an ideal world, I wish that we all used a gender-neutral pronoun."
Comment: Watch Dr. Debra Soh break down the scientific realities behind gender:
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Ted Hernandez, Chairman of the Wiyot Tribe, supports removing the McKinley statue.
Ted Hernandez, Chairman of the Wiyot Tribe, supports removing the McKinley statue.
No other city has taken down a monument to a president for his misdeeds. But Arcata is poised to do just that. The target is an 8½-foot bronze likeness of William McKinley, who was president at the turn of the last century and stands accused of directing the slaughter of Native peoples in the U.S. and abroad.
"Put a rope around its neck and pull it down," Chris Peters shouted at a recent rally held at the statue, which has adorned the central square for more than a century. Peters, who heads the Arcata-based Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous People, called McKinley a proponent of "settler colonialism" that "savaged, raped and killed."
A presidential statue would be the most significant casualty in an emerging movement to remove monuments honoring people who helped lead what Native groups describe as a centuries-long war against their very existence.
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McKinley statue, Arcata, California
McKinley statue, Arcata, California
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Hamas called for the protest to be peaceful, yet they were met with live fire from Israel.
Hamas called for the protest to be peaceful, yet they were met with live fire from Israel.
On Friday, as Jewish people prepared to celebrate Passover and Christians gathered for Easter, tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip participated in largely non-violent protests as part of the Great Return March. Palestinian participants began walking towards the fence that separates the strip from Israel and were met with live fire that saw hundreds of people injured and 16 killed.
The protests were held to commemorate Land Day and demonstrate for the rights of Palestinian refugees to be resettled in Israel. Israel's response was that Hamas, which controls the strip, had "cynically" sent women and children to the fence as a human shield. Rather than expressing the grievances of Palestinians at large, then, the protests were to be seen in the context of long-standing tensions between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
Now, according to a recent Harvard University analysis, doctors who prescribe these pain-killers are being paid huge sums of money from their manufacturers.
The research, which was conducted by Harvard scientists and CNN, discovered that in 2014-2015 thousands of doctors were paid over $25,000 from opioid manufacturers and hundreds more were rewarded with six-figure sums. Also, the more opioids that were prescribed, the larger the reward.
"It smells like doctors are being bribed to sell narcotics, and that's very disturbing." - Dr. Andrew Kolodny, Executive director of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing
Comment: More about America's scourge-like opioid crisis, and what's causing it:
- Meet the secretive family who's selling billions in OxyContin and profiting from the opioid crisis (VIDEO)
- Big Pharma spent $10mn to promote 'opioid friendly' messaging
- Trump proposes death penalty for opioid traffickers - What about Big Pharma?
- Trump outlines plan to tackle opioid crisis and reduce US prescription drug prices
- American drug cartel: The politicians who took opioid tycoons' blood money
- There was no opioid epidemic in US before troops protected opium poppies in Afghanistan
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Palestinians fleeing as tear gas grenades begin to drop during a demonstration near the border with Israel east of Gaza City to commemorate Land Day.
Palestinians fleeing as tear gas grenades begin to drop during a demonstration near the border with Israel east of Gaza City to commemorate Land Day.
The country has plainly done something indefensible. The usual defenders are silent, and the criticism from the left/center is stronger than ever. Senator Bernie Sanders's sharp criticism is actually leading the U.S. discussion of the event.
Ori Nir of Americans for Peace Now captures the moment, tweeting in Hebrew (roughly translated):
"National Public Radio" Morning Edition, the United States's largest radio network, opened its news: Israel says it will not investigate the circumstances of the 15 Gaza residents killed on Friday's clashes. Another propaganda achievement of the government whose army is the most moral in the world.
Comment: Israel has literally been getting away with outright murder for decades and clearly considers itself above the law. Whether the international outrage will finally gather enough momentum to force a change in Israeli policies toward the Palestinians remains to be seen, but we are not holding our breath.
See also:
- Gerry Adams calls for Ireland to expel Israel ambassador over Land Day protest deaths in Gaza
- World outraged as Israeli Army murders unarmed protesters in Gaza
- Kuwait calls UN Security Council emergency meeting over deadly Israel-Palestine border clash
- 'NY Times' covers up Israel's killing of nonviolent protesters along the Gaza border
- Moscow urges restraint amid growing death toll in Gaza border clashes
Comment: What is a social justice warrior to do? You don't want to support patriarchal oppression, but you don't want to be antisemitic either! So it's better to ignore that contradictory issues such as these - and much worse - exist in Israel.