"The forgotten Americans: Puerto Rico after Maria" - Oliver Laughland

'This is human trafficking': After Maria, Puerto Rico to move 3,200 inmates to Arizona:

Some warn that the radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s prison system badly impacted by Hurricane Maria may have dire consequences for the civil rights of inmates

Hoje é dia de muita gente - Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

Hoje é dia de Malcolm X

Malcolm X

"Sacrificial roosters and offended feelings" - Daniil Dugum

What do a film about a Tsar’s mistress, Pussy Riot, the opera Tannhäuser, voodoo magic, and bloggers from Bryansk have in common? They’ve all “offended the feelings of believers”…

"Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald & Noam Chomsky - A Conversation on Privacy"

The balance between national security and government intrusion on the rights of private citizens will be the topic of a panel discussion featuring renowned linguist and MIT professor Noam Chomsky, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, and Intercept co-founding editor Glenn Greenwald. Nuala O’Connor, president and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology, will act as moderator.

Chomsky and Greenwald will appear in person at the event, hosted in Tucson by the University of Arizona College of Behavioral Sciences, while Snowden will appear via videoconference.

"Six ways your tech is spying on you – and how to turn it off"

So, your TV might be spying on you. It probably just wanted to join in with the rest of the technology in your life, because let’s face it: if you live in the 21st century you’re probably monitored by half a dozen companies from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep. (And if you wear a sleep tracker, it doesn’t even stop then.)Compared with some of the technology that keeps a beady eye fixed on you, the news that Samsung’s privacy policy warns customers not to discuss sensitive information in front of their smart TVs is actually fairly tame. The warning relates to a voice-recognition feature that has to be explicitly invoked, and which only begins transmitting data when you say the activation phrase “hi, TV”.But other tech that spies on you might not be so genteel. The uncomfortable fact is that your personal data is just another way to pay for products and services these days.The adage “if you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold” was coined in 2010, a lifetime ago in web terms, but it’s as true today as it always has been. What’s changed now, though, is the number of ways companies are discovering to make sharing our data with them not something we grudgingly accept, but enthusiastically embrace. Sure, they tell us, you can turn it off. But do you really want to?

Morreu William Graves

William Greaves, que morreu em Nova Iorque aos 87 anos de idade, foi um dos primeiros cronistas da realidade negra nos Estados Unidos em plena época quente da luta pelos direitos civis. Ao longo de dois anos, apresentou e produziu o aclamado magazine televisivo Black Journal, que, entre 1968 e 1970, foi o único programa nacional dedicado exclusivamente à comunidade afro-americana e chegou inclusive a vencer o Emmy de melhor magazine noticioso.

Livro recomendado - "Holocausto brasileiro" - Este livro mudou a minha vida

De Daniela Arbex

Este livro mudou a minha vida. Do horror da realidade à beleza da humanidade de quem conseguiu ser pessoa depois de ser coisa. Um livro que nos transporta, infelizmente, para um mundo que não imaginava que podia existir ainda há pouco tempo e que, provavelmente, ainda existe noutros lugares.

Uma dura realidade do mundo em que vivemos e que, tenho esperança, é possível transformar.

"A new day at the NSA" - By Doyle McManus

Individually, the concrete steps President Obama announced Friday toward reforming the National Security Agency's surveillance programs were modest. Taken together, though, they signal the end of an era of unfettered escalation in U.S. intelligence-gathering.

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Assim vai a Europa! - "Hungary is no longer a democracy"

It is now a fact: Hungary is no longer a democracy.President János Áder has just signed the implementation decrees for new constitutional reforms that wipe out what was left of opposition forces against the government.

Assim vai a Europa! - Casamento gay em França

O que está por detrás dos acontecimentos em França relativos ao casamento entre homossexuais e a adoção de crianças por estes casais?

Dois artigos que ajudam a explicar algumas coisas:

French police assault a priest protesting gay marriage. This debate is bigger and uglier than the mainstream media admits

The Fascist History Behind Dominique Venner’s Suicide at Notre Dame

Portugal na imprensa estrangeira - "Reactions to Gay Marriage Contradict French, Portuguese Stereotypes"

The heated reaction to the legalisation of same-sex marriage has run counter to the widespread image of France as the cradle of the modern republic and equal rights since the 1789 revolution. In contrast, Portugal with its reputation for prudishness, has shown itself to be much more open and tolerant. The violent backlash of wide sectors of French society against the Apr. 23 parliamentary approval of the bill allowing same-sex marriage, signed into law May 18, perplexed many observers accustomed to regarding this country as a haven of tolerance. Clashes between police and protesters, many of them members of traditionalist Catholic organisations who view gay unions as an affront to the sanctity of the family, continued late into the night of Sunday May 26.

Selma to Montgomery marches

Rosa Parks

 

Civil rights activist Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus spurred a city-wide boycott. The city of Montgomery had no choice but to lift the law requiring segregation on public buses. Rosa Parks received many accolades during her lifetime, including the NAACP's highest award.

2 de Abril de 1976 - é aprovada a Constituição da República portuguesa

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Bloody Sunday - 40 anos

A 30 de Janeiro de 1972, 13 católicos foram mortos quando soldados britânicos dispararam durante uma manifestação em Londonderry. Este dia passou a ser celebrado como o Bloody Sunday. Passam hoje 40 anos!

What happened?