Two Years Later
I was going through the archives on my blog and I found something I had posted on July 21, 2006.
The sides are clear, according to the Western World, Hezbollah kiddnapped (captured?) two (count them two) Israeli soilders. They started it.... Israel has the right to defend itself. In theory. However, innocents never have the right to be caught in between espeically when they are just trying to live their life.
I don't know if you all remember of not, but this was what started the bombings that led many deaths including those of United Nations Peace Keepers, and nearly destroyed Beirut.
Well two years later Israel got the bodies back - in exchange for a few prisoners. This world we live in is crazy. I think I agree with the idea that exchanging prisoner for bodies sets a bad president - it doesn't really give the kidnappers much reason to keep people alive. Bodies are much easier and cheaper to look after!
I'm just saying..
I am not going to lie...
Ugandan men are beautiful - at least most of them are...
They are incredibly fit - here's why:
- Most of them walk everywhere they need to go.
- All at one time or another have had to dig - basically really intense gardening.
- Many of them have jobs that require manual labour - not much in the way of mechanization around here.
- Football is popular, so even after the manual labour, the football pitches are full in the evenings.
- The diets are low in fat. Every meal is carbo loading for the next day. Like athletes.
Most of the men want to be fat, but they are not. And that is okay with me - eye candy.
Seriously I love Zapiro
I'm not suggesting anything... I'm sure that Zapiro isn't either... He's just saying....
Power to the People
To me some ideas don't get old and the idea of the people actually having the power is one of them. I am reading a great book right now called, 'One No, Many Yeses' about the Anti-capitalism/globalization movement. It covers all my favourite activist groups: the Zapatistas struggles in Chiapas, protesters in Genoa and Seattle, and the CultureJammers. Reading it also sparked a great conversation about the importance of women in government and other organizations.
Some great links:
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping: Even my Ugandan Aunt has heard of him and his anti-consumerism movement.
The
Zapatiasta Movement: from the mountains of Chiapas Mexico, to the streets of cities everywhere..
AdBusters Magazine: Based in Vancouver Canada, this magazine is famous for it's spoof ads.
The
IndyMedia site: is crucial to see the news that doesn't make the nightly news. Most of the media is from freelancers and community members.
A clipping to Share
Found this in the New Vision, one of Kampala's Newspapers
"UN Envoy in Burma"
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Myanmar's military junta greeted visiting UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari with state-sponsored rallies calling for "respect" from the UN as he tried to coax the generals into reforms, officials media reported yesterday. "We Respect the UN, We Respect Gambari, Respect Myanmar," read a slogan at one rally, which people were forced to attend.//
Right because clearly a few hundred people at a forced rally will make the rest of the world forget the junta's brutal crackdown on monks!
