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Open Letter to Facebook- to take action on gender-based hate speech #FBRape #Vaw

May 21, 2013 An Open Letter to Facebook: We, the undersigned, are writing to demand swift, comprehensive and effective action addressing the representation of rape and domestic violence on Facebook. Specifically, we call on you, Facebook, to take three actions:… Continue Reading →

SC – No arrest for posts on social sites without permission #ITact #Censorship

PTI In view of public outrage over people being arrested for making comments or liking posts on Facebook, Centre had issued advisory not to arrest a person in such cases without prior approval of a senior official. The Supreme Court… Continue Reading →

Mumbai – Demolition of a dream house

Alok Deshpande , The Hindu, may 1,2013 _ Campa Cola residents on protest against demolition notice (Source:- Facebook Community ‘Save Campa Cola Compound’) Mumbai is rapidly becoming a place for chosen few. Chosen, on the basis of money. The rich,… Continue Reading →

Teen Rapper Arrested on Terrorism Charges for Rap on Boston Marathon Bombing #WTFnews #FOE #FOS

The suburban teenager is being held on $1 million bail, and faces possibly 20 years. May 2, 2013  | A Massachusetts high school student faces felony charges for allegedly posting on social media rap lyrics that police say amount to terrorist… Continue Reading →

Kerala – Environmental Activist is labelled “anti-national and terrorist” #WTF

 ‘Industry-politician nexus is trying to eliminate us’ Author(s): M Suchitra, downtoearth Issue Date: Apr 24, 2013 Purushan Eloor is an environmental activist and research coordinator with Periyar Malineekarana Virudha Samithy (PMVS), which has been fighting against industrial pollution in the Periyar river, the… Continue Reading →

Rape Culture: 3 Reasons Most Men Are to Blame For Misogyny #Vaw

Aleksandar Deejay in http://www.policymic.com Rape Culture 3 Reasons Most Men Are to Blame For Misogyny The discourse surrounding rape culture and the pervading attitudes of victim blaming are reaching an all-time epoch with each new shared and re-shared story on a new… Continue Reading →

Hindu-Muslim And The Facebook War: Online Communalism #socialmedia

Posted on: April 29, 2013, Youth Ki Awaaz By Nihal Parashar: I wrote a dissertation titled ‘Building of a Communal State in a Virtual World: Hindu-Muslim relation seen through the lens of YouTube and Facebook’. I was trying to interrogate the role… Continue Reading →

With anti-reservation, anti-women comments, candidates embarrass Loksatta- Kractivism IMPACT

SUDIPTO MONDAL, The Hindu, April20, 2013 One candidate asked to withdraw nomination, two others reprimanded The Loksatta Party, which is set to make its debut in the Karnataka Assembly elections promising “clean” politics, has run into trouble with three of… Continue Reading →

Margaret Thatcher dead: 10 key quotes from Glenda Jackson’s speech on the former PM #Video

By Ben Rankin 10 Apr 2013 19:18  The Labour MP ripped in to Margaret Thatcher’s record as Prime Minister during today’s Commons debate  1. “Thatcherism wreaked the most heinous, social, economic and spiritual damage upon this country” 2. “It’s a pity… Continue Reading →

कॉमरेड शालिनी को भावभीनी श्रद्धांजलि , Tributes paid to Comrade Shalini

उनके अधूरे कार्यों और सपनों को पूरा करने का संकल्‍प लिया लखनऊ, 4 अप्रैल। कॉमरेड शालिनी जैसी युवा सांस्कृतिक संगठनकर्ता के अचानक हमारे बीच से चले जाने से जो रिक्तता पैदा हुई है उसे भरना आसान नहीं होगा। उन्होंने एक… Continue Reading →

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