Peas in a pod Like the Conservatives’ voter suppression tactics during the last federal election in Canada, it looks like Russia’s governing party also rigged the vote. No surprise there, seeing the inherent similarities in the two parties and its two leaders.
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gay persons of character: Video: Saint Petersburg passes homophobic law to cleanse society of gay people
Lawmakers in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday passed a controversial law banning “homosexual propaganda” in the city of nearly five million inhabitants. The city’s governor, Georgy Poltavchenko, has vowed to sign the legislation, which would mak…
Continue readinggay persons of character: Video: Saint Petersburg passes homophobic law to cleanse society of gay people
Lawmakers in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday passed a controversial law banning “homosexual propaganda” in the city of nearly five million inhabitants. The city’s governor, Georgy Poltavchenko, has vowed to sign the legislation, which would make reading, writing, speaking, or reporting on anything related to gayness a crime. In other
Continue readinggay persons of character: Video: Saint Petersburg passes homophobic law to cleanse society of gay people
Lawmakers in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday passed a controversial law banning “homosexual propaganda” in the city of nearly five million inhabitants. The city’s governor, Georgy Poltavchenko, has vowed to sign the legislation, which would make reading, writing, speaking, or reporting on anything related to gayness a crime. In other
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: St. Petersburg Bans “Homosexual Propaganda”
Bad news out of Russia: St. Petersburg passed a law banning “homosexual propaganda” today. What counts as propaganda is broad and ill-defined, so Russian Slap readers may officially reading be illegal material right now! So, I guess you might want to close your windows or something, right?
Continue readingRedBedHead: Arab Dictatorships Want To Kill Syrian Revolution
The first thing that has to be said is that the Syrian people are bravely resisting and suffering under – first and foremost – the brutal Syrian regime. But the second thing that must be added is that they are suffering a second misery, which is to be the pawns
Continue readingRedBedHead: Syrian Revolution: Caught Between Repression & Imperialism
The first and foremost thing that must be said is that the people of Syria, who have resisted an utterly vicious military repression of their aspirations for nearly a year, are some of the bravest people on the planet. Day after day the government of the Assad dynasty find new
Continue readinggay persons of color: Aeroflot tells gay flight attendant to marry woman
Pure insanity from Russia. After Maxim Kupreev created an LGBT group within Aeroflot to fight for the protection of the rights of gay employees in June 2011, the airline offered him just two options. From Gaystarnews: According to internal Aeroflot sources reported by GayRussia.eu, 25-year-old flight attendant Maxim Kupreev was
Continue readingImpolitical: Tuesday drive-by blogging
A collection of items noted in the past week or so. 1. Canadian Press had a good year end type piece on the 24th. It captured what was, to me, the quote of the year from Stephen Harper. CP used it as a metaphor and it does indeed work: No
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2011-12-11 02:07:00
PERSONAL MOLLY DEBATES THE INSANE Most of Molly’s “action” is now over at her Facebook site. Over there there is an interesting “debate” if you can call it such. The substance concerens the “torching” of a cop car by supposed anarchists at a recent demonstration about the rigged Russian election.
Continue readingArt Threat: Networked Shock Art: Voina in the News – Analysis of political interventions of Russian art collective
For the last year Vorotnikov and Nikolaev have been waging a legal battle with Russian authorities for their freedom. While these challenges facing Voina have been well documented on Art Threat, Free Voina, and other alternative media sources, another battle is being fought: against state, art world, and dominant media
Continue readinggay persons of color: To Russia, from Love
To Russia, Just a quick note to let you know that it has become clear to me that I am needed there, especially in light of an ongoing crackdown on the gay and lesbian community, spearheaded by your ruling United Russia Party. Let us not forget that spending time and
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Russia Proposes Ban On “Gay Propaganda”
The city of Saint Petersburg in Russia has introduced a bill that would impose a $100 fine for anyone found promoting “homosexual propaganda.” The fine is increased up to $1,600 for organisations. The bill defines homosexual propaganda as a “public act promoting homosexuality, bisexuality, or transgenderism to minors.” “Public act,”
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Lessons from Kyrgyzstan
A year before the Arab Spring, Kyrgyzstan experienced a populist uprising of its own complete with violent conflict, from both the state and between ethnicities, and resulted in a change of governance. The lessons that can be drawn from the recent history in Kyrgyzstan are useful in putting some of the Arab
Continue readingArt Threat: We must remember war in order to stop it – Friday Film Pick: Come and See
For Remembrance Day watch Klimov’s classic anti-war film COME AND SEE.
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism in Russia: Pravda Misrepresents Asperger’s as Autism
Like its mainstream media counterparts in the US and Canada the Russian news service Pravda is busy misrepresenting Asperger’s as Autism. In Autism: Life full of struggle and success there is mention of Asperger’s as “an” autism disorder. …
Continue readingLeDaro: Put-in in and Medvedev out as the president of Russia
Vladimir Put-in is going to be put back in as the President and caretaker Dmitry Medvedev will continue to serve Putin as a Prime Minister now. Putin is not much different than a Tsar or Stalin(ing ) in office for another 12 years as term length has be…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Libyan Rebels Are NATO Patsies For A New Great Game In Africa
Today: UK PM Cameron with Mustafa Abdul Jalil,
head of rebel TNC & former Gaddafi Justice Minister
In the first days following the pro-democracy demonstrations and then uprising in Libya, it would have taken a hard heart indeed to not support t…
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Another Russian Gay Pride March Ends In Violence
For the sixth consecutive year, Moscow has forbidden a peaceful gay rights demonstration from happening within the city, and for the sixth consecutive year, equal rights advocates have defied the ban—with violent consequences. Sadly, this isn’t a surprise. Homophobia runs very deep in Russian culture, so the same story returns year after year. An otherwise […]
Continue readinggay persons of color: Watch from Russia: What would you do…?
As most of you have probably already heard, violence erupted in Moscow on May 28, when gay rights activists and their hateful far right opponents clashed at the sixth straight attempt to hold a gay pride parade in the Russian capital. Among the tens of…
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