Come see “Esprit de Corps”, the latest film from my Filipino director friend Kanakan-Balintagos (aka Auraeus Solito) who will attend in person at 8pm this Saturday, June 13.
Read more and buy tickets at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
“Omar Currie, 25, teaches third grade at Efland-Cheeks Elementary School in Efland, North Carolina. Three weeks ago, Currie overheard some of his students calling one of their male classmates “gay” and “a woman.” Instead of sending the bullies to the principal’s office, Currie took a different approach: He read his class King & King, a children’s fable by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland that features a same-sex romance.”
More at Huffington Post
Awesome Mongolian throat singer.
“Through every struggle that I have been confronted with, and have been subjected to – solitary confinement, long legal battles and physically transitioning to the woman I have always been – I manage not only to survive, but to grow, learn, mature and thrive as a better, more confident person.”
More at The Guardian
“Institutional racism runs throughout our criminal justice system. Its presence in police culture, though often flatly denied by the many police apologists that appear in the media now, has been central to the breakdown in police-community relationships for decades in spite of good people doing police work.”
More at Vox.com
“TWO years ago today, three journalists and I worked nervously in a Hong Kong hotel room, waiting to see how the world would react to the revelation that the National Security Agency had been making records of nearly every phone call in the United States….”
More at NY Times
“I believe connectivity is a human right, and that if we work together we can make it a reality.” – Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, August 2013
“Here’s a dose of reality: for more than four years, Facebook has been cooperating with state and federal prisons to block inmates from connecting to the networking site without reporting that cooperation in its transparency report.”
More at Electronic Frontier Foundation
Texas “Republican-controlled State Board of Education voted along party lines 10-5” to approve textbooks that extol “Moses’ influence on American democracy”. Since Texas is the second-largest state market for textbooks, the same textbooks may be sold elsewhere around the USA.
More at Associated Press via Fox News
Quite enlightening to see the discriminatory treatment of the cops toward a black man vs. a white man open carrying a gun in Oregon (it’s legal to do so there, even though I think it shouldn’t be legal no matter what color you are).
“While it’s long been known that chimps prefer cooked food when given the option, a new study goes even further, showing how chimps may have the patience, planning ability and understanding needed to do the cooking themselves if given the opportunity.”
More at Huffington Post