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The American Prospect: How Kansas Banned Abortion
In a 36-page set of rules drawn up on June 17, Kansas mandated, among other requirements, that procedure rooms be at least 150 square feet in size; that there be 50 square feet of janitorial storage space per procedure room; and that toilet rooms be adjacent to recovery rooms. Forty-four… (Source: prospect.org, via awesomestman)
KAL’s cartoon: this week, a bitter pill
"I think it’s about how it doesn’t matter who you are. If you’re a girl who likes girl stuff, or a boy who like boy stuff, it just matters if you’re human."
Fourth-grade student Desmond Pare after an Oakland elementary school began gender-inclusive education.
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Palestinian Protests on Israel’s Borders
On Sunday, Palestinians and their supporters marked the 63rd anniversary of what they call the “Nakba,” or catastrophe, that befell them as hundreds of thousands fled or were pushed out of their homes following Israel’s establishment in 1948. They observed the anniversary this year by staging coordinated demonstrations, in part inspired by recent protests around the Arab world. Thousands marched on Israeli borders and walls in Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, and Lebanon. Where they attempted to climb border fences and enter Israel, Israeli troops opened fire, reportedly killing a dozen and injuring over 100. At the Syrian border, over 100 protesters breached the border, at least one of them hitchhiking 130 miles into Tel Aviv.
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Palestinian Protests on Israel’s Borders
On Sunday, Palestinians and their supporters marked the 63rd anniversary of what they call the “Nakba,” or catastrophe, that befell them as hundreds of thousands fled or were pushed out of their homes following Israel’s establishment in 1948. They observed the anniversary this year by staging coordinated demonstrations, in part inspired by recent protests around the Arab world. Thousands marched on Israeli borders and walls in Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, and Lebanon. Where they attempted to climb border fences and enter Israel, Israeli troops opened fire, reportedly killing a dozen and injuring over 100. At the Syrian border, over 100 protesters breached the border, at least one of them hitchhiking 130 miles into Tel Aviv.
See more incredible images at In Focus
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This Is The Police -- Put Down Your Camera
There are more than 280 million cellphone subscribers in the U.S., and many of those phones can record video. With so many cameras in pockets and purses, clashes between police and would-be videographers may be inevitable. Consider what happened to Khaliah Fitchette. Last year, Fitchette, who was 16 at the time, was riding a city bus in Newark, N.J., when two police officers got on to deal with a man who seemed to be drunk. Fitchette decided this would be a good moment to take out her phone and start recording. “One of the officers told me to turn off my phone, because I was recording them,” she said. “I said no. And then she grabbed me and pulled me off the bus to the cop car, which was behind the bus.” The police erased the video from Fitchette’s phone. She was handcuffed and spent the next two hours in the back of a squad car before she was released. No charges were filed. (Source: azspot)
"We say it is higher than the mountains, deeper than the oceans, stronger than steel, dearer than eyesight, sweeter than honey, and so on."
Pakistan’s ambassador to Beijing describes the robust friendship between the two countries. Many suspect China has asked Pakistan for the remains of the American stealth helicopter abandoned during the bin Laden raid. (via theeconomist)
The People’s Republic of China might have a legitimate geopolitical interest in Pakistan, its tendency to run into secular semi-stable military dictatorships seems to - at least philosophically -have some common ground. At the same time, there are too many people democrats or Islamic fundamentalists for any Sino-Pakistani relationship last in the long run at the moment.
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