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israelfacts: A Health Ministry inspector poured bleach over...

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:42:27 -0400

A Health Ministry inspector poured bleach over pots full of food in a Sudanese restaurant in Tel Aviv Sunday night.

The inspector, from the ministry’s district office for Tel Aviv, was participating in a raid by police and municipal inspectors on illegal businesses owned by African migrants. Altogether, the raid shut down 10 businesses in the city’s Neveh Sha’anan neighborhood, confiscating their equipment and welding the doors shut. The equipment was then loaded onto vans by other African migrants who had been hired as contract workers.

Many diners saw the inspector pouring bleach on the food, and one, asylum-seeker Aladin Abaker from Sudan’s Darfur region, posted photos of the incident on his Facebook page. He also described his feelings of humiliation.

“Everyone − except the destroyers − was in tears from the humiliation,” he wrote. “The waitress told us, ‘I’ve seen very harsh things in my life, like torture in Sinai, but this humiliated me more than what happened to me in Sinai.”

Abaker accused the inspector of “insensitivity to people and their culture, which sees food as a sacred thing that must be respected,” and said the raid was aimed at “embittering our lives so we’ll return to Africa ‘voluntarily.’”

Altogether, he said, more than 200 kilograms of meat, chicken and fish and over 500 prepared meals were destroyed.

The inspectors said they didn’t know where the meat came from and therefore feared for the diners’ health, Abaker wrote. “We told them: But this is the only place we’ve eaten all our meals for four years now, and none of us ever had stomach problems. Even whites eat here.”

The Health Ministry responded that inspectors had discovered “deplorable sanitary conditions, food stored under unsuitable conditions and temperatures, and food from unknown sources. In order to preserve the public’s health and that of the diners themselves, it was decided to destroy the food immediately. As part of the process of destroying the food, chemicals suitable to this purpose are used. It should be noted that this was a routine process of food destruction that is no different from other destructions of food/meat.”

Tel Aviv’s deputy city manager, Ruby Zelof, said the raids were carried out “to eradicate the undesirable phenomenon of businesses operating illegally, with sanitation and safety problems and illegal connections to electricity and water, and sales of alcoholic beverages without permits.”

Haaretz | Photo credit: Aladin Abaker

Israel is deporting Africans and also planning to put tens of thousands into detention camps.

Knesset Member Miri Regev — a member of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud Party — called the refugees “a cancer in our body” and Danny Danon — also a Likud Knesset Member — wrote on his Facebook page referring to the Africans as “infiltrators”. Interior Minister Eli Yishai said the African asylum seekers threaten “the Zionist dream,” adding, “Jobs will root them here.”

See also:

Why is the birth rate in Israel’s Ethiopian community declining? Ethiopian women who immigrated to Israel were coaxed into agreeing to injections of long-acting birth control drugs, or told they would not be allowed into the country

Israeli woman has her photo taken with Africans, titles the Facebook album: “Late night tour of the Tel Aviv Safari”, captions the photo: “There are no signs forbidding taking pictures with the animals. There were no signs that forbid feeding, but we passed on that.”

kateoplis: April 1968

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:50:35 -0400

kateoplis:

April 1968

fotojournalismus: How A Female Photographer Sees Her...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:31:07 -0400

Afghans feed pigeons at the Shrine of Hazrat Ali in northern Afghanistan, 2009.

An unidentified Afghan prostitute fixes her headscarf to cover her face in Kabul, 2008.

An Afghan boy selling balloons waits for customers in Kabul, 2009.

An Afghan girl blows bubble gum while cooking for her family in Kabul, 2007.

An Afghan policeman is seen through a hole at a police checkpoint on the outskirts of Kabul, 2007.

Two Afghan women clad in burqas whisper in a shop in Kabul, 2007.

An Afghan girl bathes her brother near a building where refugees live in Kabul, 2007.

An Afghan girl brushes her hair in Kabul, 2007.

Ten-year-old Nahid grabs a thread while weaving carpet in her home in Kabul, 2010.

Boys play on a water pipe in a cemetery in Kabul, 2007.

fotojournalismus:

How A Female Photographer Sees Her Afghanistan

Born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1984, photographer Farzana Wahidy was only a teenager when the Taliban took over the country in 1996. At age 13 she was beaten in the street for not wearing a burqa, she recalls, and she describes those years as a “very closed, very dark time.” To carry a camera would have been unthinkable.

And yet, she says, “I felt lucky compared to other women at that time.” Women were banned from continuing their education during Taliban rule. But some, like Farzana, found ways to keep studying. She would carry books under her burqa and attended what she calls an “underground school” with about 300 other students in a residential area of Kabul.

When U.S.-led forces ended Taliban rule in 2001, Wahidy was able to attend high school. A friend encouraged her to apply for a photojournalism program, knowing that she had hopes of sharing her experiences with the world.

“Day by day, as I started learning about photography, I fell more in love with it,” she says. “There was a huge need for women photographers in Afghanistan.”

Wahidy became the first Afghan female photographer to work for the AFP and later AP, two leading wire agencies, and eventually received a scholarship to continue studies in a photojournalism program in Canada. In 2010, Wahidy returned home to Afghanistan.

“I try to show the bigger image, not just show we have problems,” she says. “And we do have a lot of problems, but I do want to show normal daily life.”

Wahidy focuses on women. “This subject was important to me because I am a woman,” she says, recognizing an advantage that gives her. When she wants to document their lives, “it’s easier for a woman to get access,” she says.

Her photos of daily life range from men selling balloons on the streets to the secret lives of female prostitutes. And Wahidy was not the only one to recognize the need for this type of photography in Afghanistan. She is now part of the recently created Afghan Photography Network.

“Many Afghan photographers are not well-connected,” she explains. “We hope it will create a better connection and show Afghanistan by Afghan photographers.”

It is a young website, still in development, but the Afghan Photography Network is already bringing increased visibility to the work of Afghan photographers.

Of the eight women in her original photojournalism program, Wahidy is the only one working as a full-time photographer. Some got married, and others stopped working for reasons unknown to Wahidy. Wahidy, meanwhile, plans to continue for a very long time.

“When I shoot and I get a good photo,” she says, “that is a beautiful day.”

theonlymagicleftisart: (Jenny Mörtsell Draws)

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:26:35 -0400

theonlymagicleftisart:

(Jenny Mörtsell Draws)

How I am feeling today.

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:01:19 -0400

How I am feeling today.

seokim: Oh yea. I’m mental…

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:58:59 -0400

seokim:

Oh yea. I’m mental…

Take these sunken eyes and learn to see All your life You were...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:36:06 -0500

Take these sunken eyes and learn to see

All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free

humansofnewyork: I think MLK was so effective because he...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:18:30 -0500

humansofnewyork:

I think MLK was so effective because he balanced idealism with pragmatism. He captured the public’s imagination with lofty aims, yet focused his energy on small changes. I think it’s beautiful that our most celebrated social activist began by targeting the policy of a single city’s bus system. He changed the world by focusing on the problems in front of his face.

On this MLK Day, let’s remember to think big.

And keep our feet on the ground.

“ Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:45:00 -0500

“

Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army football team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds yesterday afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down on the bewildering panorama spread on the green plain below.

A cyclone can’t be snared. It may be surrounded, but somewhere it breaks through to keep on going. When the cyclone starts from South Bend, where the candle lights still gleam through the Indiana sycamores, those in the way must take to storm cellars at top speed.” -Grantland Rice

Four.more.days irish faithful

"Young people today want to go home at night and not just talk about WHAT they did, but WHY."

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 09:46:49 -0500

“Young people today want to go home at night and not just talk about WHAT they did, but WHY.”

- Howard Schultz (via moneyisnotimportant)

fromme-toyou: The rhythmic energy of a new...

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 09:34:17 -0500

fromme-toyou:

The rhythmic energy of a new generation… #LincolnLove

1953 Lincoln Continental Capri Convertible

Photo

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:29:03 -0500

Dear Coquette: On tomorrow's abortion

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:54:06 -0400

Dear Coquette: On tomorrow's abortion:

dearcoquette:

You said our decisions don’t matter, and I agree that’s true for most circumstances, but yesterday I found out that I’m pregnant.

Within 30 minutes of knowing, I scheduled an appointment at an abortion clinic. I’m 21, a junior in college, and I’ve been with my boyfriend for 2 years. I…

israelfacts: A group of Israeli women illegally brought some of...

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 06:32:18 -0400

israelfacts:

A group of Israeli women illegally brought some of their Palestinian counterparts from the southern part of the West Bank into Israel for a day of fun

Most of the Palestinian women had never seen the ocean before, because they live in a part of the West Bank that is landlocked. Skittish at first, then wide-eyed with delight, they waded into the Mediterranean, smiling, splashing and then joining hands, getting knocked over by the waves, throwing back their heads and ultimately laughing with joy.

They risked criminal prosecution by taking a swim, as did the dozen Israeli women who took them to the beach. And that, in fact, was part of the point: to protest what they and their hosts consider unjust laws.

In a newspaper advertisement, the group of women declared: “We cannot assent to the legality of the Law of Entry into Israel, which allows every Israeli and every Jew to move freely in all regions between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River while depriving Palestinians of this same right. They are not permitted free movement within the occupied territories nor are they allowed into the towns and cities across the green line, where their families, their nation, and their traditions are deeply rooted.

The New York Times

fotojournalismus: USA. Woodstock, Vermont. 1973. Teen...

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:49:41 -0400

fotojournalismus:

USA. Woodstock, Vermont. 1973. Teen Dream.

[Credit : Susan Meiselas]

marquetteu: postmarq: Cure for a rainy day: The Marquette...

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:44:14 -0400

marquetteu:

postmarq:

Cure for a rainy day: The Marquette Special with cheese and oyster crackers from Real Chili.

Classic.

Pictures of the Week: June 15 – 22

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:09:28 -0400

Pictures of the Week: June 15 – 22:

June 19, 2012. Catholic priest Fabio Colindres speaks with a member of Mara Salvatrucha gang during a mass at the prison of Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador.

Read more: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/06/22/pictures-of-the-week-june-15-22/#ixzz1yk990CGv

I think I wanna marry you...

Tue, 29 May 2012 17:29:08 -0400

unpluggedoutlet:

THE BAR HAS BEEN RAISED BITCHES!!!

Obama Says Same-Sex Marriage Should Be Legal

Wed, 09 May 2012 23:48:11 -0400

Obama Says Same-Sex Marriage Should Be Legal:

By publicly endorsing same-sex marriage in a television interview, the president took a definitive stand on one of the most contentious and politically charged social issues of the day.

pleatedjeans: This Week’s Daily Life in GIFs (18 GIF...

Mon, 07 May 2012 17:55:23 -0400

pleatedjeans:

This Week’s Daily Life in GIFs (18 GIF Reactions)