nisiablog
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Nadia Murad, featured in Alexandria Bombach’s 2018 Sundance Film Festival Directing Award winning documentary On Her Shoulders, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last week alongside Dr. Denis Mukwege, “for their work to highlight and eliminate the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.”
Documented in On Her Shoulders, 23-year-old Nadia Murad leads a harrowing but vital crusade: to find the most influential platforms in the world and speak out on behalf of the embattled Yazidi community who face mass extermination by ISIS militants. Having narrowly escaped with her own life, Nadia must now relentlessly recount on radio shows, at rallies, and even on the floor of the United Nation’s general assembly her ordeal as a Yazidi sex slave and witness to her family’s brutal killings. Though excruciating, she forces herself to revisit these realities again and again. For without her testimony, the genocide happening right in front of the world’s eyes might go completely unnoticed.
On Her Shoulders is screening in select cities nationwide, find a theater near you.
Film Still courtesy of On Her Shoulders
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
” Why is nobody talking about the fact that the Florida shooting was an anti-Semitic hate crime except for Jews? The school was more than 40% Jewish. The shooter was a part of a white supremacist organization, actively and openly hated Jews more than anyone else, would beat up Jewish kids, etc. The head of the white supremacist organization made a public statement that the organization had nothing to do with the shooting but if he had to guess why Cruz did it, it was because the school was predominantly Jewish. “We’re not a big fan of Jews,“ Republic of Florida Militia leader Jordan Jerub stated in an interview with The Daily Beast. “I think there were a lot of Jews at the school that might have been messing with him.”
It seems like only Jewish news sources are reporting on this and the comments on the articles by non-Jews are sickening. People are saying that “Jews want to be oppressed so badly. He shot up the school because they expelled him, not because he hated Jews.” People are saying we’re “appropriating struggles of people of color” by claiming that he killed Jewish kids because he’s a white supremacist. I’m sorry, why can’t we acknowledge that someone shot up a Jewish school because he was anti-Semitic without it taking away from the struggles of other minorities?
When Jews say we are oppressed, people often respond with “show me real hate crimes against Jews and then we’ll believe you when you say you’re discriminated against,” but then someone who talks about wanting Jews dead shoots up a school that’s mostly Jewish and people still refuse to acknowledge that it’s a real hate crime.
The Jewish community is not a large one. I know people who knew some of those kids, who went to Jewish summer camp with them, whose parents were family friends etc. Fuck anti-Semites and fuck people who shoot children and fuck people who refuse to acknowledge that people are targeted, assaulted, and even killed for being Jewish on a regular basis. According to the FBI, 1.7% of Americans are Jewish, but last year 54.2% of religiously motivated hate crimes were against Jews and 11.5% of overall hate crimes were against Jews.
If your intersectionality doesn’t include Jews, you’re doing social justice wrong.”
A Very Short Fact: On this day in 1865, The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The amendment outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude, and was the first constitutional amendment in 60 years. It was the first of three Reconstruction Amendments that followed the American Civil War.
“The Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery, but it did not set things right. Following emancipation, African Americans waged profound struggles to make their freedom meaningful. Some set out on the roads or placed advertisements in newspapers to search for family members from whom they had been forcibly separated during slavery. Black communities, sometimes with help from the federal government’s Freedmen’s Bureau and missionary teachers from northern denominations, established schools for both children and adults. Freed people established independent churches free from white supervision, and they often housed schools in the sanctuaries. Some freed people established businesses. African Americans advocated in state legislatures for the right to serve on juries, the right to testify in court against whites, and most importantly, the right to vote.”
[P. 115-American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction by Heather Andrea Williams]
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Image credit: Harper’s Weekly cartoon depicting celebration in the House of Representatives after adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment by Internet Archive. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
your daily reminder that Cyntoia Brown has to spend the holidays in prison because she defended herself from being raped at age 16. a petition was created that needs about 20k more signatures in order to bring more attention regarding a clemency to the Senator of Tennessee (where she is currently imprisoned). CYNTOIA BROWN NEEDS TO BE FREED.
- Nichelle Nichols
- Nichelle Nichols
Solar System: Things to Know This Week
Add to your electronic bookshelf with these free e-books from NASA!
1. The Saturn System Through the Eyes of Cassini
This work features 100 images highlighting Cassini’s 13-year tour at the ringed giant.
2. Earth as Art
Explore our beautiful home world as seen from space.
3. Meatballs and more
Emblems of Exploration showcases the rich history of space and aeronautic logos.
4. Ready for Our Close Up
Hubble Focus: Our Amazing Solar System showcases the wonders of our galactic neighborhood.
5. NASA’s First A
This book dives into the role aeronautics plays in our mission of engineering and exploration.
6. See More
Making the Invisible Visible outlines the rich history of infrared astronomy.
7. Ready for a Deeper Dive?
The NASA Systems Engineering Handbook describes how we get the job done.
8. Spoiler Alert
The space race really heats up in the third volume of famed Russian spacecraft designer Boris Chertok memoirs. Chertok, who worked under the legendary Sergey Korolev, continues his fascinating narrative on the early history of the Soviet space program, from 1961 to 1967 in Rockets and People III.
9. Take a Walk on the Wild Side
The second volume of Walking to Olympus explores the 21st century evolution of spacewalks.
10. No Library Card Needed
Find your own great read in NASA’s free e-book library.
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how wonderful!
goodbye, Cassini.
That's me on the Myers Briggs -- INTJ.
INTJ
“Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time” - Sappho
Requested by anonymous.
You’ve been visited by the crying racists
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There will always be those who mean to do us harm. To stop them, we risk awakening the same evil within ourselves. Our first instinct is to seek revenge when those we love are taken from us. But that’s not who we are… When Christopher Pike first gave me his ship, he had me recite the Captain’s Oath. Words I didn’t appreciate at the time. But now I see them as a call for us to remember who we once were and who we must be again. And those words: Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), dir. J. J. Abrams.
What makes it even worse is that the competition is held at Constitution Hall in Washington D.C.
Rise up, people! This cynical, secretive, arrogant, and cowardly behavior IS NOT ACCEPTABLE in our country.
wow and ow
wow and ow
Happy Martian New Year!
For any planet, a year is the time it takes to make one orbit around the sun. Because Mars is farther away from the sun, it has to travel a greater distance than Earth. It takes Mars about twice as long as it does for Earth to make one circle around the sun…therefore, a year on Mars lasts twice as long.
On May 5, Mars passes solar longitude 0 as the sun crosses the equator on Mars. This is the vernal equinox and was chosen by planetary scientists as the start of a new year.
Mars has four seasons, roughly twice as long as those on Earth, but with more variation given Mars’ eccentric orbit and the fact its orbital speed varies more as a result.
Did you know that there’s a U.S. city named Mars? Mars, PA hosts an annual Mars New Year celebration and we’re participating in this two-day science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) event to inspire young people to pursue innovation and exploration.
More info on Mars, PA: http://www.marsnewyear.com/
Get updated images from the events in Mars, PA here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/sets/72157683457751005/
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The following is a letter from Leslie Knope, who works for the U.S. Department of the Interior, Midwest Branch, in her hometown of Pawnee, Indiana. She believes that optimism defeats pessimism, and asks that if you have the means, you kindly make a donation to the ACLU, the International Rescue Committee