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Umm Muhammad's Blog – March 2013 Archive (14)

Myanmar government says death toll from recent attacks targeting Rohingya Muslims in central part of the country has risen to 40.

This file picture taken on March 21, 2013 shows residents walking past burning houses in riot-hit Meiktila, central Myanmar.

State media reported on Tuesday that eight more bodies were found in the wreckage of a riot-hit area in the town of Meiktila. Clashes erupted in Meiktila on March 20 when extremist Buddhists…

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Added by Umm Muhammad on March 30, 2013 at 10:00pm — No Comments

A Tale of Two Political Prisoners - and You Can Help Both of Them

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 23:37 — Glen Ford

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Added by Umm Muhammad on March 23, 2013 at 7:29am — No Comments

Aboriginals in Canada stand up for their rights

Canada’s First Nations stand up for their rights at demos

A young indigenous girl and an indigenous elder attend a gathering before a march on the Canadian Parliament to express solidarity with Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence

A young indigenous girl and an indigenous elder attend a gathering before a march on the Canadian Parliament to express solidarity with Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence's hunger strike at her camp on Victoria Island in Ottawa on January 11, 2013.…

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Added by Umm Muhammad on March 22, 2013 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

Farrakhan: America is built on the backs of the poor

Added by Umm Muhammad on March 20, 2013 at 1:30pm — No Comments

The War Against Bradley Manning—A War Against All Who Speak Out Against Injustice

By John W. Whitehead March 11, 2013

“The war against Bradley Manning is a war against us all.”—Chris Hedges, author and journalist

“I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan are targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare.”—Bradley…

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Added by Umm Muhammad on March 14, 2013 at 10:30pm — No Comments

New Yorkers rally against police brutality

Demonstrators march past New York City police officials in Union Square on October 22, 2011. (File photo)

Protesters have taken to the streets of Brooklyn, New York, to show outrage over the brutal police killing of a young suspect.

Protesters gathered in for a second night on Tuesday as tensions escalated over the death of 16-year-old Kimani Gray in East Flatbush on Saturday in a police shooting.

The teenager had…

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Added by Umm Muhammad on March 14, 2013 at 10:07pm — 1 Comment

Brother Mauri Salaakhan on the U.S. being no.1 in prison population

Added by Umm Muhammad on March 13, 2013 at 10:51pm — No Comments

Filipinos in San Francisco Rally Against Modern Slavery

Protesters in front of Philippines Consulate denounce treatment of Filipino workers in the US

Added by Umm Muhammad on March 11, 2013 at 10:13am — No Comments

Mexican Farmers Protest the Entrance of GMO Corn

Thousands across Mexico demand their government reject permits for GMO Corn while Monsanto defends their patent on life in U.S. Supreme Court

Added by Umm Muhammad on March 11, 2013 at 10:06am — 1 Comment

Natalie Wilson and Derrica Wilson Help Find the Missing

Missing African Americans Found with Grassroots Foundation

Natalie Wilson (left) and Derrica Wilson

Shaul Schwarz

One spring day in 2004 a young African-American woman named Tamika Huston vanished from her Spartanburg, S.C., apartment.

Her family did everything they could to get the media to pay attention to the 24-year-old's disappearance, sending out emails, calling newspapers and TV stations – to no avail.…

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Added by Umm Muhammad on March 7, 2013 at 3:08pm — No Comments

Indian woman on 12-year hunger strike charged

Photo: APIndia’s Irom Sharmila, who has been on a hunger strike for 12 years to protest an Indian law that suspends many human rights protections in areas of conflict, looks during a press conference, in New Delhi, India, Monday, March 4, 2013. Sharmila who has been force fed through a tube by…

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Added by Umm Muhammad on March 7, 2013 at 2:38pm — No Comments

Venezuelan President Hugo Chevez dies of cancer

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks during a press conference in Caracas on October 9, 2012.

Wed Mar 6, 2013 12:18AM GMT

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Added by Umm Muhammad on March 6, 2013 at 11:50am — No Comments

Creation by Divine Inspiration

Divine Revelation in the Book of TRUTH

''Most surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day, and the ships that run in the sea with that which profits men, and the water that God sends down from the cloud, then gives life with it to the earth after its death and spreads in it all (kinds of) animals, and the changing of the…

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Added by Umm Muhammad on March 3, 2013 at 8:31pm — No Comments

Screen Propaganda, Hollywood and the CIA

“One of the most pervasive trends in 21st century western culture has become somewhat of an obsession in America. It’s called “Hollywood history”, where the corporate studio machines in Los Angeles spend hundreds of millions of dollars in order to craft and precisely tailor historical events to suit the prevailing political paradigm.” (Patrick Henningsen,…

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Added by Umm Muhammad on March 3, 2013 at 5:03pm — No Comments