Category Archives: If You REALLY Care

How to be a guy who gets it

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Sabina Becker

It’s really very simple. Just follow the example of these guys here: And oh yeah: Don’t be a harasser yourself.

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Child prostitution: The scourge of Colombia’s mines

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Prostituted girls on the streets of Medellín, Colombia. The crime-pocked streets of that cocaine-infested city are not the only places in that land where children are sexually exploited and enslaved, as El Tiempo’s sub-editor, Jineth Bedoya Lima, reports: Mireya’s life … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics for Dummies, El NarcoPresidente, Filthy Stinking Rich, If You REALLY Care, Isn't That Illegal?, Mexican Standoffs, The United States of Amnesia | 2 Comments

From plastic back to oil

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Akinori Ito has invented an amazingly simple (and small, and inexpensive to operate) machine that recycles plastic safely back into the oil from whence it came. In Japan there isn’t a lot of space to spare, much less for garbage … Continue reading →

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Open letter to a friend who must go nameless

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Sabina Becker

It has recently come to my attention that another friend, a progressive blogger, has become the target of a cyberstalker. The culprit: you, her (former) collaborator. Now, I should state in advance that I did not see the blog entries … Continue reading →

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Steubenville: It really IS Rapeville.

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Traci Lords makes a connection that the media have by and large (and, in my opinion, quite willfully) missed. Actually, several connections. One, the connection between rape and prostitution (and porn, which is also tied to prostitution). She says the … Continue reading →

Posted in Crapagandarati, Fascism Without Swastikas, Fine Young Cannibals, If You REALLY Care, Isn't It Ironic?, Isn't That Illegal?, Men Who Just Don't Get It, Not So Compassionate Conservatism, The United States of Amnesia, Uppity Wimmin | Comments Off

Quotable: Julian Bond on the Keystone XL pipeline

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Yes, pipelines absolutely ARE a civil rights issue. Just ask anyone, native or or not, black or white, whose land is being expropriated by corporate interests without so much as a by-your-leave.

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The elephant in the burned cabin

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Today, a friend posted this article from Jacobin on his Facebook wall. It’s an analysis of the Christopher Dorner case that the media have been screaming about all week. I wanted to like it; it was well and gracefully written, … Continue reading →

Posted in Angry Pacifist Speaks Her Mind, Canadian Counterpunch, Cops Behaving Badly, Environmentally Ill, Fascism Without Swastikas, Guns, Guns, Guns, If You REALLY Care, Isn't It Ironic?, Isn't That Racist?, Law-Law Land, Men Who Just Don't Get It, Merry Old England, Socialism is Good for Capitalism!, The United States of Amnesia, Uppity Wimmin | 5 Comments

The truth about Attawapiskat

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Sabina Becker

The People of the Kattawapiskak River by Alanis Obomsawin, National Film Board of Canada A Cree filmmaker takes us inside the lives of her brothers and sisters in Attawapiskat, Ontario. If what you see here doesn’t leave you outraged at … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: Bury me upside down

Posted on December 30, 2012 by Sabina Becker

In honor of Chief Theresa Spence, now in the third week of her hunger strike. The kind of devotion it takes to live for your land and die for your people is as formidable as it is inspiring.

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Sorry to Grinch you, but…

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Sabina Becker

…this seasonal message just had to be said: And while we celebrate the birthday of Jesus, how about the death of irony? Gaza militants violated laws of war by launching hundreds of rockets at Israeli civilians during last month’s fighting, … Continue reading →