Watching Democracy Now report on West Bank protests lead to me another Democracy Now report following up on the wikileaks release of the 2007 helicopter shooting that killed 12 in Iraq. I posted and updated my original blog post from April 6.
Thailand Protests
Egypt mourns ‘headscarf martyr’
Monday July 6, 2009, who was stabbed by a German man in a courtroom in eastern Germany last week, during a protest in Cairo, Egypt. The woman was to testify against the man in court after he allegedly called her an Islamist and a terrorist in 2008. German prosecutors say a 28-year-old man who fatally stabbed Marwa was driven by a deep xenophobic hate of foreigners. Arabic read as ” the veil martyr”. Arabic read as ” the veil martyr”. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ahmed), more on BBC
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in media res & V.
a media commons project
In Media Res is dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship. Each day, a different scholar will curate a 30-second to 3-minute video clip/visual image slideshow accompanied by a 300-350-word impressionistic response.
Feeling Games by Tara McPherson
another…
V.
Version is an online journal for short-form writing and media work. It presents scenes, incidents, encounters, and sensory experiences drawn from everyday life, in which concepts are not only elaborated but enacted. 500 Words, 5 images, or 50 seconds.