National Week of Actions Everywhere against SB1070

I had a hard time finding much in the MSM, or even the bigger liberal or progressive media sources about the week of actions in Arizona and across the United States against SB1070 and for immigrant rights.

So much went down! So here is an assemblage of news:

Timeline of protests across Arizona on July 29.

Great info page on Indymedia.org.

Dozens Arrested in Protests of AZ Immigration Law on CommonDreams.org

AZ immigration-law protests lead to arrests, street closures from the Arizona Daily Star

SB 1070 Rage: Salvador Reza, Alfredo Gutierrez, Scores of Others Arrested in Phoenix from the Phoenix News

Photos gracias a Puente Arizona

And interestingly, the judge who placed on injunction on part of SB1070 is receiving threats.

Photo by Anita Sarkeesian

Please add anything I missed in the comments.

Gender-tastic!

Meeting a beautiful woman can be bad for your health, scientists have found.

IT’S SCIENCE!(tm)

Oh yeah? Whose health? All people? Bad for other beautiful women? Bad for whom?

Oh, right. Bad for men. Who are the only ones who read the news, and therefore addressing all news readers as though they are men is totally appropriate. Also, these male readers must all be straight, since it doesn’t seem like much of a stretch to assume gay men may not have the same feelings about women as straight men.

But remember people, IT’S SCIENCE!

Is it the existence of an attractive woman that is bad for men’s health, or is it society’s and men’s unhealthy attitudes about women that trigger men’s supposedly negative health reactions?

Obviously, this is something that women are deliberately doing to men, to harm them. We women are deliberately attractive to men as a gigantic plot to destroy them. The University of Valencia in Spain, where this study was conducted, has finally outed our massive, world-encompassing secret! Women are nefarious by nature and can never be trusted.

Bonus info: Apparently in Germany, this news was an even bigger hit, and the headlines are even worse. For example:

Schöne Frauen sind schlecht fürs Herz (Beautiful Women Are Bad for Your Heart)

Nachrichten : Schaden Schöne Frauen Der Gesundheit? (Do Beautiful Women Harm Your Health?)

Schöne Frau, gestresster Mann (Beautiful Woman, Stressed Out Man)

Schöne Frauen stressen (Beautiful Women Are Stressful)

Anti-Defamation League Against Islamic Community Center

The ADL has come out against building an Islamic Community Center in New York’s Financial District, near to Ground Zero. Absolutely shameful.

They even use one of my favorite anti-equality sentence constructions… “We believe in religious freedom, but….”

But not for Muslims. We get it.