Christine Lagarde, candidate to be the next managing director of the IMF, replacing the recently departed Dominique Strauss-Khan. What exactly is she trying to tell …
The “Spanish Revolution” explained
I’ve been posting about this since yesterday (here, here and here a photo roundup of the movement spreading to other European cities). Here is a …
Now, I’ve been awake since 6PM Saturday, and it’s 7:47AM Monday, and I’m yelling about tennis on my own blog, so I might just be sleep deprived, but I think a mild amount of skepticism in the face of the protests hitting western Europe is healthy. My Spanish is super rusty and I refuse to use online translators, so I’m slowly making my way through the analysis you linked in your last post, but I don’t think you’re doing anyone a disservice by withholding support for this particular movement when it is–from where I’m sitting–ignoring a significant portion of the population that could actually benefit from having their voices heard.
Well, I am not outright dismissing them, for now. I am, as you rightfully point out, withholding my enthusiasm. This part of their original manifesto …
More about the social upheavals in Spain
Yesterday I posted some photos I took in Lille, France, of the nascent movement of “Indignant Ones” that is spreading from Spain into other European …
US Readers: NARAL Pro Choice event in Virginia
US Readers: NARAL Pro Choice event in Virginia Relevant details and directions at the link above.
Postcards from Lille, France (or the slow spread of “The Indignant Ones”)
There has been a social upheaval in the making for the past couple of weeks in Spain. Hundreds of thousands of young people have taken …