Posts tagged Uganda
God loves Uganda
Jan 22nd
A documentary premiering today at the Sundance film festival explores the evangelical campaign to change African culture with values imported from America’s Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting "sexual immorality" and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans to follow Biblical law. A statement from its director reads:
I thought about following the activists-brave and admirable men and women-who were fighting against these policies. But I was more curious about the people who, in effect, wanted to kill me. (According to the provisions of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, I could be put to death or imprisoned.) Notably, almost every evangelical I met – American or Ugandan – was polite, agreeable, even charming. Yet I knew that if the bill passed, there would be blood on the streets of Kampala.
What explains that contradiction? What explains the murderous rage and ecstatic transcendence? In the well-known trope about Africa, a white man journeys into the heart of darkness and finds the mystery of Africa and its unknowable otherness. I, a black man, made that journey and found – America.
0Periodical Political Post *147
Jan 5th
Queer News
- US preacher to face court for aiding murder of gay people
- Uganda pastors pressure politicians to push gay-kill law
- New HIV vaccine can temporarily improve immune system
- Majority of Americans still support ban on gay scouts leaders
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US radio host: gay rights killing children, gays aren’t humans
Other News
- Shell beaches oil rig, risks oil disaster just to avoid taxes
- US Republicans let Violence Against Women Act just die
- Catholic church gifted billions from illegal tax exemption
- US airport security is laughing at your naked body pics
- France offering free birth control for girls from 15-18
0Periodical Political Post *143
Dec 18th
Queer News
- Half of Italian LGBT students report gay hate
- Pope gives blessing to Ugandan anti-gay activist
- Mexican teacher fired for showing Milk to students
- Teens arrested for homophobic murder of student
- German chancellor votes no to gay tax equality
Other News
- School for boys tortured, murdered boys for decades
- Investigation for Muslim bias in schools finds Christian bias
- Germany orders changes to Facebook real name policy
- Atheism third-largest group of “religions” world-wide
- Obesity killing three times as many as malnutrition
0Periodical Political Post *138
Nov 24th
Queer News
- Moscow lawmakers reject anti-gay propaganda bill
- Irish gay parents to receive greater legal protection
- Teen arrested over anti-gay attack on another student
- Uganda drops death penalty from anti-gay bill
- Kuwait arrests two trans women in “morality campaign”
Other News
- US accused of spying on computers of French president
- Russia bans protest against “non-existent” political repressions
- America’s teen boys risk their health with fitness-obsession
- SWAT team fires semi-automatic weapons at sleeping teen
- UK movie pirates spend (way) more at the box office
0Periodical Political Post *136
Nov 18th
Queer News
- South African lesbian football player brutally murdered
- More than 70,000 protest against gay marriage in France
- Uganda to officially pass controversial ‘Kill the Gays’ bill
- Uruguay finally to begin debating marriage equality law
- Mayor of Iceland’s capitol: Homophobes are just assholes
Other News
- CIA officer jailed for leaking about torture, torturer goes free
- Affair of CIA chief causes more outrage than illegal drone strikes
- American airport porn body scanner vendor accused of fraud
- Facebook blocks civil rights group over pic of woman without veil
- Teen gamers better at simulated surgery than medical residents
0Periodical Political Post *124
Aug 27th
Queer News
- Same-sex marriage bill to be introduced in France this October
- Enough votes in New Zealand’s parliament for marriage equality
- Cables show U.S., Swedish pressure vs. Uganda kill-the-gays bill
- U.S. TV station bans gay family show for being “not family-friendly”
- Scarlett, a trans girl, wins big American Starcraft 2 tournament
Other News
- U.S. government has copies of most of your mails says whistleblower
- Former Israeli soldiers disclose routine mistreatment of Palestinian children
- Facebook saves your biometric data in other people’s photos, no opt-out
- Law in Arizona says women are pregnant 2 weeks before they have sex
- Study says BMI is massively understating the scope of American obesity
0Periodical Political Post *113
Jul 1st
Queer News
- Scotland: Poll shows majority of population supports marriage equality
- Poland rejects proposed civil partnerships but will get hate speech laws
- French government announces same-sex marriage will come very soon
- German court tells lesbian asylum seeker to hide her identity in Iran
- Ugandan government says it discovered evidence of gay conspiracy
Other News
- U.S. Republican Senators introduce a rewrite of their “cyber security” bill
- 1,000,000 school-aged children were homeless during the last school year
- New school RFID scheme reminder of technology’s surveillance potential
- Tens of thousands protest against restarts of nuclear power plants in Japan
- CIA fake vaccine program will have wide-ranging effects on children’s health
0Periodical Political Post *109
Jun 12th
Queer News
- Catholic bishops in Uganda call for revival of “kill gays” legislation
- Australian Prime Minister says gay couples don’t need marriage
- Russian capitol Moscow bans gay pride parades for century ahead
- Discrimination study shows gay men in Italy less likely to get a job
- American conservative group blames queer kids for their own misery
- ‘Sexual depravity’ of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal
Other News
- Thousands of Russians protesting in Moscow to demand fair elections
- Climate change to be outlawed for being “leftist” in Virginia & N. Carolina?
- How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren
- South Korea surrenders to creationists, removes evolution from school books
- Christian pastor hangs effigy of Obama with pride flag by noose
0Periodical Political Post *93
Mar 14th
Queer News
- Denmark’s prime minister announced equal marriage law takes effect in June
- Utah’s new sex-education policy in schools: abstinence only, don’t say gay
- Tennessee’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill stalled for now, may go down completely
- Russian church urges law-makers to ban “gay propaganda” nation-wide
- Australian researchers say they might have identified a transsexual gene link
- Chinese parents of queer kids demand anti-discrimination laws from state
Other News
- Dangerous ignorance: The hysteria of Kony 2012 and its promotion of militarisation
- Catholic church attempting to silence sexual abuse victims and their defenders
- Unarmed black boy killed by white Neighbourhood Watch, police makes no arrest
- Police officer used Taser stun gun on 9-year-old boy because he skipped school
- Right-wingers demand American schools erase slavery from history textbooks
- While R-rated in US, Canadian censor board gives Bully documentary all-ages rating
0Periodical Political Post *58
Aug 7th
Queer News
- Ban on gay marriages in California ruled unconstitutional
- Mexico City’s gay marriage law upheld by Supreme Court
- Hospital refused to treat woman coughing blood ‘cause she’s trans
- New Jersey libraries ban gay youth book, saying it’s child porn
- Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda on hold after fierce opposition
- Mayor of Iceland’s capital Reykjavik opens Pride Parade in drag
Other News
- Israel to deport migrant workers’ children "to defend Israel’s Jewish identity"
- US agencies stored thousands of nude images from body scanners
- British men afraid to help children over fear of being branded paedophiles
- Babysitter in US killed little boy because he “acted like a girl”
- French government plans spyware to prevent copyright infringements
- Victim of rape raped again after US school officials used her as bait
- Pfizer plans Viagra for kids; for other reasons than you might think
Bad Cop, no Donut!
- Cop tasers and kills teen boy, then places a gun next to the corpse
- Mother suing over getting arrested after her shirt got wet at a Water Park
- Denver cops hi-five after tasering a jailed homeless preacher to death
- Drunk driver travels 73mph in 25mph zone, kills pedestrian, walks free: he’s a cop
- Cop runs over woman, kills her because he was chasing guy drinking a beer in public
- Man facing 16 years prison for videotaping a cop pulling a gun on him
- Police taser man because he was too big to fit in the squad car
- Man in diabetic coma tasered 11 times by cops for being "unresponsive"
- Sleeping man tasered because he "shushed" a cop who was trying to wake him
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