Marian's Blogtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-559622011-02-11T11:18:20-05:00THE MARIAN CHRONICLESTypePadThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site.Mubarak has resigned!!tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83422805653ef0147e282ffc9970b2011-02-11T11:18:20-05:002011-02-11T11:18:20-05:00Hosni Mubarak is HISTORY as dictator of Egypt. More soon...Marianhttp://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2011/02/mubarak-has-resigned.htmlThe thing about TAHRIR Square ~ Cairo's "Liberation Square"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83422805653ef0148c873d26e970c2011-02-08T10:32:31-05:002011-02-08T10:32:31-05:00Today is day 15 of the Egyptian revolution, and, definitely, things are not "winding down." What is it about this movement embodied by Cairo's Tahrir (Liberation) Square?Marianhttp://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2011/02/the-thing-about-tahrir-square-cairos-liberation-square.htmltag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83422805653ef0148c8577126970c2011-02-04T18:16:36-05:002011-02-04T18:16:36-05:00Salut, everyone. Happy 2011! Year of Afrodescendants / People of African Descent (as declared by UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights). We're making every month of 2011 a time for the Afrodescendants of the Americas.Marianhttp://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2011/02/salut-everyone-happy-2011-year-of-afrodescendants-people-of-african-descent-as-declared-by-un-office-of-the-high-commis.htmltag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83422805653ef0147e0c0ad11970b2010-12-16T01:23:44-05:002010-12-16T01:23:44-05:00Just a note to say hello as we near the end of 2010 and come closer to the New Year! So much is still changing and evolving with blogging and other social media. We've been on Facebook and twitter. It's...Marianhttp://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2010/12/just-a-note-to-say-hello-as-we-near-the-end-of-2010-and-come-closer-to-the-new-year-so-much-is-still-changing-and-evolving-w.htmlMarch 1st, it's International Women of Colour Day!tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83422805653ef0120a8e79712970b2010-03-01T15:05:14-05:002010-03-01T15:05:14-05:00Wishing every woman of colour a wonderful International Women of Colour Day, today and for the days, months and years ahead.Marianhttp://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2010/03/women-of-colour-day-2010-1.htmlMarch 1st, it's International Women of Colour Day!tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83422805653ef0120a8e79172970b2010-03-01T14:52:21-05:002010-03-01T14:52:21-05:00Wishing every woman of coulour a wonderful International Women of Colour Day, today and for the days, months and years ahead.Marianhttp://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2010/03/women-of-colour-day-2010.htmlGaza: "The Other Israel" - Jewish anti-Zionismtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83422805653ef0128769d5664970c2010-01-02T15:11:26-05:002010-01-02T15:11:26-05:00The other evening, the first time ever (and NOT in New York) we came across a street demo by a group of black-hatted, bearded Hasidic Jewish men, complete with hand-drawn campaign placards "against Zionism".Something has happened, shifted, perhaps even cracked - since never before in my life have I seen anything like this. We see the same rebirth & strengthening in the re-emergence of a small yet striking work of independent (& prescient) thinking in an edited volume now online: The Other Israel: The Radical Case Against Zionism. Marianhttp://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2010/01/gaza-the-other-israel-jewish-antizionism.htmltag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83422805653ef0120a782c3fa970b2009-12-27T14:23:59-05:002009-12-27T14:23:59-05:00GAZA: Operation Cast Lead. It's the first anniversary of Israel's unbelievably horrific "Operation Cast Lead" military assault on Gaza. You have to wonder if Ms. Zipporah "Zippi" Livni (in particular), who seems fairly brags about it, ever will get it......Marianhttp://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2009/12/gaza-operation-cast-lead-its-the-first-anniversary-of-israels-unbelievably-horrific-operation-cast-lead-military-assault-on.htmltag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83422805653ef012876825ab7970c2009-12-26T13:33:36-05:002009-12-26T13:33:36-05:00Ciao all! We're here; been focusing on life offline and such things as "microblogging". We're also quite attached to something called LibraryThing (social book cataloguing). And also sharing this link: http://beforetheydiemovie.com , and preparing for May 31-June 1st, the 89th...Marianhttp://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2009/12/ciao-all-were-here-been-focusing-on-life-offline-and-such-things-as-microblogging-were-also-quite-attached-to-something-ca.htmlSummer reading? Britain, the Slaves & U.S. Revolution - "Rough Crossings"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83422805653ef0120a521c5df970c2009-08-05T17:56:52-04:002009-08-05T17:56:52-04:00We'd like to recommend a book for those interested: Simon Schama's Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution. Here's a video - Schama discussing this huge, terribly obscured chapter of Black American & U.S. history, with staff of...Marianhttp://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2009/08/summer-reading-britain-the-slaves-us-revolution---rough-crossings.html