Red Light Politics
Welcome to my short form Tumblr blog. My name is Flavia Tamara Dzodan, I am a business developer, writer, public speaker, ideas instigator, content creator, media facilitator and trend watcher living in Amsterdam.
This Tumblr is about the spaces and intersections between politics, culture, race and gender matters with some humor and pop culture thrown in the mix.
My long reads blog is Red Light Politics.
I also blog at Tiger Beatdown.
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I’ve decided that I am not even going to try to catch up on Tumblr since Friday. Nope. Not gonna do it.
So, did anything important...
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Just got a job offer? I know the company, it has a good reputation. And awesome downtown offices.But it’s not quite my style - their...
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“The new rules, which were given the force of an executive order, are a clear improvement over a draft version. If monitored and enforced, they could...”
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Heroism in the Supermarket:
Vitamin Water wants me to believe that drinking their sugary concoction will help to make me a superhero rather than...
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…and The Onion for the win, forever.
Tl;dr: All 10 ways are “Revolutionary Terror.”
(via TheNoobYorker)
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Last night got the pleasure to met and chat with the German Tumblr team.
These women were totally awesome. Total girl crush!
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“The institution of marriage is not under attack as a result of the President’s words. Marriage was under attack years ago by men who viewed women as...”
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3 posts tagged Greece
“The family’s terrifying experience is part of wider epidemic of such violence in the Greek capital. Migrants and asylum seekers whom I and my colleagues from Human Rights Watch interviewed spoke of virtual no-go areas in Athens after dark because of the risk of attacks by vigilante groups. An association of Afghans in Greece provides newly arrived Afghan migrants with a map marked in red for areas to avoid.”
Greece’s Epidemic of Racist Attacks - NYTimes.com
And more to the point regarding my previous post about the EU. Similar reports about growing racism and violence, this time in Greece.
My latest for Global Comment about the EU, democracy and the rule of financial corporations:
There is hunger in Europe. For the first time since World War II, this hunger and extreme poverty are not limited to pockets of exclusion in Eastern nations but running across the continent. Greece, Italy, Spain are in international media almost daily with depictions of hardships, soaring unemployment and deprivation. The European summer saw the birth of “the indignant ones”, a wave of protests sweeping these nations and to an extent, replicated across France. These “indignant ones” clashed violently with police at the peak of the Greek anti austerity protests, expressing a collective discontent that went, for the most part, ignored. Now, two months after these clashes, the European Union is still not responding with the haste that would be expected to aid its own citizens. A European Union that was once portrayed as “strength in unity” is now more fragmented and disunited than ever since its creation.
![Journalist Stacy Herbert is tweeting from the protests in Athens, Greece.
Some background info on the protests, via Greek News agency ANA-MPA:
Thousands of Athenians were flocking to central Syntagma Square and the surrounding streets in downtown Athens from early Wednesday morning in the 22nd consecutive day of protests by the Indignants’ Movement, with the aim of encircling parliament.
Also via BBC News:
“Tramps, police informers, journalists!” That’s the chant of the front line of the protest and since my cameraman and I are the only journalists here it is aimed at us.
The protestors are taking a break from insulting the riot cops lined up in front; a woman tugs my arm and says, “Get out of here”.
The media is the target here in Syntagma Square for two reasons. First, because the people here believe the Greek media have sided totally with what they call “Big Capital”.
And Costas Douzinas for Comment is free @ guardian.co.uk:
When Stéphane Hessel wrote in Time for Outrage! that indignation with injustice should turn to “a peaceful insurrection” perhaps he did not expect that the movement of indignados in Spain and aganaktismenoi (outraged) in Greece would take his advice to heart so soon and so spectacularly.
The Greek resistance to the catastrophic economic measures was expected. Throughout modern history the Greeks have resisted foreign occupation and domestic dictatorship with determination and sacrifice. The measures imposed by the IMF, EU and European Central Bank with the full accord, if not invitation, of the Greek government, have led to 11 one-day general strikes, numerous regional strikes and imaginative acts of resistance. […]
Three weeks ago, things changed. A motley multitude of indignant men and women of all ideologies, ages, occupations, including the many unemployed, began occupying Syntagma – the central square of Athens opposite parliament; the area around White Tower in Thessaloniki; and public spaces in other major cities.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmu04fn4nJ1qbkli6o1_500.jpg)
Journalist Stacy Herbert is tweeting from the protests in Athens, Greece.
Some background info on the protests, via Greek News agency ANA-MPA:
Thousands of Athenians were flocking to central Syntagma Square and the surrounding streets in downtown Athens from early Wednesday morning in the 22nd consecutive day of protests by the Indignants’ Movement, with the aim of encircling parliament.
Also via BBC News:
“Tramps, police informers, journalists!” That’s the chant of the front line of the protest and since my cameraman and I are the only journalists here it is aimed at us.
The protestors are taking a break from insulting the riot cops lined up in front; a woman tugs my arm and says, “Get out of here”.
The media is the target here in Syntagma Square for two reasons. First, because the people here believe the Greek media have sided totally with what they call “Big Capital”.
And Costas Douzinas for Comment is free @ guardian.co.uk:
When Stéphane Hessel wrote in Time for Outrage! that indignation with injustice should turn to “a peaceful insurrection” perhaps he did not expect that the movement of indignados in Spain and aganaktismenoi (outraged) in Greece would take his advice to heart so soon and so spectacularly.
The Greek resistance to the catastrophic economic measures was expected. Throughout modern history the Greeks have resisted foreign occupation and domestic dictatorship with determination and sacrifice. The measures imposed by the IMF, EU and European Central Bank with the full accord, if not invitation, of the Greek government, have led to 11 one-day general strikes, numerous regional strikes and imaginative acts of resistance. […]
Three weeks ago, things changed. A motley multitude of indignant men and women of all ideologies, ages, occupations, including the many unemployed, began occupying Syntagma – the central square of Athens opposite parliament; the area around White Tower in Thessaloniki; and public spaces in other major cities.
