The Action Committee is accepting collections of school supplies to distribute amongst under-privileged students in the Kingdom. The last day to receive any donations is next Tuesday the 19th. The committee is looking for the following items:
- Backpacks & pencil cases.
- Sweatpants, sweatshirts, socks (for P.E.)
- Pencils, pens, erasers, rulers.
- Notebooks, both English and Arabic.
- [...]
Archive for the 'Activism' Category
7iber’s first workshop on citizen media “Rough Draft” took off an hour ago, and the discussions are getting more interesting by the minute.
Seriously, BOYCOTT Dunkin Donuts
09Jun08
A cup of coffee isn’t worth it. Read the following for a quick summary:
Dunkin’ Donuts has capitulated and withdrawn an advertisement for its products following the allegation by a right-wing hack, Michelle Malkin, that the spokeswoman in the ad was pictured wearing a kaffiyeh, a scarf which is a staple of clothing traditionally worn by [...]
On the 15th of May, bloggers everywhere will unite through blogging to help raise awareness about the Palestinian cause and what happened (and is still happening) 60 years ago on the 15th of May, 1948.
Your post could be a picture, an article, a video, a poem or something you’d like to say about it.
Help spread [...]
Free Abdul-Mon’em Mahmood!
26Apr07Another journalist and blogger was arrested in Egypt! I can’t believe it, how threatening words are for some people (AKA oppressing regimes). Egyptian security forces arrested Abdul-Mon’em Mahmood, who works for Al-Hiwar channel and is also a blogger while trying to leave the country. The arrest happened after two days of chase and police raids [...]
Via The Art of Quitting
In reply to Nasim and Khalaf I must say I’m flattered someone called me “cool” even if that was a bad cool, all my life I’ve been the nerd who makes you laugh for all the wrong reasons.
I didn’t know my signature was so important that it might lengthen the unemployment of Jarash’s residents. [...]
Save Dibbin’s Trees
20Feb07Save Dibbin from death by an investment project. Please sign the petition now and spread the word. Also steal the button on the sidebar and thank Nas for it.
It’s unbelievable.
The U.A.E’s Etisalat had finally unblocked flickr only a couple of months ago, obviously in an attempt to win back poor users who were stuck with Etisalat for ages before du -the new telecommunication provider- enters the market (and I assure you BTW, that U.A.E had no choice but allow entrants to their market [...]
This essay contest takes its title from a 1951 poem by Langston Hughes: What Happens to a Dream Deferred?. The poem helped propel the civil rights movement in the US. Today, it will hopefully inspire you to describe your dream deferred for the Middle East, which the UN calls the world’s least free region.
The contest [...]
Mikael Pittam, Dave
Shaden, bambam
Shaden, morning dew, Farah, loolt
irulz, coconut, An American in France, The Opinion of the Common Human, Bill [...]
المشكلجي, Qwaider قويدر