From the Boston Globes "Big Picture" photo blog via the excellent Feminists with Disabilities website. I like most of what FWD posts a lot, but I found these two images particularly powerful and heartbreaking, so I thought I would pass them on:

http://disabledfeminists.com/2010/03/13/photos-from-mental-health-institutions-in-indonesia/

I would also note that I find the information offered by the Boston Globe problematic, as it seems to frame the issue as one of supposedly "backward" cultural beliefs, rather than connecting the lack of support more to the intense poverty shown in some other images within the series.

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Iconoclast

Both the corporate and alternative media have been abuzz over the actions of the several hundred participants of a black bloc contingent that smashed the windows of a Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) retail store and TD bank, as part of the “Heart Attack” mobilization on February 13th, during the Anti-Olympic Convergence in Vancouver.

http://iconoclastmedia.net/iconoclast-issue-20/

Iconoclast Issue 20: "Infighting the Good Fight"

CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH CHILEAN COMRADES:

Monday, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:10 A.M.

Dear comrades,

The situation in this region called Chile is already known, thus we believe more details about the recent earthquake are not necessary, as the Internet offers a lot of information about what took place.

The group of individuals that make up the Productora de Comunicación Social* escaped physical damage, even though during the earthquake a couple of comrades from our organization were in Concepción, one of the most devastated regions - leaving the site where they were pretty much uninhabitable and losing some equipment used for the work of the organization.

This appears to be a very interesting program sponsored by the Spanish CNT. This is one event in a whole series being sponsored by the CNT-AIT in celebration of their 100th Anniversary.

In english click on this click for the "Anarcho-Feminist Conference" http://www.anarkismo.net/article/15927

Additional CNT events can be found here: http://cnt.es/centenario