Gengen Genocide
Satirical animation shows China’s cynical use of the Olympics to burnish its own image — while underwriting a genocide in Darfur.
World Ute Day (via my mate shaun R)
I’m not sure what Chinese string this restaurateur fed to the translation software used to to generate the giant sign hanging over the entrance, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t: TRANSLATE SERVER ERROR. Ah, the special problems of translations into other alphabets. (via Chinese restaurant called TRANSLATE SERVER ERROR - Boing Boing)
World Youth Day 'irrelevant': survey
Young Australians have spoken out against the Catholic Church in an online poll.
In the survey, conducted on MySpace.com, 77 per cent of 650 young Australians polled said they felt the church was out of touch with them.
For non-Catholic and non-Christian youth aged between 14 and 24 who were questioned on topics relating to World Youth Day and the teachings of the Catholic Church, 65 per cent said the event was not relevant to them at all. Fifty-three per cent of Catholic youth said they could not be involved in the international religious gathering because of the churches’ stance on sexuality.
The purpose of the event and its title drew ire from 17 year-old Queenslander Kelsey-Lee.
“Sure, have the ‘day’, just make sure you call it World Catholic Youth Day, and don’t waste so much money on (an) event that could be much better spent elsewhere,” she said.
“I think it’s stupid that so much money has been spent on something religious when the state and religion are supposed to be separated.”
Sex advice on offer for World Youth Day pilgrims
The nation’s peak sexual health group will provide all World Youth Day pilgrims with access to free condoms and sexual health advice.
Marie Stopes International will distribute condoms to all registered youth on request, despite not being agreed to by the events organisers.
Organisation spokeswoman Jill Michelson says not providing condoms advocated unprotected sex.
“The simple fact is that many young people, including Catholics, have sex,” she said in a statement.
“To not provide access to condoms…is simply encouraging unprotected sex, sexually transmitted infections and unplanned pregnancy.”
Two Sydney activists have won a Federal Court challenge to special World Youth Day laws that carry $5500 fines for annoying pilgrims.
The NoToPope Coalition scored the victory when the Federal Court ruled that legislation that would have prevented its members from handing out leaflets and other items was invalid in law.
The judges said that the interpretation of clause 7.1 of the act, which allowed regulation of conduct deemed to be a cause of “annoyance”, was invalid because it “affects freedom of speech in a way that, in our opinion, is not supported by the statutory powers”.
There was “no intelligible boundary” on what “causes annoyance”.
The regulation relating to annoyance “could be expected to have a chilling effect upon the exercise of their freedom of speech because of the very uncertainty about the degree of its infringement upon that freedom”, they said.
(via Court dumps ‘annoy’ law)
An advocacy group says up to a 130 homeless people have been removed from Sydney during World Youth Day celebrations.
Kevin Simpson from Homeless Voice says men and women who normally sleep in the city or the Domain have been moved out by authorities.
“I am a little bit surprised they haven’t taken more care of the actual people who Jesus came for and that’s the disadvantaged, marginalised broken people,” he said.
Homeless Voice says people who slept on the streets were offered accommodation in motels during APEC last year, but not so during World Youth Day.
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