IRANIAN YOUTH MAY BE EXECUTED FOR BEING HOMOSEXUAL

Mehdi Kazemi, a young iranian youth studying abroad in britain, may soon be deported to his home country and executed for being a homosexual. Iranian officials learned of Kazemi's sexual orientation after Kazemi's former boyfriend revealed Kazemi's identity under torture and was then himself executed. The Iranian government is currently seeking to deport him and there is a warrant out for his arrest in Iran. though members of the House of Lords signed a letter to the Home Secretary of the United Kingdom and are rallying for his support, Kazemi has already lost his appeal for asylum in the UK. Kazemi is currently hiding out in the Netherlands, but the UK is demanding that he return to the UK by the 26th. If Kazemi is eventually returned to Iran he will almost certainly face execution.

In my opinion the reason this situation is going the way it is is two-fold. Firstly, the UK and other european nations are on relatively good terms with Iran, so breaking convention to protect Kazemi could pose a threat to international affairs. Also, our very own United States government, a clear enemy of Iran well known for our tendency to become involved in humanitarian crises, is frankly currently under an administration that wouldn't lift a finger to help gays.

If you want to read more about this, click the link below.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/peers-lobby--smith-to-halt-deportation-of-gay-iranian-794995.html

Also, if you want to sign a petition to help save Mehdi Kazemi, click on the link below.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/UKMADHI/

600 PROTEST GLOBAL WARMING BY GETTING NAKED ON A GLACIER

Installation artist Spencer Tunick, famous for inciting random acts of nakedness in various locales, recently allied with Greenpeace to speak out against global warming, with the help of 600 volunteers who posed naked on a melting glacier in switzerland. According to Tunick and Greenpeace, these photographs are meant to represent the fact that the glacier, though seemingly hard and indestructible is fragile and sensitive much like a human body. By associating the glacier with this massive visual wall of human flesh, he is perhaps implicating us in it's destruction and stating that by allowing global warming to continue we are only making ourselves more vulnerable.

read more about that here-
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/naked-glacier-tunick-08182007