We like this: "Dark Glasses. Portrait" campaign to support Chen Guangcheng
This is really cool, and most of us here at Shanghaiist are already snapping pictures of ourselves and sending them in! "Dark Glasses. Portrait" is a project on http://ichenguangcheng.blogspot.com that started up two weeks ago. They are calling on supporters of detained blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng to send in portraits of themselves wearing dark glasses (you can get creative - people are using blindfolds, Guy Fawkes masks, photoshop, etc.) Great idea for this kind of campaign, since participants can retain their anonymity if they so choose.
Pamela Anderson invites Chinese minister on a trip to Canada to "save the seals"
In a plea to China to stop the importation of seal meat and oil obtained from the annual seal-hunt in Canada, Pamela Anderson has taken it upon herself to send a personal letter to Xu Shaoshi, China's minister of land and resources. In it, she invites him to visit her in Canada and witness the animal cruelty she has been donning tight t-shirts and tweeting up a storm to prevent. From AFP:
Wasserstrom: China's now more Chiang Kai-shek than Mao Zedong
Taking a gander at the various viewpoints on China's recent large-scale campaigns, Jeffrey Wasserstrom finds similar threads through the old leaders much more than they mirror anything Mao Zedong did.
Backlash against public displays of pajamas
Barring this past week's cold spell, temperatures are slowly beginning to rise here in Shanghai and with that, the amount of people we see walking outside in pajamas have invariably increased as well. But if one Shanghainese bureaucrat has her way, then Public Displays of Pajamas (or PDoP for short) might soon become a thing of the past.
Eight "don't-asks" and other things to keep in mind when chatting with foreigners and handicapped athletes
3. Pay attention to how you congratulate handicapped athletes.
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