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James Rice is offering the second edition of Take Your Rights Seriously for free online. The book provides a comprehensive overview of domestic helper rights in Hong Kong, with a series of practical tips and useful contact details.
Just click on the cover above to download a copy.
Domestic helpers from other countries are particularly vulnerable to restrictions on their labour and civil rights in Hong Kong. If you know a helper who could benefit from the book, please tell her it’s available here.Feedback, Earthlings
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Currently Reading
In Albert’s Shadow
Compiling forty years of melodrama, remembrance, delight and pain, Milan Popovic presents the correspondence of Mileva Maric, Albert Einstein’s first wife and the mother of his three children.Recommended
Dreams From My Father
Barack Obama vividly captures the pitfalls and triumphs of activism and the personal compromises between culture, race and identity that are needed to engage the world rather than merely live in it.Maybe, But . . .
The New Paradigm for
for Financial Markets
George Soros might be up to the minute in his analysis of the financial crisis, but the philosophy that frames his argument seems to be lagging in unsophisticated notions of reflexivity from the 1980s.
Democracy Now!- Sister Helen Prejean & Bill Pelke on Freeing the Death Row Prisoner Who Killed Pelke's Grandmother 19 June 2013
- Mass Protests Sweep Brazil in Uproar over Public Services Cuts & High Costs of World Cup, Olympics 19 June 2013
- Defiant Turkish Demonstrators "Finding New Ways to Protest" in Face of Relentless State Crackdown 19 June 2013
- Michael Hastings Dies at 33; Fearless Journalist Challenged Power & Exposed Myths of Afghan War 19 June 2013
- Headlines for June 19, 2013 19 June 2013
- Glenn Greenwald: As Obama Makes "False" Surveillance Claims, Snowden Risks Life to Spark NSA Debate 18 June 2013
- A Medical Ethics-free Zone? Guantánamo Doctors Urged to Stop Force-Feeding Hunger-Striking Prisoners 18 June 2013
- Headlines for June 18, 2013 18 June 2013
- Turkish Unions Hold National Strike as Protesters Face Worst Crackdown to Date 17 June 2013
- Long Before Helping Expose NSA Spying, Journalist Laura Poitras Faced Harassment from U.S. Agents 17 June 2013
- Mind and Brain
- What makes naked mole rats cancer resistant? 19 June 2013
- How to Become More Resilient 19 June 2013
- What's So Hard about Research? 19 June 2013
- Can Geography Shape the Way We Speak? 19 June 2013
- #SciAmBlogs Tuesday - new astronauts, glass fossils, marine protected areas, emotional intelligence, and more. 19 June 2013
- Gathering Emotional Intelligence: My Review of Animal Wise 18 June 2013
- Game Theory And The Golden Punishment Rule 18 June 2013
- How Renaissance People Think 18 June 2013
- U.S. Kids Born in Polluted Areas More Likely to Have Autism 18 June 2013
- Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas in Mexico - the Actam Chuleb Example 18 June 2013
- Creative Commons
- Report Released by U.S. GAO Demonstrates the Need for Open Textbooks 14 June 2013
- CC Launches Affiliate Project Grants 14 June 2013
- University proposal supports U.S. public access directive 12 June 2013
- Lumen Learning launches open course frameworks for teaching 11 June 2013
- State of the Map is alive and well 11 June 2013
- Doubling down on Markdown for science 11 June 2013
- CC Board Meeting: New Directions and Opportunities 10 June 2013
- New Regional Coordinators for CC in Europe 10 June 2013
- Guest Blog Post: Crowdfunding the Commons 6 June 2013
- New Annual Report and Strategy Document 4 June 2013
- Wired Pop Culture
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- Comics, Mainly
- alewing: kierongillen: mattfractionblog: Two of my favorite... 18 June 2013
- That’s me in the backpack. That’s my dad being, as... 16 June 2013
- Brian Eno and his cat Eric for Purina. …Wow. 16 June 2013
- Amazing to read this Douglas Wolk piece now, fourteen years later, when so much has changed. 6 June 2013
- Horrible Histories Charles Dickens Song (by itsmattymattymatty)... 3 June 2013
- Who is the Mad Charlton Romance Cover Captioner, and why did he... 25 May 2013
- nedraggett: A Giorgio Moroder story: apropos of his appearance... 22 May 2013
- The Echo Nest Blog: How We Cope with Spammers, Fakers, and Cloners 19 May 2013
- bookishandi: ruckawriter: brianmichaelbendis: the... 18 May 2013
- browsethestacks: Vintage Comic - Falling In Love #118 10 May 2013
A Note on the Material
Sharing, Not Hoarding
Most photographs on this site are used under Creative Commons licences. Move your cursor over a photo for its title and the photographer's name, or click on the image itself to visit the page from which it came.
Creative Commons is a way of sharing intellectual property and not unduly controlling it. That just has to be a good thing, and the photos really do help make Greetings Earthlings! what it is.
Now it's My Turn
I've chosen a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence for Greetings Earthlings! That means I'm happy for you to use any of the written material here as long as you acknowledge my original efforts. If you change it in any way, that's fine, but you're asked to offer the results under the same licence.
Of course, that doesn't cover any of the graphics, most of which I either don't own or didn't create. Still, combined with the similar licences offered by other people for the photographs, that's a whole lotta scope for sharing.
