Oct. 30th, 2007
I finally got a few minutes for myself
Oct. 30th, 2007 05:27 pmAnd with some experimentation, I managed to get this:
Happy Holidays
This one was specifically created as a card for the upcoming holidays (yule, solstice, Christmas)and is available at the above link.
I did feel a bit rushed at the end of the session (getting the objects, the fabric, setting up) as Loki was burning with curiousity as to what I was doing, but the end result wasn't one of the rushed shots.
Happy Holidays
This one was specifically created as a card for the upcoming holidays (yule, solstice, Christmas)and is available at the above link.
I did feel a bit rushed at the end of the session (getting the objects, the fabric, setting up) as Loki was burning with curiousity as to what I was doing, but the end result wasn't one of the rushed shots.
ON THE JOB
Oct. 30th, 2007 08:20 pmThe fog of work: What happened to Fremont mechanic Hamid Sayadi after 9/11?
In the beginning, 9/11 was a local story — it was the intimate grief and shock and incomprehension that so profoundly shook us those first days and weeks. Over time it morphed into something political, and we came to see the tragedy through the wide-angle lenses of foreign policy and law and the other spasms of governance it inspired.
But even as the specific event blurred into unspecific politics and symbolism over the years, it continued to affect individuals in concrete ways — ways that Fremont resident Hamid Sayadi claims he paid a price for.
His story is one of the many that have both nothing and everything to do with 9/11. A witty and eloquent Kurdish-American in his 50s, Sayadi waved the flag of his adopted country and cheered its military for three decades — all to end up stripped to his underwear one day, in the boiler room of his workplace, he says, a ragged and sobbing husk of his former self.
My heart goes out to Hamid.
And if anyone really thinks that any monetary settlement will fix him after what was done to him, think again.
He wasn't "being made fun of". He was systematically destroyed by hateful words and actions. I am disgusted that some seem to think that 'is all it was'.
This bullying/harassment/bigotry type of behavior is not to be tolerated. And for the company to ignore his complaints, even worse, humiliate him for daring to complain is beyond disgusting.
We (the collective United States we) did this to German Americans during WW1 and 2, but they could change their names from Mueller to Miller and 'blend'. We did this to Japanese Americans, but they couldn't blend, so they were put in interment camps.
Enough. It is long past time to stop fanning this fear of anyone who isn't pink skinned, and say 'Enough!'
In the beginning, 9/11 was a local story — it was the intimate grief and shock and incomprehension that so profoundly shook us those first days and weeks. Over time it morphed into something political, and we came to see the tragedy through the wide-angle lenses of foreign policy and law and the other spasms of governance it inspired.
But even as the specific event blurred into unspecific politics and symbolism over the years, it continued to affect individuals in concrete ways — ways that Fremont resident Hamid Sayadi claims he paid a price for.
His story is one of the many that have both nothing and everything to do with 9/11. A witty and eloquent Kurdish-American in his 50s, Sayadi waved the flag of his adopted country and cheered its military for three decades — all to end up stripped to his underwear one day, in the boiler room of his workplace, he says, a ragged and sobbing husk of his former self.
My heart goes out to Hamid.
And if anyone really thinks that any monetary settlement will fix him after what was done to him, think again.
He wasn't "being made fun of". He was systematically destroyed by hateful words and actions. I am disgusted that some seem to think that 'is all it was'.
This bullying/harassment/bigotry type of behavior is not to be tolerated. And for the company to ignore his complaints, even worse, humiliate him for daring to complain is beyond disgusting.
We (the collective United States we) did this to German Americans during WW1 and 2, but they could change their names from Mueller to Miller and 'blend'. We did this to Japanese Americans, but they couldn't blend, so they were put in interment camps.
Enough. It is long past time to stop fanning this fear of anyone who isn't pink skinned, and say 'Enough!'
