When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a (wo)man, I put away childish things.

–1 Corinthians 13:11

This woman’s brother having been arrested the day before, this November 17th photo from Occupy LA brought to mind the rite of passage so many young people have experienced over the past few months. If organizers are savvy, the movement will evolve. Even still, young people have grown.

PHOTOGRAPH by Jonathan Gibby/Zuma

Vingt-six mille six cent quatre-vingt-onze détenteurs sud-coréens d'un iPhone ont déposé une plainte en nom collectif, mercredi 17 août, contre son fabricant, le géant américain Apple. Ils dénoncent une violation présumée de la vie privée en raison de la capacité de ce téléphone d'enregistrer les mouvements de l'utilisateur.

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Apple avait indiqué au printemps qu'elle travaillait à corriger plusieurs problèmes informatiques imprévus du système d'exploitation de ses iPhone et autres appareils portables, en raison du stockage trop important de données de localisation. La Corée du Sud compte trois millions d'utilisateurs d'iPhone.

La bataille pour l'accès aux traces numériques et leur exploitation à des fins commerciales ne fait que commencer. Les enjeux sont tels que tous les coups seront permis...

The Soulaliyate Women's Movement was Rkia Bellot's idea. Now retired, she used to work at the finance ministry and is married to an outsider, a soldier. She too belongs to the Haddada tribe and has no chance of an inheritance. "I have eight brothers. I'm the only one not to have received anything when our father died and the discrimination got even worse when they started selling land as compensation or handing out plots for building," she explains, in tears.

She was particularly upset by the humiliation she suffered when she tried to stand up for her rights. "The male members of the tribe said: 'You're just a woman', and when I appealed to the officials, they told me I didn't have 'the requisite status', which is exactly the same thing, in more diplomatic terms," Bellot adds.

The first demonstration in 2007 was a surprise for many Moroccans, who knew nothing about the Soulaliyates and less still about their rules on inheritance. But the Soulaliyates have a growing audience. On 20 March demonstrations were held all over Morocco with thousands of people in the streets, despite a speech by the king announcing constitutional reform. But Bellot was not marching. She was typing out manifestos on her computer.

This article originally appeared in Le Monde

Dans Jaffa, à quelques centaines de mètres des tentes du boulevard Rothschild, juifs et Arabes se rencontrent tous les soirs depuis deux mois pour lutter contre les problèmes de logement, les expulsions ou les démolitions de maison.

Last year my federal tax bill — the income tax I paid, as well as payroll taxes paid by me and on my behalf — was $6,938,744. That sounds like a lot of money. But what I paid was only 17.4 percent of my taxable income — and that’s actually a lower percentage than was paid by any of the other 20 people in our office. Their tax burdens ranged from 33 percent to 41 percent and averaged 36 percent.

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Back in the 1980s and 1990s, tax rates for the rich were far higher, and my percentage rate was in the middle of the pack. According to a theory I sometimes hear, I should have thrown a fit and refused to invest because of the elevated tax rates on capital gains and dividends.

I didn’t refuse, nor did others. I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone — not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 — shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain. People invest to make money, and potential taxes have never scared them off. And to those who argue that higher rates hurt job creation, I would note that a net of nearly 40 million jobs were added between 1980 and 2000. You know what’s happened since then: lower tax rates and far lower job creation.

Aucun de ces opposants ne pourra retrouver la liberté ou revenir au Venezuela tant que ce gouvernement existe, car aucun juge n'osera prendre une décision basée sur le droit mais contraire à la volonté du Président.

C'est un homme, dans un bureau, comme tant d'autres hommes dans tant d'autres bureaux auxquels il ressemble sans ressembler à rien. Celui-là dispose d'un pouvoir spécial, certainement dû au fait que son bureau occupe le dernier étage d'une quelconque tour d'un palais de justice.
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Face à l'état démantelé du présent, face à la politique étatique, je n'arrive à songer, dans les quartiers, dans les usines, dans les écoles, les hôpitaux ou les campagnes, qu'à une politique qui reparte des liens, les densifie, les peuple et nous mène hors du cercle clos où nos vies se consument.

Etudiante, Yildune Lévy est mise en examen dans l'"affaire de Tarnac".