A Week in Links #10

• Salil Shetty is interviewed by Riz Khan.

• Kamila Shamsie’s essay ‘Pop Idols‘.

• Negah Rahmani analyses the general disinterest outside Afghanistan about their election this weekend.

• Perspectives on Afghanistan’s Parliamentary Elections

• Jordana Timerman writes about Buenos Aires’s Villa 31, a shanty town sitting on very valuable land.

• Otto marked Argentina’s The Night of the Pencils.

• Cath Elliott has published a list of UK feminist bloggers.  Excellent!

• Catherine Redfern interviwed Zoe Margolis.

• Natalie Bennett documents the ‘Women in Prison panel on Friday night of Green Party conference.’ via Jim Jepp’s excellent round up from conference.

• baylawajah writes about ‘Framing Rape Survivors As National Celebrities’

• La Via Campesina denounces Gates’ Foundation purchase of Monsanto Company shares and the special relation between the two organisations.

• Jenni Murray interviewed Deborah Cavendish (nee Mitford) for a Woman’s 45 minute Hour special.

• Andy Worthington is writing an 8 part series about the ‘prisoners’ still left in the very much open Guantánamo hostage camp.  Parts one and two are up already.

• John Cornwell sees a sly interpretation of (soon to be sainted) John Henry Newman’s views on conscience and change, by Pope Benedict IVX.  More from Stephen Bates.  Nice bit of power and politics all rolled into a beatification.

• Colm O’Gorman’s thoughts on the Papal visit to Scotland and England, including his piece ‘I loved my church once‘.

• Harpymarx on protesting the Pope.  A thoughtful and needed piece.  See also Random Blowe and Flying Rodent’s piece on LibCon which has been edited well.  Don’t bother with the longer piece.  Edited to add a post from A Very Public Sociologist.

• The Vatican have the text of Benedict 16′s speeches in the UK, including criticisms of capitalism and the media which have unsurprisingly not made media headlines.

• Jennifer Sleeman, who is organising a one-day boycott of mass, receives backing from WOW but also hate-mail from numpties.

And now for a bit of beauty, Kula Shaker’s Drink Tea: