The (Female) Gandhi of Western Sahara | Potty Training With a Twist

www.ozy.com [OZY.COM]( [VIEW ONLINE]( 10 MUST READS TODAY [Daily Dose]( Friday Aug 02, 2019 1 [Provocateurs]( [Provocateurs]( [The 'Gandhi of Western Sahara' Confronts a Deadly Generation Gap]( Late one night in 1987, Moroccan policemen arrived at a house in the occupied city of Laayoune, the capital of Western Sahara, and demanded to speak to Aminatou Haidar. It would only take 10 minutes, they told her panic-stricken family; but those minutes stretched into days, weeks, months and then years. The 20-year-old was disappeared without trial to a secret facility not far from her home, where guards tortured her, subjecting her to starvation and threats of rape — the price for painting graffiti and circulating leaflets calling for a free Western Sahara. The day she was released, more than three years later, she was unable to stand, her body almost broken from the ordeal. But Haidar was not deterred from activism and since has become a leading voice of resistance to Moroccan repression in the territory, regarded as Africa’s final colony. “It made me stronger and more determined, and I was even more conscious of the necessity to lead a struggle for self-determination,” she says. Now, at age 53, she’s become a voice of restraint — pitted against a new generation of pro-independence activists eager to take up arms and fight back. [READ MORE]( 2 [The Huddle]( [The Huddle]( [Welcome to the NFL Holdout Revolution]( No disrespect to Denver and Atlanta fans, but the first NFL preseason game of 2019 was a reminder to some teams that their marquee stars are AWOL. Two of football’s best running backs — Ezekiel Elliott of the Cowboys and the Chargers’ Melvin Gordon — are among four players who have yet to report to camp, each opting to pull a Le’Veon Bell. The message? “Pay me now or I won’t play!” [READ MORE]( 3 [Good Sh*t]( [Good Sh*t]( [Learn the Vietnamese Art of No-Diaper Potty Training]( Ngân Vuong Bao, a teacher in Danang, Vietnam, started to potty train her daughter when she was 7 months old. “I placed her on the potty and whistled the way every Vietnamese mom does,” she recalls. Within a month or two, Bao Junior had gotten the hang of using the potty for No. 2s. She was fully trained before she hit 18 months. In Vietnam — where some mothers begin the process within a week or two of giving birth — Bao was seen as a late starter. [READ MORE]( [Sponsored by: Revtown]( [These Jeans Were Made for Summer]( Summer is in full swing, making it the perfect time to add some all-season denim to your wardrobe. The kind that fits comfortably and goes with everything. Crafted by former Under Armour employees, these jeans combine performance innovation with age-old Italian denim mastery. Anything else? This denim is made from BCI-certified cotton and sustainably dyed. Plus, it ships worldwide so you can get a pair delivered right to your doorstep, wherever you live. Best of all, Revtown jeans are a fraction of the cost of most designer jeans. [Discover stylish, durable denim here.]( 4 [Fast Forward]( [Mexican Wealth Takes Flight to Escape AMLO's 'Transformation']( Spooked by President Obrador’s anti-business approach, many are trying either to get out or get their money out. 5 [True Story]( [What Happened the Night of the Day My Wife Left Me]( In the movies, the death-of-romance scene usually ends when she says she’s leaving. In real life, what happens next is not at all glamorous. 6 [Good Sh*t]( [The Curious, Secret Underground Tunnels in LA]( Under the downtown city streets lie subterranean passageways from another time. 7 [Flashback]( [When Moammar Gadhafi Tried to Pitch a Tent in New Jersey]( Gadhafi’s legacy includes a three-story house in a leafy mid-Atlantic suburb. 8 [Fast Forward]( [Alien Beauty Invades World of Fashion]( An otherworldly subculture is disrupting the traditional notions of beauty, offering an alternative that’s finding traction, especially within the drag community. 9 [Rising Stars]( [The Next Steve Irwin Brings Species Back From the Dead]( Forrest Galante, the star of Animal Planet’s Extinct or Alive, has spent his life in communion with the animal kingdom. 10 [Flashback]( [That Time the King of the Streets Tussled With a Polar Bear]( When 210-pound Marco Ruas fought 330-pound Paul Varelans at UFC 7, all of the smart money was on Varelans. But … strange things happen. You Should Know This [OZY and Oprah's New TV Show ...]( OZY Media Mountain View, California 94040 This email was sent to {EMAIL} [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Read Online](