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Racewire- Diane Tran, Jailed Texas Honor Student, Turns Down 100K 01/06/2012Earlier this week Diane Tran made national headlines after a Texas judge threw 17-year-old teen in jail for missing school. Now she's in the headlines again for turning down a 100K check that a website started in her name fundraised for her. ABC News reports: "We saw her trying to work and trying to go to school and trying to do all these things an […]Jorge Rivas
- Father With Fear of Heights Rides Ferris Wheel for 25-Hours to Raise Funds for Special Olympics 01/06/2012The Martinez Family. (Pacific Parks)On Friday morning Gus Martinez broke the world record for the longest time spent on a Ferris wheel. The Los Angeles police detective rode a Santa Monica, Calif. ferris wheel for 25-hours to raise funds and awareness for Special Olympics Southern California. Martinez's 23-year-old son, Jason, is a Special Olympics athl […]Jorge Rivas
- California Senate Votes Against Lowering Penalties for Drug Possession 01/06/2012On Thursday, California State senators rejected a bill that would have downgraded charges for simple possession of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine from a felony to a misdemeanor. Senate Bill 1506, by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Fransisco, would have changed the penalty for simple possession of drugs under state law from a felony, which is punishable by up to t […]Jorge Rivas
- NYC Budget Cuts Could Displace 10,800 Low-Income Kids 01/06/2012The parents of 10,800 New York City kids are in danger of losing their subsidized child care as early as the end of June due to budget cuts and Mayor Michael Bloomberg restructuring the funding system for day care programs. Day care centers in the city's Latino, Asian and black communities are the hardest hit. The Epoch Times breaks down the numbers: Ro […]Jorge Rivas
- Federal Judge Overturns Draconian Voter Registration Rules in Florida 01/06/2012 Brentin Mock
- DOJ Purges Florida's Voter Purging Initiative 01/06/2012Democracy scored a split decision in Florida yesterday when US District Judge Robert L. Hinkle granted a preliminary injunction against key parts of Florida's HB 1355 law, a law passed last year that curtailed voter registration activities so much that civic organizations such as League of Women Voters and Rock the Vote suspended registration operations […]Brentin Mock
- The U.S. Jobs Crisis Summed Up: If You Fail To Plan, You Plan to Fail 01/06/2012Today's May unemployment report shows what many Americans already know: the economy remains firmly in the disaster zone and jobs are a key component of the collateral damage. Stock markets plunged on the news. After promises of an employment dawn earlier this year--the third recovery prognostication since 2009--the goal of putting America back to work c […]Imara Jones
- Undocumented Artist Gives American Apparel's Farmer Ad a Political Twist 01/06/2012For Julio Salgado, telling the uncomfortable truth is its own reward -- a way for disenfranchised folks to own their stories before someone else, ally or otherwise, co-opts them. He's come out of the closet twice, as queer and as undocumented, to different groups of loved ones. His recent 'Undocu-Queers' poster series has shown in galleries ac […]Channing Kennedy
- Diane Tran, Jailed Texas Honor Student, Turns Down 100K 01/06/2012
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- Greek debt crisis: Let’s not return to status quo 13/05/2010by Alexandros Stavrakas from: The Guardian If by “hope” we mean a feeling of yearning and expectation for something to happen, and by “change” we mean an improvement of our present condition, then this is Greece’s moment of hope and change – and it is an overdue moment indeed. But, before this moment is lost [...]bedeutung
- The Greek Crisis – Politics-Economics-Ethics 09/05/2010Listen here to the debate at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, held on May 5th. Speakers: • Stathis Kouvelakis, Kings College, London • Kevin Featherstone, Director, Hellenic Observatory, LSE • Costas Lapavitsas, Economics, SOAS • Peter Bratsis, Politics, Salford University • Costas Douzinas (Chair) Birkbeck Introduction by speakers: Open debate: […]bedeutung
- Beg, Borrow or Steal: the Greek Crisis 28/04/2010by Alexandros Stavrakas The commentary on the Greek crisis has predictably descended into a spectacle of cheap moralisation. Over the past months, we have been bombarded with accusatory tirades aimed against corrupt politicians, greedy bankers, depraved technocrats and more or less anyone who’s had a chance to use and abuse the system in order to [...]bedeutung
- The Greek Crisis – Politics-Economics-Ethics 26/04/2010A debate to be held at the Birkbeck Institute of Humanities on May 5th, Wednesday 5th May 6.30pm – Room B04, 43 Gordon Sq. Speakers: Constantinos Tsoukalas, Emeritus Professor, University of Athens Kevin Featherstone, Director – Hellenic Observatory, LSE Costas Lapavitsas, Professor of Economics, SOAS Costas Douzinas, Birkbeck Peter Bratsis, Sal […]bedeutung
- Jacqueline Rose on the Dreyfus Affair 23/04/2010Jacqueline Rose’s talk at the Asia Society on April 21 – organised by the London Review of Books on their 30th anniversary. Rose discusses parallels of the Affair with today’s political predicaments, including the role of the public intellectual. If the player doesn’t work, click the link below: Dreyfus Affair – Jacqueline Rose( […]bedeutung
- Obama’s War 22/04/2010A talk by Tariq Ali in New York on Monday April 19th – organised by the London Review of Books If the player doesn’t work, click below: Obama’s War – Tariq Alibedeutung
- The End of Politics (2): Europe 21/04/2010by Costas Douzinas How different does Europe look today from ten years ago. In 2000, influential commentators hailed the dawn of the ‘new European century’ to replace the atrocious ‘American’ 20th century. Europe was on the way to becoming the model polity for the new world. The re-unification of Germany, the successful introduction of the [...]bedeutung
- The end of politics and the defence of democracy 21/04/2010In this month of the ‘Greek passion’ one thing is certain. The country will never be the same again. But while the commentators, academics and ‘experts’ discuss endlessly the economic crisis, the deep political malaise has gone unnoticed. The three ‘waves’ of ‘stability’ measures have befallen Greece like an evil tsunami which will turn the current recession […]bedeutung
- Thatcher, Thatcher, Thatcher 21/04/2010by John Gray from the London Review of Books There wasn’t anything inevitable about David Cameron’s rise. If Kenneth Clarke had stirred himself into running something like a campaign when competing for the leadership with Iain Duncan Smith and been ready to appear more tractable on Europe; if David Davis had moved decisively in the [...]bedeutung
- Why Google is the Nike of the internet 21/04/2010by Alexandros Stavrakas from The Guardian Google decided two weeks ago to shut down its hitherto self-censoring search service in China. This allegedly costly gesture, intended as a bold statement rather than a formal articulation of corporate “foreign policy”, is congruous with the company’s liberal philosophy and juxtaposed to the aged co […]bedeutung
- Greek debt crisis: Let’s not return to status quo 13/05/2010
