Archive for October, 2009
Where Are My Spectacles II: Who Defends Women in the Dept. of Defense?
[trigger warning] What is this? Who defends women in the Department of Defense? Not Republican senators, apparently. When Al Franken brought forward legislation to combat the horrifically hostile and sexually abusive environment found in the Department of Defense and amongst its contractors on October 6th, a block of thirty white men rose up in opposition. [...]
Posted: October 21st, 2009 under government, labor, law, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual violence, social class, social inequality, socioeconomics, work, working conditions.
Tags: Acorn, al franken, amendment, class, class warfare, college, department of defense, education, equality, fair trial, gang rape, government, Halliburton, human dignity, human rights, Jamie Leigh Jones, jon stewart, labor, law, legal rights, legislation, military, partisan, patsy t. mink, politics, rape, republican, rights, senate, senators, sexual abuse, sexual harrassment, sexual respect, social class, socioeconomic, socioeconomics, The Crooked Dope, the law, title 9, title IX, title nine, unions, universities, work, workers' rights, working conditions
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Where Are My Spectacles I: The Death of News That's Fit to Print
Christopher Hedges extemporized about his new book, The End of Literacy and The Triumph of Spectacle, when he stopped in Berkeley, CA on his tour last summer. But his take on the spectacular is not without some convoluted ironies. First, I feel that I should disclose that I have not read his book. In that [...]
Posted: October 20th, 2009 under Media, media attention, media bias.
Tags: bailout, berkeley, chris hedges, christopher hedges, conde nast, cuts, economy, eyesight, fact-checking, firing, hypocrisy, inquiry, irony, journalism, layoffs, literacy, magazines, Media, media bias, media polarization, nostalgia, polarization, print media, publishing, recession, soapbox, spectacle, spectacles, the new york times, the spectacle
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In Which We Change It Up: Movements for Social Change
On Fighting Corporate Mind Control: Yes, the Yes Men are awesome. Yes, they are fixing the world, or at least promoting a movie about it. They’re committed to demonstrating that corporations’ dignity is not as important as human dignity. So is Reverend Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping, who are concerned with helping [...]
Posted: October 13th, 2009 under capitalism, change, church, collective, corporate greed, porn, sex, sex positivity, sex work, sexual objectification, sexual violence, sexuality.
Tags: 12-step, bloomberg, boston review, camille, david rieff, degrees, emotion, evangelism, feminists, fixing the world, green party, heinberg, holocuast, human dignity, inner child, john, katie, legalize, letters, mary gaitskill, mayor, metaphor, movie, murder, New York, NYC, objectification, paglia, pain, peak coal, peak oil, political theater, politics, porn, Pornography, post carbon, prostitute, prostitution, rape, rape-crisis, reverend billy, rigor, roiphe, self help, sex, sex industry, sex work, subjectivity, suffering, susannah breslin, the church of life after shopping, victim, victimization, violence against women, violent porn, whoopi goldberg, yes men
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Dr. Clarke On Avoiding The H1N1 Virus
This video, featuring Dr. John D. Clarke, won the Center for Disease Control (CDC)’s contest and will air as their public service announcement about avoiding H1N1, the swine flu virus. Unlike Dr. Dre, Dr. Clarke has a medical degree, and unlike Jay-Z, his PSA is not about being “CEO of the ROC”. He’s been spitting”health [...]
Posted: October 8th, 2009 under health care.
Tags: cdc, center for disease control, CEO, disease, dr. clarke, dr. dre, eyes, face, germ, germs, h1n1, hand sanitizer, handwashing, health, health care, hip hop, hygiene, illness, infection, influenza, Jay-Z, John Clarke, long-term outcome, medicine, mouth, nose, PSA, public service announcement, quarantine, rap, ROC, sickness, stay at home, swine flu, virus
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Newsflash: Women's Shoes Hurt, Sex feels Good, Rape is the Fault of Rapists
Sometimes, the News Media has all the answers. The New York Times reports that a recent study shows that women’s shoes hurt their feet. Women mostly have sex because “it feels good,” according to a new study reviewed on Salon.com by Tracy Clark-Flory. Also, the only sexual assault prevention tips guaranteed to work are those [...]
Posted: October 7th, 2009 under rape, rapist, sex, shoes.
Tags: awareness, college, education, men, New York Times, newsflash, rape, sex, sexual assault, shoes
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