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On Freedom Fries, Strauss-Kahn and “French Standards”
France has long been aligned with romance in the American imagination, but recent events have got me going all Public Enemy on that ish: Don’t Believe the Hype. It all centers on the discussions of the behavior of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the chief of the International Monetary Fund currently sitting in Riker’s Island without bail awaiting [...]
Posted: May 18th, 2011 under Uncategorized.
Tags: abc, affairs, anglo-saxon culture, crime, dominique, don't believe the hype, equity, france, french standards, gender, germany, imf, international monetary fund, obesity, public enemy, rape, rape culture, riker's island, sarkozy, seduction, sexual assault, strauss-kahn, womanising, womanizing, women's rights
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Eat Yo’ Beats: Ana Tijoux & The Political Power of Self-Examination
Ana Tijoux was born Anamaría Merino in 1977 in Paris, because her Chilean father and French mother were in exile from Pinochet’s brutal military dictatorship. When her mother’s job as a social worker put her in touch with hip-hop as an 8-year old, it was love. At 14, Ana and her family returned to Chile [...]
Posted: March 15th, 2011 under ethics, etymology, expatriate, exploitation, expression, fascism, fat beats, hip hop, hip hop culture, identity, identity politics, invisibility, latin america, latino, mc, old school, oppression, poetry, politics, self, self awareness, social construction, social inequality.
Tags: ana tijoux, beats, black panthers, boxing, chicago gangsters, chile, christian, close reading, crime, democracy, devil, dissent, eden, eiffel tower, etymology, eve, fascism, france, garden, Hannah Arendt, hip hop, hip-hop is dead, hoodlums, hoods, IAM, identity, identity politics, innocence, Jay-Z, joe louis, l'ecole du micro d'argent, Lauryn Hill, LL Cool J, makiza, Mama said knock you out, man in the mirror, mc, MIA, michael jackson, nas, old frisian, Paris, pinochet, politics, power, prostitution, rap, rhymes, rock the bells, sampling, self-examination, serpents, sly and the family stone, snakes, social injustice, social justice, social work, star wars, the kkk, wu tang
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Liberty, Stand Up to Stupak!
Last week, the long-awaited passage of health care reform came at a hefty cost. Bart Stupak’s amendment to HR 3962 prevents women receiving federal subsidies from buying health insurance that covers abortion. This attack on the reproductive rights of poor Americans may have dire repercussions for women and society, and that may be what the [...]
Posted: November 16th, 2009 under agency, gender, gender culture, hostile environment, politics, rape, social class, socialization, society, socioeconomics.
Tags: abortion, bill, burt stupak, child care, christian right, conception, contraception, crime, Declaration of Independence, federal subsidies, fetus, fetuses, gender, gender power, happiness, harassment, health care, hostile environment, HR 3962, incest, injustice, justice, liberty, miscarriages, national right to life committee, nutrition, power, pregnancy, pro life, rape, reform, right to life, sex, sex education, sexual assault, sexual partner, smoking, social class, social power, socioeconomic class, state, std, stereotype, stereotype threat, title IX, wage inequality, welfare
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Christian Right Wants Less Liberty for Women, More Crime?
Sometimes, the left wing doesn’t know what the right wing is doing. Unfortunately, the long-awaited passage of health care reform leaves us with little to crow about. Bart Stupak’s amendment to prevent anyone receiving a federal subsidy from buying a health insurance plan that covers abortions is a shocking attack on women on welfare. What’s [...]
Posted: November 14th, 2009 under abortion, crime, economics, health care, women's health, women's rights.
Tags: abortion, burt stupak, children, choice, christian right, christina page, crime, economics, family, Freakonomics, freedom, health, health care, insurance, kevin drum, life, mother jones, politics, roe v. wade, stem-cell, stephen j. dubner, steven d. leavitt, women's rights
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Rise Like Lions after Slumber: John Pilger on Peace
The following is John Pilger’s acceptance speech for the Sydney Peace Prize. It comes to you courtesy of Zcom, where the verbose, informed radicals hang out. “Thank you all for coming tonight, and my thanks to the City of Sydney and especially to the Sydney Peace Foundation for awarding me the Peace Prize. It’s an [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2009 under Media, consciousness, democracy, identity, identity politics, imperialism, indigenous, indigenous culture, inequality, journalism, justice, media bias, peace, politics, race, racial profiling, racism, truth, war, warfare, white.
Tags: 9/11, Aborigine, afghanistan, apartheid, australia, barack obama, bombing, border, bystanders, church, communism, communist, consciousness, crime, democracy, disobedience, diversity, dominance, Eddie Murray, Edmund Burke, edward bernays, First Australians, freedom, george bush, harold pinter, hypocrisy, illegal immigrants, illusion, incarceration, insurrection, Iran, Israel, john howard, john pilger, journalism, justice, Kevin Rudd, malnutrition, media bias, Milan Kundera, NATO, Nobel Prize, palestine, peace, pedophilia, Percy Shelley, poetry, poverty, PR, propaganda, public relations, Puggy Hunter, racism, Rupert Murdoch, russia, Saddam Hussein, sex slavery, social class, stalin, stock, terrorism, terrorists, Thomas Paine, thrachoma, truth, U.S. Air Force, Vietnam, war, WMD
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Arrr You Being Lied To About Pirates? Shore! Oar: Racism in Today's U.S. Media
Images of the “third world” have long been distorted before they are displayed to the American public. Most people don’t even know that “third world” refers to the Cold War and should have died along with “red scare” and those bomb drills where schoolchildren were put under desks. American ignorance abounds when it comes to [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2009 under colonial power, empire, genocide, media bias, offensive, oil, racism, third world.
Tags: africa, africans, alexander the great, bandits, barbarians, bomb drills, cold war, colonization, crime, cultural bias, economics, empire, emporer, haystack, ignorance, johnny depp, kareem, massacre, Media, media bias, oil, piracy, pirates, prejudice, psychology, racism, red scare, robber, rwanda, rwandan genocide, Somalia, starvation, stuff white people like, third world, toxic waste, western culture, white people
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Plan B: A Welcome "Miscarriage" of Justice
According to the New York Times, a federal judge ruled yesterday that Plan B (levonorgestrel), will be made available over the counter to women who are seventeen or older. The judge, Edward R. Korman, a Reagan-appointee, stated that there had been “political considerations, delays and implausible justifications” on the part of the F.D.A. The NYT [...]
Posted: March 25th, 2009 under FDA, a woman's right to choose, birth, birth control, contraception, contraceptive, contraceptives, crime, economics, egg, pro life, pro-choice, reproductive rights, war, women's health, women's rights, zygote.
Tags: abortion, casualties, children, choice, civilians, conception, contraceptive, contraceptives, crime, criminal, embryo, FDA, implantation, integrity, Iraq War, iraqi, minor, minors, miscarriage, mothers, pill, plan b, pro life, reproductive rights, susan wood, trimester, u.s. troops, unwanted babies, unwanted baby, women's rights, world population, zygote
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