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This is a three-minute audio vignette about the New York Times Special Edition. On the morning of the action, I followed a Brooklyn couple.

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To the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles,
The very fact that the states in the U.S. continue to execute anyone, even if they are “guilty,” is deplorable. The justice system’s propensity to convict and sentence indigent people, black men in particular, is a practice that must end now. Every citizen deserves a fair [...]

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I worked on an animation a few weeks ago about “white spaces.” They are the frequencies between broadcast signals that will open up once broadcast TV goes from analogue to digital. The People’s Production House is advocating for public use of the space. Otherwise it’ll probably be sold of to the same [...]

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Today I read the EZLN / Zapatista’s book “The Other Campaign” about the organization’s Sixth Declaration and La Otra Campaña. Essentially the Sixth Declaration is literally the Zapatista’s sixth major outward manifesto. And La Otra is their movement to form a grassroots movement of the anti-neoliberal Left. I picked up the book [...]

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now here are some folks that i can really feel a sense of solidarity with (as opposed to the stagehands or wga members).    below is the update from CUPE’s website on the week long strike by 2400 Canadian university employees.  Home / Strikes and Lockouts
CUPE 1975 strike hits week one

NOVEMBER 13, 2007 09:03 AM
CUPE 1975 members ended their first [...]

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I went to an interesting talk with Mohamad Bazzi at Hunter College today.  According to thenation.com he “was Newsday’s Middle East bureau chief for four years” and ‘is currently the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.”He’s won some pretty impressive awards, including: a 2003 Silver Medal from the UN Correspondents [...]

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Members of the Writers Guild of America went on strike.  Pickets lines were held in the two entertainment capitols, NYC and LA.   Protesting members on the news talked about getting the money they deserve from the major broadcasters who essentially use their material for free online.   They’d also like to get a larger cut of [...]

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I was listening to Marty Moss-Coane’s show “Radio Times” this morning on my way into Philadelphia.  i don’t know why i torture myself by listening to that show because nearly every time i do, i end up enraged, an internal thunderstorm rampages my conscience. i get stirred up, utterly pissed off and want to call-in, [...]

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UNITE HERE and CUPE joined forces on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 to march against poverty and draw attention to the twenty locked-out workers of Toronto’s Holiday Inn on King Street. This video contains photos from the rally and a short interview with one of the locked out hotel workers.

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on tuesday october 16th, the day i arrived in Toronto, i set my bags down in the hotel and wandered around the city. the design exchange on Bay Street. – had an interesting display of innovative food vendor cart mock-ups. i already wrote about the world press photo exhibit below which [...]

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