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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28

28, Feb 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21 http://bit.ly/bvJ0Xi #
Steve Jobs Tries to Cover Up Apple's Racial Profile http://bit.ly/9DvvUj #
Ask Obama to Move Today on NLRB http://bit.ly/9OmoVc #
A Talk on Dr. King: Image Assassination and Contemporary Politics http://bit.ly/c9oRwh #
Meet The Tea Partiers: Male, Rich and College Educated http://bit.ly/aWOwQa #
The Godfather of Microcredit: Is Muhammad Yunis selling free-market neoliberalism [...]

What All Could Learn from Jay Kernis

26, Feb 2010

I sat in a crowded Philadelphia hotel conference room in 2006, along with other radio folks, listening to Jay Kernis (then of National Public Radio) talk about NPR finding its voice. Year later, going through old notes, I considered how Kernis’ lessons could easily be adapted by those seeking to find voice.
Probably the most obvious [...]

Bambu’s “Paper Cuts” EP is Out

24, Feb 2010

Bambu’s song about patriarchy, “The Queen is Dead,” was posted free online awhile back. Yesterday, his new EP was released.
Self-described as “a dad, a comrade, an organizer, an artist, a worker, a fan, a soldier, a thinker, a do-er and a fighter until death,” Bambu has been releasing political hip-hop music independently for several years. [...]

Latino Youth Activist Panel at UST

23, Feb 2010

Hector Chavana, Jr., president of La Raza Justice Movement, will be speaking at The University of St. Thomas, Friday, March 5. The talk happens at 7:30 p.m. at Crocker Hall in the Ahern Room.
He and others will be part of a panel themed, “Young Latino Leaders Voice Their Hopes for the Future.” Youth activists will [...]

Chicano Moratorium Accounts Sought

22, Feb 2010

The August 29, 1970 National Chicano Moratorium was one of the key historical events in Mexican-American and Latino history. The organized youth movement that brought it about, the tragic attack on the rally and the deeper commitment to peace and social justice that grew in its aftermath deserve to be commemorated as an important part [...]

Ask Obama to Move Today on NLRB

21, Feb 2010

President Barack Obama’s nominees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB),­ Craig Becker and Mark Pearce ­ are both highly qualified, well-respected labor lawyers. They were nominated seven months ago, but Senate Republicans are using the filibuster to block these nominees from filling the vacancies on the NLRB, which has had three out of five [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21

21, Feb 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14 http://bit.ly/aaE8BK #
Visiting A Modern Day Slave Plantation: An Interview with Nancy A. Heitzeg http://bit.ly/bxgbZ9 #
John Mayer Gossip Avoids Issues http://bit.ly/aGKSzD #
World Social Forum condemns US militarization of Latin America http://bit.ly/cQaGmq #
On with Chris Hirsch (Bluegrass Zone) on KPFT. Call with your pledge… 713-525-5738! #
Slavoj Žižek’s Failed Encounter With Leninism: ‘The [...]


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