SOTU 2006 Comments
By Peter Fredson
February 2, 2006
The lengthy speech of G.W.Bush at the SOTU met all of my expectations. I expected Bush to mention 9/11 and was not mistaken. I expected many other words and phrases designed to arouse emotions and was not mistaken. Terrah, Iraq, Stay the Course, God, etc. all were applauded by the sycophant gathering.
I have dissected some of Bush’s speeches and found many phrases to be old friends. Bush promises have previously been promised (...)
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Law Students Turn Backs On Alberto Gonzales & Say No To Bush Spying
1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsFuture American lawyers to be proud of
Alberto Gonzales spoke before law students at Georgetown today, justifying illegal, unauthorized surveilance of US citizens, but during the course of his speech the students in class did something pretty ballsy and brave. They got up from their seats and turned their backs to him.
To make matters worse for Gonzales, additional students came into the room, wearing black cowls and carrying a simple banner, written on a sheet.
Fortunately for him, (...) -
Facing Movement for Democracy, SEIU Gives Massachusetts Members to Teachers Union
31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
by Ferd Wulkan
More than 2,000 SEIU members who work for the University of Massachusetts (UMass) left SEIU in late 2005, just as SEIU was leaving the AFL-CIO. What’s most surprising is that SEIU preferred to lose these workers, rather than let them have a democratic local.
Members on four UMass campuses, in 10 bargaining units, were represented by four different SEIU locals until 2003. Through a top-down reorganization of locals under SEIU’s New Strength Unity Plan, all these units (...) -
Girls Against Boys?
27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
by Katha Pollitt
I went to Radcliffe, the women’s wing of Harvard, at a time when the combined undergraduate student body was fixed at four male students for every female one. I don’t remember anyone worrying about the boys’ social lives, or whether they would find anyone to marry—even though nationally, too, boys were more likely to go to college and to graduate than girls. When in 1975 President Derek Bok instituted equal-access admissions, nobody said, "Great idea, more marital choice (...) -
Why do Asians study in Australia, UK & US? PC racism of media lying over US war crimes
23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentPC RACISM (politically correct racism) and cowardice in US-UK-Oz academia has resulted in the mal-education of a current establishment of PC racist journalists, academics and politicians who simultaneously DENY any racism, are COMPLICIT in horrendous mass murder in Asian wars and IGNORE the horrendous, continuing passive genocide of Asians in US wars in gross contravention of the Geneva Conventions (so far there have been 2.1 million avoidable post-invasion deaths and 1.7 million (...)
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Segregated Schools: Shame of The City
19 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsby Jonathan Kozol
Stuyvesant High School is one of the most vivid symbols of the consequences of decades of systematic racism in the United States. Black and Hispanic children make up about 72 percent of the citywide enrollment in the New York City public schools. At Stuyvesant � the most prestigious public school in the city � they make up less than six percent of enrollment.
In fact, the percentage of black kids who go to Stuyvesant has decreased dramatically in the last quarter (...) -
FAR FROM NARNIA : Philip Pullman’s secular fantasy for children
2 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
by LAURA MILLER
Every year at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England, a guest is invited to speak on the subject of religion and education. Sometimes, a prominent bishop is asked to deliver a lecture, but, as a rule, the event isn’t exactly a big draw. This year, the auditorium was filled, and another room, with a video feed, had to be set up for those who couldn’t fit into the main hall. The speaker, Philip Pullman, is fervently admired for his sophisticated trilogy of (...) -
From Sir Henry Neville AKA Shakespeare Bush Lies
22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
To my kind and gentle reader, please be patient while I conjure the spirit of Shakespeare, to call Bush a liar.
It was a dark and stormy afternoon as I went to my computer and googled, Shakespeare, in the news option. It was the beginning of November and a new book was just released titled ’The Truth Will Out’ claiming that Shakespeare was Sir Henry Neville . One of the authors is named Rubinstein and a search of his background associates him with the Intelligent design movement. This (...) -
WHY I AM ON STRIKE
13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Michelle Fawcett
When I moved to NYC to start a Ph.D. program at NYU in 2000, my biggest concern was not the rigors of graduate study or the challenge of moving to another new city alone. It was the fear of being unable to survive economically.
Sure, I was going to work in addition to being a student: as a graduate assistant, or GA, for my department. GAs work as research assistants (RAs) or teaching assistants (TAs).
The work of an RA might include co-editing an article with a (...) -
Overcoming Apartheid
7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby JONATHAN KOZOL
Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States. Hypersegregated inner-city schools—in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000—are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.
"At the beginning of the twenty-first century," according to (...)